中国传统文化是华人导演乐于表现的一个内涵丰富的意象,李安早期的“父亲三部曲”(一说“家庭三部曲”)因最贴近李安自己的生活原型,并最少地受到商业化目的及迎合西方口味的影响,而能够更原始地表现中国文化思想冲突,以及东方与西方,传统与现代的矛盾碰撞(其实质仍是东西方文化矛盾)。中西方文化在由冲突到相容,由疏离到互换的过程中起到了描绘中国文化形象的作用。 Chinese traditional culture is a content-rich image that Chinese directors are happy to show. In the early days, Ang Lee’s “Trilogy of the Father” (one of the “Trilogy of the Family”) was the closest to Ang Lee’s own prototype of life. At least it is commercialized and catered to the influence of Western tastes. However, it can more primitively show the conflicts of Chinese cultural ideology and the contradictions and conflicts between East and West, tradition and modernity. Chinese and Western cultures play a role in depicting the Chinese cultural image from conflict to compatibility and from alienation to exchange.