Jen runs away from her husband on their wedding night before the marriage can be consummated. Shu Lien and Mu Bai convince Lo to wait for Jen at Mount Wudang, where he will be safe from Jen's family, who are furious with him. Later, Lo interrupts Jen's wedding procession, begging her to leave with him. Lo has come now to Beijing to persuade Jen not to go through with her arranged marriage. Because the man's heart was pure, he did not die. Lo eventually convinced Jen to return to her family, though not before telling her a legend of a man who jumped off a cliff to make his wishes come true. She pursued him to his desert cave to get her comb back. A flashback reveals that in the past, when Governor Yu and his family were traveling in the western deserts, Lo and his bandits raided Jen's caravan and Lo stole her comb. Fox is illiterate and could only follow the diagrams, whereas Jen's ability to read the manual allowed her to surpass her teacher in martial arts.Īt night, a bandit named Lo breaks into Jen's bedroom and asks her to leave with him. After seeing Jen fight Mu Bai, Fox realizes Jen had been secretly studying the Wudang manual. Fox kills Tsai before fleeing with the thief (who is revealed to be Jen). Just as Mu Bai is about to kill her, the masked thief reappears and helps Fox. She reveals that she killed Mu Bai's teacher because he would sleep with her, but refuse to take a woman as a pupil, and she felt it poetic justice for him to die at a woman's hand. Following a protracted battle, the group is on the verge of defeat when Mu Bai arrives and outmaneuvers Fox. Fox challenges the pair and Master Bo to a showdown that night. Master Bo makes the acquaintance of Inspector Tsai, a police investigator from the provinces, and his daughter May, who have come to Beijing in pursuit of Fox. Soon after, Mu Bai arrives in Beijing and discusses the theft with Shu Lien. Sir Te's servant Master Bo and Shu Lien trace the theft to Governor Yu's compound, where Jade Fox had been posing as Jen's governess for many years. One evening, a masked thief sneaks into Sir Te's estate and steals the Green Destiny. While at Sir Te's place, Shu Lien meets Yu Jiaolong, or Jen, who is the daughter of the rich and powerful Governor Yu and is about to get married. Long ago, Mu Bai's teacher was killed by Jade Fox, a woman who sought to learn Wudang skills. Mu Bai, choosing to retire, asks Shu Lien to give his fabled 400-year-old sword "Green Destiny" to their benefactor Sir Te in Beijing. Shu Lien and Mu Bai have long had feelings for each other, but because Shu Lien had been engaged to Mu Bai's close friend, Meng Sizhao before his death, Shu Lien and Mu Bai feel bound by loyalty to Meng Sizhao and have not revealed their feelings for each other. In 19th-century Qing dynasty China, Li Mu Bai is a renowned Wudang swordsman, and his friend Yu Shu Lien, a Machete female warrior, heads a private security company. The film has been praised for its story, direction, cinematography, and martial arts sequences. Along with its numerous awards, Crouching Tiger is often cited as one of the finest wuxia films ever made. The film also won four BAFTAs and two Golden Globe Awards, one for Best Foreign Film. An overwhelming critical and commercial success, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon won over 40 awards and was nominated for 10 Academy Awards in 2001, including Best Picture, and won Best Foreign Language Film, Best Art Direction, Best Original Score and Best Cinematography, receiving the most nominations ever for a non-English language film at the time, until 2018's Roma tied this record. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on, and was theatrically released in the United States on 8 December. The film was the first foreign-language film (it was filmed in Mandarin Chinese) to break the $100 million mark in the United States. It grossed US$128 million in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing foreign-language film produced overseas in American history. With dialogue in Mandarin, subtitled for various markets, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon became a surprise international success, grossing $213.5 million worldwide. Ī multinational venture, the film was made on a US$17 million budget, and was produced by Asian Union Film & Entertainment, China Film Co-Productions Corporation, Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Edko Films, Good Machine International, and Zoom Hunt Productions. It is based on the Chinese novel of the same name serialized between 19 by Wang Dulu, the fourth part of his Crane Iron pentalogy. The film features an international cast of actors of Chinese ethnicity, including Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi and Chang Chen. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2000 wuxia film directed by Ang Lee and written by Wang Hui-ling, James Schamus and Kuo Jung Tsai.
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