2016 film directed by Ang Lee
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
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Theatrical release poster
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Directed by
| Ang Lee
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Screenplay by
| Jean-Christophe Castelli
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Based on
| Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
by
Ben Fountain
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Produced by
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Starring
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Cinematography
| John Toll
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Edited by
| Tim Squyres
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Music by
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Production
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Distributed by
| Sony Pictures Releasing
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Release dates
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- October 14, 2016
(
2016-10-14
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(
NYFF
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- November 11, 2016
(
2016-11-11
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(United States & China)
- February 10, 2017
(
2017-02-10
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(United Kingdom)
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Running time
| 113 minutes
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Countries
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- United States
[2]
- United Kingdom
[2]
- China
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Language
| English
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Budget
| $40 million
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Box office
| $30.9 million
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
is a 2016
war
drama film
directed by
Ang Lee
and written by Jean-Christophe Castelli, based on the 2012
novel of the same name
by
Ben Fountain
. The film stars
Joe Alwyn
,
Garrett Hedlund
,
Kristen Stewart
,
Vin Diesel
,
Steve Martin
, and
Chris Tucker
.
Principal photography
began in April 2015 in
Georgia
. The film is a
co-production
between the United States, the United Kingdom, and China.
[2]
The film had its world premiere at the 54th
New York Film Festival
on October 14, 2016, and was theatrically released in North America on November 11, 2016, by
TriStar Pictures
. It had high production costs associated with being the first-ever feature film using an extra-
high frame rate
of 120 frames per second, further complicated by the
3D
format, at
4K UHD resolution
. The film received mixed reviews from critics and underperformed at the box office, grossing $30.9 million worldwide against its $40 million budget.
Plot
[
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]
Billy Lynn, a 19-year-old
US Army
specialist
from
Texas
, is caught on camera dragging wounded Sergeant Virgil "Shroom" Breem to safety during an intense firefight in Iraq on October 23, 2004. This act of courage earns Lynn the
Silver Star
and quickly ascends him and his unit, erroneously designated "Bravo Squad" by the media, to celebrity status. They return to the U.S. for Shroom's funeral, then are sent on a publicity tour culminating at the halftime show of the November 25
Dallas Cowboys
Thanksgiving home game
.
Now led by Sgt. David Dime, the members of Bravo Squad are driven in a limousine to the stadium with the Cowboys'
PR
representative Josh and
film producer
Albert Brown, who is in the process of securing a film deal for the squad. A
flashback
reveals that Billy joined the army after destroying the car of his older sister Kathryn's boyfriend, who left her after she was in a car accident that required multiple
facial reconstruction
procedures. At the stadium, the group is greeted by anxious fans who express gratitude for their actions in the
Iraq War
. During a press conference, Billy spots a
Cowboys Cheerleader
, Faison, smiling at him. They strike up a conversation and begin a flirtation. Billy tells her how it feels weird to be honored for the worst day of his life.
As the game starts, Billy recalls his time in Iraq, where Shroom had offered him
karmic
philosophical insight and advice during their downtime. It is revealed that once the game ends, Bravo Squad will have to return to duty. Billy receives a phone call from a psychiatrist to whom Kathryn had spoken, regarding a plan to get Billy honorably discharged so he doesn't have to return to Iraq, thereby sparing him further suffering.
During the halftime show, featuring
Destiny's Child
, the loud music and pyrotechnics traumatize an already unstable squad member, Sykes, and he reacts violently against stage manager and a security guard. Billy experiences a flashback to the battle that made them famous. The squad was called in to rescue soldiers pinned down by insurgents at a school. Shroom is shot while advancing from cover, and Billy rushes to save him, firing on the nearby insurgents with his sidearm. Billy drags Shroom into a trench, but an insurgent attacks Billy at close range. Billy kills him in self-defense, but is traumatized by the incident and, upon returning to help, discovers Shroom has bled to death. Billy's flashback ends when troop members get his attention and point out that the halftime show has been over for a few minutes. Billy had been frozen in place all the while. As they are urged to leave by stage hands and security, the soldiers are diverted from a fight by cheerleaders led by Faison. Billy takes her name and number on his cell phone, learning that her last name is Zorn, meaning 'anger'.
Billy and Dime meet with the owner of the Cowboys, Norm Oglesby, who is considering investing in Albert's movie about the incident in Iraq. However, instead of the $100,000 that Albert was hoping to get for each squad member, Oglesby offers them only $5,500 apiece. Dime angrily rebuffs Oglesby's offer. In private, Oglesby tells Billy that the squad's story is no longer theirs, but instead belongs to the American people. Billy tells Oglesby off, joining Dime. Albert promises Billy that he will find investors one way or another, and that their story deserves to be told "the right way."
