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Hong Kong Locations

May 13, 2005

I was in Hong Kong last week, my first visit in three years.  I have missed Hong Kong, and so was very glad to have ridden the Star Ferry again, and eaten roast goose and century egg at Yung Kee.  I also bought new shoes and shades.  It was a good trip.

This time, however, I was able to visit a couple of locations where Wong Kar Wai shot his fantastic film, CHUNGKING EXPRESS. I felt so cool riding on the same escalator were Faye Wang and Tony Leung where, and also saw the outside of Tony Leung’s apartment in the film.  Nearby was the street market where Faye’s character would “accidentally” bump into Tony Leung while he ate his duck over rice lunch.

I wish I knew where to find the locations for FALLEN ANGELS too, where the mute dude massaged pigs in the market and where the assassin and the assassin’s assistant had their apartment for assignments.  Wong Kar Wai’s early films are simply so cool.  Cooler than The Fonz.

More on film, but light years away…the poster ads for EPISODE III in the Metro stations all over Hong Kong are the best.  I wanted to break the plastic partition and steal the poster of Yoda, and most especially the poster of a sole Storm Trooper.  I haven’t seen a better poster campaign since THE MATRIX RELOADED.  Come to think of it, the SPIDER-MAN 2 poster trilogy “Choice, Destiny, Sacrifice” is pretty damn good too.

Hong Kong is really a super energetic city.  If I were to direct a James Bond film, I’d set it in Hong Kong (and in the isolated white sand beaches of Mindoro).  Also, why couldn’t Spider-man swing around the skyscrappers of Hong Kong too?  He could fight The Vulture there, or Kraven the Hunter.  It doesn’t have to be always New York.  Would Daredevil survive Metro Manila?  The pollution would kill him, and the jeepney and bus and tricycle noise will make his super hearing explode.  Don’t you think? 

“Do you like pineapple?” - from CHUNGKING EXPRESS 

  

 

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