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 |
Wong Kar-wai Tsai Sung-lin |
Screenplay by | Jeffrey Lau |
Story by | Louis Cha |
Starring |
Leslie Cheung Brigitte Lin Tony Leung Chiu-Wai Carina Lau Kenny Bee Veronica Yip Jacky Cheung Maggie Cheung Tony Leung Ka-fai Joey Wong |
Music by |
James Wong G. Rossini |
Cinematography | Peter Pau |
Edited by | Kai Kit-wai |
Production company |
Block 2 Pictures Scholar Films |
Distributed by | Newport Entertainment Ltd |
Release dates |
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Running time | 113 minutes |
Country | Hong Kong |
Language | Cantonese |
Box office | 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.
Production
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.
Cast
- Leslie Cheung as Huang Yaoshi
- Brigitte Lin as Third Princess
- Tony Leung Chiu-Wai as Ouyang Feng
- Carina Lau as Zhou Botong
- Kenny Bee as Wang Chongyang
- Veronica Yip as Ouyang Feng's cousin
- Jacky Cheung as Hong Qigong
- Maggie Cheung as Imperial Master
- Tony Leung Ka-fai as Duan Zhixing
- Joey Wong as Suqiu, Huang Yaoshi's lover
- Paw Hee-ching as one of Third Princess' guards
Music
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 oiseau rebelle" from Georges Bizet's Carmen and Danse des petits cygnes from Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.
References
External links
- The Eagle Shooting Heroes at the Internet Movie Database
- The Eagle Shooting Heroes at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase
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