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The Man from Hong Kong

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The Man from Hong Kong (also known as The Dragon Flies) is a 1975 joint production between the film industries of Australia and Hong Kong, directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith, and is pretty much what you'd expect from that description: a kung-fu movie set in Sydney.The titular man is Inspector Fan Sing-Ling (Special Branch), played by Jimmy Wang Yu, sent to Sydney after a prominent hitman and runner from Hong Kong, Win Chan, is arrested at Ayers Rock following a drug deal gone bad. Further investigation reveals the man behind it all - a certain Jack Wilton (George Lazenby), undisputed crime lord of the entire city. The local police are initially unwilling to help Sing-Ling due to Jurisdiction Friction, leading him to go after Wilton himself, leading to plenty of kung fu fights and vehicle chases. It doesn't go as planned, but he recovers at a vet's daughter's house and launches one final, successful, assault on Jack Wilton's penthouse.The film is notable for (as mentioned above) being an Australia-Hong Kong collaboration, featuring George Lazenby in a rare villainous role, and the Breakout Pop Hit, "Sky High", by Jigsaw, which plays during the opening and closing credits.
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Artistic License – Linguistics
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Artistic License – Linguistics / Separated by a Common Language: For some reason, everyone from Hong Kong is speaking perfectly fluent Mandarin Chinese, when Cantonese is spoken much more frequently there. The odds of a Mei Ling, a Singaporean (who would probably know Hokkien and Mandarin), being able to understand Sing-Ling would have been pretty low had he been talking in Cantonese. This was, however, the norm in Hong Kong filmmaking at the time, where Mandarin was the de facto lingua franca by producers trying to sell the film in other Asian territories (where Mandarin is more widely-spoken). Cantonese-language cinema didn't make a comeback until later in the decade.
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Eiffel Tower Effect: The opening scene beats you over the head with the fact that it's set in Australia with the establishing shot of Uluru.
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Asskicking Leads to Leadership
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Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Wilton is watching kung fu sparring when, dissatisfied, he orders four of the students to attack him at once. He defeats all of them handily. This is probably because he's easily at least a head taller than them too, though. George Lazenby has a black belt in Shotokan-Ryu Karate.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: Caroline, the Love Interest, first meets Sing-Ling when her hang-gliding path lands her in the police parade square. Guess how Sing-Ling gets to Wilton's penthouse in the end?
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Bilingual Bonus
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Bilingual Bonus: This movie is best watched with a knowledge of some Mandarin.
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Super Window Jump
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Super Window Jump: How Sing-Ling finally enters Wilton's penthouse apartment.
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William Telling
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William Telling: Wilton, with a crossbow.
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The Can Kicked Him
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The Can Kicked Him: Sing-Ling dunks Win Chan's head in a toilet bowl as part of his "interrogation".
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NoKillLikeOverKill
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No Kill like Overkill: In the climax, Sing-Ling stuffs a grenade into Wilton's mouth to coerce him into a confession. When the pin gets released, he chucks Wilton into a safe full of his own explosives.
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Every Car Is a Pinto
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Every Car Is a Pinto: Every crashed vehicle ends up blowing up. No exceptions.
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Instant Seduction
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Instant Seduction: When Sing-Ling is supposed to arrest Caroline for breaking into the government property, he instead has a friendly chat with her and one Hard Cut later, they're having sex.
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Spiteful Spit
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Spiteful Spit: Win Chan's only response to Bob's questioning him.
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Man on Fire
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Man on Fire: Sing-Ling throws Wilton into his own fireplace, but Wilton discards the burning jacket.
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Punny Name
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Punny Name: The alternate title "The Dragon Flies" — in addition to alluding to the Chekhov's Gun.
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"Everybody Laughs" Ending
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"Everybody Laughs" Ending: As they watch Wilton's penthouse blow up.
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Foreign Culture Fetish
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Foreign Culture Fetish: Wilton sure loves his Oriental curios.
