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By Joanne Hilty
Special to the Rappahannock News
The most successful foreign language film of all time, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, shows at The * Theatre on Gay Street in Washington on Friday, Jan. 18 at 8 p.m. Winner of four Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards in 2001, this film is considered by many one of the greatest films ever made.
The slambang action of a martial arts film, the density of a 19thcentury novel, the exquisite beauty of a Chinese landscape scroll, the wonder of an Arabian Nights tale: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has all these and more.
Legendary Hong Kong action stars Chow Yun Fat and Michelle Yeoh play veteran wu xia warriors (the Chinese equivalent of knights or samurai) searching for a stolen sword with special powers. Enter the hidden dragon: teenager Jen (Zhang Yiyi) a governor’s daughter headed for an arranged marriage.
This demure ingenue is full of surprises. She is a martial arts prodigy, trained in secret by a vengeful witch; and her seemingly cloistered existence includes a torrid love affair with a dashing desert bandit.
Jen’s struggle to carve out her own place in a rigidly traditional society precipitates a series of spectacularly inventive sword fights that have drawn spontaneous ova
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