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- From: edwardc@aifh.ed.ac.uk (EdCarter)
- Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
- Subject: Re: Life Is Cheap...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.174035@aifh.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 17:40:35 GMT
- References: <C12z8C.2pD@world.std.com> <93022.092714SYW1@psuvm.psu.edu>
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- Reply-To: edwardc@aifh.ed.ac.uk (Ed Carter)
- Organization: Dept of AI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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- In article <93022.092714SYW1@psuvm.psu.edu>, SYW1@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
- # The movie is called "Life is cheap but toilet paper is expensive".
- # It is directed by a Chinese-American director named Wayne Wang.
- # Wayne Wang is known for the cult films "Where is Charlie Chan?".
- #
- # The movie was shot in Hong Kong and was criticized as a extremely violent
- # movie.
- #
-
- How violent it is depends upon how much sympathy you have for chickens.
-
- It's worth mentioning 'cos it has the longest chase [on foot] sequence I have
- ever seen. It must last over 20 minutes and is filmed entirely by a handheld
- camera following the two runners. Funny, then tedious, then funny again and
- towards the end it's just nauseous 'cos the cameraman's getting tired and he's
- wobbling the camera about too much.
-
- It's not that recent, though, 'cos I saw it in June 1991 (the 28th to be precise).
-
- #
- # Grant...
- # (don't write to me because I won't be answering...)
-
- Ed...
- (no-one ever writes to me so I can't say what I'd do...)
-