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Written in Red (Koan HUI); UPCOMING 2011 RELEASE
Topic Started: Sep 2 2010, 05:08 AM (254 Views)
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INTRODUCTION
The great psychologist Carl JUNG once said, “When an inner situation is not
made conscious, it happens outside as fate. That is to say, when the individual
remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner opposite, the
world must act out the conflict and be torn into opposing halves.” Written in
Red is a 3D, psychological thriller exploring the battle between our conscious
reality and the hidden shadows of our unconscious minds. A novelist at the
mercy of her unconsciousness and a detective interested only in “reality” cross
paths, and because each is unaware of their suppressed shadows, they will
ultimately destroy one another.

SYNOPSIS
At an abandoned hospital a cop discovers a bound and gagged nurse.
He frees her and she leads him into the hospital, finally arriving at the old
operating theater. He stops in shock when he sees a huge pile of dead bodies
all in various stages of decay and the nurse suddenly turns on him and slides
a syringe into the back of his neck and he feels his body growing colder and
colder and colder...

...and a woman wakes up in front of her opened refrigerator. Shaken, she
walks to her bedroom and finds a stack of papers in her own handwriting,
already describing the dream she just had. She faxes them over to the
newsroom. The woman is Scarlett, a writer of a popular thriller series in
the paper. There’s an office boy, Vin, in the newsroom whose only job is
to decipher her terrible handwriting. All of Scarlett’s stories come to her in
vivid dreams she has been having since she was young. But now people are
starting to die in ways she has described in her stories and dreams.

The police suspect that one of Scarlett’s fans has become a copycat killer
but the detective in charge, Dean, thinks Scarlett is the perpetrator. No one
believes that this neurotic woman could commit murder, but Dean has solved
so many bizarre cases, he takes no chances. He arrests Scarlett and finds
that the lady not only sleepwalks but also has a borderline personality with
schizophrenic symptoms. She could be committing crimes in her sleep with
no memory of them after she wakes up. Convinced, Scarlett begs the police
to lock her up.

But while she’s in police custody, another murder takes place, this one
resembling the dream that opened the film. Since that installment hasn’t been
published yet the police suspect someone in the newsroom and they quickly
target Vin. They search his house, which is a shrine to Scarlett, decorated like
the rooms in her novels, full of models of her most famous murder scenes. Vin
claims he’s just a fan but the police don’t buy it and he runs. He reaches the
elevator but begins to hallucinate and has a gruesome accident that sees him
crushed to a pulp.

Case closed. The police free Scarlett.
Still convinced that Scarlett somehow did it, Dean storms
home, opens the door to his apartment, and another door
appears. He opens that door only to find another door.
Kicking down door after door her realizes that this must
be a hallucination and he shakes it off just in time to find
himself on the edge of the roof. One more door and he
would have fallen to his death.

Racing to Scarlett’s apartment he turns it inside out
and finds a dream notebook under her pillow. In it is a
description of Vin’s bizarre death in the elevator. Dean
demands to know who else has seen the notebook,
Scarlett swears she’s the only one and without a word
Dean pulls his gun and shoots her. She dies, still protesting
her innocence.

A few days pass and the case seems to be finished. A
frumpy maid arrives at Scarlett’s house to do her cleaning
and after the cop on duty takes down her particulars he lets
her retrieve her belongings and go. She rounds the corner
and smiles to herself, cruelly. In her hand hides Scarlett’s
notebook. No one even noticed this woman before, but it’s
clear that the murders won’t stop here.

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
Our Shadow is everything that we repress in our
unconscious mind. It can be a source of inspiration when
we are in touch with it, or the source of our destruction
if we deny it. Scarlett accepts her unconscious as the
wellspring of her creativity. For Dean, his Shadow is the
source of the intuitive leaps that have let him solve his
high profile cases. But he refuses to acknowledge his
Shadow, and so his pride has curdled into arrogance and
his eagerness to break big cases has decayed into an
obsession that has blinded his judgment.

Everyone has a Shadow of some type, and I am excited to
use cinematic language to express these abstract states
that lie somewhere between reality and dreams. After all,
film is kind of a dream itself, a mystery that hypnotizes us
into believing that a lie is the truth.

DIRECTOR
Koan HUI started as an assistant director to Tsui HARK
working on films like Once upon a Time in China,
Swordsman II and Dragon Inn. Over the years, he received
extensive practical training from Tsui HARK, covering all
areas of film production: scriptwriting (The Blade, Black
Mask, Time & Tide), visual effects (Legend of Zu, Era of
the Vampires), editing and art direction. In early 2000, he
started the visual effect and animation company, Chibi
(Digital Vision), which was responsible for the visual effects
work on 2046, Sha Po Lang and Dragon Tiger Gate.
Written in Red is his directorial debut.

PRODUCER
FUKAZAWA Hiroshi started his film career working
as a personal assistant to the legendary composer
James WONG. His first short film, Traffic Jam, won the
Distinguished Award of the Hong Kong Independent Short
Film & Video Awards in 1996. After his documentary
debut, Development Hell, premiered at the 31st Hong Kong
International Film Festival he joined Media Asia, the studio
responsible for internationally acclaimed films such as
The Warlords, The Assembly and Andrew LAU’s upcoming
martial arts film, Legend of Chen Zhen.
http://www.haf.asia/haf/
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