Summary: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

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Journal 5: What is appealing to me regarding Chinese films is the very heavy use of some form of martial arts in most of their films. While I was looking on Google trying to figure out what movie I should watch for this journal, I notice while rea ding the descriptions, that most of the films dealt with some kind of martial arts training. Additionally, what I also found appealing while looking at which movies to watch, was how most of the films were set back in time and the movies were mainly set back to the early 19th century. For my movie selection, I choose a drama and action movie called Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and it was about two warriors fighting over a stolen sword and they are both trying to find the sword. What I found interesting

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