[Ang Le] Lust Caution .....

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Certo e' un po tragico, dover parlare del nuovo film realizzato da questo oramai gran pezzo di regista ( Brokeback mountain, La tigre e il dragone) nel momento in cui muore Heath Ledger ...............

Cmq tornando al film, l ho visto in mandarino sottotitolato inglese, perche' mi rifiuto in qualsiasi modo di vedere film orientali doppiati con le voci dei cartoni animati..........
Cmq la storia, la storia e' un po quella che noi tutti non conosciamo perche' europei, ma tratta della cina subito dopo l invasione giapponese, dove storie che ci fanno ricordare Via rasella e la gestapo accadono anche a honk kong e shangai, nella cina martoriata dalla guerra ce chi come in italia, preferisce fare la camicia nera al miglior offerente, in quella che sarebbe la gestapo cinese al servizio del giappone, in questo ambiente, un gruppo di studenti dell universita' di honk kong decidono di fare qualcosa e creano un piano per assassinare il capo dei servizi cinesi..............come? ma come farebbero tutti.....................con la fica.................la storia si evolve muovendo il set verso shangai, trama molto intrigante e ben fatta, spionaggio, seduzione, giochi di potere........................

e voi direte...........ma che ha di speciale questo film?
La recitazione e' pressoche una delle migliori, le ambientazioni e la trama colpiscono molto, ma cosa ce che va su tutto?
La fatidica scena delle 150 ore di sesso........................proprio cosi, per far felice ang le che di scene di sesso se ne intende, ci sono volute 150 ore...............e il che e' molto grattificante per gli occhi...........in certi momenti sembra proprio un porno di alta caratura

cmq consigliatissimo, senza alcun rancore......magari un finale un po inaspettato e amaro, ma penso sia uno dei film dell anno.

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Intervista ad ang le

Q. I gather shooting the sex scenes was quite intense – over 150 hours?
Ang Lee: The three sex scenes took two weeks of shooting and each day was five or six hours in length. We couldn’t go on any more – either them or me.

Q. How did you direct those scenes? Did you have a very specific idea of what you wanted?
Ang Lee: Yeah, in the morning when we came to the set I would have very specific ideas. There were things I’d been thinking about for months but nothing was fixed until the day I was in the car [on the way to the set]. It’s not so much the shot, but the position. It was very difficult for me in terms of style and where we could go. I know I could not do pornography because it’s not dramatic. You don’t feel for that. But I could not do soft-core, like Emmanuel, because they’d obviously be faking it. I could not shoot with exquisite light.

A good example is The Lover – some shots for me were too pretty. Some were great, but others were too pretty to be taken seriously. So I had to avoid that. It could not be soft. And I could not totally go with drama. I’m on the brim of actually doing that. But if I’d done that people would get frustrated – I know I would. It would be like: “Are they having sex or what? Is this a torture scene or a sex scene?” So, in a way any of those three possibilities was not an answer for me, and what I ended up doing was trying to avoid all three of them. You cannot really torture the audience with sex, that’s not fair. That’s not what they’re doing either, they’re seeking comfort in each other.

Something I’ve got to tell you, in Taiwan I was keen to know what people thought and the best place was the toilet. People go to the toilet when they come out and talk about it, so you can predict what sort of life this movie is going to have. In the men’s room, it was dead silence. They lined up and peed like zombies. In the woman’s room, it was like a house of sparrows [laughs].