DOCSLIB.ORG

Infernal Affairs Pdf, Epub, Ebook

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Infernal Affairs Pdf, Epub, Ebook INFERNAL AFFAIRS PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Jes Battis | 304 pages | 31 May 2011 | Penguin Putnam Inc | 9780441020454 | English | New York, United States Infernal Affairs PDF Book The Departed did many things better but that's mainly down to Scorsese being the masterful filmmaker he is. Namespaces Article Talk. The direction is stylish and only occasionally overuses the slow-mo jump cuts. Miramax Films acquired the United States distribution rights and gave it a limited US theatrical release in Cannot recommend that enough, really. Chapman To as Keung. As they take the lift down to the lobby, Lau kills B out of his desire to eradicate traces of his past, become a "good guy" cop, and end the mole hunt. Lau Kin-ming. Running time. Cantonese Chinese Thai. However, Chan is removed from the training and send to be a long-term undercover in Sam's gang. The moment when Eric Tsang smashed Tony Leung's hand cast on a table, I knew instantly that this is a film that I will adore for.. This list of personal favorites was originally assembled by Edgar Wright and Sam DiSalle in July , and is semi-regularly…. The cast don't need to do that much apart from look intense and portray the tension of the story in a realistic fashion - something that they do well. Films directed by Alan Mak. Kwong Wing Chan. Hon Sam Kelly Chen Trivia The English title is a play on words mixing Ming's job in the IA, the infernal nature of both characters' double lives, and finally Dante's Inferno, relating to the original Cantonese title. Asia Pacific Film Festival. Rated R for violence. What makes it so intriguing is that as the story grows more tangled, the lives of the two characters take on a hidden desperation. Infernal Affairs garnered mainly positive reviews from film critics and audiences. Full Cast and Crew. Metacritic Reviews. Members Represented: 2, It's simple: Post your 1 ever no runners-up or ties please in the comments and I'll add…. In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Download as PDF Printable version. Each has a pawn that has infiltrated the other side. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. The characters were more genuine! Both the masters are the only ones who know about their respective moles identity. Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics. Infernal Affairs Writer Studio Media Asia Films. Lee Sum Yee. Members Represented: 2, It's simple: Post your 1 ever no runners-up or ties please in the comments and I'll add…. Chapman To as Keung. Infernal Affairs". London: The Guardian. Photo Gallery. I prefer Infernal Affairs over The Departed as it was pure in its storytelling! Asia Pacific Film Festival. Best Cinematography. Theatrical release poster. Hon Sam Kelly Chen I found Infernal Affairs plot to be highly engaging but sadly a little thin in its characterisation. I should salute you, instead. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Don't get me wrong, Infernal Affairs is great, it has a really good story that was told pretty well and I'll probably enjoy the other two films but The Departed is better. It felt like I had missed part of the movie because they still insinuated in the end that they loved each other, but never really showed it. Anthony Wong. This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards. Parents Guide. I have always loved Scorsese's version The Departed and I was worried that I wasn't going to enjoy it as much after watching this. And instead…. Do you love all types of movies? Using Morse code , Chan is able to relay data back to the police. Infernal Affairs Reviews Both the masters are the only ones who know about their respective moles identity. Rate This. Chapman To as Keung. Looking for a movie the entire family can enjoy? Eric Tsang as Hon Sam. From metacritic. Parents Guide. I remember loving it the first time, a few years ago, and being quite solidly in "the remake sucks" camp. Powered by JustWatch. Really does feel completely different than departed considering it is 50 minutes shorter. Replicated film poster designs. Plot Keywords. But to be honest, I like it more than this. Kwong Wing Chan. Was this review helpful to you? I have watched Marty's The Departed but still, I enjoyed it. A story between a mole in the police department and an undercover cop. Lau Kin Ming : Getting tired? Roger Ebert December 23, Alternate Versions. But this plot, clever and complex, is not the reason to see the movie. Mou 4 Gaan 3 Dou 6. The success of the film inspired many genres, including an open-world video game from United Front Games titled Sleeping Dogs or True Crime: Hong Kong before canceled by Activision Blizzard in , [23] with the protagonist of the story infiltrating the criminal underworld as an undercover police. Andrew Lau, the co-director of Infernal Affairs , who was interviewed by Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily , said: "Of course I think the version I made is better, but the Hollywood version is pretty good too. Over the course of ten years, Chan experiences great stress from his undercover work while Lau quickly rises through the ranks in the police department. This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards. That hasn't changed. For even more, visit our Family Entertainment Guide. However, unbeknownst to the police, Lau is also a long-term mole who is feeding information back to Sam. Best Action Choreography. Hong Kong portal Film portal. However, back at police headquarters, Chan discovers that Lau was the mole and leaves immediately. Written by Aya. Rules: Generate a number from 1 to x via: www. Color: Black and White Color. When Sam and police chief SP Wong both have their operations scuppered, each realises the other has a mole and sets out to uncover each. It will eventually be remade I imagine and when it is I hope that it manages to retain it's consistent sense of tension, double-edged characters and a real tight hold on it's audience just as this did here. Retrieved 10 October Do you love all types of movies? It is ranked in worldwide yearly and 9, in all-time domestic. