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Post by Katniss on Nov 4, 2009 2:36:37 GMT 7
Summary@ michelle-ye.com, Michelle Ye's Realm AboutProduction: Media Asia Director: Lu Chuan Producers: Lu Chuan, Han Sanping, John Chong First Release: April 1, 2010 Duration: (n/a) Genre: Modern Action Role: Police Officer-May Casts: Leon Lai, Richie Ren, Michelle Ye Appearance: Throughout Screen Captures: Coming SoonOfficial Site: www.mediaasia.com/fireofconscienceTrailerTrailer 2 SynopsisThe investigation of a prostitude homicide brings headstrong, heavy-handed Detective Manfred in an unlikely collaboration with sly, man-of-the-world Inspector Kee from the Narcotics Bureau. When the DNA samples of one of Manfred’s fellow officers are found at the crime scene, implicating him as the prime suspect, Manfred must look beyond the obvious to get to the truth. Meanwhile Kee’s uncanny eagerness to lend a helping hand every step of the way outside his own turf is beginning to smack of evil. In the line of fire between high levels of corruption and possible malice, Manfred must solve all the twists and turns of the mystery, trying to figure out who his enemy is and how to save his innocent partner from unfathomable disgrace. Unwittingly, he is about to open a Pandora’s Box that will threaten to upend the entire Hong Kong Police Force. ____________________________________________________ Character Introduction@michelle-ye.com, Michelle Ye's Realm Name: Sai May Personality: Determined and strong-willed Manfred's subordinate who is determined and motivated, not afraid even if it was a dangerous mission, has very good relationship with all colleagues, admires Manfred and takes good care of his daily routines after his wife passed away.
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Post by Katniss on Nov 19, 2009 21:06:59 GMT 7
Filming scene with Michelle!
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Post by Katniss on Feb 1, 2010 12:37:22 GMT 7
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Post by Katniss on Feb 5, 2010 15:58:03 GMT 7
Trailer tease:
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Post by Katniss on Feb 11, 2010 15:50:02 GMT 7
credits: www.wu-jing.orgTrailer to director Dante Lam's crime thriller Fire of Conscience, opening on April 1, 210, is now up on Media Asia. Richie Ren, a senior narcotics officer, is the role model with promising future. He solves cases quickly and efficiently, but often through unscrupulous means. At the other end of the spectrum is cop Leon Lai, who tends to takes the law into his own hands, and has violent inclinations towards the criminals. Yet, beneath the tough facade is someone who is sentimental, loyal and just. Both are born in the year of Dragon. Michelle Ye works under Leon Lai, is determined and aspiring, and shows no fear in face shower of bullets. She treats her colleagues as family, and is carrying a torch for Leon Lai. In a traffic accident involving deaths of his subordinates and missing important documents, Richie Ren looks up district officer Leon Lai to help him retrieve the lost documents. Coincidentally. Leon Lai and his team are working on a hooker murder, believed to be linked to arms trafficking, which has a Mainland explosives maker Wang Bao Qiang implicated because of his shady friends. Richie Ren offers his expertise in the murder case and Leon Lai is not aware of his hidden agenda. As Richie Ren's girlfriend was once a nightclub manager, it affects his promotion. So, he is planning something that will upend the entire police force, and is merely using an excuse to monitor their activities. |
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Post by Katniss on Mar 10, 2010 12:14:11 GMT 7
sang by Leon Lai & Richie Ren, featuring clips from the movie
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Post by Katniss on Mar 11, 2010 2:18:02 GMT 7
Credits: www.hollywoodreporter.com
March 9, 2010 HONG KONG -- Organizers of the upcoming Hong Kong International Film Festival on Tuesday previewed an action thriller filled with daredevil stunts and a romance between two smokers, touting a renaissance in the local movie industry as it struggles to compete with the output of neighboring China. The two films -- "Fire of Conscience" and "Love in a Puff" -- were fully financed by the same Hong Kong production company and shot in Hong Kong by local directors with a largely local cast, a rarity at a time when China is churning out big-budget historical epics and imperial dramas, often drawing Hong Kong talent to help make them. And both showcase this former British colony's skyscraper-filled landscape and its hybrid East-meets-West culture that separates the territory from the rest of China, Hong Kong International Film Festival Artistic Director Li Cheuk-to said. The directors and casts of the films met the press ahead of their world premieres at the Hong Kong festival, which starts March 21. Dante Lam's $4.5 million production "Fire of Conscience" follows the relationship between a street-wise police officer (Leon Lai) and his higher-ranked, more politically savvy colleague (Richie Jen). Pang Ho-cheung's $1.3 million "Love in a Puff" is about a couple (Shawn Yue and Miriam Yeung) who meet during smoking breaks in alleys behind the office buildings they work in. "Fire of Conscience" features the kind of