Representing Macau
1.Avoid two stereotype images
-Colony of Portugal
-Las Vegas of the East
2. Revealing…
-The physical change (eg. More and more casinos)
-The cultural features (eg. Historical buildings)
3. Contracting the real /surreal landscape of Macau

Conclusion
-Lampton:
“The trick behind the photograph is that audience is only seeing
what the photographer want you to see”

-Macau is not as good as we thought…
The recent incidents showed us the real sides of Macau
eg. Corruption (the case of Au Man Lung)
eg. Denial of entry to Legco members
eg. Sands Hotel (金沙賭場) in Macau laid off 500 after financial crisis

Question
1. Do you think the author was “honest" enough of telling us the real picture of Macau?
Is there anything we can add?
2. If you were Lampton, which places you will choose to take pictures in Hong Kong to
illustrate the reality here?

Reference List
Carol Archer, “Spaces in Transition: Photographs by Adam Lampton”
http://www.adamlampton.com/macau_viewer/macau_pics.html
http://www.christianstudy.com/data/pastoral/gambling01.html
http://hk.search.yahoo.com/search/images?view=detailed&p=stanley+ho&b=1&pstart=1&curr_index=3&imgsz=&imgc=&ei=UTF-8

Macao ,2007 (Adam Lampton) by Edica

Objective:
-Revealing…
1.The physical change (eg. More and more casinos)
2.The cultural features (eg. Historical buildings)
-Contracting…
The real /surreal landscape of Macau

Representing Macau:
-Avoid two stereotype images
1.Colony of Portugal
2.Las Vegas of the East

-Adam showed us the difference between the reality and the “dream”





Conclusion:
-Lampton:
“The trick behind the photograph is that audience is only seeing what the photographer want you to see”

-Recent incidents showed us the real sides of Macau:
1. Corruption (the case of Au Man Lung)
2 .Denial of entry to Legco members
3. Sands Hotel (金沙賭場) in Macau laid off 500 after financial crisis
-Macau may not as good as we thought

Question:
1.Do you think the author was “honest" enough of telling us the real picture of Macau?
Is there anything we can add?
2.If you were Lampton, which places you will choose to take pictures in Hong Kong to illustrate the reality here?

Reference List
Carol Archer, “Spaces in Transition: Photographs by Adam Lampton”
http://www.adamlampton.com/macau_viewer/macau_pics.html
http://www.christianstudy.com/data/pastoral/gambling01.html
http://hk.search.yahoo.com/search/images?view=detailed&p=stanley+ho&b=1&pstart=1&curr_index=3&imgsz=&imgc=&ei=UTF-8

Golden Chicken 2, by Hong Jack

Golden Chicken 2 by Tsz Hong, Jack

Introduction of Golden Chicken 2:
Chinese: 金雞 2
Year: 2002Director: Samson Chiu
Producer: Peter Chan Ho SunMain
Character: Ng Kwun Yu

Story:
Divided into two parts:

First part – Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS period)

Second part- decade spanning romance between Kum and her cousin

Intention:
-mirrored and complemented the success and setbacks of recent HK history-convey some positive messages to the HK people
-appreciating HK people‘s tough and hard working attitude
-celebrating the anniversary of HK’s 50th year under Mainland rule hanging over the territory head


Positive messages:
-‘bad memories are necessary, it only to make the good thing better’
-positive attitude to tackle problem during the tough period in HK


Appreciation of HK people:
-Each character have their own story
-Anthony Wong- perishes in the throes of passion
-Ronald Cheung- mentally deranges john who attaches himself a little too closely Kum’s life and her body hair
-Leon Lai- hunky doctor who’s batting SARS and his own fatigue
-Angelica Lee- regret that she left and didn’t take care for her husband-Kum put a tough, chipper face on everything and resolves to carry on.


Prefer everything remain constant within 50 years:
-Andy Lau as the chief executive‘the linkage rate of currency between US and HK remain 7.8:1
-prefer unchanging within the future years-especially the political system (independence)


Further Question:
Are there any other representation of this film that the filmmaker want to present to us? If yes, what do you think about the techniques he used for presenting these messages to us?


Reference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnzFWZnmFkE
www.lovehkfilm.com/reviews/golden_chicken_2htm
www.hmv.com.hk/product/dvd.asp?sku=483935 www.cinespot.com/hkmreviews/c3goldenchicken2.html

Branding the city "My life as Mcdull" by Shan

Love McDull !!Love Hong Kong!!



My life as McDull

•A sense of local patriotism
•Self-aware humours
•Hong Kong urban landscape
•Hong Kong spirit









Sense of local patriotism


•Just like we fought for SARS in 2003
•On Hong Kong, not China
•E.g. McDull wanted to be an athlete in
Olympics--- Hong Kong athletes are not rubbish




•Handover
•“Hong Kong experienced a de-sinicisation process
which gradually separated Hong Kong socially, politically,
and culturally from mainland China.”
•Film---carry the patriotism message.
(E.g. McDull, Prince de la Bun )








Self-aware humours


•Related to the linguistic matter
Hongkonger who speaks Cantonese can understand & laugh for it
•Difficult to translate accurately
•Create sense of belonging


•E.g. name of McDull (basin)
•The songs consist of Cantonese
•The pronunciation of some English word, such as, “orange”, “banana” and “umbrella”
•Imply problems or pressure of being a Hongkonger
•Want to make you smile







•Cartoon and the little pig are used purposely
•Reflect a real Hong Kong through a child eye
•Relieve the workload of the reality


Hong Kong urban landscape

•Shek Kip Mei (old district in H.K.)
---high population density
•Awakes you about the past of Hong Kong
•Reconstruction of old districts (Urbanization)
---improve the quality of living environment
•loss of memory


•“Landmarks” are common view of the city
•Important signs for Hongkongers
•E.g. The crisscross road
Neon light advertisement
Cha Chan Tan
Skyscraper






Hong Kong spirit

•Hongkongers are hard-working
(E.g.Mai Tai, McDull)
•Hongkongers are tough
(can-do spirit---SARS


•The author also said that
the ‘Hong Kong dream’,
the ‘Economic Miracle of Asia’
and the ‘Pearl of the Orient’
are established gradually by Hongkongers.
•The fruit is not built by one day.

References

•Books:
Kwai Cheung Lo. 2006. “Knocking off Nationalism in Hong Kong cinema”, Duke University Press
Ma, Eric. 1999. “Mediating Hong Kong Identity (II): Re-sinicization.” Culture, politics and television in Hong Kong, London: Routledge
Ma, Eric. 1999. “Mediating Hong Kong Identity (I): De-sinicization.” Culture, politics and television in Hong Kong, London: Routledge
Stephanie Donald and John G. Gammack. 2007. “Structures of Attention and the City of Life Hong Kong”. In Donald and Gammack, Tourism and the Branded City: film and identity on the Pacific Rim”. London: Ashgate
•Movies:
“My Life as McDull” (dir. Toe Yuen, 2001)
“McDull, Prince de la Bun” (dir. Toe Yuen, 2004)
•Website:
http://www.beyondhollywood.com/moviepics/mcdull2_1.htm