As a student at Tisch, students can often hear people comment saying “Oh, look at this sequence man, God, it's so Scorsese! ", or "Oh Lord, this is a Woody Allen movie." Not just for Tisch students, viewers who have watched a fair number of films will recognize something common in almost every work done by a director, and we we call it the director's fingerprint. Not only do these famous directors contain their own fingerprints, Xavier Dolan, an emerging young director/writer, has only made films about homosexuality such as I Killed My Mother, which is about the relationship between the son. gay and his mother, and Heartbeats, which is about a love triangle between three close gay friends; Steven Chow, a Chinese director, has ninety percent of his works of art such as The God of Cookery, Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle as classic Chinese comedies with a 'huge amount of Chinese humor; Julie Taymor, an independent filmmaker, always introduces experimental elements into her narratives and adapts the visual image with exaggerated color corrections. These artists have very strong personal tastes in their artwork, and the fingerprint gradually becomes the audience's expectations of their films: the audience hopes and believes that the trend will continue throughout his career, and also because of this, the director's fan base is consolidated - the people who love Dolan and appreciate the homosexual focus will most likely continue to love it, people who have a good sense of Chinese humor and appreciate Chow's fiction will always want to watch his latest work... I asked some of Tisch's students: "Well, what do you think Ang Lee's fingerprint is?” A student can hardly give a confident answer. Then I asked them: “So, what do you think of Ang Lee's upcoming fifth film?......middle of paper......Lee films have fantastic and lovely natural surroundings. In Brokeback Mountain, the camera transforms the melancholy of Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming into a vivid image with the mid-tones of its colors turning purplish-blue; in Life of Pi, the sea reflects the exact skyline and blends the sky and ocean together because it is extremely difficult or impossible to recognize the final line of the ocean; in Lust, Caution, although the overall setting of the film is post-war Shanghai, but you can tell that the production designer tries to introduce as much nature as possible to symbolize the growth of the city and the growth of the character's narrative arc. By using nature, Ang Lee is able to make the audience feel more authentic while watching his film because a person may act to be another person, but nature always and forever presents itself..
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