Friday, March 24, 2023

The Killer - Chow Yun Fat (1989) - Aberdeen Harbour

The dragon boat races that feature in the film provide the backdrop to one of Ah Jong's assassinations and despite some clever editing it's possible the see that the races and the assassination were filmed in two separate locations. Much of the establishing footage for the races was actually filmed at a real event in Aberdeen Harbour. Pre-pandemic this was a yearly occurance for Aberdeen (and elsewhere around the territory such as Stanley, Shatin, Taipo etc) and so it would have been very easy to go along and film or track down enough library footage to put together the sequence.

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