Where is the stupidity of Ang Lee, an idiot director in the circle?

I didn't understand movies until I was 20 years old. I didn't make my first commercial film until I was 38. When I was 45 years old, I said to my father, "I found a job!" " "At the age of 50, I often cry because I don't know how to film. 20/kloc-in February, 2003, Ang Lee, a 59-year-old director from China, won the best director award for the second time with The Fantasy Drifting of Pi. When asked about his successful experience, he emphasized with his usual slowness: "I am stupid." Stupidity keeps me alert and full of fighting spirit. The key is that stupidity slows me down, and movies need to slow down! "

Dad's stupid son

1954, Yang Sizhuang, a teacher of Pingdong Primary School in Taiwan Province Province, was pregnant for seven months. She hurried downstairs and accidentally fell on the stairs. Great pain came, and her husband Dr. took her to the hospital. The examination shows that the adult is badly hurt, but the child is fine! Yang Sizhuang marveled at the good skin of this child! Dr. Li is worried that it won't be that his head is not bright and he can't feel the pain! In a word, after a child is born, he is slow in reaction, speech, action and height change. It's no use asking Dr. and Mrs. Li for medical treatment.

This child named Ang Lee speaks very slowly and has a particularly stubborn personality. When I was in the first grade of primary school, I once went to someone else's house with my parents. He doesn't play with the children in this family, but he stares at his dog. While the adults were talking, they suddenly heard a scream from Ang Lee. When they rushed out to look, the dog kept biting Ang Lee's head. The parents were frightened out of their wits and beat the dog away, while Ang Lee's eyebrows and cheeks were pierced by the dog's sharp teeth, bleeding profusely.

The owner's family is very sorry, and they don't understand why the usually docile dog suddenly went wild and killed the dog alive. When Ang Lee heard that the dog was dead, he ran to the place where the dog was buried and put up a stick. When the host asked why, Ang Lee said, "I'll give it back to you!" "

It turns out that the dog was sitting on a stick that day. He wanted to know what kind of stick it was, so he went to smoke it. The dog thought it was under attack, so it opened its mouth and bit it. The owner of the dog said sadly, "This dog is half of us. You told me before. We thought it had rabies before we killed it! " "

The dog who was unjustly killed left two scars on Ang Lee's face, and the scar on his cheek was on the spot, sunken like a dimple. In the future, just listen to others say, "Ang Lee, your dimples are really beautiful!" He will coldly correct: "It's a scar!"

When Ang Lee was in junior high school, the doctor who was the principal of the middle school spent a lot of money and energy to cultivate his son in all aspects. However, Ang Lee's performance is extremely poor. Until I stumbled into Tainan High School, where the doctor was the principal, Ang Lee couldn't see any ideal. Not only did he not talk to his father at home, but he also avoided seeing him on campus.

Ang Lee failed the college entrance examination. The doctor forcefully forced him to repeat. He asked Ang Lee for tutoring, one-on-one tutoring. Among them, the math tutor is a young teacher. He likes art and often listens to classical music with Ang Lee. Once, he took him to see the film "Virgin Spring" made by a Swedish director. Ang Lee didn't understand it for the first time, and then he went to see it again. Ang Lee still didn't understand and asked the teacher what a performance was. Teacher's example: when performing, pretend. The more pretentious, the more interesting. Life is the antonym of drama. The more you pretend, the more people hate you! Ang Lee wondered, "I never pretend, and nobody likes it. Is it not that I live? " The teacher thinks his question is very interesting. The child just looks stupid, but his thinking is strange.

But in the second college entrance examination, Ang Lee scored only 0.67 in mathematics! Dr. Li was so disappointed that the teacher couldn't believe it. Ang Lee didn't even give adults a chance to get angry. He disappeared. Let's find him. When he finally found it, he said to Dr. Li, who was going crazy, "I'm going to learn drama and acting!" "

Although Ang Lee was admitted to the Theatre Academy, the doctor felt very sad. One summer vacation, Ang Lee participated in a performance around the island, and he was so tired that he was black and thin. When the father and son were having dinner, Dr. Li began to train: "What the hell?" What's the difference between a tour and a circus? Why don't you study hard and become a drama professor in the future? " Ang Lee responded: "In the play, the father beat his son. If it doesn't take a slap in the face, the son will immediately admit his mistake, which is not a good show. Want to see a good show, the son can't admit his mistake, so he quarrels with his father and rushes out. If I listen to you, there will be no drama in the future. "

Yang Sizhuang, with Li Bo's morale, quickly calmed her husband, feeling that at least Ang Lee had resumed the dialogue with them, and his height had grown a lot. His reaction is slow, but he still works very hard for his ideal.

