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• Are there any Good Samaritans left in the world?

  Wednesday, Nov 4, 2009 1:27AM / Members only

  Couple of days ago, I was walking towards that huge flight of stairs outside the Mong Kok train station when I saw I'd say about 40 people stuck at the top of the stairs, everyone is moving at a snail pace down the stairs, it took a few minutes for me to get to the steps and then I saw what the hold up was about...
  
  There was a woman in her 60's dragging a huge 2 wheeler piece of baggage down one step at a time... I watched as almost 20 people in front of me, side step around her, then making comments like, "hey old lady, you are in the way!" all the while men and women alike, walked right past her...
  
  I was getting closer and closer to her and realized, it will be my turn to contemplate helping her or not... and when I got there, my mom's voice popped into my head... if that was me, would you lend  a hand to help... so right then and there I stopped, stepped up to the old lady and asked if she wanted my help... she looked at me, startled at first, and started speaking mandarin... so I reached for the end of her huge bag and pointed down the stairs, she smiled then said in mandarin, "Thank you, but please don't grab that part, get a hold of this metal part..."
  
  Anyways, who am I to argue with her about the ergonomics of her bag and since I took Infotech instead of physics in high school, I did what I was told...
  
  If you know the MK train station, you will know that there are two seperate flights of stairs, one leads to a bridge, another set leads down to the street... in my mind, I was being the good samaritan and helped the lady down the first flight of stairs... then at the end she stopped to take a rest... as did I... but just as I was about to leave, she turns and asks," are you ready ?" then I realize she wants me to carry the thing all the way down... then I heard my mom in my head again... so I did.
  
  This is when this whole encounter gets weird... I carry the bag down the second flight of stairs, then it was time to part ways, she said thank you, I said you're welcome and she put her bag back on the two wheel tray and starts walking... I happen to be going the same way as her, so I followed behind her... for about 20 meters, I was walking at a 45 degree angle behind her and on 3 occassions she turned to look at me with this worried face, finally she stopped and said "Thank you, I am okay now, you can go..." so then I realise my presence was spooking her, so I walked a bit faster and took over her...
  
  2 minutes later, we find ourselves, me and this old lady standing by a set of lights waiting for it to turn... when she looked up and saw my face, she literally grabbed her bag and moved it away from me shielding it with her body as if saying, you are not going to get my bag you thief...
  
  naturally when I saw my mom the next day I told her about hearing her voice in my head and helped the old lady and end up being accused of being a would be thief... my mom's response was, to the old lady, almost 40 people walked past her at the steps calling her names, telling her to get out of the way... then comes a young man (me) who offers to help and even goes the extra yard of bringing her bag down a second flight of stairs... in her mind, she has to be thinking, why is this person being nice, and then a thought comes to her head, this guy must want to steal my stuff... and what's more, may be she didn't think she needed help in the first place, and when you offered by grabbing her bag, she was just trying to be nice to you..." my mom was making fun of me cos of my long hair... she doesn't actually mean what she said... but for what it's worth, it's mostly true...
  
  So the next time I see someone who looks like they are in need of help, I really should ask if they want my help and stand there for a moment, let them judge me by my appearance then be polite about it if they decide to turn me down... afterall no bad deed goes unpunished and no good deed goes unquestioned...

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• Getting old and out of shape... time to lose some weight...

  Thursday, Oct 29, 2009 1:56AM / Members only

  So....  I just turned 28 recently and I hate to say it, I do feel old. Worrying about ones career can give you white hairs overnight, and for the past few years, it's all I have been worrying about, needless to say, I woke up one day not long ago and found a patch of white hairs in the top of my head... you see... when you focus your energies on something that involves your brain a lot, you sometimes forget to take care of your body...
  
  I admire professional athletes of all kinds because they are constantly in the best shape of their lives, they need to be, or else, their career could pass them by... I am a huge fan of MMA and I have always wondered, could I ever become a fighter, back at UFC 1 in 1993, I really thought I could... then life got in the way...
  
  I used to be an active person, I was on the basketball and tennis team in high school and have been an avid gym goer for the past decade... keeping yourself in tip top shape is hard and at 28, I am really struggling... Having been on the "filmmaker's diet" has wreck havoc on my body, I went from a lean mean 160 pounds to the now 200 pounds, I used to like walking places, now I hate the sight of a flight of stairs...
  
