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Other Ang Lee Films
Shakesthecoffecan:
On these DVDs, does he do a version with commentary? I know he does on Hulk, which I have seen along with Crouching Tiger and Wedding Banquet, both of with I thought were great.
Front-Ranger:
An interesting point in the book I'm reading is that Ang Lee "secured his early fame with the so-called 'Father Knows Best' trilogy (Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman)" The father also played a pivotal role in The Hulk. This makes me want to reexamine the role of fathers in Brokeback Mountain. And we also know that Lee’s father died during the filming and he dedicated the film to him.
belbbmfan:
I saw The Wedding Banquet a couple of years ago on TV and really liked it. And I have Sense and Sensibility on dvd. Both of these movies, and BBM, are about how circumstances, traditions or society can prevent people from finding love or being able to chose the person they love.
Sense and Sensibility has a happy ending, Mariane Dashwood in the end gets her hero, Edward Ferrars. And the commentary by Ang Lee and James Schamus on the dvd is very good.
Front-Ranger:
There are indeed many parallels among his films and finding them is a lot of fun because at first it seems like they could not be more different than each other, being set in different times and locales and even different languages! However, The Hulk is considered a deviation but, I suspect, upon closer inspection many parallels could be found there too.
Front-Ranger:
This book points out that the "Green Destiny" sword that is stolen early in the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is what Hitchcock called the McGuffin, the object that kick-starts the adventure and puts everyone in motion. What is the McGuffin of Brokeback Mountain?
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