If the first half of the literary play of Hacksaw Ridge was 70 points, the second half of the war directly soared to 120 points! It is equivalent to the shock intensity of the short 5-minute battle of Billy Lynn's midfield battle, 10 times longer. From this point of view, Mel Gibson won and Ang Lee lost. In my opinion, there are two foreseeable movies with high reputation and high box office potential. One is comic hero movies that have already cultivated a huge audience base, including popular novels (called IP in China), and the other is a realistic genre. Civilian hero movies with real prototypes (such as Schindler’s List, Bridge of Spies, Operation Mekong, etc.). But if it's just civilians, not heroes, it will be difficult for a movie to win both fame and fortune. Ang Lee’s Billy Lynn is just a civilian and not a hero, while Hacksaw Ridge is both a civilian and a hero. So the former loses, even if the depth of realism far exceeds the latter. The latter won, even if the only thing that people remember was the challenge of saving Private Ryan. Therefore, when the audience sees Billy Lynn, they will feel that they are looking at the life around them, which is not "entertaining." So I dedicated the box office more to Hacksaw Ridge, although when I go to bed at night, I will always think of Billy Lynn's world, because that is the world around us "civilians", not the "civilians" far away from us. The world of "heroes" is not even the world of vain "manga heroes".
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