Director Ang Lee, who has been away for many days, made his debut again with his new work "Gemini Killer". This time he surprised the world with high technology.
120 frames + 4K + 3D screen effects, computer-produced virtual humans, the young version of Will Smith and the middle-aged version of him appear on the screen at the same time... With curiosity and expectation, I also went into the theater for the first time. Take a look at this video. The “clone version” of the young Will Smith in the movie is pressing hard on his middle-aged self. It feels like a microcosm, reflecting that Ang Lee at the peak is constantly pushing the current self to make breakthroughs in art. Ang Lee seemed a little bit powerless.
Ang Lee who breaks through himself and the mid-life crisis
The storyline of "Gemini Killer" is not complicated. The American agent Henry (played by Will Smith), who is over 50 years old, is tired of the endless assassination career and decided to retire and stay safe. Days, but accidentally learned the secrets hidden by the effective organization National Intelligence Agency. In order to kill people, the organization sent another agent to kill Henry. This first-rate rookie was a clone of Henry, but thirty years younger than him. The plot is carried out in the pursuit and escape of two Henrys...Finally, the old and new generations of agents learned the truth, joined hands to fight back, shattered the organization's conspiracy, and each got the life they wanted. The theaters around
did not have the conditions to play 120-frame HD movies, so I watched the 2D version. Purely from the content and plot point of view, it is difficult to compare with the previous peak works of Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "The Boy's School", "Brokeback Mountain" and other peak works. The fighting action is well-formed and the plot is qualified but not too fascinating. Highlights It is Will Smith's acting skills that are still online, and the clone "Xiao Ke" makes people shine. There is no sense of disobedience at all, and it is the young Henry. Compared with Ang Lee at the pinnacle, the current work is on the one hand the film’s pace in content, and on the other hand is a bold breakthrough in the use of technology in form. Personally, this is exactly the director's attempt to get rid of a kind of "mid-life crisis" in art.
The creative ability of artists has a golden cycle, which does not include disrespect to anyone, but a natural law. Generally speaking, the middle-aged crisis refers to the fact that one's own learning and ability are no longer improved, and the age bonus is no longer, and the young people behind him are overtaken by the awkward situation of social employment. Artistic talents have passed the peak period, and it is difficult to break through the previous peak in content creation, so they are gradually on the decline, but those at the peak can still stay in place with the social resources and reputation they have accumulated before. Director
Lee Ang has won the Oscars, Golden Globe Awards, etc., but will also face this kind of decline in creative inspiration. In recent years, it has been difficult to see his breakthrough and rise in artistic content and thinking perspective from the less successful "Billy Lynn's Midfield War" and other films, but his enthusiasm for high-definition video and high technology It shows an openness that is not consistent with age. From "Billy Lynn's Midfield War" to the 120-frame video attempt, to the further upgrade of "Gemini Killer", the film continues to surprise people in its form. Behind the
may be Li Ang's attempt to break through his own counterattack in another way.
After entering the middle-age crisis, most people will fall into a kind of "inward-rolling" downward channel. The interpretation of the image is that the level of art creators is like sailing against the current. If you do not advance, you will retreat. The quality of the film is not good, and the box office is not good, so investment There will be fewer companies and fewer investors, and the film will be more difficult to produce, so the quality of the next step may be worse, a negative cycle. For middle-aged people, learning ability declines, work ability stagnates, and after experiencing an unemployment, they barely get a poor company to support their families, but the platform is small, their ability and resources have not improved, and their competitiveness has fallen further. In the end, I was unemployed and the job was more difficult... "Involution" phenomenon formed. Many people may feel the same way. It is not impossible to get out of this embarrassment, but it is very difficult for ordinary people. The approach is to use external forces.
Get rid of the external force of the "involved" state
Director Ang Lee's approach is very clever, unable to form a breakthrough in content, can be innovative in form, and there are external forces given by the times, high technology. Since the birth of the movie,
is a new sensory experience brought to everyone by technological means. This experience is constantly upgraded, and every change will bring surprises. Black and white, sound, color, 3D, special effects... Now it has been fully upgraded to 4K and 3D by Director Ang Lee. There are also computer-replicated people using fakes and real ones, or it can be said to be replaced by fakes.Really (too real). This may indeed form a breakthrough in the art form, pulling the work out of the trend of "involution" in content. Before director Tsui Hark filmed the top works such as "New Dragon Inn" and "Swordsman in the East", there were no surprising works for a long time. Later, a special effect of that year, "The Legend of Shu" came out. It breaks through the previous work in form and creates a new path for special effects martial arts works.
However, what is incomparable to ordinary people is that in addition to the power of science and technology, Ang Lee also received a more powerful external help-the nobleman.
Fosun Group, Huaxia Group and other local tyrants and big men as the investment and production support, in addition to capital investment, Huaxia is also very helpful in the theater resources. In order to make the 120-frame high-definition work perfectly presented, Huaxia specially upgraded the playback equipment of 100 theaters under its jurisdiction, so that as many audiences as possible can appreciate the shock of the times and technology, and also allow Director Li An’s original intention to be perfectly presented. Money contributes.
