Ang Lee is truly a treasure mountain.
In reality, it is very fortunate to be able to use such people as teachers, as respected leaders, as friends, as peers, and as frames of reference that can wait and see.
♥ In his eyes, man is man, and man is only man.
This is a surprising and touching place. He looks at people and shoots people, and he doesn't discriminate.
For example, let me introduce Ang Lee, I will say him: his ancestral home is Jiangxi, born in Xiangmendi, two college entrance examinations failed, after graduating from Taiwan Art College to study in the United States, the first graduation of the Film Research Institute of New York University, six years of full-time cooker, because of the "Push Hand" in one fell swoop, after the "Father Trilogy", and to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Color Ring", "Hulk", "Young Pi", etc., the reputation is growing, winning the double gold man, double golden bear, double golden lion, double golden ball, Oscar best director, the first person in the Eastern and Western film world.
Almost every short sentence is a label: origin, growth experience, setbacks, blockbusters, major experiences, personal achievements.
It seems that he can easily understand his life, but you don't know whether he is tall, fat and thin, whether he loves to laugh, whether he writes with his left hand or his right hand, whether he prefers that style color when his family goes out, whether he comes to drive when he goes out, who is used to sitting in the corner or by the window when meeting friends, teaching actors on the set whether the tone is soft or severe, whether there is a sigh when going out to raise money, whether he will cry after winning the award...
All the details that make this person full, real and feelable, and have temperature are all gone. We only see epitaph-like listings.
In many stories, people are carriers, tools, and symbols. Ang Lee doesn't do that in his films.
He is very careful with people, patient, layer by layer, give and understand, without judgment. Yu Jiaolong is really not a good child, but he has photographed the inner desire of being born in the wild and growing up in the wild; Wang Jiazhi jumped back and forth, her values were questionable, but he told her about buying rice, sending people to the fence, and being bullied and played; Lang Xiong's father, embarrassed to go home, Lee Ann gave him a different family banquet.
He does not distinguish between country, sex, ethnicity, colour, origin, education, group attributes, language, etc. He only looked at the most authentic side of the story of this person.
♥ Very mean and rebellious on the body
Nor is he blindly polite and gentle, and at some times, his poisonous tongue is rebellious.
He said that film and art are inherently contrived. Movies are things that focus on hue.
He said that "Eating Men and Women" is an empty life of ignorance of lies and sacrifices, and the protagonist acts absurdly; Often the wisest and rebellious child in the family, he sees through the hypocrisy of the family.
He laughed at himself for "Reason and Sensibility" by writing a blank check: "I'm going to make this movie break people's hearts so hard that it will take them two months to heal." He also ridiculed the other party for actually believing it. Spit on the British actor: I really don't know where so many problems come from.
He said that Li Mubai was boring, and being a good person was boring. He also said that Yu Jiaolong's words of cursing Li Mubai and Yu Xiulian were the most beautiful, like scolding himself. It is also said that everyone loves to watch martial arts movies because Chinese society itself is a pathology.
He also scolded: The film is not wild, not rotten, not earthy, not marginal, not artistic, not awkward, not depressed, is it American? He also scolded those comments that accused the westernization of the film: China has a long history and a republic of five ethnic groups, relying on grace and generosity, so it stretches endlessly, and when and when, the arrogance has made the foreign devils so small nose and small eyes.
♥ Very pragmatic
However, in the specific implementation, he is very pragmatic and does not retain the slightest fluke mentality.
He is very clear that winning awards and selling out are related to power, being a director, without power and money, it is difficult to play, and it is clear that filmmaking practice is street wisdom, and everything is results-oriented.
He bluntly said that whether in China or the West, the chair is a representation of status, and it is important to place it. After "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" won the award, in order to successfully receive Chinese and foreign media, it was clearly called and seated, and even twice taught Sony's public relations to ensure that there was no mistake.
Filming "Eating Men and Women", he lost his temper on the set, and summed up afterwards: The Taiwan set sometimes seems to be like a typhoon is coming, filled with a depressed and irritable atmosphere, and it is a very strange shooting culture that has to be smoothed by a typhoon.
The promotion of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in the United States is also very telling.
Their entire team held two consecutive weeks of meetings and set a publicity strategy: the first stage was to stabilize the audience of the original art theater line, take a high-grade route, and focus on high-end media such as film festivals and "Time"; The second stage focuses on martial arts and traditional martial arts films, with TV commercials at karate martial arts gyms with 500 chain stores; The third stage targets teenagers while targeting a general female audience.
Everyone tried new ways, prescribed the right medicine, and resolutely implemented it. In hindsight, the New York Times database alone contained 4,000 articles reporting on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
I do book marketing. A key book, in the 3-month marketing period, if the Beijing News, the surging and the book review weekly can be on 2-3 drafts, there are 2-3 activities offline, can reach 200 kols on various platforms, can publish books, short reviews, long reviews, gifts, etc. Over 100, of which about 20 can be publicized twice, WeChat public accounts have 1-2 articles 10w+, and major lists can be shortlisted for 2-3. Then I really tried my best.