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Everybody here is doing career best work, in many cases by playing directly to their screen personas. So beautifully constructed and tight, perfectly playing with the morality and freedom and comparisons in and amongst these two undercover agents of more powerful men chasing after one another. I know it's probably not good to compare the two but I'm going to. It stretched through three seasons with each season consisting of 12 episodes. Archived from the original on 28 July Such a wild ride that benefits from repeated views. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Noir-vember Film Ein nie Ende des Fegefeuer der Schuld. Infernal Affairs Read Online Plot Summary. Noir-vember Film Hong Kong portal Film portal. Replicated film poster designs. However, Wong is caught by Sam's men and is killed when he is thrown off a building, having refused to reveal Chan despite a beating from the gangsters. Alternate Versions. Theatrical release poster. Running time. The plan succeeds and many of Sam's men are arrested, while Lau betrays Sam and murders him. Written by Aya. Pre- release publicity focused on its star-studded cast Andy Lau , Tony Leung , Anthony Wong , Edison Chen , Eric Tsang , Sammi Cheng and Kelly Chen , but the film later received critical acclaim for its original plot and its concise and swift storytelling style. Looking for some great streaming picks? Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Really satisfying thriller even if it ends up being very sad. How long have you been an undercover? Cheung comes out from the shadows behind them and says "I don't know As they take the lift down to the lobby, Lau kills B out of his desire to eradicate traces of his past, become a "good guy" cop, and end the mole hunt. Infernal Affairs film series. Everybody here is doing career best work, in many cases by playing directly to their screen personas. The Departed felt like a full story, this throws you straight into it which…. Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics. Too bad I still can't find the stooge. Andrew Lau Alan Mak. Cantonese Chinese Thai. This idea, made into the most successful Hong Kong production of recent years, is such a good idea that a Hollywood remake is planned, perhaps by Martin Scorsese. https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/c3ea4d75-06c7-450e-9ab9-09609a042c72/java-a-beginners-guide-357.pdf https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/00c35419-ea37-4c26-8f90-31227738c264/exploring-the-new-testament-a-guide-to-the-gos.pdf https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/bb2c7dfa-81f0-441d-ad3a-c46c6a5a84e5/a-newbies-guide-to-nook-hd-and-hd-the-unoffici.pdf https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/0f79a5da-21a6-45a6-9e49-aafd0e2d4398/canonical-correlation-analysis-in-speech-enhan.pdf https://files8.webydo.com/9585947/UploadedFiles/A660BB97-F129-0958-C2FE-FE9DC4270608.pdf https://files8.webydo.com/9585478/UploadedFiles/D37E6321-DAC6-8567-101B-2764C5C246D0.pdf https://cdn.starwebserver.se/shops/razmusblomqvistao/files/shine-436.pdf.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Bossini International Holdings Limited Invests HK$40M in New Brand “SPARKLE”
    PRESS RELEASE August 28, 2002 Bossini International Holdings Limited Invests HK$40m in new brand “SPARKLE” New label expected to generate huge interest in PRC casual wear market and record sales of HK$120m in first seven months Bossini International Holdings Limited (592), the Hong Kong-based fashion chain store, today announced the September launch of SPARKLE, targeting the casual wear sector on the Mainland. During the next seven months, Bossini plans to build an extensive sales network for the new brand by establishing SPARKLE fashion chains in seven major cities including Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Wuhan, Nanjing, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen. An anticipated 50 directly managed stores will open in the first phase of the launch, most located in high traffic areas and within department stores. Store sizes range from an average of 1,000 square feet to a maximum of 3,000 square feet. Mr. Edgar To, Executive Director of Bossini International Holdings Limited said, “Our capital expenditure for the first stage launch of the SPARKLE brand is HK$17m. In return, we expect to record sales of HK$120m in the first seven months of operations to the end of March 2003. We also anticipate rapid growth in sales over the next three years, with retail gross margin of 45%.” Mr. To said the time is right to implement a multi-brand strategy and grow Bossini’s share of the Mainland market. “There is rapid economic growth in many cities in the PRC and it is expected that this will be sustained at least up to 2008,” he said.
