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BAMBOOZLED Lee had his own ideas about how he wanted his actors to "weightlessly lift," but so did gravity. In one scene, Chow and Zhang fight on the treetops of a bamboo forest, suspended by construction cranes while balancing on flimsy branches and swaying trunks. "They were 60 feet off the ground," Ang remembers. "So they're way up there, maybe 10 stories high. I began to get used to it, but one day it was raining and it was kind of slippery and the crane does a little... actually it was Chow Yun-Fat when he was let down, we try to move it and goes, 'ONNNGGGGG!!! What is that!? Chow Yun-Fat!' That was scary." BREAKDOWN AND REBIRTH "For eight months I didn't have so much as three hours of break so I reached my limit," Ang says. "My body was breaking down. After I came back, I felt like I hit my mid-life crisis. Things were changed. My film language has changed, my film knowledge has changed, my feeling toward life changed; I began to re-evaluate my life. I never had this feeling before. This time I hit the limit. It's as if I want to relearn how to make movies. It sort of humbles me, this movie." Ang Lee says his next film will be a prequel to Crouching Tiger. "There's part of me that feels unless you make a martial arts film, you are not a real filmmaker," he says. "It's pure cinema energy.... It's why you want to be a filmmaker." |
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