Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (fka The Green Legend) was the first original movie Netflix announced in 2014, leading off its now lengthy slate. Now, a week before its February 26th premiere, we’ve got a new trailer to satisfy our appetites. Martial arts director, Yuen Woo-Ping has taken over. And then there’s the release itself: while it will be screened in select IMAX theaters, the majority of viewers will stream it on a small screen, and the original Crouching Tiger was hardly a small-screen story.
But looking past all that for a second, let’s just take a moment to appreciate one thing: Netflix is pushing this movie as a female Star Wars, which is pretty smart.
No one knows how much the actual film focuses on the student-mentor relationship between Yu Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh, reprising her role from the original) and angry young upstart “Silver Vase” (Xia Zitong) — the first trailer hinted more at a “just when I thought I was out, they pull me right back in” storyline for Yeoh. But I am definitely ready to watch a bunch of physically fantastical training montages in which one lady teaches another lady how to “listen with her mind” and save Harry Shum from a cage. Not since Damages has an double-female apprenticeship looked so lethal
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