Ang Lee is a relatively special director, his works are not many, so far there are a total of 14 films, but his Chinese films are only 5.
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In addition to the "Father Trilogy" filmed when he debuted, it is "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Color, Ring".
And today's film, in his directing career, is really a film of special significance.
"Sense and Sensibility"
The heroines of the film are the sisters Elena and Marianne.
When his father was dying, he instructed his eldest son, John, to take care of his three half-sisters and stepmother. But this son is afraid of his wife, and his wife Fanny is not a good stubble.
The couple came from London to Nolan Manor to inherit the property.
A few days later, Fanny summoned her brother Edward and prepared to take over. The mother and daughter four plan to defect to distant relatives.
Unexpectedly, the gentle and generous Edward fell in love with the elderly leftover daughter Elena at first sight.
Fanny panicked and hurried to send him away.
The mothers and daughters sent people under the fence, and Mrs. Jane and Sir John were enthusiastic, but they were too noisy and noisy all day.
Marianne hid from playing the piano and singing, and came a retired Colonel Brydon, who was suddenly conquered by the beautiful woman.
Marianne suspects are old-fashioned and do not care.
One day outside accidentally twisted her feet, a young man on horseback met, did not say a word, picked her up in the rain and sent her home.
She fell in love with the handsome man, and the two fell in love, entangled and sweet. Suddenly, the handsome man Wei Lebi found a reason and went to London.
Not only my sister, but my sister was also disheartened and listless.
There was a girl Lucy who bit her ear at Elena: Your sister-in-law's brother Edward, who was privately engaged to me five years ago, don't say it!
Mrs. Zhan saw that the girls were unhappy and took them to London to find their sweetheart.
At the ball, Edward did not show his face, and his silly brother Rob came to top the bag.
Wei Lebi seemed to be fine, leaving aside his involvement, and there was another girl beside him.
Marianne was greatly stimulated, but could not let go. Brydon, who came to Beijing, sent the sisters back to the countryside.
As soon as Marianne returned, she went madly to see Weleby's manor.
In the pouring rain, Braden found and hugged back, asked the doctor again, picked up his mother again, and ran before and after.
Marianne was seriously ill and almost died, so it was clear that she was well with Briden.
Elena buried everything in her heart. One day Edward came, and the family was overjoyed, but she sent away faintly. The second elder asked, and this was the end of the board.
The two sisters blamed each other, one too cold, one too hot.
Another day, Edward came to the door again, and Elena quietly sent her blessings.
The other party said that she was still single, and Lucy and his brother were eye-catching. Elena wept with joy and let out a cry of sorrow.
In the end, the two sisters happily put on their wedding dresses and each had something to rely on.
Sense and Sensibility was released in 1995, when "Eating Men and Women" was the finale of Ang Lee's "Father Trilogy," the first Western film he directed.
Although he preferred to leave this first time to the later Ice Storm, it was also a matter of serendipity that he finally took over the script.
Shooting a classic like this is both a good thing and a bad thing.
The good thing is that the plot has long been deeply rooted in people's hearts, whether it is the ups and downs of the plot or the exquisite design of the ending, it is already ready-made, especially the works of writers like Jane Austen.
But the difficulty lies in how to shoot a well-known work, how to vividly display the image in everyone's mind, which is not a pleasing job.
In particular, as an Oriental, Ang Lee has always been inferior to local actors in his understanding of british classic drama literature.
However, perhaps it is precisely because of the cultural characteristics of Ang Lee Oriental that has contributed to the success of this classic.
In particular, the inbearance of the characters created under the lens is difficult for Western directors to understand and express.
Ang Lee is really good at putting such oriental insidence in his film role.
Whether it is the three fathers played by Lang Xiong in the "Father Trilogy", or Li Mubai and Yu Xiulian in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and Ennis in "Brokeback Mountain", there is an indescribable hidden forbearance in his bones.
In "Sense and Sensibility", there are more good characters, allowing him to express through delicate lenses to convey such oriental forbearance.
Ang Lee handles the balance of rationality and fanaticism, money and love in the film just right.
He did not rush to flaunt the design, but chose to tell the story.
Even until the beginning of the movie ten minutes, the father of the two heroines died, Eleanor looked at her sister playing the piano tearful side of the face, let people for the first time seriously see the woman's face.
Compared with her sister Marianne's enthusiasm and emotional exposure, Emma Thompson's sister Eleanor seems to be a more introverted personality, as the eldest of the three sisters, she also has her own rhythm and pace of feelings.
Her dealings with Favars were nowhere near as fiery as Marianne and Welebi's, and whether it was a casual walk or a horse walk by the river, the two kept their distance very dignified and talked like friends.
This may be due to the steadiness cultivated by the eldest sister, Eleanor.
This family structure of mother and three daughters is actually very similar to the structure of one father and three daughters in "Diet Men and Women".
As the eldest daughter, the eldest sister naturally assumes the role of mother.
In this family, the real mother is absent, or just a kind of existence but does not play a role in the protection of the daughter, so the eldest daughter ascends to the throne, and carries the calm and reservedness that is characteristic of this identity.
Just like Zhu Jiazhen in "Eating Men and Women", she runs the whole family, but she has lost the enthusiasm that is characteristic of her age.
Emma Thompson, who works as a screenwriter, maximized her storytelling ability, and it is no wonder that she won the 68th Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
The film is still a happy ending, but in this battle of reason and emotion, it is difficult to say which one is more correct or more instructive.