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Genre | Foreign, Martial Arts, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance |
Format | Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen, Blu-ray |
Contributor | UCV, LLC and United China Vision Incorporated, Chang Chen, Lung Sihung, Ang Lee, Hsu Li Kong, Bill Kong, Michelle Yeoh, Pei-Pei Cheng, Chow Yun Fat, Zhang Ziyi See more |
Language | English, French, Mandarin Chinese |
Runtime | 2 hours |
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Named "Best Picture of the Year" by over 100 critics nationwide! Two master warriors (Chow Yun Fat and Michelle Yeoh) are faced with their greatest challenge when the treasured Green Destiny sword is stolen. A young aristocrat (Zhang Ziyi) prepares for an arranged marriage, but soon reveals her superior fighting talents and her deeply romantic past. As each warrior battles for justice, they come face to face with their worst enemy - and the inescapable, enduring power of love. Set against 19th-century China's breathtaking landscape, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is the action-packed, box office smash from acclaimed director Ang Lee (Sense and Sensibility, The Ice Storm) featuring stunning martial arts choreography by Yuen Wo Ping (The Matrix).
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- Aspect Ratio : 2.40:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
- Product Dimensions : 6.75 x 5.3 x 0.35 inches; 2.4 ounces
- Item model number : 043396162235
- Director : Ang Lee
- Media Format : Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen, Blu-ray
- Run time : 2 hours
- Release date : July 27, 2010
- Actors : Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen, Lung Sihung
- Dubbed: : French, English
- Subtitles: : English, French
- Producers : Ang Lee, Bill Kong, Hsu Li Kong
- Studio : Sony Pictures Classics
- ASIN : B00198X0UY
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #12,525 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #30 in Foreign Films (Movies & TV)
- #180 in Fantasy Blu-ray Discs
- #192 in Romance (Movies & TV)
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Michelle Yeoh is amazing in this movie. Loyal and hard edged, Yeoh's character is the ultimate example of internal conflict, torn between a friendship and the truth, and between a deep respect and an even deeper love. There are several scenes where the subleties of her facial expressions say more than most actors manage in their entire careers with actual dialogue.
As good as Yeoh is, its newcommer (at the time this film was made) Zhang Ziyi that steals the show. Never mind that a good argument could be made for her as the most beautiful actress alive today, Ziyi manages to portray Jen as a complex duality of fragility and power, of nobleman's daughter and thief. At times bratty and spoiled, at other times indigent, self-assured and cocky, and at all times someone who will, in the end, do what she pleases to do, cultural expectations, protocol, laws and even common decency be damned. Jen wants the world, but she'll only accept it on her own terms.
Even though the DVD defaults to english, I recommend watching the film first in its native Mandarin with the english subtitles turned on, as the film was presented during its theatrical release. Too much of the subleties of these great performances are lost when the english audio is dubbed in. At the same time, it is worth watching later with the english audio, as the spoken english words are more elaborate and convey more than the much briefer subtitles can.
I would also like to briefly comment on the use of wirework in the movie and the widespread criticism it has received for making the movie unrealistic.
First, please realise that the movie is meant as a fairy tale / fantasy. It was not intended to be fully realistic. If you realise this, and allow yourself to enjoy the movie, you will. Just as we allow ourselves to enjoy films like Kill Bill, Rambo, and James Bond, even though they too have fight scenes that are completely unrealistic and would in reality leave the participants chalk full of bullet holes or beaten to bloody pulps.
Second, there is something of a point as to why the characters can fly. Yeoh hits the nail on the head in the accompanying documentary on the DVD when she points out that the flying is meant to be symbolic of the character's relative freedom from social obligation. Yeoh's character, who runs a business and cannot speak her love for Li Mu Bai due to social standing, is also the least adept flyer of the major characters and often struggles to do so, weighed down by her obligations. Jen certainly has social expectations placed upon her, but has escaped most of them through her secret life. She is able to take flight far more easily than Yeoh's character. Finally, Li Mu Bai is a warrior who is at peace with who he is - he flies most effortlessly of all three of them.
Detail is lost in brightly lit scenes where the film grain will stand out. Dark sequences lose detail in the shadows. Somewhere in the middle and you’ll find yummy detail-like individual fibers in cloth detail. It’s weird, because some of the desert sequences look great in 4K.
The audio is a the real bummer tho. It’s a lazily done Dolby Atmos Mandarin track. Sound effects only use the front 3 speakers, while music is played on all including the surrounds. It’s like the sound designers only did the bare minimum to get the job done and called it a day.
I like having the 4K UHD Blu-ray although I’m not impressed. I only own the DVD and recently upgraded my home theater to 4K and Atmos. Having this particular movie in my library was a must. Also since I bought it used here on Amazon, I don’t feel bad for spending the extra few dollars on the 4K disc.
Yes it is also a rollicking martial arts flick. "How do they do it?" I know -- they use wires and speeded up (ie slowed down) takes.
It is also a touching love story. The stars of the film express considerable emotion with very modest looks and gestures. The line at the end of preferring to be a ghost close to his love over a spirit in heaven ranks up there with the best love lines in film.
But most of all I thought this was a film about narcissism. There is the narcissism of the main character who is so touched with despair that he momentarily forgets his duty. There is the narcissism of a different kind of duty that prevents him from "disrespecting" the memory of his friend -- the deceased fiancee of the woman he loves. There are the complicated alliances, including one with a man who seems to be in league with a mafia-like underworld. (And this is a good guy!!) There is the bitter narcissism of Gray Fox, the proto-feminist warrior who kills our hero out of rage over a supposed seduction at the hands of his master. By the way, that was one spot that did not make full sense to me. Would we expect a Wudon master to have a casual affair with one of his students?
The most narcissistic character is Jen, the Governor's daughter. She is blessed with native talent which she has begun to cultivate. She has a feisty spirit. But over and over again she chooses self-indulgence and narcissism over discipline, over love, over doing the right thing. She destroys the lives of everyone around her before narcissistically taking her own life in the final scene.
It was the waste of talent resulting from narcissism and the wreckage left in its wake that haunted me for a long time after the film ended. The meditation on love, duty, discipline, and narcissism is what the film finally was about for me.
I agree heartily with those reviewers who felt the film was poorly served by the DVD transfer. It is not really terrible, but it is sub-par. A film of this greatness deserves a first class DVD edition. I hope one will be forthcoming soon.
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I wanted to see it again
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Trae Bluray y 4k, idioma y subtítulos en español latino, excelente
Aunque la calidad de imagen y audio no son referencia en el formato, al menos la película luce bien en este formato. Eso si, los más puristas no estarán para nada complacidos debido a la presencia de ruido digital y aunque no es pesado si que es evidente durante toda la película, algo que a mi no me molestó en ningún momento y uno se acostumbra rápido.
Lo que si es que la imagen no es tan clara en escenas nocturnas, vaya que no esperen ver muchos detalles, pero lo que si es consistente es el color negro y el detalle de sombras que puede apreciarse. El HDR tampoco es de lo mejor pero los tonos de piel lucen naturales a pesar de que la imagen es cálida en general y los colores no lucen saturados.
El Tigre y el Dragón es una muy buena película de artes marciales, pero su edición en 4K no está del todo a la altura pero tampoco me parece que sea decepcionante, por lo que si ya cuentas con ella en DVD o Blu Ray creo quebsi vale la pena la actualización al 4K.