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Ang Lee Reveals Why ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Restored His Faith In Filmmaking: “I’m Still Standing, Still Making Movies, Thanks To That Movie”
Ang Lee recalls how ‘Brokeback Mountain’ restored his faith in filmmaking after a grueling experience on 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon(2000) was such an intense high-wire act, the grueling shoot in China left Lee barely able to stand and fully intending to give it all up. The film had non-martial artist actors Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh and Ziyi Zhang soaring in Cirque du Soleil-style aerial battles woven into a 19th century China-based drama about duty, honor, vengeance, repressed desires and lost love, mixed seamlessly into the ass-kicking wuxia genre. DEADLINE: These are two risky movies, and we haven’t focused on the others, like Life of Pi, which brought your second Best Director Oscar, or Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, which didn’t catch on with audiences but broke ground with high-resolution formats.
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