Unlike other martial art movies which only emphasize impressive and splendid actions, the movie “Crouching tiger, hidden dragon” is well-made for its understated actions in the forest, and intimate descriptions of main characters. Their heroes surpass space, gravity and the body figure when they fight even it made me laugh at their unbelievable movements. Interesting part was all the characters of this movie has more like equal power that very competitive, and also they never get feared one another include women. The popularity of strong heroines is interesting in those patriarchal societies. I hardly believed their professional martial arts and how flexible they are. It was my second movie to watch this type of genre; first was “House of flying daggers” which was released in 2004. Zhang Ziyi was the main character in that one also, and I still remember her beautiful and incredible movements. While western movie stays at the wilderness throughout the movies, martial art movies especially “Crouching tiger, hidden dragon” deserves high appreciation for filming in variety places. It has numerously different placing using urban area, desert, forest and cave. By those settings, it made this movie more flourish and grasp the audience with understated actions which I personally liked much better than the movie “Fist of fury”. Sometimes, from its extreme emotional growth between the characters, I was surprised: when Jen and Lo fall in the love during their fight. Over all, “Crouching tiger, hidden dragon” is noticeable that success on appealing martial art movie lovers.
“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” is an exhilarating martial arts movie. All of the fighting and stunts are done via wirework. They belted a wire and pull the characters up in the air when they jump to make it look like amazing than he really is. That is a martial art technique of classic Hong Kong movies. In the film, I is based on deeply routed Chinese legend in, which the characters have supernatural powers. The technique creates amazing visual effects such as dance through the air, leap across tops of roof, levitate bodies and stand on the top of the trees. The story is like most martial art movies. The director Li An successful show the human elements. For example, unrealized love between Li Mu Bai and Yu Shu Lien, and Jen Yu is not satisfies blind marriage in ancient Chinese feudalism, and she realizes a Jiang Hu life by her bravery. The movie also represents elements of Chines feudal government, which includes blind marriage, people dressing style and hairstyle refers to the appearance of the unstable society at that time (different Kung Fu organizations). In addition, The techniques used in the movie, the director successful used long shots, which make the audience see another fantasy of Gong Fu. Music in the film also created by Chinese traditional instruments like Ruan Yue and drum. The combination of music and long shots for stunts creates enjoyable effects to the audience. There are also have limited depth of field, third rules, wide angles of filming techniques, which makes us truly understand the feelings of characters
I’m probably one of the few people who have never seen Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. After viewing a particularly campy, albeit fascinating, martial arts movie with Bruce Lee in this class, I was pleasantly surprised by the polish and “hollywoodization” of this film. The cinematography, lush landscapes, and innovative fight sequences were all expertly crafted to provide an impressive experience. I was most intrigued by the presence of strong female characters in this film. Generally, in other action movies I’ve seen, even strong female characters who wield weapons as readily as their male counterparts are sexualized. They wear tight clothing, they’re subject to stares, and they use their bodies as part of the plot of the film, often seducing a potential target or their fellow crime fighters. The woman fighters in this film posed a refreshing contrast to their American counterparts. Their clothing was loose and comfortable, practical for engaging in combat, not to show cleavage. Jen and Yu Shu, the two main female protagonists, were capable and fierce. Their skills, training, and dedication to the art of Wudang were evident. They could fight as well as the men, and in the case of Jen, they could conquer scores of men. Additionally, the differences and perhaps unfairness between the role of men and woman in society were both acknowledged and challenged, particularly with the character of Jade Fox. Jade Fox was never allowed to train in Wudan, but was allowed to sleep with the master. However, Li Mu Bai shows a more progressive outlook on the social stratification. He seeks to make an exception for Jen’s training and seems to realize the error of the previous male-only exclusivity. He realizes that Jade Fox was “poisoned” by her unfair treatment and that Jen is susceptible to the same fate. Overall, I enjoyed the complexity and strength of the two main female characters in the film. Jen and Yu Shu commanded the screen and gained my respect.
