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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon The critically acclaimed film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, directed by Ang Lee, is more than your average martial arts film. This is a classic tale of love, honor, loyalty, and personal freedom incorporated with some beautiful gravity defying fight scenes. Although there still are some stereotypes of Asian films depicted, overall this film strays away from these and focuses on a strong heroine theme. On the surface the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is just another “kung fu” action film. With your stereotypical elaborate fight scenes in which honor and respect are always at the forefront, and there are never any cheap shots taken on the opponent. But there is also a very non-typical role in the film, the role of the woman. Normally in any martial arts films, women are always portrayed as objects, which the men must protect using there hand to hand combat skills. But this is not the case in Crouchin