Hong Kong Films

Hong Kong films bold expressiveness of common emotions and extravagant stylist delivery has attracted worldwide audiences, in the words of David Bordwell, “[Hong Kong Films’] audacity, their slickness, and their unabashed appeal to emotion have won them audiences throughout the world” (2). Scavenger aesthetic, which puts “an emphasis on sticking moments,” (4) was also a fundamental characteristic to the global success of Hong Kong films. These two aspects appeal to the manipulation of emotions of the spectators and aims to make them go through the highest highs and the lowest lows, which is exactly what mass entertainment does.

The global popularity of Hong Kong films also has to do with the impact they have had in the global language and aesthetic of action films. The martial arts sequences in Hong Kong films became the choreographies action films around the world