Hulk to the power of PI

I like the fact that Ang Lee is willing to take risks. He took a huge risk with envisioning  a more cerebral version of the comic book character the Hulk. He admits fully that he took some wrong steps with Marvel’s franchaise but it lead to progress in the CGI industry and  probably also lead to Kenneth Branaugh’s politically critical version of THOR and leading to the very successful Avengers. It was a daring interpretation, if flawed, but lead to the experience Lee needed to make the challenging Life of Pi a success.Asian film makers are willing to take risks that the run of the mill Hollywood films would never take today. From Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Eat Drink Man Woman, to films like Brokeback Mountain and Life of PI, Lee refuses to be classified and takes on new challenges with each film.  I look forward to more Chinese directors entering the global cinema and taking risks.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/11/20/ang-lees-hulk-regrets

Ang Lee’s Hulk Regrets

Director credits Marvel movie for helping him pull off Life of Pi.

by Jim Vejvoda

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Director  Ang Lee has opened up about his regrets over his  love it-or-hate it  Hulk movie, but credits the 2003 comic book film with helping him pull off his new CG-heavy film  Life of Pi.

“I learned quite a bit about CG from The Hulk, and I wouldn’t have been able to do Life of Pi without that. But it’s easier to create an animal, because there exists a good reference — so a tiger or a hyena is easier than a 2,000-pound rage monster,” Lee told  Vulture.

“The hardest thing to do is the weight, not the skin, because there’s no reference for something that size that is agile. And the technology’s improved, so you can have more details with Mark [Ruffalo]‘s Hulk. My problem is that I took the whole thing too seriously. I should have had more fun with it, instead of all the psychodrama!”