I Love Cheap Movie Productions

No, I don't, really. But THIS particular one, I like. I just came accross this picture taken from a freezeframe of the movie yesterday on the internet, it brought back loads of loving memories as well as smiles on my face. =)

This movie that I'm talking about: it's called "Bamboo Shoot" or "Zi4 Yu2 Zi4 Le4" (numbers represent use of pin yin) in mandarin, which literally means "self entertain self happy". Oh, nearly forgot: it features Coco Lee too. =P

The plot? Quite unique actually. The story is regarding this young film director wannabe from a small village in China who wants to be a famous director one day, directing Chinese kungfu movies. However, because he is poor, all he could afford was his lil' handycam and a lot of supportive village labour. So everything looks very amatuerish. For example, he did a battle scene where the general was wearing cardboard armour and wore a motocycle helmet with horns, holding a frying pan lid as a sheild. It was hilarious! =)

But then: he became smarter and smarter and he devised ways he could make his movie look more impressive. For example: he reversed the frame where a person jumped down from a ridge hence it looks like the person defied gravity and leaped up the ridge; he built a roof top so he could film a roof top scene without actually having to be on the rooftop; he made the hero fly without actually flying by turning the camera 360 degrees having the hero running around the camera while extras hold different length bamboos revolving around the director. Ingenius! =P

Too bad I din't get to see the ending of the movie, I was busy warming up the sofa and eating yellow watermellon with my darling Valz, so I'm not too bothered missing the last bit. =P