After “The New Batman” caused complaints because the picture was too dark, according to @chinafilm report, the film’s director Matt Reeves wrote a letter to global theater managers and projectionists, calling on everyone to accurately adjust the light intensity of the projection. and color, present the film’s figurative details and give the audience a good experience: “Please calibrate your projection equipment and adjust the brightness to no less than 14FL.”
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“The New Batman” is a superhero movie jointly created by DC and Warner, which tells the story of Bruce Wayne (Robert Pattinson), the incarnation of Batman, who goes deep into the underground world of Gotham City to investigate the truth of the murder of celebrities. . The film was released in North America on the 4th of this month, and has since been released in many countries and regions around the world. It will be released in mainland China this Friday (18th).
At present, the film has topped the North American weekend box office chart with an absolute advantage, and has performed well at the global box office, and has received 470 million US dollars. The two-hour, 56-minute film has been dubbed the “longest and darkest” in the “Batman” franchise.
And its “darkness” has also become a point of criticism. On overseas social media, many netizens said that the picture of the movie is too “dark”, literally, the picture is very dark.
Some netizens also made a comparison chart to distinguish each version of Batman.
In recent years, many film and television works have been criticized for being too dark. For example, the final season of “Game of Thrones”, “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “Alien” have all faced such controversies. However, for this phenomenon, photography has The teachers and directors have a different attitude from the audience.
On the 12th local time, entertainment media Variety advised everyone not to blindly adjust the brightness of the TV because the picture is too dark.
The article interviewed a digital imaging technician who believed that in many cases, the picture is too dark because of two reasons.
On the one hand, the reason why the movie is “too dark” is because this is what the producers really want to present, it is “intentional”, and this “too dark” can more realistically present the background of the story and render the atmosphere. And The New Batman is set up this way because the story mostly takes place at night.
On the other hand, the viewing environment will also affect the degree of restoration of the movie picture. He said that when the visual effects personnel adjust the picture of the movie in the early stage, what the audience sees is not necessarily the same, because it is often affected by the audience. The influence of the environment, such as the lighting in the room, the resolution of the display, the imaging of the projector itself, etc.
Based on the latter, the technician suggested that if you watch movies at home, you can adjust some basic parameters of the TV; if you go to the theater, because the brightness, clarity, color temperature, uniformity, and flatness of the theater screen will affect the picture, so the audience can Pay attention to whether the screen has problems such as fading and loss of picture quality, and remind the theater manager. He also recommends that everyone go to a theater with better viewing effect, such as Dolby Cinema.
Recently, Matt Reeves, director of “The New Batman”, wrote a letter to theater managers and projectionists around the world, calling on everyone to accurately adjust the light intensity and color of the projection, and adjust the two degrees to no Below 14FL (Ford Lambert), it presents the film’s figurative details, which is also the best viewing experience.
14FL is also the brightness standard for 2D movies in my country. Due to the technical display, the normal 3D brightness standard is 4.5FL. If the 3D brightness is adjusted to 14FL, the requirements for the device are relatively high. At present, according to the information released by various movie ticketing websites, “The New Batman” is mainly 2D and IMAX2D.
This Friday, “The New Batman” will be released in mainland China. As the only Hollywood movies to be released in mainland China after the epidemic, many American media have mentioned that the Chinese film market is the largest in the world. market.
The first few “Batman” films have performed well in the Chinese film market, and films including Batman have done well in the Chinese box office: “Batman: The Dark Knight Rises” took in 53 million US dollars (about 340 million yuan) at the box office ; “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” received a box office of 97 million US dollars (about 620 million yuan); in 2017, “Justice League” received a box office of 106 million US dollars (about 680 million yuan).