Founded in 1992, the China Changchun Film Festival is the first national film festival in New China to be named after a city, and has gone through a glorious course of 14 sessions so far. The 15th China Changchun Film Festival is scheduled to be held in Changchun from September 5 to 10. With the theme of "New Era, New Cradle, New Strength", this year's film festival strives to explore the road of "ecology, integration and innovation", reflects the tone of "responsibility and change", and conveys confidence to Chinese films and looks forward to the future.
Every year, the classic film restoration unit of major film festivals around the world will become the "highlight", and this year's Changchun Film Festival will also launch the highly anticipated "Centennial Classic 4K Restoration" unit.
So, what does the so-called 4K repair mean? Where is it in particular? To understand 4K repair technology, you must first understand what a 4K movie is. K refers to the resolution of the movie screen. The higher the K number, the higher the clarity, the more information in the picture, and the better the effect. The original film is roughly equivalent to a resolution of 6K, but there is a loss after post-processing. At present, most of the digital movies in China are 2K, and the resolution is 2048*1080. 4K movie refers to the resolution of 4098 * 2160 movie, is the highest resolution digital movie.
True 4K digital cinema refers to digital films shot with 4K digital cameras, produced by 4K digital intermediate film processes, distributed in 4K digital versions and projected with 4K digital projectors. But there are also 4K films that are shot on 35mm film and then converted to 4K digital formats.
What is 4K Fix?
Due to the erosion of time, many old films can no longer meet the technical standards of playback due to unsatisfactory film preservation. Since the traditional 2K restoration saved old movies, 4K restoration with a better movie-watching experience has quietly become popular. The intention of 4K restoration is not to transform old movies into brand new blockbusters. The ultimate goal of the restoration is to "keep it as old as it was", so that the images that have been lost on the old film can be restored as much as possible to the appearance they were originally "captured" with the help of digital technology.
What are the main technical difficulties of 4K repair?
In addition to the higher and finer requirements in the resolution, the main technical difficulties of 4K restoration are also a major technical difficulty.
How much does it cost to fix a movie?
The cost of restoring a film depends on the age of filming, the quality of the tape retention, the length of working time and the accuracy of the restoration. Usually, repairing a standard-length 4K film costs millions of yuan.
This year's film festival 4K restoration screening unit will review history, do not forget the original intention, in the name of the film, with the latest restoration technology, to pay tribute to the classic old films and outstanding filmmakers. Among them, there are many classic works, including Billy Wilder's "Peach Apartment" and Martin Scorsese's "Good Guys".
Today, Xinhuanet client Cloud School takes you to enjoy the first movie in the century-old classic 4K restoration unit: "Sunset Boulevard".
Sunset Strip was born in 1950 by Billy Wilder and starring William Halton and Gloria Swanson
The film tells the story of the once-famous actress Norma (Gloria Swanson), who is nearly 50 years old and is slowly withering away in the abandoned mansion where she lives, surrounded by only her friend Marx (Eric Stroheim). She hasn't given up on rekindling her glorious dreams, the script for Salome is yet to be written, and Joe (William Holden), the fallen screenwriter who escaped from debt, is the best candidate for this career. Norma took him in, provided him with a comfortable environment to write, and slowly fell in love with him. However, Joe could not accept the woman who had passed away. He rejected her and turned around to plot a new script with another beautiful woman, and they fell in love and fought fiercely.
Norma learns of Joe's "betrayal", she humbly pleads with him, but can not shake his fading heart, Norma finally raised his gun to Joe who was leaving...
The most enjoyable thing about the film is the end of the film, after killing the hero, the heroine who has entered a state of madness thinks that her new film has begun, so she has been exquisitely dressed, wearing a gorgeous dress, holding her head high from the spiral staircase, slowly walking down, the reporters and police around them are frozen in this moment, forgetting their duties, as if they are also taken by the heroine's boldness, thinking that they are on the set, confusing time and space, greeting the old but the charm is still the same. The proud princess walked slowly down the escalator.
Film master Billy Wilder wrote and directed his own film noir, spent two years writing the script, taking the hollywood actress who wanted to make a movie as the main story line, from time to time putting humor into the classic narrative, satirizing the desires of personal drunken fans, refracting all sides of the Hollywood film production industry, and inviting many masters of the silent film era, such as Buster Keaton, to join the cameo to pay tribute to the silent film era. Actress Gloria Swanson was the most influential "queen of silent films" in Hollywood in the twenties, and unlike the roles in the play, she won the Golden Globe Award for film with this film, returned to the film industry, and began the second spring of her acting career.