First Time Watching *CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON* - Beautiful movie, crazy movements!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 มิ.ย. 2024
- A great warrior decides to turn in his sword, the Green Destiny, to a friend, and right after it got stolen. At the same time, Li Mu Bai is trying to avenge his master's death. He is joined in his quest by Shu Lien, the love of his life.
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00:00 - Intro
01:44 - Reaction
32:13 - Thoughts - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a film under the wuxia genre. A lot of the martial arts in wuxia films incorporate very floaty movement such as the gliding and scaling up walls. It's "fantasy" martial arts and very much an artistic style. If you want more grounded Asian martial arts style, check out Jackie Chan's hong kong movies from the 80s and early 90s.
Chan mostly did action movies in that era that weren't focused on traditional martial arts. Generally action movies are a separate category from Wushu movies, where the action scenes are based around traditional forms and the plots centre on martial arts themselves. You can see this with more recent films too. Using Donnie Yen as an example, "Flashpoint" is an action movie, "Ip Man" is a Wushu movie or martial arts movie, and "14 Blades" is a Wuxia movie or fantasy movie.
there's nothing unrealistic about it. just because you can't jump like that, doesn't mean no one can..
Yes, one should just see wuxia as fantasy and be as open to supernatural elements as with western fantasy or superhero movies. I really enjoy the visual poetry that great wuxia films can deliver but I get if it's not everyone's cup of tea, but I think the objection then should be that you don't like the style rather than that it's unrealistic because fantasy isn't supposed to be.
@@alexsclewis there's ALOT of UNREALISTIC movement going on in the film. Now, DON'T get me wrong, I have studied Shaolin monks & masters, they have MASTERED the art of defying gravity. Still they cannot FLY. ANYWHO, this is one of my FAVORITE movies in my TOP 5. 😊
@@brittneyakabeezus260 cool! agree to disagree tho :)
Cheng Pei Pei, who plays Jade Fox, is not random. Dubbed as "the Queen of Wuxia" back in the sixties, she was one of the few female martial artists of the genre, quite beloved and respected.
Actually, the genre was pioneered by women. In the earliest days of Chinese film, most actors were from Chinese opera which, like classic Shakespeare, was only performed by men, including the female roles. They saw film as a vulgar medium, and the opera as classy and dignified, so most of them refused to be in films. So what ended up happening is early Chinese films featured a lot of female actors who couldn't join the opera, even with women playing male roles. By the time Cheng started doing films, seeing women in a film was pretty common in China and Hong Kong, though more men had come around by that time, with martial arts stars like Kwan Tak Hing making a lot of very popular films. But Cheng and a few other women were basically the biggest stars before Bruce Lee made martial arts films really catch on, leading to big stars like Gordon Liu, Jackie Chan, etc dominating the movie scene
"Come drunk with me"
@@grisflyt That was my point. Chinese language film was basically female dominated in what you could call the pre-Bruce age.
While you're doing this genre, I'd recommend Hero with Jet Li. It's outstanding.
And The One!! Plus Romeo Must Die and Cradle 2 the Grave
Hero is awesome.
Absolutely agree, one of my favorite movies full stop. But for comedy I'll throw in Iron Monkey.
That trilogy is wonderful. I love curse of the golden flower in particular
Absolutely! Hero is ten times as incredible as this movie. And Duaffy gets to enjoy more funky flying on wires.
Yeah, as others have said: The "jumping, moving and gravity-defying" stuff is part of the genre of "Wuxia". Think of it like "Chinese Martial Arts Fantasy". Some people love it, others can't handle it. Me? I love it. Lots of "feeling" in the movements and it helps 'describe' how good some characters martial arts or "inner enlightenment" is.
i noticed they incorporate some of this in shang chi also have the same woman. Honestly i don't get why people cant handle it. Superhero films and other american products have people doing far crazier shit all the time. It's just a different cultural flair to having super human abilities. I kind of like it.
You have to remember that this is a fantasy. When they are flying around, it is no different than Harry Potter casting spells.