    [Show full text]
  • CHAPTER 3 Hong Kong Music Ecosphere
    Abstract The people of Hong Kong experienced their deepest sense of insecurity and anxiety after the handover of sovereignty to Beijing. Time and again, the incapacity and lack of credibility of the SAR government has been manifested in various new policies or incidents. Hong Kong people’s anger and discontent with the government have reached to the peak. On July 1, 2003, the sixth anniversary of the hand-over of Hong Kong to China, 500,000 demonstrators poured through the streets of Hong Kong to voice their concerns over the proposed legislation of Article 23 and their dissatisfaction to the SAR government. And the studies of politics and social movement are still dominated by accounts of open confrontations in the form of large scale and organized rebellions and protests. If we shift our focus on the terrain of everyday life, we can find that the youth voice out their discontents by different ways, such as various kinds of media. This research aims to fill the gap and explore the relationship between popular culture and politics of the youth in Hong Kong after 1997 by using one of the local bands KingLyChee as a case study. Politically, it aims at discovering the hidden voices of the youth and argues that the youth are not seen as passive victims of structural factors such as education system, market and family. Rather they are active and strategic actors who are capable of negotiating with and responding to the social change of Hong Kong society via employing popular culture like music by which the youth obtain their pleasure of producing their own meanings of social experience and the pleasure of avoiding the social discipline of the power-bloc.
    [Show full text]
  • Hong Kong 20 Ans / 20 Films Rétrospective 20 Septembre - 11 Octobre
    HONG KONG 20 ANS / 20 FILMS RÉTROSPECTIVE 20 SEPTEMBRE - 11 OCTOBRE À L’OCCASION DU 20e ANNIVERSAIRE DE LA RÉTROCESSION DE HONG KONG À LA CHINE CO-PRÉSENTÉ AVEC CREATE HONG KONG 36Infernal affairs CREATIVE VISIONS : HONG KONG CINEMA, 1997 – 2017 20 ANS DE CINÉMA À HONG KONG Avec la Cinémathèque, nous avons conçu une programmation destinée à célé- brer deux décennies de cinéma hongkongais. La période a connu un rétablis- sement économique et la consécration de plusieurs cinéastes dont la carrière est née durant les années 1990, sans compter la naissance d’une nouvelle génération d’auteurs. PERSISTANCE DE LA NOUVELLE VAGUE Notre sélection rend hommage à la créativité persistante des cinéastes de Hong Kong et au mariage improbable de deux tendances complémentaires : l’ambitieuse Nouvelle Vague artistique et le film d’action des années 1980. Bien qu’elle soit exclue de notre sélection, il est utile d’insister sur le fait que la production chinoise 20 ANS / FILMS KONG, HONG de cinéastes et de vedettes originaires de Hong Kong, tels que Jackie Chan, Donnie Yen, Stephen Chow et Tsui Hark, continue à caracoler en tête du box-office chinois. Les deux films Journey to the West avec Stephen Chow (le deuxième réalisé par Tsui Hark) et La Sirène (avec Stephen Chow également) ont connu un immense succès en République Populaire. Ils n’auraient pas été possibles sans l’œuvre antérieure de leurs auteurs, sans la souplesse formelle qui caractérise le cinéma de Hong Kong. L’histoire et l’avenir de l’industrie hongkongaise se lit clairement dans la carrière d’un pionnier de la Nouvelle Vague, Tsui Hark, qui a rodé son savoir-faire en matière d’effets spéciaux d’arts martiaux dans ses premières productions télévisuelles et cinématographiques à Hong Kong durant les années 70 et 80.
