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...struggled to turn a profit selling custom-made spook equipment to clients such as the Iranian secret police. Then, in December, one of Taiwan's tabloid magazines whipped up a scandal by distributing free copies of an X-rated video purported to be of former Taipei politician Chu Mei-feng as she entertained somebody else's husband. The couple was secretly filmed with a thumbnail-sized camera hidden in a bedroom. Since the incident, which became an Internet sensation, Lee can't keep his shelves stocked?and Taiwan is gripped with hidden-camera hysteria...
...snooping devices. Miniaturization technology and cheaper electronics have enabled thousands of Taiwanese to become amateur Big Brothers, surreptitiously videotaping employees, friends and total strangers without regard for privacy or propriety. Shopowners retailing tiny spy cameras (which cost between $30 and $400) say sales jumped tenfold after the Chu Mei-feng scandal. One of the hottest toys last Christmas was a Winnie the Pooh plush doll with cameras in its eye sockets...
...Somewhere in Feng Xiaogang's new film there's a course in contemporary Sino-U.S. relations, and students can sift through the plot to try to figure out who's laughing at whom, who's leading whom, who's doing what to whom?and why. And the very making of the movie raises a host of questions: Has Feng taken money from Columbia Pictures to make his film but stuck two fingers up at the U.S.? Or is he lampooning the circus that Beijing has become? Let the academics decide...
...Feng, maker of smash hits Be There or Be Square and Sorry Baby, is China's most commercial filmmaker. Although Big Shot is his biggest project to date, this is not one of his more coherent efforts. He should either have explored the film-within-a-film theme more fully, or played for giggles; the two make discordant bedfellows. Characters drift from serious to incredibly silly. Sutherland shuffles around the Forbidden City, pontificating on Bernardo Bertolucci, on how to mix Western and Eastern cinematic culture and make the combination appeal to both audiences. Ge You delivers the movie's standout...
...rest. Doyle didn't pick up a camera until his late twenties, when he accompanied a musician friend on a 20-day trek around Taiwan to record folk songs: "He had a camera and I had the time." Without a visa and under the pseudonym Du Ke Feng ("like the wind"), he joined the news department of China Television, making documentaries for the Taiwanese version of 60 Minutes. Then, director friend Edward Yang invited Doyle to work on his feature debut That Day, On the Beach (1983), and the New Wave was underway. "What can I say?" says Doyle...