Exactly it’s Chinese fairytale tragic ballet essentially. It’s fucking beautiful
If you can think that people can wield lightsabers, and the Force. Wuxia is very similar. Its a visual storytelling, along with martial arts. Yeah it looks odd, but it works. Michelle Yeoh is on of my favourite actresses.
this is one of those movies when a friend of mine says they haven't seen it i say "Well... we're watching it tonight"
Any excuse is a good one!
ABSOLUTELY one of my favorite films of all time. Beautiful story, cinematography, choreography, everything.
One of my all-time favorite movies!! The three main characters loosely represent the Freudian archetypes:
Li Mu Bai = Ego (rational, realistic),
Shu Lien = Super-Ego (law-giver, idealistic),
Jen = Id (passionate, instinctive).
The scene in the bamboo trees depicts Li Mu Bai 'besting' Jen, showing that he (the Ego) has control over his passions (the Id). He wants to train her to do the same, so that she can master Destiny!! (obviously represented by the Green Destiny Sword) Honestly such a lovely film, all around.
Underrated comment.
Describing it the way you did, I can see why the Chinese Censor Board ok'ed this film at the time. It lines up with their political and cultural philosophy pretty well.
It's a good case (well, for me at least) of kind of seeing the motivations for a film's message and release, disagree with the motivations, but admit that there's merit to the message.
Interesting take but the story was written long before Freud it’s an ancient Chinese fairytale technically
Not going to lie, this reaction wound me up a little. I always found it interesting how some Westerners would watch and enjoy movies like Star Wars without question, but can’t get the fantasy/fable concept of this movie. The flying part is so beautifully done and clearly done in a fantastical way, that I can’t understand how anyone would treat it as unrealistic.
right? i don't get it either.... it's like getting annoyed with the brothers grimm fables because they are not realistic enough
It's actually more common than you'd expect. Bollywood movies are made fun of whereas Sound of Music is revered and admired. Eastern martial arts cinema mocked, a movie about blonde guy falling out the sky with a magic hammer is praised. Same with African cinema. It's usually just ignorance and lack of open-mindedness
@@hughguys1183 yeah.... and sometimes it seems like people have severly misguided expectations for no reason
I felt the same as you watching this reaction. If this was 'the Matrix' there would be an automatic suspension of disbelief without question.
I'm not even 10 minutes in and I am about to turn it off for this reason. No one ever mistook this movie for a comedy, so the least one could do is suspend your own reality and let the movie's world tell you its reality.
What I loved the most about this movie was the art. Although defying gravity was a bit over the top from the standpoint of logic - it was like watching a well choreographed ballet in the most ornate theaters. Fantastic.
In my opinion i think the correct way to view it is as Mythology.
Why do people don't have same reaction at Superman flying but find Chinese movies flying weird ? It's fiction, you're not supposed to view it with logic of the real world.
@@tianko5609 A lot of people don't bother learning about other cultures let alone know about the plethora of fantasy genres that exist in the world.
@@tianko5609 True
@@Sam_Guevenne it’s literally a fairy tale from China
I don't understand why she's having a hard time with the fantasy aspect of the fighting style, she literally watches comic book movie where people turn ant-size and control lightning, this is the same type of thing just the Chinese version of that. Come on girl.
Didn't she react to Star Wars? People also do impossible leaps in those
Crouching Tiger and Jet Li's Hero, 2 masterpieces with stunning choreography on top of everything else. And if you liked this soundtrack, you'll also adore Hero's if you ever watch it.
The flying is just pure art… its fantasy. Love it.
Her mother didn't just let her go. She fainted and the daughter noticed, so she took off after the guy.
Can't say what the ending meant. This movie's a bit unusual compared to most (all) other wuxia and period martial arts films in general that I'd ever seen up to this one. I felt Ang Lee made it quite artsy relative to typical wuxia films. Wikipedia says women dissatisfied with their societally imposed gender roles and struggling to escape them is a major theme, which seems pretty clear. But even Li seems to have wished for more, such as the never realized relationship with Yu, who points out just because one is free doesn't necessarily mean they're more happy. The end suggests to me that, even though they're martial arts masters, that doesn't allow escape from those societal roles, and the only ones they attain at the end are through death and/or transformation (in Jen's case).
After this film, wuxia films may have become more abstract. Eg. Hero.
