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"Gemini Killer", the global box office has reached 120 million US dollars. Compared with the production cost of 140 million U.S. dollars and the marketing expenses of about 100 million U.S. dollars,
's losses have reached the red line. The word-of-mouth and box office failures of
have extinguished the unconditional enthusiasm and support of the Chinese for Ang Lee.
But in the eyes of you at ten o'clock, he is still worthy of the most influential Chinese director.
Compared with the negative reviews, the pressure is even greater in the face of the huge input and output of the film.
Besides, this is still a commercial blockbuster popcorn that combines science fiction and action. This is not the first time Ang Lee has been hit by the fact that
is not selling well.
's previous one was "Billy Lynn's Midfield Battle" with 120 frames + 4K, and the next one was "Hulk".
“Maybe I’m not masculine enough. Every time I beat and kill, I don’t sell well. It’s negative and depressive. It seems that the audience feels the same. I don’t know why.”
Indeed, business, action, and popcorn seem to be The label that shouldn't appear on Ang Lee.
He doesn't even have the aura of a director, so gentle and gentle like a teacher.
In fact, Ang Lee's father also said to him: "If it doesn't work, you should come back to be a teacher."
At that time, Ang Lee was in the gap between "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Hulk", glory and darkness.
"The Hulk" set
Ang Lee was born in an intellectual family in Pingtung, Taiwan.
's father Li Sheng is the principal of Hualien Teachers College, and his home is in a traditional old-fashioned Confucian environment.
"does not speak food, sleeps nothing", he is very disciplined, and has to bow down to his ancestors and parents during the New Year.
, but under this layer of rules, is the most typical patriarchal mapping.
Li An is not the eldest son of the family, but due to the current situation, when his father came to Taiwan, he could only leave his brother and sister in his hometown of Dean, Jiangxi.
His birth was a comfort to the family who wandered away from home. Even if the fate of people in those days was like duckweed and weeds, they had taken roots anyway.
So his father treated him as harsh as his eldest son. Today, facing all the big and small affairs at home, Ang Lee's first thought is still to assume the identity of the eldest son.
However, Ang Lee's temperament is too gentle, and growing up in such a family did not show the generosity and responsibility his father expected, so much so that the sighs he heard often came from his father.
Boy Li Ang and his father
were 9 years old when Li Ang felt the charm of the movie for the first time.
At that time, his mother took him to the theater to see Li Hanxiang's "Blessed Lovers". After watching it, Li Ang, who was less than 10 years old, cried in a mess.
's father was extremely disappointed with his performance, and said to him for the first time, "Can you be like a man". In the days after
, this sentence will follow.
One year, Li Ang played a girl in a drama club. When his father learned about it, he pointed at his nose and cursed. The shameful young Li Ang grabbed the door and escaped. Now recalling, this is still one of his rare extreme actions.
63 "Blessings of Love" stills
In the eyes of his father, this accomplished Chinese director is the most "unbelievable" in the family.
Traditional Confucianism values righteousness and despise profit. Compared with people buying tickets, it is indeed better than teaching and educating people without losing the integrity of intellectuals.
But young Li Ang is destined to not be on this road.
His academic performance has a strong tendency to go to the black. Soon after entering school, he was slapped by the teacher because of the poor math test. His father's status as the head of the middle school made him feel extremely ashamed of his poor grades.
Even though he has shown a lot of genius in calligraphy and singing, he still secretly tried to improve his performance.
Unfortunately, things backfired. Two college entrance examinations failed, the first time was 6 points, and the second time was only 1 point away. Knowing that he failed the second time, he lifted his desk and lamp that night. The struggles and tribulations of
did not go away with growing up or getting married and having children.
For the world, the most talked about is the 6 years he spent at home after graduating from the Department of Drama at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
was washing and picking vegetables, cooking and bringing his baby. His father was so angry that he wrote and scolded him, making him "like a man" again.
mother-in-law fightCalled Lin Huijia to persuade Lin Huijia to divorce him, but Huijia just cried. After hanging up the phone, she began to blame herself for crying with her mother.
himself has almost lost his confidence, even going to help others look at the warehouse as a play affair can not do well, when encountering a savage onlooker, he surrendered and hid.
Many years later, Ang Li recalled those 6 years and said: "If I had the integrity of a Japanese man, I would have cut my stomach and committed suicide." "The first time to go overseas to choose a script, etc. turned around, allowing Ang Lee to dominate the first two with "Pushing Hands" and "The Wedding Banquet". That may be how many dark moments he has to experience.
Of course, this is all for the rest. After Ang Lee officially entered the film industry and won the Golden Horse Jury Award with "Pushing Hands", the 6 years when he was waiting for work at home was officially called the "squat before the jump" by the world.
looks quite inspirational, but in fact it is more like a bowl of "poisonous chicken soup."
