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Salute to veteran film director - Ho Meng Hua

2007-09-19 1:08AM / 標準BLOG

On September 17th, I had attended the Chinese Film Panorama (2007) and enjoyed watching the movie "GUN OF MERCY", but the more joyful thing for me was to be able to sit next to the director of one of Shaw Brother's all time classic cult movies The “Mighty Peking Man", Mr. Ho Meng Hua, throughout the whole show and to escort him to his transport afterwards.

In the 1970s, the Shaw Brothers Studio was the greatest producer of classic martial arts films, but during that time they also dipped into other genres like sci-fi, horror, comedy and dramas. The “Mighty Peking Man” was Shaw's cover version of King Kong with a dash of Tarzan done in their own incredibly entertaining way.

Over thirty years ago, in 1976, Sir Run Run had the dream of releasing this Hong Kong remake of King Kong earlier than the Hollywood remake of the same movie which was also in production at the same time. Director Ho Meng Hua had to work with Japanese special effects professionals who only had a maximum of 3 months to stay per Visa grant. So, extra time was lost when the special effects work could not be completed within 3 months and new teams from Japan had to come to pick up the unfinished work of the previous teams. While director Ho was contracted to do 4 movies for Shaw Brothers each year, he had taken over 1 year to just work on the “Mighty Peking Man” due to the many physical and technical challenges he had to overcome for a movie of this scale and nature at that time. The movie was finally released in 1977, after the release of its Hollywood rivalry, KING KONG (1977).

In 1999, Quentin Tarantino had re-released the “Mighty Peking Man” in North America through his Rolling Thunder Pictures distribution company with Miramax. The Rotten Tomatoes had gathered 6 Fresh tomatoes and 5 Rotten tomatoes reviews for this movie. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mighty_peking_man/

Last night, the 78-year old director Ho had a bit of discomfort walking from the cinema to the building entrance. And, one of the comments that he made kept resonate in my mind,

“My fellow film director friends like *Chang Cheh,

*Li Han Hsiang and *Cheng Kang are all dead.

Now, I am the only one left behind…”

As a humble new director who wants to direct feature films one day, I am writing this blog to salute director Ho, who had directed almost 50 movies for the Shaw Brothers Studio, for his life long efforts and passion in the making and appreciation of movies!

This was the original movie poster

of the MIGHTY PEKING MAN

in 1977.

This was the video cover of North America's

re-release in 1999 by Quentin Tarantino's

film distribution company.

This was my attempt to take a nice photo

with director Ho with my right hand

- however resulting in this "ghostly" effect !

Me signing on the guests board

Next to me was Shaw's classic hero, Ti Lung

A group photo with director Ho and the Shaw's film stars.

(From photo left) director Ho, me, Lin Chung, Shaw Yin Yin,

Ku Feng (who was one of the main casts in the MIGHTY

PEKING MAN) and Fong Wah.

The director of the opening film "GUN OF MERCY", Feng Gong, happened to pass by and walked into the right frame of this photo!

P.S.

Ho Meng Hua is a Cantonese born in Shanghai in 1929. He studied at a Shanghai theatrical academy and moved to Hong Kong in 1948, joined Shaw Brothers in 1955. By 1957 he had worked his way up to director, his directorial debut being An Appointment After Dark released in 1958. He moved on to direct approximately fifty films for Shaw Brothers.

Chang Cheh was the mentor of Hollywood film director, John Woo. He had directed more than 90 movies during the course of his career, including such classics as One-Armed Swordsman, Golden Swallow, Chinatown Kid, The Five Venoms, and many more. Shortly before his death in 2002, Chang received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2002 Hong Kong Film Awards. He will be remembered as the “Godfather” of Hong Kong Action Cinema.

Li Han Hsiang was the award-winning director of the classic Chinese huang-mei opera movies, The Kingdom And The Beauty and The Love Eterne.

Cheng Kang was the award-winning director of the internationally acclaimedThe 14 Amazons. He was also the father of the famous Hong Kong martial arts director, Ching Siu-tung.

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A trip with Eason Chan to China for Project Orbis

2007-09-13 10:19PM / 標準BLOG

I had a physically demanding but one of the most wonderful experiences last week being the videographer for Project Orbis.

We had gone to Guangyuan in the Sichuan Province of PR China with one of Greater China’s most popular singers/actors, Mr. Eason Chan, who is their Sight Ambassador. To me, it was a real pleasure and an honour to be working with Eason!

The trip had also made me realize just how lucky I am being born and brought up in Hong Kong with my innate ingrown eyelash problem. Had I been born in Guangyuan instead, I would have definitely become blind by now, like those many less fortunate local people living in the villages and mountains. Now, I just have no more excuses to delay my eye operation (like those poor or ignorant old village people....).

