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Hong Kong Movie

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Topic

Our topic is “Stephen Chow’s Movie – 007 & 008”007 means From Beijing With Love (Chinese: 國產凌凌漆 ;; "home-produced 007”)008 means Forbidden City Cop ( 大內密探零零發 ; lit. "the Imperial Secret Agent 008")

Topic

We chose this topic because…

1. Stephen Chow is a famous director in Hong Kong.

2. This 2 movies’ names attracted us as one is similar to 007 and the other is similar to 008.

Stephen Chow Stephen Chow Sing-Chi is

a film director and actor in many blockbuster movies in Hong Kong. He is considered the finest Hong Kong screen comedian epitomized by his nickname 星爺 . However, his brand of mo lei tau comedy, meant that his earlier films could not attract the West until his later films, Shaolin Soccer (2001) and Kung Fu Hustle (2004).

From: english.cri.cn

Forbidden City Cop (大內密探零零發 )

Forbidden City Cop (大內密探零零發 ) is a 1996 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Vincent Kok and the film's star Stephen Chow.

Story008 is a personal bodyguard of the king, but he didn’t know any martial arts, only a inventor. The Gum Clan killed the other bodyguards and captured the king. Then 008 use his invention – machine gun and helicopter, to rescue the king. Can he defeat the Gum Clan at last?

From Beijing With Love(國產凌凌漆 )

From Beijing With Love (Chinese: 國產凌凌漆 ; "home-produced 007) is a 1994 action comedy film directed by Lee Lik Chi and Stephen Chow, an obvious spoof of James Bond movies. It stars Stephen Chow, Anita Yuen and Law Ka Ying.

Story

The Golden Gun steals the cranium of a dinosaur fossil from China. 007 is sent to Hong Kong to recapture it. But his partner from Chinese government, was actually a agent of the Golden Gun. Can 007 get back the cranium?

Compare

Forbidden City Cop

From Beijing With Love

Year of publish

1996 1994

Time of story Ancient China Modern China

Box office $36, 051, 899 $37, 523, 850

Background of main character

A rich bodyguard of the king

A poor hawker-cum-agent

Way to make us laugh

Forbidden City Cops:

Cynics the reports of aliens at that time

008 stop the 4 masters contesting of martial art

Way to make us laugh

From Beijing with love:

Mimic agent 007

Mimic Tony Leung

Cynics the Chinese government

Tricky weapons

Other indecent gags

Changed?

Compare with nowadays Stephen Chow’s movies…

No more cynicism about the Chinese government.

Less indecent gags

Start using Putonghua.

Why?

He is developing the market of mainland China.

He want more families to watch his films.

He try to change his movie’s style.

Source:

Wikipedia

English.cri.cn

http://www.geocities.com/hkmovies168

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