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...films Hero, Raise the Red Lantern and Ju Dou were all nominated for Best Foreign-Language Film Oscars. His latest project, House of Flying Daggers, is a big-budget martial-arts epic in which Andy Lau co-stars. Zhang, 52, spoke with TIME's Neil Gough at his editing studio in Beijing...
Granted, most teaching fellows do lack the quick wit and dashing good looks of Alex Trebek. And, I must admit, Harvard has yet to fulfill my requests to hold my sections in a television studio, or distribute cash prizes to my students who write “A” papers (you see, the endowment would run out too quickly, since 47 percent of all students expect to receive A grades). But I simply cannot sit in silence when Freinberg claims that section participation is superfluous or that final exams are designed to prompt wholesale regurgitation of professors?...
Blame it on Spielberg and Lucas. The momentous rise of Jaws in 1975 and the astonishing popularity of Star Wars two year later are now widely recognized as gilded nooses - pinnacles of plebeian filmmaking that regrettably turned studio heads away from craftsmanship towards greener pastures. Marketing budgets ballooned to rival production costs, strategic release date positioning during the summer months became essential and, as you mentioned, inexplicable sequels popped up left and right. Studios now saw it fit to accompany Psycho with three full remakes, investing in tag lines like, “Norman Bates is back to normal...
...great points, Mr. Chung. I think that there’s a simple solution to the studios’ overreliance on “safe” summer product, but it’d be a tough solution to put into practice. Yes, Hollywood needs talented studio heads who will develop compelling ideas, and yes, they need to give directors the creative control they deserve. But, most importantly, the studios have to find better writers and better scripts...
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