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Trivia:
Tracy Tzu (right) looks a little like China-born singer,
Faye Wong
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Picture source:
(left) screen captured, montage by Tyk
There's nothing new in the plot that you haven't already seen
at the movies. Mickey Rourke is Stanley White, a highly decorated
cop but frankly, to me he looked more like a regular middle age
cop with an oversized ego and an attitude problem. He clashes
head on with Chinatown big baddie and ends up having his wife
murdered by them. At this point I have some serious doubts on
his experience! Was he expecting the mob to send him love letters
instead?? As for what purpose Ariane (acted by Tracy Tzu) served
in the movie, I can't even remember. Sorry fans, but I think this
is a really lame movie that Mickey shouldn't have wasted his time
on.
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would have rated this movie 1 upon 5 but Mickey's performance earns
an extra point. In the poignant funeral scene, when Stanley cried
over the loss of his wife, my heart could juz break into pieces.
Yeah, I'm a sucker for scenes with crying men! :-) |
Mickey Rourke as Stanley White
John Lone as Joey Tai
Ariane as Tracy Tzu
Leonard Termo as Angelo Rizzo
Raymond J. Barry as Louis Bukowski
Caroline Kava as Connie White
Eddie Jones as William McKenna
Joey Chin as Ronnie Chang
Victor Wong as Harry Yung
K. Dock Yip as Milton Bin
Pao Han Lin as Fred Hung
Way Dong Woo as Elder
Jimmy Sun as Elder
Daniel Davin as Francis Kearney
Mark Hammer as Commissioner Sullivan
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Directed by Michael Cimino
Year -- 1985
Genre -- Action/Crime/Drama/Thriller
Original music by David Mansfield (II)
for more details on this movie,
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Other Summaries and Reviews:
A crime epic set in New York's Chinatown, YEAR OF THE DRAGON
is full of mayhem, murder, and camouflaged vengeance. Explosive
and confrontational, the film is based on the novel by Robert
Daley and follows a script written by Oliver Stone and Michael
Cimino. When a prominent businessman-mob leader in Chinatown is
assassinated by a member of a Chinese youth gang, Vietnam vet
and highly decorated cop Stanley White (Mickey Rourke) is assigned
to Chinatown and ordered to clean up the gang problem. White soon
realizes that the teenage hoodlums are under the control of an
ambitious young crime boss, Joey Tai (John Lone). Enlisting the
help of pretty young Chinese-American television reporter Tracy
Tzu (Ariane), White becomes obsessed with destroying Tai. Prone
to breaking rules and unlikely to make compromises, White goes
after his target, vowing to spare nothing and nobody, including
himself. The film is graphic in its depiction of gang violence
and received a lot of criticism for it upon its release.
text source: rottentomatoes.com
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Movie Quotes
"You're a hell of a reporter, honey. You're talking to a guy
with a bag on his head, cotton in his ears and a stick up his
ass. You stick around, you might learn something."
-- Stanley to Ariane, refering to Will (mounted police).
"Still believe in keeping a high police profile, huh?"
-- Stanley to Will (mounted police)
"Why? Because of this? How was I supposed to prevent this?
How am I supposed to prevent anything around here?" --
Will to Stanley
"You wanna know if he's Chinese, right? That's what you
wanna know, so ask it."
"Yeah, that's the question, so why don't you answer it?"
-- Ariane, Stanley dialogue
"I don't know anybody else. Isn't that a real laugh? I don't
know anybody." -- Stanley to Ariane
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