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...ARTS Movies: Jiang Wen Books: Port of Last Resort When I Was a Young...
...Beijing's cultural czars. (And Jiang, 39, shows no stomach for moving his talents outside of his homeland.) But the logic breaks down if you know the Jiang almost everyone in China knows: one of the toughest, most obstinate characters around, both onscreen and off. Is Director Jiang Wen really retired...
...Jiang Wen's a man's man," counters a stout, high school swimming coach craning his neck to see his virile idol ambling down a narrow Beijing alleyway. Onscreen, Jiang's toughness is best when it's paired with vulnerability. In the role that made him famous across China, as a fresh-off-the-boat newlywed in the 1993 TV series A Beijing Man in New York, Jiang played an out-of-work cellist who battles bitchy bosses, sticky-fingered factory managers and an immigrant's ennui. In Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum, he makes passionate love to Gong...
...arts Zhang Renli, who taught Jiang after the school reopened following the Cultural Revolution. "Jiang would always ask, 'Why? Tell me why?'" says the 69-year-old, who has coached four generations of actors, including Gong Li and Zhang Ziyi. "I've never since had a student like Jiang Wen." Jiang's stubbornness can make him a chore to work with. Especially now that he's not directing but acting in other people's films. "As an actor Jiang Wen is dangerous," says award-winning author Wang. "The younger generation of directors cannot handle...
...Jiang behind the camera as well as on the screen. The film's director is Lu Chuan, a 28-year-old film school grad with only commercials on his r?sum?. Certain scenes convinced people that Jiang ghost-directed the movie. Not so, insists Lu. "Jiang Wen played a very important role making the movie," he says, leaning forward emphatically in his Hawaiian shirt, "but he spent only 40 days on set. We've worked on this project for two years...