I love watching martial arts movie. As a guy, I read so many books about martial arts movements and fiction because it make me feel like I am one of them who has super power or really powerul unrealistic martial arts skill. Since I love watching these kinds of martial arts movie, I can obviously find some specific characteristic this kind of genre has. First of all, they use unrealistic skill and unbeliebable movement. This can attracts audience's attention. To be specific, audience can even feel like they became one of actor there. They can indirecly releave their stress. Second, most of these stories have really good story line but hard to act and display as it is written in script because of movie technic. Most of martial arts hero has ability to fly house to house in great speed, but how can real actor can fly? So, their movements has kinda weird movement that sometime audiences fell uncomfortable. Also this move, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has some flaw movements while I was watiching. Movie skills still needs many improvements.
Right from the beginning, director Ang Lee shows how this film is going to be different from any of the other martial arts films out there, bringing a new meaning to the term "poetry in motion". When Jade Fox's disciple steals the legendary Green Dragon sword, she is pursued by Yu Shu Lien resulting in a virtuoso rooftop/courtyard martial arts dance. The pursuit of the sword leads to several more spectacular action sequences in the film.
The special effects and stunt work is amazing. The scene involving the fight between Li Mu Bai and Jade Fox's disciple on tree tops seems to have been done using computers. It turns out that the actors (mostly) actually did stand on the trees and acted in the manner as shown.
It's hard to view some of the material with a straight-face, but the actors do a fine job of expressing it. The music compliments the martial sequences extremely well. As usual, I found the presence of strong female characters particularly heartening.
To me “Crouching tiger, hidden dragon” is quite different from other traditional Chinese martial arts movies. The traditional Chinese martial arts movies often focus on action itself rather than the characters like this movie. I was fascinated not only fancy movement of characters but also scenery that the director shows especially bamboo forest. The grandeur scene of nature is combined with action and brings the movies to life. Also, there is lots of special effect such as wire movement. Sometimes special effects like wire movement seems too supernatural and unreal and makes the audience feel the movie is puerile; however I assimilated with this film while I watched. Also, the woman is important role in this movie unlike other traditional movies. In some traditional movies, female is often described as passive, however Jen and Yushu purse their own way. This might shows the social position of woman in present.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, directed by Ang Lee is known as one of the most famous and well-known Chinese martial arts movies. Even thought it is extremely famous and I also knew the movie I have never seen it before. Firstly, I felt that the director Ang Lee was trying to be against those typical martial arts movie that men are superior to women and way stronger in most of them. To me, even Ho was being nice and kind to Jen, Jen keeps running away from him and most of the time, she knocks Ho out in order to escape. In other movies, we could have seen the guy trying to rape the girl or to imprison and harm the girl. Also, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' showed special details of Chinese martial arts movie. There is a scene taken in a bamboo forest that Jen is in. What other movies would contain so old school style and traditional elements. Not only it was a typical martial arts movie with fast fists and unrealistic brandish swords and flying scenes, however, this movie contained melo in it as well. How Li Mu Bai proposes and confesses to Shu Lien and Ho and Jen's unaccomplished love also stood out to get audiences attention and concentration. Lastly, the musics that were used in the movie were very matching with such situations and have worked successfully to make the audiences more into the movie.
Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is an American-Chinese-Hong Kong-Taiwanese co-producted film; apparently a love story that is wrapped in a martial arts genre. The film not only has enough action scenes to portray that it is a martial arts genre, but it also has intimate, descriptive character analysis and relationship to further create the plot more interesting. The protagonist, Jen is a girl who seems to be somewhat immature in being opposite towards the older generation. Jen's relationship with other characters are like that of a family. We rarely see her real parents, we never see her interact with them, we never see siblings, and I don't recall even seeing her husband. So her biological family is absent. In its place is her metaphorical family. Jade Fox and Li, trainer and would-be trainer, are her mother and father. Shu Lien is her sister; this is in fact stated. In metaphorical terms, siblings of the same sex are often used to identify characters as one and the same person in different guises. Here Shu Lien is both a positive model for Jen (warrior, in society), and a negative model (Shu Lien does not follow her heart, she obeys societal restraints too long). The ending was another crucial symbolism in the movie. When Li finds Jen drugged, it is where he kills Jade Fox and gets shot by poison from Jade. It hints at a point where her the youth (rejection of society) must metaphorically "die" for her to come into adulthood (acceptance of her role), she casts herself over the cliff, a physical realization of that metaphor. Her disappearance from the screen leave the audience with an uncertainty. The death does not appear to be a physical one, but it seems to be her youth dying off into her maturity.
