Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Jen vs. Shu Lien Sword Fight (Michelle Yeoh Fight Scene) 

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Agreed. You should of heard the audience at the movie theater before the fight started; they knew a masterpiece was coming. But they were surprised with the outcome of this scene. Perfect movie.

Julio Areck Chang Yep. One of my fav fight scenes of all time. Perfectly choreographed and executed, subtle real life comedy [weapon being too heavy for her [Yeoh] to use and her smirk back [Zhang], and just overall entertainment.

It certainly is!!!!

Do you know sword fighting?

@@vijayvijay4123 they were using swords.... in a fight..... hence... they were sword fighting....

THE greatest.

Some of the best 6 minutes in cinematic history.

Not almost, she DID defeat her. She just showed mercy afterwards.

She also chose it because she knew any weapon she chose would be cut through by the Green Destiny. She knew that she could maneuver the long sword into a position that even if cut through the angled remains of the long sword would still have the reach to end up at Jen Yu’s neck

@@nonopenope Right and she started off with her favorite weapons the double saber. She actually could've cut Jen within the first 2 seconds with that (she slapped her in the chest instead). In fact she pretty much beat Jen with almost every weapon but Jen wouldn't have accepted that unless she had a sword held up to her throat.

I absolutely loved that little detail when I saw her pick up the longsword!

@@FoieGras Interesting take. I have long attributed this to Jen being a prodigy that simply lacked experience. Keep in mind that Jen is relatively new to fighting and is basically self taught. Yes, Shu Lien had the upper hand when starting off with a new weapon, but Jen would learn on the fly, adapt and then win.

The tables are strong and familiar to everyone, so smashing it shows visually the strength of a weapon or a person smashing it.

Just like every car chase will crash into a fruit stand

love it!

I believe they call that Chekhov's round eating table

How did you find out?

I've never seen a performance of hers that I didn't like.

Dude, chill out... she's not Bruce Lee lol

@@davida6146 You're right, she's better.

@@Rezinstance wow... how can you compare her to Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee's movements were so fast, the cameras had to slow down his scenes.

Michelle Yeoh has been around for a long time. She is a top martial artist and actress. Legend indeed👍🏾

I did not realize that fact until you pointed it out

And it builds to that as she is not in the least put off discarding & grabbing weapon after weapon.

@@hydrocarbon8272 Because she kept losing weapons, Zhang Ziyi becomes over-confident and is blind to her tactic

its great how they show that even if jen yu is younger and has natural talent while having one of the strongest swords, she still is no match to yu shu lien and all her training and experience

@@Atthetta Tbh Zhang ziyi's character is arrogant and is evidently wining the fight because of the sword. Her sword skills really cannot compare to Michelle yeoh's character's skills.

Right! Well deserved!

She got one after 40 years

This is why I don't even care about the Oscars - they dismiss a lot of the "foreign" films even though a lot of films in India, China, Korea could match any Oscar contenders in any category. I don't know what awards Crouching Tiger got, but it better have swept the awards like Parasite did.

She already got it today. First Asian woman Oscar winning

Imagine caring about meaningless trophies like the Oscars

Now michelle yeoh got oscar and golden globe both for the movie “everything everywhere all at once"

I can't stress enough how important it is to a GOOD scene to not make a lot of cuts. Give us those wide angle shots and let us really see the skill of the fighters/stunt people.

@Wibble Wobble - But it's been noted by many Chinese actors and directors that in Chinese cinema they are allowed days, weeks, and even months to put the fight sequences together and filmed. When working in the U.S., because of the tight filming schedule, they are working on a much shorter choreography window. They also noted the skill of the actors and not working with a choreography crew who have worked together for years.

How Luke and Rey in the last Jedi should of been🤦🏼‍♂️

Choreo only can do so much. Tbh this choreo wouldn’t have come out the way it did without Michelle. Her posture, flexibility, facial expressions, her movements are a dream.

