Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny

[meganbmoore]

Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is one of my favorite (actual favorite? I gave up on ranking favorites some time back) Chinese movies, and my first Asian media fandom. Meaning that all the anime, manga, manhwa, kdramas and cdramas came after and roughly 80% of the people who follow me can probably blame the movie for that. Whether that's

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[_profiterole_]

It's super interesting that people who know about wuxia clearly see a difference. I can easily tell a "Western manga" from a Japanese manga, but here I see no difference. That said, that subtle (well, subtle to me) difference might explain why the sequel works better for me than the original movie.

[meganbmoore]

I was never able to get into AmeriManga for just that reason.

And it is a subtle difference, yeah, but if you know it's there you can't escape seeing it.

[_profiterole_]

Most of the Chinese movies I've seen were modern-setting action movies. Though I was thinking about what you said and I remembered watching and loving Jiang Hu: Between Love and Glory (thank you, Google, because that was 20 years ago and my memory is not that good any more XD) and now I totally see the difference. I don't remember the first Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon well enough to make an accurate comparison, though I feel it didn't have the surrealism of Jiang Hu.