An Airbus plane was flying to the night sky of Dallas. The business class was very quiet, and almost all the passengers were sleeping. Ye Wei was reading a book with the lights. There was a lot of mess in his heart. He couldn't sleep before he could figure it out.

The flight attendant who was walking by gently strode by his side glanced at him, and recognized Viy when boarding the plane, and had already taken a group photo.

"Hey, Mar." Ye Wei glanced at her.

Mar stopped and bent down, asking softly: "Wige, what do you need me to do?" viy was as easy-going as rumored, and gave up the opportunity to upgrade to others.

"Do you think the passion in a person's heart will appear in a calm state?" Ye Wei asked seriously. Mar was stunned. Passion? She looked at him a few times, and her tone was a little ambiguous: "I don't know. When we get off the plane, we will have a cup of coffee to talk?" Ye Wei shrugged and said, "No, I'm just doing philosophical thinking." Mar walked away with a smile.

Ye Wei continued to read the "Biography of Ang Lee" in his hand. Before he got on the computer, he didn't find anyone to talk, so he looked for inspiration for books. This time he took some books from his home, and there were a few books with him. "The Art of Movie" did not work, and the classic psychology "Analysis of Dreams" did not work. I looked through the biographies of filmmakers...

This is not the first time I have read these books, but some places have not been taken seriously before, and they have no understanding or memory.

Gradually seeing something, he suddenly felt a sudden jump in his heart, knowing that this is what he was looking for:

[Recalling that when I was filming "Food and Female", I was confused. I didn't know what the film would look like. I couldn't grasp its taste. I knew that everything was filmed in every scene, and I knew that some scenes were not bad, but I couldn't smell how to intersperse and what the taste was. Every movie has a taste and a sense of taste. What I looked for was that feeling, and it was this to impress the audience.

In the "unknown" situation, I can only stick to it and persevere. I always feel that what I do in my hands seems to be not what I think, and it is always wrong.]

Ye Wei looked at it carefully, although the specifics were different, it was almost the same feeling of loss.

And it was really interesting. He remembered that "Food and Female" had been watched for a long time. When I first read this biography, I checked its results and wrote it in this section with a pencil. After turning a few pages, I saw it in the blanks of the book pages: In 1994, the freshness of the rotten tomatoes was 93%, the love rate was 92%, the box office of North America was 7,294,403, and the best foreign language film nomination for the Oscars and Golden Globes.

He still remembers that this Chinese-language film was adapted and remade twice, one in the Latino version and the other in the African version, with both good grades.

Such a classic has such a bad shooting period for Ang Lee.

Ye Wei couldn't help laughing, and continued to read with a surge of mood. Soon he saw several paragraphs that made him think deeply:

[After several years of precipitation, the most commonly mentioned in my movies are "Food, Men and Women" and "Ice Storm", which are the most impressive.

Some people say that I like "Ice Storm", but I know the reason more, but I don't know very well about "Diet and Women", why it is so moving to many people!

These two films are not familiar to me. I am exploring and doing them. I am not sure when filming them. The most difficult thing is to edit them. The difficulty of "Riding with the Devil" is how to shorten them, but there is no problem of conversion. However, these two films are patchwork and three-dimensional.

Compared to "Ice Storm", "Food Men and Women" has many shortcomings in production. Personally, some I like, some I feel awkward. When filming, sometimes I really don't know what I'm doing. I know which scene is good, but what the whole film tastes and what it will have later. After many years, some people came to me and said that I like it, which I had never expected. I remember that when I came to the Hawaii Film Festival in 1997, someone came to tell me that I just wanted to tell you, before my father passed away, I was so sick that I didn't talk to my family for more than a year, but before leaving, we accompanied him to watch the video tape of "Food Men and Women". The only thing he had to communicate with us was to talk about this film." The man just told me that there was something, and I was also confused.

As Ye Wei read it, he read the sentence "Food, Men and Women" in An An's mind: "For me, this is always a mystery." This biography was written in 2002, which means that An An still did not understand "Food, Men and Women" after filming "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

Why would a movie that I don’t like and feel that it’s not good to make, and is not good at making a good movie?

Ye Wei has already seen all Ang Lee's movies, and the last "Father Trilogy" "Food and Female" is no exception.

