Ang Lee did not rely on power or firearms to obtain all of this. He spoke softly, he talked about his experience like a rookie, and he was tenacious and down-to-earth in the unremitting exploration of film art and technology. , and so humbly shaped and presented his own image, and made a film that can't be ignored - this is Ang Lee.
Of course, I dare not say that I can understand Ang Lee - he is Ang Lee, and now I can still think of the Shanghai Film Festival in 2016. As soon as Uncle An started speaking, the whole of Shanghai stopped, and I listened quietly to Uncle An about making movies. The truth-the so-called truth, there is no non-consciousness, but in our case, it is a very precious "truth".
Billy Lynn is actually Billy Ang Lee, Uncle Ann's son is very cute, but in Billy, we can feel Ang Lee himself the most. From "long halftime break" to "halftime battle", the change of Chinese translation names reflects the seemingly bland but bizarre "longest day" suffered by the characters (if this phrase is hard-translated, in English vocabulary it refers to Normandy landing date).
Billy participated in the "Super Bowl" of the American Spring Festival Gala, which was very lively (please forgive me for remembering Xu Liang, the hero of the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam who participated in the 1987 Spring Festival Gala), but his inner experience and battlefield trauma came to his mind from time to time. (him and his comrades) and PTSD-esque post-war stress; of course, Billy also had love—or a one-night stand, or nothing at all—and he and his family especially Sister's affection is tangled.
What a simple story, I do think it's "simple", Billy is not like teenage pie, not like Cowboy Jack, and not like Li Mubai, Billy is as simple as a "TV movie". Just like the original name, this movie may also be a "long intermission" for Ang Lee, and I personally prefer "Pi" far more than "Billy Lynn", he is more like "Making Woodstock", a little bit. Like David Lynch's The Strait Story, it's some kind of big director's "half time."
The name is "rest", but it is actually "war". Maybe after this fight, I will go to fight "King Ali". In his bones, Billy is still the continuation of the "Father Trilogy", and it is still the creative motif of the great director. Billy's father is basically absent in the narrative, but the earnest teaching and spiritual care of the "old squad leader" has become the most important source of Billy's "father" image. Commissar", a "father" who guides Billy both on the battlefield and in life.
Then insert a sentence, it is not entirely correct to use "Billy Lynn" to criticize the domestic "IP craze". The original work of this film won the National Book Critics Award, and the BBC also gave it the honor of "Top 12 of the Century", which can be regarded as a The successful operation of an IP conversion - the previous "Brokeback Mountain" won the O. Henry Short Story Award, and "Youth Pie" is a best-selling book that won the Booker Award, so Ang Lee does not reject IP, it depends on your use. OK.
I believe that Ang Lee does not take a stand (or is it a humanitarian anti-war?) in the US military's Middle East war. In my opinion, "Billy Lynn" is just an incarnation of Billy Ang, in a humane Doctrine's eyes wandered, looking at young people, at children, simple, but warm.
Billy's battlefield career is unforgettable, and Billy's trip to the Super Bowl is chilling (this also shows that the US military is very good at using mass propaganda tools to conduct political and public opinion warfare), but he has gained a hot girl's heart and body. Still holding on to the unbroken line of affection.
So, that deadly war is just a footnote to Billy's life and family life, no matter what you've been through, no matter what you've lost, no matter how much you've suffered, you'll come back, there's a kind of The extremely powerful "Force" always runs through. Just like Pi drifting in the South Pacific, like Jack farewelling at the foot of Brokeback Mountain, like Billy returning from the battlefield in a hurry and going to the front line.
It is an inexplicably powerful force, and I feel that the gentle Ang Lee can always convey this kind of power just right, indescribable and unmatched.
In the end, they told me it was 120 frames, which I thought was the most insignificant element, I was watching a movie, and I didn't count frames.
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