Wife's stupid husband

1977, Ang Lee, who had served in military service and failed in love, disobeyed his father's orders and applied for the drama department of the University of Illinois. At a gathering of international students, everyone talked about the experience of applying for studying abroad. Ang Lee said that the neighbor's children are studying in Iraqi University, and there is a big theater in the drama department, which is very mysterious. Just seeing this theater, Li applied to come here to watch the performance.

Lin Huijia, a girl from Taiwan Province, guessed that Ang Lee must have been to the theater. Ang Lee replied, "No, I never thought of coming to the United States to perform in English. My English is only enough to buy a dish in the market, so I was not assigned to the performance group at all, but to the director group." Lin Huijia smiled and was curious about the content of the director's class. Ang Lee said, "I don't know. I am here to learn acting. Why should I listen to the director's class? " Lin Huijia thinks this man is really stupid.

Fortunately, Lin Huijia is a special girl, a biopharmaceutical student. She thinks that Ang Lee, like a cell under a microscope, will truly show every tiny change. She fell in love with his foolish efforts and sincerity. After falling in love, Ang Lee's clumsiness brought her a lot of trouble. After he finally made it clear that he would go to new york to study as a film director, the two men left. Needless to say, Ang Lee studied hard and realized the excitement. Whether it is early in the morning or late at night, he will make a long-distance call to Lin Huijia.

Lin Huijia criticized him on the phone for disturbing her sleepiness. He promised not to fight again, but it will be the same next time. Later, Lin Huijia answered his phone and only responded with "oh oh". 1985, Ang Lee proposed to Lin Huijia, but after marriage, Ang Lee never got a chance to make a film. At first, he often talked about his ideals and stayed at home to write plays. Later, he only knew how to cook and take care of children, and finally became cheerful and gradually autistic. At the age of 38, Ang Lee has been eating soft rice for six years, and generous Lin Huijia is also worried. On the one hand, the income from drug research is not high, so it is particularly difficult for her to support her family alone. On the other hand, Ang Lee is often in a daze for a long time. If this goes on, he will go crazy unless he collapses.

Seeing that he has produced two excellent graduation works, friends in the circle helped him find a job as an assistant director. Unexpectedly, on the set, Ang Lee has only two states. One is thinking and doesn't say a word. He thinks too much and even walks sideways, either knocking down things or bumping into people. When he thought he understood, he went to the director and said that the plot should be handled this way instead of that, what should be the next shot, and so on. Speaking of excitement, he couldn't wait to pull the director out of his chair and sit down.

Soon, he will have to help operate the equipment. However, Ang Lee is timid. He once went to an empty house in eastern new york to help people keep vigil. The security around him is not very good. He trembled with fear that robbers would break in and rob him. From then on, he stopped vigil, and then went to the audience to be the person in charge of stopping the onlookers. Ang Lee's face is not fierce, and his figure is quite different from that of tall Americans. So his obstruction didn't play a deterrent role at all. Once, an African-American woman saw him coming and attacked him violently. I'll get someone to hit you! "Ang Lee, go away. Later, Ang Lee was reduced to working as a coolie, carrying sandbags and carrying machines. He was indispensable to those with a little technical content.

1990 Ang Lee's play Pushing Hands won the Best Drama Award of Taiwan Province Provincial Government, and he won a prize of 400,000 yuan. He decided to use the money to make a movie. But the money is far from enough. In order to save money, he removed all the furniture during filming and promised that it would be returned to Zhao intact. But in the process of directing the play, he later led to family conflicts, which made the actors smash the furniture to pieces. I was scolded by Lin Huijia because there was no table to eat at home.

199 1 The film Pushing Hands was successful, just as Ang Lee knew nothing about cells and Lin Huijia knew nothing about movies. She didn't know what the Golden Horse Award was, and scolded Ang Lee, "I lived like this if you won the prize, but I couldn't live like this if I didn't win the prize. What's the play! " She didn't even know there was a Golden Bear Award in Berlin, so when Ang Lee's second independent film "The Wedding Banquet" won the prize in Berlin, she got a call from him in the middle of the night, so she scolded him and made her sleepy.

Ang Lee was scolded by his wife and made no excuses. Instead, he calmed down and strived for greater success. After that, every time he won the grand prize, he went home and begged his wife to scold him, saying that he was doing heart exercises.