Yes! I hate all the recent Chinese martial arts films and TV series because it’s all slo motion Matrix style.

d movie was about The West vs the Far-East. The young girl was the classic West that was practical and never respects the older generations. It was more effective than theancient Chinese world. By now they have changed. There is pragmatism in China and out-dated suicide ideologies on the West. The Master was a kinda hesitating Hamlet character in a love triangle. From the other hand, the little rebel girl's real partner, her real needed phallos was the green sword. This movie was an early new feminist film too.

Feel like I'd like to see it again soon, hopefully.... amazing choreography, story and setting, and superb acting all around.

@@ymelfilm you and I saw two different movies

@@sushles this film has lots of interpretations. It runs in more cultural dimensions

@@ymelfilm Wrong movie

It's basically a feint, done mostly with the wrist. Cuts in one direction (the feint), opponent goes to parry and once committed to the parry, changes direction with the wrist (not the whole arm). Fast and subtle. Good to use against a more inexperienced opponent using big heavy cuts with the whole arm. Very common move in Western sabre fencing. Not surprised it's in Chinese Martial arts as well. Teaches Jen to respect and not underestimate her opponent....

It's subtle details like that, showing that a fight really is a battle between the combatants where they try to one-up and fool each other while defending against counterattacks that really make a good action scene. There are way too many movies and TV shows where the director seems to think a good action scene is just lots of spectacle, so you're left with big flashy movements or explosions, but there's no narrative to follow of how the fight is going or what the characters are thinking. Just two people waving their fists or weapons at each other. The spectacle can hold attention for a bit, but it quickly gets boring when that narrative isn't there to make us really feel the stakes of each and every move the combatants are taking. This fight scene is such a great one because the narrative is always there, always the focus, with the spectacular choreography being used for that focus.

Shu is clearly waaayyyyy better than Jen. Jen just has the better sword.

Came to look for this comment. It was shocking how quickly she could have killed her

Well, not exactly final... they were both nowhere close to Li Mu Bai.

I can't think of a better one.

Agree

Fits nicely into my playlist "Dragons and Daffodils, Gods and Wizards, Goats and Devils, Fairies and Magicians, Queens and Princes, Grannies and Sons-in-law, Posession and Spirit, Knowledge and Wisdom" ... you name it ...

You'll get no argument from me

Prisoner of Zenda Coleman version is very good

Fits nicely into my playlist "Dragons and Daffodils, Gods and Wizards, Goats and Devils, Fairies and Magicians, Queens and Princes, Grannies and Sons-in-law, Posession and Spirit, Knowledge and Wisdom" ... you name it ...

"The Green Destiny in this fight was quite LITERALLY...the equalizer." It certainly helped, but the thing that actually let Jen stay in the fight for more than a minute is that Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh) was holding back the entire time, desperately trying *not* to hurt her. You can see how she consistently hits with the flat of the blade, not the edge.

@@davidstorrs Hit with the flat of the blade is a standard parry technique, and serves the purpose of saving the edge. The only swords in the world that can take edge vs. edge fight without edge damage are some XVIth and past XVIth century European sabres, but even they can take only few shots, at least when confronting a sabre of similar quality.

Good insight, from all of you. Thank you.

and the more experienced fighter still found a way to turn the weapon's strength against its wielder

Oscar was and is still racist. She shoulda won one for crouching tiger 22 years ago

@@hatelovebowel4571 but better late than never

She was nominated for Best Actress at HK Academy Award in Hong Kong. But lost to Maggie Cheung

Oscar at that time didn't care about international movies lol

Takes a lot more than fancy flying.

Michelle also had to learn to speak Mandarin for this film, she only spoke Cantonese before making Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

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And you can see she's better than her opponent with each of them, it's just the Green Destiny making the difference

Gay

@@Reborncanine yes and?

So happy for her Oscar win.

I love when they are in movies together …: it’s always amazing!!

That act gave more reallistic to the film.

u died? so stop commenting please,u are dead

@@kinh0t 🙄🤔🙄🤔🙄🤔

but the thing is, SHE TRIED. More commitment to her inner sense of duty than to *any* shortcomings. I'm still blown away by what she could do with the spear. When no one is at home, I try to do that with the broom when sweeping leaves and snow lmao.