    [Show full text]
  • Contracted Sales Growth Will Slow in 2021 on Tightened Credit
    CORPORATES SECTOR IN-DEPTH Property – China 28 January 2021 China Property Focus: Contracted sales growth will slow in 2021 on tightened credit TABLE OF CONTENTS » We expect national contracted sales growth in 2021 to slow amid tighter onshore Mild national contracted sales growth credit conditions. National contracted sales value grew 10.8% year-on-year in 2020 likely in 2021 2 (compared with 10.3% growth in 2019), largely driven by an increase in average selling Rated developers' offshore bond issuance remained robust in January price. Contracted sales volume (gross floor area), increased by 3.2% in 2020, higher than amid signs of tightening onshore the 1.5% growth in 2019, reflecting solid housing demand and the gradual economic credit to the sector 4 recovery in China despite the disruption caused by the coronavirus outbreak in early Liquidity stress indicator remained flat in December 2020 5 2020. Eight rating actions from 27 November to 26 January 6 » Rated developers' offshore bond issuance remained robust in January amid signs Appendix I 8 of tightening onshore credit to the sector. Rated developers issued $11.5 billion of Appendix II 9 offshore bonds in January 2021 (to 26 January), mainly for refinancing. The amount Appendix III 13 dropped 30% from $16.5 billion in January 2020 but remained robust compared to the Moody's related publications 14 $4.4 billion average monthly issuance in 2020. The active issuance at the beginning of the year also reflects developers' efforts to replenish liquidity amid signs of tightening onshore credit to the sector. On 31 December 2020, the Chinese regulators announced Contacts new guidelines to limit Chinese banks' property loan exposure.
    [Show full text]
  • Johnnie to Kei-Fung's
    JOHNNIE TO KEI-FUNG’S PTU Michael Ingham Hong Kong University Press The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Road Hong Kong www.hkupress.org © 2009 Michael Ingham ISBN 978-962-209-919-7 All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed and bound by Pre-Press Ltd. in Hong Kong, China Contents Series Preface vii Acknowledgements xi 1 Introducing the Film; Introducing Johnnie — 1 ‘One of Our Own’ 2 ‘Into the Perilous Night’ — Police and Gangsters 35 in the Hong Kong Mean Streets 3 ‘Expect the Unexpected’ — PTU’s Narrative and Aesthetics 65 4 The Coda: What’s the Story? — Morning Glory! 107 Notes 127 Appendix 131 Credits 143 Bibliography 147 ●1 Introducing the Film; Introducing Johnnie — ‘One of Our Own’ ‘It is not enough to think about Hong Kong cinema simply in terms of a tight commercial space occasionally opened up by individual talent, on the model of auteurs in Hollywood. The situation is both more interesting and more complicated.’ — Ackbar Abbas, Hong Kong Culture and the Politics of Disappearance ‘Yet many of Hong Kong’s most accomplished fi lms were made in the years after the 1993 downturn. Directors had become more sophisticated, and perhaps fi nancial desperation freed them to experiment … The golden age is over; like most local cinemas, Hong Kong’s will probably consist of a small annual output and a handful of fi lms of artistic interest.
    [Show full text]
  • The Departed Talent: Matt Damon, Leonardo Dicaprio, Jack Nicholson
    The Departed Talent: Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Alec Baldwin, Vera Farmiga, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone. Date of review: Thursday the 12th of October, 2006. Director: Martin Scorsese Classification: MA (15+) Duration: 152 minutes We rate it: Five stars. For any serious cinemagoer or lover of film as an art form, the arrival of a new film by Martin Scorsese is a reason to get very excited indeed. Scorsese has long been regarded as one of the greatest of America’s filmmakers; since the mid-1980s he has been regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers in the world, period. With landmark works like Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), Goodfellas (1990) and Bringing Out the Dead (1999) to his credit, Scorsese is a director for whom any actor will go the distance, and the casts the director manages to assemble for his every project are extraordinarily impressive. As a visualist Scorsese is a force to be reckoned with, and his soundtracks regularly become known as classic creations; his regular collaborators, including editor Thelma Schoonmaker and cinematographer Michael Ballhaus are the best in their respective fields. Paraphrasing all of this, one could justifiably describe Martin Scorsese as one of the most important and interesting directors on the face of the planet. The Departed, Scorsese’s newest film, is on one level a remake of a very successful Hong Kong action thriller from 2002 called Infernal Affairs. That film, written by Felix Chong and directed by Andrew Lau, set the box office on fire in Hong Kong and became a cult hit around the world.
