Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) - Yearning, Weapons & a Very Angry Girl

That Aged Well

That Aged Well Podcast

Performing Arts, Film Reviews, Arts, Tv & Film

4.8 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Shooting forward a little less than fifty years from last week’s topic, this week’s film for Period Piece June comes from a little-known director named Ang Lee…Erika and Paul are tackling the martial arts classic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon! Sometimes, we here at That Aged Well watch a film from our childhoods (that we thought was perfect at the time), and are horrified. But what if we watch a film from our childhoods (that we thought was perfect at the time), and…still think it’s perfect??

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Hosts: Paul Caiola & Erika Villalba
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0:00.0	I feel like we have to talk about what happened last night.
0:03.0	Yes.
0:03.7	Okay.
0:04.2	Yeah.
0:39.6	I think that's fair. Okay. I'm staying over at Pulse. So we went to see a show. Excellent Broadway musical Smash. Smash. We were taking a car home. Yeah. We were having a conversation. So we weren't quite paying attention to what our lift driver was listening to. We had just passed the really funny billboard on the West Side Highway with the guy who's in the golfer. It's my favorite billboard in the city. It's the golfer with the ill-fitting pants. Yeah. Uh-huh. The $100,000 billboard of a man's flat ass in ill-fitting khakis. That is humiliation. The East Coast content on this podcast has never been so East, so Coast, and so constant. It's so specific. Okay, but you're telling
0:46.7	the story. We're in the car. So we're in the car and we get kind of quiet for a second.
0:51.8	We're, you know, admiring the general splendor of Manhattan
0:54.8	at night. And we both tuned in at the same time to the radio program. Yeah, which I, to be fair,
1:03.4	you clocked was a radio program right away. Yeah. I thought he was listening to like a self-help tape.
1:08.0	Oh, even worse. Which made it worse. I was like, what? Oh, no. Are we
1:11.4	getting kidnapped? Are we getting, okay. So you hear this woman's very sweet, dulcet voice being like,
1:17.4	you just have to be there for the baby. The baby will need your help and your protection. It might
1:24.2	be born with the same addictions and issues that the mother has, but you have to protect it at all costs.
1:31.2	And then the, and then she kept going on about like how the mother, the mother will be, if you send her to rehab, she can get her life cleaned back up.
1:38.7	You can be there for her too.
1:40.1	It did circle around to being like generally okay, but I think we just both turned it, tuned in to the moment of the host being like, you must protect the children from the mother.
1:49.7	And we were like, what's happening?
1:51.4	Oh my God.
1:53.6	But after the answer ended with, I cannot tell you enough listeners.
2:00.7	Backdoor Broncos, stage door sallies, absolutely no lead-in.
2:06.6	We just got, show me the meaning of being lonely.
2:15.4	Who is programming this show?
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