Is that actually what it’s called?

Christ this is good

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@Macdealerx Don't forget about Zhang's turn in Rush Hour 2 as Hu Li fighting Jackie Chan (Lee) and Chris Rock (Tucker).

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wrong use of the word literally

@Irwan Santoso literally the grammar policy is here, I think. I'm sorry to bother you with my wrong use of the word, but I have to admit that I'm even more sorry to see that with the number of subjects you could pick to start a conversation with me you choose the boring one, literally...

@@vintageb8 you’re literally being so annoying, you literally need to stop, right now. I’m quite literally so tired of your bitching and moaning about the use of literally, literally… So literally stop, literally no one wants to hear your garbage, literally…

Additional insight from a chinese martial arts perspective, it gives a lot of background to just how powerful the Green Destiny is. The point isn't that Michelle Yeoh is just good at every weapon, nor is it really about what you said about winning and losing, it's that she is specifically choosing weapons that specifically counter the Jian and is meant to break them, which is why so many times during the sequence she is showing surprise that her Jian breaking or countering weapons is 1. not doing any damage to the Jian, and 2. getting shattered by them. This scene is meant to highlight just how absurdly strong the Green Destiny is. She also could have defeated Ziyi Zhang's character a couple of times but due to reasons told in the movie, she does not. She outskills and counters her in everyway but the Green Destiny prevails.

@Ajaxlancer, thank you for sharing your thoughts! I noticed that too, but I couldn't explain it. This is why I love this movie so much, the way it is so well thought out and beautifully executed, ART!

Correct, a little slide to the back with sharp edge, and the fight would have been over at 0:52. Yu is just a stupid kid with inferior skill and no honour. I hated that character through the whole movie and wished her to be killed instead.

@@piotrmalewski8178 Well, she has enormous skills and talents, I would argue, but they are RAW and unrefined. And you are right that she has no honor here. Her moral guide after all, was Jade Fox. Shu Lien was an absolutely consummate swordswoman. Far beyond Yu. But Yu having what basically amounts to a lightsaber really does equal it. What did you think of Lien's last strike? I thought her judgement on the fly that her broadsword was GOING to be cut, and to follow through anyways with a cut was brilliant. She could have decisively ended it at least 5 times in the fight even with the weapon mismatch. This fight is a joy to watch.

Fun fact: In Chinese sword fighting they were trained to turn the blade unless dealing a blow. It prevents the blade edges from becoming gouged. When you really think about it: they must have been some masterful damn swordsmen. Because a crap ton of Chinese blades were flexible like the Green Destiny.

@@republicoftexas4651 I hear ya! But she had Yu completely out of position by the low fake, high cut. Had she kept her blade edge on, thats a fight ending cut. Given quality of metals in these ages, dulling and gouging was absolutely an issue yep. I can see that being a thing.

@@shkotayd9749 I totally understand what you're saying: she had her early on and let her know it. The Chinese learned about a thousand years before anybody else: stiff brittle swords = bad. It's the same reason the Japanese smear that paste on their sword edges when forging: so they don't become brittle. That's why all Japanese swords have that wave pattern along their edges. It's actually brilliant metallurgy.

the metal staff bent it if you look closely- then next scene it was straight again

Good catch!

Even in the final stroke she could have slit Jiaolong's throat open but she chose to give her yet another chance to amend her mistake

Where I saw it, they gave it a standing ovation.

@@jonothandoesernice 👍🙂

yes, in the beginning, but people shut their pie hole as they got into the story. I remember not expecting anything when I went into the cinema but was totally in awe afterwards.

@Whyyoumadatfacts? 🤷‍♂️ It's no different than superheroes in tights or crap like using your mind to curve bullets. It's an established premise of the fantasy.

Agree🙏

hell yeah I’ll take that offer

"fantastic and restrained use of wires" What would unrestrained use of wires be, in your opinion? Literally two people hanging from the ceiling? The wire in the shot 8 seconds in couldn't be any more obvious and jarring if they'd painted it red and hung ribbons off it.

