Knock Off

with a rating of 3.8 out of 10 Hark Tsui's "Knock Off" is the tale of Marcus Ray (Jean-Claude Van Damme) the self proclaimed knock off king of Hong Kong in his adventure of a lifetime. Marcus and his partner Tommy Hendricks (Rob Schnider) discover that their knock off products are being fitted with micro-explosives turning their small time business into big time trouble!

Jean Claude Van Damme kicks a guy in the head

The clip i chose reflects the style of the entire movie. There are several quick cuts during scenes to people and to actions pertaining to the duologue. A lot of action to action cuts are used as well to show a series of events or movements. The camera also pans around alot to give you a feeling of the environment as well as follow characters as they move through the space. Less often slow motion is utilized so the viewer can better understand what is going on by slowing it down. This is an action movie and so it obviously has a lot of quick cuts and...well, action :-).

(Rob Schnider and Lela Rochon are bound in a shipping yard)

Tsui Hark:
He has recently became the fourth Chinese film director to join the board of judges for the 57th Cannes Film Festival in the feature films category this year. Hark started making experimental movies with 8mm film when he was only 13. After graduating from the University of Texas in Austin, majoring in film, he returned to Hong Kong in 1977 and landed a job working in television. In 1979 he directed his film debut, die bian (1979). It raised a lot of attention, and was hailed by many as the start of a new wave in Hong Kong cinema. After making numerous critically and successful films, he co-founded his own production house, Film Workshop, with his wife, Nansun Shi, in 1984. Although the company was intended to be contemporary, it went on to become one of the most successful production companies in Hong Kong, having produced such classics of Hong Kong cinema as Sinnui yauwan (1987) and Ying hung boon sik (1986), which was directed by John Woo and starred the amazing Yun-Fat Chow.