Film is an image language, film is an ideological state apparatus, film is a cultural industry, all these definitions of film have their own rationality.
Director Ang Lee has lived in the United States for many years , Both Chinese and Western cultures know something about it. Modern film is not only entertainment , but also the dissemination of culture.
Most of Ang Lee’s films are filmed by the fusion of Chinese and Western ideas , which build a bridge between East and West culture. “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon” in the performance of Chinese traditional culture , the play has danqing calligraphy and painting , There are flying eaves , tea ceremony to calligraphy , From Confucianism to Zhuang Zen unscathed , 18 like weapons. Through the image of Li Mu Bai shows the oriental spirit of “inner Taoism”. And “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon” is also the embodiment of the impact and integration of Chinese and Western culture representatives. “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon” has built a bridge between eastern and Western cultural integration. Will be the traditional Chinese cultural world.
In the play of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. , Ang Lee used a plot clear line and a plot dark lines alternating development of the technique to complete their own Director vocabulary , Put forward their own views on eastern and Western cultures and the future of humanity as a whole. In this movie, Zhang Ziyi plays the Jade Dragon is clear line , It’s a representative symbol of Western culture. , A symbol of the infinite expansion of desire. , Symbolizes the need for people to open up freely and unlimited realization of their desires to pursue this idea. On the other hand , Chow Yun-Fat plays Li Mu Bai and Yang Zijiong as Shilin is dark lines , is the representative symbol of Oriental
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