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Money No Enough
1998 · Film · 98 min
Directed by Tay Teck Lock
"Money No Enough" is about three friends of different backgrounds who end up facing the same problem of surviving in a cash-strapped society where lack of money can bring endless problems. The film stars Chew Wah Keong (Jack Neo), who is white collar but a spend thrift, Ong (Mark Lee), a contractor, and Hui (Henry Thia), a coffee shop waiter who has a crush on his customer...
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I was worried by your comment about the cropping, as I've often seen overzealous cropping on restorations and rereleases. I don't think there is cause to worry on this one, the print they restored from is Open Matte [0] and would not normally be projected like that, rather it would be projected in a widescreen crop like the crop shown. I suspect they did the restoration on the Open Matte version and stored that for future.
"Despite being merely 25 years old, the picture and sound negatives of Money No Enough could no longer be found, and the restoration had to be carried out using two 35 mm release prints from the AFA’s collection."
This is so saddening though that the negatives of a major movie are lost after such a short amount of time. Most movies are made by bringing together a lot of people for a very short amount of time and then everyone moves onto the next project. Everyone is usually ecstatic if something gets a cinema release in the first place. Nobody is looking at the long-term archival. The fact that so many negatives from movies have actually survived is often astounding to me.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_matte