|
|
 |
 |
||||||||||||||||||
|
 check out official movie site
Reported by Susan Yang
“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” is an adaptation of the fourth-part of a five-part novel written by Wang Du Lu before WWII. To maintain the strong narrative story-telliing style of the novel, the script was translated from Chinese to English, English to Chinese, and finally back to English from Chinese. This collaborative script writing effort was done by James Schamus, Wang Hui Ling and Tsai Kuo Jung. Notably, the man responsible for the stunning martial arts choreography of “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” is Yuen Wo-ping. He choreographed the distinct martial arts wizardry in “The Matrix” as well as some of the most renowned martial arts movies in the last twenty years (Jackie Chan’s “Drunken Master”, “Magnificent Butcher”, “Dreadnaught”, and “Eastern Condors”; Jet Li’s “Once Upon a Time in China” ; Donny Yen’s “Iron Monkey”; Michelle Yeoh’s “Wing Chun”). First revealed in “The Matrix”, Yuen Wo-ping’s wire work is even more stupendous in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”, in which these fantasy-based warriors walk on walls and roofs, make gravity-free leaps, and fly through treetops.
|
“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” takes us back to Qing Dynasty China where a great martial arts warrior Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun-fat) is retiring from the fighting life to lead a mediatative life. Li asks Yu Hsu Lien (Michelle Yeoh), a friend and warrior with whom he has experienced a mutual, long-repressed love, to bring his sword, the legendary Green Destiny to Sir Te (Lung Sihung) on her way to Beijing. In the city, Yu meets the young Jen (Zhang Ziyi), who is about to suffer a forced marriage, arranged by her father Governer Yu (Li Fa Zeng). Yet at night, Jen is a masked and cunning thief and fighter and her theft of Green Destiny triggers an extraordinary action sequence that will delight martial arts fans and audiences new to this genre. From here, the dramatic plot pile-ons, layers of melodrama, and of course spectacular martial arts swordplay, choreography and special effects make “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” a perfect collaboration between drama and martial arts.
Martials arts fans will be especially pleased with the movie, which focuses on the inner strength and centeredness that comes from practicing martial arts. To maintain a balance between the drama and martial arts in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”, Ang Lee and Yuen Wo-Ping strived to choreograph martial arts sequences to convey the characters’ inner conflicts. The fighting sequences thus become more than simply kicking and punching, but becomes a way for the charcters to express their unique situations and emotions.
| Home | Search | Shopping | Interview | Forum | Event | School | Company |
©2007 BLT Imports LLC All Rights Reserved.
Email Us: info@bltsupplies.com
We welcome your comments and suggestion on our site.
Please email us at webmaster@bltsupplies.com