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New York is the city that never sleeps, and with so many events and activities each week across all five boroughs, it can be hard to know what’s actually worthwhile. Here are the events New York City actors should have on their radars this week. Under his eye, in musical form.Hulu’s Emmy-winning dystopian nightmare “The Handmaid’s Tale” doesn’t return for a second season until April 25, but you can bless the fruit on Jan. 25 at Union Hall in Williamsburg. Marcia Belsky and Melissa Stokoski’s parody musical take on the Margaret Atwood-created universe will be set in 2027 Brooklyn and promises to be funny and decidedly less bleak than its television counterpart. ($5 in advance; $10 day of the show) John Turturro puts on his producer’s cap.Emmy Award winner John Turturro, in association with The Left Wing, will present the world premiere production of “Imperfect Love,...

Revenge of the Green Dragons

USA/China, 2014

Written by Andrew Loo and Michael Di Jiacomo

Directed by Andrew Lau and Andrew Loo

The problem with the new Revenge of the Green Dragons is that co-director Andrew Lau and executive producer Martin Scorsese are already joined at the hip over a previous story, which Lau made as Infernal Affairs before Scorsese re-made it as The Departed. Although Revenge of the Green Dragons is an entirely different type of story than those two films, it will inevitably be compared to them, as well as every other classic that the two men have made, and it suffers badly from the comparison.

Of all the films in Lau’s and Scorsese’s catalogs, this most closely resembles Goodfellas, right down to the omnipresent voiceover narration by the lead character. Sonny (Justin Chon of the Twilight series) immigrates to America as a small child, and...

While Revenge Of The Green Dragons is supposed to be a historically relevant glimpse into the Queens gang scene circa 1980, it feels very much like a cartoonish riff off of Walter Hill’s The Warriors. The Scorsese-produced film comes with a certain pedigree since Wai-keung Lau (Infernal Affairs) represents half of the directorial duo, joined by Andrew Loo, yet the clunky narrative scripted by Loo and Michael Di Jiacomo fails to properly grasp the thematic gravity of illegal immigration. The Green Dragons are the baddest mamma jammas this side of Queens, yet their foolishly ambitious nature only paves a cinematic road towards random gang shootouts, weightless acting and a faulty focus on pulpy action over more emotionally jarring factors about immigrants chasing the American dream.

The story follows Sonny (Justin Chon) and Steven (Kevin Wu), two brothers who are inducted into a Chinese street gang at a very early age.

Dragon Seed: Lau & Loo’s Dissatisfying NYC Chinese Gang Saga

Martin Scorsese appears as executive producer on Andrew Lau and Andrew Loo’s Revenge of the Green Dragons, which is no surprise considering he famously remade Lau’s 2002 film Infernal Affairs as The Departed (2006). Featuring a gritty period portrait of gangland warfare in New Your City, it’s clearly the sort of material that Scorsese seems to be attracted to, and thematically, one could even say there are influences of titles like Mean Streets (1973) or Goodfellas (1990) in the mix, with slight homages here and there. But the similiarites are only skin deep. This saga, which is actually based on fact, feels too zany and forthright, any realistic human elements crushed beneath its predilection for exaggerated, dramatic performances and hyperviolence.

In 1983 Flushing, a young boy, Sonny, crosses into the Us without parents. Snakehead Mama (Eugenia Yuan), head of a Chinese...

Revenge Of The Green Dragons A24 Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on Rotten Tomatoes Grade: C Director: Andrew Lau, Andrew Loo Screenplay: Michael Di Jiacomo, Andrew Loo Cast: Justin Chon, Kevin Wu, Harry Shum Jr., Ray Liotta, Jin Auyeung, Shuya Chang, Carl Li Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 9/8/14 Opens: October 24, 2014 If I remember the dates correctly, during the late 1970s, decades after the Communists took control of the Chinese mainland, power shifted outside of China, as the Communists destroyed the local gangs, some of whose members emigrated to New York. Wars raged in New York’s Chinatown in 1977 between Chinese gangs centering on Mott Street [ Read More ]

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It sounds like a wuxia movie with people flying all over the place, but it’s actually a true-story gangster film set in New York’s Chinatown, and starring two Chinese male leads. “Revenge of the Green Dragons” will be directed by Hong Kong mainstay Andrew Lau, who is teaming up with Martin Scorsese on the film. Scorsese will only produce, but if you needed a name to get your crime film some attention in the States and overseas, you couldn’t do any better than Scorsese. (It helps, of course, that Scorsese owes his only Oscar to Lau, who originally directed “Internal Affairs”, the film that would become “The Departed” in the States.) Based on a script by Michael Di Jiacomo (who adapted a New Yorker article on Chinese crime gangs in America), “Revenge of the Green Dragons” would follow “two immigrants fighting their way up the Green Dragons gang,...

Okay, this is really cool. First, Andrew (Wai-keung) Lau directed Infernal Affairs, then Martin Scorsese remade it as The Departed and won and Oscar, and now the pair will unite to make Revenge of the Green Dragons. No surprise, it’s a NY-set gang thriller. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Scorsese will executive produce and Lau will direct the story of two Chinese immigrants climbing the career ladder of a mob, only to fight back against them when one of them is cast out. It’s based on a true story that was distilled into a “New Yorker” article and turned into a screenplay by Michael Di Jiacomo (Somewhere Tonight). There is nothing about this that isn’t awesome.

Out of Berlin this week comes word that Oscar-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese will executive produce Hong Kong director Andrew Lau's next effort called Revenge of the Green Dragons . This pairing is significant in that Scorsese directed the English-language remake of Lau's Asian crime thriller hit Infernal Affairs and ended up winning his first (and only) Oscar for the hit film under its new title, The Departed . According to The Hollywood Reporter , "Revenge" is the story of two immigrant Chinese siblings and their involvement within the New York-based Green Dragons gang and how that affects their relationship. Based on a Michael Di Jiacomo script inspired by a New Yorker article that took a look at the Chinese-American underworld, the production is scheduled to...

Martin Scorsese has hopped onboard as executive producer on the thriller "Revenge Of The Green Dragons" which Im Global's Octane is financing.

Andrew Lau, the director of "Infernal Affairs" which Scorsese remade as "The Departed," is helming 'Dragons' which is set in 1980s New York City.

The story follows two immigrant brothers who join the Green Dragons gang and quickly rise up the ranks, becoming notorious to the city’s police.

When an ill-fated love affair pits one of the brothers against the gang leader, he sets out for revenge on the group.

Michael Di Jiacomo wrote the script, based on the true story chronicled by the New Yorker in 1992. Filming aims to begin in April.

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