Although directors should not talk about seniority, and films have only different directions such as era, technique, core, interpretation, etc. There is no difference between good and bad, but looking at the development of Chinese films, we can still assess the contribution to Chinese films. Some.
Some people say it is Yang Dechang, whose director of "Guling Street Juvenile Murder" and "Independence Age" can always provide comfort to history, profoundness to the times, and novelty to movies. In this respect, Yang Dechang is like a Chinese Truffau. Even though the technique is plain and silent, the film can always give the times a knowing blow.
is also said to be Hou Xiaoxian, whose "Flowers on the Sea" and "City of Sadness" can always pull life out of form from the changes of light and shadow and clip art, and give images an aesthetic mood of the times. In addition, his works can also care for the times with a sad heart.
But they cannot be called the directors who have contributed the most to Chinese.
Although the two directors have their own strengths in technique and expression, they also show the humanistic care that movies should have on the level of the times, but when their works are too introverted, self-styled, and stylized, even if they are hard to beat in terms of artistic achievement, they are right. The promotion of Chinese in the world is minimal. Who should be
? Wang Jiawei, Zhang Yimou, Jiang Wen? Although the above directors have distinctive styles, humanities and innovative skills, they have also been amazing at the three major international film festivals in Cannes, Berlin and Venice.
can be placed on the global impetus of Chinese-language films, but the trio's achievements have always remained at the artistic level, and it is difficult to get the recognition of art and business worldwide. Who can
be? There is only one answer and that is Ang Lee.
eight Oscar nominations, three Oscar directors, foreign language film titles!
In addition, there are nine American Film Golden Globe nominations, three Golden Globe Awards for Best Director, and Best Foreign Language Film Awards. In addition, the Cannes, Berlin, and Venice International Film Festivals won six awards and the Golden Horse Award won the award. With soft hands, Ang Lee can be called the biggest booster of Chinese-language movies and the light of Chinese.
is actually just an award recognition, which is enough to make it leave a brilliant mark in film history, and keep pace with the current people such as Eastwood, Spielberg, Nolan, David Fincher, Cameron, Coppola, etc. .
What's more, what Li Ang carries is not only the recognition of awards, but more importantly the novelty of both technique and artistry, such as the creation of "Pushing Hands", "Wedding Banquet", "Diet for Men and Women" and other propositions of father and son under oriental culture. And "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", a martial arts artistic conception full of Eastern philosophical speculation.
Of course, Ang Lee's spirit is more than that. The most creative thing about
as director Ang Lee is that while he has an insight into the core of Eastern culture, he is more able to integrate Western civilization into the movie, so in addition to filming the "Father Trilogy", he is more able to shoot "Brokeback Mountain" "Sense and Emotion" and other purely Western-style emotional expression resonance.
is a miracle for any director, because in the long history of history, the eastern and western civilizations are rarely intertwined and merged. Therefore, the behavior and thinking between the two are completely different, but Li Ang can still handle it easily.
not only captures the Chinese-style introverted, but also American-style romance. What's more, Ang Lee even filmed "Fantasy Drifting of the Juvenile School", which connects China and the West, and incorporates technology into his blood to create a godly work about religious belief, humanistic core, and human nature. These achievements of
made him a unique existence in the history of world film.
does not seem to have areas where Ang Lee is not good at. From family movies to martial arts movies, from romance movies to science fiction movies, from action movies to war movies, Ang Lee has shuttled back and forth in different types of movies for many years, but rarely Mistakes are all masterpieces.
But this time the godlike Ang Lee also seems to have missed. After two years of absence, Ang Lee returned with his new work "Gemini Killer". The previous "Fantasy Drifting of the Youth Pie" had a worldwide box office of $600 million, "Billy" "Lynn's Midfield War" is also praised in China, but the response to "Gemini Killer" is mediocre.
Is Li Ang really old and can't keep up with the times? There are too many bad voices of Ang Lee in the evaluation of the new works. More importantly, as a world-class director, Ang Lee's works have also been questioned in North America. After the release, film critics were sorrowful and bad.
was released in North America for dozens of days, and the cumulative box office was only 30 million US dollars.
Of course, if other domestic films have this result, I would be happy, after all, looking at domestic films"Going to America" for decades, except for Zhang Yimou's "Hero", Jackie Chan's "Red Fan District", and Jet Li's "Fearless" in North America have reached ten million box office levels, and only Lee Ang's works have achieved this success.
