Ang Lee: Theatres ought to give you one thing you can’t expertise at dwelling

Ang Lee, director of acclaimed motion pictures like Life of Pi and Brokeback Mountain, has endorsed the theatrical expertise. But he additionally stated that as a result of sheer comfort of the tv medium, filmmakers need to create one thing that can not be skilled at dwelling.
While talking to Entertainment Weekly, Lee stated, “I believe we always need [the movie theater]. It’s our church, our temple. It’s a ceremony. It’s in our nature, the congregation. But now television’s so convenient. You have to come up with something you cannot experience at home. Not only the crowd, not only the size, but the ceremonial effect. It has to upgrade.”
Due to the coronavirus pandemic and the following lockdown final 12 months, almost each movie theatre was shut all the way down to halt the unfold of the illness. Theatres, already struggling underneath the onslaught of streaming companies, needed to bear big losses. Many movies that had been earlier going to be launched as a substitute debuted on OTT.
Lee added, “I think the next step, logically, is the immersiveness which you cannot do with a TV screen. But how do you get [audiences] to participate, rather than just viewing? How do you engage? That’s something we should work on to get them to the theater.”

Lee ought to know one thing about immersiveness. His Life of Pi continues to be thought of to be top-of-the-line 3D motion pictures ever made. Based on Yann Martel’s Booker Prize-winning novel of the identical identify, it recreated beautiful life-like animal fashions that wowed the world.
Ang Lee’s final directorial mission was Will Smith-starrer sci-fi thriller Gemini Man.