As the squad leaves, Billy meets up with Faison briefly before leaving. He says he would run away with her, even though he has to go back. In a clumsy deflection, she reinforces his duty to redeploy, and he accepts with understanding. They share a kiss. As Billy meets back up with his squad, they are attacked by the security guards from earlier, briefly triggering Billy's
PTSD
, which fills his mind with surreal imagery of war and death. The altercation is halted with a warning gunshot. Kathryn arrives to retrieve Billy and effect his medical discharge. He makes it clear he is redeploying with his squad, more for his sense of belonging than for duty. She is upset, but after Billy explains, they share a tearful hug.
Billy returns to the limo, but hallucinates and sees a
Humvee
. He gets in, sees Shroom's familiar icon of
Ganesha
and has a philosophical conversation with Shroom. Billy tells Shroom "I love you," then returns to the reality of the Bravo Squad members in the limo, each of whom responds with "I love you."
Cast
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- Joe Alwyn
as Billy Lynn
- Garrett Hedlund
as David Dime, Bravo Squad's Staff Sgt.
- Kristen Stewart
as Kathryn Lynn, Billy’s older sister
- Vin Diesel
as "Shroom", Bravo Squad
- Steve Martin
as Norm Oglesby
- Chris Tucker
as Albert
- Makenzie Leigh
as Faison Zorn, Dallas cheerleader
- Brian "Astro" Bradley
as Lodis, Bravo Squad
- Arturo Castro
as "Mango" Montoya, Bravo Squad
- Ismael Cruz Cordova
as Holliday, Bravo Squad
- Barney Harris as Sykes, Bravo Squad
- Beau Knapp
as Robert "Crack" Earl Koch, Bravo Squad
- Mason Lee
as Foo, Bravo Squad
- Ben Platt
as Josh, Dallas team rep working with Bravo Squad during the football game.
- Tim Blake Nelson
as Wayne
- Matthew Barnes as Travis
- Deirdre Lovejoy
as Denise Lynn, Billy's Mother
- Bruce McKinnon as Ray Lynn, Billy's Father
- Laura Wheale as Patty Lynn, Billy's Sister
- Elizabeth Chestang as
Beyonce
Production
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Pre-production
[
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]
Slumdog Millionaire
'
s Oscar-winning screenwriter,
Simon Beaufoy
, was in 2014 adapting the novel for the screen, produced by
Film4
in collaboration with a U.S. production company, The Ink Factory, and
Sony Pictures' TriStar
film studio division. Also involved in the production are China's
Bona Film Group
and Studio 8, which is backed by the Chinese conglomerate
Fosun International
.
[6]
[7]
[8]
Ang Lee
would direct the film.
[9]
[10]
The cast?
Joe Alwyn
,
Garrett Hedlund
,
Kristen Stewart
,
Vin Diesel
,
Steve Martin
,
Beau Knapp
,
Ben Platt
, and
Chris Tucker
?were announced between February 2015 to May 2015.
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]
[16]
[17]
[18]
Alwyn was cast just two days after he left his drama school, London's
Royal Central School of Speech & Drama
. After putting himself on tape, he received a call a few days later from the producers to meet Lee in
New York City
. There?even after the screen test?Lee had some trouble casting him or any other people. He then told Alwyn to head to
Georgia
for additional screen tests. While the studio was initially skeptical about casting an unknown person, Alwyn was able to convince them after days of such testing. In
Atlanta
, he did four to five days of testings on set and about a week and a half later, at around 1 a.m. he received a call of acceptance.
[19]
[20]
Alwyn won the titular role because of his "ability to communicate the book's paradox of war with just his facial expressions".
[21]
The soldiers onscreen endured weeks of
Navy SEAL
-style boot camp training since they had to look like real soldiers. They were given guns with special springs that would add a recoil when they shot blanks?a feeling that often left them shaking. "They cannot shoot like
Rambo
with two guns! A real bullet cannot shoot that bravely," Lee stated.
[21]
High frame rate
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
used an unprecedented shooting and projection
frame rate
of 120 frames per second in 3D at 4K UHD resolution, which Lee terms the "whole shebang". It is the first feature film ever to be shot in such a
high frame rate
, over twice the previous record (
Peter Jackson
's 2012
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
, shot at 48 fps) and five times the standard speed of 24 fps.
[3]
[22]
Lee undertook such a bold step after reading the book since he wanted the film to be an "immersive" and "realistic" experience of the reality and emotional journey of soldiers.
