In 19th century Qing Dynasty China, a warrior (Chow Yun-Fat) gives his sword, Green Destiny, to his lover (Michelle Yeoh) to deliver to safe keeping, but it is stolen, and the chase is on to find it. The search leads to the House of Yu where the story takes on a whole different level.
As for what “crouching tiger, hidden dragon” means, a message board posting reveals the answer: “The phrase 'Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon' (Wuo hu zhan long) is a chinese idiom in which the words 'Tiger' and 'Dragon' directly refer to people with special hidden talents.
Personally, I was amazed by the film’s spectacular beauty. Everything, from the lavish sceneries to the smooth martial arts orders arranged by legendary fight coordinator Yuen Wo-Ping, inspires a sense of wonder. The extensive reward, the rooftop pursuits, the bamboo forest bowing in the wind… The film is filled with images and moments I’ll never forget.
Nor will I forget the twenty minute flashback …show more content…
As divergent as it appears to be from Lee's catalogue of talk-heavy domestic dramas shuddering with subtext, Crouching Tiger fits the bill. Lee himself described it as Sense And Sensibility meets Bruce Lee. Michelle Yeoh is "sense", the model of repressed emotion; in contrast, Zhang Ziyi is all impulse, rebelling against the constraints of an arranged marriage. Female empowerment is a familiar theme in many of Lee's movies (and also in the traditions of wuxia since it first appeared onscreen in Burning Of The Red Lotus Monastery in 1928) and here it is woven into the fabric of the story. These girls rock. Yeoh is a master practitioner of martial arts and effortlessly expounds the complex moves with studied grace while Ziyi, as lithe and slender as a ballerina, explodes with an emotional force, capturing the elemental mix of beauty and
As for what “crouching tiger, hidden dragon” means, a message board posting reveals the answer: “The phrase 'Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon' (Wuo hu zhan long) is a chinese idiom in which the words 'Tiger' and 'Dragon' directly refer to people with special hidden talents.
Personally, I was amazed by the film’s spectacular beauty. Everything, from the lavish sceneries to the smooth martial arts orders arranged by legendary fight coordinator Yuen Wo-Ping, inspires a sense of wonder. The extensive reward, the rooftop pursuits, the bamboo forest bowing in the wind… The film is filled with images and moments I’ll never forget.
Nor will I forget the twenty minute flashback …show more content…
As divergent as it appears to be from Lee's catalogue of talk-heavy domestic dramas shuddering with subtext, Crouching Tiger fits the bill. Lee himself described it as Sense And Sensibility meets Bruce Lee. Michelle Yeoh is "sense", the model of repressed emotion; in contrast, Zhang Ziyi is all impulse, rebelling against the constraints of an arranged marriage. Female empowerment is a familiar theme in many of Lee's movies (and also in the traditions of wuxia since it first appeared onscreen in Burning Of The Red Lotus Monastery in 1928) and here it is woven into the fabric of the story. These girls rock. Yeoh is a master practitioner of martial arts and effortlessly expounds the complex moves with studied grace while Ziyi, as lithe and slender as a ballerina, explodes with an emotional force, capturing the elemental mix of beauty and