A Discussion Of Ho Cheung Ping’s Movie Creation

A talented young director in the current Hong Kong movie industry, Ho Cheung Ping has been offering a new project almost every year for his fifteen years’career as a director. His work is full of personality and injects new blood into the Hong Kong movie market that is on a downward spiral.Setting Ping’s work against the backdrop of the Hong Kong movie industry, the current thesis delineates his creative course by analyzing his major works.The first chapter provides an overview of how Ping, as a auctorial-director, comes to control his work from the standpoint of a scriptwriter, and producer. It also gives a summary of Ping’s creative ideas and themes, which is essentially a refusal to copy himself, a focus on Hong Kong’s local culture, and compassion to the commoners.In the second chapter, by featuring specific movie characters, the current thesis discusses several male and female archetypes in Ping’s movies, among which are killers, prostitutes, and AV idols, in an attempt to interpret Ping’s attitudes towards gender relations and concern about those that are marginalized. The third chapter takes an interest in Ping’s aesthetic style, which is expressed by the subtleness and nuance in its film language, its experimental narrative structure, and a mixture of various cinematic genres.The current thesis attempts to provide a review of the artistry and originality of Ping, one of the most well-known and well-received director among the emerging forces in Hong Kong movie industry, in the hope of exploring how, in the context of the current movie market and climate where filmmakers from Hong Kong and mainland has come to work increasingly closer, the former finds its place and direction, thereby overcoming the current predicament and rebuilding the Hong Kong spirit.