Ang Lee tackles forbidden love in steamy new film
Related Blog post here.Media attention ahead of the new movie's release this year will focus on the long, acrobatic and sometimes disturbing sex scenes between the main characters, which Lee hinted were real.
When asked in Venice about the authenticity of the sex, he replied: "Did you see the movie? Then why do you ask?"
In a recent interview Lee described his new film as "a scary place," and "like hell." But although lust is used to lure a man into a dangerous trap, love's power also offers a glimmer of hope to characters caught in a world of violence and fear.
There are striking parallels between fiction and real events. A half-Japanese-half-Chinese woman came close to killing a traitor in 1937's Shanghai in similar circumstances. Unlike the fiction/movie though, the girl didn't fall in love with the man. And the movie didn't pull the trigger. His higher-ups had the girl shot. Her Japanese mother died in Taiwan in the 60's. I believed Eileen Chang's short fiction was conceived in 1950 but was only published in 1977/78. Just imagine what furore it would created had it been published earlier when the assassin's mother was still alive!
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yes, I think i mentioned it in my last post on the same subject, that's the story "Lust, Caution" was based on. here
ReplyDeletetoday I just found Chang's DVD starring by Tong Leung, sold in Mongkok for USD4, in Mandarin only, but I am no interest in it
ReplyDeletewp2007
Thanks for the post! But I think the girl must have gone thru a lot of pain before she was shot. In that age or any other age, when a girl is captured like this, she will be gang-raped first. It is just not my dirty mind.(Indeed I have one) This is how this world really is. That is why I have a lot of respect for those female revolutionaries. If I were her mom, I would have been very pissed by any suggestion that my beloved daughter had fallen in love with that bastard.
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