"Food Men and Women" is the last part of Ang Lee's father's trilogy, and it is also the one that breaks Ang Lee's style of comparing Chinese and Western cultures in form, but the subtleties can still be seen in this man who grew up in the American film environment. Something that the director has never been able to get rid of - American thinking. Introducing the old and bringing forth the new, after a change of filming "Wedding Banquet", Ang Lee filmed "Diet Men and Women". This was the first time he shot a script written by someone else, and it was also the first step in his transformation. He began to focus on women, looking at the family and society from a female perspective. The success of "The Wedding Banquet" made Ang Lee feel "insecure", mainly because he began to have a kind of pressure, which prompted him to start "thinking about change". This kind of change is also because "The Wedding Banquet" was too successful. I'm afraid that if we continue to follow the way of "The Wedding Banquet", the audience will find out the way and lose themselves. Ang Lee said that this is the first time he has tried a multi-line structure, and some parts are still inaccurate. I don't know if it was because of humility that he said this, but after I watched the film, I really felt it. The overall structure is still a little loose, and the ending is a little abrupt. Because the three sisters in the family have very prominent personalities, the second character in the script, the second child in the family, is not prominent and not very clear. However, the true expression of emotion is a success of the film. In this film, Ang Lee is interpreting the theme of "food color, sex". Food is something on the countertop, and sex is the real issue under the countertop. The emotional life between a widower old man and three daughters, none of these three daughters are married, even the eldest eldest sister has no sexual experience. First pregnancy after the forbidden fruit. This pregnancy gave the eldest sister a lot of stimulation. Under the repeated pursuit of the teachers in the same school, the eldest sister's psychology changed abruptly, and she also tried sex and left home when she became pregnant. The most interesting thing here is that the reason why the three sisters sometimes want to try sex and love is to leave the house. The second child in the family is the one who has the most conflict with his father. At that time, the screenwriters Wang Huiling and Ang Lee originally designed the three sisters to have too average personalities. James made suggestions after seeing this situation, and Wang and Li made revisions. Now the second daughter. The second daughter's personality is most like her mother. She was actually the first person who proposed to leave the house, but it backfired. The newly bought house was deceived, and her boyfriend married someone else. She returned to the original point again. I don't like home. The other two sisters left the house because of their pregnancy, and even the most serious old father cheated on the daughter of the aunt next door and left the house. Life is so interesting, "Inadvertently inserting willows and willows for shade" happens every day! On the theme of father, Lang Xiong brilliantly performed his father trilogy. By the end of "Diet Men and Women", Lang Xiong's father image in these three films can be described as wonderful and truly touching. Li An described Lang Xiong's face as "the republic of five ethnic groups", with the expression necessary for a Chinese father. He felt that it was a fate and a mission to know Lang Xiong. Why does Li An care so much about the role of his father? This has to be discussed with Li An and his father. It turns out that Li An's ancestors were all businessmen, and there were officials in the family. Family. Until the family's failure, his father and them lived in Taiwan and established their own business. As the eldest brother of the family, Ang Lee's father shouldered a heavy burden, and as the eldest member of the family, Ang Lee also received higher expectations from his father. His father hoped that he could teach and educate people like him, but Li An just took a path that his father disliked the most, and the father-son relationship was once very cold. Under this kind of relationship, Ang Lee can only bury his deep love for his father and express it in the film. This is a kind of love for his father, and maybe there is a trace of guilt. The image of Zhu's father in "Diet Men and Women" was tailor-made by Li An for Lang Xiong, and it was designed according to Lang Xiong's character and image characteristics. The father in this film is not a good father in traditional Chinese culture, because he did not hold back his loneliness and remarried a woman of the same age as his daughters, which is a bit anti-moral in Chinese culture , which can be interpreted from the perspective of Western culture, this is also a kind of liberation of human nature. It is a rebellion against tradition as a father, and a way of life with an American mindset. This is something that Ang Lee cannot change. To transplant the independent production method, it is necessary to adapt to local conditions for this shooting. Ang Lee still uses the independent production mode and wants to introduce this mode to Taiwan, but it has not been successful. If some things are really mixed together, they will work It's not good, but fortunately, Li An found it early and adjusted it. Independent filmmakers in the United States focus on prior planning, organization, and efficiency, because planning on paper costs nothing. Sometimes, in the process of production, there are restrictions on the director, and it must be carried out according to the process, and it is not enough to exceed a little. In the early 1980s, Fellini said in an interview in the United States: "Americans think that my filmmaking can be unregulated and calculated, and that our art directors are like beautiful women who can do whatever they like. Americans believe that Europeans can do what they want. This kind of thing, let them believe it... The calculation of making a movie has to be as accurate as launching a rocket." Taiwan's production model focuses on grinding dramas , the vast majority of producers will not interfere with the director's request, and the longer the time of the drama, the finer it is. But it wastes a lot of time and resources, but it is very high for the "true love" in the movie. There are advantages and disadvantages, depending on how you choose. Small setbacks can make people more sober.
"Diet Men and Women" has been criticized constantly, and the box office was not very good in that year. A little twists and turns can't be said to be a bad thing. It can make Ang Lee more sober and promote his constant "thinking changes". In this way, his road can go longer!
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