{"id":45358,"date":"2020-08-30T08:37:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T13:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/?p=45358"},"modified":"2020-08-30T10:06:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T15:06:23","slug":"little-stabs-at-happiness-5-how-to-have-fun-with-simple-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/30\/little-stabs-at-happiness-5-how-to-have-fun-with-simple-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Little stabs at happiness 5: How to have fun with simple equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tiger on Beat<\/strong> (1988).<\/em><\/p>\n

DB here:<\/p>\n

Simple equipment includes, but is not limited to, knives, pistols, shotguns, ropes tied to shotguns, surfboards, chainsaws, etc.<\/p>\n

Herewith another attempt to brighten your days with a choice film sequence that never fails to bring a foolish grin to my face. Apologies as ever to Ken Jacobs for my swiping his title<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tiger on Beat<\/em> (aka, but less pungently,\u00a0Tiger on the Beat<\/em>, 1988) is prime Hong Kong showboating. This final scene assembles some of the greats—Chow Yun-Fat, Gordon Liu Chia-Hui, Chu Siu-Tung (too little to do)–and near-greats like Conan Lee Yuen-Ba, who gets points for heedlessly executing the stunts Chow and Chow’s doubles can’t. Lau Kar-Leung (aka Liu Chia-Liang), one of Hong Kong’s finest directors, imbues both the staging and the editing with the crisp, staccato rhythm that this tradition made its own, and that few American directors have ever figured out. (It’s a long clip, so it may take a little time to load. In addition, our Kaltura operation is having problems, so you may want to try different browsers.)<\/p>\n