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His father was born in mainland đài loan trung quốc but moved to Taiwan as a young man & married a local woman from the southern part of the colorful island.
How Ang Lee grew up to become one of Hollywood’s top film directors -- “Ice Storm,” “Taking Woodstock,” “The Life of Pi” -- is a story that will someday be told in a good book that a film scholar in thủ đô new york or Los Angeles will no doubt write.
But there is one thing you should know about Ang Lee -- he grew up speaking three languges: Chinese, Taiwanese and English, in that order.
He learned Chinese, of course, from his father who was a high school principal, & from his teachers in elementary school và high school. But he also learned Taiwanese -- a dialect also called “hoklo” & spoken by the descendants of those Taiwanese people who migrated to lớn the island from the Fujian Province in old đài loan trung quốc long ago, as long as 300 years ago.
In between speaking Chinese Mandarin and Hoklo Taiwanese, Ang Lee picked up his chia sẻ of English key words và slang -- enough lớn see him through his first days in thủ đô new york working odd jobs & trying to lớn make a go of it as a would-be movie helmer.
And now, of course, Ang Lee is Ang Lee, the celebrated Oscar winner, the “glory of Taiwan” as his compatriots call him, the film director with a storyteller’s magic touch.
How this little kid from southern Taiwan in the 1950s & 1960s made his way khổng lồ fame and fortune as a Hollywood bigwig is not something most Taiwanese still understand, but they’re proud of their native son (and his elder brother , who is a film producer in Taipei).
Now let’s fast-forward & segue over khổng lồ a little Taiwanese girl named “Tao Tao” who’s all of five years old and currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Her mom và dad hail from Taipei, originally, but both went khổng lồ America for graduate studies -- as did Ang Lee long ago -- and now little five-year-old Tao Tao Perng và her three-year-old sister Lily star in a You
Tube đoạn clip that is going viral across Taiwan, china and the ‘’mainland’’ of America.
The two girls sing a song in the Hoklo dialect that Ang Lee still speaks today about gratitude, thankfulness, parents and grandparents. “The Lo Lat Song” is sung in a combination of Taiwanese và Chinese, and the words mean “thank you from the bottom of my heart,” as Jules Quartly in Beijing notes in blog post from China.
The tune? It’s an old schoolyard standby, originally from Britain, & we know the melody today as “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” -- although it’s called “Xiao Shin” in Chinese (for “Little Star”).
Tao Tao sings her heart out, và while they are not singing it specifically for Ang Lee và his family in America -- including Brandon Lee, who is a budding actor himself -- you could imagine that in a way, this tuy nhiên about gratitude and thankfulness, using the Taiwanese word “lo lat” as its theme, might really be a good song for the Lee family to lớn hear và recognize as part of the southern Taiwanese culture Lee comes from.
Take it away, Tao Tao. & “lo lat” to lớn everyone who understands the deep nguồn of a well-said “thank you.”
Action!
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12. HULK (2003)
Screenplay by James Schamus, Michael France, and John Turman, story by Schamus, based on the comic book by Stan Lee và Jack Kirby. Starring Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliott, Josh Lucas, Nick Nolte.
Lee dipped his toes into superhero filmmaking with this talky, interminable Marvel adaptation. In telling the origin story of Bruce Banner (Eric Bana), a genetics researcher who turns big and green whenever he’s angry, the director puts a lot more emphasis on human relationships than the average comic book movie (especially when it comes lớn the fraught relationship between Banner & his father, played by Nick Nolte). Unfortunately, though, the Hulk doesn’t vày a lot of smashing, making for an overlong & rather dull blockbuster.
11. TAKING WOODSTOCK (2009)
Screenplay by James Schamus, based on the memoir by Elliot Tiber và Tom Monte. Starring Demetri Martin, Dan Fogler, Henry Goodman, Jonathan Groff, Eugene Levy, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Imelda Staunton, Emile Hirsch, Liev Schreiber.
“Taking Woodstock” is so thin và empty it could almost float away with a light breeze. It’s 1969 and Elliot Tiber (Demetri Martin) has to return home to help his parents (Henry Goodman và Imelda Stanton) run their failing Catskills motel. Hoping to lớn drum up business, he invites a bunch of hippies khổng lồ hold a concert when their permit is pulled in a neighboring town, inadvertently setting up the generation-defining Woodstock music festival. Though pleasing enough, the film fails khổng lồ capture the grit, dirt, & fun of the moment, making for a fine but forgettable outing.
