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...years ago, Lee won a Best Director Oscar for Brokeback Mountain, a less explicit but no less passionate story of two gay cowboys. He took that cachet and banked it on a Mandarin-language drama that has earned the Motion Picture Association's NC-17 rating (no children under 17). That rating will keep Lust, Caution out of many cinemas because lots of theater owners won't show films with a rating harder than R. Nor, if current standards hold, will the dvd be available at Wal-Mart or Blockbuster. But the $83 million theatrical take of Brokeback makes some...
Will the lure of forbidden fruit get the mass audience into a Chinese political drama? Lee isn't sure that people's desire to see the scenes that garnered the NC-17 rating will help. "That's a plus," he told TIME, "but the plus is 10 points, and the minus is 80 points...
...plus should be that audiences get to see mature films dealing with the joy and pain, the drama and power plays in the act of love. But those films aren't seen--worse, they aren't made--because for all the naughty words and bloody corpses in today's movies, Hollywood is a timid place, at once prurient and puritanical. It's afraid of films that show strong, subtle passions between men and women. If Lust, Caution becomes a hit--a long shot, given its 2 1/2 hr. running time and lack of marquee names--it would be bucking both...
...second half provided more drama, with Harvard surviving several Husky scoring opportunities. In the opening minutes of the half, Northeastern threatened with two penalty corners, but junior goalie Kylie Stone stopped both shots. Later, a threatening pass deflected off a Crimson stick, but Stone again thwarted the scoring chance by kicking the ball clear...
...said. “The show also doesn’t capture our love for the people and the tribe and our appreciation for them. I don’t really blame Discovery Channel or BBC, I blame the viewers because what viewers want is pain and drama. They don’t really want to see kindness, and compassion, and good morality, I guess.” Donahue said the experience transformed the participants. “What I like is that each of the guys went into themselves and found the best of themselves...