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[FIELDWORK] Kong Fu Hustle

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Kong Fu Hustle is a comedy-action film produced, directed, and co-written by Stephen Chow in 2004. Most of the scenes in this movie were filmed in Shanghai Chedun Film Park, where many old shanghai buildings were constructed or rebuilt for filmmaking and exhibition. These days, when visiting the Shanghai Chedun Film Park, people can also identify many buildings or facilities that appeared in the film; for example, figure 1 shows a traffic light, and it is used by Stephen Chow to detoxify himself from the snake venoms. Many other spaces and buildings are also worth discussing, such as Cage walled

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[FIELDWORK]CLOUD IN THE WIND (SHADOW PLAY),Xiancun

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CLOUD IN THE WIND (SHADOW PLAY), Lou Ye(2019) Xiancun, Tianhe District, Guangzhou Lou Ye released Cloud in the Wind/Shadow Play in April 2019. The film was adapted from the demolition and transformation of Xiancun, an urban village in Guangzhou. The story revolved around the murder case of the director of the construction committee in Xiancun. Xiancun was the movie’s background and critical element since the main character lived there. Xiancun is an old village with a history of more than 800 years located in Tianhe District, Guangzhou, which has been cultivating fields for generations. Xiancun is the last village in

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Field Report_KIM Daeun

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For my field report, I have chosen a Cantonese horror film called Rigor Mortis. The premise of the film is a man discovering community through horrible events in a public estate. The public estate looks like a socialist compound. Some identifying factors are it’s massive scale, long hallways, hollow middle communal area, and minimalistic brutalist design. The building’s spatial features convey a sense of superhuman feeling. The grandiose yet barron architecture makes the audience feel as though they are a small part of a bigger picture they do not understand. The white colour and grey colour of the building is

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[Video Essay] Information city

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    Statement: Dormitory is the miniature to show Hong Kong is a information city. Introduction: The video shows the simple life of two roommates in the dormitory during pandemic. The things happened inside the dormitory show that Hong Kong is a information city, looking into the daily life. The whole video talks about two roommates have conflicts during covid-19 and then be reconciled. The video shows they using TV, computer and phone to gain the information of the city and things related to the COVID-19. Reason for me decided to use animation to make the video is that I’m

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[FIELDWORK] OCTOPUSSY, JOHN GLEN

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OCTOPUSSY, Dir John Glen   Octopussy is a famous James Bond film made in 1983 and was the thirteenth in the James Bond series and sixth of Roger Moore as the MI6 agent code named 007. The film was shot in many parts of the world, with much of shooting being carried out in the historic Indian city of Udaipur located in the State of Rajasthan.   In the plot of the film, James Bond follows the principal villain, Khan to his palace in India and spies on a nefarious nexus between him and a Russian general, who are involved

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[FIELDWORK] GOD OF GAMBLERS, Prince Edward

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GOD OF GAMBLERS, DIR. WONG JING (1989)            Prince Edward, Nathan Rd, Hong Kong “God of gamblers” is a film famous in Hong Kong and overseas. The god of gamblers(Ko Chun, Chow Yun Fat) has been imitated by many films related to gamblers up to now. In this film, Ko Chun’s head was hurt accidentally. He lost his memory and became like a kid. “Little Knife”(Andy Lau Fat) takes amnesiac Ko Chun to his home and generally discover his virtuosity at gambling. Then Ko Chun was taken everywhere to gamble with Little Knife. In a scene from this film,

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[FIELDWORK] CITY OF GLASS, LADY HO TUNG HALL

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CITY OF GLASS, DIR. Mabel Cheung 1998 Lady Ho Tung Hall, 91A Pok Fu Lam Road, Hong Kong City of Glass (玻璃之城) is a 1998 Hong Kong romance film written and directed by Mabel Cheungand starring Leon Lai, Shu Qi, Nicola Cheung and Daniel Wu. Raphael (Leon Lai) and Vivian (Shu Qi) were both students in the University of Hong Kong in the 1970s, living separately in Lady Ho Tung Hall and Ricci Hall. They fall in love with each other but eventually ended up marrying other people and raising their own families. However, not so long after their reunion in 1990s,

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[READING RESPONSE] Jennifer Yoos and Vincent James

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The reading passage tells us some history and characteristics of the pedestrian system in different cities, like New York has multilevel “access trees”. After reading this passage, I try to rediscover and observe the multilevel pedestrian network in Hong Kong. As all we know, Hong Kong is a high density city, a good network of pedestrian systems can help to disperse the crowd. We can find skyways and footbridges everywhere, from housing estates to big shopping malls. Although the passage does not talk a lot about the underground tunnel, I think the underground tunnel system is also a very important

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[FIELDWORK]GHOST IN THE SHELL, THE VICTORIA HARBOUR

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GHOST IN THE SHELL; Rupert Sanders 2017; the Victoria Harbour, Kowloon, Hong Kong The ghost in the shell is a science fiction story happening in a contemplated future. Humans’ traits, like vision, intelligence and strength, are amplified trough Cybernetic Improvements. An augmentation developer authorizes a secret project to exploit artificial bodies, namely “Shell”, which is able to accommodate a human brain rather than an AI. Our main actress, Mira Killian is chosen to be the test subject since her body is damaged beyond repair during a serious accident. However, her memories have tampered and she is appointed to be a

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[FIELDWORK] Rouge, Shek Tong Tsui

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Rouge DIR. Stanley Kwan (1988)          Rouge was released by Golden Harvest in 1988. Adapted from Lee Pik-Wah’s novel, the film tells a doomed romance between a courtesan Fleur (Anita Mui), and Chan Chen-Pang (Leslie-Cheung), a wealthy noble playboy. They fell in love in the 1930s, but upon realizing their love would never be accepted by Chan’s family, they committed suicide by opium and promised to meet in afterlife. 50 years later, Fleur returned as a ghost to search for her lost lover with the help of another couple. The two timelines are interspersed with flashbacks, unfolding

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