Analyze+THAT!+From+Beijing+With+Love

From Beijing With Love is a Cantonese parody of James Bond directed by Stephen Chow.
 * Analyze THAT: From Beijing With Love Analysis**

**1. Plot:** "Ling Ling Chat" (translated into 007) is a rather dumb secret agent of the Chinese government, and what he wants is to become one of the best secret agents of China, to retrieve the dinosaur skull, and to terminate the man with the golden gun (the man who is suspected of stealing the skull).

2. What the character needs: What Ling Ling Chat needs is to express his love for the female agent and get the female agent to realize that she loved him too.

‍Theme: Love

3. Scene: I have chosen the scene after Chat gets shot in the leg by the female agent for the theme of love, because of the following things. - Mise en Scene - The props in the scene works well to create the theme of love. One of the primary examples of the props contributing to the theme of love would be the white roses that Chat picked out for the female, risking his life to do so, even though unknowingly to him, the female was the one trying to kill him. Stephen uses the rose as a symbol in the scene, symbolizing that Chat really loves the female, risking his life to hopefully make her happy. Another prop in the scene is the picture of a couple on the beach hung on the wall right beside where the female was working to take the bullet out of Chat's leg, which symbolizes love. In that scene, Ling and the female were in a position together similar to the picture, so it shows the theme of love. - Editing & Sound - The editing and sounds in this film also contributes a lot to the film. The non-diegetic soft piano music that played when Chat gave the female the flowers, for one, helps to portray the message that there is love in the atmosphere, and shows the theme of love. The editing, such as the use of intercutting between Chat, the female, and the flowers as she decided whether or not she wanted to save Chat shows that she is starting to develop a love for Chat, advancing Chat's need for the female to realize that she loves him. - Cinematography - In this scene, the cinematography mostly consisted of closeup shots and medium shots. The closeup shots were usually used on the female's face, because as the scene progresses, her emotions on her face grows increasingly worrisome as she started to develop feelings of love instead of hate towards Chat. The medium shots were used to show how the female was beside Chat every step of the way to taking the bullet out of his leg, which also showed that she cared for him and was starting to develop feelings for him, showing the theme of love. - Lighting - In the first part of this scene, there is soft lighting, and creates a rather cold bluish color. In the second part of the scene, it is side lit, but creates a warmer red-ish color. The use of the different colors contrasts the different feelings. In the first part of the scene, the bluish color of the scene creates a feeling that there is hate in the air, with no love. However, in the second part of the scene, there is a feeling of love with the red-ish color, so the color contrast in the scene shows that love had developed, contributing to the theme of love.

Blue text = redid work