| The Eagle Shooting Heroes | |||||||||||
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| Director: | Jeffrey Lau | ||||||||||
| Producer: | Wong Kar-wai Tsai Sung-lin | ||||||||||
| Screenplay: | Jeffrey Lau | ||||||||||
| Story: | Louis Cha | ||||||||||
| Starring: | Leslie Cheung Tony Leung Ka-fai Tony Leung Chiu-wai Jacky Cheung Kenny Bee Brigitte Lin Joey Wong Maggie Cheung Carina Lau Veronica Yip | ||||||||||
| Music: | James Wong Mark Lui | ||||||||||
| Cinematography: | Peter Pau | ||||||||||
| Editing: | Kai Kit-wai | ||||||||||
| Studio: | Block 2 Pictures Scholar Films | ||||||||||
| Distributor: | Newport Entertainment Ltd | ||||||||||
| Runtime: | 113 minutes | ||||||||||
| Country: | Hong Kong | ||||||||||
| Language: | Cantonese | ||||||||||
| Gross: | HK$23.463 million (Hong Kong)[1] | ||||||||||
The Eagle Shooting Heroes (Chinese: 射鵰英雄傳之東成西就) is a 1993 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Jeffrey Lau. It is a parody of Louis Cha's novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes, and a classic example of the mo lei tau comedy.
The film was said to be caused by the over-budgeting of Wong Kar-wai's Ashes of Time. In order to cover up the cost of the yet unfinished film, the director decided to use many members of the cast to perform different roles and shoot a "quick-and-dirty" film for show during the Chinese New Year, a period for the Hong Kong film industry to harvest cash.
In addition to a score by James Wong and Mark Lui, the film contains a song set to the overture from Gioacchino Rossini's Guillaume Tell, as well as uncredited excerpts from "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" from Georges Bizet's Carmen and Danse des petits cygnes from Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.