A sword called Green Destiny occupies a prominent spot in the story of what 2000 world-wide hit movie?
"Mantis kills Flying Blade and Thunder Fist, then fights Snow Vase, who defeats her but is badly wounded. Silent Wolf fights Hades Dai on the tower, eventually killing the warlord with his own sword as he reaches for the Green Destiny. Snow Vase survives her injuries, and joins Shu Lien, Silent Wolf and Wei Fang as they take the Green Destiny to the Wudang Mountains where it will be kept safe yet again. In January 2013, it was reported that a sequel to the 2000 film ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"" would begin shooting in May, with Harvey Weinstein producing. Fight"
"originally built in the 1930s. Seeds of Destiny returned more than $200 million for war relief, making it one of the highest grossing films in motion picture history, and one of the most important historical Academy Award winning films, though few Americans have ever heard of it. The Oscar Golden Statue for this film is located at the Signal Corps Museum in Conrad Hall at Fort Gordon, Georgia. (The Signal Corps Photographic Unit won a second Oscar in 1948 for the film ""Toward Independence"", and a nomination for the film ""Operation Blue Jay"". Frank Capra also won an Academy Award"
"using steel sponsored by Zhang Shiping (張世平), a merchant sympathetic to Liu Bei's cause. When Guan Yu meets his end in 219, the blade is given to Pan Zhang by Sun Quan for his role in capturing Guan Yu. During the Battle of Yiling, Guan Yu's son Guan Xing kills Pan Zhang when the latter is stunned by a vision of Guan Yu's spirit. Guan Xing then takes back the Green Dragon Crescent Blade and later passes it down the generations from father to son in the Guan family. It is highly questionable whether Guan Yu actually wielded the Green"
"Shu Lien is the superior fighter, but Jen wields the Green Destiny: the sword destroys each weapon that Shu Lien wields, until Shu Lien finally manages to defeat Jen with a broken sword. When Shu Lien shows mercy, Jen cuts Shu Lien's arm. Mu Bai arrives and pursues Jen into a bamboo forest. Mu Bai confronts Jen and offers to take her as his student. She arrogantly promises to accept him as her teacher if he can take Green Destiny from her in three moves. Mu Bai is able to take the sword in only one move, but Jen goes"
"with Yu Shu Lien when she arrives to avenge the murder of her parents. When the Green Destiny Sword turns up stolen, and the notorious female thief Jade Fox arrives to finish the ordeal, the four become enmeshed in a tangle of adventure, vengeance, and betrayal. Unlike the Ang Lee adaptation, which was accepted by most international consumers and became a broad success save for its Asian origins, the television serial was considered low-budget and was criticized for its lack of quality and directing. Many English reviewers noted it was poorer in comparison to the original, and that its similarities"
"2000 in the United States, according to ""Publishers Weekly"". In 1957, Walt Disney Pictures released a film adaptation, also called ""Johnny Tremain"". Another Johnny Tremaine - note the different spelling of the surname - was a historical fictional character played by Rod Cameron in the 1949 Republic Pictures movie ""Brimstone"", written by Thames Williamson and Norman S. Hall. This Johnny Tremaine was a U.S. Marshal who goes undercover to stop a cattle-smuggling ring. The release of the film ""Brimstone"" followed the awarding of the Newbery prize to the novel ""Johnny Tremain"", but preceded the release of the 1957 film ""Johnny"
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (video game) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a third-person beat 'em up video game with platforming elements based on the 2000 film of the same name by Ang Lee. Players may play as Li Mu Bai, Yu Shu Lien, Jen, and Lo. The award-winning soundtrack features the Academy and Grammy Award winning music composed by Tan Dun with solos by internationally acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma. The action is set in the Qing dynasty of 19th century China. Retiring swordsman Li decides to give his jade sword, 'The Green Destiny' to a nobleman. The sword is stolen"
"Green, Tom Sizemore as Lt. Vincent D'Agosta, and Linda Hunt as Dr. Ann Cuthbert. The film gives away key plot points throughout its duration of the film; in contrast, in the novel, the explanation is delivered in the last few pages, giving the book a twist ending. The movie has a similar twist during its climax. The following table details additional changes. Relic (novel) Relic is a 1995 novel by American authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, and the first in the Special Agent Pendergast series. As a techno-thriller, it comments on the possibilities inherent in genetic manipulation, and is"
