Asia Society presents Water and Oil: The Movies of Ang Lee; a complete retrospective from February 14-23 with select appearances by the filmmaker and collaborators.
Hulk
Ang Lee, US, 2003, 35mm, 138 min.
Presented on 35mm.
Made at the incipient stages of the Marvel film phenomenon, Ang Lee’s Hulk now stands as perhaps the most visionary contribution to the brand, packaging the tropes of a sci-fi horror B-movie about an experiment-gone-wrong into the kinetic, multi-paneled container of a comic book movie.
The film stars Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly and Nick Nolte and reimagines Bruce Banner’s Cold War origin story for the age of genetic tinkering. What unfolds is a quasi-Oedipal psychodrama about repressed male emotion that almost certainly wouldn’t have been allowed to exist as-is in today’s MCU. “But,” in the director’s words, “they want[ed] to make an Ang Lee movie – whatever that is – so they never tested it.” Despite the rudimentary CGI technology used to animate the Hulk, Lee ensured the figure’s movements were convincing by donning the motion-capture suit himself.
Water and Oil: Hulk
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Sun, Feb 16, 06:30 PM - 09:00 PM (EDT)
To be shared on approval (New York)
40 attendees
Asia Society presents Water and Oil: The Movies of Ang Lee; a complete retrospective from February 14-23 with select appearances by the filmmaker and collaborators.
Hulk
Ang Lee, US, 2003, 35mm, 138 min.
Presented on 35mm.
Made at the incipient stages of the Marvel film phenomenon, Ang Lee’s Hulk now stands as perhaps the most visionary contribution to the brand, packaging the tropes of a sci-fi horror B-movie about an experiment-gone-wrong into the kinetic, multi-paneled container of a comic book movie.
The film stars Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly and Nick Nolte and reimagines Bruce Banner’s Cold War origin story for the age of genetic tinkering. What unfolds is a quasi-Oedipal psychodrama about repressed male emotion that almost certainly wouldn’t have been allowed to exist as-is in today’s MCU. “But,” in the director’s words, “they want[ed] to make an Ang Lee movie – whatever that is – so they never tested it.” Despite the rudimentary CGI technology used to animate the Hulk, Lee ensured the figure’s movements were convincing by donning the motion-capture suit himself.