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{{Infobox Film| name = Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon| image = Crouching tiger hidden dragon poster.jpg| image_size =| caption =| director = Ang Lee
[William Kong
Ang Lee
see article] (book)
Hui-Ling Wang
James Schamus
Kuo Jung Tsai
[Michelle Yeoh
Zhang Ziyi
Chang Chen
Cheng Pei-pei| cinematography =| editing =| distributor =| released = [16 May, 2000 (premiere at Cannes Film Festival)
July 6 2000
July 7, 2000
September 22, 2000
December 15, 2000
December 22, 2000
December 26, 2000
January 4, 2001
January 5, 2001, [English language| budget = $15,000,000 US (est.)| gross =| preceded_by =| followed_by =| website =| amg_id = 1:201837| imdb_id = 0190332-->

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon () is a Chinese-language wuxia (chivalry and martial arts film) 2000 Academy Award winning film. A People's Republic of China-Hong Kong-Republic of China-United States co-production, the film was directed by Ang Lee and features an international cast of Zhonghua minzu actors, including Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi and Chang Chen. The movie was based on the fourth novel in a pentalogy, known in China as the Crane-Iron Pentalogy, by Wang Dulu. The martial arts and action sequences were choreographed by Yuen Wo Ping.

Made on a mere US$15 million budget, with dialogue in Mandarin Chinese, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon became a surprise international success, grossing US$128 million in the United States alone,{{cite web|title = Business Data for Wo hu cang long (2000) |url = http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190332/business |publisher = [Internet Movie Database |accessdate = 2007-01-15 |quote = Gross: $128,067,808 (USA) (29 July 2001) (sub-total) --> becoming the highest-grossing foreign-language film in American history.{{cite web|title = A Leap Forward, or a Great Sellout? |url = http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/movies/01barb.html?_r=1&ref=movies&oref=slogin |publisher = [New York Times |accessdate = 2007-07-01 |author = David Barboza --> The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and three other Academy Awards, and was nominated for a total of ten Academy Awards including Academy Award for Best Picture. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Academy Award Nominations and Wins URL accessed December 30, 2006.

Title The title Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (臥虎藏龍) derives from a Chinese idiom that describes a location where everyone conceals their strengths from the others to preserve the element of surprise. It also references two of the characters: Jen's Mandarin name, Jiāo Lóng, means "lovely dragon", and Lo's name Xiǎo Hǔ means "little Chinese tiger".

Synopsis The fictional story is set in the historic Qing Dynasty in Chinese history. The date of the story is during the 43rd year of Emperor Qianlong's reign (i.e. 1778).http://www.castingforge.com/crouchingtigerhiddendragonkatana.html

The story follows two martial arts warriors, Li Mu-bai () (Chow Yun-Fat) and Yu Shu-lien () (Michelle Yeoh), the former now an accomplished swordsman for the Wudangquan school. Li surprises Yu with the reveleation that he is to surrender Green Destiny, a legendary sword that has been in his keeping for many years. He explains that a revelation during a period of deep meditation has caused him to rethink his life, and requests Yu, who has inherited a house of armed escorts from her father, to transport it to Sir Te, a long-time friend, for safekeeping in Beijing. In the meantime, Mu-bai intends to commemorate the death of his master, who was murdered long ago by Jade Fox, a woman seeking to learn the secrets of Wudangquan.

Mu-bai and Shu-lien are attracted to each another but have abstained from a relationship, constrained by commonplace propriety because of Shu-lien's betrothal years ago to Mu-bai's "Brother in Oath," who was killed in battle. In their opening conversation of the film, Mu-bai's demeanor suggests that he is also rethinking his relationship with Shu-lien.

Once in Beijing, Shu-lien delivers the sword to Sir Te and meets Jen () (Zhang Ziyi), who is the daughter of Governor Yu, a Manchu aristocrat visiting Sir Te on official business. Jen is destined for an arranged marriage, yet yearns for adventure instead of a life as a court wife. Jen is fascinated by Shu-lien's background as a fighter and develops an attachment to her.

One night, a masked thief sneaks onto Sir Te's property and steals the Green Destiny. The thief is pursued by guards, a Shaanxi policeman and his daughter, and by Shu-lien, across rooftops, alleys, walls, houses and various obstacles within and outside the enclosed estate of Sir Te. Amidst combat, and much to Shu-lien's surprise, she discovers that the thief is well-versed in martial arts and has apparently studied the Wudangquan school of martial arts, like Mu-bai. The thief and Shu-lien seem evenly-matched, and the fight is only broken off when a mysterious figure fires a dart at Shu-lien.

