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TAIPEI : Oscar-winning director Ang Lee, known for his box office successes such as "Brokeback Mountain" and "Lust, Caution", is making a film about Woodstock ahead of its 40th anniversary.
The comedy is based on the book "Taking Woodstock, a True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life" by Elliot Tiber, who was instrumental in bringing the music festival of unprecedented scale to his region, as he held the only music festival permit in 1969 in New York and allowed Woodstock to take place.
Taiwan-born Lee is shooting near the Woodstock location in New York, and hopes for a 2009 release.
Lee decided to do the film when Tiber met him randomly in a San Francisco green room before a televised book promotion, said Dan Bloom, a Taiwan-based writer who has interviewed sources close to the film.
Bloom said “Taking Woodstock” is about sizing up one's own life and controlling one's own destiny.
Lee’s spokesperson has declined to elaborate on the plot, the budget or the director's reasons for getting involved.
The hippie-dominated Woodstock Festival took place amidst a world of military conflict and racial discord, and was viewed as a meaningful event which symbolised music and peace.
Although there had been attempts to emulate the festival, the success has never been replicated as the original event in 1969 remains legendary, listed on Rolling Stone’s “50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll”.
- CNA/sl
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