The Asian Servants
Are they an homage to Chinatown tout court ? Dep always seems so scared that she scared me.
shareActually, they're probably there to represent the way WASPish Brosnan and his crew see and treat common folk.
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Soongi Kang (Soon Ji Kang), who played Dep, is an experienced actress [with] a long filmography in German studios.
She was born and raised in South Korea, where she studied dance, drama, masque theater, percussion and singing. In Germany, she studied choreography at the Ernst Busch School of Dramatic Art in Berlin, as well as theater pedagogy at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Seems to be quite an enterprising actress/musician.
ADDENDUM: Lee Hong Thay, who played Duc, [lives in] Berlin, where he runs a martial arts school, the Sportschule Lee. He's a native of Jakarta, Indonesia. You can find him in Facebook.
Along with Eli Wallach, they're the most memorable characters in the film, more "North By Northwest" than "Chinatown."
shareI agree with you wholeheartedly. This movie is very "North by Northwest."
And every time I watch it, I become fascinated by Duc's constant efforts to rake leaves into a wheelbarrow. He seems so intent on his task and so frustrated when the wind – invariably and inevitably – blows the leaves away. Is there a meaning to that act, I wonder, or is it just a bit of business that the actor created for himself? Or is it Polanski's way of telling us that life is futile and meaningless? Or that bad things happen to good people?
Whatever it is, I am mesmerized by Duc's persistence in the face of strong odds.
I noticed that too. Kind of a presage to the end scene, with the pages in the wind.
shareImported from Germany? Wasn't the movie filmed almost entirely in Germany, including all the scenes that these Asian actors appeared in?
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