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Director Ang Lee and star Will Smith on the set of 3D 120fps 4K movie Gemini Man
P ushing the technical envelope in cinema can be mightily frustrating: with HFR movie Gemini Man it’s a case of ‘this is what you could see – but you can’t yet’. But Ang Lee has now softened the message and is proselytising that 4K 3D 120fps is the ‘thick negative’ from which all other formats are derived from. But unfortunately the thick negative is the one that would convince HFR doubters that it forms part of cinema’s future. The good news is that the thick neg looks as good as it did three years ago in the doomed Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk movie; and this time with Gemini Man , it had to contend with the comping in of a digital asset – a ‘youthified’ Will Smith – and a huge amount of action, including a superb bike chase through the streets of Cartagena. This is a great scene in full HFR and still good in 60fps, which is what Paramount’s marketing people are calling 3D plus. Frustrating too is when people ask other people what true 4K 3D 120fps looks like; apart from ‘amazing’, there are no words that will do. Directors Ang Lee and James Cameron seem to be the torchbearers for this new technology but production as a whole has to keep up. When you shoot 120fps there is nowhere to hide: and that includes the acting. WELCOME
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