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6 unusual facts about Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon


Girl power

But it's a new 2000 millennium now, and while Charlie's Angels and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon are kicking up a storm on movie screens, it's been down to James Cameron to bring empowered female warriors back to television screens.

Hook sword

In the duel between Shulien (Michelle Yeoh) and Jen Yu (Zhang Ziyi) in the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Shulien uses a number of traditional Chinese weapons in turn, one of which is a pair of hook swords.

Mount Cangyan

Mount Cangyan was used as setting for filming some scenes in the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which according to the movie's story take place on the Wudang Mountains.

Mulawin: The Movie

Wong choreographed stunts in the highly successful movies such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Kung Fu Hustle, Rush Hour 2 and Bulletproof Monk.

Slaughterhouse on the Prairie

"Crouching Stump Hidden Limb" is most likely a play on the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon while "Don't Use Roosts If You Raise Broilers" digs at the chicken meat industry.

Whitney Crothers Dilley

Dilley's Ang Lee book was listed as a bestseller on Amazon.com within a month of its publication, demonstrating growing scholarly interest in the films of Ang Lee, whose films Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain both became cultural milestones in the American media.


Hsu Li Kong

Hsu Li Kong (徐立功, Pinyin: Xú Lìgōng; born 1943) is a film producer most famous for co-producing the successful wuxia film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, a BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language as well as an Independent Spirit Award for Best Film.

Tim Squyres

including The Wedding Banquet (1993), Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), Sense and Sensibility (1995), Ride with the Devil (1999), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), The Hire: Chosen (2001), Hulk (2003), Lust, Caution (2007), Taking Woodstock (2009), and, most recently, Life of Pi (2012).

Wang Dulu

However, there is a manhua series of the same title, (now in its second, revised edition) created by Andy Seto.


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