Ang Lee's such an ass.

Hey! I'm gonna make another film about gay people! Because I'm still bitter over what happened with the last one! I'm the best director on the planet and it was the greatest film ever made!!!!

(The lead guy in that movie's gay, which is where this comes from. Really, there should be more homosexual representation in movies, but because it's Ang Lee, I gotta take swipes at him. Sorry.)

Ang Lee's an ass.

As per Dave Poland's blog:
"[We discussed] The Ice Storm, which [Ang] says he should have called 'The Fuck You Movie,' as the choice to do it was a direct response to having made 'nice, heartwarming' films. He said, 'A lady would come up to me and say, "I just loved Sense & Sensibility," and I'd just want to punch her in the face."

Asshole. Sorry someone likes your movies.

I'm bringing Conversations with Celebrities back.

Ang: Hello everyone.
Tang: Hi guys.
Ang: I am Ang Lee, acclaimed Academy Award-winning director of the *cough* Academy Award-winning film Brokeback Mountain. *starts glowering*
Tang: Ang, we heard you whining about it all the way in China. Anyway, I am Tang Wei, Chinese actress and star of Ang's latest not Academy Award-nominated film, Lust, Caution.
Ang: You were really good. Freaking brilliant, even.
Tang: Yes. You are correct.
Ang: I hear you were so good that Justine Credible even admits you were better than Laura Linney last year.
Tang: Really? Awww, she shouldn't have! She also says Lust, Caution is far better than Brokeback Mountain.
Ang: Well, she's right, but don't tell anyone I said that. Also, you are very pretty.
Tang: Thank you, Ang.
Ang: It's a little ridiculous that you were blacklisted.
Tang: No kidding.
Ang: And it's kind of sad that you don't have anything listed "in production" on IMDb.
Tang: Yeah, I know. I think I'm going to talk to Ziyi Zhang. We're beautiful Asian actresses who are the same age, so we pretty much might as well be the same person to Hollywood producers, right? [note to the reader: I am not trying to offend anyone with this particular line of dialogue. I am trying to make fun of Hollywood and the lack of Asian actors/actresses. That's all.] I might steal one of her roles. I mean, she deserved it after Memoirs of a Geisha and her performance in it.
Ang: Yeah. And to think I gave her Crouching Tiger.
Tang: Are you gonna start whining again?
Ang: I never really stopped.
Tang: Touché.

(On a side note, it amuses me to no end that I saved this picture as "tangang" on my computer)

You know what would be hilarious?

Susie = AMPAS member
Tommy = Paul Haggis

If, against all odds, In the Valley of Elah got an Oscar nom for Best Original Screenplay. Ha! How much do you think the Brokeback fans would freak out over that? Paul Haggis nominated four years in a row! That said, it would be the most amazing thing ever if the movie had huge traction with AMPAS and Tommy Lee Jones got in. If you can give him an Oscar for The Fugitive, you can give him at least a nomination for In the Valley of Elah (or No Country for Old Men)!

PS.: In the Valley of Elah was good but not great, but his competition from 2005's - Ang Lee, duh - movie of this year, Lust, Caution, was just great and much better than Lee's 2005 movie, Brokeback Mountain. Of course, it's being for the most part completely ignored.