Stephen Chow Tells the Truth

It's not political correct but it's the truth, not only in his movies but in general, around the world.  Most Hollywood movies or the whole movie industry are gratingly patriarchal.  Women only play secondary roles in the movie industry.  Few if any Hollywood female stars can open a movie.  Audience may even want to be politically correct and pay lip service to alternative cinema but when it comes to actually opening up their wallet and parting their cash it is an entirely different story.



Please note there are at least three movie clips played along in the video above, at 0.25" Appledaily mistakenly captions the clip as CJ7 while it should really be Kung Fu or Kung Fu Hustle.  The voice over commentary is largely forgettable.  I choose to listen to what Chow says only.

Despite what Chow says: to choose the female lead based only on looks.  His female characters, lead or support, aren't all that bad at all: smart, funny, hard working, independent and kind-hearted.  But the reality or indeed irony is if you aren't pretty you aren't going to be Chow's leading lady, even if the character is supposedly ugly looking--think Zhao Mei in Shaolin Soccer or Karen Mok in The God of Cookery or his most other movies.  Perhaps Chow's Kung Fu Hustle is by far Chow's most blatantly Chow's movie ever where Fong, the protagonist love's interest is made a mute, naturally not having any spoken dialogs to distract from her natural beauty and Chow can just concentrate on being Chow without even have to worry about what she has to say.  I think that's a stroke of genius.