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[FIELDWORK] LET THE BULLETS FLY, KAIPING DIAOLOU

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LET THE BULLETS FLY,  DIR. WEN JIANG (2010) Kaiping Diaolou, Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province The Kaiping Diaolou is a building complex of watchtowers, renowned for its distinctive vernacular structure characterized by a multi-story tower design. It incorporates Western and Chinese art, as well as defense and habitation. A majority of watchtowers were built in the early twentieth century, about 100 years ago. The movie Let the Bullets Fly was exactly filmed in the village where the building complex located. It depicts a dramatizing conflict between a county magistrate, who is impersonated by a bandit, Zhang,  and the local wealthy gentry with

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[FIELDWORK] GOD OF GAMBLERS, LUCKY PLAZA

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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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[FIELD REPORT] LOVE IN A PUFF, BACK ALLEY OF PACIFIC PLACE

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LOVE IN A PUFF, DIR. Pang Ho-cheung (2010)            Back Alley of Pacific Place, Admiralty, Hong Kong   Jimmy (Shawn Yue) and Cherie (Miriam Yeung) smoke romantically in the back alley of Pacific Place. Scene from Love in A Puff, 2010, directed by Pang Ho-cheung. Pang Ho-cheung had portrayed the contemporary social phenomenon by applying the style of romantic comedy, Love in A Puff was filmed mainly in the back alleys near the workplaces, picturing how the Hong Kong employees smoke after the implementation of the indoor smoking ban in 2007. Consisting a range of professions, from

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[FIELDWORK] HEAVEN ETERNAL, EARTH EVERLASTING. RUISHI FOUR-EYED WELL.

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HEAVEN ETERNAL, EARTH EVERLASTING, DIR. FANGFANG LI(2009)            Ruishi Four-eyed Well, Xihu District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. The gun is sinking in the Ruishi four-eyed well. Scenes from Heaven Eternal, Earth Everlasting 2009, directed by Fangfang Li. The movie is directed by Fangfang Li, who is good at using the lens language telling us the stories that happened on the two main characters, Xingchen and Mingyuan, in the background of the 80s. Many scenes are like pieces of art filled with the unique atmosphere of Hangzhou. The whole movie uses gloomy filters, so the frames are always

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[FIELDWORK] RAISR THE RED LANTERN

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RAISE THE RED LANTERN, DIR. ZHANG YIMOU (1991)            Qiao Family Courtyard, Shanxi Province, China                            de Left: The Qiao Family Courtyard  in real life. Picture from the search engine ‘Baidu’. Right: The Qiao Family Courtyard in the movie. Scenes from ‘Raise The Red Lantern’ 1991, directed by Zhang Yimou. Zhang Yimou released Raise The Red Lantern in December 1991. Set in 1920s China, the film used entrenched social and gender to fuel a gorgeously filmed collision between expectations and reality, dreams and despair. The young and beautiful

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[FIELDWORK]CHUNGKING EXPRESS, CHUNGKING MANSIONS

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CHUNG KING EXPRESS, dir. Wong Kar Wai(1994) Chungking Mansions, Yau Tsim Mong District, Hong Kong Jet Tone Film Production released Chungking Express in Hong Kong on July 14,1994.1 The film tells two love stories: an urban encounter between a lovelorn cop and a mysterious female assassin and the love story between patrolman 663 and a fast-food girl. Chungking Mansions was the centerpiece as the name of the film was taken from Chungking Mansions in Hong Kong, and the building was also used as one of the main scenes in the film. The film opened with a scene of a girl

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[FIELDWORK] Cold Eyes, Cheonggyecheon

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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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[FIELDWORK] JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN, CHUNGKING MANSION

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The initial chase scene of the film Johnny English Reborn took place in a hostel of Chungking Mansion, which was renamed to ‘Kowloon Paradise Hotel’ in the film. The everyday hostel was used as a hiding spot for one of the Vortex members. The old, rundown style of the hostel gave the scene a mysterious atmosphere; it showed that the Vortex member was hiding from someone by blending in with the locals. This can further be seen by the interior of the room; the room is small and messy. You can tell that the man had stayed there for a

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[FIELDWORK] ECHOES OF THE RAINBOW, WING LEE STREET

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ECHOES OF THE RAINBOW, DIR. Alex Law(2010)         Wing Lee Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Echoes of the Rainbow1 is a semi-autobiographical film directed by Alex Law, released in 2010. It looks back at grass-roots life in the 1960s. The story focuses on a family’s hopes and struggles during a rough time in Hong Kong’s history, capturing a past city lifestyle in the working-class area of Shamshuipo. By blending the shots of a real location, lens language, and usage of warm-tone filter, Wing Lee Street has turned into an urban and cultural background of the society demonstrated in

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[FIELDWORK] RAISE THE RED LANTERN, QIAO FAMILY COURTYARD

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RAISE THE RED LANTERN, DIR. ZHANG YIMOU (1991) Qiao Family Courtyard, Jinzhong, Shanxi The movie I chose is Raise the Red Lantern directed by Zhang Yimou, which was thoroughly filming in the famous Courtyard of Qiao’s family. The movie revolves around the topic of feudal ethics where the story begins from the female college student Song Lian who was forced to marry the master of a big family by her greedy mother, the story tells about the conflicts between the concubines and a series of tragedies in a large family during the Republic of China era. The overall performance of the

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