Unsatisfied with the university's list of media companies, I drafted two long emails and sent them over to Hong Kong, hoping to land myself a self-sourced internship during my junior year. Nobody replied me of course. Kind of expected.
I'm the self-proclaimed No.1 Wong Kar-wai fanboy in Singapore but if I have to choose one filmmaker to be, my vote goes to Johnnie To.
The oldtimes triads and their archaic rules, the hardboiled cops, the tortured hitmen, the sentimental gangsters. Rundown coffeehouses. Gunfights not quite like John Woo's extravagant but with a tinge of arthouse aesthetics. The presence of an imminent end to an era; the then handover of Hong Kong to China.
Some of the favourite sequences:
The gunfight scene at the end of PTU:
Opening of Breaking News
Not the best longtake but evidence of a filmmaking fanboy at work.
Mall scene in The Mission
Shown during COM206 class during sophomore year, to the laughter of the entire lecture hall. And you wonder why.
Of course he had his misses. Yesterday Once More remains in the list of one of the worst film I have ever watched.
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