#wu chien-lien

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a moment of romance (1990)

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A Moment of Romance (天若有情) (Tin joek yau ching) (1990) Benny Chan

May 29th 2024

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The Phantom Lover (1995) | dir. Ronny Yu

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Top 5 First-Time Watches of September 2023 1. FRANTZ (2016, dir. François Ozon) 2. SISI & I (2023, dir. Frauke Finsterwalder) 3. EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN (1994, dir. Ang Lee) 4. WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939, dir. William Wyler) 5. BARBIE (2023, dir. Greta Gerwig)

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A Moment Of Romance (1990)

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A Moment of Romance (1990)

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A Moment of Romance (1990) dir. Benny Chan

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飲食男女, 1994

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Film after film: Eat Drink Man Woman (dir. Ang Lee, 1994)

A sprawling family drama about a widowed and soon-to-retire father with three adult daughters, neither of whom is married. Lee went on to direct Sense and Sensibility, which is more or less the same story (minus food, plus horses).

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Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) dir. Ang Lee

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JANG HYUKVSJANG Na-ra met as an 'enemy' ⁇ 10 Years After Marriage Discovered Reality (Family)

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Yu-Wen Wang, Chien-Lien Wu, and Kuei-Mei Yang in Eat Drink Man Woman (Ang Lee, 1994)

Cast: Sihung Lung, Yu-Wen Wang, Chien-Lien Wu, Kuei-Mei Yang, Sylvia Chang, Winston Chao, Chao-jung Chen, Chit-Man Chan, Yu Chen, Ah-Lei Gua. Screenplay: Ang Lee, James Schamus, Hui-Ling Wang. Cinematography: Jong Lin. Production design: Fu-Hsiung Lee. Film editing: Tim Squyres. Music: Mader.

Ang Lee's Oscars for directing Brokeback Mountain (2005) and Life of Pi (2012) suggest something of his versatility. But then, Lee's filmography is all over the map: Since he returned to the United States after starting his directing career in Taiwan, he has made a Jane Austen adaptation, Sense and Sensibility (1995); a story of family dysfunction in Connecticut, The Ice Storm (1997); a Civil War-era Western, Ride With the Devil (1999); a martial arts epic, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000); a comic-book movie, Hulk (2003); an erotic thriller, Lust, Caution (2007); a story set at the fabled 1969 rock festival, Taking Woodstock (2009); and an experiment using radically new film technology, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016). If it's possible to discern in that almost random collection of films the kind of personal vision that auteur theorists believe is essential to the greatness of a director, I don't see it. He began with a personal vision, however, in the films he made in Taiwan after receiving his MFA in film at NYU: a focus on the conflict between the traditional and the new in Asian culture. Eat Drink Man Woman is the third of these, after Pushing Hands (1992) and The Wedding Banquet (1993), in what has been called Lee's "Father Knows Best" trilogy. Sihung Lung, who played similar roles in the other two films, is Chu, master chef at a large hotel restaurant, a widower with three unmarried daughters. The oldest, Jia-Jien (Kuei-Mei Yang), is a schoolteacher who converted to Christianity after a failed love affair; the middle daughter, Jia-Chien (Chien-Lien Wu), is a workaholic airline executive in line for a promotion that will get her transferred to Amsterdam; the youngest, Jia-Ning (Yu-Wen Wang), is still in school and works part-time at a Wendy's, where she commiserates with a co-worker whose boyfriend is inattentive -- largely because he's fallen for Jia-Ning. They all gather regularly for a Sunday dinner prepared by their father in a bravura opening sequence that details the skill and technique with which the chef creates his classic dishes. But the dinner is something of an ordeal for the daughters, each of whom is preoccupied with her own love life, as well as being concerned about the health and future of their aging parent. It's a well-plotted film, written by Lee with Hui-Ling Wang and James Schamus, whom Lee met at film school and who became his frequent producer and co-writer. Tim Squyres is the film editor whose work shines in the opening food-preparation sequence and in the intercutting of the daughters' several stories, and the cinematography by Jong Lin gives us an effective traveling shot through the crowded kitchens of the hotel restaurant. But the movie stays on a superficial level when it comes to examining the lives of the Chu family, especially when you compare it to another family drama by a Taiwanese director, Edward Yang's Yi Yi (2000), whose characters have a depth lacking in Lee's film. With his versatility and technical prowess, Lee reminds me most of a classical Hollywood director like William Wyler, who gave us brightly polished entertainments as varied in tone and genre as Roman Holiday (1953), Ben-Hur (1959), and Funny Girl (1968), but without showing us anything of himself as an artist.

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Once in a blue moon, I reminisce on this nostalgic favourite from a time I can scarcely recall now. I rewatched it a while back, and while it is too melodramatic and sappy for my tastes now, the reasons remain for the whys-of-love for this movie.

There was redemption, there was agency and there was a happy ending in the truest sense of the word, coming to terms with one’s choices and moving forward with those choices. Healing.

All those elements are still what I look for in my fiction now.

