Thursday, April 23, 2009

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)



Directed by Ang Lee, this movie is based on a wuxia novel written in the 1940's. Though the movie was overall well-received by western audiences, the fight choreography by the seemingly ubiquitous Yuen Woo-ping was fairly bland, with the exception of this duel between Jen (Zhang Ziyi) and Yu Shu-lien (Michelle Yeoh).

I enjoyed the ferocity of the fighting as well as the variety of weapons employed by Yu Shu-lien against the seemingly indestructible Green Destiny sword.