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...Kung Fu Hustle,” an award-winning action-comedy import from Hong Kong, helped me get over that fear by teaching me a simple lesson. You’ve got to approach these movies the same way you approach a mission to rifle through some chick’s lingerie: by conjuring up your inner 9-year...
...don’t mean to give the impression that the movie is as crude as one that a prepubescent boy might make. Indeed, you don’t need to be an expert in cinematic technique to see that “Kung Fu Hustle,” although light-hearted and full of slapstick, is an admirable piece of moviemaking...
...writer/director/star Stephen Chow) accidentally sets off a war between the murderous Axe Gang and the residents of a quaint slum called Pig Sty. The latter are revealed to be not quite as helpless as they seem—an unusual number of them turn out to be Kung Fu masters—and wild fight scenes break out, with more than a little help from computer graphics and wire suspension. Sing, whose delivery is more Bill Murray than Jet Li, is caught in the middle—should he suck up to the bad guys, who he thinks will probably...
...well, "our economies are quite complementary, like gears meshing with each other," says Fu, whose mix of charm, steeliness and intensity has made a big impression on locals during her year in Canberra. "China has what Australia needs: a market for its resources and technology. Australia has what China needs. Both sides can see the opportunities and want to seize them." Two-way trade has tripled in value since 1998. Despite Australia's growing dependence on China, its share of all the goods going into the People's Republic is a mere 2%. Downer sees no reason...
...money to buy flash cars, clothes and Shanghai apartments? That's complicated. Wealth can be due to luck, corruption or cleverness. China's "peaceful rise" is a brand that's been pitched in the same manner as a multinational mining company would push its green credentials. "Ambassador Fu is out and about and very focused on China's image," says an Australian bureaucrat. "But their methods have been heavy-handed on Falun Gong - they've given them far too much attention." On Taiwan, says another official, the Chinese have been emphatic in public and assiduous in working the back channels...