  What is the filmmaker's diet you ask, well, there is a lot of late night Macdonalds runs, especially when they came out with the double decker quarter pounder... there is a lot of eating hotpot, that's where producers like to talk script ideas... I eat KFC by the bucket, so that helps...
  
  from that very old picture you are looking at on the right, I look to be in okay shape, and that's why it's been my profile picture for so long... In my high school days, I had motivation to stay fit, the reason I was in shape was cos I used to get picked on an beat up a lot when I was in school, you need to be strong to fight off all the bullies... now that I am no longer in school, what's my motivation?
  
  It's been about 12 months since my mom started calling me "FAT BOY"... that name has stuck and caught on to other family and friends and it hasn't been easy... My sister calls me "Puffy" and it has nothing to do with P.Diddy... To have a beer gut and not having had a beer since 1999 is JUST NOT FAIR, and seeing that winter is fast approaching, if I don't do anything about it now, I don't think I will do anything at all after this Christmas, thus begin my total body transformation.... 
  
  So for the next 2 months, it will be tuna fish, chicken breasts, oats and protein shakes... no pasta, no KFC, no more burgers...  it's gonna be distilled water instead energy drinks... and oh that's right, along with a bunch of supplements I got as birthday presents... fat burners, stuff that helps boost your metabolism, Carbohydrate blockers and that stuff that makes you crazy strong so you can run like Forrest Gump...
  
  
  
  
  
  So that's me in my 200 pounds and all its glory... I am hoping that this blog could continue and hopefully after christmas, I could fit into my old school uniform again... and who knows, if this catches on, I could take a career turn and become the 155 pound MMA Champion like my idol Mike Brown... or at least look more like him if not to be able to fight like him... but then again, this could be the last time you ever hear about my dieting plans... and the next time you see me at the Halloween party, I will be the guy who looks an aweful lot like John Goodman or Tom Arnold without a costume on...
  
  This is Mike Brown the WEC 155 pound champ by the way...
  

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• The process of screenwriting...

  Wednesday, Oct 21, 2009 1:29AM / Members only

  A lot of my friends are writers, directors or people in the industry and whenever we get together, I would ask them about their process, like how they are as a writer, the steps they take in putting a script together and how they are as a director and the steps they take from looking at the script to putting together their angles...
  
  Writing has been a huge part of my life for the past 5 to 6 years, back in the early days when I first started writing screenplays, it was a joy whenever I double click on the Final Draft icon on my computer, I was happy to see the blank page because there are so much in my head I want to put down, and I would carry a note book with me, to write down ideas when I am on the MTR, having lunch or at the gym, ideas just come so easily and naturally back then...
  
  The first full length feature script I wrote was one I wrote and planned to direct myself as an indie project, after watching Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal, I bought myself a Canon XL1S camera just like he did and started planning my first script, I wrote it in about 3 weeks, all the while reading Syd Field's book on screenwriting, learning the structure...
  
  When it was done, I showed it to a producer friend whom I met at university, after he read it, he told me that, there are too many speaking parts and too many locations, it's not going to be cheap to make... he said to me, when you are an indie filmmaker, you want to do something that is distinctively yours, at the same time easy to manage, and I should write scenes that are set in locations that I can get for free, so I went back to the blank page, the next script I wrote had 4 characters, 3 of them are inside the same house for most of he script, there were 5 locations, it took me 2 weeks this time round to write it... all the locations I knew I could get for free, then it was time to actually make it...
  
  I brought my script to a local theatre group called the actor's workshop, told them about the story and asked if I could cast actors from their group, they invited me in and workshopped the script with me, in the end I cast the roles using their actors who all got onboard for free... we spent 3 months rehearsing and rewriting the script... then in 19 days we shot our film...
  
  I then went to the a local university QUT put up a notice looking for a music composer, we met, he loved the footage I shot, I ended up editing the film at the man's house using his Mac cutting on Final Cut...
  
  All in all it took 8 months from writing to editiing... and I thought this is how all movies are made... to be honest, the process felt smooth and easy to me, I now know that it felt smooth, because everyone involved were not thinking about money or getting famous, they all loved doing their part in the film-making process...
  
