Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2001) First Time Watching! Full Movie Reaction!!
Added 2024-03-18 15:50:11 +0000 UTC
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The Joy Luck Club addresses this issue among Asians with its generational trauma. Part of the pressure is due to the terrible upheavals in Asia with revolutions and WWII. My Korean mother was very stoic and I rarely ever saw her express intense emotions. Living under Japanese occupation and being orphaned at 12 years old with a younger brother to take care of, almost starving to death, made her very strong but emotionally repressed.
Catherine LW
2024-03-23 21:04:47 +0000 UTCI could have sworn I've seen this before but I do not remember it being this sad. I think I must have not seen it. If you love the fight scenes in this I highly recommend House of Flying Daggers, The Myth with Jackie Chan, and one I'd totally forgotten about that was recommended on the page for this when I rented it: Hero with Jet Li. Hero is an epic just like this one. All the movies I've mentioned are. The Myth is half in Chinese with subtitles and half English.
Alex
2024-03-22 03:18:58 +0000 UTCYou are so sweet Sam.
Alex
2024-03-22 03:15:02 +0000 UTCGreat reaction, you two! I think they wanted to train Jen was because they feared she would be a “poisoned dragon”. Jen is more powerful and advanced than Jade Fox who was poisoned for being denied the teaching. Jen would be far more dangerous. Yes, it’s an Asian tragedy with unfulfilled love and frustrated desires.
Catherine LW
2024-03-20 03:53:00 +0000 UTCThe actor who played Lo also played the doctor in Dune!
Odd Thomas
2024-03-19 22:28:43 +0000 UTCI had a big crush on Zhang Ziyi after this came out. Michelle Yeoh was strikingly beautiful too.
Aaron Barlow
2024-03-19 10:52:26 +0000 UTCChang Pei was a bit of a cutie when she was young https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chengpeipei.png
Aaron Barlow
2024-03-19 10:45:55 +0000 UTCWhen she gave him the comb before she left, it was so he could comb the desert for her.
Aaron Barlow
2024-03-19 09:59:11 +0000 UTCwhat a fantastic comment and insight into the film. thank you Ellie 😊
john francis
2024-03-19 03:40:59 +0000 UTCCrouching Daniel, Hidden Samantha. XD Still a classic film all these years later. I'm sad "The Raid" didn't win, but I'm glad if anything, this movie took the poll because it's legendary at this point. I do still hope "The Raid" gets on the channel soon, so I'll keep fighting for it (no pun intended. Haha).
EdmanXERO
2024-03-18 23:59:23 +0000 UTCYes! Thank you for sharing this! Totally caught us by surprise but it makes much more sense and I agree, it is much more fitting! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2024-03-18 23:55:30 +0000 UTCDM us if you’re having any issues, Cynthia! We’re happy to provide a refund if this wasn’t what you were anticipating when you signed up! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2024-03-18 23:54:27 +0000 UTCShoot! Hope tomorrow is a better day, Steve! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2024-03-18 23:53:53 +0000 UTCRight?! Definitely a film I want to watch again, but at least I can go in knowing the ending and be prepared! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2024-03-18 23:53:15 +0000 UTCWow!! This is so incredible, they did a fantastic job! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2024-03-18 23:52:29 +0000 UTCTo give some context for us who grew up in America. One of the main themes of a lot of Ang Lee films is the consequences of emotional repression. 1st and 2nd generation Asians, we are brought up to bury our emotions. To try and feel as little as possible. Never too high or low. But of course the consequence of this is possibly living with a lot of fear and being unwilling to take emotional risks. Take this even further back to 19th century China and imagine how much stronger these restrictions are. My best friend is in his early 40s and we joked that in the thousands of years of his family ancestry, he is the first father of his line to hug his daughter and tell her he loves her. And the idea of defying your family, particularly for Asian daughters, is incredibly taboo. Honestly, I know plenty of Asian friends today who cannot stand up to their parents. So for Jen, she has no good choice. Even if she goes with Lo, she knows she will be overwhelmed with guilt and shame for the rest of her life. It's very American to think go your own way, pursue your own personal happiness. And I myself want to live that way. But the history of Asian culture is thousands of years of cultural pressure. You must behave a certain way. You must obey certain cultural rules. Things are definitely changing for the better in this modern world, but even the idea of giving up a comfortable, wealthy life just for love would be looked down upon. I told a friend that if Titanic was made in Korea, Rose and Cal would both be poor and Jack would be the rich one. I think the sadness and tragedy of Crouching Tiger is actually why it lives on. Titanic, Romeo and Juliet, Brokeback Mountain (also directed by Ang Lee), A Star is Born, The Great Gatsby, The Notebook, even something like The Last of Us or Breaking Bad. We see these stories as kind of cautionary tales that motivate us to make better and bolder choices in our own lives that the characters didn't. Don't get me wrong, I love a happy ending, but ironically the sad ones resonate a little deeper.
Ellie Miller
2024-03-18 22:15:51 +0000 UTCJust came home from a crappy day at work to find this...thank you. You guys rock. (I fucking love this movie!!!)
Steve Mercier
2024-03-18 20:22:21 +0000 UTCOh, I see thanks
Cynthia McDonald
2024-03-18 19:55:40 +0000 UTCYou need your own copy to watch along with them. I use two windows on the pc, one window has the movie playing while the other window has them reacting.
Scott Lindsey
2024-03-18 19:54:53 +0000 UTCAm I missing something? I could not hear or see movie they were reacting to?
Cynthia McDonald
2024-03-18 19:43:57 +0000 UTCI've watched this over and over, each time seeing more to it. The music is spectacular. I have the soundtrack and it's so sad. The fixtures, the costumes, the fabrics are all excellent. But even though I know the end is coming, the final scene of Jen jumping, and the music for that scene, brings tears to my eyes.
David Martin
2024-03-18 18:26:24 +0000 UTCMichelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi and Cheng Pei-pei (Jade Fox) didn't have a martial arts background growing up but they all trained extensively in dance which made it easier for them to adapt to the intricate fight choreography of their films. Cheng Pei-pei is often considered the first true female action hero in cinema for the many swordplay films she did in the 60s and early 70s for the Shaw Brothers studio. Come Drink With Me, her signature film, was one of the key influences on Crouching Tiger.
Brad P
2024-03-18 18:01:19 +0000 UTC
