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...doing remarkable kung fu, it's got three of them. Shu Qi and Zhao play sisters whose murder-ed father invented a system that can tap into every single camera on earth. As hired assassins, the sisters use this nifty gadget to help them track their unsuspecting victims. Karen Mok is a Hong Kong detective trying to stop them while simultaneously fighting the overpowering male chauvinism of the police force. (That the Hong Kong police force might be full of sexists is perhaps the most believable part of the whole film.) Kung fu flick aficionados will recognize Mok's character...
...Indeed, Zhao's as user-friendly as a Starbucks coffee shop. There's not the manufacture of Zhang Ziyi, the "wing collar" of Karen Mok, the Monroe of Shu Qi, or the candy-cute of Cecilia Cheung Pak-chi. She doesn't nurture distance with the audience. "She's just like a boy," says Wong Kar-wai. "She tells you everything directly, she talks from the heart. Very few people are born to be an actress, but she's one of them." Anyone for more wine...
...Chinese director Yonfan reckons he has Mok's fan base down. "She's been in all these strange parts, sometimes triad related, and yet yuppies love her. She has a very upmarket following." Evidently. Urbane avant-garde British director Peter Greenaway, who has made a career from persuading yuppie actresses like Joely Richardson and Amanda Plummer to take their kit off, came knocking on Mok's door in 1997 suggesting a part in his forthcoming film, 8 1/2 Women. Mok turned him down: despite the lunacy of the characters she had played; she feared that full-frontal nudity...
...This is part of the Mok mystique. Aloof means allure, and combined they make the star quality that defines an artist's relationship with the public. And she consciously pushes the puerility, especially in a recent series of Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong concerts. "I get away with murder," she revels. "I mean, those shorts must have been the shortest in Hong Kong history. And then leaping into a bathtub ... " Shorts? They were more like a belt. Her legs were painted gold from the groin down, like something out of a James Bond credit sequence. At one point she stepped...
...when Karen Mok says "So what?" she sounds to the manor born. In one marvelous moment in Young and Dangerous 3, she gets hit by a car while rollerblading down a busy street. As four hip Hong Kong lads clamber out of the car to check if she's O.K., Mok adjusts herself, stands back up on the blades and calls them "a bunch of f____ing d___heads." They stare gormlessly at the Chinese beauty who stands before them delivering a beautifully intonated insult?in English. It's a scene that defines Mok, soign? with plenty of street...