Music
- The film was scored by Tan Dun, a famous contemporary classical composer.
- The theme song Hero (英雄) by Zhang Yadong and Lin Xi is sung by Faye Wong. It is unavailable in the American version of both the film DVD and soundtrack album.
- Wind & Sand (風沙) is a theme song inspired by the film and sung by actor Tony Leung. It is only available in his album of that name.
- The musical instrument seen and played during the fight in the weiqi courtyard scene is a guqin, the Chinese seven-stringed zither. The music was performed by Liu Li on a guqin.
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“There was never yet such a storm but it was Æolian music to a healthy and innocent ear.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Sound all the lofty instruments of war,
And by that music let us all embrace,
For, heaven to earth, some of us never shall
A second time do such a courtesy.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)