From novel to film, “change Crouching.Tiger,Hidden.Dragon” is not only the text to the image, but also modern, or continental culture to the culture of Taiwan, and then go to the Hollywood culture as the representative of western culture, one of the intriguing changes. One of the biggest changes in the film and the novel’s protagonist Li Mubai is that the simple erotic relationship in the novel became a tangled tangled web in the film. It seems that “Crouching.Tiger,Hidden.Dragon” is the performance of the sword arena, in fact, its inherent tension is not from the body (or corners of the martial arts and martial arts green night sword are just excuses and desire, but a symbol) each person’s inner feelings and desires or the world – this is what Ang Lee wants to show “the rivers and lakes”.
“Inner desires is to form”Li Mubai, Yu Xiulian and Yu Jiaolong triangle relationship from the Western critics said, it seems that crude is groundless statement, at least when I first see the film only in the last cave Yu Jiaolong said “do you want me to have experience or sword”, and most of the audience China afraid didn’t notice the early ambush faint clue.
Before Yu Jiaolong appeared, the main obstacle between Li Mubai and Yu Xiulian is Meng Sizhao, but Meng Sizhao is dead, in this regard, Yu Xiulian’s interpretation of her and Yu Jiaolong dialogue: you’re free, we are longing for. Although I am not born like you officials, but accepted ethics at all without you less obviously, the interpretation on the surface at least agree with Li Mubai.
There is no doubt that Lu Xun is like the “swords” hidden desire and morality of the war, Li Mubai in the arena as a famous person, Jen in his passion and caused confusion between the concept of moral, is bound to deformation mode.
“Swords” in the incarnation of Lu Xun Yi people, by a passive attitude has been Meijianchi in his lips kiss of death and revenge, across the two coat, which he has love is sexual cues (not kiss on the face, but on the lips), but not in violation of Ethics (of them between life and death, seeking help and help the two layer of protective clothing), even if some people do not have to be responsible to attack him (because he is passive). In the “Crouching.Tiger,Hidden.Dragon”, Li Mubai changed his own passion on the form is the apprentice”.
Starting from the arena of moral perspective, Li Mubai believes Yu Jiaolong will lead astray from the right, not only because she will not is a “dragon”, more love from the younger generation, carrying less angle, their behavior explanation: 1. Yu Jiaolong needs to have the heart to teach her the right person. 2. he himself has been searching for disciples who can carry on his martial arts. Speaking, these reasons are high sounding, including Yu Xiulian, including people who have been deceived by this statement, only Yu Jiaolong soberly aware of Li Mubai’s internal desire demands.
Under the name of Li Mubai was, not only right and proper pursuit of Jen whereabouts, can also be the name of a teacher for a day is a father for life “from the spirit of her permanent possession. This kind of possession, from Li Mubai Luo Xiaohu will arrange to Wudang Mountains as an example, including Luo Xiaohu, who had not thought of Jen so-called “trap” whether there is another meaning. Yu Jiaolong, the reason why this arrangement is called a “trap”, is obviously not a simple start from the “master” of this matter, andHer attitude is fierce in their instinct to escape her fear of being controlled in every act and every move, the net action — even if it is in the name of love.
Li Mubai: I can’t stop my desire, eitherIn the movie, Li Mubai was probably not clear about his own secret desires. What he did was in his search for what he thought was “right” and ethically ethical. But does Li Mubai know nothing about the secret desires hidden in his actions? Not quite.
The relationship between Li Mubai and Yu Xiulian began to be implied, including Wu’s mother’s ambiguous smile, Beller’s narrator, and Yu Xiulian’s explanation. Beller house, Yu Xiulian and Li Mubai only a direct dialogue, interrupted by a servant entered, when the relationship is that Li Mubai believes Yu Xiulian will join him and Yu Xiulian living in seclusion, so some unknown. A sword game on the moonlit night, Li Mubai and Yu Xiulian did not intervene in third, why can not they continue to talk about the above topic, to make it clear?
To explain this question, we can consider it in two aspects. First, at the beginning of the film, when Li Mubai explained the reasons for the descent, he questioned the “emptiness” of taoism. He was down, the thought and Yu Xiulian “I think we all say it, because he was the pursuit of Taoism is the first step down the doubt, he rushed out of the former moral norms, including the break between him and Yu Xiulian obstacles. Because of Li Mubai’s “outlook on life”, he not only broke the barriers between him and Yu Xiulian, also broke through the barriers between self and moral, he begins to find their true “hold” start in life, the pursuit of their own inner voice.
In his pursuit of inner voice, Jen appeared, this is the problem of second aspects. The appearance of Yu Jiaolong not only stimulated Li Mubai to pursue his inner voice, but also gradually touched it
2017-08-11 at 02:15
Thanks for writing this.
This film, the director Lee An want to show a place that people called it ‘JiangHu’. In this place, there are three major characters of different personalities. In my opinion, ‘JiangHu’ is like a big society. Everyone live in ‘JiangHu’, they must obey the rules. Of course, there are some Chinese traditional culture in the film. For example, clothes, hair style. I was interested in Chinese traditional Kung Fu. It is so exciting in the film. Someone said it looks like a kind of dance. In my opinion, this film like a Chinese traditional ‘WuXia’ novel. So I have a question. What do you think about ‘JiangHu’?
2017-08-11 at 11:40
Cologne once said Jianghu is where people lives. From a narrow sense, Jianghu is a chivalrous Chinese unique ideal world. In terms of broad sense, deception, loyalty, suspicion, trust, the every day of each of us is Jinaghu. Chinese have had a dream of jianghu for thousands of years, the dream of a relatively free and never exhausted enthusiasm, there are wine and poems , sword and stories. But who can say that we may have live in this dream already.
2017-08-11 at 02:17
I like what you have talked about in the blog which is reall interesting. I enjoy this movie so much. Li Mubai attracts me deeply because since I was a child, I wanted to be a chivalrous person like him. The relationship among them looks complex but in fact it is not such complicated. I think what the movie wants to show us is mainly about two words, passion and freedom. No matter in the past time or today, people always want these two things. This movie is such popular around the world I think the main reason is that the director conveys these two thoughts, love and freedom. But I am a little confused in one part. What is the meaning of “inner desire is to form”? Can you talk about it further?
2017-08-11 at 11:48
Li Mu Bai as a famous person, the appearance of Yu jiaolong in his lust and moral sense caused by the disturbance, but also must appear in a deformed way. So he chose the apprentice, in this form to balance the lust and moral between the disturbances caused.