2021 Blog – Page 5 – Architecture and film

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[FIELDWORK] ZERO TO HERO, SHEUNG YUE RIVER BIG WATER-PIPES

March 21, 2022March 21, 2022 u3584029@connect.hku.hk

Zero to Hero, DIR. Wan Chi Man Jimmy (2021) Sheung Yue River Big Water-pipes, Sheung Shui, Hong Kong Mom So comes to find her son to talk causally on the stairs. Scenes from the Edko Film Ltd.’s Zero to Hero 2021, directed by Wan Chi Wan Jimmy. Zero to Hero (August, 2021) by Wan Chi Man Jimmy was released in Hong Kong. The setting of this film is in Hong Kong and Sheung Yue River Big Water-pipes are one of them. This is a mise-en-scene of Mom So (main female character) witnessing a miracle that So Wa Wai (main

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[FIELDWORK] PACIFIC RIM, KOWLOON BAY

March 21, 2022 u3585543@connect.hku.hk

Pacific Rim, Guillermo del Toro, 2013 Pacific Rim was released by Warner Bros in 2013.Hong Kong is set as a background for the final combat scene between the protagonist, Warriors and antagonist, Kaiju which appears in the later stage of the film. The scene transitions to the cityscape of Hong Kong showing the transporting of Warriors into the lake of Kowloon Bay. The iconic night cityscape of Hong Kong can be seen in the background such as the tower for Bank Of China, the ICC tower and IFC, capturing the notable and iconic nightscape of Hong Kong. The sense of

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[FIELDWORK] INFERNAL AFFAIRS, GUANGDONG INVESTMENT TOWER

March 21, 2022 u3583537@connect.hku.hk

Infernal Affairs, DIR. ANDREW LAU AND ALAN MAK(2002) Guangdong Investment Tower, Central and Western District, Hong Kong It is a story about Lau and Yan, who are both a mole, but on two opposing sides– the police and the gangster. The movie at the beginning gave the two characters a close up shot, representing that their faith is completely different. It is an exciting story between the searching and fighting against the two, and their “boss” behind Hon Sam and Wong Sir. There is a significant place which appears frequently in the movie. The “Guangdong Investment Tower” is

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[Field Report] PARASITE

March 21, 2022March 21, 2022 u3593788@connect.hku.hk

PARASITE, DIR. BONG JOON-HO (2019) Semi-basement, classic residential building style in Korea Parasite is a movie directed by Bong Joon-ho. This movie tells the story of what happened between Kim Ki-taek’s family and Park’s family. Due to the failure of business and unemployment, Kim Ki-taek’s family has to live in a basement with low rent. In contrast, the Park family is very wealthy. As the Park daughter’s original tutor, a close friend of the Kim son, needs to study abroad, the Kim son got the opportunity to be the tutor of the Park daughter, and the four members of the

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[FIELDWORK]RAISE THE RED LANTERN, QIAO FAMILY COURTYARD

March 21, 2022March 21, 2022 u3577308@connect.hku.hk

RAISE THE RED LANTERN, DIR. ZHANG YIMOU (1991) Qiao Family Courtyard, Shanxi Province, China First released at Venice Film Festival in 1991, RAISE THE RED LANTERN tells a story about a female college student Songlian unwillingly marrying the landlord Chen as the fourth concubine during the Warlord era. After the marriage, Songlian experienced a lot of infighting with other concubines. In Chen’s rule, whenever he wanted to spend a night with someone, he let servants hang red lanterns over one’s room door. In that case, the red lantern symbolizes power in Chen’s family. In a series of chaotic events over

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[FIELDWORK] B FOR BUSY, Shang Hai

March 21, 2022March 21, 2022 mlx0830@connect.hku.hk

B FOR BUSY<愛情神話>，DIR. Shao Yihun, 2016 Shanghai alley and Mr Bai’s house [Mr. Bai and Miss Li leave the scene of the play, scene from B FOR BUSY (2021), directed by Shao Yihun] This is a city movie with a story about love. The film opens with Mr. Bai and Ms. Li watching a play together at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center. The words in the picture seem to imply the main tone of the movie – Dramatic. At the same time, the film’s camera always follows Mr. Bai’s delicate Shanghai alley life, and the Shanghai dialect throughout the film,

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Chongqing Express（1994），DIR.Wong Kar Wai

March 21, 2022April 25, 2022 u3595314@connect.hku.hk

Chongqing Express is an urban fashion film produced by Zedong Film Company, directed by Wong Kar Wai and released in Hong Kong in 1994. The film tells two love stories, an urban encounter between the lovelorn policeman and the mysterious female killer and the love story of Patrolman 663 and a fast food restaurant girl. Fg1 Chongqing Express The scene of shaking out of focus, boring music, and the female killer played by Lin Qingxia is in the pile of labor. This film has been decadent from the beginning. Beauty wearing sunglasses and fake blonde hair shuttles through the dark and

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[FIELDWORK] GOD OF GAMBLERS, LUCKY PLAZA

March 21, 2022 u3582402@connect.hku.hk

GOD OF GAMBLERS, DIR. WONG JING (1989) Lucky Plaza, Sha Tin, Hong Kong God of Gamblers, directed by Mr. Wong, is a famous gambling film in Hong Kong film history. It tells the story of a famous worldwide gambler called Ko Chun who accidentally lost his memory by little knife’s mischief coincidently. During the period of losing memory, he got the nickname chocolate and earn money by his brilliant gambling skill. At the movie’s end, He eventually recovered his memory and won the five-cards game with Chan Kam-sing, the “Demon of Gamblers.” The total box

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[FIELDWORK]MY PRINCE EDWARD,GOLDEN PLAZA MALL

March 21, 2022March 22, 2022 u3595073@connect.hku.hk

My Prince Edward is a drama movie directed by Norris Wong premiered in 2016. The film set in Hong Kong’s Golden Plaza mall in the district of Prince Edward narrates the struggles Asian women face in matters of marriage (Imdb, 2021). The movie narrates the love story of Fong and Edward. In order to get married to Edward, Fong must divorce her husband, whom she got married to because she was paid eight years ago. Fong was offered some payment by Jin Kai-jie, a mainlander who needed a shortcut to obtaining documents allowing him to travel to the United States

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[FIELDWORK] Cold Eyes, Cheonggyecheon

March 20, 2022March 20, 2022 u3583530@connect.hku.hk

Cold Eyes was originally a Hong Kong film. It was redirected by Jo Ui-Seok and Kim Byeong-Seo and released in 2013. The film is about a police surveillance team who identified, monitored, and chased an armed robbery group and a leader named James. Most of the scenes were shot in the city center of Seoul. According to director Kim, he tried to differentiate Seoul from Hong Kong, where the city is highly dense. Amongst many places in the film, I selected Cheonggyecheon since it is a crucial place in a film. After the robbery group failed to rob Korea Stock

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