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A Trailer For Chee Keong Cheung’s BODYGUARD: A NEW BEGINNING
Posted by Todd Brown at 7:15pm.
Posted in Trailer Alerts , Martial Arts, Action, Asia, UK, Ireland, Australia & New Zealand.
Some may remember director Chee Keong Cheung from his work on independent and fiercely low budget fight flick Underground which hit DVD last year and won a good amount of attention for what Cheung and company managed to accomplish on a tiny budget. Underground certainly wasn’t breaking any new ground and it had some significant weaknesses but there was clearly some talent at play there and a good amount of promise for the future. Well, the future is now and we’ve just been passed the brand new trailer for Cheung’s new film - the martial arts drama Bodyguard: A New Beginning.
‘A New Beginning’ focuses around the story of Leung, the bodyguard of a Chinese Triad boss, Wong, to whom his loyalty is unrivaled. Living in Hong Kong, Wong requests that his bodyguard travel to the UK to protect a young British woman, whose true identity is known only by Wong himself. Even his own errant son, Yuen, is kept in the dark, which leads to a betrayal that threatens to destroy the family and all that his father has worked hard to protect.
Fight fans are going to recognize a few familiar faces in there and the fight work is obviously very good but what’s really going to stand out are the huge strides forward in story telling and cinematography. There has obviously been more attention paid to story this time out and DPs Matthew Beecroft and Henry Chung obviously know what they’re doing behind the camera. This thing looks absolutely gorgeous. Very, very nice. Check it out below the break in the Twitch Player.
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Papigiulio 09/30/2008 @ 8:56pm
y’know…Even though it looks good, I wasn’t really impressed by the trailer. First of, Asians that speak bloody British looks a bit weird heh. Second, altho they got the moves, I miss the intensity and impact of the fight scenes. Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa is instant win for me though!
Agent Wax 09/30/2008 @ 9:22pm
Wow. So it has come to this. Racist comments even on Twitch.
Yeah, so everybody should just stick to their own languages and white Australians should go back to Europe and Twitch should just cover American films.
pochiW 09/30/2008 @ 11:09pm
yeah tagawa looks a real meanie here, no cartoony asian villain. karl ng gets to hate his daddy for our amusement, which is a plus (and he’s far better speaking his native engligh than pretend-canto!) about the accent thing, you’re more likely to find brit among hongkies, then is it aussie, followed by canadian & american? maggie & little tony both speak brit-accent, leslie once did too.
MikeOutWest 09/30/2008 @ 11:48pm
This is very interesting - one of the very few movies where an asian MAN has a sexual relationship with a caucasian WOMAN. In Hollywood usually it’s the other way around (western men enticed by exotic asian women,or the asian male has no hint of sexuality at all…
As for this, it looks better than Simon Yam’s London-set Killer’s Romance, but I bet it doesn’t have the intense big finale.
cpa314 10/01/2008 @ 12:18am
looks gorgeous, didnt get to see that much action but the action I saw didnt look bad. Was this also made on a shoe-string budget like his last film?
Papigiulio 10/01/2008 @ 2:28am
@Agent Wax: Racist? Hahaha .....eh…..hahaha kidding right?
misteresh 10/01/2008 @ 6:07am
Way to read to much into something Agent Wax.
Agent Wax 10/01/2008 @ 10:00pm
Yes, racist. And no, not reading too much. Can I say things like:
“You know, Africans look really weird wearing a suit and tie.”
“A hardworking Italian? That’s weird.”
“Isn’t it weird that that Scottish guy is eating meat instead of offals?”
“Wow! An American who can do algebra! That’s weird!”
How is saying ‘Asians who speak British english look weird’ NOT racist? I don’t think Papigiulio meant it as an insult, but it is extremely tactless.
quadshock 10/01/2008 @ 11:26pm
Papigiulio listed the British accent as one reason why he didn’t really dig the trailer. Which, actually, would be racist. Not a big deal, but I can’t stand how people say it’s “reading into something” when it’s not.
plasterman 01/25/2009 @ 2:41pm
Africans look really weird wearing a suit and tie.”
A pink zebra looks really weird, dosn’t mean I don’t like zebras look for racist some where else ok