Life of Lee
Acclaimed filmmaker Ang Lee came to Harvard Friday and told a rapt crowd that the visit would have pleased his dad. “I think my father would be very happy,” Lee said during an afternoon of discussions and lectures that explored his far-reaching work. “I finally got into Harvard.” The two-time Academy Award winner said his father, who was also his high school principal, disapproved of his early decision to go into filmmaking. Even after he won his first Oscar for best director for the 2005 film “Brokeback Mountain,” Lee said his father told him: “You’ve got an Oscar. You happy now? It’s time to do something for real.” The hundreds of Lee fans who jammed the auditorium in the Harvard Art Museums’ Arthur M. Sackler Museum, along with millions more around the world, are no doubt glad the Taiwan-born film director, screenwriter, and producer stayed true to his artistic heart. Lee, whose...