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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"maff" |
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18 Oct 2006 03:48:04 AM |
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Ang Lee |
Beijing's bid for cool: Ang Lee's Olympic rapprochement
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article1886634.ece
China has banned the US-schooled director's films and even his Oscar
acceptance speech. But now the prodigal son is back in favour as
ambassador for the 2008 Games. By Clifford Coonan
Published: 18 October 2006
Ang Lee is a free-wheeling, US-schooled film director from what China
likes to call the renegade province of Taiwan. His films are regularly
banned by Beijing for their controversial content and his Oscar
acceptance speech had to be censored on state TV. The movie maverick is
hard to picture as China's first choice as an ambassador for the
Beijing Olympics in 2008. And yet Ang has just been selected as an arts
and culture consultant for the opening and closing ceremonies of the
Games.
It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Olympics in China.
The announcement that China would host the two-week event was greeted
with a massive outpouring of national pride. The capital is being
remodelled for the Games and no other single event has better
crystallised China's bid to become a fully paid-up respectable member
of the global community than this high-profile athletics competition.
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