The live-action comic-book movie literally takes a quantum leap in "The Matrix." What it leaps into is a new combination of cutting-edge technology and computer-enhanced Hong Kong acrobatics that make Hollywood action sequences look like cement mixers in low gear.

--- Jay Carr, in The Boston Globe: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 edition, page F4

[Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon screenwriter James Schamus:] "A female-centric martial-arts movie is a good place to be. . . . I had no doubt about that. The reaction we wanted to trigger was two women seeing the movie and talking to their friends about it afterward. . . . We had some assumptions that were proven wrong. . . . We felt that the action element of the film -- which we figured was 'A guy thing' -- would work at crosspurposes with the female-centric romantic plotline. . . . As people streamed out of the theater [at the Cannes Film Festival and at the New York Film Festival], the women were saying, 'Wow! I just want to kick some ass!' So . . . we found out it wasn't so much a romance film with some action for guys. It was an action film for women."

--- from "Producing Tiger: Neglecting His Dissertation, James Schamus Has Found Unlikely Success
in Film" by Fred Kaplan, in The Boston Globe: Sunday, March 25, 2001 edition, pages M9 and M12

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