(aka "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" or "Ngo foo chong lung")
directed
by Ang Lee
USA / HK / China / Taiwan 2000
Ang Lee has built quite a respectable movie career in the last ten years in
both America and his native Taiwan. As director of Oscar magnets like "Sense and
Sensibility" and "The Ice Storm," each production has built on the prestige of
the last. Though the settings and participants have varied widely, each film
shares many of the same general themes, an exploration of an individual's
struggle between social obligation and free will. Each film also shared a home
in the art-house ghetto, a far more obscure place on the side of the Pacific
opposite from the US. A larger, mainstream audience may have appeared attractive
to Lee, but it would take something a bit more action-packed to reach.
With most directors, a little success, power, ego, and/or burnout usually flame
the desire to remake a beloved film or produce something similar to it. These
dream projects not only remind the auteurs of the love that drove them to become
filmmakers in the first place, but satisfy their egos from the opportunity to
place their artistic stamp on it. This is the sort of thinking that led William
Friedkin to follow "The Exorcist" with a remake of "The Wages of Fear" as
"Sorcerer" and Steven Spielberg to remake "A Guy Named Joe" as "Always." Perhaps
these films don't bring about the clearest vision or the most self-critical eye
from their authors.
For Lee, his 1960's childhood favorites were the Kung Fu epics from Hong Kong.
That would be a nice change of pace. The story would need to be something newer
and more complex, as the originals always seemed to concern rival kung fu
schools and students avenging their murdered masters. This could be a real
opportunity to do something different. Might it be possible for the director's
once favorite films and current favorite themes to meet somewhere in the middle?
Apparently, yes. "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was very loosely based on one
book in a five-part series. First the Kung Fu: Long ago in China, legendary
warrior Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun-Fat) has grown tired of the fighting life and the
killing it involves. He asks his longtime friend, Yu Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh) to
delivery his legendary sword, "Green Destiny", to Beijing for safekeeping with
another old friend.
Excerpt of Ron Wells review at Film Threat.com located HERE
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Theatrical Release: July 6, 2000
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| Runtime | 1:55:09 (4% PAL speedup) | 2:00:08 |
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| Audio | Mandarin DD5.1, English DD5.1, French 2.0 |
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| Subtitles | English, French, Dutch | English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese traditional, Korean, Thai |
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shown as the sharper image. The Region 2 does have some Extra Features where
the SB has none. The SB offers original audio in both 5.1 and DTS where the
Belgian edition is just in 5.1 as well as a couple of dubs. The Belgian
edition also has PAL speedup. Easy choice between these two - take the
Korean Superbit and if you are a huge fan and want the Extras - then also
buy the Belgian, although I assume other editions around the world have
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