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Re: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

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Posted by caa on October 7, 2002 at 10:56:46

In Reply to: Re: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon posted by Adriel on October 6, 2002 at 19:43:01:

"...true Chinese martial arts films aren't about any of that. They're strictly about, frankly, ninjas flipping out and kicking people's asses, with extreme and swift violence of action. CTHD is yet another product that has been sugar coated and stripped of all the genre essence from which it came, not to mention the stereotypical condescendence smothered throughout the movie. It's no wonder that Chinese who are keen on Chinese martial arts films find Crouching Tiger wholly uninteresting..."

hi Adriel, I think I responded to a message of yours before, and I don't mean to be picking on you, but it seems you have very strong feelings about things you probably don't know much about.

It is a very well done piece of its genre. No it's not the Chinese martial arts movie a la Jackie Chan, Jet Li, or even Bruce Lee, that American audience is relatively familiar with. It belongs to a complete different genre. This film, I believe, came from a novel, which was adapted into a TV series in Hong Kong (I think), and was available on vcd (see these pics: 1, 2, and 3), before it was made into a much better, shorter, larger-budget film. FYI, it is not Chu Yun Fat (??)'s first gig of the genre either.

This genre draws a huge number fans, including myself, but largely goes unnoticed by most Americans (excluding a very few such as Queentin Tarantino who talked about that in one of his interviews).

If the style, preaching attitude (which is not indicative of its genre),etc.. are not up to your tastes, then that's fine....But really, being familiar with this type of movies and literature, I must say it is a well done piece. I think it's also refreshing that many American audience really like it, despite not knowing that there's alot more to it.

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