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[FIELDWORK]God of Gamblers, East Rail Line

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GOD OF GAMBLERS, Wong Jin (1989)            Train, East Rail Line, Hong Kong The East Rail Line train cargo presented in the file.   God of Gamblers (1989) is about a famous gambler called Ko Chun who one day was invited to helped Tanaka in Tokyo to revenge Chan Kam-sing who cheated Tanaka’s father and drove Tanaka’s father to commit suicide. After Ko went back to Hong Kong he went to gamble with his friend and offended the mafia boss, Nam. After Ko escaped from Nam’s  henchmen on the East Rail Line, he fell into the

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[FIELDWORK]God of Gamblers 賭神, Lucky Plaza

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GOD OF GAMBLERS, DIR. Wong Jing (1989) Lucky Plaza, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong God of gamblers is a Hong Kong traditional film directed by Wong Jing and led by Chow Yun-fat, Andy Lau, and Joey Wong. Ko Chun (Chow Yun-fat) is a famous gambler. The main story begins with Chun escaping from a train. After fighting on the train, Chun accidentally stumbles into Little knife (Andy Lau)’s trap, which is intended to play tricks with an Indian. Ko Chun falls under the hill and hits his head. He loses his memory partially. Little knife does not know who is

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[FIELDWORK]SPARROW, POTTINGER STREET

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SPARROW  Dir. Johnnie To(2008) Pottinger Street, Central,Hong Kong The protagonists of the film are four idle pickpockets. They are Aqi, Zhenbo, Xisu, Ma Zai, of which Aqi is the eldest among them.They stole from pedestrians,mostly for fun.One day, they suddenly met Jenny, who seduced four “Wenques” one by one, and brought disaster to them, under questioning. It turns out that Jenny wants to get rid of the control of the rich Mr. Fu, so they need them to steal her passport for her. After a battle of wits, Jenny got her passport as she wished.By contrast, the thief’s leader, Aqi,

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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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Reading Response: Jennifer Yoos and Vincent James

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In this reading, the grade-separated pedestrian highway like highways and subways have changed drastically over the years. In the past, these implementation is to ensure the safety of pedestrians crossing the road from the hugh amount of vehicles passing by, creating a more unified retail experience without threatening the primacy of automobiles. In contrast, it had altered the form and spatial logic of cities around the world to a large extent. These kinds of pedestrian highways had changed in the form of footbridges and subways to underground railway systems containing shops over time in the commercial aspect. One of the

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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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Reading Response: Michel de Certeau

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The article have provided a new perspective to see ‘space’ and ‘place’. Place it is a static site can be seen and consists of boundary with stability. On the other hand, intersections of movable parts form up space, as space is full with personal feeling and own stories. During the love story film, when someone need me time to cope with the cruel truth,  they will say ‘ I need some space ‘ instead of using the word of place. Yet, this two words is interchangeable. The definition of both of it can be proposed by anyone, since, not everybody have

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Reading Response: Giuliano Bruno

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The reading 2 states two interesting phrases, reel time and real time. Actually it is quite normal to think of these two words when we come into a movie, cause real time is the real timeline that is occurring outside the movie while the reel time is the time running inside the movie, which means: reel time must be shown by some of the features, sometimes represented by title saying that “two years later” or the alternation of the days and nights, it also could be related to architecture. Just as Giuliano said, architecture could be sensitive to the atmosphere.

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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] Subdivided City_KIM Daeun

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Subdivided City https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bWeDlP2F9VnoKNi72s03bgF5RZ_NFlxC/view?usp=sharing Hong Kong has been designed with maximum efficiency when it comes to space. The effects of high land price can be observed in the densely populated, vertically packed structures. Property developers use every tactic while toeing the line of legality when it comes to maximizing GFA. One of the unfortunate outcomes has been the lack of public space, and lack of open space. This can be seen in the narrow corridors, small lifts, and in many cases, the lack of a lobby. The narrow spaces    The concept of small spaces leading to anxiety is not novel.

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