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* AttackAnimal: Madam Yiu’s CoolPet is a giant boa constrictor which she keeps in her bedroom. She also attempts to have her enemies and prisoners ([[spoiler: such as Ding-lik]]) FedToTheBeast.

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* AttackAnimal: Madam Yiu’s CoolPet pet is a giant boa constrictor which she keeps in her bedroom. She also attempts to have her enemies and prisoners ([[spoiler: such as Ding-lik]]) FedToTheBeast.
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* BadassMustache: Ditto.
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* FriendsTurnedRomanticRivals: The two main heroes, Man-Keung and Ding-lik, were small-time hooligans who made it big in the Shanghai underworld and killed their way to the top. But unfortunately both of them fall for Fung Qing-qing, the daughter of their boss, and the subsequent LoveTriangle ends up going horribly wrong for both men.

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* ArchEnemy: Averted, [[spoiler: despite Man-keung swearing vengeance after witnessing Madam Yiu slaughtering more than 20 of his friends, ultimately he never gets to confront her, face-to-face. Madam Yiu is ultimately killed by Man-keung's friend, Ding-lik, and Man-keung never finds out what happened to his sworn enemy for the rest of the film]].



* GroundByGears: One of the triads on the ship in the opening scene gets squashed between gears while trying to pursue Man-keung.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Madam Yiu tries to feed Ding-lik to her pet boa, but Ding-lik, using a concealed pen, [[EyeScream stabs the boa in its eye]]. Thrashing about furiously, the boa ends up clinging onto a shocked Madam Yiu, who then proceeds to constrict around her and devour her instead]].

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* GroundByGears: One of the triads on the ship in the opening scene gets squashed between gears and [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe ripped into half from the waist]] while trying to pursue Man-keung.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Madam Yiu tries to feed Ding-lik to her pet boa, but Ding-lik, using grabbing a concealed pen, [[EyeScream stabs nearby lampshade, breaks it against the boa in boa's face, stabbing the animal's eye before shoving the bulb down its eye]].throat. Thrashing about furiously, the boa ends up clinging onto a shocked Madam Yiu, who then proceeds to constrict around her and devour her instead]].



* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Madam Yiu, who delights in torturing her captives and feeding her victims to her boa, ends up having the boa devouring her instead]].



* OutsideRide: Ding-lik during a chase scene ends up clinging to the side of an out-of-control vehicle.



* ShowerScene: One scene had Ding-lik and Ching Ching taking their shower together.

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* ShowerScene: One scene had Ding-lik Man-keung and Ching Ching taking their shower together.together. [[spoiler: Ding-lik walks into them [[YourDoorWasOpen without knocking]], intending to surprise his girlfriend, and is shocked to see his best friend and his girlfriend all wet together]].
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* ThePenIsMightier: An unarmed Man-keung managed to kill a henchman guarding him by stabbing the henchman's neck with a pen.
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* GrievousBottleyHarm: Madam Yiu knocks out Ding-lik with a vodka bottle while capturing him alive.

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* {{Fingore}}: Invoked, when Ding-lik had his hands tied to a table top by rival mobsters, and a mobster passes him an ax ordering him to remove his own fingers or they would kill him. He manages to bust his way out in the next scene however.

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* {{Fingore}}: Invoked, when In the restaurant confrontation, Ding-lik had his hands tied lose a pinky to a table top by rival mobsters, and a mobster passes him an ax ordering him to remove his own fingers or they would kill him. He manages to bust his way out in the next scene however.mobster's axe.


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* ManBitesMan: Madam Yiu kills a prisoner on the refugee ship at the start of the film by chewing his throat out in a disturbingly graphic way. And then [[BloodLust gleefully licks the blood from the corner of her mouth with a sadistic smile on her face]].
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* DestinationDefenestration: The restaurant confrontation ends with Ding-lik and Man-keung flinging the rival triad boss out of a tall window.
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Set in Shanghai during the early 1930s / Republican era, the city is a haven for triads and gangsters before its occupation by the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War. Hui Man-keung (Cheung), the only survivor of a triad massacre on the seas who escaped by jumping from his ship, finds himself in the Bund of Shanghai, where he befriends Ding-Lik (Andy Lau), a small-time crook and gangster with big dreams of his own. Realizing the only way they can make it big is through joining the triads, both men proceed to kill their way upwards to power, with Man-keung falling for his boss' daughter, Ching-Ching, and trying to prove his worth to his superior as a successor. But, power comes at a price for both men.

