Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

For the last and final essay of the semester, I decided to pick a couple themes that are included in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. Themes are a very important part of any story, play, poem, or any writing for that matter. It is important to understand what themes are involved in a story because it helps the reader better understand what is going on throughout it all. This novel has two main characters named Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist. In essence, this story is about both of these characters coming together to solve the disappearance of Harriet Vanger that is over forty years in the making. Throughout their journey to solve the mystery, I came across a couple key themes. Regarding The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, there are a few themes I chose to write about including: violence against women, the topic of revenge, and isolation.

The movie, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, is a historical fiction. It occurs some time in China under a dynasty. Some of the events that happened in this movie relate to some of the material that we covered in class. One event that happened was when Jen and her family travels through the desert and were attacked by Lo and his Dark Cloud on horses. In my interpretation, I believe that Lo and his gang of bandits, displayed some similarities to The Mongols. As seen in the movie, they rode and fought on horses, were nomadic, and lived by raidings, which are things that Mongols are known for. They use horses for mobility and height against their enemies. When Lo and Jen are in Lo’s cave, he assumes that she is part of a Han dynasty, but she corrects

Throughout world history people have enjoyed watching two men compete in hand to hand combat. Professional boxing made its debut here in America around the turn of the 20th century. Unlike boxing, mixed martial arts is a relatively new sport. Both sports are very technical and require their fighters to be in superb condition. Many fighters train all their life to make it big, but few ever get there. Although both sports are immensely popular, one stands alone as the dominant sport. In this paper I 'll prove that the sport of MMA is more technical, more exciting, and much safer than boxing.

Gorn goes to discuss the rules and regulations of boxing, stating; “The two athletes settle on a site for the fight. Strip to their shirts, roll their sleeves up…” (Gorn, pg.37) By adding this information and going to such detail as he does; “At the end of the fight the boxers are bruised, disfigured, and covered with blood, which they spit out, vomit out, or drip from the nose.” allows the reader to get a feel for how violent these fights were but also to allow readers to dive into the fight with their feet first. Gorn goes on to discuss more fights and discusses ‘The Great

Pans labyrinth is an intense movie of a young girl struggles to break free of the restraints of being a child and the cruelties of living through Spanish fascism. Pans labyrinth is anything but your ordinary ‘time filling’ movie. It has great depth and an intricate web of occult and archetypal symbols. Guillermo del Toro, the director, does not shy away from exposing the harshness of reality and the intertwined fantasy. This one of a kind movie gives you a rare moment to see the world with a different light. You begin to appreciate the beauty of Mother Nature and life. It brings up the question of have people living in the materialistic world of the 21st century lost sight of what is real. The movie’s compelling storyline, rich

In the ancient of China, Lord Shen, the scion of a peacock clan that rules the Gongmen City, in an attempt to control the power of fireworks as a weapon to control the whole of China. After discovering from the court’s goat Soothsayer (Michelle Yeoh) that “a warrior of black and white” one day will defeat him, Shen leads a team of wolves to exterminate the panda population.

The Weinstein Company, Netflix, and IMAX are teaming up to produce the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Green Legend through both the streaming and in the IMAX theaters. Sarah Moran states this has angered AMC, Regal, and Cinemark as they feel this is cutting them out of the distributing process and have refused to screen the film. This article continues to discuss how movie theaters do not want to work with streaming services such as Netflix, and even more so when they believe new films being streamed online as well in theaters are a huge threat.

I was watching Dolphin Tale for the first time with my sister when she decided she wanted to be a marine biologist, thought I was crazy because I wanted to change the way it was done.

Dirty Dancing (Emile Ardlino, 1987) and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000) are two beautifully choreographed movies whose plot shares little similarity but has in common the concept of a duet between two clashing personalities. Both movies are about inherently different things but at closer inspection they appear to do the same as two characters flow and move around the other becoming a complicated duet of motion and fluidity. In one movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Shu Lien and Jen Yu, both experienced warriors battle it out in the courtyard of Beijing fighting over the over the ownership of the Green Destiny. In Dirty Dancing it is not until the final scene that we finally see the full potential and dynamic between Baby

The noble journey of Sir Gawain began during the holiday season. The kingdom were partying with King Arthur, until a loud knock at the door. In comes a green skinned man as well as his green horse. The man is known as the Green Knight. The Green Knight comes an proposes a holiday challenge to the kingdom. The supposed “honorable” knights chickened out of the challenge. King Arthur becomes ashamed after the Green Knight teases his sorry knights. As a result, Sir Gawain steps in to accept the challenge, because stated in the story “he has nothing to live for”. King Arthur approves of this request. The challenge is to cut the Green Knight’s neck

The film Scott Pilgrim vs The World gives an abstract, but truthful reflection of the lives of young people in modern society. The movie displays the struggles Scott has with his relationships, his journey believing in himself and how he learns to face the repercussions of his actions. The films morals and ideals help to inform young people on going through adolescence and young adulthood by using similar social ideas to those used in today's world.

The film “Pan’s Labyrinth” is a cinematic masterpiece of 2006, directed and written by Guillermo del Toro. Although the film is considered partly within the fantasy genre, several of the themes within the film reflect certain historical realities of post-civil war Spain. Themes of reality versus fantasy, gender roles, and children and war are developed within the film.

Ang Lee’s Crouching tiger Hidden Dragon is probably one of the most successful foreign films to ever be screened in America. Being the number one film of the year in 2000. On the other hand it was reportedly considered a flop in China. While it was influenced by American film styles, it still kept true to many aspects of its Chinese film heritage. With very apparent love story, it lacked the Extreme amount of Kung Fu fight scenes eastern audiences have come to enjoy. This is a stunning love story between a monk and widow. While it does have its share of over the top fight scenes, when you start to dig deeper the films many social implications become apparent. With ties to subjects such as religion, martial arts, philosophy, love, and even gender issues. This film is a representation of the modern era and how long practiced traditions are being challenged. Each character and plot line allows a glimpse into the Social and Traditional understanding of a culture.

Traditions worldwide order the structure of the different cultures and civilizations and thus regulates the role of women, men and children as well as the functioning of the society. Crouching tiger Hidden Dragon develops on the impact of the Chinese tradition in the old times and how it affects 5 different people: Master Li Mu Bai (Yun Fat Chow), Yu Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh), Jiao Long (Zhang Ziyi), Lo (Dark Cloud), and Jade Fox (Cheng Pei-Pei). The film televises the frustrations of the main characters due to the lack of flexibility of their tradition as they all quest for the Green Destiny, symbol of martial art mastery. Li Mu Bai and Yu Shu Lien experiment the weight of loyalty on their

Everyone grows up. Some sooner than others. It may be subtle, and it could be traumatizing. In “The Life of Pi” produced by Ang Lee, Pi got the latter. The major running theme throughout the movie is that the loss of innocence is something everyone goes through. Ang Lee shows this in the use of lighting, angles, and sound effects in multiple scenes. When Pi has to change his name because the kids at school were making fun of him, when he is forced to watch the tiger eat the baby goat alive, his first love and his first heartbreak, when his family has to move away from his home, losing his entire family in a shipwreck, caring for himself and a tiger while at sea, and finally, in realizing what actually happened those first few days after the shipwreck are all examples of this theme.