IFC. 9.18, director Ang Lee was sitting in the row in front of me. After the screening, he came on stage and said that he hadn't seen this film in 21 years, and wiped away the tears of sighing at his age.
A very strong ethical message. Fortunately, Ang Lee said, "The original book is too angry. I'm from Taiwan, so I'm not that angry." This was my favorite comment in the audience. I think people from East Asian culture are familiar with the role-playing of family ethics. Since childhood, we have learned to observe and see through the trivialities of the family, and we have never had the kind of Western-style love and trust in the family. On the contrary, most people have good intentions, love their parents from their daily quarrels, and understand the fragile and relatively cute aspects of human nature, so they are more open-minded. The Ice Storm is relatively more angry, the anger that has nowhere to put, the world, the family, the life, the mother who is tired of life, the father who has been sinned just because of his sexual needs, the child who is curious and open about his body, and The teenagers who wandered in their own spiritual world from the beginning, they finally detonated themselves. At first glance, there is indeed an Asian family atmosphere, each broken, each refused, and then returned home safe and sound after the explosion. Therefore, when I saw such a strong ethical judgment at the end, I was a little worried whether it would be an arbitrary judgment from the director. With a stroke of the pen, everyone who was guilty was guilty, and those who were innocent were atonement. Fortunately not, fortunately Li An said he was not so angry, so I think it is good, not wrong with him.
The original is a book read by the screenwriter James' wife and recommended to Ang Lee by James. Ang Lee said that when he read the original book, he was impressed. On page 200, he read the clip of the child being electrocuted and sliding down the frozen road like garbage, so he thought, this is more than a book. Exquisite, the director's visual imagination is too different, reading a paragraph, the mind is a mirage. Ang Lee said that he made the whole movie just for this picture. At the beginning, it was very fragmented, too many versions were cut, and there was no way to subtly link irony, humor, confusion, and death well. He also mentioned that at that time, life was very slow, not like there is a dead line now, so they went to New York Chinatown to eat Peking duck every day after finishing work. He treated guests, a peking duck banquet, and everyone chatted and drank. Because the film was not valued by the publisher, they were all thinking about what to shoot. Until one day, Ang found that he didn't have anything to add. He thought about it and said, why don't we go eat Peking duck, so everyone left Go down town and the film work is over. At that time, everyone was still young, not afraid of wasting time, and was given dreams by the world.
The Ice Storm is rarely shown on screen, and it has always been left out, scoring just 17 points in its first screening. Because there were several humorous dialogues in the first half, the company saw that the situation was not good and sold it to a Frenchman under the name of "funny film". James said that I had never seen such an angry Frenchman in my life, but he said to the Frenchman, "I just made this film, I didn't sell it to you." Later they mentioned that the film was screened at a film festival, Twenty minutes after the end, the audience stood up and cheered and applauded. Ang Lee said that the film finally found itself. This is also interesting. They never felt that the movie was good or bad, and it was more like it had different personalities. If people like it, it is understandable, and it is called a good death. Talking about them going to set the scene, New Canaan, Ang Lee and James all said that they had never seen such an angry person, and they were kicked out of the film. There was a grocery filming, and when we were shooting, someone suddenly said that the road they were standing on was private, that of a certain great-great-great-grandfather, so they were fined $2,000, maybe, James said that he was just a little late that day. , came and found that no one was there, and then went to the city hall to pay the fine before starting again.
Ang Lee said that Kevin Klein playing golf was the top shot in his directorial career, the house was transparent, the postmodern house in the background of nature, the half-naked man, had no control over his life, lost his focus, and then Ang Lee said, It was such a coincidence that as soon as I started shooting a cloud, it came over. He also mentioned that he liked him to shoot the back of people's heads. He said that emotional moments were god's moments. He didn't think people's positive expressions were enough to express that kind of complicated emotions, and he believed that good actors could act with their hair. The half-bald James said it was sad that someone didn't have any hair. Ang Lee said that the second half of this movie is very special, because of the snowstorm, there will be no light, no power supply, everything is transparent, dark and cold, and he wants to show this effect, this is for him test. Secondly, I also like the scene where the mother rides a bicycle, the wind blows her face, she suddenly looks exactly like her daughter, young, confused, has her own world, and is a little braver because of her own world. I also liked the part where my mother went to pick up the corpse. At the beginning, she said that my husband has passed out in the toilet now. I have been married to him for more than 20 years, but I have no intention of seeing him. But then she still went, went there, and picked up her life. A door that is half open, in and out is life.
Again, although the picture of the teenager sliding down the frozen road is very good, I feel that this ethical question is too emotional, and the film is bound by this scene. If Ang Lee didn't prefer this picture, this movie should have more silent power. What doesn't erupt in silence often strikes people suddenly. Just like the last paragraph of the film, it has a bit of Ang Lee's taste. When you think about it, it's not easy to keep from just wandering out of life. It's like someone's always leaving the door open to the next world, and if you aren't paying attention you could just walk through it, and then you've died. That's why in your dreams it's like you're standing in that doorway... and the dying people and the newborn people pass by you.. . and brush up against you as they come in and out of the world during the night. You get spun around, and in the morning... it takes a while to find your way back into the world. There's always that in life The black area, and the door to there is half-closed, if you are not careful, you will accidentally walk in. And you're wandering around, wandering around at night, and when morning comes, it's going to take you a while to find your way back into this world.
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