Agreed on everything, also the sound editing is utterly mad.

​@98z76y did you think they were actually flying? Lol I think what he means is the flying parts are restrained. You only see them do it a few times as opposed to the entire fight taking place in mid air.

​@@98z76yhe added that just for people like you who see wire = bad

I heartily agree! This is not fair, especially to Cate Blanchete but this kind of stunt work (even if there were stunt doubles used) making it look real, with safety guidelines, is the highest form of great acting and none of the other Oscar contenders could come anywhere near this ; which is why Yeoh deserves and should get The Oscar!!

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It's been a while since I've seen this movie, but I think Michelle Yeoh's character was a master level practitioner or warrior herself. She'd be able to outclass Jen any day. ^_^

Even without the sword, she is able to defend or fight. She got the talent in martial art and she more time to train and tune her skill, she is able to defeat her opponents. Even armed with Green Destiny Sword, she is able use it very competently, so in the first place you need to have that shining talent for martial art skill.

@@oradba168 I think his point was that she would have been wrecked in this specific fight without the Green Destiny...not that she had no talent.

Definetely. Jen had the superior weapon but Shu Lien had more experience.

Rey: I don't need training, I'm naturally talented and have never lost a duel in my life. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Are you an idiot?

Yup. Exactly!

It's not a fight scene at all. It's a dialogue...A loud, passionate argument with neither side giving in.

Hard to have good choreography when the movie is written on the fly and has to be reshot six times.

more like clubs lol

This should have been her first nomination (same for Ziyi Zhang). Of course the action scenes and exquisite nature of the film itself are a testament to why its still considered one of Ang Lee's greatest films but so much of both comes from the nuance Yeoh and Zhang both bring.

@@AngelofMusic04 I agree completely. In my opinion, this movie is a masterpiece because of the stunts that she herself, trained for. Lee is a visionary, his ability to transform any nostalgic period into ordinary time on the screen is what turns Dulu’s novel into a theatrical masterpiece. Chow Yun Fat too, was overlooked. I love this movie. It is a classic that never tires nor ages.

I wish more people would know about that movie.

the fact she is both characters

What's even more interesting is that she is self-taught and put up a good fight against Shu Lien. Remember, she taught herself by secretly reading the scriptures and surpassed her teacher, who had stolen the secrets of the Wudang top fighting technique hidden in a scroll. However, according to Liu Mui Bai, her ex-teacher only mastered the basics even after ten years but her student Zen exhibited so much skill that she impressed Liu Mui Bai, who wanted her to be his student. This admiration, in turn, led to her ex-teacher becoming jealous of her and desiring to kill her due to her exceptional skill and Liu Mui Bai's admiration for her.

I agree, an amazing performance.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Darth Vader would've fared poorly.

Ang Lee did win an Oscar for this: Best Foreign Film. This was also nominated for Best Picture but did not win. Lee has 2 Oscars for Brokeback Mountain and Life of Pi. The man has 3 Oscars so don't feel bad for Mr. Lee.

I have always hope that the Modern Hollywood can learn from Hong Kong Kung Fu movies, with these action sequences, the actresses learned the moves as well, they use less stunt doubles. Resulting a lot of close ups in shots, and making the scene more realistic. But feel like this will be a little hard for Hollywood actors to do it

@@gaaranaruto991 What i like is the fact that the actresses in this movie fight like females. If a weapon is to heavy for them they adapt and use another one. In Hollywood Movies these days a small, petit women would easily use a large warhammer with one hand... because the woke film makers think females and males are the same!

@@ramireza6904 That's so true. It's time for Hollywood to change

I would have been proud had she won for CTHD, or for any other movie thirty or forty years ago. But these days, academy awards are just an award for wokeness, and after the recent announcements, they aren't even trying to pretend otherwise.

@@daleviker5884lol, ok, you don't have to care

LORD Jesus Christ

She didnt need oscar, oscar need her

So true! It's the only reason I won't give an upvote for this video.