Different, Daring
by SineBuano ~ June 24th, 2008. Filed under: SineBuano Guides.“Mainstream films have occupied Hollywood but you can get bored very easily. It can be very repetitive and I think now we want something fresh and something inspiring and different, daring.
The mainstream film is very expensive to make and it scares people. It’s made for the worldwide audience, you have to please so many people, and the business men start running the movies rather than artists. This is back to the oldest way of Hollywood filmmaking, creating a fantasy, but it has been lost. It seems to take a foreign language film to recoup that ultimate movie viewing experience.”
–ANG LEE regarding his Academy award winning film,
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Ang Lee is an Academy Award-winning film director from Taiwan, well-known and critically acclaimed for his films The Wedding Banquet, Sense and Sensibility, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain and most recently Lust, Caution.
He is only one of two directors ever to received the prestigious Golden Lion award for best film in the Venice International Film Festival twice.