Apr 3 2007, 09:20 AM
QUOTE(king_kong @ Apr 2 2007, 12:07 PM)
in Singapore, i saw this anti-piracy campaign slogan: piracy kills creativity. simply put: do you see any good Jackie Chan or Chow Sing Chi or Chow Yun Fatt movies anymore? NO! it's because they got tired of making movies that don't pay their salary.
(1) Jackie Chan is old and has been having too much fun in Hollywood where the pay is good and the work is less. That's why you see all the shitty Jackie Chan Hollywood bombs the last few years. Without a good HK director like Stanley Tong (Police Story 3, possibly the best police story ever), Jackie Chan is not the Jackie of yesteryear already.
Anyway, he's too friggin old already, and he made too many shitty movies to smear his own image in the last few years.(while making mega bucks compared to HK salary, no doubt).
(2) Chow Sing Chi still makes great movies. Now that he's slowly moving to Hollywood, but the difference is, he do it on his own terms. His movies are still very much HK style with the backing of Hollywood production and budget. Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle are worthy films of it's genre. It just that he cuts down on quantity and stick to quality. Stephen Chow is also script writer/director/producer. So you can only expect a movie every few years. Thumbs up for Stephen Chow!
(3) Fatty Chow@Chow Yuen Fatt is also old and fat and not getting much jobs from Hollywood. So far his Hollywood movies are mostly forgetable. He may be big in HK but in the West, he's just a fat old Chinese guy trying to make a dent in the industry.
At least Jackie Chan and Jet Li have a niche market with their martial art skills. But CYF has nothing. In terms of acting, there are gazillion equal or better actors in the west. That's why you don't see him very often. I believe Pirates of the Carribean is his first appearance in a big budget Hollywood blockbuster movie. His previous movies, other than Anna and the King, are just too insignificant.
So really, piracy has nothing to do with those 3 fellas.
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perhaps there's 101 more others anyone else can come up with.
the people of Malaysia's money. As a student I received a monthly allowance of around RM260 when at college and RM345 if I'm in holiday. I rarely received any money from my parents except for some special occasion in my college (maybe.. like camp or Cancer Relay for Life event)... and most of the stuff I'm using inside my computer (GC, RAM and so on) comes from my allowance as well. To be frank it is really not enough for our studies... but not when we are in holiday. Currently I'm in holiday until this July so I will have plenty of money to use on anything I wanted to... well unless if the government or the 'rakyat' (maybe you 
) suddenly suspended the allowance I'm receiving because 'I'm not using it in the right way'.
See, you can't even afford a "brick phone" and have to depend on daddy for handout! And who's paying ur handphone bill? Not you i suppose.
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