Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is 22 years old. Can this play become a classic this year?

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon can still be a classic today.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a classic martial arts action film, directed by Ang Lee and starring Chow Yun Fat, Yang Ziqiong and Zhang Ziyi. It tells the story that Li Mubai, a great warrior, had the intention of quitting the Jianghu, and entrusted Yu Xiulian, a confidante, to Beijing with his Qingming sword, which showed his determination to quit the Jianghu. I didn't expect such a move to cause a series of stories of river's lake grievances.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon undoubtedly occupies an important position in the film history of China. It has won many awards, and it is the first film in China film history to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. 20 19 September, this film was selected as "Best Film of 2 1 Century 100" by the British newspaper The Guardian, ranking 5 1.

This movie doesn't have the legendary swordsman's heroic spirit like ordinary martial arts movies. Instead, it is a kind of deep thinking and implication to find the humanistic connotation of rivers and lakes. It has brought China movies to a new realm of word of mouth, and also set off a new wave of martial arts movies in the film industry.

Behind-the-scenes production and distribution information of movies

1, creative background

When Ang Lee returned to Taiwan Province to shoot eat drink man woman, he read Wang Dulu's original novel Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. In the 1980s, this novel produced only one TV series and one little-known film, Jade Jiaolong and Luo Xiaohu.

Among Ang Lee's martial arts novels, I like White's novels best, followed by Wang Dulu. So when Ang Lee was filming Sense and Sensibility, he asked the representative of Li-Kong Hsu to negotiate the copyright of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

2. Script adaptation

The yin and yang of Yu Jiaolong and Yu Xiulian in the original novel is a very interesting point, but the scene of Yu Jiaolong in the book is not enough to support a movie, so Yu Xiulian is added. So I conceived a "female yin inside yang" Yu Jiaolong and a "female yang inside yin" Yu Xiulian, and used the exchange of the two to promote the plot and enlarge the proportion of female drama in this film.

3. release; Emissions; issue

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was released in Taiwan Province Province, China on July 7th and in Chinese mainland on July 8th, 2000. Taipei's two-week box office grossed NT$ 60.9 million.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon broke through the threshold of 1 billion dollars in North American box office on March/0/2006, becoming the first foreign language film in American film history to break through 1 billion dollars. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon earned $205 million at the box office.

4, 4K repair version replay

On September 30th, 2022, the 4K restored Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was re-released in Taiwan Province Province, China.

5. Music

The soundtrack of the film was composed by Tan Dun, a composer living in the mainland of the United States, and Yo-Yo Ma, an internationally renowned Chinese cellist, was the lead singer. CoCo Lee, who is compatible with eastern and western pop culture, is responsible for singing the theme song "A Love Before Time" in both Chinese and English.

The theme music style of the film is graceful, sad but not hurt, which can be said to complement the implicit love expression in the last film. In a period of climbing over the eaves, accompanied by drums close at hand, the tense and exciting martial arts atmosphere was fully set off.