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Ang Lee: Crouching Tiger
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After Ang Lee left the army, he got both Bachelor's and Master's degrees in the USA. However, he didn't have any chance to make a film. He stayed at home for six years until he got a chance to direct the movie "Pushing Hands." Afterwards, he went on to direct "Wedding Banquet," "Eat Drink Man Woman," "Sense and Sensibility" and the most famous one, "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon."
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Ang Lee talks about his latest film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which is a major contender at the 2001 Academy Awards and has been a cross over success with both critics and audiences. Lee ... discusses his earlier films, including Eat, Drink, Man, Woman, The Ice Storm and Sense & Sensibility.
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To the surprise of many, Lee's next film had nothing to do with either his native Taiwan or his adopted America. Instead he filmed Jane Austen's very English period romance Sense and Sensibility, starring and scripted by Emma Thompson, and it won rave reviews and an Oscar for Thompson's script. After that Lee made the heartbreaking '70s suburban wife-swapping drama The Ice Storm with Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver, the Civil War western Ride with the Devil starring Tobey Maguire and Skeet Ulrich, and the big-budget medieval martial arts masterpiece Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon with Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh. The top grossing foreign-language film ever released in America, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon was nominated for ten Oscars and won four, including Best Foreign Language Film.
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As soon as Lee, who has collaborated with writer-producer Schamus on many of his movies ("The Hulk," "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon") agreed to direct the movie, Focus went ahead with the production, which was filmed near Calgary, Alberta. It helped that ever since 1997's "The Ice Storm," Lee's strong support from foreign markets has given him "more creative freedom," he says.
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