[3]
After working on
Life of Pi
(2012), Lee wanted to up his use of technology in filmmaking, especially in terms of frame rate, since he thought pursuing a higher frame would help him find answers. Initially, while discussing with producer Rothman, Lee wanted to try and shoot the film with at least 60 fps at 2K resolution in 3D as he had experimented with 60 fps before (his first plan was to shoot the
Muhammad Ali
biopic in 60 fps which he said he will after
Billy Lynn
). He undertook research and found what Jackson was doing with 48 fps (the highest ever at that time), but did not wish to use such a frame rate after Jackson's
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
received polarized critical reception. He visited filmmaker
Douglas Trumbull
who was doing his own 60 fps tests, and so was
James Cameron
. He made the first test with 120 fps in October 2014, but the decision to shoot with 120 fps was not finalized until just a few weeks before shooting commenced.
[3]
Billy Lynn
was shot with the highest frame rate (HFR) ever until
Flamenco
(2017) which was shot in 120 fps in 3D, as well as in 192 fps in 2D, but was released in standard 24 fps in 3D and 60 fps in 2D.
[23]
Filming
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Principal photography
began in the second week of April 2015, in
Locust Grove
,
Georgia
. Some scenes were shot on location at the
Georgia National Cemetery
in
Canton, Georgia
.
[24]
Filming also took place in
Atlanta
and in Morocco
[17]
and in
downtown Atlanta
on April 17, 2015.
[25]
Shooting took place for 49 days.
[3]
Due to the complexity involved in shooting at a very high frame rate, Lee could not afford to do many takes even for a single scene. Every shot was difficult and at the same time precious. He would rehearse every scene beforehand and would conduct regular morning meetings with the key crew members to highlight things they needed to be alert on.
[3]
Shooting close-up shots in 3D with such high resolution meant the cast could not wear make-up and could not deliver less-than-authentic performances.
[21]
Since no make-up was allowed, make-up artist Luisa Abel spent months of preparation on their skin tones. According to Lee, "[Abel] found this
silicone
-based makeup because we found that it can see through skin."
[3]
Throughout filming, the production team had to rethink everything, including different approaches to lighting as the camera needed extra lights due to the higher frame rates. To film the war sequences, Lee strayed from the usual practice of moving cameras to create confusion. Instead he did the opposite
[21]
by shooting mostly from the protagonist's
point-of-view
to capture the realism and to look more authentic.
[22]
Post-production
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Lee's longtime collaborator
Tim Squyres
, who worked with the director on numerous films including
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
(2000),
Brokeback Mountain
(2005), and
Life of Pi
(2012), edited the film
[21]
and took over a year to complete.
[26]
It was completed just a day before its world premiere in
New York City
on October 14.
[27]
To accommodate the film's wide release, various additional versions of the film were created.
[3]
They include 120 fps in 2D and 60 fps in 3D as well as today's current standard of 24 fps. The film also received a
Dolby Cinema
release, with two
high dynamic range
versions that can accommodate 2D and 3D, with up to 120 fps in 2K resolution.
[21]
In order to present the film at the 54th
New York Film Festival
, a special installation was required, including two
Christie Mirage
4K laser projectors (a first for any cinemas) with 7thSense's Media Server for playback, using festival sponsor
RealD
's
3D
system and 42-foot-by-19-foot Ultimate Screen, the company's latest screen technology. The installation is expected to display 28
foot-lamberts
(a measurement of light), per eye, according to RealD chief innovation officer Pete Lude.
[21]
Release
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Due to the complexity of the film's unprecedented high frame rate and the cost of installing equipment capable of projecting the film in its intended format, only five theaters globally were equipped to show it at its highest resolution and maximum frame rate: two in the United States (one at a theater in
New York City
's
AMC Lincoln Square
where the film had its world premiere and the other in
Los Angeles
's the
ArcLight Hollywood
), and one theater each in
Taipei
,
Beijing
, and
Shanghai
.
[21]
The film had its world premiere at the 54th
New York Film Festival
on October 14, 2016.
[28]
It was not screened at
Alice Tully Hall
because the theater is too large to get the correct distance between the dual laser projectors and the screen. Instead, a roughly 300-seat theater at the AMC Lincoln Square on the
Upper West Side
was chosen. But even at this theater, a few adjustments had to be made: the first three rows were off limits because they would not provide an acceptable 3D viewing experience, and a new screen, the RealD Ultimate Screen, was installed in the theater (expressly for this premiere and the forthcoming run of the film).
[27]
Variety
reported that the reaction from that first screening was decidedly mixed, with comments ranging from "it was flat" to "nothing happened."
[29]
In the United States it had a
limited release
on November 11, 2016, before opening wide on November 18, 2016.
[30]
[31]
Home media
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On February 14, 2017,
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
was released on DVD, Blu-ray, and in an Ultra HD combo pack which contains the Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, and 4K UHD versions of the film. The 4K UHD version presents the film at 60 frames per second in 2D.
[32]
Reception
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Box office
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
grossed $1.7 million in the United States and Canada and $29.2 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $30.9 million, against a production budget of $40 million.
