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Essay Archive - The Meaning of Chow Yun-Fat (It's In His Mouth)
The Meaning of Chow Yun-Fat (It's In His Mouth)
Ultimately, it comes down to his mouth.
Chow Yun-Fat is the coolest movie actor in the world today, and the only way I
can explain this is to talk about his mouth. He does cool things with his mouth.
Smoking cigarettes is no longer an emblem of cool in the USA, but Chow does
wonders with cigarette smoke in Prison On Fire. Director Ringo Lam understands
this; like most of the great Hong Kong directors, he loves using slow motion and
freeze frames to pinpoint important moments in his movies, and he saves a ....
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