In fact, I had also sponsored for the medical cost for a 61 year old man and his 39 year old son in a village who had taken a long time to save up RMB 3000+ for their medical expenses but only to be stolen as both the daddy and the son are almost totally blind so they are easy preys to those no conscience thieves !

The promotional videos and TV commercial that I am making for Project Orbis should be coming out in late October as I am doing the post production right now. I am also making a Canada version of the promotional video. If I have the time later on, I might make a behind the scene video as well. Following are some leisure shots of the trip to share.

Capturing the street scenes

Mushroom is a specialty there

Chilly Paste of course!

I found a dirty version Wong Wong in the street there!

Different kinds of seeds in the market

Escorting a recovering patient home

Eason and his assistant Raymond

Eason has so many fans even in the rural areas

The vegetable and sweet corn fields are so beautiful,

but the work of the farmers are so tough and the

sharp blades of the crop leaves often hurt their eyes.

The Project Orbis' sponsored local hospital staff was showing us the problems with the eyes of this poor 61-year-old man, whose savings for his medical treatment were stolen by some thieves. In fact, he was suffering from the same innate ingrown eyelash problem as me, but has unfortunately become almost totally blind due to the lack of medical treatment. I had therefore sponsored for the fees of his medical treatment together with one of the volunteer still photographers, Mr. Hisun Wong.
We are now waiting to hear about the result of his tests and treatments.

Me pretending to be a village woman

A mummy duck protecting her babies

It was a pleasure working with Eason

I like Eason and think he is a genuine person.

The local hospital staff, Project Orbis staff and the whole crew

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Bye Bye Mike Chu...

2007-08-30 12:44AM / 標準BLOG

My Dear Friend,

Every time I see your name being mentioned in the newspapers since yesterday and today, my heart aches...

My memories of you are so alive! You make me smile; you make me laugh.

You inspire me so much. You were such a beautiful person.

You will live in my heart forever... until my body and mind wilt...

May you rest in peace.

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香港地標老狗(後記) HK Landmark dogs (P.S.)

2007-08-27 10:36AM / 標準BLOG

如任何人的區內也有這樣的地標老狗，請盡快通知我。我希望能拍攝一個《香港地標老狗》的專輯，來保留一些集體回憶。

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香港地標老狗 HK Landmark dogs

2007-08-27 1:31AM / 標準BLOG

銅鑼灣摩頓台附近有一頭白色啡斑的肥老狗，每次途經那裏都會見到牠，所以牠逐漸便成了那兒的地標之一，牠的名字叫「肥仔」。

西環尾爹核士街也有一頭朱古力色的拉布拉多犬(但可能有些少混種)，牠的名字叫「朱古力」。相傳牠年事已過20，以往曾自己走到西營盤玩耍，然後又懂得自己回家，據說西區現在有許多的狗狗都是其後人…

昨天我碰到了「肥仔」便替牠拍攝了一些照片及片段。今天我專程去找「朱古力」，準備替牠拍攝一個紀念特輯，但卻得悉「朱古力」已在兩星期前在爹核士街被汽車輾斃了！

聽罷我頓覺一絲失落與傷感，因為在過去的7-8年間，我經常到以上的地點見到以上的兩頭狗。牠們已在不知不覺間成為我相熟的街坊好友。得知其中一位老朋友離世，我內心十分捨不得。尤其是我在較早前因電腦資料太多，而刪除了我替「朱古力」拍下但並不感滿意的幾張照片，我本以為可以再替牠拍一些較好的… 怎料我再沒有這機會了… 我現在真的十分懊悔啊！「朱古力」，你將會在我的心內永不刪掉，你知道嗎？

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柏姜

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Patty is a veteran in the Asian media and entertainment business. Over the past 20 years, she has held key positions in many big companies...
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Patty is a veteran in the Asian media and entertainment business. Over the past 20 years, she has held key positions in many big companies. From the '80s to the '90s, she was working in Ogilvy & Mather, Saatchi & Saatchi and Academy One Films. From 1995 to 1997, Patty was instrumental in the setting up of the Channel Marketing function at Hong Kong Cable Television Limited when she was the Deputy Marketing Controller over there. In the years of 1997 to 2000, Patty joined Time Warner's Turner Entertainment Networks Asia, Inc. as Regional Marketing Director and looked after all the marketing activities for Cartoon Network and TCM in the region as well as helped launch HBO into India. From March 2002 to Oct 2004, Patty joined Celestial Pictures as Group Marketing Director looking after all of the communications and promotional activities for the company's integrated media and merchandise businesses in Asia. She has also been personally involved in the creation and production of numerous T.V. commercials and promotional videos.