Guilty. Shame. Society pressure. Family pressure. Desires for freedom. It’s just too much for a teenager.
I love how people often say they cant take this wuxia jumping flying seriosuly but at the same time they like enjoy and watch american superhero movies with utmost seriousness XD.
Its like legend of ancient superheros for Chinese I assume.
Thanks for reacting to this! I saw this movie at the Toronto Film Festival in 2000 before it was released. There was a huge audience ovation after the first flying combat scene. It was very new way of shooting at the time. I had the pleasure of interviewing Ang Lee for Starz at the festival and he said he wanted to tell the story as a sort of fable, as he heard them when he was a child. The flying combat was all part of the imaginative fantasy.
It was new to the western audience, but to the Chinese audience this film was quite unremarkable.
I am still laughing at the fact that she thought Li-Mu-Bi was the klutz with the naganita - that narrative turns that scene into comedy gold.
Not a Naginata. He uses a two-section staff in his first fight, and a 9 ring Pudao in his second fight. And for whatever reason, a metal talon on a chain that he forgets to bring even though it's chained to him.
"You go out, and your mother says nothing?"
Her mother was out cold, she fainted when he approached.
This movie is action, poetry, fairytale, folklore and melodrama blended as finely as it gets. The flying stunts are like musical numbers in a musical: you're either invested enough in the moment to believe or not.
The movie that started my fascination with Michelle Yeoh. Love this film.
I think I saw her in James Bond first, but this one came out within a year of that.
You can see Zhang Ziyi again in the beautiful movie "House of Flying Daggers" or in "Hero"
I cant imagine there isnt a special place in hell for anyone who'd talk through this masterpiece. Why not just wash the dishes or mop and occasionally catch a glimpse in between strokes 😂 perhaps the greatest movie experience ever made, straight down the drain.
Far from an expert on this kind of film; but I have seen many; the graceful flying I always thought was a tribute to the Martial arts skill of the characters.. they are sort of a "superhero" of the genre
Wuxia (武俠 [ù.ɕjǎ]), which literally means "martial heroes", is a genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists in ancient China. The characters often use qīnggōng (T: 輕功 S: 轻功), or the ability to move swiftly and lightly, allowing them to scale walls, glide on waters or mount trees. It is a fantastical representation of skill much like a superhero would display.
I saw this _in theaters_ 13 times! That's a record for me. It's extremely rare for me to see a movie even twice in theaters, let alone that many times.
Damn that’s intense lol I went to see the dark knight 4 times and that’s the most for me . Love this movie though, my brother and I used to fall asleep to it every night ok vhs , we were obsessed
Duaffy: Ridiculing wudan flying technique
Me: I find your lack of faith disturbing
The thin metal bends which allows the sword to get past blocking moves. Very beautiful art.
I still enjoy most of your reactions, but you have a tendency to get caught up in things you don't understand and linger on them too much instead of moving on with story.
The flying is an artistic style. When you said you needed to just accept it as part of the movie, i was glad you understood that... but then you still went on about it and laughed at it as you didn't understand it was an artistic style.
But it's ok to not like or understand everything you watch. But many times i feel you have trouble moving on from certain things (like the mayor in Jaws) which sort of then starts to ruin the experience.
But keep at it.
It's more than an artistic style, it's also part of the lore of the Wuxia genre that extremely skilled martial artists can learn "light body skill" and become weightless
Considering some older Wuxia films feature even more insane skills like shooting swords made of light out of their hands, I think this kept things pretty grounded, comparatively.
Oh my god I am SO excited for this. This film is in my top 5 of all time, although now I'm scared due to comments about your reaction, but I'll check it out anyway. UPDATE: Okay, as much as it hurts to hear you laugh at some of those beautiful flying and/or fight scenes, if you're not familiar with how common that is in some Hong Kong films, and some of the history/mythology, it's hard to blame you for not understanding. You should totally watch 'Hero' and "House of Flying Daggers" daggers, as well, and if you want to see Chow Yun Fat shoot a LOT of bullets, watch 'Hard Boiled', and also 'The Killer'. Oh, and if you want to watch the legend that is Michelle Yeoh jump a motorcycle onto a moving train, they you should watch "Supercop: Police Story 3" with the other legend, Jackie Chan, but only after you've watched the first two 'Police Story' films (where you'll also see a young Maggie Cheung who is in 'Hero').
