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Actors: Lieh Lo, Bruce Baron, Ching-Chai Lim, Ray Lui, Tin Sang Lung
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Don't Play with Fire |
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DON'T PLAY WITH FIRE (Di yi lei xing wei xian) also known as "Playing with Fire" or "Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind" is the third movie, shot in 1980, from Tsui Hark.
Three lazybones friends manufacture a firebomb and place it in a cinema. Pearl, a sadistic young girl, has observed the scene, follows the bombers and starts to manipulate them. The four criminals plan more and more daring acts up to the day they steal a wallet containing an important sum of money, in Japanese bonds, belonging to some mysterious organisation.
As they try to sell their bonds, our petty criminals will have to face Pearl's brother who is a Hong Kong policeman in charge of "the bomb" case and vicious killers who'll make them regret to have chosen the criminal career.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 60%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- being chased by crooks who want treasure/$$$$
Criminal enemy is...
- bomber/arsonist
If this is a criminal POV story...
- criminals stealing from other criminals
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/butch/lez (woman)
Body type
- average (woman)
Events of movie makes character more...
- cynical
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Chinese
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Chinese
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a criminal organization
Setting
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- China
City?
Yes
City:
- dangerous
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- in awe
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- seeing breasts
- sex with icepick
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- decapitated
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- Chinese
Subtitles?
- Yes
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding bombs
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