题目内容
Ang Lee and his film,
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The 73rd Annual Academy Awards was held in Los Angeles on 25th March 2001. Awards were given to many good films that night. Over one billion people watched this charming event live on TV. Producers and many superstars all came together to celebrate it that night.
One of the most popular films of the year was Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, directed by Ang Lee. Ang Lee is Chinese. He received his education in film-making in New York. He chose actors and actresses with talent from Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China to star in this film. Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi are three of them. The film is in Mandarin but it has both Chinese and English subtitles. It shows beautiful views of the desert, the forest and the Chinese style buildings. When Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was announced the Best Foreign Language Film, the whole group of producers and stars from the film jumped up from their chairs. Ang Lee said that many people from Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China worked together on the film. Their hard work played an important part in the success of the film.
The programme lasted for three hours that evening. It was a very wonderful night with beautiful people. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon won four Oscars. Its success was recognized. In an interview at the Oscar party, Ang Lee told us that the film took them two years to finish. But the hard work paid off.
Choose the right answer according to the article above.
1. Daniel: Who is the director of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?
Millie:…
A. Ang Lee.
B. Chow Yun Fat.
C. Michelle Yeoh.
2. Daniel: Does the film have subtitles?
Millie:…
A. Yes. It has both Chinese and English subtitles.
B. Yes. It has only English subtitles.
C. No, not any.
3. Daniel: How many Oscars did the film win?
Millie:…
A. Two.
B. Four.
C. Six.
4. Daniel: How long did the film take to finish?
Millie:…
A. Two months.
B. One year.
C. Two years.
Ang Lee won the Best Director Oscar for his adventure film Life of Pi at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California February 24, 2013.
Life of Pi shows a young Indian named Pi, who finds the world he knows swept away when his family sells their zoo and sets sail for Canada with a few animals. Only Pi escapes from the storm and floats in a lifeboat with a giant Bengal tiger.
“I really want to thank you for believing this story and sharing this unbelievablejourney with me,” Lee said in his speech. The film also won three other Oscars, for best original music, best cinematography(电影艺术) and best visual(视觉) effects. It won more awards than Lincoln and Argo which were also among the hottest nominees.
Coming from China's Taiwan, the 58-year-old Lee won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2001 for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and another for Best Director in 2006 for Brokeback Mountain. He is the only person of Asian to win the directing award and one of the rare people who won that award more than once.
In an after-ceremony interview, Lee said he believed Asian films would come to the main stage of the world sooner or later. "I was born in Asia and grew up with Chinese education. It is natural for me to put Asian thinking into Western things." The film, which cost 120 million U.S. dollars, has earned nearly 600 million dollars worldwide. Lee said most of the earnings came from outside China. Lee said he felt warm that he won the award on the day of the Lantern Festival, a Chinese traditional festival on which families get together to solve puzzles on lanterns and eat Tang Yuan. He wished everyone a happy new year of the snake and everybody gets lucky.
【小题1】What kind of film does Life of Pi belong to?
A.Comedies. | B.Tragedies. |
C.Detective films. | D.Adventure films. |
A.One. | B.Two. |
C.Three. | D.Four. |
A.Families get together and have rice dumplings. |
B.Children make lanterns out of big orange pumpkins. |
C.People solve puzzles on lanterns and enjoy Tang Yuan. |
D.Children go to the display of lanterns and receive red packets. |
A.The 85th Academy Awards was held in Hollywood, California this year. |
B.Pi was a young American who had an adventure trip with a tiger in India. |
C.Lincoln and Argo won more awards than Life of Pi. |
D.Asian films have come to the main stage of the world. |
A.It was a great success as it won four Oscars. |
B.It earned nearly 600 million dollars in China. |
C.It describes Pi’s escape from a terrible earthquake. |
D.It is the only successful film Ang Lee has ever made. |