  After coming back to HK, I had the experience of making a low budget feature film under my belt, so it was time to plan out what to do about starting a career at making films...
  
  The experience I had after coming back to HK taught me that if you are the most enthusiastic person on the project, it probably won't ever get made... Point is, you need to be the least enthusiastic person, that being said, it better be a damn fine script... during this time, I learned the difference between a Screenwriter and a Spec Screenwriter... A Spec writer is someone who writes hoping to find money or a producer to get their movie made... they can write about anything from the 2nd world war to a story about their neighbor's dog... Screenwriters in HK don't write spec... because to be known as  screenwriter, means that when you start writing your script, you already have a company backing the project, ensuring it to be made...
  
  But not everyone gets to be a Screenwriter right away, you need to show these producers and companies that you got the right stuff... so what you do is write a 2 page synopsis, this is what I had to learn to do and learned the hard way...
  
  After meeting a local producer, I had pitched 3 ideas which I had developed stories for, he seemed interest in one of the ideas, so I said to him, give me a month, I will come back with a full script... he was shocked to hear that I would write a full script without a down payment, but instead he told me to write him a 2 page synopsis so he can show the investors... it took me 8 tries to finally get to the point where he accepted the 2 pager... so then I asked, give me a month, let me come back with a full script... that's not how it works he says, the next thing you will write is a scene breakdown, write 2-3 lines describing each and every scene in your script, then we will work on that...
  
  Some people are great at writing 2 pages, essentially what makes a good 2 page synopsis is a great hook, like serial killer killing people who committed the 7 deadly sins... after the hook comes a resolution, serial killer shows up at the police station... then comes the twist, serial killer brings the detective a box with his wife's head in it... put that into under 2 pages, you have greenlight to go onto the scene breakdown...
  
  3 months later, after 12 drafts of a 28 page scene breakdown, the producer finally accepted it... so again I ask, can I go write the full script now? to cut a story short, after that day, we never met again...
  
  I was trying to stay positive and figure out if anything did I learn from this process... the answer is, no, for me, writing is about momentum and drive, when you have an idea in your head that you don't know how it will develop or end, the only way to find out is to write it out in its entirety...
  
  Some people like to write scenes on cards and stick them on a wall, changing the order back and forth to see if they have enough to fill 90 minutes, for me to know if a script works, I need to see the words, the dialogue, because a single line of dialogue could very well change the entire plot of the story, you might think that the story ends with the cop catching the serial killer, but it takes one line or description in there to tell you that, may be the cop is the serial killer...
  
  Then you look at a film Sixth Sense, it's obvious that M Night came up with the ending and worked his way back to the kid meeting with Bruce Willis, don't get me wrong, Sixth Sense is a great film, but not every story can be developed that way... and by the time you get 30 million dollars to make a film with Bruce Willis in it, who gives a shit how you write... you are set... but for those of us struggling to find inspiration and motivation to keep going, you need to have your own principles...
  
  I guess what I am saying is that I don't want writing to become my day job where I am constructing scenes to go with a twist and then find characters to go with the scenes... you look at the films of PT Anderson,  like Hard Eight, Magnolia or Boogie nights and you know PT anderson never wrote a synopsis or a scene breakdown in his life, none of the scenes in the film sound or look like scenes taken out of other movies, he has all the characters in his head and he's asking them, what would you do or say in a situation like this and they respond to them...
  
  What's more is that Anderson writes with a typewriter, he puts out one draft, have the actors come to his house, read that one printed draft, then goes out and shoots that one draft, I admire writers who write on typewriters, because you need to be so damn certain of what you want to write in the first place to even hit the F key to spell the word Fade In... to be able to write a film like Magnolia and to do it with a typewriter, shows confidence that only a master in his craft has... cos you know what, for someone with less skills, it could very well turn into a piece of shit... and that's the line you have to balance on, if taking the plunge to write a new script is not scary to you, then it's not a script worth writing... you need to be scared shitless cos it could be a wasted 2 months of your time, but during those two months, you need to fight so that the idea that you believe strongly in, gets its due...
  
