Posted on 09/08/2007 1:26:03 PM PDT by SkyPilot
VENICE (Reuters) - Taiwanese director Ang Lee's sexually explicit "Lust, Caution" was the surprise winner of the Golden Lion for best picture at the Venice film festival on Saturday, just two years after he won with "Brokeback Mountain."
The movie is a World War Two thriller set in Shanghai featuring long and sometimes violent sex scenes which Lee has hinted were real.
"It is overwhelming, because this movie has taken me to some very difficult places," Lee told the red carpet award ceremony on the Lido waterfront.
"I have invited you to come along with me and in the end to stay down there with me ... You are the seven samurais, I needed your help," he added, addressing the seven-member jury.
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I couldn’t care less as long as DePalma’s troop-sliming film didn’t win.
All right, the gay cowboy flick was repulsive but I put it down to a foreign director taking on any project labeled “impossible to do” - and I heard it actually got that 5% of the world to turn out enough to make it profitable. From what I caught of it (the first quarter before flipping channels) it looked like enemies learning to get along. Should we boycott the actors involved?
Both Bubble Boy and the Patriot’s son have done nothing but heterosexual roles otherwise. Ang Lee did a terrible job with the Hulk and seems to be out of his depth with the Western culture he’s enamored with. We have enough home-grown hacks pushing their visions of our culture on us without foreigners with a provenly bad track record given money to do more of the same.
“Brian De Palma, whose “Redacted” shocked audiences in Venice with its brutal reconstruction of the real-life rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl by U.S. soldiers, won the Silver Lion award for best director.”
I can live with that. He’s not going to get a Best Director Oscar with stuff he’s pulled off the net.
Brian DePalma is a second rate filmmaker. He has devoted most of his alleged career to copying Alfred Hitchcock — but copying him in distinctly inferior films. When his imitation of Hitchcock failed (all of the time), he fell back on excessive violence and gore. He is a hack who has made a dubious reputation by imitating someone of real merit without ever achieving any genuine distinctions of his own. A virtual cinematic parasite.
I’m not really sure a Hong Kong director winning an Italian award says anything about our culture. If it even gets released in America it’ll be art house bait, I doubt it’ll make as much money as the average Kevin Smith movie.
I love comic book action hero movies. I couldn't get through 15 minutes of the Hulk and wondered why. Now I know. It was made by this jughead. That explains it all. Every "movie" I've tried to watch from this guy was pure garbage. No wonder the artsy-fartsy crowd loves him.
“the real-life rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl by U.S. soldiers,”
Is this true? Is there any proof, or is it just more anti-American propaganda from the Hollywood crowd? It’s hard to believe an American soldier would do anything like this.
Even if it’s true, it’s probably just an isolated incident they’re trying to use to condemn the whole Iraq war.
That's most likely the case.
Another flop in the can for the director only Hollowood loves.
They are replacing all of the cast with new actors. Ed Norton will star as Bruce Banner; Liv Tyler will play Betsy Ross; Tim Roth will be Emil Blonsky, aka the Abomination; and William Hurt will play General 'Thunderbolt' Ross.
I hope they do a better job with this one than the first.
Sounds like a typical day at the Euro film festivals, with thumbs’ up for a movie about violent sex, an anti-American tale centered on the violent rape of a minor, and a film about the plight of Muslims in the West.
Ang Lee once had a little bit of talent. I like CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON. But his version of HULK was pathetic. Then we got the homo cowboys eating pudding, and now a film wallowing in violent sex.
I’m glad the beautiful and talented Ziyi Zhang hasn’t worked with him since CROUCHING TIGER. She’s way too fine to appear in his recent trash.
He who lives by the sword (i.e., violence) dies by the sword. From God's lips, let it be true.
Then again, a friend told me that the "Little Black Sambo" image of blacks is still widely prevalent in the Orient and some pieces bring high prices from avid collectors...the most stereotypical ones featuring watermelons command top dollar. I wonder how the limp-wristed arts crowd would take to that?
A British news service reporting how a Chinese director won top honors in Italy. What does this have to do with *our* culture?
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