Perhaps the most famous and mediatic Taiwanese filmmaker in history, the first to introduce high-budget martial arts films to Hollywood, to include homosexual themes in Asian cinema and even the maker of the best Marvel Hulk (that film was highly underrated). We are talking about Ang Lee, winner of 2 Oscars, 4 BAFTAs, 2 Golden Bears and 2 Golden Lions. Impressive!
Here his 5 Best Movies
Bonus – Eat, Drink Man Woman (1994)
FOR ACTUARY CINEMA
Comedy dish about a widowed chef father of three daughters who is losing his sense of pleasure and little by little his interpersonal relationships are fracturing. The film has the ability to have a balance between comedy and drama, despite the fact that the central axis is Chu (the widowed chef) skillfully takes the time to tell the arcs of the other characters without unbalancing the joint narrative of the film. headband. The thesis of the film is mainly focused on the classic premise of traditional vs. modern, as well as communication problems (which seems to be a constant in Asian countries), creating a succulent dish that demonstrated the quality of director that Ang was. Read. Mention aside, the photography is exquisite.
5 – The Wedding Banquet (1993)
BY JOSE ROBERTO ORTEGA
In this, his second film, Ang Lee demonstrates his storytelling skills as he navigates between drama and comedy with this story of a Taiwanese immigrant who lives in New York with his gay partner and who, however, must comply with the wishes of his parents. parents and honor traditions by marrying a Chinese woman. It is a magnificent sitcom with a great emotional charge, which tells us about cultural and generational clashes, the symbolic power of photographs and the value of the family. It earned Lee an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film and attracted the attention of American producers.
4 – Life of Pi (2012)
BY THE FETT
endearing Ang Lee triumphs by making a unique piece that uses a simply beautiful fantastic story, a confrontation and spiritual union that leaves the viewer free will for introspection, the questioning of acceptance. Are we facing a story forged by spirituality for the belief of a higher being? Or only before a metaphor of the harsh and cruel reality? The movie buff is free to choose the truth about him before what is seen, narrated, imagined, dreamed, hidden or repressed, making the story his own and sharing it with his own beliefs and ideologies. Of course Richard Parker is the vehicle and the secret of that confrontation with reality
3 – Brokeback Mountain (2005)
BY THE FETT
Regardless of the affinity of the LGBT theme in that 2005, that with the arrival of adolescence the so-called generation Y (millennial) would see its first and true irruption within society in those mid-decade, the Golden Lion dared to do what that the Oscar did not do, which is to award a film that, according to the filmic requirements (direction, performances, script, production), meets the statutes to be the best of the year. Indeed, and in one of the few coincidences where the social trend and film quality were comparable (as happened with Parasite a couple of years ago), Ang Lee achieves a sensitive, honest and intensely emotional portrait around two endearing “cowboys” and their already legendary romance.
2 – Sense and Sensibility (1995)
BY THE FETT
A great film for a great novel, this is one of the films that maintains and creates a dreamlike “meaning” with its very title, as Lee through a fantastic direction, and the cast (especially an impeccable Emma Thompson) thanks to a solemn performances, originate an agile, funny and full of sensitivity romance that ended up moving the Berlin jury that year, an atypical event, if we take into account the type of proposals that are usually made of the Gold of Gold throughout history ( critical and crude arguments about society). There is no doubt about this narrative portent of romance and period, a piece that combines the best values of auteur cinema and the commercial nature
1 – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
BY ARCH CROSS
Great warrior and last living of the ancient warriors of the Wu Dan monastery, where he was taught by his master White Crane. He now travels through all the states of the wide and vast Chinese empire trying to forget his feelings towards her partner Yu Shu Lien, whom he cannot possess out of respect for the memory of her friend and her ex-fiancé. But in what was planned to be a simple visit with an old friend, the warrior stumbles upon the second thing his heart yearned for most: a true disciple. How far must a teacher go to rescue what he considers a prodigy? Chow Yun Fat is responsible for bringing this great character to life, inspired by legends and comics from China.
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