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[FIELDWORK] Veteran, The City in Movie

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  The movie Veteran deals with the police catching rich people who commit corruption and evil. In this movie, various architectural elements were used to maximize these contents and to help the audience sympathize more.  These architectural elements also have the same effect as how we normally see and feel buildings. This element that appeared in the movie is the city as the background. At the beginning of the play, the rich describe their lives. At the same time, it illuminates the surroundings of the building they live in, which is a city consisting of various high-rise buildings and shopping

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[FIELDWORK] MY PRINCE EDWARD, GOLDEN PLAZA

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MY PRINCE EDWARD, DIR. NORRIS WONG (1977)            Golden Plaza, Prince Edward, Hong Kong The appearance of the Golden Plaza. Scenes from the Golden Scene’s My Prince Edward, 2020, directed by Norris Wong.  Golden Scene released My Prince Edward in Hong Kong on April 16, 2020.1 In this film, Cheung Lei-Fong ‘Fong’ works in a wedding gown rental shop in Golden Plaza, and she is in an 8-year relationship with Edward Yan, who works as a wedding photographer in the same shopping mall. One day, Edward proposes to Fong, but Fong doesn’t know how to respond to

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Field Report: Chung King Express, Chung King Mansions

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Wong Kar-wai’s Chungking Express explores the confinement and loneliness felt living within Hong Kong’s urban space, but coincidentally shows how the confined space between characters can offer affection amidst the isolation. While the film can be seen as a romance film, distinctively none of the main characters get together romantically. Despite characters constantly being in close proximity to each other, they still yearn for a romance amongst their loneliness within this urban landscape. Taking place within the Chungking Mansions in Tsim Sha Tsui, the film also highlights the racial diversity within Chungking Mansions and its cosmopolitan nature.  Wong throughout the

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[FIELDWORK] CHUNGKING EXPRESS, Chungking Mansions

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CHUNGKING EXPRESS, DIR. WONG KAR-WAI (1994) CHUNGKING MANSIONS, YAU TSIM MONG DISTRICT, HONG KONG   The most intimate still between the Blondie and Qiwu. Scene from Jet Tone Production’s Chungking Express 1994, directed by Wong Kar-Wai.   Chungking Express¹ is telling two love stories without tangible connections among them. It was set in 1990s Hong Kong, which is overcrowded and fast-changing. Every day there were lots of people passing by each other, like the four main characters of the film. The two pairs of protagonists became either couple or remained as strangers, after the passing. The movie was entitled from

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[FIELDWORK] Let the Bullets Fly, Kaiping Diaolou

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Let the Bullets Fly , DIR. Jiang Wen (2010)            Kaiping Diaolou, Jiangmen , Guangdong, China Kaiping Diaolou cluster in Jiangmen Let the Bullets Fly is a 2010 Chinese action comedy film directed by Jiang Wen. The story starts with a bandit named Zhang Mazi, who impersonated official Ma Bangde to assume the position of county governor in Goose City. Out of a sense of justice, he fought with the local mobster boss, Master Huang, to protect the people’s safety. The film’s main plot was shot in the Kaiping Diaolou Cluster in Jiangmen, Guangdong, China. Kaiping

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[FIELDWORK] PACIFIC RIM, KOWLOON BAY

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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

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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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[FIELDWORK] MASQUERADE, GYEONGBOKGUNG

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MASQUERADE; CHOO CHANG MIN, 2012 Gyeongbokgung, 161 Sajik-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul Gyeongbokgung is an ancient palace located in the middle of a modern metropolis. The history behind it is a tedious one, so in this paragraph I will only give a few important facts about this palace. Gyeongbokgung was originally constructed in 1394 by King Taejo, the first king and the founder of the Joseon dynasty. It has existed for a long time, longer than all of us. In our deeply Confucian society, its significance and seniority invite respect. It is no wonder that the palace appears so frequently in Korean

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[FIELDWORK] MADE IN HONG KONG, WO HOP SHEK CEMETERY

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MADE IN HONG KONG, DIR. FRUIT CHAN (1997)        Wo Hop Shek Cemetery, North District, Hong Kong Made in Hong Kong, premiered in 1997, is an independent film written and directed by Fruit Chan. It narrates the story of a group of marginalized and disadvantaged young people in Hong Kong society — low-rent triad Autumn Moon, his retarded friend Sylvester, and his lover Ping, a patient with fatal kidney disease. Although they struggle to live, they are all driven to death in the end. With the film closely related to death, the Wo Hop Shek Cemetery1 is a critical

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[FIELDWORK] THE WAY WE ARE, Tin Shui Wai

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THE WAY WE ARE, DIR. Ann Hui (2008)            Tin Shui Wai, Yuen Long District, Hong Kong   The Way We Are, directed by Ann Hui, introduced the daily life of the grass-root family Cheung as a secondary student living with his mother Guai in a public housing estate in Tin Shui Wai. Guai as a widow, worked in the supermarket while Cheung was waiting for the results of the exam. Their lives seem simple, but it is very fulfilling. An older woman, Leung, had just moved to Tin Shui Wai for a while and working in

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