In Chongking Express, the policeman reflect the loneliness of Hong Kong people. They like to putting the society issues by using film and cinematography. Secondly, Hong Kong films like to talk about life, issues related contemporary Hong Kong society. In Chongking Express, the story also focus on the love story of two policeman. People who familia with Hong Kong film will see the trending of film which is Hong Kong people like.
Hong Kong film like to telling story related with particular occupation such as police, doctor, fire fighter, pilot and etc. In order to discuss the aesthetics of asian cinema, let's talk about story in first. The second story is also about a policeman who waiting her flight attendant girlfriend back, he like to talking to himself to express the sadness, however he don't know that a snack bar worker Faye was falls for him. This woman help him to moving on instead of waiting. During his birthday, he approaches a woman in the blonde wig at Bottom Up Club. The first story is about a cop QiWu who waiting her girlfriend back until his birthday. The film consist of two stories told in sequence, each about Hong Kong policeman and his love story. Today, I am going to discuss about the aesthetic of Asia (Hong Kong) cinema by selecting a few examples from the film, 'Chungking Express'. The aesthetics of Asia (Hong Kong) cinema are mostly the kong fu part, the reality of Hong Kong, the story of particular occupation, Hong Kong style's comedy, love story, and etc.Ĭhungking Express is a film directed by Wong Kar Wai (a famous Hong Kong director) in 1994. More commonly, however, it is most often used to refer to the cinema of Eastern (HongKong, China, Korea, Japan), Southeastern (Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand) and Southern Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh). This make them seem like human instead of animals.Īsian cinema refers to the film industries and films produced in the continent of Asia, and is also sometimes known as Eastern cinema. The character talking way and expression as similar as human, they can perform with emotional such as happiness, sadness, anger and so on. Those of the characters performing very well even though it is stop motion. Lastly, the staging and performing carry out the characteristic of the characters. With this lighting, along with the canted shots of their trap, as well as close ups of both of their faces when fearing death and the arrival of a child you begin to relate and feel for the characters despite their animalistic qualities. Secondly, the lighting of the film is setting which gives off the classic yellow/orange tint. Fox (voiced by George Clooney) and his wife Felicity ( voiced by Meryl Streep) are both young and stealing chickens together as nature intended them to until they reach a point in there lives where they get caught. Fox's theft and try to kill him, so they dig their way into the foxes' home, but the animals are able to outwit the farmers and live underground.įirst of all, t he movie setting on land surrounding three major farms/factories owned by the three wealthiest men in town.
The film is about a fox who steals food each night from three mean and wealthy farmers. Fox is a stop motion animated film based on the book by Roald Dahl. In here we are going to discuss the mise-en-scene of Fantastic Mr. According to Bordwell & Thompson in Film Art, there are 4 general areas which are setting & props, costume and makeup, lighting, and staging & performance (movement and acting). The Hong Kong cut was released on VHS/laserdisc by World Video and on VHS/LD/DVD by Mei Ah.Mise-en-scene is the elements putting into the scene. The international cut is Wong's preferred version and has been used for most home video releases. The international version strips out the music (leaving only ambient noise), although "Dreams" still appears at the end of the film. In the Hong Kong version, the Faye Wong cover of "Dreams" plays over the shot of 663 drinking coffee.