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Set in Shanghai during the early 1930s / Republican era, the city is a haven for triads and gangsters before its occupation by the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War. Hui Man-keung (Cheung), the only sole survivor of a triad massacre on the seas who escaped by jumping from his ship, finds himself in the Bund of Shanghai, where he befriends Ding-Lik (Andy Lau), a small-time crook and gangster with big dreams of his own. Realizing the only way they can make it big is through joining the triads, both men proceed to kill their way upwards to power, with Man-keung falling for his boss' daughter, Ching-Ching, and trying to prove his worth to his superior as a successor. But, power comes at a price for both men.



* CacophonyCoverUp: [[spoiler: The MexicanStandoff and final shootout between Ding-lik and Man-keung, culminating in Ding-lik shooting Man-keung dead, takes place at the stroke of midnight in a new year countdown, where the fireworks downs out the gunshots]]. Similarly, later on as [[spoiler: Ding-lik gets assassinated by machine-gun wielding triads intending to double cross him, it coincides with the crowd outside going through a New Year celebration]].

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* CacophonyCoverUp: [[spoiler: The MexicanStandoff and final shootout between Ding-lik and Man-keung, culminating in Ding-lik shooting Man-keung dead, takes place at the stroke of midnight in a new year countdown, where the fireworks downs drowns out the gunshots]]. Similarly, later on as [[spoiler: Ding-lik gets assassinated by machine-gun wielding triads intending to double cross him, it coincides with the crowd outside going through a New Year celebration]].
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Set in Shanghai during the early 1930s / Republican era, the city is a haven for triads and gangsters before its occupation by the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War. Hui Man-keung (Cheung), the only survivor of a triad massacre on the seas who escaped by jumping from his ship, finds himself in the Bund of Shanghai, where he befriends Ding-Lik (Andy Lau), a small-time crook and gangster with big dreams of his own. Realizing the only way they can make it big is joining the triads, both men proceed to kill their way upwards to power, with Man-keung falling for his boss' daughter, Ching-Ching, and trying to prove his worth to his superior as a successor. But, power comes at a price for both men.

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Set in Shanghai during the early 1930s / Republican era, the city is a haven for triads and gangsters before its occupation by the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War. Hui Man-keung (Cheung), the only survivor of a triad massacre on the seas who escaped by jumping from his ship, finds himself in the Bund of Shanghai, where he befriends Ding-Lik (Andy Lau), a small-time crook and gangster with big dreams of his own. Realizing the only way they can make it big is through joining the triads, both men proceed to kill their way upwards to power, with Man-keung falling for his boss' daughter, Ching-Ching, and trying to prove his worth to his superior as a successor. But, power comes at a price for both men.
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Set in Shanghai during the early 1930s / Republican era, the city is a haven for triads and gangsters before its occupation by the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War. Hui Man-keung (Cheung), the survivor of a triad massacre who escaped by jumping from his ship, finds himself in the Bund of Shanghai, where he befriends Ding-Lik (Andy Lau), a small-time crook and gangsters with big dreams of his own. Realizing the only way they can make it big is joining the triads, both men proceed to kill their way upwards to power, with Man-keung falling for his boss' daughter, Ching-Ching, and trying to prove his worth to his superior as a successor. But, power comes at a price for both men.

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Set in Shanghai during the early 1930s / Republican era, the city is a haven for triads and gangsters before its occupation by the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War. Hui Man-keung (Cheung), the only survivor of a triad massacre on the seas who escaped by jumping from his ship, finds himself in the Bund of Shanghai, where he befriends Ding-Lik (Andy Lau), a small-time crook and gangsters gangster with big dreams of his own. Realizing the only way they can make it big is joining the triads, both men proceed to kill their way upwards to power, with Man-keung falling for his boss' daughter, Ching-Ching, and trying to prove his worth to his superior as a successor. But, power comes at a price for both men.
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* AttackAnimal: Madam Yiu’s CoolPet and AttackAnimal is a giant boa constrictor which she keeps in her bedroom. She also attempts to have her enemies and prisoners ([[spoiler: such as Ding-lik]]) FedToTheBeast.

