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Interview Gordon Chan, from The Big Heat to A-1
Dante Lam 1/1 - Page 8
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Author(s) : Thomas Podvin
David Vivier
Date : 13/1/2005
Type(s) : Interview
 
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People :
Chan Hing Kar
Leo Ku Kui Kei
Dante Lam Chiu Yin
Shu Qi
Movies :
Hit Team
When I Look Upon The Stars
The Yuppie Fantasia
 
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HKCinemagic: Let’s talk about Dante Lam. He’s been you assistant director for a while.
Gordon Chan: Oh, a long time. He was my assistant producer in The Yuppie Fantasia (1989). He’s been stuck with me ever since.

Dante Lam
HKCinemagic: What kind of relationship do you have with him?
Gordon Chan: We have a kind of brotherhood thing. There was never a sifu (master-student) relationship between us. I never look at him as a student. He supported me all along when I went through all these gambles. He was with me all along.
 
HKCinemagic: So it was more like a team work type of relationship.
Gordon Chan: Yes.
 
HKCinemagic: Now he’s doing his own films and he is quite successful. What do you think of his films?
Gordon Chan: I mean Dante has a problem. His problem is that he loves firearms so much. Too much. (Laughing)

Hit Team
HKCinemagic: He did Hit Team, which was really impressive [as a special unit cop film].
Gordon Chan: Yes, and sometimes he gets carried away when he starts shooting with all these firearms.
 
HKCinemagic: Have you been following his work?
Gordon Chan: Sometimes. And sometimes I would remind him “too much firearms!”. I was always trying to control [his impulse]. You remember the film he directed in Japan? When I Look Upon the Stars (1999) with Shu Qi and Leo Ku Kui Kei. That was one film I forced him to do. “Do a comedy. Do a romance,” I said. “ I don’t know what you are going to do, but no more firearms.” And also when I asked him to work with Chan Hing Kar. It was still a small budget film, but he still came up with the idea of shooting that assassination sequence in only one day. It was so hard. But he said he loved it.

 


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HKCinemagic: I’ve recently watched the American movie called S.W.A.T. (Clark Johnson, 2003). Have you seen it? What did you think?
Gordon Chan: What a waste! (Laughing) The problem with the Americans is the directors never write their own stories, and not a lot of directors are into their own stories. They are just guys who call out the shots. Drama is not just drama. It’s such a shame.
 
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