i watched this recently...
i dont' know why but for some reason..I cried watching Dicky losing his father.....i quickly came out after the closing credits..feeling embarrassed..hahahaha
p:s kinda disappointed with the special fx too cartoonish and also overdone ..anyways love the movie :-D 8/10
CJ7, My expectation for it were rather low, but the emotional attachment it's generated is nothing short of amazing.
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As Mr. dragon328 so graciously put it, Spoiler Warnings are always a good idea cheers.
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sorry.. english is not my first language..i've changed the title and used the spoiler tag ..so that everyone will be satisfied ...
the reviews and board is full of spoilers..so better don't visit this page until you see this movie
:-) cheers
Well, that's mean to say.
So if your father died, you'll not feel sad too.
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This is not only a movie. In china the accident is a regular occurance, maybe the constructor is safe, I never heard constructor fall to die but in other area like some private coal mine in middle china, accident usually lead to more than 10 death. The workers of the coal mine belong to the same group, young peasants. You know the majority of chinese people is peasants. This movie show stephan.chow is changing. He not only limit his view on entainment. He begin to focus on reality of china. I'm really glad to see that. To became a great director, he must focus on china society and china's reform. You know why blood diamond is so success? Because blood diamond focus on the true reality. CJ7 add lot surrealism scene only because Stephan.chow don't want his movie to be dull and too much tragic. From CJ7 I know Stephan.chow will became a great director he not only entertain the audience he is tring to make the audience think about our society. At least he success in china. Maybe he fail to make you north american guys to think because you don't know what's going on in china. But this failure is really nothing.
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Yes, this is the reason why CJ7 fail in north american. Stephan.chow fail to relate CJ7 with daily life of american people. So if he really want to cover north american market I suggest he live in north america for 1,2 years. But I think china market is still his first choice. I think he knows this movie can't meet american's taste but sony/columnbia just make a test and the test is worth. The test will tell stephan.chow how to do better next time.
shareStephen can't live in North America. He tried to gain a landed immigrant status in Toronto, Canada. He was rejected by the Canadian government because they believed he was a triads member in Hong Kong. He hired a lawyer to help him to gain his freedom to live in Canada. Stephen said he was never a triads member but worked for them in films. They lost the case and appealed to the supreme court but they refused to hear the case. Stephen became so upset with the Canadian government he refused to show up for his Kung Fu Hustle film premier at the Toronto International Film Festival. If he can't live in Canada then he can't live in U.S. either. Only if he can find a judge in Hong Kong to pardon his past. The judges refused to do that.
Chow Yun Fat couldn't live in Canada or U.S. because he was a former triads member in the past, but he can work in Canada and U.S. Many Hong Kong actors were triads members in the past except Jackie Chan. They had no choice because the triads made it so difficult for them to work and live. The film production companies didn't have money to hire police to protect the sets like here.
What Stephen can do is if he would spend plenty of time with the North Americans in Hong Kong to learn to improve his English and to learn about more the Canadian and American humour and daily life.
The only Stephen can live in Canada or U.S. if he marries a Canadian or an American citizen.
shareI don't mean he should became an immigrant. I think he just spend enough time to observe and talk to people in north america is ok. Like he just go to north america as a tourist. I believe if he can access the daily life of north americans he could shot a comedy you americans like very much. But I don't think he has to do so. I think the largest market is china. If only Stephan.Chow focus on china market ans shot movie for we chinese, his value will increase continuously.
shareI think you should write to tell him that.
He continues to boycott Canada, it won't help him anyway. It will prove that he was indeed a former triads member. He should come to Toronto to do some charities for the Chinese community like Jackie Chan did, it will help him to change the Canadian government mind.
I don't understand why he keep tring to immigrate to Canada. I think keep his HongKong identity is very good for his career development. I don't believe a genius like him will give up such large and potential china market to dive into the dangerous north america market.
shareMaybe Americans should relate to other cultures. We're all basically smart people. We can learn to understand different people. Or maybe people should just try out new things. We do it with food, why not movies as well? I love Stephen Chow's work and I always enjoy the chance to introduce him to my family and friends cause he's awesomely funny.
As for the originally post, I bawled. Lol It was so sad!! It was especially Dicky that made me cry though, at how he reacted to his father's death.
"Perhaps just one more, Master Harry, for luck?"
Wouldn't it make sense to get the msg across nationwide? I mean, that is the whole pt of a movie. If non-asians won't get it, shouldn't he try to explain in the movie that this is the case so everyone can better understand. To make a movie only asians will understand is pointless because they already know what their problems are.
But indeed there is some difference there. In US the death of a constructor is just the death of a constructor. But in china, it's different. Because almost all the constructor and the coal miner and others dangerous work, almost afforded by the peasants group. Although china is going on a success economic reform and transform lot rural area into city and every china city is expanding largely, the majority of chinese people are still peasants (about 800million). And most peasants are still poor. Because farming can't even make their family a living,almost all cost is increasing(like education), they have to work as constructor and miner or sth else. In CJ7 the death of the constructor is not a simple death, in we chinese' eyes it represent one of the regular death of a young peasant who forced to leave his farm field to assume some dangerous work to make a living. It's now a social problem in china and the goverment is working on it. But it's really different from the view of an american.
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i did cry ...
but on the first,i thought that chow didn't die,it's just unlike him ...
(he's usually funny character ...)
but when his character actually died, that's somehow sad ...
>i did cry ...
>but on the first,i thought that chow didn't die,it's just unlike him ...
>(he's usually funny character ...)
>but when his character actually died, that's somehow sad ...
That scene really made me sad not just because the loving father died
bust also because it was Stephen Chow.
Although in eary works he has played some roles that dies eventually,
he hasn't done it afther the huge success of "God Gambler" series,
so CJ7 was rather shocking to me.
I was touched by the relationship and intimacy between father and son.
Amazing Stephen played such a wonderful father despite him
not having children in his real life.