Moments pages are Spoilers Off. You Have Been Warned.
- The extended duel between Shu Lien and Jen, in which Shu Lien has the advantage in skill, but Jen’s Green Destiny sword is so absurdly sharp and durable that she keeps wrecking every weapon that Shu Lien can grab from the wall. At one point Shu Lien takes a massive Monk's Spade: she charges with the Spade raised to strike, and Jen backpedals in panic...only for Shu Lien to be stopped dead in her tracks when the huge weight at the end drags itself down to the ground, yanking her backwards. There’s a hilarious moment of Facial Dialogue where Jen smirks at her opponent’s embarrassment, while Shu Lien makes a face of pure exasperation and moves to ditch the overweight weapon for a better one.
- Jen utterly thrashing one of the men who confronted her at the tea house simply because his name was the same as her fiancée who she cares nothing for.
- Even better is the mass 'aaah' of comprehension when Li and Shu Lien explains to the beaten and confused men that Jen was set off by the name of her husband. This reverberates back along the long, long line of men in various states of injury.
- Their only real complaint was that Jen was rude, not that she beat the shit out of everyone.
- Not to mention the collapsing staircase that punctuates the end of Jen's 'why I'm so awesome' speech.
- According to Ang Lee's commentary, one of the guys' names is hilarious if you speak Mandarin, for how long and redundant it is.
- Even better is the mass 'aaah' of comprehension when Li and Shu Lien explains to the beaten and confused men that Jen was set off by the name of her husband. This reverberates back along the long, long line of men in various states of injury.
- Sir Te's exasperation at the Green Destiny being stolen yet again.Sir Te: [sigh] They take it away, put it back. Take it away, put it back... My house is becoming everyone's private storeroom!
- In the fight between the police inspector and Jade Fox, Bo's whole contribution to the fight is, in this order: trying to attack Jade Fox, failing, attacking the police inspector instead, being used as a living weapon/shield by Jade Fox and being rudely pushed away by the police inspector. Repeat the process two or three times until Jade Fox finally paralyses him.
- The commentary also has Ang Lee noting that the story is a deliberate subversion of the usual martial arts movie setup of a beginner begging a legendary master to train them, as here it’s the master begging someone to let him train her.