over-the-top stunt sequences that gained Hong Kong action cinema world renown, including a gunfight in a traditional Hong Kong teahouse and an explosion in a neighborhood packed with high-rise buildings, Lam said. "You will only see such a densely populated city in Hong Kong movies. But unlike in the West, where they clear an area for shooting, we shoot in a crowded neighborhood that's carrying on as usual," he said. "These are the kinds of action films that Hong Kong does best. Action movies in Hollywood involve a lot of money and special effects. Hong Kong films are made by putting your life on the line. They are exhausting and very dangerous," Li said. Meanwhile, Li praised Pang for breaking new ground by making an unusually down-to-earth Hong Kong romance. "This is a very uniquely Hong Kong situation. There was an indoor smoking ban and Hong Kong people react this way and behave this way. They use this specific kind of foul language that only Hong Kongers use," he said. Out of the 24 world premieres at the Hong Kong festival, which runs from March 21 to April 6, eight are productions that were mainly funded in Hong Kong _ double the number from last year, according to Li. Lam said he believes there is still demand for the distinct flair that Hong Kong cinema brings. "Hong Kong-style action movies have always occupied a place in the world market. Mainland audiences are the same as audiences around the world. They see the culture of Hong Kong movies," he said. "So they want to see movies with Hong Kong characteristics. I don't think they want to watch 15 to 20 historical dramas a year."
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Post by crazypenguins on Mar 11, 2010 7:15:02 GMT 7
Oh darn. Now I really want to see it, all those guns and explosions, and because Michelle actually gets to fire the gun like bizillion times. ;D Looks like her hand either got shot or burned at 1:40.
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Post by Katniss on Mar 11, 2010 9:35:56 GMT 7
Oh darn. Now I really want to see it, all those guns and explosions, and because Michelle actually gets to fire the gun like bizillion times. ;D Looks like her hand either got shot or burned at 1:40. Yeah! Her character is definitely more interesting! I think it's pretty cool that Michelle gets to join in on the action, alongside Leon and Richie! I hope she gets tons of screentime.  In this movie, it seems like all Michelle does is run, shoot, and get shot at...hehe
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March 10, 2010LEON LAI LEAVES MUSIC VIDEO PREMIERE  Leon Lai Ming, Richie Jen (Yam Yin Chai), Michelle Ye (Yip Shuen), Wilfred Lau Ho Lung, Charles Ying Cheung Yau and other actors of FIRE OF CONSCIENCE (FOR LUNG) along with director Dante Lam Chiu Yin attended the film's music video premiere. Because it was Leon's second wedding anniversary, after the event he left in a hurry. The leads Siu Chai and Lai Ming host the "fire dragon" eye dotting ceremony and the film's music video was aired. They talked about their production experience. Lai Ming was full of facial hair in the film, the host asked whether Lai Ming was jealous that Siu Chai did not have to wear a fake beard. Leon said, "I wasn't jealous of him, each person drew a different straw. This depends on destiny!" Lai Ming later revealed that he did not know which part of which animal did the fake beard came from. He joked, "I feel it's a hippopotamus, I heard the beard came from a certain part of a hippo!" Siu Chai said, "When Leon was getting his beard glued I often ate in front of him." Leon after a group photo bid his co-stars farewell and rushed out. Speaking of Lai Ming's anniversary, Lam Chiu Yin said, "I don't know! I have to let him go, at this hour people have to get ready for dinner!" Reporters said that Lai Ming and Siu Chai at the afternoon press conference claimed that he had violent tendency and no mercy, Director Lam said, "I don't know! I have to properly examine that." Lam Chiu Yin also said that the film had a Mainland actress' birthing scene and Lau Ho Lung's hand loss scene, which almost made the film a category III film. He said, "Maybe they upset some viewers, the Hong Kong version cuts a little but the Mainland version cuts everything." Siu Chai said that every time Lai Ming put on his beard he would stare at him. He also said that someone claimed Leon's fake beard came around the hippo's organ. He said, "We immediately asked Lai Ming whether it had a scent! (Does he know it is a hippo?) I don't know which part, but the beard is a little curly. It's very real!" As for Lai Ming's second anniversary, Siu Chai said, "I don't know! We would call each other, I am not at liberty to discuss it!" How would Siu Chai celebrate anniversary or birthday? Siu Chai said that he did not remember. "I disagreeistant reminds me of birthday and such, I would forget them. However March 14 is when I met my wife, I don't know how we will celebrate. I will be working on (Johnnie) To Kei Fung's film then. Right now I am working on four units of movies, I can be considered Jen Four Units!" Will he plan to propose as a gift, he said, "Actually I haven't thought about a gift yet, I will put an effort into it!" |
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Post by Katniss on Mar 16, 2010 20:18:18 GMT 7
Filming scenes..woohoo!
