{"id":4175,"date":"2012-08-23T12:14:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T18:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=4175"},"modified":"2012-08-23T12:14:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T18:14:37","slug":"down-and-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=4175","title":{"rendered":"Down And Funny"},"content":{"rendered":"

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”THIS film has been classified as vulgar comedy,” runs a mock-official disclaimer at the start of Vulgaria, the latest from prolific Hong Kong director Pang Ho-Cheung.<\/p>\n

Shortly after, prudish viewers are allowed 10 seconds to leave the cinema – which leaves the rest of us free to enjoy this friendly, unbuttoned, often hilarious skit on the Hong Kong film industry, made on a low budget and filled with in-jokes and self-referential humour.<\/p>\n

The hapless hero is a B-movie producer played by Chapman To, who bears a faint resemblance to Matthew Broderick, especially when he’s wincing under strain or confiding secrets to the camera.
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To an audience of cinema students, he recounts a series of scandalous tales from behind the scenes of his new film, a sexy period drama with a cast that includes a porn star in her 60s (veteran Susan Shaw, playing herself) and a starlet (Dada Chan) who can do amazing things with Pop Rocks and has an inspired idea for an erotic video game.<\/p>\n

Pang has gone out of his way to make the dialogue as crude as possible, most impressively in the scenes involving an irritable gangster (Ronald Cheng).<\/p>\n

Still, there’s no on-screen nudity and a great deal is left to the imagination: a key running gag centres on the repressed memory of a traumatic encounter with a mule. Be sure to stay through the credits for a punchline that fills in some of the blanks.<\/p>\n

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