STATEMENTS
BY MEMBERS
Swift Current Connection to Oscar-winning Movie
Mr.
Wall:
— Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to take this opportunity to
recognize today the Swift Current connection to an Oscar-winning
movie. Mr. Speaker, Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon was
one of the top movies at the box office in 2000. In fact it won
four Oscar awards and was also the highest grossing foreign
language film in the United States, earning over $100 million just
last year. The movie is based on a book by Dulu Wang, a popular
Chinese writer from the 1930s. In the 1980s his family republished
some of his works and now one of those novels has gone on to
become a very successful motion picture. However, Mr. Speaker,
what’s unique to this story is that the author of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is
also the father and father-in-law of a couple in my constituency.
Mr. Speaker, Hong Wang works at the research station in Swift
Current, and his wife, Ching Liu, is also a resident of Swift
Current. She was here not long ago at the Legislative Assembly,
Mr. Speaker, with a group of students from the Cypress Hills
Regional College, learning English as a second language. Mr.
Speaker, the huge success of Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon has
brought much pride to their family in Swift Current and I’m sure
they were watching the Oscar awards much more closely than the
rest of us and for good reason. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Some
Hon. Members:
Hear, hear! |
