Hong Kong action cinema

Chan's clowning may have helped extend the life of the kung fu wave. For all that, he had become a star towards the end of the boom, and would soon help move the colony towards a new type of action. In the 1980s, he and many colleagues would forge a slicker, more spectacular Hong Kong pop cinema that would successfully compete with the post-Star Wars summer blockbusters from America. Hong ...

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This article is in need of attention. You can help Wikipedia by editing it into a better article. Please also consider changing this notice to be more specific. Wǔxiá (also Wu Xia) (Traditional Chinese: 武俠; Simplified Chinese: 武侠; pronounced "woo seeyah") literally meaning "martial arts chivalry" or "martial arts heroes", from Mandarin Chinese, is a distinct genre in Chinese literature and cinema. Wuxia figures prominently in the popular culture of all Chinese-speaking areas, and the mos ...

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• Wuxia - Earlier precedents
• Wuxia - 20th century
• Wuxia - The Old School
• Wuxia - The New School
• Wuxia - Novels
• Wuxia - Themes
• Wuxia - Plot and setting
• Wuxia - Philosophy of Xia
• Wuxia - Jiang Hu
• Wuxia - Martial arts
• Wuxia - Suspension of disbelief
• Wuxia - Films

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Wuxia - Earlier precedents. Wuxia stories have their roots in some early youxia (游侠) and cike (刺客) stories around 2nd to 3rd century BC, such as the assassination attempts of Jing Ke and Zhuan Zhu (专诸) listed in Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian. In the section entitled "Assassins" (刺客列传), Sima Qian outlined a number of famed assassins in the Warring States who were entrusted with the (then considered noble) task of political assassination. These were usually s ...

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It has cinemas not only in Hong Kong, but in Mainland China, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore, most are joint ventures. Golden Village is a joint venture with Village Roadshow and there is a Gold Class cinema and Asia's first multiplex. In Malaysia, the group has two brands, one Golden Screen a joint venture with Malaysia's PPB group. And another TGV Cinemas, formerly Tanjong Golden Village, a joint venture between Tanjong plc and GEMS of Malaysia. It had recently acquired Warner Village in Taiwan. ...

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Wuxia - Plot and setting. The modern wuxia stories are basically adventure stories with a strong dose of cultural and historical context. Plot differs largely from writer to writer. A common plot typically features a young male protagonist (only two modern wuxia novels have detailed female protagonists) in ancient China, who experiences a tragedy (e.g. the loss of a family or an old master), goes through exceeding hardship and arduous trials, and studies under a great master(s) of martial arts, or comes in ...

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Wuxia film (or wuxia pian, Mo Hap film, Mo Hap Pin) (Traditional Chinese: 武俠片; Simplified Chinese: 武侠片; Hanyu Pinyin: wǔxiá piān) is a film genre originating in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Because of its distinguishing characteristics (a historical setting, action scenes centred on swordplay, a stronger emphasis towards melodrama and themes of bonding, friendship, loyalty, and betrayal), t ...

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Wuxia film (or wuxia pian, Mo Hap film, Mo Hap Pin) (Traditional: 武俠片; Simplified: 武侠片; Hanyu Pinyin: wǔxiá piān) is a film genre originating in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Because of its distinguishing characteristics (a historical setting, action scenes centred on swordplay, a stronger emphasis towards melodrama and themes of bonding, friendship, loyalty, and betrayal), this genre is con ...

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Wuxia, Wuxia - History and Context, Wuxia - Earlier precedents, Wuxia - 20th century, Wuxia - The Old School, Wuxia - The New School, Wuxia - Novels, Wuxia - Themes, Wuxia - Plot and setting, Wuxia - Philosophy of Xia, Wuxia - Jiang Hu, Wuxia - Martial arts, Wuxia - Suspension of disbelief, Wuxia - Films

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While employed as a video store clerk, Tarantino penned the script for "From Dusk Till Dawn." He sold the script to a movie make-up company for $1,500.00 and the promise to do the make-up on a future film that would turn out to be "Reservoir Dogs." His first major break came with the sale of another script called True Romance, written with Roger Avary. It was made into a film starring Patricia Arquette and Christian Slater. He also wrote the original screenplay for Natural Born Killers as part of the longer screenplay that T ...

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Reservoir Dogs - Beginning. The film portrays the events preceding and immediately following a badly botched Los Angeles jewel heist (but not the actual heist itself) orchestrated by Joe "Daddy" Cabot (Lawrence Tierney) and his son "Nice Guy" Eddie Cabot (Chris Penn). Six men are recruited by the Cabots to carry out the heist and, for reasons of security, are given "color" aliases: Mr. White - (Harvey Keitel), Mr. Orange - (Tim Roth), Mr. Blonde - (Michael Madsen), Mr. Pink - (Steve Buscemi), Mr. Blue - (Eddie Bunker), ...

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His big break came with the sale of his script True Romance, written with Roger Avary, which was made into a film starring Patricia Arquette and Christian Slater. He also wrote the original screenplay for Natural Born Killers, as part of the longer screenplay that True Romance came from, although it was changed significantly by subsequent writers, and he does not have a screenwriting credit on that film. The sale of True Romance (eventually released in 1993) garnered him attention. He met Lawrence Bender at ...