Didn't really see Michelle in this clip.
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Post by Katniss on Mar 18, 2010 1:22:03 GMT 7
More promotional vids...
Trailer updated with ENG SUB (see first post)
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Post by Katniss on Mar 19, 2010 18:28:22 GMT 7
Filming process
Michelle appears at 9:00
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Post by Katniss on Mar 25, 2010 10:32:01 GMT 7
MOVIE REVIEWS
Credits: Tim Robey@http://www.telegraph.co.uk
Dir: Dante Lam; Starring: Leon Lai; Richie Jen; Rating: * * * *
Almost everything you could want from a world premiere at the Hong Kong film festival was ricocheting around somewhere in Fire of Conscience, a rip-roaring policier from local genre whiz Dante Lam. Except for a decent English-language title, this had it all: helter-skelter chases through bustling market alleys; impressively bombastic sound; a minor character giving birth right on cue while flames lick the ceiling in the warehouse climax.
Lam is touted in these parts as Hong Kong’s answer to Michael Mann, and you can kind of see why. There’s much haunted macho foreplay in this story of bad cop, worse cop, not to mention a restaurant shoot-out handled with the gut-grabbing flair of Mann at his most electric. When the movie pauses for thought, there’s nothing there – it’s as if it’s trying to access deleted data. But it kicks into gear often and thrillingly as a pure adrenalin rush, unimpeded and almost enhanced by its obligatory lunges at popcorn existentialism.
Meathead detective Manfred (Leon Lai, bearded and brooding) has an eccentric habit of shaving suspects’ heads on arrest, which isn’t fully explained until a concluding flashback. He’s the brute-force flipside to the cool, bespectacled assurance of Kee (Richie Jen), his superior and partner in the investigation of a murdered prostitute. The women here are generally either dead, ornamental or both, though I liked Michelle Ye as a plucky deputy with a ready-for-action bob. When the trail leads them to an arms-dealing syndicate, the movie drops the expected bombshell that Kee is in on it, and we’re set for high-wire intrigue, cavalier use of hand grenades, and a satisfyingly dumb crescendo of giddy action highlights. Lam’s movie is the missing link between Heat, Infernal Affairs and something disreputably pulpy starring Dolph Lundgren. This is a good thing.
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With his latest film, director Dante Lam firmly establishes himself as Hong Kong's brightest light for a possible renaissance of this once world-class hotbed of action Cinema. FIRE OF CONSCIENCE is a taut, gripping police thriller, brimming with gunplay, explosions and perilous stunt work that leaves its audience breathless and exhilarated.
Mourning the death of his wife, Detective Manfred Fong (Leon Lai) is falling apart. He lives out of his car, sports a scraggy beard and dishevelled appearance, drinks heavily and regularly takes out his pent-up aggression on suspects. His behaviour has attracted the attention of his superiors, and Internal Affairs have started sniffing around. His loyal team, including Liu Kai Chi and Michelle Ye, do their best to keep him washed, fed and on the straight & narrow, but it's proving an uphill struggle. Manfred crosses paths with the slick regional head, Kee (Richie Ren) while investigating the murder of a prostitute and the pair hit it off and soon find themselves working together after a teahouse shootout uncovers some serious bomb-making equipment.
FIRE OF CONSCIENCE wastes no time in establishing and fleshing out its characters, but mercifully restrains itself from the normal prerequisite melodrama in favour of thrilling on-location chases and gunfights, filmed in some of Hong Kong's busiest commercial districts. Intentionally evoking the likes of Michael Mann's HEAT in these scenes of fierce urban violence, stylistically Lam's film is closer to those of Paul Greengrass, eschewing Mann's steely sheen for a grittier handheld urgency. The result is a frantically paced film with precious little downtime, and audiences will need their wits about them to keep track with who is who when pins are pulled and bullets start flying.
