Chicken and Duck Talk
Chicken and Duck Talk Chinese Jyutping gai1 tung4 aap3 gong2 literally Chicken with Duck Talk is an awardwinning 1988 film cowritten by Michael Hui, who also starred. It was directed and cowritten by Clifton Ko. The film deals with the conflict that ensues between the proprietor of a BBQ duck restaurant that is in trouble for health violations and the fast food chicken restaurant that opens across the street. The film was the highestgrossing Hong Kong film released in 1988. Huis screenplay and performance won him several awards, including a special award given by the American Film Institute in 1989.
Hui Kei Michael Hui is the struggling proprietor of a BBQ duck restaurant in Hong Kong. At the beginning of the film, Hui is visited by a health inspector, who found a cockroach in his soup and other unsanitary conditions, and threatens to sue the restaurant. Unfortunately, Huis staff stops him from leaving with the soup sample after a slipup from the inspector. While the restaurant is typically operated on ground floor, Hui lives upstairs and awaits a visit from his aristocratic motherinlaw Pak Yan, who is convinced that her daughter, Ah Kuen Sylvia Chang, has married a goodfornothing husband who cares for no one.Later, Hui unknowingly faces new trouble when a genius businessman, Danny Poon Lawrence Ng opens what is to be the first of a chain of Dannys Chicken fast food fried chicken restaurants across the street from him. Not long after, Dannys Chicken becomes the talk across Hong Kong, attracting young customers and families and causing Huis business to plummet. When Hui has a frank discussion meeting with his fellow staff, in regards to his business and its working conditions, one of his employees, Cuttlefish Ricky Hui gets fed up with Huis abuse and guilttripping about his dead father and struggling mother, and plans to work for Dannys Chicken. However, Cuttlefish discovers while being trained over at Dannys Chicken that Poons regimen was insane, strict, and humiliating, where much of his job involves appearing in a chicken suit on the street, much to Huis disgust. Huis motherinlaw offers to invest in Huis dwindling business, to which Hui vehemently rejects. After his son tells him that his best friend, Judy Gloria Yip, likes its food and its atmosphere, Hui disguises himself as an Indian woman to infiltrate his rivals restaurant and tries Dannys Chicken. Hui is convinced that it is only the packaging that people like, but his disguise is quickly undone by Poon himself. ........
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