From Beijing with Love

From Beijing with Love
Hong Kong film poster
Directed by	Lee Lik-Chi Stephen Chow
Written by	Stephen Chow Roman Cheung Vincent Kok Lee Lik-Chi
Starring	Stephen Chow Anita Yuen Law Ka Ying Joe Cheng Lee Lik-Chi
Music by	William Hu
Cinematography	Lee Kin-Keung Tom Lau
Editing by	Ma Chung-Yiu
Distributed by	Win's Movie Production Ltd.
Release date(s)	September 14, 1994
Running time	94 min
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Cantonese
Box office	HK$37,523,850.00

From Beijing With Love (Chinese: 國產凌凌漆; pinyin: Guóchǎn Líng Líng Qī; "Made in China [Domestic Produced] 007", "007"; 凌凌漆are a homophone for the numbers 0-0-7 in Chinese ) is a 1994 Hong Kong action and comedy film directed by Lee Lik-Chi and Stephen Chow. It's a very direct spoof of James Bond movies and stars Stephen Chow, Anita Yuen and Law Ka-Ying.

Synopsis

Golden Gun steals the cranium of China's only dinosaur fossil. Chow, starring as a hawker-cum-secret-agent 007, is sent to Hong Kong by a high-ranking government official to recapture the cranium. When he arrives in Hong Kong, he meets Siu Kam (Anita Yuen), who proposes to help him in his endeavor. However, Siu Kam turns out to be a subordinate of Golden Gun. Golden Gun is in actuality the government official who directs Chow to find the cranium.

Golden Gun instructs Siu Kam to send 007 on a false lead and tells him that the cranium may have been stolen by a smuggler. 007, with the help of Siu Kam, sneaks into a cocktail party held by the smuggler. Before he enters, he tells Siu Kam that he will fetch her some white roses. Siu Kam tells 007 to find evidence that the smuggler stole the cranium; meanwhile, Kam hides in a tree, planning to snipe 007 from afar. The party is interrupted by a mysterious man (modeled after Jaws from James Bond) and a mysterious woman who are out to kill 007. Taking this opportunity, Siu Kam shoots Chow several times, including once in the leg with 007 thinking another assassin has shot him. 007 (who was wearing a bulletproof vest but not bulletproof trousers) escapes, grabbing three white roses on the way out. Siu Kam is touched by this gesture and saves his life. She decides to defect from Golden Gun. Together, the two destroy the organization that is behind the theft of the cranium. Chow wins over Yuen and is rewarded with a meat cleaver emblazoned with the calligraphy of Deng Xiaoping.

Cast

• Stephen Chow - Ling Ling Qi (007)
• Anita Yuen - Li Xiang Qin (the name of a Hong Kong famous actress in Cantonese opera, featuring mistress of the Emperor)
• Pauline Chan - Mystery Woman
• Law Kar-ying - Da Wen Xi (Leonardo da Vinci)
• Joe Cheng - young child at the mall
• Lee Lik-Chi - executed Martial arts master
• Wong Kam-kong - Golden Gun, posed as official
• Wong Yat-Fei
• Yu Rongguang - agent at the beginning of the film, killed by Golden Gun
• Spencer Lam
• Indra Leech
• Lee Kin-yan
• Leung Hak-Shun
• Leung See-Ho
• Tsang Sau-Ming

Salutation to other films

DVD cover.

• The name of the film in Chinese means "the domestically-produced 007".
• The scene where Stephen Chow is drinks a dry martini is a reference to a scene from Chungking Express, where Tony Leung Chiu Wai drinks coffee.
• The scene where Stephen Chow meets Anita Yuen wearing a green blouse in the park feeding dogs is a direct reference to a scene in the film C'est la vie, mon chéri, also featuring Anita Yuen.
• The name of the "ultimate weapon" invented by Da Wen Xi, 要你命3000 (Lifetaker 3000), is also the name of a Hong Kong, low-budget blue movie.
• The scene where the camera pans slowly around a room of various James Bond posters to focus on Stephen Chow combing his hair and admiring himself in the mirror is a parody of the last scene of Days of Being Wild, in which Tony Leung prepares to go out. The music used is the same.
• The Universe Laser DVD cover (pictured on right) of the movie parodies that of the 1987 James Bond movie The Living Daylights.
• The Golden Gun's signature weapon is a spoof of the golden gun used in the James Bond novel, The Man with the Golden Gun. Unlike the one from the James Bond series, this one shoots out extremely powerful explosive bullets instead of a one-hit fatal fragmentation bullet.

Music

The song Stephen Chow sang while playing the piano is 李香蘭 by Jacky Cheung.

Box office

It grossed a huge HK $37,523,850 in Hong Kong.

External links

• From Beijing with Love at the Internet Movie Database