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Director Ang Lee is the only person to win Best Director Oscars for a foreign and domestic film.
Winning for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and more recently for "Brokeback Mountain," you might think that these two films are, literally and figuratively, worlds apart.
But they have some profound similarities. Specifically, they're love stories set against a backdrop of individual and social angst.
The first time you see Crouching Tiger you may overlook the love themes, because the swordplay is something special, and filmed beautifully.
My breath was taken away when, suddenly, the adversaries carried on their fight without the interference of gravity. Exchanging lunges and parries while in flight, they defy conventional physics and enter a world of aerial ballet.
If you're a literalist, and you want your martial arts sequences to appear realistic, you'll probably be left behind and let down as the characters set themselves free of all earthly restraints.
Ang Lee is known for delivering beautiful cinematography, and Crouching Tiger's is nothing less than poetic. Two martial arts masters, a man and woman, are doing everything they can do to check their burgeoning love for each other while pursuing evildoers.
But Lee places them, in one memorable scene, in a quiet retreat, where their chat is set against a backdrop of concrete that has a rectangular opening in it, through which one can see the verdant forest, nearly next to them, yet still at a safe, neatly determined distance.
As a visual metaphor for repressed love, the scene needs no words, and Lee is wise enough to know this, so there are few.
All we have to do, to enter the hearts of these masters is to see their open air prison, to follow their eyes and detect the creasing of their lips, to appreciate their discipline and foremost commitments to duty.
But because all of this is portrayed so beautifully, so lushly, they're not to be pitied, but rather, to be admired.
Aristotle said pity is the emotion we feel when we witness a tragedy that we think cannot happen to us.
These martial arts masters remind us that for all of our purported strength as warriors, we are helpless under the spell of love, and hopeless without it.
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How Dragons Have Touched Our Lives
Dragons have been a meaningful element of our culture since around 4000 and 5000 BC. From stories to architecture to collectibles, dragons are supernatural animals that may or may not have roamed the earth in reality but have left massive footprints in our sensibility.
These fantastic reptilian/serpentine animals are seen in numerous different cultures, and each of those dragons is as different as the culture itself. These creatures are thought to dwell everywhere from the depths of the ocean to the center of the earth. Some have wings, some dont. Some have many legs, some have four. Some have nine heads, others have one. Some have five claws, most have a smaller amount. Some are friends and others are fiends. All are a signof amazing strength and power.
Scientific studies put forward that the Tiamat, a goddess that personifies the sea, in ancient Babylonian and Assyrian text is the first allusion to the existence of dragons. Historians, however, can't substantiate whether or not Tiamat was the same sort of creature as what we refer to as a dragon. Consequently, the history of dragon can not be with assurance linked to Tiamet.
Perhaps the best documented dragons come from the Chinese background. These characters are believed to be made of pieces from nine different animals: the body of a snake, talons of an eagle, antlers of a dear, head of a camel, belly of a clam, ears of a cow, soles of a tiger, 117 scales of a carp, and eyes of a demon. Dragons in Asian cultures are believed to be benevolent beings who command the water, including the rain, and have the power of change. In this sense, dragons are a force of mother nature and the universe as well as guard of Buddhist law. In this cultural system, dragons represent prosperity, fortune, and knowledge .
On the other hand, the Western dragons is considered as fearsome and ferocious. These dragons are like those Hercules battled and Beowolf waged war. In northern Europe, Thor battled the Jrmungandr (the World Serpent). West dragons are fierce creatures that guarded (and horded) treasure and that heroes would have to slay to protect helpless maidens (acts that often ended in matrimony). These were fire breathing dragons, more like the modern American dragons we are familiar today. Battles with these scary creatures became signs of the battle between good and bad.
There are even references to dragons in the Bible--in Revelations, the devil is referred to as the "great dragon." We've all heard the tales of people who have been transformed into dragons as punishment for their self-centeredness. And what about those that warn about children being devoured by dragons and claim that eclipses are also the result of the creatures' gluttonous appetites.
These days, dragons are the mark of power, of supernatural abilities, and of protection. People embellish their abodes and their bodies with figures of the mystic creatures. All types of dragons turn up in the movies from the good-natured imaginary buddy to violent foes. While we no longer talk about heroes battling dragons, the creatures are still prevalent in our culture, for better or worse.
About the Author
Jeff Bronson is the owner of Obscuria.com, a darkly unique Gothic shop. Obscuria offers a quality selection of dragon figurines and dragon collectibles, and many custom made, exclusive in the U.S items.
What is the name of Tsai's weapon in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon?
I have recently watched Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon which is a superb film. However, one thing has me stumped. In the fight scene between Tsai, his daughter and the guard against Jade Fox what is the name of the weapon he uses? The claw-like thing.
Deer horn knives
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer_Horn_Knives
clip
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IdpPyPSpAW8
Marshall awakens sleeping dragons
Queens got a taste of Far East tradition as the borough president helped awake a sleeping dragon on the steps of Borough Hall on Tuesday, July 13.
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