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Frederic Ambroisine
导演, 编剧, 杂志编辑
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[endif]I interviewed director
Teddy Chen陳德森twice so far. The
first time, it was in 2004, and I started with a “career interview” and asked
him of course, to talk about about the great action movies that he made in the
90’s like “
Downtown Torpedoes神偷諜影” (A kind of Hong
Kong version of “Mission: Impossible” starring
Takeshi Kaneshiro) and “
Purple
Storm紫雨風暴” (The first movie where I really noticed
Daniel Wu’s potential).
But actually, the purpose of this interview was to talk about
“
Infernal Affairs II無間道II”. 
Teddy Chen (Hong Kong - 2004)At that time, I was actually preparing my short documentaries about the “ Infernal Affairs” trilogy for the French distribution company Studio Canal. And since “Infernal Affairs II” was my favorite among the three movies, I wanted to interview as many people as I can who worked on it. Finally, I could have Andrew Lau劉偉強, Alan Mak麥兆輝, Felix Chong莊文強, Anthony Wong黃秋生, Edison Chen陳冠希, Andrew Lin連凱and Teddy Chen. Unhopefully, Andrew Lin and Teddy Chen interviews had to be edited out for a length reason (the documentary had to do 15 minutes maximum).
Teddy Chen in "Infernal Affairs II" (2003)Teddy Chen was not behind the camera for “ Infernal Affairs II”. He worked on the movie as an actor for a small part where he played a gangster who got badly burned. He actually started in the film industry as an actor. “ ”
Teddy Chen spent 8 months acting for TV: “ ”. After two years, Jackie Chan’s manager came to him, because Jackie Chan needed an assistant : “ “ The Druken Master” ”
Jackie Chan's "Snake in the Eagle's Shadow" (1979)
Working for Jackie is maybe a dream for millions of people, but it wasn’t for Teddy: “ I was the personnal assitant of Jackie. I was so exited to work with Jackie. I thought I’d have many chances to learn new things about movies and big productions. But it wasn’t really the case. I helped Jackie to pick cars, to look out the new house, to take care of his fans from Japan or Taiwan, and bring them to shopping, to see Jackie’s movies in the lab. I was under one people and over ten thousand people. A very powerful position! But I was not happy. One day, I talked to him, and I resigned. He was very surprided. He said to me : ‘Did I not treat you good? I buy three t-shirts, you have one t-shirt. I treat you as a brother.’ And I said to him ‘I’m sorry Jackie, I want to be a director’. He stepped away but I saw his reaction in the mirror. He was smiling. I cried that night. I was 19. The next day I resigned and he told the manager to talk to me and asked what I wante to do. I said that I wanted to start from the lowest, and do script continuity. That’s what I did on the next jackie Chan movie.”
During the years, Teddy Chen worked for several directors and not only
Jackie Chan : “
.”
Kirk Wong's "Gunmen" (1988) and Ching Siu-tung "Chinese Ghost Story II" (1990)Produced by Tsui Hark. Assitant director: Teddy Chen.
After he became an established director, Teddy Chen had the opportunity to work with Jackie Chan again, by directing “ Accidental Spy”: “
Jackie Chan in Teddy Chen's "Accidental Spy" (2001)Five years after our first interview, I had the chance to meet Teddy Chan a second time during the Hong Kong Filmart 2009where he was presenting two projects. One at the Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum called “ Punitive Homicide”, a horror thriller written by Su Chao-Pin (“ Double Vision”, “ Silk”) and the other one, “ Bodyguards and Assassins”, had a big presse conference at the Filmart a few weeks before the beginning of the shooting. The whole interview about those two movies was published on
Twitch two weeks ago. Check it out right here:
Promo posters of Teddy Chen's "Bodyguards and Assassins" (2010)Frédéric Ambroisine (July 24th, 2009)
