2005-02-25

Hsiao-hsien Hou

這是IMDb上面有關侯孝賢的介紹,
其實他是一個十分值得欣賞的導演。
只是一直想在戲院裡(自以為)表現的比作者聰明的自己,常常拒絕觸碰他的深度,而以膚淺的「沈悶」二字帶過。

其實他是一個很重要的人。
一個我應該多採取一些角度去了解他作品(但是不是他的人...)的人

Of the ten films that Hou Hsiao-Hsien has directed between 1980 and 1989, seven received best film and/or best director awards from prestigious international films festivals in Venice, Berlin, Hawaii and the Festival of the Three Continents in Nantes. In a 1988 worldwide critics' poll, Hou was championed as "one of the three directors most crucial to the future of cinema."

Hou's birthplace, a county in Kuangtung Province, had been well known as an intellectual center in China. In 1948 his family moved to Taiwan and, like all children raised there, he went through an extremely demanding educational system. In 1969 he studied film at the National Taiwan Arts Academy. After graduation in 1972, he worked briefly as a salesman. Later he began his film career as a scriptwriter and assistant director.

Hou's cinema is often concerned with his experiences of growing up in rural Taiwan in the 1950s and 60s. The 50s marked a time in which refugee families from the mainland were painfully struggling for survival, while the 60s saw the beginning of the most significant social change in modern Taiwan. The economic boom of that period meant the beginning of Westernization and urbanization. The normal frustrations of growing up were aggravated by these complicated changes, and Hou's films are intimate expressions of those experiences.

His emotionally charged work is replete with highly nostalgic images and beautiful compositions; their power lies in his total identification with the past and the fate of families who suffered through difficult times. His stories, often written in collaboration with scriptwriters T'ien-wen Chu and Nien-Jen Wu, depict the complex intertwining of the different strands that shape the lives of individuals. In a poetic yet relaxed style, they reflect a deep sympathy and a profound humanism.

這篇簡介我讓我印象最深的是,
“Kuangtung Province, had been well known as an intellectual center in China“這件事,
原來作者覺得廣東這麼讚阿?
還有,廣東讚和侯導演有直接關係嗎?

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