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Journal no 27556 on June 26th, 2022.period

In the final analysis, when I choose a theme, it touches me in a certain place, and it is very cinematic, not the story of words or novels, nor the development of characters, nor the elaboration of relationships.

Ang Lee

Director Ang Lee accepted an interview with TVBS Master Lecture Hall after the Golden Horse Film Festival last year, and shared his 30-year mental journey and his views on the future development of film and television around the "dream of human science and technology film", and also encouraged the younger generation who are enthusiastic about film to let go and create a new generation.

The following is the complete video (long time, recommended collection):

Choose a script instead of reading a story

Moment is the soul

Ang Lee thinks that the most important thing in a script is not the story, but whether there is a "Moment" in the story that can move people.

Ang Lee wrote his first three scripts in his film career. He laughed and said that he wrote his own scripts at that time in order to win the script award. However, since The Wedding Banquet became famous, the scripts flew like snowflakes. Ang Lee said that he didn’t have a certain film type or content, but there are usually some elements that can impress him: "Lust, Caution tells existentialism through good girls and bad girls; "Ice Storm" is a reverse statement of rationality and sensibility, which I like very much. "

In addition, Ang Lee said that many people think that making a movie means telling a story, but he thinks that a movie is actually not a story, but a feeling that will be moving at a certain moment, like a dream. For example, he said: "In Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Yu Jiaolong, played by Zhang Ziyi, finally jumped into the fog from Wudang Mountain, and there was a feeling of freedom and relief."

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

As for whether you are worried that what you feel can’t be recognized? Li Anxiao said that he is usually afraid after finishing, hesitant before taking it, and even self-doubt, but he thinks: "Art is more valuable because it can bravely face what we are confused and unclear. This is called art!"

Flip movie specifications with technology

Self-disclosure "I am a low-tech person"

Ang Lee shot Gemini Man in 2019, with 3D/4K/120 frames, and used 500 visual effects personnel to create a young version of Will Smith, which thoroughly transformed advanced technology into art, but Ang Lee said that he was actually a "Low Tech" person.

"I am a very Low Tech person. Give me your iPhone. I won’t use anything other than making a phone call." Speaking of his own weakness, director Ang Lee smiled with relief, but Ang Lee was not worried at all, because he knew that the professional should be handed over to the professional. The film "Gemini Man" was presented with high technology, but it was not the first time that Ang Lee applied high technology to the film. In 2016, Ang Lee had already broken through the film history, and clearly described everyone’s face in the film with the revolutionary specifications of 4K/120 frames at that time. "My eyes saw something. If there is a better way, I will ask those who know science and technology to help you. I will tell him and he will help me develop it. Therefore, I have a lot of ideas now. What I want to do is something at the forefront of science and technology, but my own knowledge and my sexual orientation are very backward. "

Gemini Man.

"I don’t know about the sufferings of the people. If I knew it was so difficult, I might not ask for it, but I kept pushing him (the technician). As long as he didn’t say that he wanted to jump off a building, sometimes he was forced to do something that could not be done. You made it. In fact, I think to put it bluntly, the movie is a virtual thing." Although he is at the forefront of science and technology, Ang Lee understands that the whole film industry seems to have encountered a bottleneck. "In fact, our progress is very slow. I think it has been many years slower than it should have happened, that is, everyone refuses to move forward. This phenomenon, I think this is a place that puzzles me."

Ang Lee understands that this is because movies have a set of laws, and this law follows the habits of the audience. "I think that if we all use virtual words now, at least in our perception, it is not acceptable, unless you are doing things like Avatar and Superhero, that is, everyone knows that you are a virtual world." Ang Lee said that different film types have different traditions, and films have to be convinced if they want to sell well.

Gemini Man.

"You will know that I am watching a romantic movie now, how can I appreciate it? It has a rule over there, and action movies have some types. This is a habit, and you are not convinced. You can mix, but you can’t mess around, shoot like life, it won’t Work. " However, Ang Lee is convinced that even if a movie needs a very real scene, investing in technology can still convince the audience that the movie should be smarter. "Many movie restrictions can be broken. If it’s digital, if you nail a board to get it, it’s actually smarter, that is, how to preview, Pretend that something happens, you Stage it, and after you get it out, the audience can believe that you can be involved in the story with you, and you can do it anyway. "

Only by making movies can you feel really alive.

"I didn’t want to say, I don’t make a movie to do, have tried! Then you just don’t shoot for a year. If you don’t shoot for two years, it will be very uncomfortable, feel bored, and then you can’t say it, and then your mind has been thinking about the movie. " Ang Lee recalled his long life as a filmmaker. There were two points in time when he thought about his persistence. The first point was when he couldn’t make a movie.

Pushing hands

"When I couldn’t make a movie at that time, I thought about what I was doing. Then I really won’t do anything. There was pressure from family and economy. What would I want to do at that time? At that time, I just wanted to make a movie. Why didn’t I have a chance? Just give me a chance. " Ang Lee recalled that when he was filming the first movie Pushing Hands, he was very bitter. He had to rely on himself for everything, and it was the first time that he had his own insistence.

"And when Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was finished, I was in poor health, and I was really exhausted. At that time, I would feel that I had said enough, but I didn’t know what to do after stopping for three months. There is a new thing that can be thrown and forgotten. It seems that it is the same as a woman giving birth to a child. It is painful to forget it after a while and then (born). " Ang Lee said with a smile that at this age, there is no need to insist on this matter. "I will even tell young people that you have other choices and you’d better do something else. It’s really not practical. Then they won’t listen. It doesn’t matter if you insist on it."

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Making a movie is like giving birth to a child, just forget about the labor pain.

Now I want to shoot until I am 300 years old.

Ang Lee exposed himself twice, and after insisting, he had the idea of letting go of the directing barrel.

The first time was when I filmed Pushing Hands. At that time, my wife was ill and the baby was born with a hard life. But at that time, I tried to get through it because I was unwilling. "I finally realized after filming, and I want to say that I can go back to the shore."

The second time, when filming Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Ang Lee revealed his physical condition after filming and convinced himself that "enough is enough", but after three months’ rest, he still kept thinking about making a movie. Ang Lee described making a movie as like giving birth to a child. "When I was born, I said I would never give birth again, and then I had another one soon after.".

However, even though there is no special insistence on the screenplay at present, Ang Lee said that there are still too many things he wants to shoot. He laughed and said that he hopes to live to be 300 years old because he still owes too many people things. "The theme is endless. Our generation pursues self-worth and belonging, but how to dream in this generation is their topic."