He has directed Chow Yun-fat's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and Eric Barner's "Hulk", but in his new film "Gemini", director Ang Lee faced one of his biggest challenges to date: Let the current Will Smith face off against the past Will Smith. After watching the final version of the movie to be released on October 11, he successfully realized this fantasy through the magic of high frame rate photography and computer-generated images.
and the surprising movie "Captain America: Civil War and Captain Magic gives the audience a chance to see the de-aged version of Robert Downey Jr. and Samuel Jackson’s "young" Will Smith will meet in Gemini. Mature CGI creation, during this period a group of reporters Li emphasized post-screening discussions. "No one has ever done this. We do the whole body, not just the face. We will discuss in detail. Maybe no one knows... We start from scratch. That's why I don't like to call it de-aging; it's not just It’s a review. The mystery brought by age is not just wrinkles.”
In this movie, the flesh and blood Smith plays the ace sniper Henry Brogan. He decided to quit the killing game at the age of 51, which made him a former employer. The target of assassination. The cloned version of Henry in his 20s entered his boyhood, and he surpassed the original model as he grew up. Kai-Fu Lee said that his team of F/X artists borrowed from films such as "Six Degrees of Separation" and "Bad Boys" to recreate the "Fresh Prince" of the 90s. Smith's motion capture performance in 2019 also helped them. "What you want is someone who has been famous for the past 30 years," Lee explained, adding that the previous drafts of the script were for Harrison Ford or Clint East. Prepared by Clint Eastwood and other actors. "There may be two or three people who can do it, and Will Smith is certainly one of them."
According to Ang Lee, as early as 1997, the previous screenplay followed a more traditional action movie structure. However, when he joined the company, he promoted an extensive rewrite to study the metaphorical meaning of an older man face-to-face with a younger self. The final version of "Gemini" (directed by David Benioff, Billy Ray and Darren Lemke) still leaves room for some memorable scenes, such as a heart-pounding motorcycle The car chase and the fierce Smith vs. Smith fight, but in general, it focuses on some important topics, such as regret, failure and fatherhood.
The latter also played an important role in the Marvel movie "The Hulk" directed by Ang Lee. "There are still some unfinished parts of this movie. I do have some father's problems, and I am a father myself. I am really interested in the relationship between nature and nurture. It makes you doubt your own existence: you will What to say to myself when I was young? I have grown up and can think about that kind of thing."
Hollywood will have a lot to consider, and now Geminis provide a convincing model, and actors can stay young forever , Even if they are age in real life. Apart from that, should the same technology be used to resurrect actors who have died? Movies like the Star Wars spin-off movie Rogue One have taken a step towards this potential future, Peter Cushing (Peter Cushing) Grand Moff Tarkin (Grand Moff Tarkin) and Carrie Fisher (Carrie Fisher) Princess Leia (Princess Leia) created a controversial digital version.
For Ang Lee, he is not opposed to creating a young version of the late actor, but he does not think this technology is a viable artistic choice. "I believe in the role of cocktails, at least for now: you mix true and false together. When it is fully CG, you have to drive a person’s performance and refer to so many things. I like to joke that it’s better than (directing a reality show) ) Will Smith is much harder, and it costs twice as much! Sometimes you think you are imitating God’s work. I think we can crack it, but we haven’t done it yet. Until then, I don’t think it’s agood idea. You may only do it for a short time, but to promote a story or a situation without (living) people to promote the show, I think this is not credible. "
"Gemini Man" will be released on October 11.
