# Couching tiger, Hidden Dragon question (spoiler) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 7, 2001, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couching-tiger-hidden-dragon-question-spoiler/61174 "2001-04-07T19:29:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couching-tiger-hidden-dragon-question-spoiler/61174/1 "2001-04-07T19:29:13Z")
Can someone tell me what that last scene is meant to explain? The Kung-Fu chick tells the Desert Bandit to make a wish…he wishes she would stay with him forever… and she does a base jump off the mountain. Is this some kind of suicide, or some mystical method of fulfilling the wish, or what? ---
**Author:** ![Arjuna34](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Arjuna34](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arjuna34)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couching-tiger-hidden-dragon-question-spoiler/61174/2 "2001-04-07T19:38:25Z")
There is a good discussion of this question in this previous GQ thread: [‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ - SPOILER](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=56630) I found it by [searching](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/search.php) for “tiger” in the subject line only, in GQ only, with “Any Date” selected. To summarize the thread, it’s intentionally left vague as to what happened, just like the end of the movie _Titanic_ is vague (even in the script it doesn’t say for sure). Arjuna34 ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couching-tiger-hidden-dragon-question-spoiler/61174/3 "2001-04-07T19:48:13Z")
Thanx for the info…I can’t believe I didn’t try looking in the search archives first… ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couching-tiger-hidden-dragon-question-spoiler/61174/4 "2001-04-07T20:18:48Z")
> [@](#): > > …just like the end of the movie _Titanic_ is vague… The boat sinks, right? Nothing too vague about that. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couching-tiger-hidden-dragon-question-spoiler/61174/5 "2001-04-07T20:24:25Z")
**MEBuckner** , maybe I didn’t catch the sarcasm, but he was refering to the “death” of Rose. Anyway, I don’t think this technicaly is a GQ, but Tiger is very open to interpretation also. I know that in the book series, she isn’t in the next books. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couching-tiger-hidden-dragon-question-spoiler/61174/6 "2001-04-07T21:04:27Z")
Yeah, Mahaloth, I know. I was just being a smart-ass. Plus, my brain has successfully blocked out most details of _Titanic_. There was a big boat. And an iceberg. I seem to recall Billy Zane running around waving a pistol and tying the heroine to the railroad tracks–not sure what _that_ was about. ---
**Author:** ![Zarathustra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/898d66/32.png) [@Zarathustra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zarathustra)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couching-tiger-hidden-dragon-question-spoiler/61174/7 "2001-04-07T23:58:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MEBuckner \* > \*\*Yeah, Mahaloth, I know. I was just being a smart-ass. > > Plus, my brain has successfully blocked out most details of _Titanic_. There was a big boat. And an iceberg. I seem to recall Billy Zane running around waving a pistol and tying the heroine to the railroad tracks–not sure what _that_ was about. \*\* I remember that scene! the dialogue went something like this: Cal Hockley: You _must_ pay the rent! Rose DeWitt Bukater: But I _can’t_ pay the rent! Cal Hockley: You _must_ pay the rent!! Rose DeWitt Bukater: But I _can’t_ pay the rent!! Jack Dawson: _I’ll_ pay the rent! Rose DeWitt Bukater: My hero! _Strips off clothes, reclines on couch_ Cal Hockley: Curses! Foiled again!