This article is from WeChat public account: Love Fan (Public ID: ifanr), author: Lee extraordinary, title figure: Oriental IC
Ang Lee’s film technology innovation seems to have failed again.
Three years ago, Ang Lee brought the world’s first 4K/3D/120 frame movie “Billy Lynn’s midfield battle” (“Billy Lynn”), but in fact not many people have seen the 120-frame version, because only five theaters around the world supported this screening format.
Image from: Billy Lynn
This movie suffered a double defeat at the box office and word of mouth in North America. At that time, Ang Lee said that he was most afraid of the world’s next 120-frame movie or what he shot. Three years later, Lee’s most fearful thing. It still happened.
Ang Lee conducted a second high frame rate experiment on “Gemini Killer”, but this time there was no movie theater in North America showing a 4K/3D/120 frame version.
The “Gemini Killer” has been more severely criticized than Billy Lynn. 25% rotten tomato freshness, IMDB 5.7 points, Metacritic 38 points,It is no different from a bad film. Only 7.1 points of Douban are still unsatisfactory, but this is also the penultimate score of all of Li An’s works, second only to 6.7 points of the Hulk.
Even if there are dozens of theaters in the country that can show 120 frames, but from the current box office trend, it is not possible to recover the cost of $138 million. Analysts expect the Twins to lose 7500. Ten thousand U.S. dollars.
The 4K/3D/120 frame high specification experience of Billy Lynn and Gemini Killer does not have the enthusiasm for opening 3D movies like Avatar, although Li An still believes that 120 frames is the future, but Can’t help but ask the audience:
Now I am only shooting this one by myself. Is there a problem with me, or is there a problem in the world?
“Gemini Killer” 120-frame viewing experience: I feel a technical sample
What is a 120-frame movie? Simply put, the movie contains 120 images per second. The vast majority of movies currently have a size of 24 frames per second. The result of accommodating more frames per unit time is that the picture is smoother and more detailed. More clear.
Image from: Imgur
The 120-frame movie mentioned here is actually inseparable from the 4K/2K and 3D formats, because 120 frames are dedicated to 3D movies.
Compared with 2D movies, if the object moves quickly in 3D movies, the motion blur will be more intense and even dizzy. This is especially strong when I watched the movie “The Extreme Car Theft”. The long drift of the 360-degree rotating film in the film made people feel dizzy. Of course, some people think that this is a unique movie style.
The difference between 120 frames and 24 frames. Let’s take a look at the two pictures below. In the 120-frame picture, the train running at high speed can be seen very clearly, and even the figure in the car can be seen.
24 frames (top) and 120 frames (bottom) contrast, picture from: “Gemini Killer”