But they alone have 4,000 manuscripts. It's a huge, meticulous workload. During the 11-month publicity period, all the film festivals, screenings, meetings, and media interviews, Ang Lee ran from city to city, without a false head, all stupid kung fu.
♥ About Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
I re-watched it last night, and I was glad that after more than ten years, I finally had the relative ability to discern the elegance and implications.
Yu Jiaolong is the well-deserved first protagonist. On the outside, she is a golden and noble official lady, but inside, she is a rule breaker who has no scruples, and she is the one who overturns the table.
It's so painful to see her cursing! Juxing Lou she was as light as a swallow, scolding while fighting, scolding the entire river and lake, which was really refreshing. Scolding Li Mubai: Don't go to the temple and say the words of the monk. He also scolded: You old people, where can you see your true heart?
This man was innocent, scheming, and without discipline.
She went to find Yu Xiulian, obviously she was timid, and she had no clothes to wrap around, to ask for help, but when she didn't agree, she said harshly: Be my enemy, I don't know how long you can hold out. When fighting, there was a big gap in strength, and with good weapons and Yu Xiulian's thick way slightly prevailing, it was ironic and sarcastic: it is not good to fight and not win strange weapons. Go choose, I'll wait for you.
The worldly bondage, as if it had no effect on her, made people hate it and itch their teeth.
Does she love Luo Xiaohu? Maybe. In a specific field and situation, Luo Xiaohu just carried her imagination and emotions. When they met in Beijing on the night of the moon, she already had a choice. The next day, the lover robbed the kiss on the street, and under normal circumstances, the woman would probably be moved to rush out, and she was not moved. After running away from home, I never thought about going to find my old lover. It's hard to say how much she's engaged.
What really put her in was the freedom and freedom of imagination. She was dissatisfied with her parents' marriage, looked down on the blue-eyed fox, ridiculed Yu Xiulian's pedantry, and scolded Li Mubai for hypocritical and false morality. But she didn't know where to go. Li Mubai saw this very accurately.
Yu Xiulian is a very well-behaved person. Her martial arts skills are fierce, double knives, Yang family guns, double ditches, hammers, and magic wands, all of which make it. With a strong personality, Li Mubai had a little word, and immediately hit back that he would chase back the Qing Hao Sword. The things he does are also domineering, and he is a dart master who eats all over the north and south. But she is actually very polite and has a strong group nature. The Qingdi Sword is lost, and her handling is a model: to take care of Grandpa Belle, to save face for the Jade Mansion, to leave room for Miss Yu, to take care of the emotions of the jianghu, and finally to get back the Qingjing Sword. By looking at the fabric, moving with affection, knowing with reason, forcing force. Very mellow and watertight.
She even set up a tablet for Meng Sizhao at home and wrote "Ancestor Husband". The bamboo forest shows affection, and the most intimate action is to take a hand. There was a scene where Li Mubai was hit by a purple yin needle and was going to die, but the two of them still sat politely, more than a meter apart. In the end, the beloved person died, and she only put the Green Hell Sword on the neck to show punishment, and gave the relics and the way forward.
This kind of person, whether you like her or not, approve of her, and eventually you will respect her. In the city of Beijing, Yu Xiulian's horse hangs in the middle of the city, and I can only admire it.
Li Mubai was bored. Hero, moral model, grandmaster style. Can't afford to put it down. I think of him from time to time. This kind of person with a bitter core is very disgusting and has its own charm. The only two occasions in the whole film that make people feel that he is cute are: bamboo forest expression, and the use of a breath of hanging in exchange for a confession to a lover. Taoists emphasize that they should attain the void to the extreme, keep quiet and be silent, and refine the gods to return to the void. He made one last rebellion.
Luo Xiaohu was even more bored. The desert chase is simply funny, entangled to the end of the world, and the dialogue is also temperamental. As a supporting role, the blue-eyed fox is more vivid, and he is a temperamental person who has been seriously engaged in business all his life.
So are there any shortcomings in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? Of course. It's also obvious. The first is the line, Belle Ye, Liu Taibao, Xiao Zhang, Cai Jiu father and daughter, are fine, the lines are grounded, but Zhang Zhen, Zhou Runfa and Yang Ziqiong, the accent I can accept, but some of the lines are really floating, not what will be said when communicating. The second is to love reasoning too much. Itself Yu Jiaolong is the most annoyed by this set, the director still keeps saying, very annoying.
But back to Ang Lee, that doesn't hurt him as a great director.
This book really had to be written early. I look forward to watching his self-descriptions and project reviews from 2000 to the present.
