Ang Lee on 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' 20 years later
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 Yu...
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