  For 3 years since I came back to HK, I have been writing synopsis and scene breakdowns and  treatments, I am no closer to making a new film, but in the last 2 years, I stopped doing all that, I even shyed away from writing genre films, I start with a blank page and end with a stack of papers in my hand, that's my process, it could be 60 pages, which is the length of a script I wrote last year, or it could be 147 pages, which is one I wrote this year, those are the ones I will end up making eventually...
  
  Then you may ask, hey Daniel, what if you are being paid to write a scene breakdown or do rewrites for someone else, would you do it? Sure I would, you see, to be able to take 2 months off to write a script that matters to you from page 0 to 120, you need money to feed yourself, pay rent, buy new underwear if not new jeans, so I have done and still do scene breakdowns and synopsis for other people, just so that I can have my own time to write something that I feel I would be proud of when it is being shown in a cinema someday...
  

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• Why I will not read your f....king script!!!

  Wednesday, Oct 7, 2009 4:39AM / Members only

  For all the screenwriters out there who is writing SPEC scripts hoping to break into the industry...
  
  I came across this article recently, after reading it, hated how honest it is and couldn't help but understand where the writer is coming from...
  
  I have written my share of SPEC scripts and I have come across a few of these producers types myself, thing is tho, I too have made some of the mistakes they talked about in this article, so may be there is something to be learned here...
  
  The point of this article I think is not to discourage writers from trying, but to give them an idea of how someone on the receiving end of your script feels...
  
  Having read it myself, I still believe that good writing will find its way to the hands of the right people... it might take a long time, but if your script is good, it will find its reader...
  
  
  I will not read your fucking script.

  That's simple enough, isn't it? "I will not read your fucking script." What's not clear about that? There's nothing personal about it, nothing loaded, nothing complicated. I simply have no interest in reading your fucking screenplay. None whatsoever.

  If that seems unfair, I'll make you a deal. In return for you not asking me to read your fucking script, I will not ask you to wash my fucking car, or take my fucking picture, or represent me in fucking court, or take out my fucking gall bladder, or whatever the fuck it is that you do for a living.

  You're a lovely person. Whatever time we've spent together has, I'm sure, been pleasurable for both of us. I quite enjoyed that conversation we once had about structure and theme, and why Sergio Leone is the greatest director who ever lived. Yes, we bonded, and yes, I wish you luck in all your endeavors, and it would thrill me no end to hear that you had sold your screenplay, and that it had been made into the best movie since Godfather Part II.

  But I will not read your fucking script.

  At this point, you should walk away, firm in your conviction that I'm a dick. But if you're interested in growing as a human being and recognizing that it is, in fact, you who is the dick in this situation, please read on.

  Yes. That's right. I called you a dick. Because you created this situation. You put me in this spot where my only option is to acquiesce to your demands or be the bad guy. That, my friend, is the very definition of a dick move.

  I was recently cornered by a young man of my barest acquaintance.

  I doubt we've exchanged a hundred words. But he's dating someone I know, and he cornered me in the right place at the right time, and asked me to read a two-page synopsis for a script he'd been working on for the last year. He was submitting the synopsis to some contest or program, and wanted to get a professional opinion.

  Now, I normally have a standard response to people who ask me to read their scripts, and it's the simple truth: I have two piles next to my bed. One is scripts from good friends, and the other is manuscripts and books and scripts my agents have sent to me that I have to read for work. Every time I pick up a friend's script, I feel guilty that I'm ignoring work. Every time I pick something up from the other pile, I feel guilty that I'm ignoring my friends. If I read yours before any of that, I'd be an awful person.

  Most people get that. But sometimes you find yourself in a situation where the guilt factor is really high, or someone plays on a relationship or a perceived obligation, and it's hard to escape without seeming rude. Then, I tell them I'll read it, but if I can put it down after ten pages, I will. They always go for that, because nobody ever believes you can put their script down once you start.

  But hell, this was a two page synopsis, and there was no time to go into either song or dance, and it was just easier to take it. How long can two pages take?

  Weeks, is the answer.

  And this is why I will not read your fucking script.

  It rarely takes more than a page to recognize that you're in the presence of someone who can write, but it only takes a sentence to know you're dealing with someone who can't.