Please watch "Planes, Trains and Automobiles"! The perfect Thanksgiving movie!
I don't know if she celebrates that holiday.
lol Duaffy :D
In the end, the princess jumped into death.
The only possible way for her to go. You understand the movie when you know why she had no other option left.
Why did Mu Bai offer her to train her? Can you see the answer?
The more you understand about it, the better the movie becomes.
East Asian cultures have always been very deeply grounded in tradition, and people who want something different than that, or want to change their destiny, are very much frowned upon. It's a very different perspective from what those of us in the West have grown up with, where we're taught we can do anything we want to, and encouraged to do so. This definitely still goes on today in at least Japan that I know of, where those who don't act the way they're supposed to out in public are disliked and almost shunned. Gyaru are a good example of that.
I always thought the gravity defying "floaty jumping" was meant to be jarring because it signified that the person moving in that way was set apart from "ordinary" people. We are witnessing a tale about near-mythical characters and this is one of the ways that the film expresses their power and mastery.
Shu Lien and Li Mu Bai are legendary fighters. Think of heroes like King Arthur and his Excalibur sword. The over the top choreography gives us the larger-than-life feel of these mythic individuals. Jen is already poisoned by Jade Fox and her selfish actions lead to Li's death. Giving up her life is her only hope to end her dishonor. That's my feeling anyway.
Her wish may have come true as well, maybe she revived him in the end 🤷♂️ we just don’t know but I like to think that
This was definitely a gateway movie for me to appreciating foreign cinema. The wire fu was jarring at first but it really does lend more elegance to the action and makes the characters themselves feel more mythical. It also really cemented being a big fan of Michelle Yeoh after also seeing her in Tomorrow Never Dies
This movie is gorgeous. The actors are just fantastic and Ang Lee's direction is perfect. The choreography and the use of percussion, the beautiful soundtrack, i love it!
Please watch THE NEVERENDING STORY!
Yes! Please, watch it!
The flying has been called "Wu's wire work". It's actually good, but it will require your imagination. Shu Yen's suicide was her accepting responsibilty for Le Mo Bai's death. In the end, Le Mo Bai admitted that his best persuit of enlightenment would end with Him and Shu Yen being together.
No, I can't say I ever remember having an issue telling the actors apart. Seems like you just have a problem distinguishing Chinese (Asian?) faces. Even the scene with where you wanted to go back and pause to see if Ziyi was the masked thief - its supposed to be pretty obvious to the viewers that it is her, as you can recognize her just from the eyes. I bet that if you watch more Asian movies, you'll get better at it.
What can be seen as ridiculous to those looking for or expecting a realistic karate/mma movie becomes very enjoyable with an understanding of the energetical components of the more traditional eastern martial arts forms. They often contain concepts (basically, and generally speaking) that at the highest levels of mastery (close to enlightmenent) you can control and utilize your energy and even harness energy around you to perform supernatural abilities like scaling walls and jumping across treetops in this case. Another (super-exaggerated) example would be one of my all time favorites - Dragon Ball Z, where they actually train to utilize and amplify their internal energy to the point of outright flight and as a weapon (like the the force from starwars).
With that in mind it can take you from focus on it not being "physically possible" to enjoying the experience and thought of possibility.
Still upset that Gladiator beat this for Best Picture
I get that, but 'Gladiator' was really great, too. Another reason awards are dumb.
Cheng Pei Pei (Jade Fox) the first time she played a villian. She is the queen of swords and kung fu.
I saw this 3 times in the theater. I can assure you it's fantastic on the big screen.
I usually love your reactions but saying that Martial Arts movies shouldn't have over the top acrobatics is like saying musicals would be OK if there were no songs :-)
Li Mu Bai's hairstyle is called a "queue," and it was required by law for Chinese men to wear their hair way during the Qing Dynasty. The hair on the back of the head was grown long and braided and the hair on the front of the head was shaved.