"Mu Bai feel bound by loyalty to Meng Sizhao and have not acted on their feelings for one another. Mu Bai, after choosing to retire, asks Shu Lien to give his sword ""Green Destiny"" to their benefactor Sir Te (Sihung Lung) in Beijing. Long ago, Mu Bai's master was murdered by Jade Fox (Cheng Pei-pei), a woman who sought to learn Wudang skills. While at Sir Te's place, Shu Lien makes the acquaintance of Jen Yu (Zhang Ziyi), who is the daughter of a rich and powerful Governor Yu and is about to get married. One evening, a masked thief"
"Holocaust 2000 Holocaust 2000 is a horror film directed by Alberto De Martino and starring Kirk Douglas. Despite doomsday warnings from throngs of locals, wealthy industrialist Robert Caine (Kirk Douglas) makes the controversial decision to build a nuclear power plant near a sacred cave in the Middle East. But before Caine can reap the benefits of his latest bid for global domination, he discovers that his son, Angel (Simon Ward), is the Antichrist, who is planning to use his father's project to trigger the end of the world. In contemporary reviews, the ""Monthly Film Bulletin"" referred to the film as"
"films abounded, as did earthbound science fiction such as the ""Matrix"" trilogy. In 2005, the ""Star Wars"" saga was completed with the darkly themed """". Science-fiction also returned as a tool for political commentary in films such as ""A.I. Artificial Intelligence"", ""Minority Report"", ""Sunshine"", ""District 9"", ""Children of Men"", ""Serenity"", ""Sleep Dealer "", and ""Pandorum"". The 2000s also saw the release of ""Transformers"" (2007) and """" (2009), both of which resulted in worldwide box office success. In 2009, James Cameron's ""Avatar"" garnered worldwide box office success, and would later become the highest-grossing movie of all time. This movie was also"
"the atrocities of that war, including the rebels' amputation of people's hands to discourage them from voting in upcoming elections. The film's ending, in which a conference is held concerning blood diamonds, refers to a historic meeting that took place in Kimberley, South Africa, in 2000. It led to development of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, which sought to certify the origin of rough diamonds in order to curb the trade in conflict diamonds, but has since been mostly abandoned as ineffective. The film received mixed but generally favorable reviews, with praise directed mainly to the performances of DiCaprio and"
"The Legend of Bagger Vance The Legend of Bagger Vance is a 2000 sports drama film directed by Robert Redford, and stars Will Smith, Matt Damon and Charlize Theron. The screenplay by Jeremy Leven is based on the 1995 book ""The Legend of Bagger Vance: A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life"" by Steven Pressfield. It takes place in the U.S. state of Georgia in 1931. The film served as the final roles of Jack Lemmon before his death the following year and Lane Smith before his death five years later. On release, the film was a box"
"final chapter"". The film holds a Metacritic score of 87 out of 100, based on 39 reviews, indicating ""Universal Acclaim"". The Battle of Helm's Deep has been named as one of the greatest screen battles of all time, while Gollum was named as the third favourite computer-generated film character by ""Entertainment Weekly"" in 2007. In CinemaScore polls conducted during the opening weekend, cinema audiences gave the film an average grade of ""A"" on an A+ to F scale. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is a 2002 epic fantasy adventure"
"and financially, stunting the growth of superhero films for a time. Hit films such as ""Blade"" (1998), ""X-Men"" (2000), ""Unbreakable"" (2000) and ""Spider-Man"" (2002) have led to sequel installments as well as encouraging the development of numerous superhero film franchises in the 21st century, both successful (such as the 2005 reboot of the Batman film franchise) and unsuccessful (such as 2004's ""Catwoman""). Although the genre's commercial appeal has been relatively uneven, the subgenre have become a major element of mainstream film production with outstanding successes like ""The Dark Knight"" in 2008, ""The Avengers"" and ""The Dark Knight Rises"" in 2012,"
"Wings of Destiny Wings of Destiny is a 1940 action war film directed by Rupert Kathner and stars Marshall Crosby and John Fernside. The film is about the activities of fifth columnists in Australia during the Second World War. ""Wings of Destiny"" was one of the first films of the war to depict fifth columnists as well as the aboriginal Australians. A group of Australian officials are investigating a reported discovery of wolframite, a strategic material needed for the manufacture of munitions. The rich mineral is found in central Australia on land owned by Frederick Jamieson (Marshall Crosby), a rich"
"Supreme Court decision was published as ""Nothing Green: The Sequel to the Bestselling ""Evelyn"""" (2004, Orion Publishing Group, London). A highly fictionalised account of these events has been recorded in the film ""Evelyn"" (2002), starring Pierce Brosnan (who plays Desmond), Julianna Margulies, Sophie Vavasseur, Stephen Rea, Aidan Quinn and Alan Bates and directed by Bruce Beresford. The film only showed three children, Evelyn and two brothers (Maurice and Dermot), instead of all six of the real-life family's children, and involved no period in England or Jessie Powers. Desmond Doyle Desmond Doyle (1924 - 1986) was an Irish painter, decorator and"