For a world-class director like Ang Lee, the tens of millions of dollars at the box office just seemed bleak to him, so this time it seems that "Gemini Killer" really missed?
asked me to say, but the times have not kept up with Li Ang's pace. Now when we replay the "Gemini Killer" work, we briefly introduce the US Defense Intelligence Agency agent Henry (Will Smith), who is being chased by a mysterious killer when he prepares to retire. In the fierce contest between the two, He found out that a bigger secret was hidden behind the incident. With the introduction of
, you can easily know that this is an action movie. But as an Ang Lee who has been crowned many times, he obviously won’t be bored enough to shoot an uncreative action movie. This is not Ang Lee’s style. Even though he was forced to shoot "The Hulk" many years ago because of his livelihood, it was obviously Ordered in danger.
Now when he is crowned with glory, he no longer faces the dilemma of no investment. He should have the right to choose genre movies. But why did he choose action movies that he is not good at this time?
In fact, the answer is very simple, he is constantly trial and error for the future of the film.
sounds a little false, but in terms of the future development of the film, this sentence is not an exaggeration at all, because Ang Lee's current behavior is to explore the future and tomorrow of the film. Why
? Because film techniques have been overdeveloped in this era.
From Orson Wells' "Citizen Kane", Hitchcock's "Victorius", Kurosawa's "Shadow Warrior", Kubrick's "2001 A Space Odyssey", Fellini's " "Eight and a half", it can be said that the technique of film from composition to audio-visual, from editing to light and shadow, entered the late stage as early as decades ago.
After all, the technique is only dependent on the expression of the lens. In the interlacing of light and shadow for decades, when the way the lens is shot has not changed, the film shooting technique has been over-developed and saturated by the director.
or long shots, or interlaced virtual and real, or montages, under the lens, the endless changes of directors in the past life can only make future directors stand on the shoulders of giants, repeating, repeating, and paying tribute, but it is difficult to truly expand. Innovate the techniques of different predecessors.
This is equivalent to Newton's creation of three major laws, which locks the development of basic physics.
So in the 21st century, the seemingly prosperous world movies are in fact evolving following the routines of the predecessors, but fundamentally it is difficult to transcend and innovate in technique.
How can contemporary directors establish a great name in this era?
, like Spielberg and Nolan, no longer seek technical breakthroughs, but pursues the amazingness of the times in the core and expression of movies, such as "Inception" and "Number One Player", etc., actually gave up film techniques Instead, it chooses to complete different presentations of movies driven by technology.
This kind of change may seem amazing, but it pushes the movie's future as if it is in place.
is actually just a creative advancement, supplemented by sci-fi technology to complete it. Actually, there is still no real sense of direction for the future of film. If you want to truly create the future of film, you can only pursue film technology more thoroughly.
When the technique is locked, the technique is most likely to become the future of film.
Many directors actually know this, but few take risks. After all, in an environment where movies tend to be commercialized, daring to pursue the ultimate expression is undoubtedly a self-bet, especially in Hollywood capital is ruthless, it will not pay for art trial and error.
Therefore, despite the scientific development and technological iterations of these years, the film has the opportunity to try the ultimate expression in the horizontal and vertical directions, but it is only a shadow in the finished product. From the current point of view, only James Cameron and Ang Lee actually did it. In 2009, Cameron's "Avatar" was released. In fact, the plot is very superficial and talks about the proposition of "protecting the environment".
It is important that Cameron thoroughly applied science and technology to movies for the first time. Whether it is visual effects, biological design, or motion capture, Cameron has innovated movie technology ahead of the time, and that’s why 3D has become popular. , The movie has truly entered the 3D era.
Now ten years have passed, and the film should usher in another technological revolution.
So Ang Lee used a high-definition format to produce, and shooting "Gemini Killer" was precisely leading the future of the film.What is the concept of high-definition format? You should know that in the past, movies were often played at 24 frames per second, and Lee's high-definition format can reach up to 120 frames, which is 5 times the amount of information in ordinary movies. So now in "Gemini Killer" we can not only clearly see 5 times the amount of information, but the visual experience will also be more fluid and immersive.
Of course, Ang Lee tried this kind of presentation in "Billy Lynn's Midfield War" a few years ago.
But this time when the subject matter changes to a more exciting and intense action movie, the visual presentation will be more naked and stunning, and it is estimated that viewers who have experienced 120 frames will experience it.
Therefore, "Gemini Killer" did not lose, and Director Ang Lee did not lose.
Although the plot of "Gemini Killer" is not so amazing, but the technical excellence is completely ahead of the times, and this is like Kubrick filming "2001 A Space Odyssey", even though it was questioned at the time, but With the great waves of the times, it will eventually be written into film teaching materials.
