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Fallen Angels is a 1995 Hong Kong movie written and directed by Wong Kar-wai, starring Leon Lai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Michelle Reis, Charlie Yeung and Karen Mok.
Fallen Angels can be seen as a companion piece to Chungking Express. It was originally conceived as the third story for Chungking Express, but Fallen Angels can be considered a sequel due to similar themes, locations and methods of filming, while one of the main characters lives in the Chungking Mansions and works at the Midnight Express food stall.
The movie is composed of two stories that have little to do with each other except for a few casual run ins where some of the characters happen to be in the same place at the same time. Both stories take place in Hong Kong.
Story One
It begins with a Hit man named Wong Chi-Ming (Leon Lai) and an ambiguous female he calls his “partner”. Their relationship is interesting in that they hardly know each other and rarely see each other but she cleans his dingy apartment in club clothes and faxes him blueprints of the places he’s to go hit. Infatuated with him, she frequents the bar he goes to just to sit in his seat and daydream about him. One late night, Wong Chi-Ming has a late night meal at McDonald's where he meets Blondie, a wild prostitute. While they spend time together, she has illusions that he’s the ex- lover that left her for another woman. Wong Chi-Ming’s partner finds out about the relationship and puts a hit out on him when he tells her he wants to quit, ending the partnership they have.
Actors: Meg Walker (producer), Meg Walker (writer), Meg Walker (director), Vivan McIntosh (actor), Paul McKinnon (actor), Tim Falconer (actor), Adam Shamash (actor), Karen Thomas (actor), Joey O'Neil (actor), Alex Hakonson (actor), Kathryn Hepburn (actor),
Plot: A piano player explores deep sea diving as act to end, once and for all, the argument with her father about whether a real, fiery hell exists. No one knows for sure if the found footage and low-tech acting combine into a film of revenge or resolution.
Genres: Documentary, Drama, Short,Actors: Meg Walker (producer), Meg Walker (writer), Meg Walker (director), Vivan McIntosh (actor), Paul McKinnon (actor), Tim Falconer (actor), Adam Shamash (actor), Karen Thomas (actor), Joey O'Neil (actor), Alex Hakonson (actor), Kathryn Hepburn (actor),
Plot: A piano player explores deep sea diving as act to end, once and for all, the argument with her father about whether a real, fiery hell exists. No one knows for sure if the found footage and low-tech acting combine into a film of revenge or resolution.
Genres: Documentary, Drama, Short,Actors: Meg Walker (producer), Meg Walker (writer), Meg Walker (director), Vivan McIntosh (actor), Paul McKinnon (actor), Tim Falconer (actor), Adam Shamash (actor), Karen Thomas (actor), Joey O'Neil (actor), Alex Hakonson (actor), Kathryn Hepburn (actor),
Plot: A piano player explores deep sea diving as act to end, once and for all, the argument with her father about whether a real, fiery hell exists. No one knows for sure if the found footage and low-tech acting combine into a film of revenge or resolution.
Genres: Documentary, Drama, Short,Actors: Meg Walker (producer), Meg Walker (writer), Meg Walker (director), Vivan McIntosh (actor), Paul McKinnon (actor), Tim Falconer (actor), Adam Shamash (actor), Karen Thomas (actor), Joey O'Neil (actor), Alex Hakonson (actor), Kathryn Hepburn (actor),
Plot: A piano player explores deep sea diving as act to end, once and for all, the argument with her father about whether a real, fiery hell exists. No one knows for sure if the found footage and low-tech acting combine into a film of revenge or resolution.
Genres: Documentary, Drama, Short,Actors: Laura Jean Bransky (miscellaneous crew), Myles Cranford (actor), Sean Guse (actor), Hanjin Park (producer), Hanjin Park (editor), Hanjin Park (director), Sarah Le Feber (costume designer), Shelley Patel (producer), Andreas Lyon (actor), Ehren Parks (writer), Janet Lee (producer), Amelia Borella (actress), Craig Avera (actor), Benjamin Hoekstra (actor), Vincent Ferro (actor),
Plot: A demon walking amongst us. But demons and angels do not walk lock and step with their masters. That is a fable told by the old peoples who knew enough to fear them. Celestial beings can act out. But there are consequences for disobedience. So what happens when a demon defies the natural order and inadvertently commits an act fit for an angel? Heaven knows.
