| Summary: | 碩士 === 世新大學 === 英語學研究所(含碩專班) === 101 === The purpose of this thesis is to investigate Ang Lee’s three earliest trilogy films Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet and Eat Drink Man Woman; in these three films, Ang Lee emphasizes the father’s role and conflicting ideas about the patriarchy between Chinese and Western culture. Through these films, Ang Lee expresses the basic ideas of Confucian thought. Also through the scenes and dialogues in the films, the thesis will analyze Ang Lee’s portrayal of the father role and the process of conflict which leads to blending between the Chinese and Western cultural conception. The thesis will explore Ang Lee’s background and analyze the three films Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet, and Eat Drink Man Woman to reveal Ang Lee’s globalization conception and identity of different cultures which reflect the different styles between traditional Chinese culture and Western society.
The thesis will use Todorov’s concept of equilibrium in his narrative theory to discuss how the father position in different cultures can maintain his status as the patriarch in each of the films, and how the father finds his identity and accepts the different cultures through facing the cultural conflicts between East and West. This will illuminate Ang Lee’s technique of expression in different cultural conflicts and explore the possibility of blending different cultures. In conclusion, for the reflections on the father and family conception, these three films demonstrate that this topic is one that Ang Lee deeply enjoys exploring in Chinese culture. In addition, although Ang Lee’s roots are in Chinese culture, he has no choice but to accept the continuing impact of Western cultural values as they clash with traditional Chinese values, and these three films are his response.
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