CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON

Women in Martial World

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Women in Martial World

Introduction

For a thousand years women never been a main character in martial art world, male gender hero always been a main character in the traditional Chinese martial art story. Crouching tiger, Hidden Dragon also a really successful movie in the martial art block, the different is that there are three women in this martial art story. They have different personality and playing different role in their society, same thing is that they have same Kong Fu skill as well as men. Therefore, Crouching tiger, Hidden Dragon is a feminism martial art movie. By analyze the main character Jen Yu, which is a great example of the women in the Chinese martial art world. Kung Fu is type of Chinese martial art give Jen Yu a special disposition, make Jen Yu have both male and female's character. That special character is doomed to Jen Yu has an unusual life. Jen Yu is bravery and agitates, she has strongly curious about martial art world-Jiang ho. However, she have strong desire of freedom, freedom love and freedom life in Jiang ho. These curiosity and freedom desires are destine her tragedy life. Formerly, Jen Yu's has a tragedy ending is because she is a woman in a feudal society's china.

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon", a story that centers around the hopeful retirement of legend Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun Fat), and his attempt to hand over his mystical sword, the Green Destiny. As most stories go, the sword is snatched by Jen Yu (Zhang Ziyi), the daughter of an important general. She is taught by Jade Fox (Cheng Pei Pei), the villain responsible for the death of Bai's mentor. Bai and Yu Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh), use the power of martial arts to get the sword back from Jade Fox.

Like many western films, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is an action-packed love story, but only at first. This intense movie seems to have a plot of western and eastern ideals like the Inevitable and the unpredictable review states, but it is really a film based on destiny.

Feminism movie-Women in Jiang ho

Martial arts films have for many years have had male lead characters in movies, Way of prowess in martial moves were depicted in both villains and heroes in the films. Male lead characters have been always the heroes in martial art block with female characters given passive roles and not involved in heroic stances. This influence can be traced to Chinese family or community perceptions on males and females role and personality representation in community dynamics. Men from the past have been given the duty of defending their communities and families in actual sense with women having the submissive role of caring for their families. This has inevitably spread to the movies, but a new wave of female lead characters has taken the martial arts movies to a different level which has brought different conforming and departing opinions in essence of the character ...