In his opinion, it is undoubtedly a classic. The most moving thing about it is its distortion. To be precise, it is between distortion and non-distortion, which makes the whole film shrouded with an embarrassment that can only be understood but not expressed. This embarrassment is precisely the story of the film and the soul of the background of the times. It gathers the widower and his three daughters in the tide of change of the times and completely expresses the embarrassment, discomfort and guilt in the process of the transformation of Taiwanese society at that time and the conflict between Eastern and Western cultures.

Everyone struggles in the gap between tradition and trend, from the East's depression, subtlety, inheritance to the West's unrestrainedness, directness, freedom, everyone eventually admits their desires, the widower's love for the elderly and young, the youngest daughter's unmarried early pregnancy, and the flash marriage of the eldest daughter. As the saying goes, "eating, men and women, the great desires of people are there", there is nothing to avoid. But this also declares that the traditional customs in the East and the destruction of the big family is the most Westernized and rebellious second daughter who has always stayed behind in tradition. The last scene is an unexpected manifestation of family affection.

The changes in the times are unstoppable. Some old prosperity will eventually become history and can only be found in dreams. However, no matter how you change, the family affection of the Eastern style will always be there, and traditions will be preserved and continued in some new way, which is often the most unexpected way.

Isn’t this the taste and power of “Food and Female”? Such a good movie, such a unified and embarrassing taste until the last scene, from the sudden and mixed feelings of awkwardness. What is Ang Lee awkward and confusing?

"Hahaha." Ye Wei couldn't help laughing, and felt a little relaxed.

Part of his dissatisfaction comes from uneasiness. The response of the premiere will be lie, and the reactions of his family, friends, lovers and fans will also be lie. He is afraid that SS is actually a bad movie, afraid that its grades are not good, and afraid that he will let others down.

My psychology is really contradictory. I am afraid of failure and want to get some useful warnings to make the heartbeat in my chest more vigorously.

If the film is successful, it is really hard to guarantee that it will not be arrogant. However, it is not a good time to fail in a live escape room game for a long time. If SS fails like Carrie, it will definitely be unpleasant... Everyone's expectations and efforts will be disappointed.

But now he felt much more at ease when he saw that this was not his own filming situation.

He doesn't understand Ang Lee's confusion, and others don't understand him, but the audience has their own feelings. Maybe Ss is sure to be a moving and good movie. As for the reason, it may always be a mystery for him. This is one of the blind spots of the creator.

Is the success of "Food and Female" a blind cat hitting a dead mouse? No, absolutely not! Maybe Ang Lee's at a loss during filming made him shoot the embarrassing essence, but it was a subconscious activity. This unexpected and out-of-control classic is actually an expression of Ang Lee's talent. How can you do it without those things in your mind?

Ye Wei closed his eyes and let himself sink into the long river of ss production, and could see himself at each stage:

Take over, interviewed Bethany's family, planned, scripted, pre-study, and filmed... In Hawaii, I often look like a fly flying around, and to inspire in love, I have sex in a crazy way, causing trouble, and it is very messy, some are flashing, and some are mediocre... I remember that I haven't had sex for a long time...

During the post-production period, he and Amy were very happy. At that time, the situation was stable. Ss also allowed him to find another emotional outlet that could be unreserved. He used Bethany's story to throw all the desire for light that was pressed into his heart, and the struggle against darkness, confusion, frustration, pain, etc. into them.

But I didn't taste it anymore. Whenever I saw it, I felt a little embarrassed and awkward. Maybe I saw more than others, and saw the aura of darkness mixed with it.

Is this a production or a creation? There are both...

Anyway, isn’t this very interesting? It is impossible to control everything when making a movie. Hundreds of decisions a day will be filled with surprises or not. Good and bad are unknown. It is precisely because of this that making movies is interesting, and films have independent souls, and even creators cannot easily understand it.

Art creation is really a journey to recognize yourself and the world, not those known parts, but unknown parts. You don’t know what you can do. When it happens, you will have more knowledge of yourself, the past self, the current self, and the hope self. This is the self-exploration and discovery of yourself, just like life.

Whether it is a movie or a life, the excitement lies in the unknown.

Curiosity and exploration of the unknown have brought one of the greatest driving forces.

Thinking of this, Ye Wei suddenly thought it out loud. There is nothing to worry about. No matter whether it is good or bad, people should know that all the answers are impossible. Most of them still need to be found. If you work hard for a lifetime, the answer is not here, but the answer is ahead.

You will know as you pat, or you will never know.

There is nothing we can do about it, humans are not that smart.
Chapter completed!