Many of the clues from the theft point Mu-bai and Shu-lien in the direction of Governor Yu's compound. It transpires that Jen has been under the influence of Jade Fox, who has been hiding out for many years as her Governess, hotly pursued by the couple from Shaanxi. Jade Fox challenges them to a showdown, when ends with the death of the policeman and the arrival of Mu-bai. Mu-bai easily defeats Jade Fox, but is prevented from killing her by the masked thief, who displays a skill far greater than her mentor, with influence from Wudangquan. The thief and Jade Fox escape, and in a confrontation, Jade Fox realises that the secrets of a Wudangquan manual that she stole have been hidden from her - only Jen has understood their true meaning and has surpassed her in skill. Mu-bai catches the masked Jen attempting to return the Green Destiny, and after defeating her is moved to suggest that she become his apprentice. She refuses and escapes.

The dart that had prevented Shu-Lien from preventing the escape of the masked Jen came from a man Lo, who returns one night and asks Jen to leave with him. In a flashback it is revealed that Lo is a desert bandit called Dark Cloud who long ago raided Jen's company of travelers in Xinjiang province. Lo stole Jen's comb and she raced after him and fought him to get it back, but Lo won. He kidnapped Jen and eventually they fell in love. When soldiers look for them, Lo tod Jen she should return to her family, but expressed his love for her. He concluded with a legend about how a man had fallen off a cliff but not died but instead had his wishes come true. Lo has followed her to Beijing in an attempt to persuade her not to go through with her family's political marriage. Back in the present, Jen cannot bring herself to leave and tells him to go away and never return. Devastated, Lo complies, giving Jen's comb back before he goes. Later, Jen is paraded as she is married to her arranged husband. Lo reappears and tries to reach her but cannot overcome the people protecting her. Mu-bai and Shu-lien find him and tell him to wait at Wudan Shan, where they will tell Jen to go. The next day, it is found that Jen has run away.

Jen, headstrong in her powers and emboldened by her forbidden love to the desert bandit Lo () (played by Chang Chen), consequently does not accept Mu-bai as master, nor Shu-lien as a friend. Jen stands at a crossroads - she must choose either life as a court official's wife or a dangerous, hunted life with Lo. She also considers a rebellious (and romantic in her eyes) existence as either an outlaw under Jade Fox, or a somewhat more assured, but nonetheless unconventional, martial path with Mu-bai as a teacher.

Jen finds Shu-lien and they have a friendly conversation until Shu-lien tells her about her meeting with Lo. Jen is outraged thinking Shu-Lien is setting her up. Shu-Lien, angry at the lack of gratitude, states that she had already known Jen to be the thief, but had covered it up for the sake of Jen's family. Subsequently the two of them fight and they appear to be an even match for each other. Mu-bai arrives at the scene, and pursues Jen into the forest. When Mu-bai reasserts that he wants to train Jen, she tells him that she will accept him as her master if he can take the Green Destiny sword from her in three moves. To Jen's surprise, Mu-bai moves swiftly and snatches the sword from her hand in a single movement. When Jen still refuses to become Mu-bai's pupil, he throws Green Destiny into a stream at a waterfall. Jen chases after the sword, but Mu-bai does not pursue after her, and surprisingly she is rescued by person later revealed to be Jade Fox.

Jade Fox bring Jen, who had gotten the sword back, into a cavern where she is working on a weapon with poisoned needles. She drugs Jen into sleep, then leaves. Mu-bai finds Jen, and soon after Shu-Lien finds them both there. Jade Fox suddenly reappears, sending a barrage of poisoned needles at Jen, but Mu-bai blocks all of them. He avenges his master's death when he fatally wounds Jade Fox, but as she is dying she hits Mu-bai with another poisoned needle. Before dying, she says Jen had been her only family and also her only enemy for not telling her to secrets of the Wudan manual. Mu-bai realizes his death from the poison will come soon.

Jen knows that the poison is Purple Yin, a poison which spreads directly to the heart. Although Jen knows of a cure, it takes too long to prepare, and Mu-bai begins to take his last few breaths. Just before his death, Mu-bai professes his true feelings for Shu-lien. Shu-lien is heartbroken, and furious at Jen for spoiling her chance of happiness, but spares her and tells her that, no matter what path she chooses, she must always remain true to herself. Jen goes to Wudangquan mountain and spends one last night with Lo, who is waiting for her. The next morning, he wakes to see she is not with him and has left him her comb. He finds her standing beside the side of the mountain. In an echo of a legend that they spoke about in the desert, she asks him to make a wish. He complies, wishing them to be together back in the desert, and Jen leaps into the clouds below, leaving Lo behind.

