Steering the ship

By Andrew Purcell
Updated January 7 2013 - 11:13am, first published December 30 2012 - 3:00am
A scene from <i>Life of Pi.</i>
A scene from <i>Life of Pi.</i>
Director Ang Lee, in Sydney to promote his new film <i>Life of Pi.</i>
Director Ang Lee, in Sydney to promote his new film <i>Life of Pi.</i>

When Ang Lee was nine years old, his parents abandoned him in a typhoon to go to a movie. The film was Liang Shanbo Yu Zhu Yingtai, a Chinese opera about doomed young lovers. Lee's family saw it nine times, but he understood the pull of cinema best on the night he wasn't allowed to go. ''The power went down, the wind was howling, but the theatre was still open. They said, 'Let's see that movie,' and left us alone in the dark,'' he remembers. ''We were very young. It was crazy.''

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