10. BILLY LYNN’S LONG HALFTIME WALK (2016)
Screenplay by Jean-Christophe Castelli, based on the novel by Ben Fountain. Starring Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker, Garrett Hedlund, Makenzie Leigh, Vin Diesel, Steve Martin, Joe Alwyn.
This adaptation of Ben Fountain’s bestseller buckles under the weight of its technical innovations. Shot in high-definition 3 chiều at a frame-rate of 120 per second, the film comes dangerously close to crossing into uncanny valley territory. That would be all well & good if its story about a 19-year-old Iraq veteran (Joe Alwyn) brought trang chủ for a victory tour after a dubious mission could tư vấn the massive production. Sadly, the screenplay fails to lớn live up khổng lồ Lee’s many lofty intentions, making this neither a thoughtful examination of war nor a cinematic game-changer.
9. RIDE WITH THE DEVIL (1999)
Screenplay by James Schamus, based on the book ‘Woe to Live On” by Daniel Woodrell. Starring Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich, Jewel, Jeffrey Wright, Simon Baker, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, James Caviezel, Thomas Guiry, Tom Wilkinson.
Lee tackled the western genre with this offbeat Civil War epic. Tobey Maguire và Skeet Ulrich star as best friends Jake và Jack Bull, who join a guerilla-offshoot of the Confederates known as the Bushwhackers after Jack’s father is killed by Union abolitionists. They size an unlikely alliance with Holt (scene-stealer Jeffrey Wright), a former slave fighting for the South. Jake, meanwhile, falls in love with a beautiful war widow (pop star Jewel in her acting debut). Beautifully photographed by Frederick Elmes (who also shot “The Ice Storm” and “Hulk” for the director), “Ride with the Devil” is a gritty, sweeping look at this most bloody of US conflicts.
8. LUST, CAUTION (2007)
Screenplay by Hui-Ling Wang and James Schamus, based on the novella by Eileen Chang. Starry Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Tang Wei, Anupam Kher, Joan Chen, Wang Leehom.
Lee followed up his Oscar-winning “Brokeback Mountain” with this sexually-explicit spy thriller. Set during WWII, “Lust, Caution” centers on a beautiful young woman (Tang Wei) recruited by a group of Chinese radicals in Shanghai lớn help assassinate a high-ranking government official (Tony Chiu-Wai Leung) by seducing him. Three years after the plot fails, the two reunite in Hong Kong, leading khổng lồ some of the steamiest love scenes ever seen in an NC-17 release. Though oddly-structured và a little too leisurely-paced at times, the film is still a provocative và gorgeous study of eroticism. Taiwan submitted it as their official Oscar entry for Foreign Language Film, but the Academy rejected it for not having enough local crew.
7. EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN (1994)
Written by Ang Lee, James Schamus, Hui-Ling Wang. Starring Sihung Lung, Kuei-mei Yang, Chien-lien Wu, Yu-wen Wang, Winston Chao, Ah-Leh Gua, Sylvia Chang.
This charming và delectable drama stars Sihung Lung as Mr. Chu, a master chef who loses his palate when his wife dies. He lives with his three adult daughters (Yu-Wen Wang, Chien-Lien Wu, Kuei-Mei Yang), preparing glorious banquets for them each Sunday. But the three would lượt thích to start their own lives away from home. Lee deftly handles the family dynamics while also serving up mouth-watering shots of food (definitely not one to watch on an empty stomach!). This box office smash contended as Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars, losing lớn “Burnt by the Sun.”
6. THE WEDDING BANQUET (1993)
Written by Ang Lee, Neil Peng, James Schamus. Starring Ah-Leh Gua, Sihung Lung, May Chin, Winston Chao, Mitchell Lichtenstein.
Lee came khổng lồ fame with this delightful và surprisingly touching farce. Winston Chao stars as a gay Chinese man living in thủ đô new york as a successful landlord. When his parents keep asking when he’s going to marry a nice girl, his boyfriend (Mitchell Lichtenstein) suggests he wed one of his tenants (May Chin) in need of a green card to placate them. Problem is, they want lớn attend the wedding. In this early outing, the director displays his ability lớn explore cultural issues with empathy và grace. “The Wedding Banquet” reaped an Oscar nomination as Best Foreign Language Film, which it lost to lớn “Belle Epoque.”
