Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
Calvin’s Top 10 Hong Kong Films of the Last Decade (4-2)
4. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Zhang Ziyi steals many a man’s heart in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
I saw this movie twice in theaters. The first time was in Stillwater, Oklahoma, home of my alma mater, Oklahoma State University. The second time was about a month later in a six-movie cineplex in Duncan, Oklahoma. Chew on that for a little while. Sure, Stillwater is a college town (with no arthouse theatre, mind you), but Duncan is just your average American town with an Asian population of 0.04% (and no telling how many residents of Chinese descent). So, showing a movie in Mandarin with English subtitles is, y’know, kind of a big deal. That’s how big of a game-changer Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was.