After becoming addicted
With all the obstacles to creating a movie, why do some continue throwing themselves into the fray? In a word, "Film-making is addictive," says Chen Yu-hsun.
How does Yee Chihyen get his sense of accomplishment? "You get to know lots of good actors. Directing is like falling in love with the actors, like falling in love with nine people at once."
A film critic once said that if you like movies, then go see them. But if you are intoxicated by movies, so intoxicated that you go to the extreme of becoming a director, then you must bear the emotional and creative solitude of film-making yourself, be cause no one is able to help you.
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Hsu Hsiao-ming
"Film is not romantic. It burns up your ideals, your enthusiasm. It all depends on how much energy you have to hold on." Hsu Hsiao-ming has a deep understanding that in the director's profession, one must remain determined through good and bad times.
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When the Formosa Incident broke out, the female lead character was dragged into prison through association with her lover. There, her youth was consumed. (from Heartbreak Island, courtesy of the Hsu Hsiao-ming Film Co.)
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The male lead character is caught between his all accepting wife and the lover who gave up her youth for him. How to choose? (from Heart break Island, courtesy of the Hsu Hsiao-ming Film Co.)
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What a coincidence. he's come here shopping too! Approaching somber middle age, the lead female character's heart skips a beat to think that fate may have her cross paths with the young man. (from Lonely Hearts Club, courtesy of the Central Motion Picture Company).
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In this bedroom scene between a long-married couple, local actress Pai Ping-ping and the dryly humorous journalist Feng Kuang-yuan leave plenty to the imagination. (courtesy of the Central Motion Picture Company).
Yee Chihyen
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Loneliness for Yee Chihyen is a "soft and ambiguous" feeling. At a certain juncture in life, this feeling impels him to express himself through creativity.
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"Sometimes people should let themselves be a little foolish, a little stupid, not so competent. Daydreaming can be a good thing too." In keeping with the spirit of his film, Chen Yu hsun sits like a big child among the props for Tropical Fish.
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Looking to be the hero, the young main character becomes a kidnapping victim himself in trying to save another child. (from Tropical Fish, courtesy of the Central Motion Picture Company).
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The main character gets an unexpected holiday when he is kidnapped shortly before the national high school entrance exam. Chen Yu-hsun, a comic book fan, applies his childlike spirit to his film-making. (courtesy of the Central Motion Picture Company).
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Do you like movies? There's no telling how many eager young people have been drawn to the scintillating images of the silver screen.