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...What about the pressure of making this project on the back of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? It's a very boring question, very predictable and all, but what do you think...
...Yimou, renowned for lush emotional masterpieces like Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern, has set out to achieve in his newest film, Hero. Flush with Chinese, U.S. and Hong Kong funding, Hero is the most ambitious martial-arts epic since Taiwanese director Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon won four Oscars in 2001 and broke the box-office mold by becoming the most successful foreign film to hit the U.S. That victory remains both a blessing and a curse for the Chinese film industry: it raised awareness of Asian films tenfold in the West, but has compelled...
Zhang Yimou's martial-arts epic Hero has a boffo cast, a big budget, an award-winning crew - and the burden of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Responsible for such hits as Red Sorghum, Raise the Red Lantern and The Road Home, the award-winning director spoke recently to TIME Asia entertainment correspondent Stephen Short and Senior Reporter Susan Jakes on the set of Hero in Hengdian, China. Edited excerpts...
...producing is a way of doing that. Money isn't that important right now, especially in Buddhist culture. You can't take the money with you, or the house, or anything. I feel like I have responsibility. I don't want little kids watching films like Kiss of the Dragon. I don't want five-year-olds walking around saying, "I'm going to kick your ass." I want to broadcast a positive message that there are solutions other than violence. Of course one needs to make money for a studio first, then you can do what you want...
...crocs and dangle poisonous snakes by the tail, evading bite after bite, narrating breathlessly and popeyed as if reading a scary story to a three-year-old. ("G'day, and welcome to the Dah-h-hk Continent!") His antics give kids--an A.P. target audience--an educational alternative to Dragon Ball Z, and he offers a conservationist message. But his show's lessons are pretty basic--essentially, "Animals can kill you"--interspersed with such arcana as the fact that chameleons change their color. (They're chameleon-like...