Ss: Yes.

Step V Extra-reading

T: Here are two supplementary reading materials on the screen for you to read.

Ang Lee

Born in 1954 in Pingtung, Taiwan, Ang Lee has become one of the greatest contemporary(现代的)filmmakers. Ang graduated from the National Taiwan College of Arts in 1975 and then went to the U.S. to receive a B.F.A. Degree in Theatre Direction at the University of Illinois, and a Master's Degree in Film Production at New York University. At NYU, he served as an Assistant Director on Spike Lee's student film, Joe's Bed-Study Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983).

After Lee wrote a couple of screenplays, he eventually appeared on the film scene with Pushing Hands (1992), a dramatic-comedy reflecting on generational conflicts（分歧） and cultural adaptation（改造）. The Wedding Banquet (1993) as Lee's next film, an exploration of cultural and generational conflicts through a homosexual（同性恋的）Chinese man who feigns（假装）a marriage in order to satisfy the traditional demands of his Taiwanese parents. It obtained him globe and Oscar nominations（提名）, and won a Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. The third movie in his trilogy（三部曲）of Taiwanese-Culture / Generation films, was Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), which received a Best Foreign Film Oscar nomination. Lee followed this with Sense and Sensibility (1995), his first Hollywood-mainstream movie. It acquired a Best Picture Oscar nomination, and won Best Adapted Screenplay. The National Board of Review and the New York Film Critics Circle also voted the year's Best Director Lee. Lee and frequent cooperator James Schamus next filmed The Ice Storm (1997), which acquired the 1997 Best Screenplay at Cannes(嘎纳). The Civil War drama Ride With The Devil (1999) soon followed and received critical praise, but it was Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), which is considered one of his greatest works, a sprawling period film and martial arts epic that dealt with love, loyalty and loss. It swept the