Hong Kong action cinema

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People today tend to believe that the handover caused the decline of Hong Kong action film industry. According to Peter Rist, “ Immediately following the handover of Hong Kong by the British to the People’s Republic of China”, the Hong Kong filmmaker started to change the mood of action films. Instead of comedic action, the films produced after Handover “were characterized by strains of pessimism and unpleasantness” and that those works were not welcomed by local audiences and the received…

background in the sixties, uses close form to implicitly reveal that even though Hong Kong people’s living conditions were preserve the characteristics of Shanghai people; however, living in the complex historical movement, Su as a representation of younger generation are struggling to close to Hong Kong’s independent culture. In “Love in Ruins: Spectral Bodies in Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love,” Olivia Khoo writes, “Although Hong Kong’s status as a Special Administrative Region means that…

Wong Kar Wai is probably the most innovative and avant-garde director to come out of Hong Kong. As part of the second New Wave of Hong Kong cinema, Wai moved far away from the traditional, Jackie Chan and Shaw Brothers style of films, which focused on action, and explored more substantial themes, icnluding human psyche, politics and the social conditions in Hong Kong. His aesthetics are quite similar with Jean-Luc Godard and the French Wave, in general, particularly because he also took apart…

direction, script and acting exist solely to lead to the action scenes. The aforementioned however, designed and executed them to perfection, thus resulting in a masterpiece of the category. Also of note is the fact that, although the violence is excessive, the film does not portray any blood, in contrast to the regular tactics. 15. Dragon (Peter Chan, 2011) Peter Chan is one of the foremost successful directors and producers of Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, whose works have been greatly…

16. In The Mood For Love (Wong Kar Wai, 2000, Hong Kong) In this film, Wong Kar Wai cooperated with the two, probably best, contemporary cinematographers in Asian cinema, Christopher Doyle, and Mark Lee Pong Bing, resulting in a true visual masterpiece. The three of them used the camera in a way that gives the audience the sense that they are picking in on the action while focusing on the protagonists every move and look, through the extensive use of slow motion. These two tactics are…

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Television and cinema nowadays are well recognized as an efficient medium to transfers message to audiences. For example, cooperate organization also use television and screen technology as a tool to advertising and marketing their product in order to get attention from consumer. Visuals and moving images on screen as the main attraction tools to influence human brain, according to a studied in psychology found that peoples' memories effectively when they see visual and colored image (Mone,…

But the cinema of the body implies also a social gest. We see this in how people react to the monk: sometimes with indifference, but other times they stare, try to interact with him, see him as a performer. We are not the only seers in the film, the people in it are voyeurs of something they do and see everyday (walking), but the fact that the monk’s walking is at a different temporality breaks the sensory motor link and affects us: makes us think the unthought. The ceremonialization of the body…