  (By the way, here's a simple way to find out if you're a writer. If you disagree with that statement, you're not a writer. Because, you see, writers are also readers.)

  You may want to allow for the fact that this fellow had never written a synopsis before, but that doesn't excuse the inability to form a decent sentence, or an utter lack of facility with language and structure. The story described was clearly of great importance to him, but he had done nothing to convey its specifics to an impartial reader. What I was handed was, essentially, a barely coherent list of events, some connected, some not so much. Characters wander around aimlessly, do things for no reason, vanish, reappear, get arrested for unnamed crimes, and make wild, life-altering decisions for no reason. Half a paragraph is devoted to describing the smell and texture of a piece of food, but the climactic central event of the film is glossed over in a sentence. The death of the hero is not even mentioned. One sentence describes a scene he's in, the next describes people showing up at his funeral. I could go on, but I won't. This is the sort of thing that would earn you a D minus in any Freshman Comp class.

  Which brings us to an ugly truth about many aspiring screenwriters: They think that screenwriting doesn't actually require the ability to write, just the ability to come up with a cool story that would make a cool movie. Screenwriting is widely regarded as the easiest way to break into the movie business, because it doesn't require any kind of training, skill or equipment. Everybody can write, right? And because they believe that, they don't regard working screenwriters with any kind of real respect. They will hand you a piece of inept writing without a second thought, because you do not have to be a writer to be a screenwriter.

  So. I read the thing. And it hurt, man. It really hurt. I was dying to find something positive to say, and there was nothing. And the truth is, saying something positive about this thing would be the nastiest, meanest and most dishonest thing I could do. Because here's the thing: not only is it cruel to encourage the hopeless, but you cannot discourage a writer. If someone can talk you out of being a writer, you're not a writer. If I can talk you out of being a writer, I've done you a favor, because now you'll be free to pursue your real talent, whatever that may be. And, for the record, everybody has one. The lucky ones figure out what that is. The unlucky ones keep on writing shitty screenplays and asking me to read them.

  To make matters worse, this guy (and his girlfriend) had begged me to be honest with him. He was frustrated by the responses he'd gotten from friends, because he felt they were going easy on him, and he wanted real criticism. They never do, of course. What they want is a few tough notes to give the illusion of honesty, and then some pats on the head. What they want--always--is encouragement, even when they shouldn't get any.

  Do you have any idea how hard it is to tell someone that they've spent a year wasting their time? Do you know how much blood and sweat goes into that criticism? Because you want to tell the truth, but you want to make absolutely certain that it comes across honestly and without cruelty. I did more rewrites on that fucking e-mail than I did on my last three studio projects.

  My first draft was ridiculous. I started with specific notes, and after a while, found I'd written three pages on the first two paragraphs. That wasn't the right approach. So I tossed it, and by the time I was done, I'd come up with something that was relatively brief, to the point, and considerate as hell. The main point I made was that he'd fallen prey to a fallacy that nails a lot of first timers. He was way more interested in telling his one story than in being a writer. It was like buying all the parts to a car and starting to build it before learning the basics of auto mechanics. You'll learn a lot along the way, I said, but you'll never have a car that runs.

  (I should mention that while I was composing my response, he pulled the ultimate amateur move, and sent me an e-mail saying, "If you haven't read it yet, don't! I have a new draft. Read this!" In other words, "The draft I told you was ready for professional input, wasn't actually.")

  I advised him that if all he was interested in was this story, he should find a writer and work with him; or, if he really wanted to be a writer, start at the beginning and take some classes, and start studying seriously.

  And you know what? I shouldn't have bothered. Because for all the hair I pulled out, for all the weight and seriousness I gave his request for a real, professional critique, his response was a terse "Thanks for your opinion." And, the inevitable fallout--a week later a mutual friend asked me, "What's this dick move I hear you pulled on Whatsisname?"

  So now this guy and his girlfriend think I'm an asshole, and the truth of the matter is, the story really ended the moment he handed me the goddamn synopsis. Because if I'd just said "No" then and there, they'd still think I'm an asshole. Only difference is, I wouldn't have had to spend all that time trying to communicate thoughtfully and honestly with someone who just wanted a pat on the head, and, more importantly, I wouldn't have had to read that godawful piece of shit.

