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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

Ang Lee combined a tale about a mystical, legendary 400 year-old stolen sword (named Green Destiny), gravity-defying martial arts combat and kinetic action sequences, and star-crossed lovers.

It marked the first major American cross-over success of an Asian action film. Lee's martial arts film blended state-of-the-art fighting effects with a 19th century fantasy story of love and bravery.

The sword was stolen by the 18 year-old district governor's daughter - the impetuous, wilful and headstrong masked thief Jen Yu (Zhang Ziyi) while apprenticing under the harsh tutelage of bitter, heartless and treacherous arch-criminal Jade Fox (Cheng Pei-pei).

The film's major set-piece after the theft was the beautifully-graceful, choreographed, stylised, and gravity-defying, blindingly-fast escape of Jen - she scaled up walls, across buildings, down alleyways, and over rooftops to attempt to elude the pursuit of security officer and female warrior Yu Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh) who wanted to retrieve the stolen sword.

We get an bird’s-eye view shows a scene from overhead. Overhead of the hustle and bustle of the town, this camera shot makes the audience feel like ‘God’ as God watches over everything that happens over our heads. People would look as tiny as ants and that also makes the audience feel tall and proud. An enigma code is created at the beginning as the the guard walking sees something fast pass him but only getting a glimpse through the medium close up shot which leaves the empty space of the roof for the audience to also see the dark figure run past. The parallel sound creating action codes is produced with the light clicking when the thief is about to steal the sword and then quickens when the guard opens the door, the audience may think the thief will be caught, but the guard doesn't notice till the sound of loud cymbals are heard, the guard then gets kicked in the face.

They were identified in medium close-ups before the drifting-and-floating pursuit. With respects to the special features of the Chinese martial art film. Martial art in the West and the East direction, but it has a "fast" and "slow" polarisation difference ,than Western films dealing with the fight scenes, they will deliberately slow down the action so to clearly show the Chinese martial arts films are used to using a lot of quick shots, which manufacture the tense atmosphere of martial arts. So in shooting to this film, the director focused more on how to make martial arts become even more beautiful, so in the camera movement and the focus would always change, let the audience also can feel the emotion from the performer s movement.

Then once again when the two agile warriors began hand-to-hand fighting on the ground. The camera tilts, so to match the somehow gravitational fight scene. We get use of camera panning when the character Yu Shu is in pursuit of Jen Yu, one character is on the ground while another is running atop the roof, the camera pans up to catch a glimpse of the quick roof jumper and so gives Identification to the audience as it would be as though they were running behind the officer on the ground and also like she caught a glimpse of the girl on the roof. This use of panning is used frequently for the running roof top scenes.  

Crane shots are used when the two meet and start their fight we get the camera angles moving up and down to match the gravity-defying and fast fight scene. Continuous use of long shots to be able to show the whole fast fight scene without cutting of the whole scene- long shots used for leg combat while medium shots are used when they are using their hands. The way in the shooting, the director Ang Lee has done all the details in every possible way. in the light text effect, he spent most of the low key lighting to keep the mystery of kung fu; the lens shooting, he spent a lot of The third-person perspective and two shot make the audience appreciate the traditional Chinese martial arts, and he can also take care while a lot of details, such as eye contact play against the two sides, the audience can understand the meaning of what they want to say without the dialogue. And in all of the shooting locations, those are based on the original to choose the location.

Later in the film was another climactic, visually-stunning sword-fight scene set amidst lush green treetops when heroic, Wudan-style martial arts master Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun Fat) battled young fighter Jen on the bending limbs of thin tree branches in a lush bamboo forest.