As an additional remark, although the movie does not reveal if Jen dies, the subsequent novel in the Crane Iron Pentalogy, Iron Knight, Silver Vase, starts with Jen and Lo as a couple and having one son.

Source The film is an adaptation of the fourth novel in a pentalogy (or five-novel cycle), known as the Crane-Iron Pentalogy and written by noted wu xia novelist Wang Dulu. The novels in the pentalogy are: Crane Frightens Kunlun; Precious Sword, Golden Hairpin; Sword's Force, Pearl's Shine; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; and Iron Knight, Silver Vase.

The pentalogy was adapted into a series of graphic novels by Andy Seto in 2006 .

Production and marketing Although its Academy Award was presented to Taiwan, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was in fact an international co-production between companies in four regions: the People's Republic of China company China Film Co-Production Corporation; the United States companies Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Classics and Good Machine; the Hong Kong company EDKO Film; and the Taiwanese Zoom Hunt International Productions Company, Ltd; as well as the unspecified United China Vision, and Asia Union Film & Entertainment Ltd., created solely for this film.

The film was made in Beijing, in addition to location shooting in the Anhui, Hebei, Jiangsu and Xinjiang provinces of China of the People's Republic of China.

Unlike most Chinese films, this one was supported by American distributors and therefore received marketing typical of Western films.

Reception Crouching Tiger was very well received in the Western world, receiving critical acclaim and numerous awards. It is # 154 in IMDB's Top 250 films of all time. However, it was less well received in China and Hong Kong as the rest of the world, where it was perceived as just another of the countless wuxia films released in the past four decades. Lee's emphasis on subtle emotions was admired in the West but not appreciated by some Chinese, since it was thought inappropriate to the traditional, more masculine wuxia style.

Some Chinese-speaking viewers were also bothered by the accents of the leading actors. Neither Chow (a native Cantonese (linguistics) speaker) nor Yeoh (an overseas Chinese born and raised in Malaysia) speaks Mandarin as their mother tongue. All four main actors spoke with different accents: Chow speaks with a Cantonese accent Interview with Gong Li URL accessed December 30, 2006.; Yeoh with a Malaysian accent; Chang Chen a Taiwanese accent; and Zhang Ziyi a Beijing accent. Lee insisted that their voices should not be dubbed and some Mandarin-speaking viewers were forced to read the Chinese subtitles because the actors' accents were hard to understand. Yeoh responded to this complaint in an December 28, 2000 interview with Cinescape. She argued that "My character lived outside of Beijing, and so I didn’t have to do the Beijing accent." When the interviewer, Craig Reid, remarked that "My mother-in-law has this strange Szechuan-Mandarin accent that’s hard for me to understand," Yeoh responded, "Yes, provinces all have their very own strong accents. When we first started the movie, Cheng Pei Pei was going to have her accent, and Chang Zhen was going to have his accent, and this person would have that accent. And in the end nobody could understand what they were saying. Forget about us, even the crew from Beijing thought this was all weird."

The film led to a boost in popularity of Chinese wuxia films in the western world, where they were previously little known, and led to films such as House of Flying Daggers and Hero (2002 film) marketed towards western audiences.

The Region 2 DVD has slight but significant script changes to the version released in UK cinemas. Li Mu Bai's final speech is the most drastically affected.

Awards Won

Nominations

Additional Information There was also a 20 episode Taiwanese Drama that aired in 2000 also name Crouching Tiger, Hidden dragon, that revolved around the same story.http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Crouching_Tiger_Hidden_Dragon

See also

Notes and references

External links

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{{Infobox Film| name = Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon| image = Crouching tiger hidden dragon poster.jpg| image_size =| caption =| director = Ang Lee
[William Kong
Ang Lee
see article] (book)
Hui-Ling Wang
James Schamus
Kuo Jung Tsai
[Michelle Yeoh
Zhang Ziyi
Chang Chen
Cheng Pei-pei| cinematography =| editing =| distributor =| released = [16 May, 2000 (premiere at Cannes Film Festival)
July 6 2000
July 7, 2000
September 22, 2000
December 15, 2000
December 22, 2000
December 26, 2000
January 4, 2001
January 5, 2001, [English language| budget = $15,000,000 US (est.)| gross =| preceded_by =| followed_by =| website =| amg_id = 1:201837| imdb_id = 0190332-->

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon () is a Chinese-language wuxia (chivalry and martial arts film) 2000 Academy Award winning film. A People's Republic of China-Hong Kong-Republic of China-United States co-production, the film was directed by Ang Lee and features an international cast of Zhonghua minzu actors, including Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi and Chang Chen. The movie was based on the fourth novel in a pentalogy, known in China as the Crane-Iron Pentalogy, by Wang Dulu. The martial arts and action sequences were choreographed by Yuen Wo Ping.

