By He’s won three Oscars, but filmmaker Ang Lee admits he’s a little lost when it comes to the future of cinemagoing.
For nearly two decades Lee had an almost unassailable quality run with film classics like “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” “Brokeback Mountain,” “Sense and Sensibility” and “The Wedding Banquet” among others.
Even his 2003 misfire “Hulk” is a more fascinating work in that genre than many of the films that populate it twenty years later.
In recent years his films like “Gemini Man” and “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” seem more focused on 3D & HFR tech than storytelling and subsequently have been dismissed.
Lee appeared last week in Tokyo to accept the prestigious Praemium Imperiale award for his artistic endeavours. Speaking at the cermony (via THR), he says he remains committed to cinema but he worries for its future:
“I haven’t made a movie for six years, and I don’t know where to start again. Cinema needs a drastic change. If we continue down the same path, it will be a dead end. We need something that will make audiences marvel again.
Movie theaters were our temples, where we were collectively transported. But today, asking someone to put down their smartphone is like asking them to climb Everest barefoot.”
Lee hasn’t set his next project but did tease his plans for an “innovative approach” to a biopic about Bruce Lee.
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