"verve to the shocks: his best moment is a nightmare sequence in which Douglas hallucinates the nuclear plant he is working on rising from the sea and transforming into a multi-headed hydra."" Holocaust 2000 Holocaust 2000 is a horror film directed by Alberto De Martino and starring Kirk Douglas. Despite doomsday warnings from throngs of locals, wealthy industrialist Robert Caine (Kirk Douglas) makes the controversial decision to build a nuclear power plant near a sacred cave in the Middle East. But before Caine can reap the benefits of his latest bid for global domination, he discovers that his son, Angel"
"The Gift (2000 film) The Gift is a 2000 American supernatural thriller film directed by Sam Raimi, written by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson, and based on the alleged psychic experiences of Thornton's mother. The film centers on Annie (Cate Blanchett) becoming involved in a murder case as a result of acquiring knowledge about the crime through extrasensory perception. The cast also includes Keanu Reeves, Giovanni Ribisi, Hilary Swank, Katie Holmes, and Greg Kinnear. In the town of Brixton, Georgia, widow Annie Wilson is the resident fortune-teller. Jessica King, the fiancée of local school teacher, Wayne Collins, disappears. Annie"
"former owner. Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli come to the war-torn nation of Rohan and are reunited with the resurrected Gandalf, before fighting at the Battle of Helm's Deep. Merry and Pippin escape capture, meet Treebeard the Ent, and help to plan an attack on Isengard. Meeting high critical acclaim, the film was an enormous box-office success, earning over $926 million worldwide and is currently the 49th highest-grossing film of all time; and also the highest-grossing film of 2002 (inflation-adjusted, it is the 62nd most successful film in North America). The film won numerous accolades and was nominated for six Academy"
"who reigned against him, intending to resurrect Ambrosia into the mortal realm upon his release. He steals the sacred item, the Palenke Stone, from Green Hell (a fictional country in South America) to gain the necessary power he needs for the ritual. The sorcerer’s activity stirs evil phenomena across the globe, stretching from Japan to China to Europe and America, drawing several brave warriors to their calamities’ source. Amongst these warriors is Haohmaru, a ronin, who recently left his tutelage from his master, Caffeine Nicotine. He sees the foe as a chance to sharpen his swordsmanship. An Ainu priestess, Nakoruru,"
"with marijuana use in the media. The most immediate results of their success was their co-starring roles in the major motion picture film ""How High"", their endorsement deal for ""Right Guard"", Redman's starring role in ""Seed of Chucky"" and a short-lived sitcom on Fox Television entitled ""Method & Red"". The Wu-Tang Clan released ""The W"" on November 21, 2000, and Iron Flag on December 18, 2001. ""The W"" received both critical and commercial success for the group, while ""Iron Flag"" did receive some but not to the effect of ""The W"". The efforts earned two more platinum plaques for the"
"became increasingly attractive to filmgoers: films in foreign languages like ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"", ""The Passion of the Christ"" and ""Letters from Iwo Jima""; and documentary films like ""An Inconvenient Truth"", ""March of the Penguins"", ""Super Size Me"", and ""Fahrenheit 9/11"", became very successful. The 2000s saw the resurgence of several genres. Comic book superhero films became a mainstream blockbuster genre following the releases of ""Unbreakable"", ""X-Men"" and ""Spider-Man"". The film ""Gladiator"" similarly sparked the revival of epic films, while the Bollywood-inspired ""Moulin Rouge!"" sparked the revival of musical films in the Western world, where Bollywood musical films such as"
"carries the Green Dragon Crescent Blade. Traditionally, after the show ends, the actor has to wash his face, burn joss paper, light incense, and pray to Chinese deities. Notable actors who have portrayed Guan Yu in film and television include: Lu Shuming in ""Romance of the Three Kingdoms"" (1994); Wang Yingquan in ""The Legend of Guan Gong"" (2004); Ti Lung in """" (2008); Ba Sen in ""Red Cliff"" (2008–2009); Yu Rongguang in ""Three Kingdoms"" (2010); Donnie Yen in ""The Lost Bladesman"" (2011); Han Geng in ""Dynasty Warriors"" (2019). Films which make references to Guan Yu include: Stephen Chow's comedy film"
"had it forged after he met Liu Bei and Zhang Fei but before he made the Oath of the Peach Garden. The story of the blade was that there was a blacksmith forging the blade when suddenly a green dragon passed by. The dragon was cut up and the body became part of the pieces therefore making the dao a magical weapon. Green Dragon Crescent Blade The Green Dragon Crescent Blade () is a legendary weapon wielded by the Chinese general Guan Yu in the 14th-century historical novel ""Romance of the Three Kingdoms"". It is a guandao, a type of"
