Only when the shooting of the film had begun in earnest did he discover that the ravishing, enthralling on-screen aesthetic and bona fide martial arts were in fact two completely different quantities. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon's martial arts coordinator, Yuan Wo-ping, is a dyed-in-the-wool realist when it comes to choreographing fight scenes, generally frowning upon the use of cranes.
等正式開拍後，他才體會出，武俠片裡具有視覺美感、電影動感的「武打動作」，和真正的武術是兩回事。由於《臥虎藏龍》的武術指導袁和平在行的是「硬馬硬橋的地面打鬥」，也就是「力從地起」，講究的是腿腳、腰馬有力，上身才打得好看。