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lineage (lineage):
Mulan → Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
The remake's wuxia/mystical style follows the wave of Chinese films that grew popular after Crouching Tiger and the Zhang Yimou films.
“they've gotten very big, kind of post, crouching tiger hidden dragon, and the Jang Yi-Mu films”
The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:28:58 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:
Cold-open gag: the fake tagline about two warriors who would never podcast.
“A timeless story of strength, secrets, and 2 warriors who would never podcast.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:00:20 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Hulk.
Domestic grosses of CTHD, Hulk, Life of Pi were very similar.
“This Life of Pi and Hulk all ended up very similar.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:02:22 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:
Ehrlich took a train from Connecticut to Lincoln Plaza Cinemas the opening day, brought four friends, and went again.
“Scratching Tiger came out of Lincoln Plaza Cinemas on December 8th, 2000, and I got on a train from Connecticut to New York.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:13:17 · David Ehrlich (0.70 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:
Ehrlich's first Ang Lee film; he had not seen Ice Storm or Ride with the Devil and had only seen Sense and Sensibility because his mom made him.
“This was my 1st Angly movie unquestionably.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:15:15 · David Ehrlich (0.55 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:
Griffin and his dad disliked it at 11, but his memory of it kept improving: perfect recall played better and better.
“Sure. And my dad and I were both like, what's the fucking deal with that thing?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:16:22 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:
11-year-old Griffin's literal mind: they don't explain why they can fly.
“I was so literal minded where I was like, but they don't explain why they can fly.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:17:40 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:
Ehrlich's first-ever movie review, for his high school newspaper, was of CTHD.
“This brings me back to the very 1st movie review I ever wrote”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:18:43 · David Ehrlich (0.65 sure it was them) -
career (career):
Ride with the Devil → Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
CTHD follows closely after the flop Ride with the Devil, as a re-centering back to his own thing.
“It does feel like a bit of a like, let me get back to my shit.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:20:17 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:
The four leads speak different accents on camera; Yeoh learned her Mandarin lines phonetically and took a year of no other work.
“Right. One of them is one of them is essentially speaking lines phonetically.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:21:44 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Westerns (genre).
Lee reviving an old genre like making a Western, but engineered for a worldwide audience.
“It was like if somebody made a Western, but it also was implicitly built to and engineered to appeal to a worldwide audience as much as it appealed to an American one.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:23:14 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (parody):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Scary Movie.
Wire-work parody in pop culture (Scary Movie that year) made it hard for a young Griffin to take the genre seriously.
“Well, there's like scary movie this year.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:24:52 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → The Matrix.
CTHD's choreographer is the same as The Matrix's.
“obviously this has the same actual choreographer as that movie”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:24:55 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → King Hu.
CTHD plays in the milieu of King Hu and the wuxia classics, but with a more modern sensibility.
“this movie is playing in a, in a Milu that is inherent to like King Hu movies and Musha, like the classics”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:24:55 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Sense and Sensibility.
Ang Lee's bottled-emotion movies; CTHD as Sense and Sensibility with a magic sword.
“This is one of his great bottled emotion movies, which is like a big running theme for people who don't know how to express those. Sensibility with a magic sword.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:30:13 · David Ehrlich (0.45 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:
Joke: Schamus and Lee did not speak for two years after Lee cut Chow Yun-fat's mirror scene.
“Yeah, James Seamus and Engley actually didn't talk for 2 years after he cut that.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:31:10 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them) -
career (career):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Bulletproof Monk.
After CTHD Chow made no film for three years, then Bulletproof Monk.
“And after this, he doesn't make a movie for 3 years, and when he does it, it's bulletproof monk.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:34:33 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
James Schamus → Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Schamus wrote the lyrics to the closing-credits song of Crouching Tiger.
“And our love, to quote the James Seamus lyrics from the closing, the closing song, is... Close like a drug, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:36:50 · unclear (a host or the guest) (0.30 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Sense and Sensibility.
After 15 minutes the movie goes full Jane Austen.
“But like 15 minutes later, when the movie goes full, Jane Austen”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:37:29 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Lady Bird.
Seen as a coming-of-age story where Jen is the surrogate daughter holding the adults together and apart.
