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    December 10

    Lyrical Ingenuity

    You can probably tell that I love watching movies from Hong Kong.  Among the multitude of genres churned out by the Hong Kong movie industry, the late 80s to mid 90s was, in my opinion, the golden era of Chinese cinema.  The amount of thought, effort, and money that went into making many of those movies was almost nonexistent, still they were able to produce solid and entertaining films.  One of my personal favorites is a movie starring a young Jet Li and a mid-aged Jackie Cheung called High Risk (the illegal vhs dub was titled "A Man Called Bold").  In it, Jet Li plays an ex-Special Forces Unit member whose troubled past (wife and son exploded by a bomb on a bus that he was unable to diffuse) catches up with him.  In an amazing turn of events, Bold finds himself in the middle of an elaborate jewel heist, the mastermind being none other than the bastard who blew up his wife and son.  Anyways, that's not even the best part.  The best part is when an African American hacker working for the bastard villain is able to decipher the code that keeps the glass jewel cases locked. He exclaims in english "Oh Yeah!" while the subtitles read "bingo."  I usually turn the movie off at this point, since any other scene following that would be like eating dogshit after a 10 course banquet at a lapdance factory.  I assume Jet Li ends up banging Chingmy Yau (the babe and love interest in the film), avenges his son and wife, and becomes the greatest hero in China.


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