"and ""The Matrix"", as well as events such as the 2008 Summer Olympics. Rose Fairy is sailing along the river when she suddenly trips on a rope and falls into the water. The trap is set by the bandit Qingyise, who wants to rob her. He steals the Purple Sword from her and plans to sell it. Just then, Joker (the protagonist in ""A Chinese Odyssey"") appears and makes Qingyise unsheathe the sword by pulling away its scabbard. Rose Fairy regains consciousness and mistakenly thinks it was Qingyise who unsheathed the sword. Since she has made a promise to marry"
"""X-Men"" (2000) became a film franchise by its surprise hit, and M. Night Shyamalan's ""Unbreakable"" (2000) also succeeded and added an element of more urban realism to the genre. Later, one of the largest blockbusters of all time was released with Sam Raimi's ""Spider-Man"" (2002). With high ticket and DVD sales, several new superhero films were released every year in the 2000s, including ""Daredevil"" (2003), ""The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"" (2003), ""Hulk"" (2003), ""Catwoman"" (2004), ""Hellboy"" (2004), ""The Punisher"" (2004), the semi-animated ""Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow"" (2004), ""Batman Begins"" (2005), ""Fantastic Four"" (2005), ""Ghost Rider"" (2007), ""Transformers"""
"grossed nearly $430 million at the worldwide box office. The films follow the adventures of demigod Percy Jackson and his comrades at the demigod training ground of Camp Half-Blood. In the first film, Percy must go on a quest to save his mother from the underworld and prove his innocence when he is accused of stealing lightning from Zeus. The second film revolves around Percy’s escapade as he must retrieve the legendary golden fleece from the sea of monsters, or the Bermuda triangle, which is the only thing that will save the camp from the forces of darkness. In December"
"Awards 2000 Motion Picture Sound Editors (Golden Reel Awards) 2000 People's Choice Awards 2001 Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (Nebula Award) 2000 Screen Actors Guild Awards 4th Golden Satellite Awards The Green Mile (film) The Green Mile is a 1999 American fantasy crime drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont and adapted from Stephen King’s 1996 novel of the same name. The film stars Tom Hanks as Paul Edgecomb and Michael Clarke Duncan as John Coffey, with supporting roles by David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, and James Cromwell. The film also features Dabbs Greer in his final film,"
"the highest-grossing film of 2000. It received mixed reviews from critics, who praised Cruise's performance and the action sequences, but criticized the plot and dialogue. It was followed by """" in 2006. Bio-chemical expert Dr. Vladimir Nekhorvich sends a message to the IMF for Ethan Hunt, an old friend of his, warning that his employer, Biocyte Pharmaceuticals, forced him to develop a biological epidemic to profit from its remedy. He arranges to meet with Ethan to deliver the Chimera virus, and its cure, Bellerophon. With Ethan on vacation and incommunicado, the IMF sends agent Sean Ambrose disguised as Ethan to"
"by the Producers Guild of America. Darabont later adapted and directed two other King stories, ""The Green Mile"" (1999) and ""The Mist"" (2007). In a 2016 interview, King said that ""The Shawshank Redemption"" was his favorite adaptation of his work, alongside ""Stand by Me"". The oak tree, under which Andy leaves a note for Red directing him to Zihuatanejo, became a symbol of hope for its role in the film, and is considered iconic. In 2016, ""The New York Times"" reported that the tree attracted thousands of visitors annually. The tree was partially destroyed on July 29, 2011, when it"
"W.W. Greener company offers to authenticate genuine Greener weapons for a small fee. Wilbur Jonas, the general store owner, offers to sell Matt Dillon four Greener shotguns at an attractive price, in ""Renegade White"", episode 4.30 of ""Gunsmoke"". Episode S5E1 of ""The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp"" (1959), Earp is confronted by ""Shotgun Gibbs"" who is armed with a Greener loaded with a rifled slug. In the film ""Big Jake"", John Wayne's character asks his estranged wife, Martha (played by Maureen O'Hara), if she brought his ""Greeners, the double-barrels"". Wayne then proceeds to open a gun case revealing matching"
"life of its users, eventually killing them after a short time. A warrior tribe finally took charge of the sword, ending the wars and pledging to keep it safe and unused for the world's own good. Among the tribe, a legend said that the sword's original wielder would be reborn in the year of the ""fire-horse"", and that this figure would unite the world's scattered tribes and lead the world to peace. The game's narrator and main protagonist is Nariko (Anna Torv), a headstrong red-headed woman who was born in the year of the prophesied divine warrior: because she was"