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[Field-Homework 3] Disappearing City: Tradditonal Bakeries

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Video Essay Link: https://youtu.be/FSxzPgGSrV0 Introduction:  Many of Hong Kong’s cultural experiences and gems, once staples, now remain as a few traditional spots and pockets of culture. These irreplaceable third places include dai pai dongs, neon lights, cafes, and most notably local bakeries. In the past decade, these mom-and-pop shops have gone away, leaving behind the local culture and countless networks of friendships spanning generations that revolved their lives around it. In other words, losing these local bakeries is more important than losing tangible neon signs and historical buildings because it will leave Hong Kong bare of cultural heritage. In August

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[FIELDWORK REPORT] Dohyun Kim & Ez Kim

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Dohyun Kim:3036192536  Ez Kim:3036030788 Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYx5DTLCbZM Transcript:  Hello everyone and welcome to our video podcast! We are Dohyun Kim and EZ Kim from the University of Hong Kong. Okay so we’re going to dive right into our topic for today: vanishing neon signs. Let’s turn it over to Ez who’s broadcasting live outside. Part 1: What are Neon Signs? E: Wow, it’s so nice to be here. We are currently on Shanghai street at night time. The city is so vibrant, maybe it’s because of the vibrant atmosphere created by the neon signs.  I feel like Neon lighting mainly

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[Field Report] Young and Dangerous

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Greetings to everyone. This report will be about the movie Young and Dangerous. We’ve all dreamed of being a gangster, haven’t we? No matter it is from watching related movies, or films or just knowing them in daily life. I must admit, watching the thrilling scenes of the gangsters in movies does give me goosebumps. Young and Dangerous, as introduced later, is one of the movies you will be looking for when it comes to audacious, ferocious crime excitement. Furthermore, this movie manifested Hong Kong’s architecture which I will introduce later is what makes this movie a classic of the

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[Field Report] Chungking Forest by Wong Kar-wai

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The exterior of Chongqing Mansion The interior of Chongqing Mansion Link to the Podcast:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF0RVRTot-U   Field Report Transcript Yutao Xie: Good morning or evening, wherever you are, welcome to our podcast today on architecture and film. We’re your hosts today and I’m Yutao Xie. Jason Zhu: And I’m Jason Zhu Today We will be talking about the film Chungking Express. I’m sure most of you are no stranger to this film, and many of the classic lines are even more popular. Kexu Chen: That’s right, my favourite line in the movie is: “Every day, there are opportunities to pass

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[Field Report] The Mad World

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The Mad World is a film based on a news story directed by Wong Chun in 2016. The film only took two weeks to shoot, spent only HK$2 million, and won the First Hong Kong Feature Film Initiatives. In an attempt to arouse the public’s attention towards mentally disordered people, the film shows, from the perspective of a former psychopath patient, how hard it is for them to re-enter society no matter how normal they are and how many efforts they’ve made.   The movie started with the discharge of Ah Tung, a bipolar disorder patient who was sentenced to

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[Field Report] City of Glass: Love in a Shifting City, navigating Change

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Qingyu, Bai 3035693480 Jiarui, Zhu 3035638791 video: https://youtu.be/59Y15c8K1tc alternative video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ncK0U1rYC7zts9HkevALsbKbqm4SyOEa/view?usp=sharing   Q: Hello everyone, today we are going to discuss the film “City of Glass”. It is a Hong Kong film released in 1998. The story follows the affair of Gangshen and Yunwen, alumni of the University of Hong Kong, and the love story of their children, David and Susie. The movie was nominated and awarded, at the Golden Horse Awards and the Hong Kong Film Awards. It is named after the “City of Glass”, which symbolizes the city’s fragile and shining aspects. A: Before talking about the film itself,

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[Field Report] Young and Dangerous

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Good afternoon! Hi there and thanks for checking out our podcast. I’m Ting, and I am Hazel. We are going to talk about the film “young and dangerous,” which was shot by Andrew Lau and based on a popular comic book series “Teddy boy” in 1996. He depicted the nineties gang life of Hong Kong, where the protagonist Chen Haonan was expelled after being duped by the antagonist Kun into sleeping with his best friend’s girl. Kun then kills Haonan’s father figure, brother Bee, seizes control of the gang and publicly humiliates Haonan at Bee’s funeral. The climax of the

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[Field Report] As Tears Go By (1988) by Wong Kar-Wai

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1.. 中僑國貨 Chung Kiu Commercial Building in MONG KOK 2. Tung Tin Cafe 3. Tong Cai, Sai Ying Choi in MONG KOK  4. 貝澳 PUI O IN LANTAU ISLAND   5. Interior of the Protagonist’s house Link to the Audio Podcast & Transcript: Field Work Report   Field Report Transcript Film: As Tears Go By (1988) by Wong Kar-Wai E: Hi! And welcome to our podcast looking at the sites and architecture in the film As Tears Go By by Wong Kar-Wai. My name is Elinor- J: And my name is Judy, and of particular interest to us was the contrasting

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[Field Report] Johnny English Reborn (2011)

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Intro: Martin: Today, we are gonna examine the film we selected, Johnny English, which is filmed in 2011. We select this film not only because we are fans of Rowan Atkinson, the main actor of Johnny English, but also how the production team shot the film, I have never seen a movie that is making me feel like it’s funny and making me nervous at the same time  So why don’t we jump right into it?   Question: Could you please break down a bit for the audience of what the story is about Dave: so, we’re going to divide

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[Field Report] City Of Glass (1998)

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    #Introduction: Welcome to You Zhou and Minwoo’s field trip report. Today, we are going to talk about a film which is called “City of Glass”. To start the report, we should make a general introduction about this film. This film shows a struggling love story between a man and a woman. Their love story begins at the period of their university life. Specifically, their university was the University of Hong Kong. Because this film was taken in HKU, the film seemed very familiar from our point of view. #Architecture related to the film: 1: Lady Ho Tung Hall

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