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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon blends
martial arts, romance, fable, feminism
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WEdNEsdAy, FebRUARy 14, 2001
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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
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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.
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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.
Scorpio: Repeat three times a day
for a week: You catch more flies
with honey than vinegar.
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