Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Decent Essays
In the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, traditional genre boundaries are blurred together in many ways. The film does this by mixing together genres such as drama, action and even some romance. About fifteen minutes into the film, there is a major action scene when a strange women breaks in and steals the sword. The main character gets in a fight with this women. They are flying from roof to roof as she chases after the woman who has stolen the sword, then jumps into a hands on fight. This is a major action scene shown in the film. This part of the film can also be seen as drama as well, because after the whole fight between the two women, the women still gets away with the sword. This leads into the drama of the stolen sward in the film.

Related Documents

  • Decent Essays

    What we make of life in the time we have is the idea that David Fincher presents in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. He shows a character that is different because he experiences life backwards, however he enjoys life and meets new friends and emotions. This is in direct contrast to the portrayal of Benjamin by Francis Scott Fitzgerald who shows a character who is not accepted into society because he is different and thus he lives out his life alone. The idea that you live life essentially alone, if you are different, is more effective in engaging the reader and creating a thoughtful response from an audience who connect to the basis of…

    • 116 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Steel Magnolias

    • 1650 Words
    • 7 Pages

    Family Assessment of Shelby Eatenton Latcherie Family does not have a universal definition, and over the years the definition has changed from a traditional mother, father, and children to several variations. Examples of these are parents that are unmarried, are of the same sex and those that do not live in the same household but do what is called co-parenting. The definition of family according to Kaakinen, Coehlo, Steele, Tabacco, & Hanson (2015) is "Family refers to two or more individuals who depend on one another for emotional, physical, and economic support. The members of the family are self­ defined" (p. 5). The movie, Steel Magnolias, is based on a true story but names, details and events have been changed.…

    • 1650 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Last Dragon is a movie that follows a martial artist named Leroy Green. He is on a jorney to reach the final level of martial arts. Once you reach the final level you are able to concentrate such mystical energy into their hands that they begin to glow. Another martial artist named Sho’nuff is going around town beating all the top martial artist. His goal is to become the uncontested best martial artist.…

    • 359 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was a film directed by Ang Lee. This film takes place in China during the 19th century; which during this time China faced land shortages, famine, a growth in population, and inflation. This movie is a historical fiction film where the story is fictional, however it borrows true events that happen during the 19th century. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is set in the Qing Dynasty along with the Qianlong Emperor who was the ruler at this time. The story goes on and we meet a man named Master Li Mu Bai a successful warrior that is having thoughts of quitting his warrior life.…

    • 400 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Audrey and Arthur are arguing about Alike. Alike decides to intervene and winds up coming out. A physical fight ensues between Audrey and Alike. This scene is very symbolic because it shows how much rage black women have for difference. Instead, women like Audrey, who live with a belief that anything that defies societal set gender norms or religion is bad, fight difference.…

    • 1289 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is an ancient Chinese martial art film. It also creates the highest box office of foreign language films in the U.S history. According to “imbd.com”, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was originally released on May 2000, in France, at the Cannes Film Festival. According to “boxofficemojo.com”, domestic limited release was in December 8, 2000, and wide release was January 12, 2001. It was released under Sony Picture Classics.…

    • 576 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The director of the Princess Bride that I have studied employed film techniques and narrative conventions to construct heroes and/or villains. The Princess Bride tells us a story of two unlikely lovers who overcome extreme difficulties in order to be together. The Princess Bride was made in 1987 and directed by Rob Reiner. They also made a book which was published in 1973 and was written by William Goldman.…

    • 221 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The Big Lebowski

    • 251 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The introduction of The Big Lebowski is set up in such a way so we get an idea of the lead characters, specifically The Dude. One way mise-en-scène is utilized in a beneficial manner is costume design. For instance, when The Dude is first introduced in The Big Lebowski he’s seen wearing an outlandish bathroom robe. Along with this robe comes a beaten-up pair of shorts and a plain white t-shirt. He’s then shown wear a similar outfit the following day.…

    • 251 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Steven Spielberg's back at it with following his other successful hit Saving Private ryan . Band Of Brothers finds you following E Company of the 506th PIR of the 101st Airborne, From their basic training to the end of WWII. This HBO miniseries has commentary of these soldiers that were in the 101st this helps the “character building” move along as it allows you to access their personal thoughts and opinions on the situations they faced and sets the tone for the episode to come. Band of brothers isn't for the faint hearted as It shows and unapologetic and graphic responses on the men who fought, and on the ones who gave all .…

    • 334 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Disney's Finding Dory

    • 355 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The momentum of Disney’s Finding Dory can’t be stopped – as the swimming streak continues… For a third consecutive weekend, Finding Dory remains on top – adding a healthy $41.9 million to its ever-growing total. On the domestic front, Dory has amassed a towering $372.2 million, thrusting it past Deadpool as the second highest grossing movie of the year. At the same time, Dory has also flown past the half a billion mark, and now sits at $538.2 million, worldwide. Below Dory is a fleet on newcomers, starting with The Legend of Tarzan – which earned a decent $38.1 million.…

    • 355 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Saving Private Ryan

    • 322 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The intolerable amount of deaths displayed in the film was only one of many strategies which Spielberg utilized in the movie to increase its authenticities. The fact that Saving Private Ryan accurately imitated the European Theatre of the War on the TV screen made it an excellent representation of United States’s contribution to the war efforts in the Second World War. The script writer Robert Rodat, wrote the plot based on a true story of Sergeant Frederick Niland. Like Private Ryan, the army discharged him from his duties on the front line transported him back home due to the death of his three brothers. In addition, both Private Ryan and Sergeant Niland benefited from the Sole Survivor Policy enacted by the American Army in 1942.…

    • 322 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Texas Chainsaw massacre was very interesting; I have not watched the original movie until now. When watching the movie, it made me realize that in almost every horror movie, there is always a dumb girl, a sexually aroused girl and a serious girl. In older movies the women are normally the last ones to get killed. In newer movies, there is always one or two guys that survive. As far as the women, normally the serious girl survives and the rest dies.…

    • 263 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the movie The Village, M. Night Shyamalan depicts simplicity, peace and welfare within the people in a small isolated community in olde Pennsylvania. M. Night Shyamalan instills readers that working together as a community is the ideal of simplicity and an easy lifestyle. Likewise, in the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, Sean Covey strives to teach young readers the importance in healthy habits that will further benefit in their foreseeable future. When comparing the two sources, there are overlapping themes in being proactive, beginning with the end in mind, and putting first things first.…

    • 548 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Legend Of Tarzan

    • 614 Words
    • 3 Pages

    What may appear to be a weakness to someone or something, could be a strength in another way/situation. In The Legend of Tarzan, the main character Tarzan was raised by gorillas after being abandoned by his parents in the African jungle. Later throughout his life a group of travelers found their way into the jungle in search of the gorillas, but instead find Tarzan and only he knows where the gorillas are located. Clayton (the leader of the "expedition") turned on some of his crew members and Tarzan because his goal was to capture/kill the gorillas. Even though throughout the climax Clayton appeared to have the upper hand, he lost and Tarzan won and saved his family from the hunters.…

    • 614 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    My Hero Academia

    • 141 Words
    • 1 Pages

    Kouhei Horikoshi is the author of a popular manga in japan, My Hero Academia (Boku No Hero Academia). The manga became so popular in Japan to where they created a My Hero Academia themed café in Akihabara, Tokyo. My Hero Academia is Horikoshi’s 6th work, and during an interview in 2015, he mentions that he had suffered from depression in his previous works because none of them gain any popularity. Horikoshi was on verge of giving up, completely thinking that he had no talent to be an author.…

    • 141 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays