| The Eagle Shooting Heroes | |
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| Traditional | 射鵰英雄傳之東成西就 |
| Simplified | 射雕英雄传之东成西就 |
| Mandarin | Shèdiāo Yīngxíong Zhuàn Zhī Dōngchéng Xījìu |
| Cantonese | Se6 Diu1 Jing1 Hung4 Cyun4 Zi1 Dung1 Sing4 Sai1 Zau6 |
| Directed by | Jeffrey Lau |
| Produced by | Tsai Sung-lin |
| Screenplay by | Jeffrey Lau |
| Story by | Louis Cha |
| Starring | Leslie Cheung Brigitte Lin Maggie Cheung Tony Leung Chiu-Wai Jacky Cheung |
| Music by | James Wong G. Rossini |
| Cinematography | Peter Pau |
| Editing by | Kai Kit-wai |
| Distributed by | Newport Entertainment Ltd |
| Release date(s) | February 5, 1993 (Hong Kong) |
| Running time | 113 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | Cantonese |
| Gross revenue | HK$23.463 million (Hong Kong)[1] |
The Eagle Shooting Heroes is a 1993 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Jeffrey Lau. It is a parody of Louis Cha's novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes.
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The film was said to be caused by the over-budgeting of Wong Kar-wai's Ashes of Time. In order to cover up the cost of the yet unfinished film, the director decided to use the whole cast to shoot a "quick-and-dirty" film for show during the Chinese New Year, a period for Hong Kong film industry to harvest cash.
In addition to a score by James Wong, the film contains a song set to the overture from Gioacchino Rossini's Guillaume Tell, as well as uncredited excerpts from "L'amour est un oiseaux rebelle" from Georges Bizet's Carmen and Danse des petits cygnes from Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.
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