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• The Good Guy begins

  2011-06-25 5:29AM / 標準BLOG / 會員可以看
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    When I first got into Hong Kong in 2007 I worked at a school in Tai Wai. Everyday after teaching, I would walk around exploring the city, trying to purposely get lost so I can see parts of the city I normally wouldn't be able to.  Wherever I went, as night grew I'd see these kids in school uniforms boys and girls out late. 
  
  
  

  
  
  They must have gone straight from school to these different places, but I was always surprised to see them out so late. What did their parents think of this? What was their family life like back home? I started writing a screenplay, inspired by David Fincher's Seven. About a serial killer who didn't exactly kill but kidnapped these school kids to make a statement about the city, a city that was always busy, so busy even to spend time with their own children.
  
  
  
  I've been wanting to do some detective darker picture for quite sometime.  I worked on it, then I had a problem with the story, what would this kidnapper do with all the kids?!! 
  
    Two years past and I still wanted to make my Seven....but then I started writing another story, it was a combination of two things that had happened, 1) the movie After This Our Exhile (父子) directed by Patrick Tam, just one scene with Aaron Kwok when some thugs bully him over some $ outback of his workplace and 2) I had been having various conversations with good people who in the past had made poor decisions, sometimes drug related, sometimes gambling, but who were making changes in their lives.  I started developing a story about a guy who had made poor decisions in his past and how in one night, he gets the chance to make the right one. Thus "The Good Guy" short screenplay was completed.  It wasn't until Julia and i started to make plans to return to the USA that I felt like I had to get at least one movie project under my belt before I leave Hong Kong.  I had to document the city and somehow capture some of the places I will remember forever.