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- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!torn!utgpu!chun
- From: chun@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (T.C.W. Foo)
- Subject: Re: Tsui Hark the auteur
- Message-ID: <By3wEp.5xL@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
- Organization: UTCS Public Access
- References: <Ef33vce00iUx47uXk2@andrew.cmu.edu> <farant.2au8@terapin.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 07:20:48 GMT
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- In article <farant.2au8@terapin.com> farant@terapin.com (Faran Thomason) writes:
- [stuff deleted]
- >Sorry to quote all that over but. I pretty much agree with you. His themes are
- >very similar throughout all his films where he is credited as director. However
- >many of his films vary radicaly in terms of cinematic style. I think his latest
- ^^^ ^^^^^^
- >film The Master is evidence. His usual themes were present but the film looked
- ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^
- >crappy and the fight sequences were not that strong and the story line was
- >pretty average. Maybe shoting in America made the difference and casting US
- >stuntmen. Another film Working Class cinematicly seems different from his other
- >stuff. Maybe he was trying for something different.
- >
- >Has anyone seen Shanghai Blues ? If so what's it about ?
-
- What's it about? I am pretty sure that Tsui Hark's latest films (as director)
- are Once Upon a Time in China II & OUTC III (the latter is still in post-
- production.) And, he has not been to the US to shoot a film for a couple of
- years now. Are you talking about the one starring Jet Li? It was made in
- the past but released this year because his OUTC I was a big hit.
-
- Shanghai Blues (a.k.a. Shanghai zhi ye) is a romantic comedy with principal
- cast of Sylvia Chang, Kenny Bee and Sally Yeh. It's about a man who tried to
- find a job in Shanghai after WWII and to find a woman he has met before the
- war. Some citics in Hongkong say it is Tsui's best film prior to OUTC.
-
- Wallace Foo
-