The Eagle Shooting Heroes
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Director Jeffrey Lau Initial DVD release July 15, 2008 Country Hong Kong | 7.4/10 IMDb Genre Action, Comedy, Fantasy Duration Language Cantonese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 5 February 1993 (1993-02-05) Writer Louis Cha (novel), Jeffrey Lau (screenplay) Music director James Wong, Gioacchino Rossini Cast Leslie Cheung (Huang Yao Shih), Brigitte Lin (Third Princess), Maggie Cheung (Imperial Master), Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (Ou-yang Feng), Tony Leung Ka-Fai (Tuan Wang-yeh), Jacky Cheung (Hung Chi)Similar movies Story by Louis Cha, Leslie Cheung movies, Hong Kong movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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, and a classic example of the mo lei tau comedy.
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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
Music
In addition to a score by James Wong and Mark Lui, 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.
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