Whilst working for Celestial, Patty was inspired by the many classic Shaw film legends that she had the honor to meet in person. This had triggered her interest in writing stories and becoming a film director. In mid-year 2004, Patty decided to quit her job and went to study for a 1-year film-making course (Nov 04 to Sept 05), jointly hosted by the Federation of Hong Kong Filmmakers and the Hong Kong government.

In 2005, Patty has written her first book "The Close Encounters with the Shaw Film Legends" which was published by Sing Tao Publishing to many parts of the world and has stayed in the No. 1 Rank in "Sing Tao's Top 10 Selling Chart" for many months. The book was also ranked as the No. 10 in the “Best Selling Books in Singapore” by the "Top Culture Index" of Yazhou Zhoukan (Vol. 19 Issue 26).

In 2006, Patty has made her first attempt in directing a dark humor short film "BLACK OUT" and written the original movie concepts of “BEAUTIFUL LEG", “2882”, “CAMAY and HER DOG", “KILL AND RUN” as well as “THE DARK PIANO". During the same time, she has also launched a bi-lingual print and web publication, INWEDDING magazine (now renamed as INMAGAZINE) in the position as contract Managing Editor in only 4 months' time from scratch.

In July 2007, Patty's 3-min trailer of “2882” is selected to be shown at the 11th FANTASIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL in Montreal. In November of the same year, Patty has won the MTV Asia competition as the director and editor for the best video to accompany the track titled "I'm Proud To Be Chinese".

Patty is indeed an energetic person who has the proven track record to create and manage projects of various natures, magnitude and scales. She is a rare gem who not only possess creativity but also the necessary marketing sense and production skills to make a world-class top-notch producer/writer/director, based out of Asia. She now owns her film and promotions company, GIG CREATION Limited (www.gigcreation.com) which offers corporate image and branding services as well as film production services to clients.

柏姜 (原名“姜佩安”) 是一位資深媒體及市務推廣從業員，持有澳洲悉尼MacQuarie大學工商管理碩士學位，及英國特許市務學會(The Chartered Institute of Marketing)之市場學文憑；亦曾接受由「香港電影工作者總會」及「職業訓練局」合辦的全曰制「第二屆電影專業培訓課程」。柏姜擁有在亞洲媒體、廣告、影視製作及市務推廣行業的豐富經驗。

在過去的二十年期間，她親自參予製作了無數電視廣告及公司/商品宣傳片。她曾出任之職務包括：全球第二大的線上廣告聯網及線上廣告科技供應商Real Media Ltd.亞洲地區行政總監；「天映娛樂」有限公司集團市務總監；「香港有線電視有限公司」助理市務總監；以及「時代華納」旗下之Turner Entertainment Networks Asia, Inc地區市務總監，負責策劃及監督CARTOON NETWORK卡通頻道和TCM(Turner Classic Movies) 頻道在區內之所有推廣活動，並協助該公司在印度展開HBO收費電影台服務。

由於在「天映娛樂」出任集團市務總監一職時，柏姜能有幸接觸到很多經典「邵氏電影」之台前幕後前輩，被他們感動及啟發後，在2004年底，她便毅然放棄了在市務推廣事業上努力近二十年之成果，而决定投身藝術及文化事業，因為她希望可以在她有生之年，能夠把她的一些經驗與想像與眾分享。

在2005年5月她以筆名「柏姜」推出她生平的第一本著作【邵氏巨星零距離接觸】，由「星島」出版到世界各地，並很快便榮登「星島出版十大暢銷書榜」首位達數月之久，並在「亞洲週刊」(第十九卷二十六期)之熱門文化指標，被列為「全新加坡最熱門書籍」之第10位。

在2006年期間，她以特約行政編輯身份，破天荒僅以4個月之短時間，為Cytech Ltd. 從「零」開始建立了全內部之中、英語編輯及攝製團隊，出版了全港首創的中、英雙語高級結婚美容時倘月刋inWEDDING雜誌 (現改名為inMAGAZINE)。在此期間，她並創作了多個電影原創故事，包括了《美麗的腿》、《2882》、《佳美與她的小狗》、《錯殺夜驚魂》及《黑鋼琴》等，她亦自編、自導及自製了黑色幽默英語短片《BLACK OUT》。

她的《2882》預告片，曾於加拿大滿地可2007年度舉行之「第十一屆Fantasia International Film Festival」內展出。同年11月，她親自執導及剪接之音樂錄像，令她成為了MTV音樂頻道亞洲區 "I'm Proud To Be Chinese"一曲 (譯名為“中國人之驕傲”) 最佳音樂錄像比賽的冠軍得主。

在追尋電影夢想之際，柏姜亦創辦了GIG CREATION (十激創作坊www.gigcreation.com)，為客户提供公司形象設計及影視攝製服務。

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