Hong Kong Movies

I wanna say something first in the beginning of this post.
To be honest, my blog topic is too huge too write about.
I really want to comprehensive introduce Chineses movies and the culture relates to them,
however I am still looking a logical order to arrange what I need to write and When I can write.
I think this blog was not only created for english class but also means a lot in my academic life.
I will keep writing it....

The film industry in Hong Kong was formed much earlier than Mainland China. The all environment of movies changes with their historical events and social formation. 70s-80s was the best days for Hong Kong movies. Most of the greatest Hong Kong films was created at the period.Films in Hong Kong can be generally put in several categories,  which are comedy, the life of young boys , old Asian action movies and crime movies. For example, a Better Tomorrow and The Killer , those two movies who were directed by John Woo were typically the crime films.

 

The second significant kind of Hong Kong movie is Comedy. The representative people of this category  was Stephen Chou. He created King of comedy , Fight Back to school and etc. Hong Kong's comedy films are quite different and dis understandable.

 
 

Next time I will analysis Hong Kong movie in different period and some important directors who means a lot for movies  Hong Kong.

ME ?

Ok, I am gonna introduce myself a little bit here.

Obviously I am a Chineses girl from south east of China, a city named Xiamen.

It's a really beautiful coastal city. Xiamen represents typical Minan culture. 

We share same dialect with Taiwan and even though local flavors. 

So... I am a typical southern girl :)

I came to United States since 2008 and I really like my life here.

The biggest decision I made here was my major. I changed my major from finance to video production.

Finance is a valuable major in China but film is my dream.  

Right now I am taking several production and animation classes and I am really enjoying in them.

I joined CSSA in the end of last quarter and we just finished our Chinese New Year Celebration Performance. I did the photographic and create the opening video of the performance. 

Here are some photos of our show. ( click them to see the original size)

All CSSA members!!!!!

We also had an after dinner after the show.  

After we served all people, we finally have time to have dinner. 

All members are exhausted!!! But we enjoy the time working together.

Christina Wang and me were responsible for the opening video of the performance.

We spent whole week to shoot the footages and 48 hours to edit them together.  

I have fun even though we are tired. 

When I saw the reaction of all audiences during the performance, I really proud of myself.

Working as a family and doing what I am interested in is the happiest thing in the world !!!

Here is the video and I hope you will like it. 

I like my life in 2012. It's positive and intelligent !!!!! 

I want to keep my power and energy in the entire 2012. 

Films from Mainland China

   In this blog, I separate Chinese movies into three main type depend on their geography differences. Now, I want to simply introduce the movies from mainland China.
    In mainland China, the favorite movie themes can probably be divided into history, war and swordsman stories. Hence, the top characteristics of those movies are huge investment, big cast and mom
entum.  I have some examples here.


Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, a movie about sword that released in 2000. The cast includes Yun-Fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh and Ziyi Zhang, who are three top International Chinese movie stars.  


Hero, another movie about assassins that released in 2002.  The cast includes Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung and Ziyi Zhang. They are all the hottest movie stars in China, who earn over 20 million per film. 

Red Cliff, a epic movie which directed by John Woo. It is base on a famous war during China's three kingdoms period. Here are two stills of this film can show you how many extras will be used in a Chinese movie and this is only the basic quantity.

City of Life and Death, it's about a big historical event that happened in Chinese capital city Nanjing during World War II. There are several movies about this movies and both of them are profound for every Chinese. 

Learn our history and every war happened in our country is a duty of citizens, that's why audiences like watching the history reappear on the screen. It also can be said that every movies from the mainland of China has special and important meaning. 
(All pictures and informations of movies come from www.imdb.com)

Chinewood is Coming !

What's your first thought when I mention Chinese movie? 


Is Kung Fu or John Woo?


If you are thinking one of them, you are out. Chinese movie is more then that after recent decade of development. It has obviously regional characteristics. The movies are different between Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mainland China. Those differences  relate with culture, history, polices and human environment.  "Chinawood" is a new and powerful strength in film industry. I will analyze the differences between Chinese movies and introduce some of our culture in this blog. Also, I will recommend some movies here and share my reviews.   I hope you can find things that interest you here. 


Enjoy the movies.  :)