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作者: xiemark (aisinjuro) 看板: movie
標題: [討論] 嘿!印度，退後，這是李安的，不是你的!
時間: Thu Feb 28 09:59:47 2013
印度人寫的文章值得深思，
http://tinyurl.com/a56lp3l
Hey India, back off. It’s Ang Lee’s Oscar, not yours (despite the
namaste)
by Feb 26, 2013
#Ang Lee #Bombay Jayashri #CultureDecoder #Life of Pi #Oscars2013
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And the Oscar goes to… India.
India's bona fide Oscar hope - Bombay Jayashri's nomination for Best
Song - was as some media put it “dashed” when she lost out to Adele.
Never mind, we can all get ourselves a slice of Pi.
Thankfully Ang Lee not only said “My India crew, I love you” he also
ended his Oscar speech with a Namaste.
"Namaste caps a life of surprises" reads the glowing headline in The
Telegraph. The story quotes Ang Lee as apologizing backstage that he “
screwed up” because he couldn't mention the other desis in the cast -
Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Adil Hussain, Ayush Tandon. “I couldn't say them
very fast so I skip(ped) them,” he confesses rather endearingly.
The Department of Tourism in Puducherry is ready to cash in on the
film's success reports the Indian Express. It wants to develop all 18
locations associated with the film - the botanical gardens, the beach
road, the temples - as tourist spots. “The news of Ang Lee's ‘Life of
Pi' bagging a big number of awards is most thrilling and exciting,”
Director of Puducherry Tourism Dr AS Sivakumar tells PTI.
]Ang Lee collects the Oscar for Best Director. Getty Images The Deccan
Chronicle has a photograph of what looks like the entire staff of
Hyderabad-branch of the animation company Rhythm and Hues which worked
on the special effects of Pi, including Richard Parker, the tiger. “We
got to visit the sets in Pondicherry and while we couldn't interact
with Ang Lee directly, we did happen to meet our supervisor Bill Weston
Hoffer who received the Oscar,” says Kabir Verma, the head of the team
in Hyderabad.
At least in the case of Pi, the India connection is genuine. Today's T2
also photoshops Jennifer Lawrence into a Sabyasachi ivory lehenga for a
centrespread for its own daydreams about what it wanted the stars to
wear. The headline on the cover reads "Jennifer in Sabya - Don't tell
us you missed it."
Sometimes the Indian connection is real but a little egg-in-the-face
like the one the Hindustan Times uncovered for India and Argo.
Apparently the real inspiration for the CIA plot to smuggle those six
Americans out of Iran has two Indian antecedents. One was Stalin's
daughter Svetlana defecting to the West while visiting India in 1967.
The other was a KGB spy who worked for the Novosti news agency being
smuggled out of Delhi right under the nose of the authorities by the
same Tony Mendez who did the Argo operation. HT writes:
The only specific details Mendez offers are that the "job" took place in
a "densely populated capital of the Asian subcontinent" and that Nestor
was finally waved through by a turbaned official at an airport
surrounded by a thick haze of 'smit' - "smoke and burning shit".
I guess we are not going to play up that connection as a tourist
attraction.
It's only natural that we want to piggyback on success. Who doesn't?
Certainly not Mr Anupam Kher. As soon as Ang Lee won, he was quick to
tweet out “Congratulations to the entire team of "Life Of Pi" and to
the Genius called Ang Lee. Proud to have worked with him (in "Conquest,
Lust?").
Shobhaa De tweeted “Ang Lee's "Namaste" during his Oscar's acceptance
speech worth more than the Golden Statuette in his hands.”
But in our rush to find the Indian connection, we ignore the other more
important thing he said later. “This movie really belongs to the
world.” From its beginnings in Puducherry, to its filming in a water
tank in Taiwan, to its ending in Canada, this was a film that was truly
a global enterprise.
Ang Lee is inspiring because he both honours his Taiwanese roots but
isn't bound by them. He made Lust/Caution set in post-war Shanghai and
he also made Brokeback Mountain, a most unlikely film to entrust to a
heterosexual Asian immigrant. “When I do an English-language film I
don't think about what I bring as an Asian man,” he said in an earlier
interview. “(But) because I am different, the film will be different.
”
While Taiwanese radio stations called him the “Glory of Taiwan” Lee
once said in an interview with this author “In reality, I am an
outsider anywhere even in Taiwan. The real world has changed so much I
am afraid I am forever an outsider.”
In an earlier story I had rued that even Pi cannot quite avoid a bit of
the National Geographic special view of India with a thousand
flickering diyas and spiritual homilies. But luckily it soon sets out
to sea and then the wonder of Pi is that it actually belongs to no one.
It's Lee's outsider status that actually allows him to unmoor a Life of
Pi from its Indian roots and turn into a global hit, raking in at
least half a billion dollars worldwide.
We, on the other hand, are still all about looking for our reflection in
the Oscar's golden eye. Sometimes it's not even enough to just see our
Indian selves. We need to dig even deeper.
A colleague pointed out how Malayalam papers have been besides
themselves about the Malayaliness of Suraj Sharma's Keralaite origins.
So when Ang Lee said “Suraj, where are you? You're a miracle” it was
practically a shout out for Malayali pride.
It's wonderful that the Life of Pi has so many Indian connections. But
what's truly worth celebrating is that despite all those Indian
connections, Ang Lee didn't make a Passage From India.
He made, as he said, a film that belonged to the entire world.
底下有一個評論寫得很好:
Aria:
We are the people who love to get the success without doing any
effort..Lazy and effortless people...So to get some kind of self
satisfaction...we just keep on looking for any kind of connection and
opportunity that makes us happy ...Although in reality we donot deserve
it.