[2024.03.28] CARLOS CHAN TRIES TO CONVINCE GORDON LAM TO COLLABORATE

Father to be Carlos Chan grasps every opportunity to make money as he offers his services to Gordon Lam courtesy of on.cc

Carlos Chan and Gordon Lam hope to be able to collaborate

Michael Ning, Louis Cheung and Fish Liew put their hand in cement
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Best Actor Gordon Lam Ka Tung yesterday attended a film editing exhibit "Magic Behind the Screens" opening ceremony with Carlos Chan Ka Lok, Chin Kar Lok, Louis Cheung Kai Chung, Fish Liew Chi Yu, along with director Andrew Lau Wai Keung and Society of Film Editors Hong Kong president Wong Hoi. The exhibit would take place between March 28th and May 12th, displaying different effects from different editing methods that appeared in film. Everyone would understand more about how the editors apply magic to movies behind the scenes from the exhibit, which would also salute editors and many film new comer interviews to embody the succession of the Hong Kong film spirit.

Both Ka Tung and Ka Lok agreed that they were rather interested in editing. Actor turned producer Ka Tung said that he often would personally edit films and that editing actually was very hard. However he learned a lot from it; for example when the director of TIME could not make time to edit the film, he personally edited it. "Back then for TIME (SAT CHOOK GOR WONG FUN) I was the editor! The most wonderful thing about editing is the ability to rewrite the whole thing. For example in THE GOLDFINGER (GUM SAU JI), in ten seconds or so you could see the different changes of Ka Lok. My eyes were open, and I like to hear his foul language usage." Because Ka Lok has always been a nice guy, the performance in the film was drastically different. He hoped that they would have the opportunity to work together.

Ka Lok immediately looked for opportunities to work with Ka Tung. Ka Lok said that he has always admired Ka Tung and even offered his services to Ka Tung for TIME 2. He joked that he hoped Ka Tung would give him the opportunity to make some milk money.

Ka Lok also revealed that he has studied editing. He mentioned that around 10 years ago when he ran into a lull in his career, he once opened a wedding photography studio to shoot photos and edit videos. "At the time I worked with director (Lawrence) Kan Kwan Chun. When he heard my salary he jumped with fright, then he sent all the clients on his hands to me. I spent my salary on a camera and started working. (Did it hurt?) Sure, but he said that he could help me make back 10 times the money. (What happened?) Of course it was more than 10 times!" Now he has sold his share of the studio, which was in the hands of a friend. However for his own wedding the company was responsible for the shoot. Ka Tung joked that his salary was only enough to buy a mobile phone.