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Short,Actors: Gwen McGee (producer), Lanre Idewu (actor), Gwen McGee (editor), Gwen McGee (director), Gwen McGee (writer), Darren Dupree Washington (actor), William Christopher Ford (actor), Jesús García (actor), Chuy Garcia (actor), Mark Naji (actor), Gigi Preston (actress), Tyler Cook (actor), Anthony Coleman (producer), Charnele Brown (producer), John C. Johnson (actor),
Genres: History, Short,Actors: Gwen McGee (producer), Lanre Idewu (actor), Gwen McGee (editor), Gwen McGee (director), Gwen McGee (writer), Darren Dupree Washington (actor), William Christopher Ford (actor), Jesús García (actor), Chuy Garcia (actor), Mark Naji (actor), Gigi Preston (actress), Tyler Cook (actor), Anthony Coleman (producer), Charnele Brown (producer), John C. Johnson (actor),
Genres: History, Short,Actors: Misha Zubarev (producer), Misha Zubarev (editor), V. Ulea (writer), V. Ulea (director), Vad Chariton (composer), Abigail Mentzer (actress), Michael Dura (actor), Michael Dura (actor), Andrei Vitoptou (actor), Tomas Dura (actor), Alexei Borovik (actor),
Plot: This film develops the myth of how god created angels out of loneliness. He wanted to communicate with intellectual creatures, but alas, angels were too programmed and too obedient to have any intellectual and thought provoking conversations. they were unable to develop. So god decided to make his next creation - Man. He called him Adam. God was pleased with his new creation, but only for a short while, until he began to notice that Adam had no initiative. God didn't like this lack of desire and risk taking, which man didn't seem to have. To fix it, god found Adam's center of curiosity.
Genres: Short,Actors: Jade Van Der Lei (producer), Jade Van Der Lei (writer), Nicole Bourke (editor), Rachel Haines (actress), Luke Wright (director), Emma Dean (actress), Benjamin Prindable (actor), Amy Vidgen (actress), Ricky Johnson (actor), Gareth Divitini (actor),
Plot: With his tool of fate, the Devil changes the lives of seven people. By throwing a lit cigarette off an ordinary city building rooftop on an average weekday morning, he starts a chain of events that draws together a group of people who have more in common than it first appears. Linking their lives through coincidence and murder, the Devil's presence works its way through each person, causing them to act out against their usual natures. The series of events ultimately leads to an appalling climax where the trail of intended devastation reveals the true motivation behind the Devil's actions. I've Met The Devil, a nine-minute drama with a slightly experimental nature, takes a few minutes out of the routines of everyday inhabitants in a normal unidentifiable city, exploring the ideas of coincidence and fate, good and evil and the unpredictability of human nature.
Keywords: apostrophe-in-title, australia, coincidence, devil, fallen-angel, murder, punctuation-in-titleActors: Christopher Daniels (actor), Juventud Guerrera (actor), Josh Harter (actor),
Genres: Action,(Dennis DeYoung)
"Hell, nobody's perfect
One hundred percent
No saint, no Pope, no King no Queen
No President
But our hunger for heroes
Has made us blind
We seek salvation
From the cup of human kind
But every time we hear the voice
Of some new Abraham
We wake too late to realize
It was just another scam
Fallen angel, fallen angel
Well I guess you were no angel after all
Fallen angel, fallen angel
You always take us with you when you fall
I said nobody's perfect
From head to toe
Not Einstein or Elvis or Lenin or Marx
Or Marilyn Monroe
Cause it's mostly illusion
In flesh and bone
An image, a look, a song or a book
That we all claim for our own
But even in the best of us
There lies beneath the skin
The tragic flaw in nature's law
That's bound to do us in
Fallen angel, fallen angel
Well I guess you were no angel after all
Fallen angel, fallen angel
You always take us with you when you fall
Pretty faces up on the silver screen
Flawless bodies on covers of magazines
They all look perfect to us
So rich and cool and bored
But hold the presses boys
They've checked into Betty Ford
Turns out nobody's perfect
From "A" to "Z"
It's best to follow your heart
Then to follow me
Cause I'm only a singer
Playin' a song
And I've just been making it up
As I went along
See I met a man who told me once
"Sincerity's the key
And once you learn to fake it
Son you're gonna be home free"
Fallen angel, fallen angel
Well I guess you were no angel after all
Fallen angel, fallen angel