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Trivia

  1. Despite possible appearances to the contrary, lead actor Bene't Lynton and director Guy Orlebar are brothers, Guy being two years Bene't's senior. Rock legend Yip Sai Wing's sister is also involved in the movie, as Chief Wardrobe.
  2. Actress Aya Suyama, despite entirely voicing her character's lines throughout the film in fluent English, cannot herself speak English. Conversely, although his character is able to only speak Cantonese, rock legend Yip Sai Wing has no problem conversing in English.
  3. For her role actress Yumi Kanno intentionally put on a strong Japanese accent to pretend her English was limited, whereas in reality she can speak English well. In addition, she is fluent in Mandarin. Incidentally, on this topic action star Gordon Liu's contract with one of the major television stations in Hong Kong prevents him from using any of his native Cantonese tongue in this film.
  4. Whereas the HOSTESS character translates part of Yip Sai Wing's Cantonese monologue on the topic of love and music, she doesn't translate everything, Some parts are left untranslated as a treat for Cantonese-speaking viewers.
  5. The Cantonese dialogue of the bus conductor is based on an infamous local celebrity in Hong Kong, made famous by a YouTube video clip showing an elderly man complaining to a youth who had asked him to speak less noisily on his mobile phone. The famous phrase he used, which for a period of time was heard ubiquitously throughout Hong Kong, and is repeated in this movie is: "You have pressure; I have pressure. There's nothing we can do about it."
  6. The HOSTESS character informs the protagonist that her boyfriend's love for music "will never die". The boyfriend is played by Yip Sai Wing from the legendary rock band Beyond. This line is a reference to one of Beyond's most popular hit songs featuring the English line "I'll never die". Ironically, the lead singer of the band, Wong Ka Kui who sang these lyrics, died tragically in an on-stage concert accident in Japan in 1993.
  7. The dialogue for the bar scene between PAUL and PAULINE was considered too politically sensitive for certain markets and was never recorded. Although the closing credits list the PAULINE character's name as such, in the original dialogue we would have learned this is only her humorous response to learning of the character PAUL's real name. We never know what her real name is. In fact, throughout the film we only learn the real names of the two characters PAUL and ANGEL.
  8. Lead actor Bene't Lynton's real middle name is the same as the character he plays: PAUL.
  9. The protagonist character PAUL is not the only character director Guy Orlebar based on himself. Earlier drafts of the script had the BANKER character as more of an arrogant, aggressive individual which Guy also initially based loosely on himself.
  10. Director Guy Orlebar has two cameos in the film. The first is standing in the street with his back to the camera with his (real-life) fiancee looking into a famous designer brand's store. The second is as the bespectacled barman who provides beer to the characters PAUL and PAULINE. Guy Orlebar's voice also features in the film as the voice over for the Chairman Mao little red book seller.
  11. The Chairman Mao little red book seller really works at that store. For the movie's benefit he ad-libbed when the camera came past.
  12. Other crew members also have cameos in the film. The taxi driver is played by the executive director Kant Leung, the helpful passer-by is the make-up artist Eva Chan, the male friend in the disco is the assistant director Sunny Luk, and the convenience store clerk is the production office's Cliff Chan.
  13. In Chinese society the mythical phoenix represents (among other things) femininity, hence phoenix imagery appears throughout the film. In addition, director Guy Orlebar's fiancee's Chinese name means beautiful phoenix.
  14. Actress Aya Suyama's phoenix tattoo is real.
  15. Because of the typhoon during the shooting, all helicopter shots and all shots of Hong Kong from Victoria Peak were taking several weeks after principal shooting wrapped.
  16. Due to the rainy and cloudy typhoon weather during the shoot, in post-production most outdoor scenes were color-corrected to create a sunnier ambiance.
  17. As most camera-work was handheld, many shots required post-production steady-cam filtering or image rotation correction.
  18. The entire movie was edited on the director's MacBook Pro laptop computer.

Outtakes

Premature Ejection
Bus Stop
Helping Hand
I Could Come Here
I Was Told
Tied Up On The Phone
Level Down
Ow
Nice To Meet You
Bugs
Sorry
Too Late
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