Shanghai is the largest city by population of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the largest city proper by population in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities of the PRC, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010. It is a global city, with influence in commerce, culture, finance, media, fashion, technology, and transport. It is a major financial center and the busiest container port in the world.
Located in the Yangtze River Delta in eastern China, Shanghai sits at the mouth of the Yangtze River in the middle portion of the Chinese coast. The municipality borders Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces to the west, and is bounded to the east by the East China Sea.
Once a fishing and textiles town, Shanghai grew in importance in the 19th century due to European recognition of its favorable port location and economic potential. The city was one of several opened to foreign trade following the British victory over China in the first opium war and the subsequent 1842 Treaty of Nanking which allowed the establishment of the Shanghai International Settlement. The city then flourished as a center of commerce between east and west, and became the undisputed financial hub of the Asia Pacific in the 1930s. However, with the Communist Party takeover of the mainland in 1949, the city's international influence declined. In the 1990s, the economic reforms introduced by Deng Xiaoping resulted in an intense re-development of the city, aiding the return of finance and foreign investment to the city.
Plot
A political thriller: the real-life story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. In the country's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical - until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country's oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into the Chamussos' lives.
Keywords: 1980s, absent-father, african-national-congress, ak-43, angola, anti-terrorism, apartheid, apology, archive-footage, arrest
The spark that ignites us, unites us.
This Fall stand for something
It takes one spark for an ordinary man to become a hero.
Obadi: Are you ready to die!::Rebels: Yes, commander!
Patrick Chamusso: My children, when they speak if their father, they will say he was a man who stood up for what was right, a man who said he must do something now. What will your children say about you?
Tops In Total Horror!
Shang-Shang-Shanghai
Shanghai
Shanghai . . .
Here in Shanghai - you can love, you can dance, you can
cry.
Here in Shanghai - in a dream with the world passing by.
Oriental ladies look at me, oriental ladies sigh.
High in Shanghai - and I don't have the time to ask why.
High in Shanghai - and I don't have the time to ask why.
High in Shanghai - and I don't have the time to ask why.
You in Shanghai - walk around with a star in your eyes.
Free in Shanghai - you can laugh, you can dance, you can
fly.
Oriental feelings in your mind oriental way to sigh.
High in Shanghai - and you don't have the time to ask
why.
High in Shanghai - and I don't have the time to ask why.
. . .
Why did I tell you I was going to Shanghai
I want to be with you tonight
Why did I holler I was going to Shanghai
I want to be with you tonight
It was just a little misunderstanding
that a kiss on the cheek could patch
I need you so badly
I'd gladly
start all over from scratch
Oh, why did I tell you it was bye-bye for Shanghai
I'm even allergic to rice
Why don't you stop me when I talk about Shanghai
It's just a lover's device
Who's gonna kiss me
Who's gonna thrill me
Who's gonna hold me tight
I'm right around the corner in a phone booth
and I want to be with you tonight
Why did I tell you I was going to Shanghai
I want to be with you tonight
Why on earth did I holler I was going to Shanghai
I want to be with you tonight
It was just a little misunderstanding
that a kiss on the cheek could patch
I need you so badly
I'd gladly
start all over from scratch
Oh, why did I tell you it was bye-bye for Shanghai
I'm even allergic to rice
Why don't you stop me when I talk about Shanghai
It's just a lover's device
Who's gonna kiss me
Who's gonna thrill me
Who's gonna hold me tight
I'm right around the corner in a phone booth
and I want to be with you tonight
Shut the fuck up punk!
Give me that shit!
You feel sorry for who!!
Gave you head before I stormed in
Muthafucka, any problem yo I want in
I'm here to win
Every mornin
I'm yawnin
While ya'll are boardin
The store and showin that you're fake bringin some corn in
Meat, rice, and poultry
We all know how you get your money
Don't insult me
Shutup
For me not steppin
You can fault me
Yeah, I chill
But we are about to split this muthafucka
Like SugarHill
See your man
He thinks he's wise
Tell him chill
He ain't the only one with chinky eyes
Yo, I'm related to him
And I'll put eight through him
When I skate though him
And my co-d
I don't think you know is take to him
And before it's over
I'll have this whole fuckin store with that smoke aroma
And yo, your wife keeps twitchin
Than we both can bone her
Real quick, real sick
Pull out dick
Then nigga go on and riff
I'll have this whole fuckin clip
On some raw dog shit
Close that gate
It's time to negotiate
Now your store really could fulfill my needs
Got now and later seeds
Niggas need dungarees
We in the middle of Harlem
What we need for them ski's
That's the coverup nigga
For the weed, guns, and keys
But ya'll is gettin live though
I ain't gonna cry yo
I just wanna get paid off, nigga
Like five-0
In America the product is coke and weed
In China, the product is dope and speed
The Columbians got the coca leaves
But in Harlem, niggas like to Plot and Scheme
Now your store grose
A mil' a week
And my niggas on the block
Yo, we feel is sweet
But we been livin here forever
Can you feel our beat
So give us half
Or I guarantee baby
You gonna feel the heat
And I'm a little bit high
Save a little and you die
Send a blizzard through your store
In the middle of July
So if you wanna chat
We can
If you wanna scrap
We can
But I feel like Jackie Chan
Exactly man
Kong Fu
Murder thoughts like John Woo
I'm here for Bi
Not to con you
Now it's a done deal yo
There ain't no bluffin kid
And tell your wife don't move
I know where that button is
Yo, I would hate to have to bust her
That's petty black
Matter of fact get out the way
I know where that maschetti at
Give me that
Blamm!!!
That's when the chink goes flip
Then grabs me like Spock
On some Bruce Lee shit
And his wife had a grenade
That's when my niggas sprayed
And in a puddle of blood
Is where that bitch laid
But this ain't have to happen yo
Man you see the weed for real
Nigga let me go!
Back up off me!
Damn that was a close one
Next time, your ass gonna play Bruce son
That's Word to mutha!
You don't know how deep we are
Give them them tapes
Ya'll got VCR's
Yeah, three of 'em
But back to the topic
My deal to the floor
In a week
I can bring about 10 thou to the store
Yeah, I know I know I know
That's not near to what your crew had
But we doin this together
Nigga that's too bad
Now here's the deal either take it or leave it
Cause see these guns
We can take it or squeeze it
Now everything is set up
Right?
I got some girls that will be here sometime tonight
You know meya, the nigga wit China white
They got some shit that will fuck around and blind your sight
They kind of tight
Now if I here things behind the hype
I'll put a contract on your life
And you sign it right
The first day
So have my money Thursday
Cause I don't want to have to see your ass nigga on herse day
Let's move away together, go interplanetary
Maybe in Chinese weather, where it's sanitary
I'll go out trawler fishing, yeah, we'll have tuna steak
I'm on a special mission, for us to have a break
We'll climb the corporate buildings, spray-paint the outside walls
You bet that they'll be yielding, when the castle falls
We'll swim beneath the ocean, near the coral reef
I have a certain notion, that it will not be brief
We're going to Shanghai to watch the red sky
We're moving to Shanghai, goodbye, goodbye
We're going to Shanghai, so don't you cry
We're moving to Shanghai
Looks like we might have made it, put on your silkworm dress
You look so beautiful and I look such a mess
Across the city's landscape, the sun burns crimson red
Maybe the moon will wait, before we go to bed
We're going to Shanghai to watch the red sky
We're moving to Shanghai, goodbye, goodbye
We're going to Shanghai, so don't you cry
We're moving to Shanghai
Maybe, we'll have a fresh new start
I'll learn the martial arts
We'll have our own rickshaw cart