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...directed more movies than I have," says Lee. "And better ones." In some of these films you will find sensational exploits that are echoed in Crouching Tiger. The vision of a lady thief flying over rooftops is a highlight of Yuen's 1994 Fire Dragon. And the up-a-tree skirmish? Catch the three warriors perched on flaming poles in the 1993 Iron Monkey. This time it's two good guys (Yen and Yu Rong-guang) against one preternatural baddie (Yam Sai-goon). The heroes try to keep their equilibrium while dodging flame darts from Yam; they use burning sticks...
...started to prune the apple trees on a day of pure, frigid clarity, the snow crusted and dazzling. The sun is still too far in the south, but beginning to think, I hope, of spring. The trees are so old that no one around here can identify the kind of apples they bear - not especially apple-shaped, but resembling ancient gnomes, or a leprechaun's collection of shrunken heads. A meager harvest. The deer eat them, but we do not. We're hoping to bring the orchard back. We pruned one tree last year so radically that it was more...
...Tina could try some real bush tucker. Tiny black stingless bees, often called sweat bees, would lead her to the fix. "If you sit in the shade they'll land on you, and you just follow them home," Lilley says. "They'll usually be in a hollow tree, and what Aboriginal people did was cut or dip into the nest, using a cloth made from plant material, stick it in the honey to soak it up and then squeeze it into your mouth." Beats cow brains...
...Supplies Without matches, a flag almost the size of Texas, tarpaulin, twine and a knife, what does one do for shelter and fire in the Australian bush? In Queensland, where the nights are reasonably warm, Lilley says Aboriginal people traditionally used a low, semi-circular windbreak of shrubs or tree boughs "with an open fire and your dog or dogs if it was cool or cold at night. A three-dog night is really cold." One piece of advice the Kuchas haven't heeded: Don't construct your shelter under eucalyptus trees, because they can drop big branches without warning...
Hollywood, in fact, has recently discovered Cambodia as one of the world's most exotic backdrops. The Angelina Jolie-vehicle Tomb Raider shot scenes in the magnificence of Angkor Wat last year, and Matt Dillon will begin filming Beneath the Banyan Tree in mid-February, which will mark his debut as a director. But Hollywood brings in all the talent and equipment it needs, and only has to do location filming in Cambodia's arduous conditions. Cambodian filmmakers hardly have that luxury...