2. Agenda
Two Movies’ Background Info
• Donglong Li---------Directors,RelatedMovies,Awards,Media responses
Eat, Drink,Man, Woman
1. Mudong Chen-----Analysis for the First DaughterandSecond Daughter
2. Qifei Huang-----Analysis for the ThirdDaughter andFather Zhu
3. Shuo Miao-----SummarizeKey Words
Joy Luck Club
1. Qingyi Wang----Analysis of the first two groupsofmothers anddaughters
2. Rui Zhu------Analysis of Last two groupsofmothers anddaughters
3. Qi An------ SummarizeChineseBeliefsinJoy Luck Club
3. Director of Eat,
Drink, Man, Woman
Ang Lee (
Born in 1954 in Pingtung, Taiwan, Ang
Lee has become one of today's greatest
contemporary filmmakers. Ang
graduated from the National Taiwan
College of Arts in 1975 and then came
to the U.S.
9. • Sihung Lung and Ah Lei Gua played central elderly figures dealing with the
transition from tradition to modernity in The Wedding Banquet, in
which Winston Chao also starred. Sihung Lung played an immigrant father
in Pushing Hands.
• These three films show the tensions between the generations of a Confucian
family, between East and West, and between tradition and modernity. They
form what has been called Lee's "Father Knows Best" trilogy.
"Father Knows Best" trilogy.
10. Awards
• 1994 Asia Pacific Film Festival Award for Best Film (Ang
Lee)
• 1994 Asia Pacific Film Festival Award for Best Editing
(Tim Squyres)
• 1994 National Board of Review of Motion
Pictures Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• 1994 National Board of Review of Motion Pictures
Award for Top Foreign Films
• 1995 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best
Foreign Film
20. 1
(Presented by Mudong Chen)
2 Analysis for the Third Daughter and Father Zhu
(Presented by Qifei Huang)
3 Summarize Key Words
(Presented by Shuo Miao)
4 Hand over for the next movie
(Presented by Qingyi Wang)
Analysis for the First Daughter and Second DaughterTable
of
Content
23. Jia Zhen
• The eldest daughter
• A teacher & a Christian
• Conservative mindset
• Thinks her father
shouldn't be remarried
(Against , shows )
• Release herself
24. Jia Qian
• The second daughter
• A white-collar manager
• Open-minded
• Give up the opportunity
in Amsterdam ( )
• 3 reason for tears
26. Jia Ning
• A gentle, obedient and peaceful
young daughter
Things that deviate :
1. Steal her friend’s boyfriend( , )
2. Got pregnant before marriage. ( )
3. Married before her two sister,
youngest daughter but the first one
that left the house and family. ( )
27. Father Zhu
• Two identities : a chef and a good
father
• Good father:
Raises his daughters by himself –
A calm person and is supportive to his
daughters choices.
A thing that deviate :
Love his daughter’s friend – , ,
37. 1 Suyuan and June & Lindo and Waverly
(Presented by Qingyi Wang)
2 Anmei and Rose & Yingying and Lena
(Presented by Rina)
3 Summary and Chinese Traditional Beliefs
(Presented by Qi An)
4 Hand over to team leader for final conclusion
(Presented by Donglong Li)
Table
of
Content
41. • Lindo is a woman who knows
what she wants
• “don’t forget who you are,
keep your true self.”
• She gets away from
constraint of Li.(礼)
Lindo &
Waverly
49. Gaps Between Mothers and
Daughters
1. Generation Gap
2. Cultural Gap
“Be obedient.”
50. Traditional Chinese Beliefs
• The blood is thicker than water.
( )
• Bad Luck ( )
People believe if a person died with
unfinished business, their soul won‘t move on.
Things related to a dead person is bad luck.