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MODULE 6 Films and TV Programmes Review: film Review: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Martial arts films are often enjoyable but they are seldom great art. Now, to everyone's surprise, Ang Lee, director of a number of excellent films, has made a martial arts film called Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The result is a masterpiece. The film belongs to a type of Chinese story called wuxia. These stories tell of nineteenth-century martial arts masters with unusual abilities. Wuxia films are popular in China, and they are now popular in the west too. The story takes place in the early 1800s in China. A man and a woman, Li Mubai (played by Chow Yun-Fat) and Yu Xiulian (played by Michelle Yeoh), both masters of the martial arts, are in love with each other. But Xiulian had a fiancé who has died. Because this fiancé was a good friend of Mubai, Mubai feels that he cannot marry Xiulian. When someone steals Xiulian's sword, Mubai and Xiulian try to get it back. The action takes place on Peking rooftops, and in places as far away as the deserts of western China. As in the old wuxia stories, characters leap through the air every now and then, with beautiful, graceful movements, while audiences shout in surprise. Unusually, it is the female characters that interest us most. Brave, good and strong, Xiulian is the character we care about most. Beautiful Zhang Ziyi plays the part of Yu Jiaolong, a young woman who is not as good as she seems. The fight scenes between Jiaolong and Xiulian are some of the most exciting moments in modern cinema. But one cannot forget the wonderful Chow Yun-Fat, who is as good with a sword as he is with a gun. His romantic scenes with Yu Xiulian are very moving, as their eyes show all the love that they must not express in words. Films like this rarely reach the cinema. Go and see Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It will make your heart leap with excitement at its beauty. 功夫片通常好看，却难登大雅之堂。令大家惊讶的是，曾经拍了许多优秀影片的导演李安，现在也拍了一部名为《卧虎藏龙》的功夫片，结果成了一部经典之作。 这部电影属于中国武侠故事的一种。这些故事讲述的是19世纪那些有着非凡才能的功夫大师。武侠电影在中国很流行，现在在西方也深受欢迎。 《卧虎藏龙》的故事发生在19世纪初的中国。一男一女两位功夫大师，李慕白(周润发饰)和俞秀莲(杨紫琼饰)相爱了。但是，由于李慕白是俞秀莲过世情郎的生前好友，他觉得无法迎娶秀莲。当秀莲的宝剑被盗之后，慕白和秀莲决心将其追回。故事情节的发生地从京城房顶到遥远的中国西部大漠。正如在古代武侠故事中一样，影片中的人们不时在空中跳跃并做出许多优美的动作，观众看到这些时都发出了惊叫。 不同寻常的是，(影片中的)女角色最能吸引我们。我们最关注秀莲这个角色，她勇敢、善良、坚强。美丽的章子怡扮演玉娇龙，一个并不像外表看起来那样善良的年轻女子。玉娇龙和俞秀莲的打斗场景是现代影院里最为精彩的时刻。但是谁也不会注意不到周润发，他真是很了不起，他使剑和使枪一样厉害。他和俞秀莲之间的感情戏很感人，他们的眼神传递了所有的爱意，这种爱是不可以通过语言表达的。 像这样的影片在电影院很少。去看看《卧虎藏龙》吧。它用美来使你心灵激荡。 |
