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* ReferencedBy: In ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'', the episode "Crouching Jimmy, Hidden Sheen", a riff on the {{Wuxia}} genre, is named after this film.
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To explain the last edit: don't use ampersands instead of the word "and". It looks lazy.
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** While Jen is obviously highly trained & skillful in martial arts, Creator/ZhangZiyi never had any official martial arts training at all. Instead she uses her dance techniques to learn her moves in these scenes, as if they were a dance rather than a fight (which in terms of creating & filming them is actually not that far from the truth).
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** While Jen is obviously highly trained & and skillful in martial arts, Creator/ZhangZiyi never had any official martial arts training at all. Instead she uses her dance techniques to learn her moves in these scenes, as if they were a dance rather than a fight (which in terms of creating & and filming them is actually not that far from the truth).
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* DoingItForTheArt: Creator/MichelleYeoh deliberately didn't work for a year before filming began so she could concentrate on martial arts training and learning Mandarin.
* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/ChowYunFat shaved his head for the film.
* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/ChowYunFat shaved his head for the film.
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* DoingItForTheArt: DyeingForYourArt:
** Creator/ChowYunFat shaved his head for the film.
** Creator/MichelleYeoh deliberately didn't work for a year before filming began so she could concentrate on martial arts training and learningMandarin.
* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/ChowYunFat shaved his head for the film.Mandarin.
** Creator/ChowYunFat shaved his head for the film.
** Creator/MichelleYeoh deliberately didn't work for a year before filming began so she could concentrate on martial arts training and learning
* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/ChowYunFat shaved his head for the film.
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* OnSetInjury: During a fight scene, Creator/MichelleYeoh tore an ACL on her knee after a bad landing and had to be flown from China to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for surgery.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/JetLi was originally cast to play Li Mu Bai, but turned the part down to appear in ''Film/RomeoMustDie''. He also promised his wife that he wouldn't work while she was pregnant.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/JetLi was originally cast to play Li Mu Bai, but turned the part down to appear in ''Film/RomeoMustDie''. He also promised his wife that he wouldn't work while she was pregnant.pregnant.
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* StarMakingRole: For Creator/ZhangZiyi.
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* DoingItForTheArt: Creator/MichelleYeoh deliberately didn't work for a year before filming began so she could concentrate on martial arts training and learning Mandarin.
* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/ChowYunFat shaved his head for the film.
* IronyAsSheIsCast:
** While Jen is obviously highly trained & skillful in martial arts, Creator/ZhangZiyi never had any official martial arts training at all. Instead she uses her dance techniques to learn her moves in these scenes, as if they were a dance rather than a fight (which in terms of creating & filming them is actually not that far from the truth).
** This was also Creator/ChowYunFat's first martial arts film.
* NoStuntDouble: The actors almost invariably performed their own stunts. CGI was used to remove the wires holding them up.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/JetLi was originally cast to play Li Mu Bai, but turned the part down to appear in ''Film/RomeoMustDie''. He also promised his wife that he wouldn't work while she was pregnant.
* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/ChowYunFat shaved his head for the film.
* IronyAsSheIsCast:
** While Jen is obviously highly trained & skillful in martial arts, Creator/ZhangZiyi never had any official martial arts training at all. Instead she uses her dance techniques to learn her moves in these scenes, as if they were a dance rather than a fight (which in terms of creating & filming them is actually not that far from the truth).
** This was also Creator/ChowYunFat's first martial arts film.
* NoStuntDouble: The actors almost invariably performed their own stunts. CGI was used to remove the wires holding them up.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/JetLi was originally cast to play Li Mu Bai, but turned the part down to appear in ''Film/RomeoMustDie''. He also promised his wife that he wouldn't work while she was pregnant.