Unlike other martial art movies which only emphasize impressive and splendid actions, the movie “Crouching tiger, hidden dragon” is well-made for its understated actions in the forest, and intimate descriptions of main characters. Their heroes surpass space, gravity and the body figure when they fight even it made me laugh at their unbelievable movements. Interesting part was all the characters of this movie has more like equal power that very competitive, and also they never get feared one another include women. The popularity of strong heroines is interesting in those patriarchal societies. I hardly believed their professional martial arts and how flexible they are. It was my second movie to watch this type of genre; first was “House of flying daggers” which was released in 2004. Zhang Ziyi was the main character in that one also, and I still remember her beautiful and incredible movements.
ReplyDeleteWhile western movie stays at the wilderness throughout the movies, martial art movies especially “Crouching tiger, hidden dragon” deserves high appreciation for filming in variety places. It has numerously different placing using urban area, desert, forest and cave. By those settings, it made this movie more flourish and grasp the audience with understated actions which I personally liked much better than the movie “Fist of fury”. Sometimes, from its extreme emotional growth between the characters, I was surprised: when Jen and Lo fall in the love during their fight. Over all, “Crouching tiger, hidden dragon” is noticeable that success on appealing martial art movie lovers.
Qiutong Meng
ReplyDelete“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” is an exhilarating martial arts movie. All of the fighting and stunts are done via wirework. They belted a wire and pull the characters up in the air when they jump to make it look like amazing than he really is. That is a martial art technique of classic Hong Kong movies.
In the film, I is based on deeply routed Chinese legend in, which the characters have supernatural powers. The technique creates amazing visual effects such as dance through the air, leap across tops of roof, levitate bodies and stand on the top of the trees. The story is like most martial art movies. The director Li An successful show the human elements. For example, unrealized love between Li Mu Bai and Yu Shu Lien, and Jen Yu is not satisfies blind marriage in ancient Chinese feudalism, and she realizes a Jiang Hu life by her bravery.
The movie also represents elements of Chines feudal government, which includes blind marriage, people dressing style and hairstyle refers to the appearance of the unstable society at that time (different Kung Fu organizations).
In addition, The techniques used in the movie, the director successful used long shots, which make the audience see another fantasy of Gong Fu. Music in the film also created by Chinese traditional instruments like Ruan Yue and drum. The combination of music and long shots for stunts creates enjoyable effects to the audience. There are also have limited depth of field, third rules, wide angles of filming techniques, which makes us truly understand the feelings of characters
I’m probably one of the few people who have never seen Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. After viewing a particularly campy, albeit fascinating, martial arts movie with Bruce Lee in this class, I was pleasantly surprised by the polish and “hollywoodization” of this film. The cinematography, lush landscapes, and innovative fight sequences were all expertly crafted to provide an impressive experience. I was most intrigued by the presence of strong female characters in this film. Generally, in other action movies I’ve seen, even strong female characters who wield weapons as readily as their male counterparts are sexualized. They wear tight clothing, they’re subject to stares, and they use their bodies as part of the plot of the film, often seducing a potential target or their fellow crime fighters. The woman fighters in this film posed a refreshing contrast to their American counterparts. Their clothing was loose and comfortable, practical for engaging in combat, not to show cleavage. Jen and Yu Shu, the two main female protagonists, were capable and fierce. Their skills, training, and dedication to the art of Wudang were evident. They could fight as well as the men, and in the case of Jen, they could conquer scores of men. Additionally, the differences and perhaps unfairness between the role of men and woman in society were both acknowledged and challenged, particularly with the character of Jade Fox. Jade Fox was never allowed to train in Wudan, but was allowed to sleep with the master. However, Li Mu Bai shows a more progressive outlook on the social stratification. He seeks to make an exception for Jen’s training and seems to realize the error of the previous male-only exclusivity. He realizes that Jade Fox was “poisoned” by her unfair treatment and that Jen is susceptible to the same fate. Overall, I enjoyed the complexity and strength of the two main female characters in the film. Jen and Yu Shu commanded the screen and gained my respect.
ReplyDeleteI love watching martial arts movie. As a guy, I read so many books about martial arts movements and fiction because it make me feel like I am one of them who has super power or really powerul unrealistic martial arts skill.
ReplyDeleteSince I love watching these kinds of martial arts movie, I can obviously find some specific characteristic this kind of genre has. First of all, they use unrealistic skill and unbeliebable movement. This can attracts audience's attention. To be specific, audience can even feel like they became one of actor there. They can indirecly releave their stress.
