Faces
Back to TP this am to share the thoughts and views with the classmates in the SIP. This becomes a must for the TP seniors who are doing their SIP. It gives me a good chance to know two things: 1. Know how are my classmates, and 2. How good/bad they are working.
Elias can use the latest Nokia S Series before it is released on the market, and tonnes of Haagan Daaz ice creams are waiting for him in his pantry fridge. He told me he had no time to enjoy Haagan Daaz.
Su has to wear a coat to work daily, and she said it was boring.
Jane was thrown with tonnes work on her 1st day of SIP.
Yao Ming is trying hard to meet his sales target.
Me? Report, report and report.
Jeremy's fate is yet to be decided, since he find what he does is not related to his studies.
Erotism
Attended a talk session held at the Arts House (aka The Old Parliament House, located behind Victoria Theatre.) today. The talk is held in conjunction with 100 years of Chinese Cinema, which were organized by The Arts House and Celestial Entertainmnet (who owns the SB Classics library.) Invited two lecturers as speakers to talk about Erotism in Chinese Cinema.
Yep. Erotism. And i didn't know that the talk is rated RA.
The talk discussed the development of eros in HK cinemas in the 70's till today, where it tells us why in 1992, Cat 3 movies (aka soft porn, X-rated films) contributes to 50% of the total HK productions during that period. Why sex is the main attraction of HK movies in the 70's, how it was presented, and what way did it was used to enhance a movie's quality.
The talk highlighted one point: sex in the movies is such a money spinner, that when SB made their first sex related drama in 1970, it mades loads of sex drama, or so called soft core porn. In fact, some of the titles are so explicit, that they are no difference as those cheap B-porn screening at Yangtze. (Breasts from Outerspace is one of them. Come to think of it, such titles sounds like those blue tapes that you can purchase from the sex shop in US. In fact, the talk highlighted one point: soft porn video enhances marriage in Europe.)
And the talk mentioned about one thing: 3 of the movies screened in the festival (Sinful Confessions, That's Adultry and Legends of Lust) are movies made up of 4 short stories, where the first story is much more longer than the remaining 3. In fact, it was so long, that one could have mistaken the 1st story as the whole movie.
Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtsean, another highlight of the festival, is different from the remaining 3. Director Chu Yuan, who marvelously combined martial arts and erotism together, has not only created a box office hit, but also a classic. It was known as a classic in 2 ways: 1. The 1st movie to discuss lesbian issues in the film, where it features a fiery sex scene between the 2 actress Lily Ho and Betty Bei Ti. Lesbianism is a taboo in the 70's, and no one would go to the grey area. Chu Yuan turns on the spotlight onto the grey area. 2. Highly recommended by the European critics in the 1970's, and has been voted as Top 10 Foreign Movies of the 70's. As you can see, European critics are very hard to please. Intimate has make such a remarkable results, that it has been labelled as classics, instead of soft core porn.
The fiery ending between Lily and Betty has inspired cult director Quentin Tarantino to come out with a similar ending in Kill Bill Vol 1. Remember the scene where Uma Thurman, who plays the Bride, slices off O-Ren Ishii's (played by Lucy Liu) skull? That scene was inspired by Intimate. The only difference was, both Lily and Betty died terribly.
To gives us a better view, a scene from Lust for Love of a Chinese Courtsean (which is the sequel to Intimates, also by Chu Yuan. It was made 12 years after Chu made Intimate.) was featured, where it combines 2 scenes perfectly well. It was a scene between a madam who owns a brothel having sex with a killer, and how that killer killed the official the madam wants him dead. (And i know why this talk is rated RA. The sex scene contains full frontal nudity.)
To wrapped up the talk, pictures from the Pillow Book of different cultures are featured. Oh yeah, what is a pillow book? Think Kamasutra.