? When a person's humanistic feelings are gradually replaced by technological obsession, that is when that person is aging. The most obvious sentence of
is Wu Yusen and Tsui Hark. At the beginning, Wu Yusen, who was full of pigeons in the sky, was suddenly obsessed with large-scale copying of the Three Kingdoms scene, but committed in the details, "It was born in the land of Jingchu, let's call him cute" when he missed a generation. The master of violent aesthetics becomes a craftsman. Wu Yusen wakes up early, and when he realizes that the signs are wrong, he shrinks across the board. In recent years, production has plummeted. And Tsui Hark is now even more difficult than Wu Yusen's situation. The high-intensity creation of a work every year has wiped out the previous imagination, and now his film has become a large-scale show. The overwhelming visual special effects, a large number of superimposed special effects, but there is no substantial breakthrough in the core of the plot, even the suspenseful settings of the plot are constantly repeated.
Li Ang was the first to make his name by relying on Wang Huiling's "Father" trilogy ("Wedding Banquet", "Pushing Hands" and "Diet Men and Women"). At that time, the Chinese and Western cultures gradually merged, Eastern traditional thinking and Western new thinking Mutual integration, the old generation’s incomprehension and resistance to the new social thoughts at the time, the little modification and abandonment of the traditional thinking of the old age by the new generation, and the little hard integration with the trend of the times are all in Lee Ang’s film Here, it produces a unique beauty that belongs to that era.
"Father" trilogy laid the core narrative style of Ang Lee-calm, dense, and pave the central theme with the continuous accumulation of the original ecology of life. In culinary terms, Ang Lee is the skill of slow-fire and fine stewing, a little bit of intensive integration of all the seasonings into the ingredients, and finally, the time comes, and the natural aftertaste is long.
Li Ang's literary style laid the foundation, and his many years of life experience in the United States made him a filmmaker who can penetrate the two life philosophies of the East and the West. Therefore, after describing the integration of Eastern and Western contemporary thoughts, he began to actively learn and practice from Western literary consciousness. However, Ang Lee's reliance on the script became serious. The success of "Sense and Emotion" benefited from Jane Austen's finely detailed original work and Ang Lee's ability to extract those leisurely and slow British times from the lines; while "Ice Storm" benefited from a solid and fast-moving script , The kidnapping incident of a fake drama is continuously led to the endless divergence of death, and finally turned into an absurd comedy of the ruined family.
2000 was a year of good fortune for Ang Lee. The success of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" made Ang Lee finally stand on the Oscar podium. Although it is not purely a fusion of East and West, it is proud of its grasp and grasp in the middle, and uses Eastern stories to install the core of Western pursuit of freedom. After Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon became famous in the US market, it was only exported to domestic sales. Popular in the domestic market. Although the reputation is mixed, Ang Lee has made his name in the mainstream Western film production market.
thought that he could take advantage of the success of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" to integrate into the ranks of mainstream Hollywood commercial films. However, "The Hulk" brought Li Ang back to its prototype. Because of the weakness of the comic story and the fact that the subject matter was not mainstream at the time, even if Li Angui properly moved the plot of the original comic to the big screen, he still tried to enrich the theme with his own opinions. It's a pity that the audience has not yet fully accepted this superhero model, and the producer feels that Ang Lee's technique is too literary and can not satisfy the producer's requirements for a high-energy bursting atmosphere throughout. The reputation and box office of this film are not high, coupled with the more serious creative differences in the sequel, makes Marvel completely cut off the idea of the superhero universe. This decision, the Marvel superhero theme was postponed for ten years before it re-emerged.
After the failure of "Hulk", Ang Lee learned his lesson and devoted himself to the serious plot theme he was good at. "Brokeback Mountain", which focuses on minority groups, integrates the implicitness and timelessness of the East, and tells an impossible love story to the heart. And "Lust Caution" is a complete return of Eastern thinking. Zhang Ailing's homely rumors about the rich wife on the card table restore the decadence and extravagance of an era under the lens of Ang Lee. In particular, the erotic scenes in which the soul generally exists, inseparably use the vigor of Western movies to complete the secretive emotional progression of the East.
until "the strange"Phantom Drifting", Ang Lee finally reached a balance between written effect and image expression. The bizarre fantasy under the desperate situation in the original book becomes magnificent in his lens. Relying on the magnificent pictures and magical and profound themes, Ang Lee finally stood on the podium of the best director and best film, completing the integration of his Western form and the core of Eastern thought.
"Juvenile School's Fantasy Journey" is Li Ang's highest peak so far, so he gradually declined for a long time afterwards. It was not until the launch of "Tyrant" that Li Ang returned to the audience's sight again. After an infiltrated American independent thinking family returned to the native family in the Middle East, the changes that occurred in the country, the family and even within the family constitute a process of constant impact and friction between Eastern and Western cultures.
By the time of "Billy Lynn's Intermission", Li Ang was able to break away from the portrayal of the conflict between East and West that he was good at, and fully involved in the display and discussion of mainstream American consciousness. In particular, the use of 120-frame high-definition lens has the advantage of capturing the emotions of the characters and depicting the battle scenes, so that the whole movie maintains Lee's consistent good reputation!
However, Ang Lee has gradually lost the support of the script. After Hollywood screenwriters went on strike, the entire environment lacked adequately qualified original scripts. "Gemini Killer" is an old script reactivated in the 1990s. Ang Lee uses CG special effects and 120 frames of high-definition high-frame footage to bless it. It still can't wake up the core of the script. In addition to the theme of "father and son fusion", more The ideological connotation, therefore, Ang Lee himself admits that "this is his retreat, the technical proficiency used to run 120 high-frame images. Therefore, we will spend money this year to watch a lively theme that really caused Ang Lee to explode, It is estimated that next year’s "Battle of Manila."
As the director and producer with the highest achievement in the Hollywood system in China, Ang Lee, his own attributes of the integration and conflict of Eastern and Western cultures, are also his films. The most core spiritual temperament.
seems to be honing his high-definition technology in recent years. In fact, he has always been aware of his strengths and areas of expertise. Even if he temporarily compromises to shoot the commercial themes that he is not good at and cater to the market, but In his bones, he is still a fan of literati movies. Moreover, with the ups and downs of his ten years, in his father's trilogy (which concentrated around 1990-1994), "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (2000), "Young "Fantasy Drifting of Pie" (2013). After these bands, his next peak will inevitably start with the high-precision and high-frame-rate "Battle of Manila"! We are experiencing his "Gemini Killer" that retreats into progress this time After that, I look forward to his next real full attack.