The attraction was too dangerous and all consuming, not at all realistic for a healthy long term relationship, but the ending was so hopeful about the feelings/dreams-of-possibilities these two ‘strangers’ still haboured for each other years after the fact, and how much they had changed in the intervening years that when the ending came, as abrupt as it seemed, you truly do believe that this time, they had a good shot of making something out of that compelling attraction they had felt all those years ago. I could not ask for more from a (melo)ROMANCE, truly.

(Although this was less a romance than the story of love redeeming a “bad boy” and the broken relationship between a father and son, and how that was mended).

So did I think the movie successfully achieved what it wanted to convey despite the melodrama and cringe? YES.

Not saying that they executed the narrative and emotional beats brilliantly because the movie was choppy and overly dramatic in many of its emotional moments, but the narrative big picture came true well in my estimation, and for that I could still attempt a rewatch now and remember why I loved and rewatched the movie so many times decades prior. Little to complain with regards to toxicity or problematic representations of love/attraction because it was already sort of addressed by the movie itself. The main love protagonist was not a nice or good man, and until and unless he redeemed himself, their love/attraction could not bear fruit. Would this be a problem for some viewers? Maybe. But I love redemption in my stories/fiction, so it worked for me, at least.

It is wonderful when one can look back at an old favourite and still fondly consider it a favourite. (Or an indictment that one has not matured/grown up much. Whichever fits 😜🤪😆)

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tag game du rpg ♡

règles du jeu:créer un nouveau billet en copiant-collant les questions ci-dessous, y répondre, puis tagger d'autres rpgistes !

Merci à @soeurdelune pour le tag!

depuis combien de temps fais-tu du rp? — 20 ans et quelques

quel était le premier personnage que tu as créé? — c'était une demi-elfe, sur un forum multivers final fantasy, j'avais 9 ou 10 ans, le personnage n'était pas plus développé que son nom et son statut.

quels sont les faceclaims que tu utilisais souvent à tes débuts? — j'ai commencé par du forum RP avec avatars dessinés, donc c'étaient surtout des images qui trainaient sur internet, puis j'ai eu quelques avatars tirés d'univers d'HP ou de manga (du Clamp notamment).

y a-t-il un genre/univers dans lequel tu n'aimes pas du tout rp? — le post-apo, mais je n'aime pas l'univers en général. les fos célébrités aussi.

quelles sont les dynamiques entre personnages/types de liens que tu aimes le plus? — ça dépend vraiment de mon humeur / envie du moment.

dans quels fandoms ou univers aimes-tu le plus rp? — sur forum, c'est généralement du surnaturel ou du city, en 1v1 j'aime beaucoup l'horreur, le surnaturel, la scifi (inventé ou genre star wars), parfois tiré de jeux vidéo, j'aime aussi beaucoup ce qui a trait au folklore ou aux légendes urbaines.

un personnage que tu ne joues plus actuellement mais que tu aimerais reprendre? — Stigandr, mais à chaque univers où je le joue, il finit par devenir le personnage antagonique - il est imbu de lui-même, hautain, couard, méprisant, mauvais père, yada yada. Mais c'est une dynamique que j'aime bien jouer, surtout dans des univers où il faut donner le meilleur de soi-même.

y a-t-il des archétypes de personnages que tu joues souvent? — les gens simples, souvent teuteus, ou avec de gros défauts sociaux ou physiques qui les handicape pas mal. des personnages qui sont malicieux également, j'aime le côté très chaotique.

y a-t-il un livre ou un écrit autre qui t'as beaucoup influencé·e pour écrire? — Chiens de la nuit de Kent Anderson, Les conditions idéales de Mokhtar Amoudi, L'eau du lac n'est jamais douce de Giulia Caminito, Les enfants des riches de Wu Xiaole, Le frère impossible d'Alexandre Feraga.

une recommandation pour finir (livre, film, ou pourquoi pas un forum)? — La série La première Loi de Joe Abercrombie si vous aimez la fantasy et en roman graphique, la série Il faut flinguer Ramirez si vous avez envie de rigoler un peu (ou Ecoute, jolie Marcia, de Marcello Quintanilha, pas du tout pour rigoler, mais le style graphique mouah).

☞ je tag: (c'est entièrement facultatif, si vous n'avez pas envie de le faire pas de pression !!) @gareauxtrains @ainsleywsin @ltcmdr-fredata @gp-kim @big-bish @crepuscule-pourpre @wiisemary @sm0keyb0nes @adjayd

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YES. YES!!!! YESSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YESSSSSS!!!!!!!!

most important scene in all of cinematic history!!!!

the way chicken feet (andy lau) desperately searches for lin (wu chien-lien) after he's Literally been blinded by the neon light used as a weapon, the way he's too late to save her bc she saved him first, the way he's holding her lifeless body, anguished, hoping against hope to revive her, their silhouettes merging into one, backlit by explosions of the speedboat he crashed into the pier earlier, AND ALL THIS WHILE THEEEEEEE CANTOPOP ANTHEM OF ALL TIME, 一起走過的日���/THE DAYS WE SPENT TOGETHER, IS BLASTING AT FULL VOLUME!!!!!! NO FUCKING MOVIE DOES IT LIKE CASINO RAIDERS II!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Jacklyn Wu Chien Lien in A Moment Of Romance (1990)