  You are not owed a read from a professional, even if you think you have an in, and even if you think it's not a huge imposition. It's not your choice to make. This needs to be clear--when you ask a professional for their take on your material, you're not just asking them to take an hour or two out of their life, you're asking them to give you--gratis--the acquired knowledge, insight, and skill of years of work. It is no different than asking your friend the house painter to paint your living room during his off hours.

  There's a great story about Pablo Picasso. Some guy told Picasso he'd pay him to draw a picture on a napkin. Picasso whipped out a pen and banged out a sketch, handed it to the guy, and said, "One million dollars, please."

  "A million dollars?" the guy exclaimed. "That only took you thirty seconds!"

  "Yes," said Picasso. "But it took me fifty years to learn how to draw that in thirty seconds."

  Like the cad who asks the professional for a free read, the guy simply didn't have enough respect for the artist to think about what he was asking for. If you think it's only about the time, then ask one of your non-writer friends to read it. Hell, they might even enjoy your script. They might look upon you with a newfound respect. It could even come to pass that they call up a friend in the movie business and help you sell it, and soon, all your dreams will come true. But me?

  I will not read your fucking script...

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• Hollywood Remakes... Career choices... My eventual 4th film...

  Saturday, Oct 3, 2009 1:41AM / Members only

  There's been word going around that Hollywood is planning on remaking the Korean film "Oldboy" for almost 5 years... first it was going to be Fast & Furious director Justin Lin, which seems like a very good choice...
  
  
  
  But as the years passed, the remake project fell off the grid, then we saw Infernal Affairs being remade by Martin Scorcesee and go on to win Best Picture...
  
  As of 2009, the Oldboy remake has fallen into the hands of Steven Spielberg, starring Will Smith as the title role. When I first saw this on imdb, I wasn't sure what to make of it... After all, it doesn't seem like something that suits Spielberg's style, then I re-watched "Munich" and thought, if this is anything to go on, then his version of the Oldboy remake would be pretty good...
  
  What do you guys think?
  
  I think that many new directors like myself always have a novel in their back pocket that they wish to adapt into a film they day they become more well known and have enough pull to be able to get the film rights for... so for me, I have always wished I could adapt "In the Miso Soup" by Ryu Murakami, the lesser known book from the author of "Coin locker babies"...
  
  
  
  "In the Miso Soup" is about an American tourist visiting Tokyo and hires a young local man as his tour guide, as their friendship grows by the day, so does the number of murdered prostitutes in the local area, the young tour guide starts to suspect that his client may be a serial killer... the book ends with one of the most violent I have read in words (way more over the top then American Psycho) that stretches on for almost 40 pages, full of bloody murder and mayhem...
  
  Now I have always been fascinated by serial killers since my high school days, my first film was about two brothers breaking into the house of an old man, taking him hostage, they later found to be a serial killer...
  
  Then I found out that Wim Wenders will be making the novel into a film with Willem Dafoe playing the American tourist. If you thought that Spielberg and Oldboy may be a bit of a mismatch, Wenders and Miso Soup seems that much more odd...
  
  When you look at the careers of film directors, you see that their debut film is something very personal, then comes the sophmore effort which plays with structure and unconventional storytelling devices to show that they can direct a film in a non-linear structure, then comes the third film, with more budget and more commercial to prove their worth as a commercial director, then comes the fourth film which is the one that they try their hand at adapting their favorite novel... E.g. Christopher Nolan (The Prestige) Paul Thomas Anderson (There will be blood), Ang Lee (Sense and Sensibility), Quentin Tarantino (Jackie Brown), even David Lynch (Dune) for that matter... for me, Miso Soup has always been my fourth film I'd make when I get there, now that it's out for good... I will have to find myself another novel for that future forth film of mine... or may be... Mr, Wenders... if one day you decide to let the film rights to Miso Soup lapse or decide not to make it at all...
  
  Do you think I could give it a go???
  