5. SENSE và SENSIBILITY (1995)
Screenplay by Emma Thompson, based on the novel by Jane Austin. Starring Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, Tom Wilkinson.
When Lee was hired to helm “Sense và Sensibility,” it raised a few eyebrows: after all, aren’t Jane Austin adaptations reserved exclusively for Brits? Yet as his international hits “The Wedding Banquet” & “Eat Drink Man Woman” proved, the Taiwanese-born filmmaker is a good fit for complex familial dramas. Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet star as sisters left poor by the rules of inheritance after their father dies, now forced to lớn find husbands. Thompson won an Oscar for penning the script, và the film contended for six additional prizes, including Best Picture, Best Actress (Thompson), và Best Supporting Actress (Winslet). Despite scoring DGA, Golden Globe, và BAFTA nominations, Lee was snubbed in Best Director.
4. LIFE OF PI (2012)
Screenplay by David Magee, based on the novel by Yann Martel. Starring Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Tabu Hashmi, Adil Hussain, Rafe Spall, Gerard Depardieu.
Lee won his second Oscar as Best Director for this visually stunning, emotionally staggering adventure yarn. Adapted from Yann Martel’s seemingly unfilmable novel, “Life of Pi” stars Suraj Sharma as a devoutly religious teenager whose family is killed in a shipwreck. He finds himself stranded on a lifeboat with the only other survivor: a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. The film is usually singled out for its technical aspects: the astonishingly realistic CGI creations, the use of 3d to deepen the frame. But all of this is in service of a story about the wonders of the natural world, & how all God’s creatures must co-exist in harmony. In addition khổng lồ Lee, the Academy also handed out prizes for its cinematography, score, và visual effects.
3. THE ICE STORM (1997)
Screenplay by James Schamus, based on the novel by Rick Moody. Starring Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Henry Czerny, Adam Hann-Byrd, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, James Sheridan, Elijah Wood, Sigourney Weaver, Katie Holmes.
In 1973, an ice storm descends upon suburban Connecticut during Thanksgiving. But for the residents of New Canaan, the weather is the least of their troubles. In adapting Rick Moody’s classic novel, Lee examines the cultural, sexual, & political upheaval of the times through the lens of one seriously screwed-up family. James Schamus’ screenplay creates richly complicated characters for its ensemble cast, including Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, và Sigourney Weaver as the parents and Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, và Elijah Wood as the kids. Though ignored by audiences (and the Academy) in its time, “The Ice Storm” has found a second life as a modern day masterpiece, at times haunting and hilarious, tragic và uplifting.
2. CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN long (2000)
Screenplay by Wang Hui-ling, James Schamus, Tsai Kuo Jung, based on the novel by Wang Dulu. Starring Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen, Sihung Lung, Cheng Pei-pei.
At the risk of hyperbole, “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” is the greatest martial arts movie of all time. Certainly it contains some of the most stunning fight sequences ever (courtesy of “The Matrix” choreographer Yuen Woo Ping), with its actors soaring through the air in gravity-defying feats of spectacle. Phối in the 19th century, it centers on a retiring warrior (Chow Yun-fat), his secret lover (Michelle Yeoh), và the young rebel (Zhang Ziyi) who steals a mythical sword from them. The film was a box office smash, racking up four Academy Awards, including Best Foreign Language Film. Lee looked poised khổng lồ win his first Oscar for directing after victories at the DGA, Golden Globes, và BAFTA, yet he lost lớn Steven Soderbergh (“Traffic”).
1. BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (2005)
Screenplay by Larry Mc
Murtry và Diana Ossana, based on the short story by Annie Proulx. Starring Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Randy Quaid, Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams, Linda Cardellini, Anna Faris.
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When it was released in 2005, “Brokeback Mountain” was often referred khổng lồ as “the gay cowboy movie,” a derisive and vulgar classification that does little to express its awesome power và beauty. In telling the story of Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) & Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal), two Wyoming sheep herders who fall in love in 1963, Lee crafted one of the great tragic romances, a tale of how society can deny two people the only great desire they’ll ever know. Rodrigo Prieto’s sweeping cinematography gives this intimate narrative the scope & scale of a John Ford epic. The film swept the early precursors & won three Oscars, including Best Director (making Lee the first Asian to receive the prize). Yet it famously lost Best Picture to “Crash,” a wound compounded by the admission of several Academy members who refused khổng lồ watch it. They should have, because it’s message is one that’s sorely needed.