Ang Lee

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q160726: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as craft. The films the hosts said they worked on, which the two lists below run through too: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). Count them as director (12 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

King Hu: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), which they worked on as wrote the English subtitles: King Hu ⇒ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (the host's read). CTHD plays in the milieu of King Hu and the wuxia classics, but with a more modern sensibility.
    “this movie is playing in a, in a Milu that is inherent to like King Hu movies and Musha, like the classics”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:24:55 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Hero (1992): 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), which they worked on as wrote the English subtitles: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ⇒ Hero (the host's read). Without CTHD's success Hero would not have been released in the US.
    “Well, you know, without this movie, you don't have hero coming out in the United States.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:38:48 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)

Mulan (2020): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), which they worked on as wrote the English subtitles: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ⇒ Mulan (the host's read). The remake's wuxia/mystical style follows the wave of Chinese films that grew popular after Crouching Tiger and the Zhang Yimou films.
    “they've gotten very big, kind of post, crouching tiger hidden dragon, and the Jang Yi-Mu films”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:28:58 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (28) everyone in directing

Craft (1) everyone in craft

What was said about them, by kind

career (4)

  1. career (career): Ang Lee → Sense and Sensibility. Ice Storm was Lee's first American film; the film before was the English-set Sense and Sensibility.
    “the movie he makes before, this is Sense and Sensibility, which is an English story”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:08:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Ang Lee → Hulk. Fennessey cites Lee's varied filmography, a superhero movie among martial arts, dramas and comedies.
    “He's made a superhero movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:09:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Ang Lee → Brokeback Mountain. Apex Mountain pick for Lee is Brokeback Mountain, not Ice Storm.
    “I think it's broke back.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:09:09 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Ang Lee → Life of Pi. He has two Best Director Oscars, the second for Life of Pi.
    “he won for Life of Pi as well.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:09:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

craft (2)

  1. craft (craft): Ang Lee → Brokeback Mountain. Lee is a master of teleporting into new worlds; Brokeback is the other proof.
    “Brokeback Mountain, and, you know, many times over the years that he is a master of like teleporting into new worlds every time he makes a film.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:10:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Ang Lee → Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Lee wrote the subtitles himself so they would be clear and carry the plot.
    “Angley wrote the subtitles because he wanted the subtitles to be clear and to like convey plot.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:53:28 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): James Schamus → Ang Lee. Lee and Schamus are longtime producing and writing partners who know each other's strengths.
    “Like those guys are thickest thieves.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:36:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

theme (2)

  1. theme (comparison): Peter Weir → Ang Lee. Ang Lee looked like a chameleon but had through lines; Weir may be the same, though more consciously different.
    “Then you watch the movies and you're like, there are very obvious themes and through lines.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 0:30:23 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): Ang Lee → Hulk. Even in a Hulk movie he dislikes, Fennessey sees Lee chasing a battle between two sides of a man.
    “There's the 2 sides of a man that he's really interested in that.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:36:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Ang Lee: Lee's philosophy: movies are sight and sound, not language.
    “movies are sight and sound.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:09:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Ang Lee: Grosses compared: this grossed 128 domestic vs Hulk 132 and Life of Pi 124; worldwide Life of Pi 609, this 213, Hulk 245.
    “It made 609.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:02:45 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Ang Lee: Lee weaponizes his English for blunt lines.
    “The thing Lee would, would do that apparently he still does is weaponize his seeming lack of handle on the American”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 0:59:42 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Ang Lee: Preface to his screenplay: ice reads as water that freezes.
    “When I think of the ice storm, I think 1st of water and rain, how it falls everywhere, seeps into everything”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:32:26 · Emily Yoshida (0.70 sure it was them)