The Study of Female Characters in Ang Lee’s Films

• Main Authors: Ching-Sui Weng, 翁菁穗
• Other Authors: 林宏璋
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2q9cg5

碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 美術史研究所 === 98 === This thesis aims at exploring and analysing female characters in Ang Lee’s movies, which includes his depiction of woman mentality, the position and role of woman in family and society, and the struggle and repression of woman emotion. In a literature review of Lee’s works, through an understanding of the context and transition of his creation process and a reference to his backgrounds and culture cultivation, we grasp how his life experience influences his movies. Later, by employing psychoanalytic and feminist research methods, I analyze how Lee constructs and strengthens woman characteristic and personality in his movies through camera lens and filmmaking techniques. I explore female characters in “Eat Drink Man Woman”,“ Sense and Sensibility”,“ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”, and“ Lust Caution”, all of which are adaptations of novels except “Eat Drink Man Woman”. From investigating the intersexuality of novels and movies to the differences of text re-adaptations, the director cultural standpoints and point of views can better be seen. I hope this thesis can provide viewers with a different perspective to Lee’s movies, and wish to disclose the complexity and ambiguity of humanity by a research on these female characters. The exploration and survey on these female characters helps comprehending some binary issues Lee deals with like cultural differences in the East and the West, the conflicts within old and new generations, the moral and emotion choices, and the struggle between reason and desire, which would all gives us a better understanding of the uniqueness of Lee’s movies.