Made on a mere US$15 million budget, with dialogue in Mandarin Chinese, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon became a surprise international success, grossing US$128 million in the United States alone,{{cite web|title = Business Data for Wo hu cang long (2000) |url = http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190332/business |publisher = [Internet Movie Database |accessdate = 2007-01-15 |quote = Gross: $128,067,808 (USA) (29 July 2001) (sub-total) --> becoming the highest-grossing foreign-language film in American history.{{cite web|title = A Leap Forward, or a Great Sellout? |url = http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/movies/01barb.html?_r=1&ref=movies&oref=slogin |publisher = [New York Times |accessdate = 2007-07-01 |author = David Barboza --> The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and three other Academy Awards, and was nominated for a total of ten Academy Awards including Academy Award for Best Picture. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Academy Award Nominations and Wins URL accessed December 30, 2006.

Title The title Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (臥虎藏龍) derives from a Chinese idiom that describes a location where everyone conceals their strengths from the others to preserve the element of surprise. It also references two of the characters: Jen's Mandarin name, Jiāo Lóng, means "lovely dragon", and Lo's name Xiǎo Hǔ means "little Chinese tiger".

Synopsis The fictional story is set in the historic Qing Dynasty in Chinese history. The date of the story is during the 43rd year of Emperor Qianlong's reign (i.e. 1778).http://www.castingforge.com/crouchingtigerhiddendragonkatana.html

The story follows two martial arts warriors, Li Mu-bai () (Chow Yun-Fat) and Yu Shu-lien () (Michelle Yeoh), the former now an accomplished swordsman for the Wudangquan school. Li surprises Yu with the reveleation that he is to surrender Green Destiny, a legendary sword that has been in his keeping for many years. He explains that a revelation during a period of deep meditation has caused him to rethink his life, and requests Yu, who has inherited a house of armed escorts from her father, to transport it to Sir Te, a long-time friend, for safekeeping in Beijing. In the meantime, Mu-bai intends to commemorate the death of his master, who was murdered long ago by Jade Fox, a woman seeking to learn the secrets of Wudangquan.

Mu-bai and Shu-lien are attracted to each another but have abstained from a relationship, constrained by commonplace propriety because of Shu-lien's betrothal years ago to Mu-bai's "Brother in Oath," who was killed in battle. In their opening conversation of the film, Mu-bai's demeanor suggests that he is also rethinking his relationship with Shu-lien.

Once in Beijing, Shu-lien delivers the sword to Sir Te and meets Jen () (Zhang Ziyi), who is the daughter of Governor Yu, a Manchu aristocrat visiting Sir Te on official business. Jen is destined for an arranged marriage, yet yearns for adventure instead of a life as a court wife. Jen is fascinated by Shu-lien's background as a fighter and develops an attachment to her.

One night, a masked thief sneaks onto Sir Te's property and steals the Green Destiny. The thief is pursued by guards, a Shaanxi policeman and his daughter, and by Shu-lien, across rooftops, alleys, walls, houses and various obstacles within and outside the enclosed estate of Sir Te. Amidst combat, and much to Shu-lien's surprise, she discovers that the thief is well-versed in martial arts and has apparently studied the Wudangquan school of martial arts, like Mu-bai. The thief and Shu-lien seem evenly-matched, and the fight is only broken off when a mysterious figure fires a dart at Shu-lien.

Many of the clues from the theft point Mu-bai and Shu-lien in the direction of Governor Yu's compound. It transpires that Jen has been under the influence of Jade Fox, who has been hiding out for many years as her Governess, hotly pursued by the couple from Shaanxi. Jade Fox challenges them to a showdown, when ends with the death of the policeman and the arrival of Mu-bai. Mu-bai easily defeats Jade Fox, but is prevented from killing her by the masked thief, who displays a skill far greater than her mentor, with influence from Wudangquan. The thief and Jade Fox escape, and in a confrontation, Jade Fox realises that the secrets of a Wudangquan manual that she stole have been hidden from her - only Jen has understood their true meaning and has surpassed her in skill. Mu-bai catches the masked Jen attempting to return the Green Destiny, and after defeating her is moved to suggest that she become his apprentice. She refuses and escapes.

