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(Xinhua)Updated: 2006-04-07 14:19
　　Though director Jia Zhangke’s next movie Ci Qing Shi Dai (Tattoo Age) is still at the very earliest stage, it is already a hot subject as rumors say it will be completely different from Jia’s previous ones.
　　
　　"Yes, my next movie is about gang," the award-winning director admitted when attending the 30th Hong Kong International Film Festival.
　　
　　Jia is known for a trilogy of films from 1997-2002 ("Xiao Wu", "Platform", "Unknown Pleasures") exploring the impact of China’s rapid economic transformation on its people. His fourth film "The World", also on a realistic theme and of a documentary style, revolves around workers and dancers at a theme park in Beijing featuring the world’s sites in miniature.
　　
　　"But Ci Qing Shi Dai is much of a drama," Jia said, adding "it’ s a combination of gang movie and action movie, and above all, it is a historical story."
　　
　　Unlike his previous movies which were all based on his own script, this time it is adapted from a popular novel written by Su Tong, he said.
　　
　　"I want to make a breakthrough in this film and experiment a new style which I have never tried," he said, adding "to a film director, the greatest pleasure is to keep experimenting and changing. I even dream of shooting a cartoon movie."
　　
　　This movie, which is called Jia’s first "big production", has pooled money from the United States, and will cooperate with Hong Kong’s first-class stunt company and action director. The producer even plans to invite Jay Chow, Taiwanese super pop singer, to star the movie. Does it mean that Jia, who always persists in independent spirit, will bow to the market?
　　
　　"Absolutely not. Our team is not a commercial outcome. We just want to make the film perfect," Jia said, adding that since he himself has no experience for gang movie, he has to seek help from Hong Kong action director. So is the case for photographer, who must be an expert in shooting action.
　　
　　As to Chow, "I think his rebelling spirit tallies with the story which took place in 1975, one year before the end of the Great Culture Revolution," Jia said.
　　
　　Whether Chow will appear in the movie remains a mystery, but the leading actress has already been decided — Zhao Tao, who has never lost her position in Jia’s films.
　　
　　The film is scheduled to shoot at the end of November and will be pictured around China’s south city Su Zhou.
　　

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　　A Dutch actress’ bid to drive to the South Pole on a tractor for charity suffered a blow after Belgian police confiscated the vehicle for doing only 19km/h, without a number plate, down a busy motorway.
　　
　　Friday July 15, 2005
　　Fighting cocks in Thailand are to be issued with passports recording their health history to ensure they do not spread the deadly bird flu virus.
　　
　　Friday July 15, 2005
　　In a scene straight out of Little Britain, a man in a wheelchair in the Dutch town of Leuth, caught stealing expensive silk shirts, escaped capture after he jumped up and ran out of the shop.
　　
　　Thursday July 14, 2005
　　A law student in Montenegro got so bored during his final-year exam that he stood up and walked to the front of the hall, got down on one knee and asked his girlfriend, who was also sitting the exam, to marry him. She said yes.
　　
　　(whistling!^_^)
　　
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　　Italian police called to an "emergency" found a 90-year-old in a panic because her TV had broken during The Bold and the Beautiful. "You have to help, or I will miss the end," she said. They gave her a warning, and repaired the TV.
　　
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　　Shepherds in eastern Turkey were stunned when 1500 sheep played follow the leader over a 15-metre cliff. The first 400 died, but they broke the fall of the 1100 that followed.
　　
　　Monday July 11, 2005
　　Indian people named after Soviet-era Russians are meeting up in a village called Moscow. Communist influences in the state of Kerala have made Russian names – such as Gorbachev, Lenin and Brezhnev – popular.
　　
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　　Tom Cruise’s War Of The Worlds movie has been blamed for mass panic in the Khabarovsk region of Siberia after locals mistook a tornado for an alien invasion.
　　
　　Friday July 8, 2005
　　A young Russian man who dressed in women’s clothes to take an exam for his sister at Moscow State University was caught after his oversize bust and heavy make-up gave him away.
　　
　　Thursday July 7, 2005
　　A Bangladesh zoo plans to introduce birth control using hormone pills and jabs, after a series of unplanned births resulted in 36 tigers and lions living in an enclosure meant for 16 and eating half the food budget.
　　
　　Wednesday July 6, 2005
　　More than 100 athletes competing in an international triathlon at Loch Ness in Scotland are to be insured by NIG for up to $2.36 million in case they fall prey to the Loch Ness monster.
　　
　　Tuesday July 5, 2005
　　Russian astrologist Marina Bai, who says NASA altered her horoscope by crashing the Deep Impact probe into the Tempel 1 comet, is suing the US space agency for $400 million in damages.
　　
　　Monday July 4, 2005
　　A Romanian man who stole a bike ended up in hospital after fainting in fright in the arms of the victim. The owner surprised him by catching up after a three-kilometre chase.
　　
　　Saturday July 2, 2005
　　A restaurant in the Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung seats diners on ceramic toilets, with lids closed, and serves food to diners in toilet-shaped bowls.
　　
　　Friday July 1, 2005
　　A 74-year-old Californian was left with his passport, some documents and his mother’s favourite painting – bought 25 years ago for $118 – when a landslide wrecked his uninsured home. The picture turned out to be a $710,000 masterpiece.
　　

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