#292 - Anything For Entertainment: The Wong Jing Miracle
The Important Cinema Club
Justin Decloux and Will Sloan
4.7 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name's Justin the Klu, and I'm here today with Will Sloan. |
| 0:11.1 | And today, we're talking about Wang Jing, the master of trash, the schlockmeister extraordinaire, |
| 0:16.6 | and dare I say it, the man who is Hong Kong cinema? Yeah, I guess you could say that. |
| 0:21.9 | I mean, there is a sort of yin and yang of Hong Kong cinema in the 1990s, isn't there? |
| 0:28.0 | And both of them were named Wong. |
| 0:30.2 | Hmm. |
| 0:31.2 | Yes. |
| 0:31.6 | And one of them sought the other was an enemy. |
| 0:34.4 | And the other one probably didn't think of his opponent at all. |
| 0:37.6 | So on the one hand, you had Wong Karwai, an acclaimed international art house sensation, |
| 0:43.3 | someone who works very slowly, very methodically, whose films often do not meet with commercial |
| 0:48.8 | success at home. |
| 0:50.0 | And who I should point out, to people who don't know, did come up through the commercial |
| 0:53.8 | Hong Kong system, |
| 0:55.4 | co-writing such films as Haunted Cop Shop 2. |
| 0:58.5 | And then, on the other hand, is Wang Jing. |
| 1:00.7 | He makes movies on an assembly line. |
| 1:03.1 | He chases trends shamelessly. |
| 1:05.7 | His films are full of bathroom humor and mugging. |
| 1:08.7 | How about some statistics? |
| 1:10.4 | On IMDB, Wang Jing is credited as the director of 119 movies, a producer on 185 movies, a writer |
| 1:19.2 | on 216, and an actor in 88. |
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