The dart that had prevented Shu-Lien from preventing the escape of the masked Jen came from a man Lo, who returns one night and asks Jen to leave with him. In a flashback it is revealed that Lo is a desert bandit called Dark Cloud who long ago raided Jen's company of travelers in Xinjiang province. Lo stole Jen's comb and she raced after him and fought him to get it back, but Lo won. He kidnapped Jen and eventually they fell in love. When soldiers look for them, Lo tod Jen she should return to her family, but expressed his love for her. He concluded with a legend about how a man had fallen off a cliff but not died but instead had his wishes come true. Lo has followed her to Beijing in an attempt to persuade her not to go through with her family's political marriage. Back in the present, Jen cannot bring herself to leave and tells him to go away and never return. Devastated, Lo complies, giving Jen's comb back before he goes. Later, Jen is paraded as she is married to her arranged husband. Lo reappears and tries to reach her but cannot overcome the people protecting her. Mu-bai and Shu-lien find him and tell him to wait at Wudan Shan, where they will tell Jen to go. The next day, it is found that Jen has run away.

Jen, headstrong in her powers and emboldened by her forbidden love to the desert bandit Lo () (played by Chang Chen), consequently does not accept Mu-bai as master, nor Shu-lien as a friend. Jen stands at a crossroads - she must choose either life as a court official's wife or a dangerous, hunted life with Lo. She also considers a rebellious (and romantic in her eyes) existence as either an outlaw under Jade Fox, or a somewhat more assured, but nonetheless unconventional, martial path with Mu-bai as a teacher.

Jen finds Shu-lien and they have a friendly conversation until Shu-lien tells her about her meeting with Lo. Jen is outraged thinking Shu-Lien is setting her up. Shu-Lien, angry at the lack of gratitude, states that she had already known Jen to be the thief, but had covered it up for the sake of Jen's family. Subsequently the two of them fight and they appear to be an even match for each other. Mu-bai arrives at the scene, and pursues Jen into the forest. When Mu-bai reasserts that he wants to train Jen, she tells him that she will accept him as her master if he can take the Green Destiny sword from her in three moves. To Jen's surprise, Mu-bai moves swiftly and snatches the sword from her hand in a single movement. When Jen still refuses to become Mu-bai's pupil, he throws Green Destiny into a stream at a waterfall. Jen chases after the sword, but Mu-bai does not pursue after her, and surprisingly she is rescued by person later revealed to be Jade Fox.

Jade Fox bring Jen, who had gotten the sword back, into a cavern where she is working on a weapon with poisoned needles. She drugs Jen into sleep, then leaves. Mu-bai finds Jen, and soon after Shu-Lien finds them both there. Jade Fox suddenly reappears, sending a barrage of poisoned needles at Jen, but Mu-bai blocks all of them. He avenges his master's death when he fatally wounds Jade Fox, but as she is dying she hits Mu-bai with another poisoned needle. Before dying, she says Jen had been her only family and also her only enemy for not telling her to secrets of the Wudan manual. Mu-bai realizes his death from the poison will come soon.

Jen knows that the poison is Purple Yin, a poison which spreads directly to the heart. Although Jen knows of a cure, it takes too long to prepare, and Mu-bai begins to take his last few breaths. Just before his death, Mu-bai professes his true feelings for Shu-lien. Shu-lien is heartbroken, and furious at Jen for spoiling her chance of happiness, but spares her and tells her that, no matter what path she chooses, she must always remain true to herself. Jen goes to Wudangquan mountain and spends one last night with Lo, who is waiting for her. The next morning, he wakes to see she is not with him and has left him her comb. He finds her standing beside the side of the mountain. In an echo of a legend that they spoke about in the desert, she asks him to make a wish. He complies, wishing them to be together back in the desert, and Jen leaps into the clouds below, leaving Lo behind.

As an additional remark, although the movie does not reveal if Jen dies, the subsequent novel in the Crane Iron Pentalogy, Iron Knight, Silver Vase, starts with Jen and Lo as a couple and having one son.

