Jan remarked that Lee had the ability to bring his audience into a believable world--in Sense and Sensibility, it was pre-Victorian England, and in Brokeback Mountain, it was the American West of the cowboys. How is it, Jan asked, that Lee is able to act as a gateway to these worlds that are so foreign to Asians?
譬如《理性與感性》的英國維多利亞時代、《斷背山》的美國西部牛仔生活等，但究竟李安是如何掌握這兩個門戶森嚴，對東方人而言幾乎完全陌生的語言符號呢？