Stupid director in the circle

Ang Lee became famous. 1994, the American film company wanted him to remake the famous book Sense and Sensibility. Ang Lee made a lot of efforts to convince the producers that he could do it. 1995, the film started shooting in Britain, and the lineup was very impressive. The hero is hugh grant, who is learned, but still very popular at that time. The actress is emma thompson, who graduated from Cambridge and just won the Oscar for Best Actress. She is still a popular screenwriter.

After the movie started, the scene was completely out of control. Not only did people argue with him, but hugh grant didn't listen to the arrangement and asked him to stand east and west. Ang Lee was humorous when he spoke, and made it clear that he didn't take him seriously as a director of China. Emma is very conceited, because she is the screenwriter of the film, and she simply can't tolerate Ang Lee making any changes to the script. Even the horses used in continuous shooting movies are extremely uncooperative, and they keep farting. The actor finally got into the play. When he farted, the scene was chaotic.

The filming progress is very slow, and the budget keeps increasing. When the film can't be filmed soon, friends from Ang Lee come to visit the class. This person is a complete outsider and doesn't understand movies, but after watching the porn, he said to Ang Lee, "You put Grant in front of other actors instead of letting them perform side by side!" Ang Lee doesn't know why, but when a dead horse is a living horse doctor, he did it. As a result, Grant did what he was told to do.

Ang Lee was puzzled and asked a friend, who said, "Can't you see? He just hates it when you treat him like an ordinary actor. A star should talk about his taste. He always enjoys the visual focus and is unwilling to perform side by side with others. You only think about movies, but you don't think about the people who perform them. How to do this? ! "Friends even helped him deal with the fart horse, which was just eating the wrong food and flatulence, and Ang Lee didn't even have this basic common sense of life.

Because they are all elites, at the end of the play, Ang Lee's only principle is to be slow, so that he can work slowly and make others unable to be picky. As a result, after the film was made, the narrative style slowed down, and the emotion was restrained and released well, which was in line with the spirit of the original work and became a classic work with low input and high income. After the successful release of the film, Ang Lee was convinced that he could go further on this road. He sent a short message to his old father in Taiwan Province Province: "I think I have found a career I can do!"

In 200 1 year, the novel The Fantasy Drifting of Pi by Canadian writer Jan martel swept the world. Many producers and directors focused on this novel, but until 2009, no one could put it on the screen, because the novel not only tells the fantastic experience of drifting at sea, but also contains profound religious and philosophical stories. Shooting requires advanced technology and profound connotation. Some people assert that this is a novel.

But there are always people who want to challenge the impossible Gil Netter, the producer of Fox Film Company, is one of them. He found that Ang Lee also likes to challenge the impossible. The two hit it off and initialled the agreement. After that, Ang Lee excitedly led a group of people to Shuiling Airport in Taichung, Taiwan Province, and began to build the world's largest fully automatic wave-making tank to simulate various marine environments, including calm and waveless sea surface and choppy sea storms.

After the water studio opened, he led another team to India to audition for the leading actor. In order to find the silly and naive boy in his mind, it took him six months to interview 3000 people before finding the ideal actor Sura.

Ang Lee returned to Taiwan Province Province with Sura. At midnight, the phone rang. It's producer Guble. She said: "The bosses decided to quit and stop filming!" Ang Lee patted his head, only to remember that he had signed a provisional agreement, and the final shooting plan had to be decided by the two directors of Fox. The two bosses believe that this film, which was shot on water in the early stage and produced in high-tech 3D in the later stage, is likely to overspend.

Ang Lee was caught off guard. Sura, an actor, said, "You said that pies are not only survived by instinct, but also by faith. He didn't believe or accept the harsh reality, so there was no mental breakdown. If you want me to make pies, you have to make pies yourself. " Ang Lee repeatedly claimed that he immediately bought a plane ticket to Los Angeles and persuaded Fox to follow him into the screening room, showing them the audition scenes of shipwreck and Sula. After watching the film, the two chairmen said, "If we cut the budget of 70 million dollars a little more, we will agree!" Stubborn Ang Lee said: "If you are willing to add another 30 million yuan, you will see better films!"

Finally, I started a new shooting journey with a budget of 1 100 million, and finally won a high box office and an Oscar for 20 13 years.

Ang Lee called himself a fool more than once after winning the prize. He said: "This is by no means modesty. I have no talent, only stupidity. Movies need idiots. In this world, there are many people who, like me, are working hard and holding on foolishly. Fortunately, God loves such a stupid child. "