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Hong Kong: Celebrating Our Home: Volume 4, Autumn 2007 p3
Fantastic movie studio: Hong Kong
by Human Chan Hiu Man
Introduction
Hong Kong is famous for its freedom of speech,
political stability, and favorable financial and
commercial environment. Moreover, Hong Kong
has played an important role in Asian movie
industries in recent years. Hong Kong movies
have become more attractive to some movie
companies, producers, directors, performers and
audiences all over the world as Hong Kong’s
movie industry made outstanding achievements.
This potential should be maintained and
enhanced in order to develop Hong Kong into a
diversified city.
Earnest actors in Hong Kong movies
Hong Kong actors Jackie Chan and Chow Yun-Fat are well known not only in Asian countries, but also
in overseas movie markets. Since they are zealous and diligent in acting in the movies, they have
succeeded in developing their careers in Hollywood, a movie production center in the United States
that has a dominant status in the movie industry of the world.
Jackie Chan mainly acted in action movies and performed Chinese Kung-fu and dangerous actions in
the movies. However, he has never employed any stunt man. He persisted in performing every shot
even though the operations may cause injuries or even death. Owing to his conscientiousness and
braveness, he was praised by the audience and has become a celebrated action movie star in the
world.
Chow Yun-Fat was very famous in Asian countries in the 1980’s. In order to develop his career
overseas, he spent several years learning English before his first movie in Hollywood [1]. He has
made great efforts to perform well in every movie and become a leading role in the Hollywood movies.
Like Jackie Chan and Chow Yun-Fat, other performers in Hong Kong also have positive attitudes and
remarkable successes. They help promote Hong Kong movies. In addition, with the fantastic
performance of the actors and actresses in Hong Kong, Hong Kong movies are awarded prizes from
movie festivals and competitions in different countries and are given praises worldwide.
Hong Kong: Celebrating Our Home: Volume 4, Autumn 2007 p4
Strong production crew and creative directors
Filmmaking requires capable production crew, including editors, cinematographers, visual effects
producers and production designers. In Hong Kong, there are numerous outstanding staff behind the
scenes. In 2000, Tim Yip received the Best Art Direction [2] and Peter Pau was awarded the Best
Cinematography in the Annual Academy Awards (Oscar Awards) [3]. This shows that the members of
production crew have abundant experience of producing films and they help to produce wonderful
movies in Hong Kong.
Apart from the production crew, Hong Kong directors also contribute to the making of movies and the
promotion of Hong Kong’s movie industry because of their creativity. The varied themes of movies
arouse the interest of the movie-going public in the world. For example, the Pang Brothers
concentrated on producing horror films in Hong Kong [4]. These special series of movies suited the
audiences in different countries and the Pang Brothers have succeeded in getting the chances to
produce films in Hollywood [4]. In addition, Yuen Wo-Ping is a very talented choreographer, actor and
director [5]. He contributed in many Hong Kong and Hollywood movies such as “The Matrix
Revolutions”, “Kill Bill” and “Ye Yan” [6].
Remarkable achievements
In the 19th Tokyo International Film Festival (2006),
the movie “After This Our Exile”, in which the
director was Patrick Tam from Hong Kong and
Hong Kong famous actor Aaron Kwok played the
leading role in the film, was nominated for the Best
Asian Film Award [7]. Moreover, in the 79th Annual
Academy Awards (Oscar Awards) held on 25th
February 2007, the movie “The Departed”, which
was adapted from the Hong Kong movie “Internal
Affairs”, won the best-adapted screenplay and the
best picture [8]. These achievements attracted
international attention and people overseas have
started to keep an eye on the films produced in
Hong Kong.
Celebration of Hong Kong’s movie industry
To celebrate the success of the movie industry in Hong Kong, the government and the public should
put much effort into supporting the industry. On the one hand, the government should provide
subsidies to the new and outstanding directors in order to finance their production of movies. This will
raise their incentives to think of more special topics and produce fantastic films in the future. On the
other hand, as the citizens living in Hong Kong, we should avoid illegally downloading the movies from
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the Internet, which reduces the revenue of the movie companies. In addition, we should participate in
the movie festivals in Hong Kong and enjoy every movie!
References
1. Yahoo! Movies. 2007. Chow Yun-Fat Biography.
<http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800019656/bio> Retrieved on 24 April 2007
2. Yahoo! Movies. 2007. Tim Yip Awards and Nominations.
<http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1804359123/awards> Retrieved on 24 April 2007.
3. Yahoo! Movies. 2007. Peter Pau Awards and Nominations.
<http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800278156/awards> Retrieved on 24 April 2007.
4. YesAsia.com. 2007. Feature Article: The Pang Brothers: Twin Talents.
<http://global.yesasia.com/en/Emagazine/ArticlePage.aspx/section-videos/code-c/articleId-14/>
Retrieved on 24 April 2007.
5. Yahoo! Movies. 2007. Yuen Wo-Ping Biography.
<http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800059725/bio> Retrieved on 24 April 2007.
6. Yahoo! Movies. 2007. Yuen Wo-Ping Filmography.
<http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800059725/filmography> Retrieved on 24 April 2007.
7. 19th Tokyo International Film Festival. 2006. Prizewinners announcement. <http://www.tiff-
jp.net/en/information/updates/sakura_awards.html> Retrieved on 24 April 2007.
8. 79th Annual Academy Awards. 2007. Nominees and winners.
<http://www.oscars.org/79academyawards/nomswins.html> Retrieved on 24 April 2007.
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