tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324519606495297701.post3286450140978806080..comments2023-06-10T17:57:52.018+02:00Comments on Backyard Asia: In PURSUIT of Mou Tun FeiJack Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17922020382952236097noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324519606495297701.post-9879527450807677722012-10-04T23:45:02.125+02:002012-10-04T23:45:02.125+02:00How is Sun Chien in this film?How is Sun Chien in this film?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324519606495297701.post-739048857996126162011-11-06T23:59:36.899+01:002011-11-06T23:59:36.899+01:00Oh no Jack, I know you were just translating to En...Oh no Jack, I know you were just translating to English. I should have worded it better. There's actually more than one actor replaced from the opening segment for whatever reason. Chiang Han replaces an unknown actor who is seen only briefly at the beginning.<br /><br />Somebody from Hungaria or Germany somewhere had emailed me some time back wanting me to send them scans of articles regarding THE BOXER'S OMEN (1983). I have barely enough time for my own articles and posts much less to do something like that for somebody else, lol.<br /><br />But yeah, I found a lot of stuff regarding the movie with the most revealing being some storyboards by way of a comic strip that show what the original ending was intended to be. Outside of some characters dropped from footage already shot, the films storyline remains the same. No change there.<br /><br />It would have been curious to see what the film would have looked like had Mou finished it.venoms5https://www.blogger.com/profile/13655919099947763891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324519606495297701.post-39485176210903109692011-11-06T21:26:43.323+01:002011-11-06T21:26:43.323+01:00Hi Brian! I do remember you mentioned you didn'...Hi Brian! I <i>do</i> remember you mentioned you didn't like it very much when you wrote those recommendations of gritty HK films over on my other blog a while back!! Haha. Thanks for your info (and I'll race over and check your own post!). I must confess it's AndrĂ¡s and not so much me who knows the ins and outs of this film. I just watched the VCD once, that was it. LOL. I though it was alright but definitely no masterpiece.Jack Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17922020382952236097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324519606495297701.post-64135322409928752232011-11-06T01:53:27.246+01:002011-11-06T01:53:27.246+01:00Hey, Jack. I just re-watched this one and the acto...Hey, Jack. I just re-watched this one and the actor that plays the assassin is in both "portions" of the film--if I am interpreting what's written above correctly. The only actor replaced is Ngai Tim Choi with Wang Seung Lam. They play the same character--one of the five immigrants from the beginning--but Wang states "he's put on weight over five years." Not sure why Ngai couldn't have continued with the role considering both actors were predominantly bit players at the studio and both were still under contract till Shaw's closed up shop. I have a lot of articles about this film in various magazines, myself. It apparently was considered a big production at the time as it was getting a slew of promotion in their periodicals. I got my own write up of this one coming as well as a separate Mou article, too. This movie is just as awful as I remembered, by the way, lol.venoms5https://www.blogger.com/profile/13655919099947763891noreply@blogger.com