You can't take it seriously? Well you don't have to but for me it is far more realistic then ALL of the Marvel & DC movies which I can't take seriously.
You are laughing at the flying... it is very mythological... Down vote from me! Crouching Tiger, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Fearless are Masterpieces in cinema
It's ok to not like things .. but you're not wrong
Considering all the other 'action' movies Duaffy has watched, with their somewhat physics-accurate precision moves, Duaffy's reaction to this Wuxia style is pretty much the same as for many people.
Give her time, she's never seen it before
This movie may seem strange or comical to you, but them floating around in wires and having inhuman abilities to defy science is a formula in Kung Fu movies. They are supposed to be like cultural fluid art in motion. Another amazing demonstration of this is the Jet Li movie called Hero. The cinematography, the art form, and bright colors are just breath taking. Each color set describes a scene. You will love it.
23:17 her mother fainted, that's why she didn't response
At the end she realized, now there was no way to finish her training. She also had no equal now and didn’t want to live as she had trained for this since she was a child. She asked him to make a wish and jumps to somehow say from my death your wish may be granted.
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" sounds like what happens to me when I get constipated.
I might be wrong in this, I'm not too sure. But those gravity defying movements might be a literal portrayal from classical wuxia literature. It's like portraying something literally direct from a poetic description.
Korean is actually very easy to read/write(1)! It might look complicated, but each character is just a collection of 2-4 letters that's very straightforward once you understand how it works, and the grammar/sentence structure is fairly easy to pick up :) Speaking it, on the other hand, can be very tricky because it has a handful of sounds that don't exist in English or Spanish. Japanese has very similar grammar/sentence structure and is much easier to speak (far fewer sounds in general, and only one of them doesn't have a very close English/Spanish version), but reading/writing can be much harder depending on how much kanji (Chinese characters) are used (Japanese has actual phonetic alphabets as well, but writing with kanji helps save space and remove occasional ambiguity with homophones).
(1): In fact, the current Korean writing system was devised by King Sejong in the 1440s because he was disappointed at how low literacy rates were when they were using Chinese characters. He came up with a system of letters that reflected a mixture of their cultural values and the actual shapes that the speaker's body parts make in order to make the sounds.
Chinese is very different from both Japanese and Korean, with both of its main forms being generally considered harder to learn than English (which itself is one of the hardest languages). I haven't tried learning it myself, admittedly, but with 2 languages that I'm fluent in, 2 languages that I know more-or-less well enough to get by if I need to, and 2 languages that I just know enough to know how much I don't know, I've got enough rattling in my head without adding more ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Michelle Yeoh is in Marvel's Shang-Chi as well. Her and Ming-Na Wen are two actresses that appear to never grow older. Even in films and TV a decade apart they still look as if they haven't aged.
Another film in this style that is actually even more stunning visually: "Hero" (2002) directed by Zhang Yimou
Hero also features Zhang Ziyi, and features Tony Leung, who is also in Shang Chi
I'm sure someone has already mentioned it, but it's a trope in some old Kung Fu movies that Kung Fu allows you to defy gravity and make yourself light as a feather. It's not jumping.
The young lady was a ballerina. New to acting and kung fu.
Now see Hero.
You should definitely watch the Movie “Hero” with Jet Li. It is a truly beautiful film
Ahhhh. After Shang Chi I needed to watch a real martial arts movie.
yeah that movie was a literal copycat of this one.
@@SaRENRampaiger Not even close
This isn't a martial arts movie
8:53 No difference between this and The Matrix. Did you have trouble taking that seriously?
There's a lot of difference. This is aiming for a more graceful weightless feel
The flying and light-weight is meant to signify a level of training and enlightenment that helps the body transcend its normal state.
It seems fanciful when you’re brought up in a different region, but it’s just a cultural difference. In my upbringing we have folklore of magical creatures like fairies and gnomes and elves and witches and warlocks and all manner of beasts that are purely mythical or actual animals that have taken on magical overtones as the centuries pass.
In fact, the idea of being able to defy gravity is not as far fetched now as it was 100 years ago. We now know that matter and energy are merely two sides of the same coin. Yes, I know that if we turned from a physical state into an energy state with our current understanding there would be issues, but I like to think of these fight scenes as the warriors transcending the physical world.
We accept all manner of unbelievable stuff in the movies and books we grew up with. When we experience ideas from other cultures we need to free our minds. I love seeing new ideas like these (or ideas that are new to me).
Try another martial arts movie such as Enter The Dragon.
This! But do all four Bruce Lee movies, in order. It's a great way to introduce yourself to Bruce Lee's style, if you haven't seen him before. The Big Boss, Fist of Fury, The Way of the Dragon, Enter the Dragon. (He plays a different person in each one, so the stories aren't connected).
my fave revenge film
I remember watching this for the first time as a young boy. The flying threw me off at first but I remember someone explaining that it’s considered a natural part of the storytelling. Sort of like a way to show a supreme level of skill to differentiate from the other (still powerful) fighters. There’s also an element of enlightenment and transcending the physical limitations that goes back in the mythology, but sadly I can’t recall any specific sources to help.
That sad, glad you liked it. Wuxia films can have some of the most beautiful visuals and storytelling out there, especially when it comes to telling the story through combat. Might I suggest Hero or House of Flying Daggers if you want to keep diving through the early 2000s era of wuxia.
Thank you for reacting to this masterpiece. Even if the Wuxia genre wasn’t your personal aesthetic, you opened your mind enough to accept the “logic” of this film. I always think of wuxia gravity-defying elements like musical numbers or ballets where the characters start doing out-of-this-world things in order to express their inner most thoughts in an emotionally heightened way. I truly appreciated your thoughts after the film and seeing how your initial reaction to Jen or at least Li Mu Bai and the others’ more patient treatment of Jen evolved into understanding exactly why the characters acted the way they did. This movie has so much going on that rewatching it is incredibly rewarding.
I think the physics defying moves are explained by "Qi", a sort of "energy" in Chinese belief. It is related to magic in western fantasy. And I think it inspired "The force" in Star Wars. Or I might have all mixed up, and is making a fool of myself.
Sort of. Qi isn't exactly magic or like The Force, but more like something internal that a fighter can learn to cultivate to give themselves great powers, including weightlessness
Duaffy: "Ooowheeee! Ooowheeee!"
Now I want to see Kung Pow: Enter the Fist.
Michelle Yeoh is a legend in Hong Kong martial arts cinema, I first saw her with my then 80s crush Cynthia Rothrock in Yes, Madam, the first movie of a "Girls With Guns" trend which was part of the early "Gun-Fu" era made famous by John Woo & Chow Yun Fat.
Try shaolin soccer, the drunken master, or kung fu hustle
drunken master ALL DAY
The original Drunken Master, or the sequel? A lot of people think the sequel is the original.
@@PenneySounds the original
@@bpora01 The 1978 one?
@@PenneySounds yes
The two are Chinese men of similar age and have the same haircut. They don't look much alike otherwise. Shu Lien knew immediately that Jen was the thief - she had not encountered Jade Fox before now, so this is why she didn't recognise that she was the governess. Li Mu Bai did not meet the governess during his time so he did not get a chance to recognise her.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a dismissive response to that first fight scene. Laughter would never have even occurred to me.
SUCH A GOOD MOVIE. Not only was it beautiful in martial arts, artistic style, and challenging gender roles, but it was instrumental in showing that award winning movies can come from countries that don't speak English.
About your comment around 25:00, Jen's mother simply passed out and wasn't able to react to all the chaos. It is not that she didn't care.
Duaffy, you’ll definitely enjoy Marvel’s Shang-Chi. 😉
Omg. Didn’t see this coming. Major props for the variety on this channel!
If you enjoyed this movie, you'll probably enjoy House of Flying Daggers, Hero, Curse of the Golden Orchid, Fearless, or Iron Monkey.
Curse of the Golden *Flower*
great list by the way. I see you are also a man of culture.
She might get a kick out of Drunken Master with Jackie Chan.. Quite the perfect martial arts comedy movie.
The world needs Duaffy saying "Son of a flower!" during a Curse of the Golden Flower reaction.
@@SaRENRampaiger Drunken Master 1 or 2?
i mean do you not watch marvel movies or dc movies, they are far from real too, its just different cultural things you know. Both are very enjoyable.
More art than a film absolutely beautiful.
Lee Mu Bia didn't recognize Jade Fox because she's a criminal and it was inconvenienceable that a criminal could be the nurse maid of an important government official.
I always feel sad when watching this film.
A master of martial arts losing their love is brutal.
Also Michelle Yeoh is about 60 now but only looks in her 40's :)
P.S. I studied at the University of New Mexico, the only US university with a Flamenco degree. Of course I took a class, and still have the shoes.
"Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" is what I called my women seducing technique.
Yes, this is an absolute classic. A work of art. Your reaction is hilarious because of the language barrier but it doesn't detract. Your interpretation of what Jade fox was telling the young lady was accurate, but you had no idea what it was she was to become.
This is the charm of your channel.
She's the governor's daughter, with as many maids as she needs. She wouldn't be a "housewife".
Hard Boiled - another great movie with Chow Yun Fat
And The Killer as well...
Liking the hair was real.-Ernie Moore Jr.
You should watch House of Flying Daggers, it's the same genre and one of my three favorite movies of all-time.
That one has much less flying, so might make a better introduction to this style
Hero, House of Flying Daggers and Warriors of Heaven and Earth are other Chinese movies worth checking out.
Tai Che Master (1993) with Jet Li is another masterpiece in this genre, it also stars Michelle Yeoh.
That one's more in the Wushu genre rather than the Wuxia genre. Wushu movies, AKA Kung Fu movies or martial arts movies, were heavy into wirework at that time. Other greats of that genre and era are "Wing Chun" (which also stars Michelle Yeoh), "Iron Monkey", and "Once Upon A Time In China". All of which featured Donnie Yen (well, he was in OUATIC 2, not 1), who Ironically later helped popularise a return to Wushu movies based around traditional forms rather than crazy wire work.
Closer approximations:
Chow Yun Fat (“chow yoon fat”)
(“Zang Zee Yee”)
Michelle “Yoh” I think. No “k”
MY APOLGIES for mispronouncing their names but it’s more common to hear the above approximations of their names. The more careful we get, sometimes the more we can do the opposite of what we intend.
I believe Zhang Ziyi is pronounced more like "jung dzuh yee". But Mandarin names are hard to represent in text to an English reader unless you've got some familiarity with pinyin
Pronunciation: (Secondhand info) (last name first): Zhang ((self explanatory), Ziyi (Zee-Hee). (or something close to it). Someone correct me if this is wrong.
I also liked Hero w/ Zhang Ziyi and Jet Li.
Nice one, Duaffy!
There is definitely debate about why Jen 'jumps' / 'suicides' at the end. Personally I like the ambiguity of it as it makes you reflect on her conflicted and mysterious self experience. Just what was she thinking and feeling as she changed towards the end of the movie? And somehow even though the end was beautiful and complete, it was complete in giving us the mystery to hold, rather than answers.
They are giving her many chances for several reasons but most importantly it would ruin her father if it came out his daughter was a criminal and he housed a criminal in his house. That he was unaware they were criminals is even worse because it would mean hes inept.
I remember seeing this when it came out, and it was the first movie in the "Wuxia" style I saw. So I was taken back by the movements right away, because I literally thought it was cheap/bad effects and not a style choice. However once I understood that I actually enjoyed it, and felt that it added to the fighting/film instead of subtracting from it.
Watched it on release when it hadn't gained fame yet. Completely empty cinema at the midnight screening, I had a blast.
Kung Fu Hustle is a bit like this only funnier btw.. Still, the stunts in this one felt like a REAL ballet fight. But beautiful.. It's part of the fantasy martial arts.
Kung Fu Hustle is one of my favorites, even though it almost killed me the first time I saw it. You can probably guess why, and when.
The odd looking male hairstyle is unique to Qing dynasty where it was enforced by the Manchu rulers, hated by the Han Chinese 😂
One of my fav movies!!!! So emotional at the end
If you knew Chow Yun Fat from other movies, this kind of confusion would've been less likely.^^
how come you didn't complain about how unrealistic the lord of the rings or the marvel movies are? seemed like you took them rather seriously.....