Ang Lee and Chen Kaige are both great directors. Why are Ang Lee's movies getting better and better and Chen Kaige's movies getting worse and worse?

Personally, I think this is the growth experience of the two directors and the definition of the profession of directors. If you know something about the lives of the two directors, you will certainly agree with me.

First of all, Ang Lee, the director, should be known as a person who once had a soft meal with his wife, but what some people don't know is that Ang Lee's childhood and adolescence are actually very ordinary. This man named Ang Lee is an ordinary person in the eyes of people around him and his parents and relatives. Like us, no one would have thought that he would become a great director with a world-renowned reputation.

And Chen Kaige? His family is not much better than that of Ang Lee. Born in a film and television family, he was on the set since childhood and was exposed to all aspects of movies since childhood. For example, Farewell My Concubine, the best work in his life, was directed by his father.

The two people grew up in different environments, which led to great differences in the faces and materials they paid attention to in making movies. For example, director Ang Lee is good at making movies with delicate feelings, especially movies about the same sex. The effect he made is really easy to impress people, which is plain and simple.

Generally speaking, the films directed by Chen Kaige are blockbusters. He is very similar to director Zhang Yimou, and both pay great attention to the gorgeous style and colors in the film. For example, Zhang Yimou's "Golden Flower in the City" and Chen Kaige's "The Legend of the Demon Cat" are really similar, but they don't pay much attention to the story, but pay attention to all kinds of high-level feelings in the film.

So judging from their development in recent years, it is undoubtedly that director Ang Lee is more recognized by the public. After all, although director Ang Lee said that there were no masterpieces that shocked the world in recent years, at least his film shooting level was still there, director Chen Kaige was really not so good. Since Farewell My Concubine, many works directed by Chen Kaige have not been recognized by the audience, such as The Promise, which was the most severely scolded.

At the beginning, this movie was a kind of blockbuster, and it was indeed a blockbuster, but I really didn't understand it. Simply put, it was a story that I didn't understand at all, and then director Chen Kaige was removed from the throne by this work. Although some of the later works were not as outrageous as promised, they really didn't look like a high-quality director who could send farewell to my concubine when he was young.

As I said at the beginning, the first reason is the growing environment, and the second reason is the understanding of the profession of director.

Both of them have a strong artistic color when making movies. Director Ang Lee thinks more when making movies. He hopes that his art can be recognized by a wide audience. Therefore, when we look at director Ang Lee's works, we are easily moved, and it is easier to feel the story brought to us by director Ang Lee. And director Chen Kaige himself said in the interview that he was a director of urchin psychology. When filming, he will want to try everything, and sometimes he will not think about whether the audience can understand what is added to the film. This may be why not many people understand the promise.

In short, there is indeed a big gap between the two sides at present, but I don't think director Chen Kaige is bad. His idea is that he doesn't want to follow the market purely, and he likes to mix his own bootleg goods into movies. This is also a common problem of many great directors, such as Jiang Wen. In fact, these directors have a high artistic level and a high level of directors. Otherwise, investors are not fools. Every work directed by Chen Kaige is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Who is willing to give up?