Stella's World

19世紀西方挾帶著強大的科技與軍事力量，在世界各處攻城掠地

西方不但成為經濟上 政治上與軍事上的強權

採用西方『進取』式的思維模式，似乎也成為要做『世界公民』的必要條件。

李安~讓我們重新評估東方式的含蓄但努力的態度與行為，是否可以在競爭慘烈的西方市場中脫穎而出。

答案是~這是可能的。

一位來自台灣的電影人，

可以拍英國珍‧奧斯汀的古典小說『理性與感性』

可以拍出美國牛仔的世界

也可以拍讓你我看到親切得起雞皮疙瘩電影

有了充分的努力和準備，不用對外大聲叫囂，是個鑽子，一定會冒出頭來。

看到李安的成功，心理是感動而且溫暖的

不認為這是台灣電影的成功~雖然李安的恭良溫儉讓的態度，與其說是來自台灣，毋寧說是李爸爸的培養。

底下是BBC李安電影觀點的報導。(就當練習英文吧)

至於衝擊效應，是我去年觀影經驗中最棒的影片，我認為最佳電影~實至名歸。

Ang Lee's bold cinematic vision

Taiwanese director Ang Lee has won the best director Oscar for his cowboy love story Brokeback Mountain .

Lee's latest movie follows his Oscar-winning martial arts epic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, subtle social drama The Ice Storm and hit version of Sense and Sensibility.

He has had huge success on both sides of the Pacific, drawing on Asian and Western culture to convey universal stories of love, honour and family expectation.

The 51-year-old director started out in film in his early 20s after graduating from the National Taiwan College of Arts.

He went on to study theatre directing in the US at the University of Illinois , followed by film production at New York University .

Lee won several awards for his student work but then spent six years in "development hell" until making his directorial debut in 1992 with Pushing Hands.

The Chinese-language comedy focuses on the cultural gulf between generations of a Taiwanese family in New York .

Well received in Lee's own country and in the US , its themes were an early pointer to Lee's future work.

The Wedding Banquet followed in 1993, featuring a young gay Taiwanese man in New York attempting to hide his sexuality from his parents with a sham marriage.

Lee's films often echo his problematic relationship with his own father, who had been disappointed when a teenage Lee failed his college entrance exams in Taiwan .

"The father always stands for the head of the old patriarchal society, the monopoly force that's facing a change in the modern world," the director told Christian Science Monitor in 1994.

English language debut

The Wedding Banquet won awards at the Berlin and Seattle film festivals, a Golden Globe and Oscar nominations.

Third movie Eat Drink Man Woman added food to the family theme and won Lee an Oscar nomination for best foreign film.

By the time of his fourth venture, Hollywood was calling. For his first English language film Lee chose to adapt Jane Austen's classic Sense and Sensibility in 1995.

The movie starred upcoming actress Kate Winslet and the well-respected Emma Thompson - who also won an Oscar for her screenplay. It earned an Oscar nomination for best picture and three Bafta awards.

Lee followed it with an acclaimed adaptation of Rick Moody's novel The Ice Storm, with Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver and Christina Ricci and poorly-received civil war drama Ride with the Devil with Tobey Maguire.

However its high-action, high-drama concept spawned 2000's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - a romantic tale with groundbreaking gravity-defying stunts - that won four Oscars including best foreign language film.

His comic book adaptation Hulk was less well-received in 2003 but Brokeback Mountain has confirmed Lee's reputation as one of the film world's most daring, innovative film makers.

Introducing the film at the 2003 Venice Film Festival, Lee said the gender of the film's protagonists - played by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal - was not his main concern.

"What's important is that the material toTuesday, uches me at a gut level and I connect with it," he said. "I just wanted to make a love story."

BBC 17 January 2006,