muscle actor

Chapter 392 Dilemma
"The biggest problem is financial pressure, because so much money is so much money. In Hollywood, it is acceptable to exceed a little bit, but it is definitely not acceptable to exceed too much."

"In the eyes of investors, time is money, especially when it comes to visual effects. Try it once and see if it's not right. It's obviously right, but it's not right."

"You run it again, that's a lot of money. Especially like my 120-frame 4K, 3D, that digital is 40 times more expensive than ordinary movies!"

Ding Cheng was speechless inwardly. Although he heard that it is very expensive to create a human being digitally, but forty times...

In the field of movie special effects, the most difficult thing is not the cool actions and big scenes, but the human face.

Because facial muscle expressions are the most complex, not only resolution and clarity, but also related to human experience, the requirements will be higher.

In the post-production period, the flat objects will be distorted, and the digital will become more accurate, but people are very smart, just like when we chat face to face, we don’t just stare at one point, but after countless scans, Make an impression.

In the past, the so-called rejuvenation was to use makeup special effects. Although it was laborious, the cost was not high, and the actors had to work harder.

Now it's not about playing young makeup, changing your hairstyle, and erasing wrinkles, but a new character recreated with digital technology.

It's very complicated when you think about it. From capturing muscle dynamics to 100% restoration and production, in addition to requiring the actors to figure out the most subtle expressions of the characters, they also need to know that old cheeks and tender faces are actually not equal.

It’s not enough to drive, but we need to use different ways to drive. At the same time, when acting, we can only imagine what the future might be like...

It’s like crossing the river by feeling for the stones!

Ding Cheng looked at the list of investors, 5000 million US dollars, the biggest investors are Fuxing Group and Alibaba Pictures?

In my own opinion, what Ang Lee is best at is the delicate expression full of humanistic atmosphere, and I don't know if the fascination with technology stems from "Life of Pi", which earned 6 million US dollars worldwide?
In the best-grossing work of his personal career, he worked with the CG team to create a lifelike Bengal tiger from 0 to 1 out of thin air.

This technology was later applied to Tsui Hark's "Taking Tiger Mountain Outsmart", Jon Favreau's "The Forest of Fantasy", and the CG version of "The Lion King", which earned US$16 billion worldwide, and it was a great success.

Obsessed with 120-frame blockbusters after "Youth Pi", "Billy Lynn's Halftime Walk" in 16 became the second box office Waterloo after "Hulk".

With an investment of 4000 million U.S. dollars, it only won a global box office of 3093 million U.S. dollars, directly stinging the folk traditions of ordinary Americans who respect soldiers very much, and it was not even released on a large scale in North America.

Because of my curiosity, I sneaked to watch the midnight show once. In order to experience the highest quality, a movie ticket is 170!

Indeed, the 120-frame blockbuster is very different from the conventional viewing experience. To sum it up in two words: realistic!

The picture is very bright, and it is rare to experience the high brightness in broad daylight, which is easy to produce an immersive sense of immersion.

Especially in the high frame rate slow motion, the actor's facial micro-expressions, the shaking of the corners of the eyes, and the pores of the face are all clearly visible.

But the biggest problem is that when the camera speed is high, the picture will be blurred, so the action scenes rely on editing and borrowed positions to deceive the audience's eyes.

It can be said that Ang Lee's stubborn small step is a big step for the film industry!

Of course, innovation also comes at a price. I heard that there have been many security screening incidents in China. The 120-frame movie not only challenges the theater's projection system, but also changes the film's pre-shooting, service, post-production, and performance methods.

In the 120-frame video, any subtle expressions on the faces of all actors are accurately captured and magnified several times on the big screen.

Coupled with the high frame rate of the picture, it not only makes the whole video world more real and beautiful, but also makes the performance traces of the actors more serious.

What he challenges is a mature industry system that has been in operation for 124 years. Since the Lumiere brothers showed the short film "The Train Comes In" in a Parisian cafe in 1895, the film has been 24 frames per second, which has long become everyone's aesthetic. Habit.

Want to subvert the century-old industry conventions of film history with one or two films?

It's easier said than done!

After reading the script, it looks like a commercial action film on the surface, but Ang Lee's handling of it is still in the tone of an independent art film, which is simply the opposite of Michael Bay.

The latter is pure popcorn, catering to all kinds of desires of the audience, just for a good time.

And he always wants to incorporate some philosophical myths, deliberately anti-climax where the audience should be high, and make people fall into endless thinking?

It attempts to explore many things about the nature of human nature: who am I, the relationship between father and son, the ethics of human cloning, whether the existence of perfect soldiers is necessary...

For a film with such radical technology, it undoubtedly puts most of its energy on how to tell the story, which leads to the story itself full of flaws.

Even Ding Cheng doesn't quite understand why he has to spend so much money and become a digital version of the young twins?

Can't you just find a long one?
Isn't there makeup technology?
Investment at least save tens of millions!
Looking back on Ang Lee's works in the past, his sensationalism is forbearing and restrained.It will never give the audience the tear that breaks the embankment, but it can bring you a long-lasting and meaningful aftertaste.

In "Brokeback Mountain" on Douban 8.8, when Ennis, played by Heath Ledger, opened the closet, he saw his and Jack's shirts.

His one wrapped Jack's and hung in the closet.

At this time, facing the postcard of Brokeback Mountain, I said softly: Jack, I Swear.

In "Lust, Caution" on Douban 8.4, when Wang Jiazhi, played by Tang Wei, was shot, she knelt there, and the audience was still expecting a miracle.

However, there was no miracle, the gunshots rang out, people fell to the ground, it was over, there was nothing left.

My heart was empty, and I couldn't tell what it was like.

In Douban 9.0's "Life of Pi", Richard, the Bengal tiger who drifted at sea with Pi for 200 days, stopped when he went ashore and walked into the jungle.

Pi thought it would give him a goodbye!
but,

In this way, the Bengal tiger stepped into the jungle and disappeared from Pi's life.

A feeling of loss came to my heart.

This is Ang Lee's brilliance:
He doesn't allow his films to make audiences gaffe.

So, let everyone accompany him until he suffers internal injuries.

Ding Cheng is in a difficult situation now. In all fairness, this work is not very good. The script is old-fashioned and has no creativity. Even if the technology is too good...

But Ang Lee was sitting in front of him. After a moment of contemplation, he could only tactfully say: "As far as I know, American theaters don't seem to be willing to invest in upgrading the broadcasting system, right?"

(End of this chapter)