    [Show full text]
  • The Studies of HKIFF: an Overview of a Burgeoning Field of Its Establishment in the Current Years
    The studies of Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) : Title an overview of a burgeoning field of its establishment in the current years Author(s) Law, Pik-yu Law, P. E.. (2015). The studies of Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) : an overview of a burgeoning field of its Citation establishment in the current years. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. Issued Date 2015 URL http://hdl.handle.net/10722/223429 The author retains all proprietary rights, (such as patent rights) and the right to use in future works.; This work is licensed under Rights a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. The Studies of HKIFF: An Overview of a Burgeoning Field of its establishment in the current years The University of Hong Kong Department of Sociology Assignment / Essay Cover Sheet1 Programme Title: Master of Social Sciences in Media, Culture and Creative Cities – MSocSc(MCCC) Title of Course: SOCI8030 Capstone Project Course Code: SOCI8030 Title of Assignment / Essay: The Studies of Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF): An overview of a Burgeoning Field of its establishment in the current years Student Name: LAW, Pik Yu Eugenia Student Number: 2013932305 Year of Study: Year 2 Date of Resubmission2: Plagiarism Plagiarism is the presentation of work which has been copied in whole or in part from another person’s work, or from any other source such as the Internet, published books or periodicals without due acknowledgement given in the text. Where there are reasonable grounds for believing that cheating has occurred, the action that may be taken when plagiarism is detected is for the staff member not to mark the item of work and to report or refer the matter to the Department.
    [Show full text]
  • Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies
    Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies On the Rooftop: A Study of Marginalized Youth Films in Hong Kong Cinema Xuelin ZHOU University of Auckland Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies. Vol. 8, No. 2 ⓒ 2008 Academy of East Asia Studies. pp.163-177 You may use content in the SJEAS back issues only for your personal, non-commercial use. Contents of each article do not represent opinions of SJEAS. Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies. Vol.8, No.2. � 2008 Academy of East Asian Studies. pp.163-177 On the Rooftop: A Study of Marginalized Youth Films in Hong Kong Cinema1 Xuelin ZHOU University of Auckland ABSTRACT Researchers of contemporary Hong Kong cinema have tended to concentrate on the monumental, metropolitan and/or historical works of such esteemed directors as Wong Kar-Wai, John Woo and Tsui Hark. This paper focuses instead on a number of low-budget films that circulated below the radar of Chinese as well as Western film scholars but were important to local young viewers, i.e. a cluster of films that feature deviant and marginalized youth as protagonists. They are very interesting as evidence of perceived social problems in contemporary Hong Kong. The paper aims to outline some main features of these marginalized youth films produced since the mid-1990s. Keywords: Hong Kong, cinema, youth culture, youth film, marginalized youth On the Rooftop A scene set on the rooftop of a skyscraper in central Hong Kong appears in New Police Story(2004), or Xin jingcha gushi, by the Hong Kong director Benny Chan, an action drama that features an aged local police officer struggling to fight a group of trouble-making, tech-savvy teenagers.2 The young people are using the rooftop for an “X-party,” an occasion for showing off their skills of skateboarding and cycling, by doing daredevil stunts along the edge of the building.
    [Show full text]
  • Actor Edison Chen Quits Business After Sex Photo Scandal 08:29, February 22, 2008
    Actor Edison Chen quits business after sex photo scandal 08:29, February 22, 2008 Hong Kong entertainer Edison Chen said on Thursday he was quitting show business indefinitely after admitting here that he had taken the photos embarrassing several well- known starlets that had been leaked to the Internet. Hong Kong singer and actor Edison Chen attends a news conference in Hong Kong Feb. 21, 2008. (China Daily Photo) The 27-year-old Canadian-born Chinese said he had come back to Hong Kong to "account for himself and to apologize to those involved in or effected by the scandal." "I would like to apologize to all the ladies involved in the scandal and their families for all their sufferings. I am sorry," the Vancouver native said at a press conference attended by hundreds of media. Chen said he would leave the Hong Kong entertainment industry indefinitely after fulfilling all existing contracts. He did not give a specific time frame for his withdrawal. He added he would devote himself to charity work in the coming months. The photo scandal started with the uploading of hundreds of sexually-explicit photos starting on Jan. 27 featuring Chen and various Hong Kong starlets. The pictures have spread like wildfire on the Internet ever since. Chen said at the press conference the photos were stolen and distributed without his approval. "These photos had not been shown to people and were never intended to be shown to anyone," he said. Hong Kong police were trying to find the first releaser of the photos and had made several arrests in connection with them.