Lam takes full advantage of the story's featured weapons dealers and bomb makers, unleashing a high-calibre arsenal of handguns and automatic weapons as well as some impressively grisly explosions. FIRE OF CONSCIENCE is surprisingly violent for a down-the-line policier - characters get shot, blown up, gassed, crushed, run over, stabbed and at one point even waterboarded. But all the while, it is handled efficiently, effectively and never feels sadistic or unnecessarily gratuitous. Our heroes are fallible, our villains are vicious and anyone can, and quite possibly will, get gunned down or injured at any moment. These guys spend long periods of the movie battered, bruised and bandaged up.
Leon Lai does an effective job of portraying the tortured, vengeful Manfred, without feeling the need to go all crazy-eyed, Aaron Kwok-style. It's his conscience the film's title refers to, and his struggle to continue upholding the law even as life repeatedly deals him the worst possible hand is portrayed authentically, with the bare minimum of sappy flashbacks or redemptive histrionics. Liu Kai Chi's Cheung-on is the character given the broken marriage and cute kid to deal with, but his admittedly rather touching father-daughter moment is nicely counter-balanced by his harbouring of a suitably unsavoury secret that threatens not only his own integrity, but that of Manfred and the whole team.
Richie Ren is at his most slippery smooth as Kee the glamorous career cop - well dressed, charismatic, with a taste for fast cars, beautiful women and big plays on the stock market. At first he appears to offer a crutch of support to Manfred, but before long it becomes apparent Kee's motives are far more self-serving. Michelle Ye ensures May is more than just window dressing in Manfred's team and her performance displays some of her best film work to date. Frequently first through the door, May proves more than capable wielding a handgun or hotfooting it through Central with an automatic rifle strapped across her chest, though is not beyond turning on the waterworks when an emotional counterpoint to the relentless action is required. In what could so easily have been a nothing role, Ye brings credibility and capability to the part. Which is just as well, as the other actresses, Vivian Hsu and Tiffany Tang, aren't given much to do but stand by their respective man or be placed in harm's way and exploited for emotional leverage.
At the end of the day FIRE OF CONSCIENCE is all about the action, which thankfully Dante Lam delivers in spades - stylishly, inventively and at a breakneck pace. There are passing nods to the stylings of John Woo throughout, not least in a moment towards the end when Lai goes one better than Chow Yun Fat's "baby in the hospital" finale from HARD BOILED, while maintaining a street smart authenticity best seen in Derek Yee's work. In short, FIRE OF CONSCIENCE is a blast from beginning to end, delivering a much-needed grenade down the pants of an increasingly tired and world-weary sub-genre.
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Post by MYR Admin on Mar 25, 2010 12:21:16 GMT 7
Eh... why is wu-jing.org having this 'news'... ahemmm... and I love the reviews up there, now I can't wait to watch, then, again i thought its released on April 1st? So these guys went to the premiere in HK?  p/s: I think James Marsh is a Michelle fan!  |
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Post by Katniss on Mar 25, 2010 20:40:50 GMT 7
Eh... why is wu-jing.org having this 'news'... ahemmm... and I love the reviews up there, now I can't wait to watch, then, again i thought its released on April 1st? So these guys went to the premiere in HK? p/s: I think James Marsh is a Michelle fan! James Marsh is def a Michelle fan. I think it was like a prescreened...and critics often have a chance for those. I actually went to a few prescreened movies here myself. |
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Post by crazypenguins on May 19, 2010 10:18:46 GMT 7
I watched this, or actually skimmed because I don't understand a word of mandarin anymore. I didn't get what was happening, so I just skipped to parts with Michelle. She carries like 3 guns on her.  I rewatched all the shooting and exploding parts so much that I sort of memorized what exactly happens lol. This is also the first time I have actually seen Michelle drive a car. Can't wait until I can find this in cantonese. |
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Post by Katniss on May 20, 2010 21:52:37 GMT 7
I watched this, or actually skimmed because I don't understand a word of mandarin anymore. I didn't get what was happening, so I just skipped to parts with Michelle. She carries like 3 guns on her. I rewatched all the shooting and exploding parts so much that I sort of memorized what exactly happens lol. This is also the first time I have actually seen Michelle drive a car. Can't wait until I can find this in cantonese. ahhh...so jealous! But yeah, I have to wait for Eng subs. I hope the release it on DVD soon! |
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