Eastern Condors
"Eastern Condors" HKL Interview:
'I was very happy to make Eastern Condors because nobody touched the war story before in movies in HK. HK
people are not really involved in wars. In England or America and in so many countries people have feelings about the war, because they were involved in wars, in World War I, World War II, they know what happened to their families, they know the sad times and can feel the moment. Young people in HK never know about the war, they don't want to be in the army. In other countries when you're 18 or 20 you must to go to the army and be there for 2 years, in HK it's not so, they were free. Eastern Condors is not the best film, but it's very good. First of all I am happy that I could do that kind of story and make the movie, secondly, I had a good time making it, and I love it very much. Eastern Condors is a bit different from my other movies, because most of them are comedies, they are funny. Here I had to change the tone a bit, getting a bit more serious, because it is about the war, the characters are a bit more serious. My body, my character is fat and looks funny so I tried to lose weight for this serious film. I trained every day from 8 and at 1 I had something to eat, rice, no bread, I was allowed to eat chicken leg without the skin on. No salt, no soya sauce, no vinegar. In 3 months I lost 30 pounds.'