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...That is the thing about Li. He has spent more than two decades as a superior practitioner of on-screen violence, so all he wants to talk about now is oneness and universal concord. "The strongest weapon is a smile and the best power is love" is typical of the beatific remarks he ventures to anyone within earshot. The conventional explanation for this is that after a horrific near-drowning in the 2004 Asian tsunami, Li experienced a Siddhartha-style bolt of enlightenment and decided to abandon Hollywood venality for a life of good works. It makes great press...
...Scarface arrived on the scene as a decidedly minor event. But Tucker recounts how the movie gradually "got away from its [middle-aged, white] creators" and became a hit among "largely young, black and Hispanic" fans. The book examines how De Palma's work redefined the way films addressed on-screen violence and drug use and how the intensity of its misogyny, money worship and drug euphoria was embraced by hip-hop and gangsta rap. Scarface, Tucker claims, was more than just vulgar escapism. As the story caught on with urban audiences via home video, fans started filling...
...Flanzraich’s persistent online campaign has paid off: nearly 40 students tried out at the on-screen talent auditions this year, compared to the five that showed up the year before. Flanzraich estimates that the show’s contributing writers number about 60, a substantial increase from the eight original writers...
...harder to satisfy with formulaic celluloid offerings, the famous Hong Kong film scene is in crisis. Granted, overall cinema takings rose slightly in 2007, helped by flashy new movie houses like West Kowloon's Grand Cinema, where are seats wired to shudder and shake along with the mostly imported on-screen action. But now, tough times loom and the industry's recovery is by no means certain. The only real prospect of hope on the horizon, selling films to China, is also fraught with compromise...
...centuries the Roma community eked out a living as fiddlers, fortune tellers and dancers for the Ottoman court, and later for Turks from all walks of life - a tradition captured on-screen in the James Bond movie From Russia With Love. Their fortunes took a downturn in the 1990s, when their "entertainment houses" - private homes in which gypsy families would cook, strum and dance for wealthy Istanbulites - were shut down on allegations of gambling and prostitution...