[5]
North America
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In the United States and Canada, the film opened to a sold out
limited release
on November 11, 2016, playing at two theaters,
AMC
Lincoln Square
in
New York City
and
ArcLight Hollywood
's
Cinerama Dome
in
Los Angeles
, and earned $114,129 in its opening weekend (an average of $57,065 per theater).
[33]
[34]
The aforesaid two theaters are the only two locations in the United States that are equipped to present the film in its special format, with ticket prices at both locations running $20 or higher.
[35]
Its per-theater average is the third-best of the year, just behind
Moonlight
($100,519) and
Don't Think Twice
($92,835).
[36]
The following weekend, the film
expanded wide
to 1,176 theaters, where it was expected to gross $3?5 million.
[37]
It made $352,475 on its opening day and just $901,026 over the weekend, finishing outside at number fourteen. It was the 25th-worst-ever debut for a film opening on more than 1,000 screens. The film was considered another box office misfire for
TriStar Pictures
, following 2015's
The Walk
, and according to
Deadline Hollywood
, it wasn't the lack of 3D 4K projectors available that factored into the film's poor box office performance, but rather that the story itself didn't resonate with critics or audiences.
[38]
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[40]
In its second weekend of wide release the film grossed just $210,000 (still from 1,176 theaters) for a drop of 76.6%, the 21st-biggest second-weekend drop of all time.
[41]
Scott Mendelson of
Forbes
argued that a bag of mixed to negative reviews hindered the box office potential of the film. Unlike tentpole films which aren't as affected by critic reviews and fan reception, adult skewing drama films like
Billy Lynn
heavily depend on reviews which could either help or hinder the box office fate of a film. In this case, the bad reviews took a toll on the film. He also pointed out that the complex release format?which is the main focus of the whole film?failed to deliver its intended desired effect, which manifested in its poor box office performance.
[42]
The Guardian
cited different causes, saying that the Iraqi war settings?which don't usually resonate to American audiences?and the war genre itself as being tough-selling subject matter. War films in the United States are generally sold as action films, but
Billy Lynn
on the other hand is a drama piece. The film falls in line with previous poor showings of
Iraqi War
films, after
Green Zone
(2010),
Body of Lies
(2008),
Rendition
(2007), and
Stop-Loss
(2008).
Outside North America
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Internationally, the film earned $13.2 million on its opening weekend (November 11?13) from nine markets, a bulk of which came from China.
[43]
In China, it delivered a $11.7 million debut, placing at number two behind holdover
Doctor Strange
.
[43]
[44]
The film, which has Chinese finance (via
Bona Film Group
and
Fosun International
), but is considered as a revenue sharing import, had over 60,000 screenings on Friday, and by Sunday, was down to 45,000. It earned $11.5 million and with paid previews finished the weekend with $11.7 million, according to data from Ent Group.
[45]
While it registered the highest percentage of showtimes on Friday owing to Lee's popularity in China, the attendance dwindled and deteriorated from its second day onward due to mixed
word of mouth
as general audiences were unable to relate to its central character.
[46]
It has made around $20 million there.
[47]
The film also opened in Taiwan, Lee's domicile.
[48]
The film continued the majority of its international release mainly in January 2017 in Brazil, Mexico and Spain; France, Germany, Italy, the UK and Japan in February, followed by Korea and Russia in March.
[43]
Whereas in France, the movie didn't get his audience (only 11,000 people), Les
Cahiers du cinema
listed it as number 10 on their annual top films of 2017.
[49]
Critical response
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On website
Rotten Tomatoes
, the film has an approval rating of 44% based on 158 reviews, with an average rating of 5.35/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
has noble goals, but lacks a strong enough screenplay to achieve them?and its visual innovations are often merely distracting."
[51]
On
Metacritic
, the film has a
weighted average
score of 53 out of 100, based on 42 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
[52]
Owen Gleiberman of
Variety
praised the film, calling it "a highly original, heartfelt, and engrossing story. And part of the power of it lies in the way that those two things are connected."
[
citation needed
]
David Rooney of
The Hollywood Reporter
described the film as "an absorbing character study" but criticized some of the technological aspects saying that it didn't justify "its much-vaunted technological advances."
[53]
The high frame rate used in the film drew some criticism, especially the decision to use it in a drama film.
[54]
David Rooney of
The Hollywood Reporter
said "the technical innovations took me out of the drama just as often as they pulled me in."
[53]
Dan Callahan for
TheWrap
felt that some of the characters were "so super-clear that they look like a cut-out with scissors from a glossy magazine" and said "the extra-clarity 3D in this Lee movie often looks weirdly like something shot on videotape in the 1980s."
[55]
Much like
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
,
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
received a polarized reception from critics, with detractors saying the process created an unpleasing video look.
[22]
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Accolades
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