‘Goodbye, Dragon Inn’: The Last Picture Show in Taipei - The New York Times

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When Cai Mingliang watched the movie of the audience in 2003, they watched martial arts classics in a sponge theater.

A sparse audience attended the final performance of a cavernous cinema. Nowadays, the circulated voices are even more intoxicating. Cai Mingliang's 2003 revised "Goodbye, Dragon Inn" is a love letter to cinemas and movie theaters.

Almost all of this movie is set in the modest Regal Theater in the center of Taipei. Regal seems to be able to hold a thousand people. It is a fascinating space, but the space on the screen

After the 1967 Five Gorges classic movie "Longmen Inn" was screened, it felt infinite.

"Dragon Inn" is both a martial arts performance and a complex indoor drama, a landmark of Taiwanese movies. Although it will take several years for Hu’s film to be shown outside of Chinatown in the United States, the New York Times

Regarding the international success of the film: "The popularity of the film portrays what seems to be a marvelous feat for Western audiences, and has brought about a boom in action movies." When the "Long Teng Inn" arrived in Taiwan, Mr. Cai was about 10 years old. For him, this is not only a movie, but also a movie.

Movies are also where they live. A simultaneous double billing, "Goodbye, Dragon Inn" is based on the expected interaction between "Dragon Inn" and the lives of Fun-Ho audiences. Customers eat, sleep, cruise, look for falling objects and then walk to the bathroom.

The theater manager is a young, well-rounded lady. He climbed upstairs to the projection room and then to the basement, looking for constant leaks. (Heavy Rain is one of Cai’s trademarks, and Li Kangsheng’s appearance is also the protagonist at the end of the movie) A fast-paced opera.

Although the "Dragon Hotel" is highly dynamic, Cai's camera almost never moves. His "rigorous minimalism expresses a sense of romance that is both humorous and sad", AO Scott

In "Time", "Goodbye, Dragon Inn" was screened at the 2003 New York Film Festival. "This is an action movie, it's still."

Most of the dialogue and music in "Goodbye, Dragon Inn" come from "Dragon Inn". The movies in the movie can be seen from all angles, and the moving light patterns are projected on the faces of the audience. (At a certain moment, Mr. Cai made a montage to make the theater manager and "Dragon Inn" star Xu Feng look at each other.) "Do you know this theater is haunted?" An audience member asked the other half. The theater was troubled by the audience on the screen and the audience in the seats, some of whom appeared in both movies at the same time.

Cai added a specific voice to the final checkout. The singer Yao Lee in the 1950s sang an evocative Chinese pop song about the existence of the past. She is also the soul of movies. She is the replay singer who has been heard but never appeared in countless films of Zeiss Youth.

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