TAIPEI, Mar 3 (AP) -- He's spent most of his adult life in the West, where he's now one of Hollywood's top directors -- and a favorite to win an Academy Award on Sunday.
But Ang Lee still has his gentle smile and shy, modest de
meanor -- the classic traits of a Chinese gentleman.
His Chineseness also shows through in his movies, especially in "Brokeback Mountain," which might win him the best director award at the Oscars. The Taiwan-born Lee would be the first Asian to get the honor.
In many ways, the movie seems distinctly
un-Chinese, focusing on the gay relationship between two cowboys in the rugged American West. But the film also has the
mes popular in Chinese cinema, like the repression of the true self in a conservative society.
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