Taiwanese director Wei Desheng admires Ang Lee. He spent many years looking for money to make a movie, but in the end he realized that he was not Ang Lee.
Director Wei Desheng
Li An is a genius, gentle and even emotional. When
mentions his movies, he usually thinks of the delicacy, rules and deep-flowing family affection.
uses family as the motif to integrate China and the West, breaking the barriers of different cultural backgrounds to achieve common human relationships.
But in Lee Ang's bones, he is "rebellious", and what he resists is the patriarchy of the world and the inheritance of the East.
is just that he is too gentle, and this emotion is often hidden deep.
Ang Lee does not avoid the shadow of his father.
"Handling the image of my father is very helpful to my creation and life. With the completion of a movie, the shadow of father's pressure is gradually removed from my system. For me, it has the function of purification and redemption."
In the first "Pushing Hands" of Ang Lee's father's trilogy, the father is the strongest, and the image of the son is still at a loss for inheritance. When
arrived in "The Wedding Banquet," his father was a veteran, possessing all the characteristics of the most typical patriarchal image, but he often dozed off, and even sent to the doctor for emergency treatment, and his son was gay, which had diminished the inheritance. When
filmed "Diet Men and Women", it seemed to be the mildest but actually the most intense. Chef Lao Zhu had no children under his knees, so he simply let the heritage go. The daughters of
even thought of "marrying out" their father so that he could live his own life and reunite in the second spring. The image of
's father is getting weaker and weaker in the trilogy. The awakening of
children's consciousness is intensified.
In "Diet Men and Women", sex first appeared in Lee Ang's film in a positive form.
"Sex" is an important source of Western drama, and its spiritual origin is "Paradise Lost".
Mankind was tempted by Satan (snake), ate the forbidden fruit, was driven out of the Garden of Eden, and began to realize shame, had intercourse, became pregnant, and all the pain and the continuation of life began. After
walked out of the Garden of Eden, mankind began to know themselves, so they sought knowledge and creation. Knowledge and creation are not only a challenge of mankind to God, but also a kind of pride of human nature. —— Ang Lee
"Diet Men and Women" set
is different from the words Ang Lee said when guest guest in "Wedding Banquet":
He let the coldest and most conservative eldest sister in "Diet Men and Women" face the students Lovers kissing.
allows the second sister to maintain an open sexual relationship with others, while the younger sister simply becomes pregnant without marriage.
This kind of rebellion against tradition and the release of Chinese people's repression is the other side of Li Ang's sensibility.
is neither sharp nor tickling, but powerful.
is just like he was born and raised in Taiwan, but he always feels like a stranger, watching the changes in the world, and suppressing his thoughts before returning home. So restraint becomes extremely important.
But after "Lust and Caution", the element of sex was slowly eliminated by him.
Fear spurs me to keep improving, because there is no stronger feeling than fear.
can continue to try, the motivation lies in insecurity. Once
has a sense of security and becomes inertia, I will feel fear, fear of being stereotyped, fear of being exhausted, fear of stale things, fear of being eliminated by others.
Wandering, panicThe fearful Ang Lee quietly and naturally showed the endless thoughts in the subconscious in the movie. This thought of
originated from thinking about the gap between his father and the two generations, and also from the struggle and pain of the young Li Ang.
So for Ang Lee, filming is extremely exhausting.
He often almost collapsed himself and his staff because of too much research. When
made the sound effects and dimming of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", he fell into a kind of neurotic fault.
people are very depressed, their minds are uncontrollable, and sometimes they can’t fall asleep all night until the dawn is faintly dew, sitting in front of the window and seeing the sunrise, tears involuntarily flow down.
It wasn't until after the Oscars ceremony that he felt that he was alive again.
("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" also won the Oscar for the best foreign language film, best original soundtrack and best photography that year)
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" set
was so picky when filming "Lust and Caution" The table, stationery, and tea cups must all conform to the background of the Republic of China. The things that appear in the
movie are those that my father Li Sheng would have seen or owned.
He even made Tang Wei spend several months growing her armpit hair, because women in the 1930s did not shave armpit hair.
For him, armpit hair is very sexy.
can be shot halfway through, and Ang Lee still suffers from her almost relentless dedication.
It is said that if it weren't for seeing his spiritual father Bergman and crying with his father, he might not be able to complete the filming of "Lust and Caution".
Regarding real life, Li An often feels that he is absent-minded and difficult to control.
But in the movie, you can unfold your mind, even if the process is sad and not happy. After
, take a rest, and then move on to the next journey.
Ang Lee who has been seeking his own breakthrough.
He probably finished talking about family. At the age of 62,
chooses his way to technology and keeps trying with an embrace. Although
has many failures, even losses.
But the movie has a fate with him, and he will not leave him easily.