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Tarantino is widely known as a director who is very much a "film-geek", with an astonishing, encyclopedic knowledge of movies, film criticism, and film history. Particularly, he has a vast knowledge of foreign films, genre films and little-known pieces of cinema. He is a declared lover of exploitation films, Hong Kong action cinema, Spaghetti Westerns, giallo horror, French New Wave, and British cinema. His love of those genres is mirrored in his works -- all of his films regularly quote other movies and genres in their styles, stories and dialogue. He once summed it up by saying, ...

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Quentin Tarantino - Director. My Best Friend's Birthday (1987) Reservoir Dogs (1992) Pulp Fiction (1994) ER (1995) Season 1; Episode 24: "Motherhood" (Director) Four Rooms (segment "The Man from Hollywood") (1995) Jackie Brown (1997) Kill Bill (Vol. 1 2003, Vol. 2 2004) Sin City (2005) (Special Guest Director) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2005) '"Grave Danger: V ...

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Tarantino has come under criticism for his use of racial epithets in his films, particularly the word nigger in Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, most notably from black American director Spike Lee. In an interview for Variety, Lee said: "I'm not against the word... and I use it, but Quentin is infatuated with the word. What does he want? To be made an honorary black man?" An oft-cited example is a scene in Pulp Fiction in which a character named Jimmie Dimmick, portrayed by Tarantino himself, rebukes ...

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Tarantino is well-known for his encyclopedic knowledge of cinema, and Reservoir Dogs is liberally influenced by numerous films, particularly Hong Kong action cinema, French New Wave, the heist film and Samuel Fuller. These influences can be seen in everything from the suits the characters wear (inspired by the finale of John Woo's A Better Tomorrow II, itself possibly inspired by the Blues Brothers), to the colour code names from The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, to Tierney's line about John Dillinger (he played the famous Indiana ba ...

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Tarantino's movies are renowned for their sharp dialogue, splintered chronology, and pop culture obsessions. Often they are viewed as graphically violent, and certainly in his key films Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill there are copious amounts of both spattered and flowing blood. However, what affects people most is the casualness, and even macabre humour, of the violence, as wel ...

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Tarantino's movies are renowned for their sharp dialogue, splintered chronology, and pop culture obsessions. Often they are viewed as graphically violent, and certainly in his key films Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill there are copious amounts of both spattered and flowing blood. However, what affects people most is the casualness, and even macabre humour, of the violence, as wel ...

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Tarantino has come under criticism for his use of racial epithets in his films, particularly the word nigger in Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, most notably from black American director Spike Lee. In an interview for Variety, Lee said: "I'm not against the word... and I use it, but Quentin is infatuated with the word. What does he want to be made? An honorary black man?" An oft-cited example is a scene in Pulp Fiction in which a character named Jimmie Dimmick, incidentally portrayed by Tarantino him ...

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Quentin Tarantino - Director & screenplay. My Best Friend's Birthday (1987) Reservoir Dogs (1992) Pulp Fiction (1994) ER (1995) Season 1; Episode 24: "Motherhood" (Director) Four Rooms (segment "The Man from Hollywood") (1995) Jackie Brown (1997) Kill Bill (Vol. 1 2003, Vol. 2 2004) Sin City (2005) (Special Guest Director) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2005) ...

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Arguably the only Chinese performer who has ever equaled Lee's global fame is Jackie Chan. He had worked as a stuntman on Fist of Fury and Enter the Dragon. According to one story, Lee accidentally hit Chan in the face with a weapon on the set of Enter the Dragon (Chan & Yang, 1998); after apologising for this, he offered to use Chan for all of his following films, but died before he could keep this promise. However, after Lee's death, Chan was directed by Lo Wei, director of The Big Boss and Fist of ...

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Hong Kong action cinema, Hong Kong action cinema - The kung fu wave, Hong Kong action cinema - Bruce Lee, Hong Kong action cinema - The Post Bruce Lee Void, Hong Kong action cinema - Jackie Chan and the kung fu comedy, Hong Kong action cinema - Reinventing Action Cinema, Hong Kong action cinema - Jackie Chan and the modern kung fu film, Hong Kong action cinema - Tsui Hark and Cinema City, Hong Kong action cinema - John Woo and the gangster film, Hong Kong action cinema - The wire fu wave, Hong Kong action cinema - Influence in the West, Hong Kong action cinema - Exit of many Leading Figures

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All of these developments not only made Hong Kong the dominant cinema in East Asia, but reawakened Western interest. Jackie Chan and films like Tsui Hark's Peking Opera Blues (1986) were already building a cult following when Woo's The Killer (1989) had a limited but successful release in the U.S. and opened the floodgates. In the '90s, Westerners with an eye on "alternative" culture became common sights in Chinatown video shops and theaters, and gradually the films became more available in the mainstream video market and even ...

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Hong Kong action cinema, Hong Kong action cinema - The kung fu wave, Hong Kong action cinema - Bruce Lee, Hong Kong action cinema - The Post Bruce Lee Void, Hong Kong action cinema - Jackie Chan and the kung fu comedy, Hong Kong action cinema - Reinventing Action Cinema, Hong Kong action cinema - Jackie Chan and the modern kung fu film, Hong Kong action cinema - Tsui Hark and Cinema City, Hong Kong action cinema - John Woo and the gangster film, Hong Kong action cinema - The wire fu wave, Hong Kong action cinema - Influence in the West, Hong Kong action cinema - Exit of many Leading Figures

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