So it s a very masculine doctrine but its ultimate answer is the unknown female. He also was intrigued by the book s psycho-sexual repression. That s very Freudian. Working with Yuen Wo-Ping, who choreographed the fights in The Matrix , Lee created cinematic combatants who would leave Sun Tzu breathless. They defy gravity by dashing up walls, skipping over rooftops, and swinging and swaying from bamboo trees.
H is ambition took a long road to fruition.
After Lee s paternal grandparents were executed as landowners in mainland China during the Communist revolution, his father a high school principal fled to Taiwan. There, at age 18, Ang Lee flunked his college entrance exam and settled into the Academy of Art in Taipei, where he studied acting. He served two years in the Taiwanese military inspecting fishing boats before he enrolled in 1978 at the University of Illinois, where he earned a bachelor s degree in theatre. He then went to the graduate film programme at New York University. In 1985, Ang Lee s own thesis film earned prizes.