Editing Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (section)

==Reception==
===Box office===
The film premiered in cinemas on 8 December 2000, in limited release within the United States. During its opening weekend, the film opened in 15th place, grossing $663,205 in business, showing at 16 locations.<ref name="BoxOfficeMojo"/> On 12 January 2001, ''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'' premiered in cinemas in wide release throughout the U.S., grossing $8,647,295 in business, ranking in sixth place. The film ''[[Save the Last Dance]]'' came in first place during that weekend, grossing $23,444,930.<ref name=BoxOfficeResults>{{cite web |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2001&wknd=02&p=.htm |title=January 12–14, 2001 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=2011-12-19 |archive-date=16 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180516043018/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2001&wknd=02&p=.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> The film's revenue dropped by almost 30% in its second week of release, earning $6,080,357. For that particular weekend, the film fell to eighth place, screening in 837 theaters. ''Save the Last Dance'' remained unchanged in first place, grossing $15,366,047 in box-office revenue.<ref name="BoxOfficeMojo"/> During its final week in release, ''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'' opened in a distant 50th place with $37,233 in revenue.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2001&wknd=29&p=.htm |title=July 20–22, 2001 Weekend |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=2011-12-19 |archive-date=14 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514195122/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2001&wknd=29&p=.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> The film went on to top out domestically at $128,078,872 in total ticket sales through a 31-week theatrical run. Internationally, the film took in an additional $85,446,864 in box-office business for a combined worldwide total of $213,525,736.<ref name=BoxOfficeMojo/> For 2000 as a whole, the film cumulatively ranked at a worldwide box-office performance position of 19.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2000&p=.htm |title=2000 Domestic Grosses |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=2011-12-19 |archive-date=3 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191003150105/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2000&p=.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Critical response===
{{Blockquote|text=''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'', which is based on an early 20th century novel by Wang Dulu, unfolds much like a comic book, with the characters and their circumstances being painted using wide brush strokes. Subtlety is not part of Lee's palette; he is going for something grand and melodramatic, and that's what he gets.|author=James Berardinelli|source=''ReelViews''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://preview.reelviews.net/movies/c/crouching.html|title=Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon|first=James|last=Berardinelli|work=ReelViews|date=December 2000|access-date=2011-12-19|archive-date=27 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190927105652/http://preview.reelviews.net/movies/c/crouching.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
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''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'' was widely acclaimed in the Western world, receiving numerous awards. On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film holds an approval rating of 98% based on 168 reviews, with an average rating of 8.6/10. The site's critical consensus states: "The movie that catapulted Ang Lee into the ranks of upper echelon Hollywood filmmakers, ''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'' features a deft mix of amazing martial arts battles, beautiful scenery, and tasteful drama."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/crouching_tiger_hidden_dragon/ |title=Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (1999) |access-date=27 February 2023 |publisher=[[Fandango Media]] |work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |archive-date=27 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171127034756/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/crouching_tiger_hidden_dragon/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Metacritic]] reported the film had an average score of 94 out of 100, based on 32 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon|title=Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Reviews|access-date=6 March 2018|publisher=[[CBS Interactive]]|work=[[Metacritic]]|archive-date=3 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180303055358/http://www.metacritic.com/movie/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon|url-status=live}}</ref>

Some Chinese-speaking viewers were bothered by the accents of the leading actors. Neither Chow (a native [[Standard Cantonese|Cantonese]] speaker) nor Yeoh (who was born and raised in Malaysia) spoke [[Mandarin Chinese]] as a [[mother tongue]]. All four main actors spoke Standard Chinese with vastly different accents: Chow speaks with a Cantonese accent,<ref>Hu, Brian (20 December 2006). [https://web.archive.org/web/20120213004650/http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=59579 "An Accent on Acting: An Interview with Gong Li"]. ''UCLA Asia Institute''. Accessed 30 December 2006.</ref> Yeoh with a Malaysian accent, Chang Chen with a Taiwanese accent, and Zhang Ziyi with a Beijing accent. Yeoh responded to this complaint in a 28 December 2000, interview with ''[[Cinescape]]''. She argued: "My character lived outside of Beijing, and so I didn't have to do the Beijing accent." When the interviewer, Craig Reid, remarked: "My mother-in-law has this strange [[Sichuan]]-Mandarin accent that's hard for me to understand," Yeoh responded: "Yes, provinces all have their very own strong accents. When we first started the movie, Cheng Pei Pei was going to have her accent, and Chang Zhen was going to have his accent, and this person would have that accent. And in the end nobody could understand what they were saying. Forget about us, even the crew from Beijing thought this was all weird."<ref>Reid, Craig (28 December 2000). [https://web.archive.org/web/20140903042142/http://www.mania.com/crouching-tigress-michelle-yeoh-part-2_article_17707.html Crouching Tigress: Michelle Yeoh, Part 2]. ''Mania''. Accessed 3 May 2010.</ref>

The film led to a boost in popularity of Chinese [[wuxia]] films in the western world, where they were previously little known, and led to films such as ''[[Hero (2002 film)|Hero]]'' and ''[[House of Flying Daggers]]'', both directed by [[Zhang Yimou]], being marketed towards Western audiences. The film also provided the breakthrough role for Zhang Ziyi's career, who noted:

{{blockquote|Because of movies like ''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'', ''Hero'', and ''Memoirs of a Geisha'', a lot of people in the United States have become interested not only in me but in Chinese and Asian actors in general. Because of these movies, maybe there will be more opportunities for Asian actors.}}

''Film Journal'' noted that ''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'' "pulled off the rare trifecta of critical acclaim, boffo box-office and gestalt shift", in reference to its ground-breaking success for a subtitled film in the American market.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.filmjournal.com/gem-pacific-ocean|title=Gem of the (Pacific) Ocean {{!}} Film Journal International|website=www.filmjournal.com|access-date=2017-04-03|archive-date=4 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170404130850/http://www.filmjournal.com/gem-pacific-ocean|url-status=live}}</ref>

Its success spawned a series of imitations to the basic formula in Greater China, with similar titles and variations in period and location. Producers of these imitators denied claims that their movie was an emulation of ''Crouching Tiger''; while Columbia's manager for Asia compared the copycats to a volcano disaster movie spawning three imitations to cash in.<ref>{{cite news |title=It's Raining Tigers and Dragons; Asian Filmmakers Rush to Repeat an Oscar Winner's Success |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/02/arts/it-s-raining-tigers-dragons-asian-filmmakers-rush-repeat-oscar-winner-s-success.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2 July 2001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527151700/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/02/arts/it-s-raining-tigers-dragons-asian-filmmakers-rush-repeat-oscar-winner-s-success.html |archive-date=27 May 2015}}</ref>