“I never really looked at it through this lens until I was just, you know, on ambient and trying to apply ladybird quotes to everything”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:42:52 · David Ehrlich (0.55 sure it was them) -
what-if (what-if):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Sense and Sensibility.
What if Kate Winslet's Sense and Sensibility character could fly and was a bandit: Jen.
“What if Sense and Sensibility, Kate Winslow's character could fly and was a bandit?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:43:22 · David Ehrlich (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (joke):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Blade 2.
The film's first 20 minutes inspired a bad feeling akin to Harry Knowles's Blade 2 review.
“Like Harry Knowles reviewing Blade 2.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:48:40 · David Ehrlich (0.45 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Jen staring at the sword is a Breakfast at Tiffany's moment.
“A little breakfast at Tiffany's moment, just staring.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:52:07 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Ang Lee → Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Lee wrote the subtitles himself so they would be clear and carry the plot.
“Angley wrote the subtitles because he wanted the subtitles to be clear and to like convey plot.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:53:28 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:
Lee wrote the English subtitles himself; a Mandarin-speaking girlfriend laughed throughout at the idioms.
“And I watched this with my girlfriend who speaks Mandarin and she was like laughing all the time.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:53:34 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → American action movies (genre).
Compared to CTHD, American action looks awful because Hollywood lacks the trained talent and time.
“it's because you just don't have the talent required to pull it off.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:56:34 · David Ehrlich (0.35 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Yuen Wo-ping → Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
With more time than he had ever had, the choreographer used every big kick he had been saving.
“choreographing it had a time that he never really had before. And so he like busted out the big guns, all like the kicks that he had been holding in his back pocket for all those years.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:57:21 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Zhang Ziyi.
Zhang approached the fight scenes as dance with no martial arts background.
“Xi Jang had no martial arts background, only a dance background and she just approached all of this like dance routine.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:57:38 · David Ehrlich (0.35 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Iron Fist (TV series, said "Iron Fest") → Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Iron Fist's star was shown each fight the morning of and had 30 minutes to learn it, against the year of rehearsal Crouching Tiger's actresses had.
“they pretty much like on the morning when I got to set, they'd show me what the fight was. We just had 30 minutes to learn.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:58:20 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → John Wick.
Only the John Wick / Atomic Blonde filmmakers in the West think about action with this depth.
“John Wick, John Wick 2, Atomic Blonde, that their whole companies is based around the action built up.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:58:36 · David Ehrlich (0.30 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Last Action Hero.
Jen worshipping Shu Lien and living her dreamed-of story is very Last Action Hero.
“It's very last action hero.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:07:21 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → The Artist.
Foreign hits that do well overseas get dismissed by us, like The Artist.
“And I think, I think, like, the artist was kind of viewed that way”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:10:46 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:
The first fight: the whole first 35 minutes are people talking about how good Li Mu Bai is, then he shows up and it takes three moves.
“The entire 1st 35 minutes of the movie are people talking about how good he is at fighting.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:12:10 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:
Griffin's favorite weapon: Michelle Yeoh's weird candy cane claws, plus the curtain rod.
“Michelle Yeoh's weird candy cane claws.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:13:13 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:
The silent teacup catch: the foley-heavy film goes silent to show effortlessness.
“That teacup thing is like silent.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:17:17 · David Ehrlich (0.45 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:
Merch: a line of Crouching Tiger toys two years after a Sony Pictures Classics release.
“It had made such a cultural impact that there were like crouching tiger toys at RIP Toys R Us?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:19:03 · David Ehrlich (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:
20-minute Gobi desert flashback and the comb meet-cute; Griffin's favorite shot going up the ridge.
“drops the hammer, a 20-ish minute flashback, which rules?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:22:02 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
career (career):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Lust, Caution.
CTHD's sensuality was the most Lee had filmed until Lust, Caution.
“prior to lost caution, far and away, the most sensual thing that Angley had ever filmed.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:25:59 · David Ehrlich (0.35 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → The Remains of the Day.
The repressed never-expressed love is very Remains of the Day.
“Yeah, I mean, it's very remain to the day.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:30:33 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Lady Bird.