Second, most of these stories have really good story line but hard to act and display as it is written in script because of movie technic. Most of martial arts hero has ability to fly house to house in great speed, but how can real actor can fly? So, their movements has kinda weird movement that sometime audiences fell uncomfortable. Also this move, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has some flaw movements while I was watiching. Movie skills still needs many improvements.
Right from the beginning, director Ang Lee shows how this film is going to be different from any of the other martial arts films out there, bringing a new meaning to the term "poetry in motion". When Jade Fox's disciple steals the legendary Green Dragon sword, she is pursued by Yu Shu Lien resulting in a virtuoso rooftop/courtyard martial arts dance. The pursuit of the sword leads to several more spectacular action sequences in the film.
ReplyDeleteThe special effects and stunt work is amazing. The scene involving the fight between Li Mu Bai and Jade Fox's disciple on tree tops seems to have been done using computers. It turns out that the actors (mostly) actually did stand on the trees and acted in the manner as shown.
It's hard to view some of the material with a straight-face, but the actors do a fine job of expressing it. The music compliments the martial sequences extremely well. As usual, I found the presence of strong female characters particularly heartening.
To me “Crouching tiger, hidden dragon” is quite different from other traditional Chinese martial arts movies. The traditional Chinese martial arts movies often focus on action itself rather than the characters like this movie. I was fascinated not only fancy movement of characters but also scenery that the director shows especially bamboo forest. The grandeur scene of nature is combined with action and brings the movies to life. Also, there is lots of special effect such as wire movement. Sometimes special effects like wire movement seems too supernatural and unreal and makes the audience feel the movie is puerile; however I assimilated with this film while I watched.
ReplyDeleteAlso, the woman is important role in this movie unlike other traditional movies. In some traditional movies, female is often described as passive, however Jen and Yushu purse their own way. This might shows the social position of woman in present.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, directed by Ang Lee is known as one of the most famous and well-known Chinese martial arts movies. Even thought it is extremely famous and I also knew the movie I have never seen it before. Firstly, I felt that the director Ang Lee was trying to be against those typical martial arts movie that men are superior to women and way stronger in most of them. To me, even Ho was being nice and kind to Jen, Jen keeps running away from him and most of the time, she knocks Ho out in order to escape. In other movies, we could have seen the guy trying to rape the girl or to imprison and harm the girl. Also, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' showed special details of Chinese martial arts movie. There is a scene taken in a bamboo forest that Jen is in. What other movies would contain so old school style and traditional elements. Not only it was a typical martial arts movie with fast fists and unrealistic brandish swords and flying scenes, however, this movie contained melo in it as well. How Li Mu Bai proposes and confesses to Shu Lien and Ho and Jen's unaccomplished love also stood out to get audiences attention and concentration. Lastly, the musics that were used in the movie were very matching with such situations and have worked successfully to make the audiences more into the movie.
ReplyDeleteAng Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is an American-Chinese-Hong Kong-Taiwanese co-producted film; apparently a love story that is wrapped in a martial arts genre. The film not only has enough action scenes to portray that it is a martial arts genre, but it also has intimate, descriptive character analysis and relationship to further create the plot more interesting. The protagonist, Jen is a girl who seems to be somewhat immature in being opposite towards the older generation.
ReplyDeleteJen's relationship with other characters are like that of a family. We rarely see her real parents, we never see her interact with them, we never see siblings, and I don't recall even seeing her husband. So her biological family is absent. In its place is her metaphorical family. Jade Fox and Li, trainer and would-be trainer, are her mother and father. Shu Lien is her sister; this is in fact stated. In metaphorical terms, siblings of the same sex are often used to identify characters as one and the same person in different guises. Here Shu Lien is both a positive model for Jen (warrior, in society), and a negative model (Shu Lien does not follow her heart, she obeys societal restraints too long).
The ending was another crucial symbolism in the movie. When Li finds Jen drugged, it is where he kills Jade Fox and gets shot by poison from Jade. It hints at a point where her the youth (rejection of society) must metaphorically "die" for her to come into adulthood (acceptance of her role), she casts herself over the cliff, a physical realization of that metaphor. Her disappearance from the screen leave the audience with an uncertainty. The death does not appear to be a physical one, but it seems to be her youth dying off into her maturity.