Li An was in a nervous mood as he teed off at the Xinzhuang baseball field yesterday. (Photo by Ji Zhixiang)
Director Ang Lee opened for the professional baseball team Fubon Shrews at Home in Xinzhuang Stadium on the 19th, and was excited to swing the bat for the first Time in his hometown, but under great pressure. He grew up in Tainan and said that Taiwan‘s Little League took off at the same age as his own, “When my country was in 6th grade, the Chinese team got the world championship for the first time, and all of Taiwan was crazy, and I grew up watching baseball”, and also revealed that he and his wife Lin Huijia met in the baseball stadium, which can be said to be a baseball love affair.
After returning to Taiwan for the Golden Horse Awards last November, Ang Lee has been staying in Taiwan due to the Epidemic, “is the longest stay after making ‘Junior PI’, every time I come back is work, this time I have a rare opportunity to get together with my Family and friends, to manage a Li Chun”. He will leave Taiwan today for New Zealand to visit the new technology developed there. As for the new film plan, he said, “I’m thinking about it, and I’m slowly writing the script.” He even laughed bitterly and said, “My last one (“Twin Killers”) didn’t go well.” He had previously wanted to shoot 3D boxing movie, but because of the impact of the epidemic last year, still waiting for the east wind, waiting for funding, “because I want to shoot more expensive, so still fighting.”
Self-reflection through the epidemic
In the face of the sudden epidemic, he lamented that mankind should take this opportunity to introspect, “We have to be humble, do not think that what we do the world can change, people are not so great, everyone wants to simplify things, this is very dangerous. In fact, the film is often the same, in fact, are not so simple”. This year, 66-year-old Ang Lee, self-confessed that the more you live in the world, the more confused, but when you are young, many things have a clear answer, “now I think we should admit that the ability is limited, this is my heartfelt words, to have this kind of knowledge, is because too little think this way, there will be a conflict and some self-righteousness”.
Shoot until you can’t shoot
A few days ago in the United States, a number of attacks on Asians, Ang Lee said it was very difficult, although not planned to Asian-American theme of the script, “we (the incident) are absorbed, will be properly expressed, no matter what we shoot, will be a little reflection of Life. In Taiwan for nearly four months, he also saw the same age old friends are living a retired life, “see their retirement life is very meaningful, feel a lot, life is a very meaningful thing, get a lot of feedback, also look back on the taste of life”, was asked to have no pre-determined when he retired? He laughed and said, “I want to retire after making “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”, that time to make “Pusher” also want to say, finally to make a film, turn back is the shore.” But he explained that now at an older age also can not think too much, “God gave me the talent, will continue to shoot until you can not shoot.”
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