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A&E Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon blends martial arts, romance, fable, feminism _____________________ 5_ WEdNEsdAy, FebRUARy 14, 2001 iN1 he CI ac R amas P rint TAM OLIVER A&E Editor | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a multifaceted movie tern that mixes martial arts with lomance, and fable with feminism. | Directed by Ang Lee, this film las already won multiple awards, [uch as Best Director and Motion Picture, from the 200 T Golden Globe Awards. Subtitled in En glish, the film is done in Mandarin Chinese, enhancing its authentic ity. This was distracting for about r K- en minutes into the film. After that point, it was as if the translation :ame out of the actors’ mouths. Three strong women characters lominate the martial arts’ scenes, :xcept when Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun -at) is around. His fighting is :harged from a spiritual power he las found within himself, and vith this, he seems undefeatable. Jade Fox (Cheng Peipei) learned ler skills as a martial artist from a book she stole from Li’s master. She is an embittered assassin who hates the fate of women in China. “Your master un derestimated us women,” she tells Li. “Sure he’d sleep with me, but he would never teach me. He deserved to die by a woman’s hand.” Jen Yu (Zhang Ziyi) is the youngest daughter of a gover nor soon to be mar ried to a man of her Lo, the "Dark Cloud," watches over a caravan, readying his attack. parents’ choosing. She has many se crets, including where she learned In battle, she is very focused and airborne. This is made possible by to fight like she does, which un controlled, which saves her from the efforts of the special effects folds as the movie progresses. killing Jen Yu on more than one team that also did The Matrix. A Yu Shu (Michelle Yeoh) is a occasion. sword fight between Li and Jen Wuxia warrior, a legendary knight Since it is a martial arts film, there takes place as they cling to the that roams the highways doing are many breathtaking fight high tops of swaying bamboo. Jen good deeds and righting wrongs. scenes where characters become is especially talented at running up Authors on campus Horoscopes stand by their work B H ® m 3 DAISY BAIN Staff Wrtier I Authors’ Night was held last ■week in the Gregory Forum featur ing local authors Larry Colton and Jennifer Lauck. I Each author read an excerpt from leach other’s books. First Lauck Lead from Colton’s book Counting ¡Coup: A True Story of Basketball liW Honor on the Little Big Horn. I He spent three years writing this [book while spending nearly 15 [months with a Native American [tribe. He lived on a reservation [studying the life and habits of a [young half-Native American, half- Iwhite girl who struggled with rac- ism, intense friendships, romance, [corrosive rivalries and troubled fami lies. | Colton spent the rest of the three [years trying to perfect and write his book but was disappointed when the true stoiy he had spent so much time on was turned down by publishers. “I thought I was bulletproof,” Colton said. Because he felt so passionately about his book, he went back and revised it by turning it into a first person point of view, and it was pub- lished. I The book has stirred some con troversy. Some say that he had por trayed some of the characters in a bad way and that he had no right as a white mai) to try to portray a Na tive American family. Jennifer Lauck, author of Black bird: A Childhood Lost and Found, said it was a difficult book for her to read. “ It makes you deal with it,” she said, referring to life’s struggles. “If you are able to look at it, maybe they can change it.” The book had so much contro versy that his scheduled event at Barnes and Noble was cancelled due to the fact that it wasn’t safe for him to be there. Too many people were angry that he was a white man writing a portrayal of an Indian com munity. “I stand by what I wrote,” stated Colton, when talking about poten tial libelous statements in the book. He said he had all the tapes to prove everything he wrote was true. Colton then read from Lauck’s book Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found. She writes from the standpoint of a child narrator depict ing a true story from her own life. This book is the first of more to come, covering her life from age five to age 12. “If s authentic and real,” Colton said. She tells the story of the death of her mother, then father, and then her abandonment at the age of 10 to a church commune in central Los Angeles. Frank McCourt, author of Angela’s Ashes, says of this book that it is “the unblinking look of one child at a hard world written glori ously and movingly.” Lauck has appeared on Oprah and the Rosie O’Donnell show. It has been the third best seller in Scot land and the fourth in the London Times. She has had her book sold in 12 countries and will be touring abroad in the fall. Both authors were asked what they wanted the readers of this ar ticle to contemplate. “I wanted Basketball out of there,” Colton said, referring to the title. “This book is not a sports book.” He stressed that his story did not focus on basketball and that he was upset that the book is found in the sports section in book stores. Lauck’s response to the samel question was, “I believe we’re con-1 stantly evolving and changing.” | This is the first book about her life, | and there is more to come that shows | how she grew as a person. 3X -sX -4- Aries: Free your imagination and your heart will follow. Be wild and creative, your dream just might come true. Leo: Venus is coasting through your house of love until June. Be open to new ways of feel ing and expressing amour. Taurus: You may have been Virgo: Hold a garage sale with your old thoughts. They’re not bad ideas; they’re just not really you anymore. burned by love before, but give romance another chance. Some thing new is on the horizon. Gemini: Success isn’t always a lin ear progression. Watch out for some serious and wonderful curveballs. Cancer: Good things are coming. The skies have cleared and the sun is shining out through your soul. Yea for you! the sides of buildings, leaping from rooftop to rooftop and, quite frankly, flying. Li is no slouch in the flying department either. The main plot revolves around who stole the Green Destiny, an ancient jade sword belonging to Li Mu Bai, a Wudan warrior. After meditating at Wudan Mountain, Li had decided it was time he began to live a more peaceful life. He passed the sword on to a friend. After the sword arrives at the friend’s house, a masked woman steals it. As the story of the sword contin ues to unravel, other subplots de velop. Is one of the reasons that Li is ready to retire because of his love for Yu Shu? How many secrets does the mysterious Jen have? Who was that man in her bedroom? Director Ang Lee is already plan ning both a prequel and sequel to this magical movie, which is so good that even subtitles haven’t slowed it down at the box office. Libra: Surgeon General’s Warning: Dropping your preconceived ex pectations now will greatly improve your happiness when you finally get the thing you wanted and it is not what you thought it would be. Sagittarius: The time is right to be selfish but in a kind, loving way. Demand apologies for past wrongs but accept them graciously. Capricorn: If you don’t ask, you will never know. Being in love with love is fun, but try loving something more challenging—a theory, art, an idea, yourself. Aquarius: Pisces: Don’t be so friggin’ uptight ‘lil Pisces. Learn to relax again. The Virgo’s of the world will watch the details this week. 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