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ANG LEE

When it came to casting , Ang Lee needed an action star who had been killing it on-screen for 30 years. Tom Cruise? Will Smith? “Tom was busy,” quipped Lee. Yet even if Cruise were stuck for work, what would he make of the film’s high frame rate, with its resemblance to the motion-smoothing horrors that recently rattled his

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