Well, you've basically identified why authenticity is a continuing issue in post-colonial writing. Even literature from China is affected by this. There are some great Chinese books written in Chinese but would never be translated and published in the West because they don't fit in with how the West wants to perceive…

Considering that the illiteracy rate is quite high among the poor in developing countries, it's not as bold a claim as you might think. I suppose it's possible to have outliers here and there, but generally speaking, it's people who have had some kind of advantage/privilege who end up having the time and even…

Hah, I am but I visited that town just a couple of years ago. So basically, the jungle had never properly grown back and the rest of the props have been rotting for over 20+ years there.

I wouldn't go so far as to say that Crouching Tiger got a shrug in Asia. We do get a lot of wuxia films, so it wasn't considered revelatory the way it was in the West, and it wasn't something that people rushed to watch. But the relatively low box office was more a result of piracy rather than lack of interest.

That's cool. I realize it's impossible considering the laziness or just lack of interest, but I wish crews who film in natural environments would respect their locations just as much. I once travelled to this remote town in the Philippines to surf, and along the way, I was really nonplussed when the bus passed these…

Good God, take it back and kill it!

Nope, there are scenes in the movie that clearly indicate their spouses are cheating. At one point, Maggie Cheung's character returns home early and knocks on the door of Leung's flat. His wife answers and turns Cheung away, only to head back to her bedroom saying, "Your wife was just here…"

That's quite typical of those types of blocks, though. The craziest was the former Kowloon Walled City, which was this unbelievably dense maze of buildings and illegal structures and courtyards, etc. When I was in secondary school, we used to go to the Walled City just to explore, although we were too intimidated to…

I'd say watch "Fallen Angels" and "Chungking Express." They're less pessimistic and doom-orientated than "Happy Together" or "Days of Being Wild." 
"Fallen Angels" was my first WKW film, and I ended up marrying the girl I watched it with, so I might be biased. However, as a Hong Konger, I feel like that movie really…

I actually think Suat Tong Ng and the panel at TCJ made some really insightful points, especially in light of the interview above where Thompson blithely says that there's nothing wrong with Orientalism(!). How would you respond to the criticisms that Ng made, out of curiosity?