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Human Goddess

PostPosted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 10:45 am
by kenichiku
I see you guys also include notes, trivia & what-not in your entries.
http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=5297&display_set=eng
Here's a piece of trivia you can include with this title:
While local Mandarin films were experiencing a local box office slump during a brief period in the early 70s, former Shaw director-cum-production manager Yuan Chiu Feng reportedly announced in a Taipei press conference that 'The Human Goddess' was to be the first Mandarin language feature to be sent over to the United States for the patented single strip 70mm Cinerama formatting to tailor it for local D-150 exhibition at Shaw Brother's own Cinerama equipped Pearl Theatre in Hong Kong.

...and one more

PostPosted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 11:14 am
by kenichiku
Run Run Shaw urged director Ho Meng Hua to develop a Human Goddess sequel ala ‘Human Goddess Second Volume’ that was slated to go before cameras with the same principals reprising their roles but the populist but progressive minded journeyman that Ho was, realized he would not be able to resurrect the magic again by merging antiquated out-of-fashion period costume themes ala ‘Three Smiles’ or his own ‘Cave of the Silken Web’ with the modern contemporary situation fantasy comedy scenarios ala ‘Bewitched’ and ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ made popular on American TV during the 60s. The idea for a sequel was shelved.
...it's either here or over there so this time it's here.

PostPosted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 7:22 pm
by MrBooth
Where are the quotes from?

Why, from Moi

PostPosted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 11:07 pm
by kenichiku
Where are the quotes from?

Well, sorry to imply it's somebody else's quotes by boxing them out but the words are based on written facts from memory sprinkled with my tenor that's all. I don't have the sources in front of me but it was actually an amalgamation of facts I've kept in an old clippings file throughout the decades:

1. The Cinerama/sequel tidbit was taken from a column from a winter 72 issue of a Chinese Pictorial Review rag (the other Movie News) based outta Singapore.
2. Another was from an unnamed Chinese language newsprint clipping from a weekly HK tabloid (equivalent to today's 'Ming Pao') from the same year,
3. and the last was a widely publicized HK Movie News piece from 1971 (issue escapes me but I remember Shih Szu gracing the front cover & Lo Wei's 'Snow Girl' poster on the back) when Run Run & then Governor McLehose christened the Pearl with much fanfare during the HK premiere of 'Krakatoa East of Java'. I'll scan & post em if I can dig one out of storage (but I bet Heinz has a few of these).

BTW by the time Cinerama hit the then Colony, Shaws was already a late bloomer IMO. The Cinerama moniker was already on its way out in the States by this time being replaced by Todd-AO (Man, those humongous 16 foot tall curved 2.55:1 stereo screenings used to give me goosebumps as a kid i.e. like watching 'Towering Inferno'. For you younguns now, it was like the IMAX of their day w/o Dolby THX of course). Anyway, they most likely sent their reels for conversion here on the West Coast-two old defunct outfits I knew of in particular: either at 'Western Theatrical' here in SF on Market or to 'D-150 Inc.' down in Hollywood on Sunset.

PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 7:17 am
by calros
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