Speaking of Ang Lee, his films are almost all word-of-mouth works, after going deep into the culture, analyzing the psychology of various different groups of people, one movie after another unfolds like a picture scroll, revealing a corner of a gorgeous and colorful world. And how the people who created this world think, "Ten Years of a Movie Dream" provides a good perspective, from the birth of Ang Lee's film dream to how his dream was realized, from the first work "Pusher" to the Oscar-winning "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", from Taiwan to the United States, from the United Kingdom back to the mainland, like going around different amusement parks, and finally facing only the smile and joy that bloomed when making the choice.
In the book, you can see that he originally chose the difficulty of the film industry, the disagreement of his father and mother, the many adaptations to study in a foreign country, and then to the shooting of "Push hand", which is to compress the production funds by all means, did not expect to achieve excellent results, and then "Wedding Feast" and "Eating Men and Women", it was naturally filmed, completed the "Father Trilogy", from the first part of the son and the father's game, the deep planting of traditional family relations, to the son's fake marriage in the second part to deceive the parents, The dissolution of traditional family relations, followed by the three daughters and their fathers in the third part, the collapse of the traditional family, he changed his gaze to his fathers to his fathers.
"Sense and Sensibility" and "Riding with the Devil" is that the protagonist Emma has completed the script after three years, he communicates with it, and jointly completes the film, and the other is that he sees that the film scene has a more grand power, it can remember history, and it can be more moving. Even though the stories of the two films are not as familiar to him as locals or natives, he still uses his delicate approach to describe his thoughts, and for Ice Storm, the same is true. Sometimes, the procedures for the progress of human society are the same, but it is only a matter of time. The Bible says that what has been done will be done again, and what has been done will be done again, and there is nothing new under the sun. I think the same is true of movies.
There is a passage in the book that says, "I think that when young people study film, they should go to practice some very basic workmanship, very real filming principles and techniques." In fact, including many famous directors, that is, the use of familiar moves, turning over and over, the moves are not complicated. Just like people who can fight, just two or three moves, can be used, used well, just ok. Just like the protagonist Li Xunhuan in the martial arts novel "Little Li Flying Knife", the swords and guns of the people are strictly forced, he is awe-struck, and he only needs a dart to throw over. Quentin's violent aesthetic mentioned later, very much the shadow of Wu Yusen at that time, is also this truth, the director's doorway is to draw from others, and then to be used, continuously, repeatedly, and finally become their own characteristics, so that people can recognize his work as soon as they see it.
The influence of Ang Lee shown in the book is really mild, and for many things, he can accept it with an open-minded attitude, and he thinks to himself, "If you ask for everything, you must suffer some grievances, which is also part of my personality." "I think that's the proposition that comes out of his work."
Unfortunately, the ten-year movie dream is too short, and there should be another twenty-year movie dream, and I want to see the detailed discussion of "Brokeback Mountain", "Pie's Fantasy Drift", "Billy Lynn's Halftime Battle" and other works after "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".