    [Show full text]
  • Feff Press Kit
    PRESS RELEASES, FILM STILLS & FESTIVAL PICS AND VIDEOS TO DOWNLOAD FROM WWW.FAREASTFILM.COM PRESS AREA Press Office/Far East Film Festival 19 Gianmatteo Pellizzari & Ippolita Nigris Cosattini +39/0432/299545 - +39/347/0950890 [email protected] - [email protected] Video Press Office Matteo Buriani +39/345/1821517 – [email protected] 21/29 April 2017 – Udine – Teatro Nuovo and Visionario FAR EAST FILM FESTIVAL 19: THE POWER OF ASIA! The irresistible road movie Survival Family opens the #FEFF19 on Friday the 21 st of April: a packed programme which testifies to the incredible vitality (both productive and creative) of Asian cinema. 83 titles selected from almost a thousand seen, and 4 world premiers, including Herman Yau's high-octane thriller Shock Wave , which will close the nineteenth edition. Press release of the 13 th of April 2017 For immediate release UDINE - Who turned out the lights? Nobody did, and the fuses haven't blown. And no, it's not even a power cut. Electricity has just suddenly ceased to exist, so the Suzuki family must now very quickly learn the art of survival: and facing a global blackout is not exactly a walk in the park! It's with the world screeching to a halt of the irresistible Japanese road movie Survival Family that the highly anticipated Far East Film Festival 19 opens: not just because Yaguchi Shinobu' s wonderful comedy is the festival's starting pistol on Friday the 21 st of April, but also for a question of symmetry: just like the blackout in Survival Family , the FEFF is an interruption .
    [Show full text]
  • Download This PDF File
    Humanity 2012 Papers. ~~~~~~ “‘We are all the same, we are all unique’: The paradox of using individual celebrity as metaphor for national (transnational) identity.” Joyleen Christensen University of Newcastle Introduction: This paper will examine the apparently contradictory public persona of a major star in the Hong Kong entertainment industry - an individual who essentially redefined the parameters of an industry, which is, itself, a paradox. In the last decades of the 20th Century, the Hong Kong entertainment industry's attempts to translate American popular culture for a local audience led to an exciting fusion of cultures as the system that was once mocked by English- language media commentators for being equally derivative and ‘alien’, through translation and transmutation, acquired a unique and distinctively local flavour. My use of the now somewhat out-dated notion of East versus West sensibilities will be deliberate as it reflects the tone of contemporary academic and popular scholarly analysis, which perfectly seemed to capture the essence of public sentiment about the territory in the pre-Handover period. It was an explicit dichotomy, with commentators frequently exploiting the notion of a culture at war with its own conception of a national identity. However, the dwindling Western interest in Hong Kong’s fate after 1997 and the social, economic and political opportunities afforded by the reunification with Mainland China meant that the new millennia saw Hong Kong's so- called ‘Culture of Disappearance’ suddenly reconnecting with its true, original self. Humanity 2012 11 Alongside this shift I will track the career trajectory of Andy Lau – one of the industry's leading stars1 who successfully mimicked the territory's movement in focus from Western to local and then regional.
    [Show full text]
  • Warriors As the Feminised Other
    Warriors as the Feminised Other The study of male heroes in Chinese action cinema from 2000 to 2009 A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Chinese Studies at the University of Canterbury by Yunxiang Chen University of Canterbury 2011 i Abstract ―Flowery boys‖ (花样少年) – when this phrase is applied to attractive young men it is now often considered as a compliment. This research sets out to study the feminisation phenomena in the representation of warriors in Chinese language films from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China made in the first decade of the new millennium (2000-2009), as these three regions are now often packaged together as a pan-unity of the Chinese cultural realm. The foci of this study are on the investigations of the warriors as the feminised Other from two aspects: their bodies as spectacles and the manifestation of feminine characteristics in the male warriors. This study aims to detect what lies underneath the beautiful masquerade of the warriors as the Other through comprehensive analyses of the representations of feminised warriors and comparison with their female counterparts. It aims to test the hypothesis that gender identities are inventory categories transformed by and with changing historical context. Simultaneously, it is a project to study how Chinese traditional values and postmodern metrosexual culture interacted to formulate Chinese contemporary masculinity. It is also a project to search for a cultural nationalism presented in these films with the examination of gender politics hidden in these feminisation phenomena. With Laura Mulvey‘s theory of the gaze as a starting point, this research reconsiders the power relationship between the viewing subject and the spectacle to study the possibility of multiple gaze as well as the power of spectacle.
    [Show full text]