  Now let's say Wim Wenders lets the film rights lapse and by the time I get to make my forth film, Miso Soup lands on my lap, I am sure people like me will be saying how bad a fit I would be with Miso Soup...
  
  but seriously, Mr. Wenders... is this listing on imdb one of those, let's get the word out there, so that the distributors will go into a "bidding frenzy over the rights" like they did with "My Sassy Girl" or is this one of those "Ang Lee wanting to challenge himself with a genre he's never done before to see if he can make a breakthrough in his career and decides to make "The Hulk" with some overtly added daddy issues to make a comic book character more accessable to people who don't read comic books" type deal...?
  

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  Hi Daniel, yep, I'm in between cities right now. NYC and HK though I'm doing a lot more work in Hong Kong right now.
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  bangteer

  posted on Sunday, Oct 18, 2009 12:47AM  [Report]

  Happy Birthday!
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   Johnny Lu

  posted on Saturday, Oct 10, 2009 11:22PM  [Report]

  HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRO! MAY ALL YOUR WISHES COME TRUE! THIS IS YOUR YEAR!
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   Boon

  posted on Saturday, Oct 10, 2009 3:35PM  [Report]

  Happy birthday man!
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  MissScarlett

  posted on Friday, Oct 9, 2009 10:35PM  [Report]

  Happy! Happy! Happy! Happy! Happy! Happy! Happy! Happy! Happy! Happy Birthday!! :)
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   rottendoubt

  posted on Wednesday, Oct 7, 2009 9:04PM  [Report]

  happy birthday! =D
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   Kongo Rikishi (Esan Shi)

  posted on Wednesday, Oct 7, 2009 12:08PM  [Report]

  Merry bday!
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   Kool Campus Film Group

  posted on Monday, Oct 5, 2009 3:31PM  [Report]

  HAPPY BIRTHDAY, OCTOBER 10th.
  
  May all your directorial dreams come true with colossal budgets.
  
  Cheers!
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   Kool Campus Film Group

  posted on Friday, Oct 2, 2009 8:47AM  [Report]

  Hi DANIEL,
  
  SO you do direct TV commercials as well?
  
  Would be good to know.
  
  KEN
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   Lawrence Gray

  posted on Friday, Oct 2, 2009 1:28AM  [Report]

  Been waiting thirty years. If you hang onto the script it gets nowhere. If you sell it, you lose it. But since I can finally afford the equipment to make films, that seems to be the thing to do. Stick it on the internet if nothing else.One could of course just write but it's more fun making movies. And nobody reads anyway. So if you've something to say to people... you just gotta get it out there somehow.
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   Lawrence Gray

  posted on Friday, Oct 2, 2009 12:45AM  [Report]

  Well I just got the fourth option payment of Fat Englishmen!!! I had to sell it to the US since nobody in Asia would finance it and nobody would back me as a director. So when i found a producer who reckoned he could turn it into a Studio film with a 20million dollar budget and was willing to pay for the script I thought what choice do I have? If it gets made, I might be able to use that to leverage myself into a better position... But as yet it aint been made. So I bought myself a camera and decided to do everything myself even if there is no budget. It limits what sort of thing one can write, but it's a bit of crime not to do what one knows one can do, despite the lack of money. The world needs funnier films!
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  Marilena

  posted on Thursday, Sep 3, 2009 11:08PM  [Report]

  hello
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  nicley

  posted on Wednesday, Aug 26, 2009 1:26AM  [Report]

  情人节快乐！！
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   Johnny Lu

  posted on Tuesday, Aug 25, 2009 3:09PM  [Report]

  must sign now!!!
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   Julian Lee

  posted on Saturday, Aug 15, 2009 3:55AM  [Report]

  hi just back from UK
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   Hussain Abdullah

  posted on Thursday, Aug 13, 2009 6:10AM  [Report]

  I'm based in Germany and I am currently working as 1st AD on an international movie project called FINALE. We are working with cast & crew from Germany, Italy and South Korea. Check out the website if you like:
  www.finale-movie.com
  
  Anyway, "Queen's Head" sounds interesting, but what really caught my attention is "The Battle of Hong Kong". It sounds too good of a project to simply discard it. Maybe you can do it with new strength gathered after a successful "Price of the Queen's Head".
  
  I have written two scripts that take place in HK. I'd like to make these films some time in the future. One is a gangster drama. The other one is kind of a special popcorn action flick. =)
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