Li Ang got his wish, but for individuals and companies who are generally entering a middle-aged crisis, his approach is not very replicable, and the threshold is too high, but is there any other way to get out of the internal volume? Yes. Dividends in the era of
and dimensionality reduction in the form of
A group of friends around
have entered middle age and felt the pressure brought about by the downturn in the economic environment. Due to lack of funds, a group of film and entertainment companies cannot start their projects and cannot produce new works. The word-of-mouth decline...involuntarily entered a negative cycle. Many listed companies had their share prices plummeted in 18 years and their equity pledges thundered. In the end, they were unable to save themselves and had to rely on the introduction of external major shareholders to get out of trouble, such as Modern Oriental and Ciwen Media. However, there are no external nobles, which is the status quo of more people. One way to get out of trouble is to seize the dividends of the times and the dividends brought by technology.
For example, there are some middle-aged women around me who have been full-time wives for a year or two after having children. Later, they found that their age advantage no longer had their advantages in employment, their professional abilities were not outstanding, and they entered the unemployed state. The way out is to sell insurance.
But insurance does not always stay in the era of door-to-door sales and strange visits. Some people registered a self-media account on Toutiao today, constantly updating their insurance expertise and advice on how ordinary people choose insurance types. Then many people who follow insurance on Toutiao began to become her fans, and the number of account readings continued to rise. , Toutiao upgraded the account recommendation resources and upgraded it to a high-quality account... Then more people saw that some people started to give rewards, and the platform had creative subsidies; further, the traffic was large, and the author opened up a column for insurance knowledge payment. The e-commerce link to buy insurance is implanted, and more and more people spend money in the end, and their monthly income has reached nearly 100,000. In this way, the successful escape from the "involution" becomes a "top spin".
But the world is fair, there will be a price if there is a chance, this new trend, the new dividend is not everyone will accept, because it is often inconspicuous when it appears, and the product and content form that appeared before Compared to, it seems lower-end, no longer tall. When the
short video came out, the people who engaged in film and television would disdain this kind of extremely grassroots things; when the Internet University first appeared, the people who engaged in movies would think that the ideal and compelling talents would not do such shoddy things, which are too cheap. . The law of new things must be from imperfect to perfect, from immature, rough to mature and delicate, so the new phenomenon will inevitably give people a sense of grassroots and cottage, but the opportunity lies in these things. Many young directors became famous on the Internet of monsters and ghosts, which attracted investors. Later, they would also play with art and feelings, start making theater-line movies, and upgrade to a more advanced stage.
is now about to enter the 5G era. Many people yearn for the product forms and possible opportunities that will appear in the future, such as immersive movies, VR social interactions, interactive dramas, etc., but personal views, these content need to involve supporting industries The chain is too long to fail in a short time.
For example, high-definition 4K movies are not without shooting equipment, but without screening conditions. Each theater has to upgrade its hardware. Network heavy interactive drama, the development system of the broadcasting platform is still being upgraded and improved, and the bandwidth of high-speed transmission has not yet been realized. Even if these things can be implemented in the future, it will be the battlefield of people like Director Li Ang on the high-level stage before. Most of the opportunities may be in lower-form entertainment products. This is a form of dimensionality reduction. The biggest feeling
5G gives me is that some projects that were only one step short of success due to technical bottlenecks in the past are nowThere is a chance. For example,
has encountered a project before and built a platform to store various materials and tools to allow people to make animated short films by themselves, and form an interactive form of plot selection (AVG), but the product is not ideal after landing , Because the design of characters requires a lot of actions and expressions, these materials were stored in the form of an action library at that time, and then modified and rendered on it, which requires a lot of system resources and transmission bandwidth, and an APP download requires hundreds of Mega, it takes a long time to submit an animation to the generation. However, in the 5G era, bandwidth is supported all at once, especially the cloud can directly store, calculate, render, etc., and finally transmit the results to the user terminal. Such an animation short video production project has a chance to land.
However, the product form that will follow will also be some very simple and elementary animation short films, interactive short videos, which cannot reach the level of so-called interactive dramas. However, users must be relatively picky about products. The more heavily developed things, such as movies and web dramas, the more they have requirements for quality. The more difficult things are rough and the experience is poor, making it difficult to make a hit. On the contrary, it is a simple and easy-to-use form, such as a new form of interactive short video, which is easier to make, easier to land and popular. Another example of
is a company that used to do social networking activities in an unfamiliar social field, that is, the system can automatically match you with people with the same hobbies, but the project failed because the self-built system did not have such a huge database and computing power. But in the 5G era, first of all, a lot of content will be stored in the cloud to form a large number of databases. In addition, computing power will become a public resource with a lower threshold, and you can pay for it. In this way, previously failed projects may be revived, and interest groups formed by matching system algorithms will appear, cutting away a part of the market where acquaintances socialize, and new forms of content will appear on these new platforms.
In the future era, artificial intelligence and 5G will also produce new platforms, or let the original platforms have new ways to play, and have an open and curious attitude towards new things, so that people can continue to embrace new things and create in the process of trying. The possibility of a counterattack is enough even if only once in five or six times.
"Middle-aged crisis" is just a reference to the aging of the mind, and when do people become old? It is not how old they are, but because they are unwilling to learn and accept any new things and stay in the memory A moment counts. From this point of view, Director Ang Lee is not old yet. Many people who have just reached 30 are old, while those who are still working hard at 40 are still young.