Source The film is an adaptation of the fourth novel in a pentalogy (or five-novel cycle), known as the Crane-Iron Pentalogy and written by noted wu xia novelist Wang Dulu. The novels in the pentalogy are: Crane Frightens Kunlun; Precious Sword, Golden Hairpin; Sword's Force, Pearl's Shine; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; and Iron Knight, Silver Vase.

The pentalogy was adapted into a series of graphic novels by Andy Seto in 2006 .

Production and marketing Although its Academy Award was presented to Taiwan, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was in fact an international co-production between companies in four regions: the People's Republic of China company China Film Co-Production Corporation; the United States companies Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Classics and Good Machine; the Hong Kong company EDKO Film; and the Taiwanese Zoom Hunt International Productions Company, Ltd; as well as the unspecified United China Vision, and Asia Union Film & Entertainment Ltd., created solely for this film.

The film was made in Beijing, in addition to location shooting in the Anhui, Hebei, Jiangsu and Xinjiang provinces of China of the People's Republic of China.

Unlike most Chinese films, this one was supported by American distributors and therefore received marketing typical of Western films.

Reception Crouching Tiger was very well received in the Western world, receiving critical acclaim and numerous awards. It is # 154 in IMDB's Top 250 films of all time. However, it was less well received in China and Hong Kong as the rest of the world, where it was perceived as just another of the countless wuxia films released in the past four decades. Lee's emphasis on subtle emotions was admired in the West but not appreciated by some Chinese, since it was thought inappropriate to the traditional, more masculine wuxia style.

Some Chinese-speaking viewers were also bothered by the accents of the leading actors. Neither Chow (a native Cantonese (linguistics) speaker) nor Yeoh (an overseas Chinese born and raised in Malaysia) speaks Mandarin as their mother tongue. All four main actors spoke with different accents: Chow speaks with a Cantonese accent Interview with Gong Li URL accessed December 30, 2006.; Yeoh with a Malaysian accent; Chang Chen a Taiwanese accent; and Zhang Ziyi a Beijing accent. Lee insisted that their voices should not be dubbed and some Mandarin-speaking viewers were forced to read the Chinese subtitles because the actors' accents were hard to understand. Yeoh responded to this complaint in an December 28, 2000 interview with Cinescape. She argued that "My character lived outside of Beijing, and so I didn’t have to do the Beijing accent." When the interviewer, Craig Reid, remarked that "My mother-in-law has this strange Szechuan-Mandarin accent that’s hard for me to understand," Yeoh responded, "Yes, provinces all have their very own strong accents. When we first started the movie, Cheng Pei Pei was going to have her accent, and Chang Zhen was going to have his accent, and this person would have that accent. And in the end nobody could understand what they were saying. Forget about us, even the crew from Beijing thought this was all weird."

The film led to a boost in popularity of Chinese wuxia films in the western world, where they were previously little known, and led to films such as House of Flying Daggers and Hero (2002 film) marketed towards western audiences.

The Region 2 DVD has slight but significant script changes to the version released in UK cinemas. Li Mu Bai's final speech is the most drastically affected.

Awards Won

Nominations

Additional Information There was also a 20 episode Taiwanese Drama that aired in 2000 also name Crouching Tiger, Hidden dragon, that revolved around the same story.http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Crouching_Tiger_Hidden_Dragon

See also

Notes and references

External links

{{succession box| title=Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film| after=[No Man's Land (2001 film)-->{{succession box| title=Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film| years=2001| before=All About My Mother]-->{{succession box| title=BAFTA Award for Best Film| years=2000| before=All About My Mother]-->



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Amazon.com: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Chang Chen,Chow Yun-Fat ...
Amazon.com: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Chang Chen,Chow Yun-Fat,Cheng Pei-Pei,Sihung Lung,Michelle Yeoh,Zhang Ziyi,Chang Cheng,Peter Pau,Tan Dun,Ang Lee,Tim Squyres: Movies ...

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2003) (VG)
Plot: Control Lu Mu Bi, Shu Lien, Jen, and Dark Cloud as you take part in the story of the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. This time however, your actions decide the final ...

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Official Site
Official Site for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - the action-packed, box office smash from acclaimed director Ang Lee (Sense and Sensibility, The Ice Storm) featuring stunning ...

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | film reviews | musicOMH.com
Plot synopsis and review, plus cast list and pictures from MusicOMH.com.

BBC - Films - review - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Perhaps the greatest example of the beauty of film - if coupled to a too-slight story. ... When Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun-Fat) has his famous jade sword presented to Governor Yu, he ...

 

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon



 
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