What Lee's `Life of Pi' Oscar Says of Chinese Film
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Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The Oscars began at 9:30 a.m. onMonday in China. By 10 a.m., “Oscars” was the top trending topicon Sina Weibo, China’s most popular Twitter-like microblog. Andby lunchtime, a mild controversy emerged.
The inadvertent perpetrator was Ang Lee, the Taiwanese-American director of “Life of Pi.” Upon receiving his secondbest-director award (he first won in 2005 for “BrokebackMountain”), Lee offered what in Hollywood must have sounded likean innocuous acceptance speech, but in China and Taiwan it helddeeper meaning. He thanked everyone from the “movie god” to hisproducers. Then he added: