20 years on, Ang Lee reflects on success of
Crouching Tiger China Daily | Updated: 2020-12-21 09:00 Director Ang Lee (left) and actress Zhang Ziyi pose backstage after accepting the best foreign film award for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon at the 58th Golden Globes in Hollywood in 2001. [Photo/Agencies]
It s physically impossible to get to the forest fight scene that takes place above a bamboo forest in the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and not let out some kind of verbal exclamation.
Twenty years later, the exhilarating grace of Ang Lee s martial-arts masterwork is just as breathtaking. The way figures glide across the water. The extraordinary lightness of it. Its craft and choreography are only further evidence of a mantra uttered in the film: A sword by itself rules nothing. It only comes alive in skilled hands.
Ang Lee reflects on success of
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Director Ang Lee (left) and actress Zhang Ziyi pose backstage after accepting the best foreign film award for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon at the 58th Golden Globes in Hollywood in 2001.
It s physically impossible to get to the forest fight scene that takes place above a bamboo forest in the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and not let out some kind of verbal exclamation.
Twenty years later, the exhilarating grace of Ang Lee s martial-arts masterwork is just as breathtaking. The way figures glide across the water. The extraordinary lightness of it. Its craft and choreography are only further evidence of a mantra uttered in the film: A sword by itself rules nothing. It only comes alive in skilled hands.
Michelle Yeoh (left) and Zhang Ziyi star in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Photo: Handout
It’s physically impossible to get to the forest fight scene that hovers atop slender bamboo trees in
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and not say out loud “Whoa”.
Twenty years later, the exhilarating grace of Ang Lee’s martial-arts masterwork is just as breathtaking. The way figures glide across the water. The extraordinary lightness of it. Its craft and choreography are only further evidence of a mantra uttered in the film: “A sword by itself rules nothing. It only comes alive in skilled hands.”
Take that scene, where Chow Yun-fat and Zhang Ziyi clash in a dance across bamboo stalks. Asked what he remembers about shooting it, Lee doesn’t hesitate: the sweating. Not from heat but from the stress of suspending a few of Asia’s biggest movie stars high in the air, held aloft by cranes over a valley.
By JAKE COYLE | Associated Press | Published: December 10, 2020 It s physically impossible to get to the forest fight scene that hovers atop slender bamboo trees in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and not say out loud Whoa. Twenty years later, the exhilarating grace of Ang Lee s martial-arts masterwork is just as breathtaking. The way figures glide across the water. The extraordinary lightness of it. Its craft and choreography are only further evidence of a mantra uttered in the film: A sword by itself rules nothing. It only comes alive in skilled hands. Take that scene, where Chow Yun-fat and Zhang Ziyi clash in a dance across bamboo stalks. Asked what he remembers about shooting it, Lee doesn t hesitate: The sweating. Not from heat but from the stress of suspending a few of Asia s biggest movie stars high in the air, held aloft by cranes over a valley.
At 20, ‘Crouching Tiger’ still soars
Director Ang Lee recounts challenges of martial-arts classic By JAKE COYLE, Associated Press
Published: December 11, 2020, 6:04am
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5 Photos Chow Yun Fat, left, and Michelle Yeoh in a scene from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Tuesday marked the 20th anniversary of the release of Ang Lee s movie, filmed in China and shot in Mandarin. The $17 million movie grossed $128.1 million in North America and was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, winning four. (Sony Pictures Classics) Photo Gallery
NEW YORK It’s physically impossible to get to the forest fight scene that hovers atop slender bamboo trees in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and not say out loud “Whoa.”