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12018-12-03T18:33:51-08:00Conor Fairtlough88a78d52a1e4f599c6e366a237dffff1617ab4f4322761plain2018-12-03T18:33:51-08:00Conor Fairtlough88a78d52a1e4f599c6e366a237dffff1617ab4f4Post 1-Transationalism in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon was the first Kung Fu movie I had ever seen. I had seen more modernized movies with Kung Fu in them like the Karate Kid but never the genre that was Kung Fu movies. After watching I was blown away. The fight scenes weren’t just random acts, each movement each punch had a meaning. It was a battle of disciples, a battle of values. They were also just insanely visually stimulating. Each time the fought I sat up in my bed because it immedietly drew me back into the story. Personally, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was not my favorite movie. I thought of it more like a painting in a museum. Even if it wasn’t my favorite movie of all time I can completely understand why it is a piece of art and deserves to be in the museum of the best kung fu, if not movies of all time. After I watched the movie and researched I was fascinated by the idea of how and why this movie was the one that “broke through” into the West and made so much money in America especially. After researching it for my questions and talking about it in class the transnational aspect of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon was something that I found so interesting. Crouching Tiger Hidden dragon as able to break through not only because of its western influences by its director but also the Chinese Diasporic population that lives around the world. The market for that is something that I had never thought of but makes a lot of sense. How this movie broke through with is artful storytelling, stunning visuals, and its Chinese cast that appealed to the complex Chinese identify helped it become the smash success that it was.
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12018-12-03T18:33:08-08:00Conor Fairtlough88a78d52a1e4f599c6e366a237dffff1617ab4f4Conor Fairtlough's Final PortfolioConor Fairtlough16Intro to East Asian Pop Culture 2018plain2018-12-14T21:19:30-08:00Conor Fairtlough88a78d52a1e4f599c6e366a237dffff1617ab4f4
