![]() ![]() However, Green Destiny is stolen from Sir Te’s home, and the fingers of suspicion point to the witch Jade Fox, an evil sorceress who killed Li Mu Bai’s master, and whose death he has vowed to avenge. He trusts Yu Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh), a female warrior with whom he has long been in love, with Green Destiny, his priceless sword, which she has been asked to give to his old friend Sir Te as a gift. ![]() The film stars the aforementioned Chow as Li Mu Bai, a revered and ancient Wudan warrior who, haunted by strange dreams, vows to give up his violent ways. Lee has described Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon as “Jane Austen meets Bruce Lee”. Throughout his career, though, Lee has harbored a desire to make a wuxia pian, a Chinese costume drama combining traditional drama with martial arts. Director Lee has, of course, been making critically popular films in English for a number of years, from the Oscar winning costume drama Sense & Sensibility to the drama The Ice Storm and the civil war epic Ride With The Devil. The emigration west of some of its biggest names, notably action stars such as Jackie Chan and Chow Yun Fat, has undoubtedly paved the way for Chinese-language movies to reach a wider audience, and now the first true crossover hit seems to have come: Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. After spending much of its history consigned to art-houses, lauded by critics but unseen by the masses, Chinese cinema is suddenly big business. ![]()
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