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Trivia for
Xi yan (1993)

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  • Director Cameo: [Ang Lee] a guest at the wedding banquet.

  • Ang Lee wrote the film six years before it was made, and five years before his first film, Pushing Hands

  • Ang based the first half of the movie on the true story of a friend, Neil Peng

  • This was the most financially profitable film of 1993, earning $23.6 million from a budget of $1 million. This gave it a cost-to-return ratio of 23.6, considerably higher than 1993's biggest money-maker "Jurassic Park" whose ratio was 13.8.


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