King Kong

investigation is on the Hong Kong Handover, which is about the transfer of Hong Kong from British rule to Chinese rule. The question I will analyze is “To what extent did Hong Kong retain its original government immediately after the Hong Kong handover in 1996?” The method I will use to answer this question is by researching facts about the government before and after 1997 and analyzing what changed or stayed the same. In this section, I will investigate two sources: Hong Kong Government…

Express Chungking Express draws a restless alienation and ambiguity between urban people in Hong Kong, and delicates the subtle people relationship happened on four characters in the modern city. Cope 633, acted by Tony Leung, is one of the isolated figure. Wong Kar-wai’s unique directing style and soundtracks make the film stand out in many art films in the nineties of Hong Kong. In Wong Kar-wai’s movie, Chunking Express, Tony Leung’s acting has been a certain degree of promotion.…

The Case of Community Care Centre Plan The emergence and development of the community care centre Background The Community Care Centre Plan (CCCP) was implemented in Taiwan because of the social conditions and pressures of the ageing population in the 1990s. The CCCP was based on the unique social conditions in Taiwan, namely the Community Development Associations (CDAs) system. In Taiwan, CDAs are widespread grassroots organizations. Most CDAs were established by the Community Development Plan,…

who specialized in describing protagonists’ characteristics by details and the whole environment. Since he grows up in Hong Kong, a former British colony involving Chinese culture and western culture, he has lots of thinking on this metropolis and the people living there. Thus he directs bunch of films such like Chungking Express, telling the love stories happened in Hong Kong via protagonists’ characteristics and background music. In this movie, there are two independent and interconnected love…

Western Culture(UK) No one will argue about Hong Kong is a multiculturalism city. Hong Kong was once colonized by the United Kingdom for over a century. At present, Chinese Culture of Hong Kong was already deeply influenced by other western culture, especially from Britain. From Language, Cuisine, Pop Culture, Literature, Architecture to Wedding style. Culture is the soul of every country, unique and sublime. As Gencel (n.d.) once said, "Who said Hong Kong too small? In size perhaps but not in…

Geoffrey Benjamin says “In order to demonstrate the distinctiveness of each of the four cultures their differences have to be heightened, their similarities underplayed, and expressive forms have to be developed to display their separate-but-equal status” (Benjamin, 1976). Even though his article was written in 1976, just 11 years after Singapore’s independence, I think that his view still holds to a large extent in relation to the Singaporean society today. Firstly, historically being a…

Hong Kong, currently a highly developed city which is also one of the most important financial center on the global stage, has been experienced a series of historical incidents which finally created a very distinctive, complicated yet dynamic and investigable background for it. Due to the colonial era under the administration of British and hand-over to China in 1997, Hong Kong people, or Hong Kongers, have been showing the changes of their identity through the different period when Hong Kong…

1. Introduction to Dubrovnik City. Dubrovnik is located on the Adriatic coast in the Southern part of Croatia. The City is listed as UNESCO World Heritage since 1979. Tourist from all over the world coming to see the perfectly preserved defensive walls with mighty forts and towers, characteristic Baroque houses with red roof tops, and many Gothic-Renaissance palaces. Dubrovnik, as other cities of Croatian cost line proud themselves by the crystal clear sea and surrounded by amazing countryside…

How does Rush Hour 3 use conventions of comedy to support Chinese cultures? Rush Hour 3 is a action, comedy and adventure movie released in 2007, directed by Bret Ratner and acted by Jackie Chen and Chris Tucker as protagonists. Conventions of comedy can be explained by setting, sound, lighting, character types and so on. The Chinese cultures that we often see in movies are Kung Fu, sword fighting, Chinese Buddhist temple and kids being toughed Kung Fu, etc. I will be describing how a scene from…

Love Jones is a romantic love story drama, with an optimistic ending, that leaves you emotionally satisfied. This movie has a realistic character in an up and down relationship. With the use of an intelligent post feminism woman and a male character who is somewhat egalitarian. Taking place in a romantic scenery in the late 1990’s Chicago city settings. In other words, it's a chick flick. Starring Darius Lovehall (Larenz Tate) a novelist, who comes off being cocky and full of himself. Then…