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Politically Incorrect Villain
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Politically Incorrect Villain: Wilton, who says he finds Chinese "make the best servants" and deliberately goads Sing-Ling by saying he "never met a Chinese who didn't have a yellow streak."
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Covers Always Lie
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Covers Always Lie: Amazingly enough, everything depicted on the poster occurs in the movie, except there's only one hang-glider.
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Kung-Foley
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Kung-Foley: Par for the course given it's a '70s Martial Arts Movie.
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Artistic License – Law
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Artistic License – Law: Sing-Ling gets a confession from Wilton under very heavy duress when he stuffs a grenade into his mouth. There's no way that would ever stand up in a court of law. It's rendered moot anyway when Wilton's struggling releases the pin, leading to Stuff Blowing Up.
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Leeroy Jenkins
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Leeroy Jenkins: Sing-Ling apparently doesn't give a crap about actual police procedure given his tendency to force his way into Wilton's property left and right, outright beating up a guard in front of his colleague and Wilton's Number Two Willard to get into a room.
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It's Personal
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It's Personal: When Wilton's assassins kill Angelica.
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Samus Is a Girl
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Samus Is a Girl: The Reveal that the hang-glider in the beginning is being ridden by Caroline.
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Same Language Dub
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Same Language Dub: An uncredited Roy Chiao dubbed all of Jimmy Wang Yu's English dialogue since he didn't speak the language and had to learn his dialogue phonetically.
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Destroy the Product Placement
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Destroy the Product Placement: A car is sent hurtling into a British Airways advertisement proudly proclaiming to be the only direct flight from Australia to Hong Kong.
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First Girl Wins
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First Girl Wins: Generally because Angelica got a bad case of explosion.
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Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
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Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: Two Aussie cops arrest a Chinese drug mule → A Hong Kong-Chinese cop taking down Australia's biggest Crime Lord and his syndicate.
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The Pornomancer
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The Pornomancer: Sing-Ling, if you believe him.
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Jurisdiction Friction
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Jurisdiction Friction: Sergeant Morrie, the junior partner of Inspector Bob (who also falls under this despite being much less jerkish), doesn't want a Hong Kong inspector stealing their thunder, so he's initially as unhelpful as possible to Sing-Ling. This stops when Sing-Ling calls them out on this behavior after their failed attempt to find Big Bad Wilton.
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Wok Fu
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Wok Fu: Sing-Ling chases an assassin into a Chinese restaurant's kitchen, with the fight eventually moving into the restaurant itself.
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Description Cut
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Description Cut = Visual Pun: An Australian detective wonders where the hero has got to. "I guess he's hanging around somewhere." Cut to Sing-Ling flying a hang glider into the Big Bad's lair.
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No Name Given
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No Name Given: Angelica's friend from Singapore is only named as "Chinese Girl" in the credits, despite getting called "Mei Ling" on-screen.
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Monumental Battle
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Monumental Battle: The Action Prologue is set at Ayers Rock (Uluru).
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Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
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Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Sing-Ling starts his interrogation by beating Win Chan up. When Win Chan fights back, it escalates into a full-scale kung-fu fight in a prison cell.
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Swirlie
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Swirlie: Done by Sing-Ling to Win Chan.
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Sissy Villain
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Sissy Villain: Willard is rather effeminate. Somewhat doubles as a Non-Action Big Bad and Fat Bastard, even though he's generally polite to the main characters.
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Cartwright Curse
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Cartwright Curse: Angelica, a vet's daughter, brings Sing-Ling to safety at her dad's house. The two are out on a drive when Wilton's assassins attach a bomb to the car. Guess who dies from the explosion and who doesn't?
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Number Two
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Number Two: Willard, Wilton's secretary. Hell of a lot nicer than his boss, though.
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Asian Speekee Engrish
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Asian Speekee Engrish: Averted, but alluded to when Win Chan refuses to talk.
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