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    Ang Lee wants to change the way you see

    Oct 11, 2019 5 minutes
    By Andrew R. Chow
    PHOTOGRAPH BY PETER HAPAK

    ANG LEE ALREADY KNOWS HOW YOU FEEL about 3-D movies. “It gives you a headache—of course you don’t like it!” the Academy Award–winning director says at an editing studio in midtown Manhattan. “The projection is bad. It’s too dark.”

    Complaints like these have driven many moviegoers and filmmakers away from the medium over the past decade. To many, it’s little more than a gimmick for superhero blockbusters, a quickly receding novelty.

    But Lee, long an iconoclast, still believes in 3-D. In fact, he’s doubling down: his latest effort, was shot in 3-D and at 120 frames per second, a far higher rate than the usual 24 frames per second. The visual effect is one of extreme fluidity, more like a video game than a traditional feature film. The movie, out Oct. 11, is in many ways a standard

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