does one know how to find the dialogues from The Chef The Actor The Scoundrel flick? my Chinese fav of all times (until now 
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I donât know that one. But then I donât know many. Got stuck on the Zhang YiMou movies. My faves is by Ang Lee though : Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.
Picture and landscapes are amazing. To the glory of China you could say. Very nationalistic Chinese cinema but itâs worth it.
This said, I cant help you for the script. 
check it out, the ĺ¨ĺâ§ćĺâ§çĺ, it is a sort of a dark comedy, fighting the cholera in Peking during the âGreat Asian Warâ, everything is stilised to the max. Except for Huang Bo - (in his usual role), you would not recognize the other three actors. I loved Zhang Han Yu in this one, heâs really a great one. At the end of the trailers was always âtheyâre saving China⌠somehowâ.
(note: name me a Hollywood block buster that is not utterly nationalistic - although I cannot really follow one there, the only Hollywood film Iâve enjoyed in the last years was a silly action flick - Iâm not sure if it is not also sort of a comedy âŚand I saw only⌠hmmmmm⌠4? Hollywood flicks in the last 3 years? lol)
Do you have the script from Hidden Dragon, by accident? 
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I donât suppose the English version is any help? I expect you are looking for the Chinese version.
yes, Alan, youâre right, the Chinese version(s). I saw the Chef, Actor, Scoundrel several times, so I figured out, maybe cramming Chinese could go maybe easier if I follow the script
Yes, Thought so. 
There is quite a lot of information, including a plot summary, here: but, sadly, no Chinese script.
There is a copy of the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon script in English here . It wouldnât take you long to translate it! 
[Edit - But now found this: http://www.chinese-forums.com/files/CROUCHING.txt]
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it ok, Alan, so many thanks, @pdao in his generosity offered his help. If he/ his lady finds some scripts, Iâll ask if the links can be shown to âthe publicâ in here - who knows, maybe some people can make courses out of them⌠many thanks!
Questions like these will get a quicker and better reply at http://www.chinese-forums.com/
The word youâre looking for is subtitles ââ ĺĺš most can be found here, including this one:
zimuku
I am almost ready to make a (private) course for a series I like, an invaluable help for that is https://www.chinesetextanalyser.com/features you can segment the text, filter on the most frequent words, and then arrange by first occurrence. And the first sentence the word occurs in is also added. I personally have an Excel file that adds the rest of the sentences, and in a little while also some other stuff. Then itâs just watching the show and deciding which words you want to study.
Iâm not looking for the subtitles, I have that film with both Chinese and English subtitles, I am looking for the script - or, of course, its version for the public.
Thanks for the zimuku link⌠I have no idea what films are those - they seem US ones, or TV series? (I donât ever watch TV). Anyhow, they donât seem to have the old Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, only this poorly made 2016 sequel
I donât know what you are seeing. The link I gave has the traditional and simplified .srt files for the 2013 film.
Here are the subtitles for the 2000 film ĺ§ččéž http://www.zimuku.net/subs/23724.html
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great! thanks
@sircemloud: if you want to see a fully fledged âglory to the Peopleâs Liberation Armyâ + action flick, with all the drums and trumpets of (red armyâs) heroism and the sun coming out behind the mountain etc, watch âThe Taking of the Tiger Mountainâ. I saw it because of Zhang Hanyu - although his performance in this one cannot be outstanding/remarcable/etc. The script does not allow it.
This film is neither nationalistic in the classical sense, nor communist; the bad bad bad bandits in the mountains are very âChineseâ as well and âfor the future of China!â comes out only as âI hope his generation will not see warâ. However, the general tone of the film is unmistakable - it seem to me the general trend lately, in âpatrioticâ Chinese cinema. Quite smart, these Chinese film makers and the party censors 
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As âtheyâ tend to make rather dark, heavy films lately - all good cops killed by the gangsters, or the petty gangster Mr Six is the only one around with some sense of justice etc. - such âheroicâ films with almost all âthe good guysâ surviving is a sort of a change . I looong for a good, classical wuxia Ă la Hero⌠
One thing strikes me when watching such things⌠what do we really know about the recent history of China, after all, beyond the horrors of Mao?