Jen compared to Christine 'Lady Bird' McPherson: a dimensional woman who is villain and hero at once.
“She reminds me a lot of Christine Ladybird, whatever the fuck her last name is, McPherson.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:31:01 · David Ehrlich (0.45 sure it was them) -
unmapped (joke):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Phantom Thread.
Jen's bar-ordering is like a Phantom Thread order.
“She does like a fucking phantom thread order.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:32:27 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:
Bar fight trivia: the stuntman who falls off the banister is the same man later holding an abacus because he broke his arm.
“how the guy who does that immortal fall off the banister is the same guy who has the abacus”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:33:14 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Marvel movies (genre).
In Marvel fights the set-up is justified but the fight itself is devoid of story or character; in CTHD fights carry story.
“But it's like we've justified why they now need to fight, but then the fight is totally devoid of story or character.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:35:00 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Fearless.
Fearless was marketed as another Chinese movie for people who liked CTHD.
“which was sort of advertised as like, if you like Crashing Tiger, here's another Chinese movie for you.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:36:26 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
what-if (what-if):
Jet Li → Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Maybe Jet Li wasn't ready for CTHD because he hadn't yet turned down CTHD; he took Romeo Must Die instead.
“Oh, that's an interesting point that maybe Jet Lee wasn't ready to do Crouching Tiger because he hadn't yet turned down Crouching Tiger.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:37:25 · David Ehrlich (0.35 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Lady Bird.
Jen and Shu Lien's big fight is Lady Bird fighting with her mother.
“And it is also ladybird fighting with her mother.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:37:46 · David Ehrlich (0.50 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Wonder Woman.
CTHD tapped into female strength that Wonder Woman had to catch up to 18 years later.
“this movie was tapping into things that Wonder Woman would have to like run around to 18 years later.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:38:16 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Hero.
Without CTHD's success Hero would not have been released in the US.
“Well, you know, without this movie, you don't have hero coming out in the United States.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:38:48 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Slumdog Millionaire.
CTHD spawned 'Crouching Blank, Hidden Blank' naming, as Slumdog did for 15 years.
“In the same way that like some dog millionaire for 15 years after is just like, oh, look, it's slum dog blank over here.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:41:10 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:
Camera and wires for the bamboo-top fight: Ehrlich/Griffin still can't figure out how it was done.
“I still don't know how they got the camera up there.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:42:21 · David Ehrlich (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:
The dying monologue the speakers call classic Schamus: 'I would rather be a ghost drifting by your side'.
“I would rather be a ghost drifting by your side.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:43:41 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Roman Holiday.
The ending, loving in hearts but never together, is like Roman Holiday.
“But no, it's like a Roman holiday sort of.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:44:26 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Brokeback Mountain.
CTHD as the first of Lee's 'fuck mountain diptych' of transgressive sex movies, with Brokeback.
“This is the 1st of Angley's fuck mountain diptych.”
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industry (industry):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Gladiator.
The Oscar race looked even between Gladiator, Traffic and CTHD.
“But I feel like people thought it was a pretty even race between gladiator traffic and crouching tiger that it could go any one of the 3 ways.”
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industry (industry):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Traffic.
Traffic won four Oscars to CTHD's four, with Soderbergh splitting the director vote.
“Everyone thought he was going to win best director because they thought Soderberg would cancel himself out.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:47:37 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Gladiator.
Gladiator beat CTHD for Best Picture with 12 nominations to 10.
“Glad you got 12.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:48:58 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:
Nominations: Gladiator got 12, CTHD 10; CTHD won score, art direction, cinematography, foreign language film.
“Best art direction, best cinematography, and foreign language film.”
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industry (industry):
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Sony Pictures Classics.
Sony Pictures Classics had no experience releasing a film this wide; it was slow, steady expansion.
“And they had like no experience releasing a film this wide.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:52:12 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:
Sony Pictures Classics co-president Michael Barker realized they'd crossed $100M when two kids at a mall raved about the cool subtitles.
“they were like, man, the fucking subtitles were so cool.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:52:33 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:
Opened at number 15 on 16 screens with a strong per-screen; widest release took four months.
“It opens at number 15.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:53:09 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)