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* AttackAnimal: Madam Yiu’s CoolPet and AttackAnimal is a giant boa constrictor which she keeps in her bedroom. She also attempts to have her enemies and prisoners ([[spoiler: such as Ding-lik]]) FedToTheBeast.
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* BadassMustache: Ditto.
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** [[spoiler: Ding-lik does this again when about to be devoured by Madam Yiu's pet boa, by stabbing the boa's eye]].
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* PragmaticAdaptationPragmaticAdaptation: Half of the important themes and messages of bonding between triads from the original series gets left out, due to the shortened running time. AdaptationDistillation is just putting it mildly...
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* CacophonyCoverUp: [[spoiler: The MexicanStandoff and final shootout between Ding-lik and Man-keung, culminating in Ding-lik shooting Man-keung dead, takes place at the stroke of midnight in a new year countdown, where the fireworks downs out the gunshots]]. Similarly, later on as [[spoiler: Ding-lik gets assassinated by machine-gun wielding triads intending to double cross him, it coincides with the crowd outside going through a New Year celebration]].

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* CacophonyCoverUp: *CacophonyCoverUp: [[spoiler: The MexicanStandoff and final shootout between Ding-lik and Man-keung, culminating in Ding-lik shooting Man-keung dead, takes place at the stroke of midnight in a new year countdown, where the fireworks downs out the gunshots]]. Similarly, later on as [[spoiler: Ding-lik gets assassinated by machine-gun wielding triads intending to double cross him, it coincides with the crowd outside going through a New Year celebration]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:Hui Man-keung (Leslie Cheung)and Ding-lik (Andy Lau)]]

''Shanghai Grand'' is a 1996 gangster drama film starring Creator/LeslieCheung and Creator/AndyLau. The movie is a loose adaptation of the 1980 Hong Kong TVB drama series, ''The Bund'', previously starring Creator/ChowYunFat with Leslie Cheung replacing Chow's role.

Set in Shanghai during the early 1930s / Republican era, the city is a haven for triads and gangsters before its occupation by the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War. Hui Man-keung (Cheung), the survivor of a triad massacre who escaped by jumping from his ship, finds himself in the Bund of Shanghai, where he befriends Ding-Lik (Andy Lau), a small-time crook and gangsters with big dreams of his own. Realizing the only way they can make it big is joining the triads, both men proceed to kill their way upwards to power, with Man-keung falling for his boss' daughter, Ching-Ching, and trying to prove his worth to his superior as a successor. But, power comes at a price for both men.

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!!Tropes found in this Film include:

* AdaptationalWimp: Man-keung gets a lot less action scenes and shootouts compared to his predecessor, played by Chow Yun-fat, and doesn’t get into much physical fight scenes either. Given how the film is attempting to cram multiple episodes’ worth of events into a single movie, its rather justified.
* AttackAnimal: Madam Yiu’s CoolPet and AttackAnimal is a giant boa constrictor which she keeps in her bedroom. She also attempts to have her enemies and prisoners ([[spoiler: such as Ding-lik]]) FedToTheBeast.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Ding-lik and Man-keung.
* TheBigDamnKiss: [[spoiler: Between Man-keung and Ching Ching]].
*CacophonyCoverUp: [[spoiler: The MexicanStandoff and final shootout between Ding-lik and Man-keung, culminating in Ding-lik shooting Man-keung dead, takes place at the stroke of midnight in a new year countdown, where the fireworks downs out the gunshots]]. Similarly, later on as [[spoiler: Ding-lik gets assassinated by machine-gun wielding triads intending to double cross him, it coincides with the crowd outside going through a New Year celebration]].
* ChainedToABed: Ding-lik finds himself waking up like this in Madam Yiu’s bedroom, with her pet boa about to devour him as she gleefully watches. [[spoiler: But he escapes by turning the boa back against her]].
* CompressedAdaptation: The movie attempts to condense a 25-episode TV series into around two hours. Naturally, a lot of additional stuff had to be AdaptedOut.
* CastingGag: The original Hui Man-keung is played by Chow Yun-fat. Here, Hui Man-keung is played by Leslie Cheung, Chow’s co-star from the Film/ABetterTomorrow films.
* DinerBrawl: The meeting between Man-keung and Ding-lik and a rival triad boss ends up becoming a full-blown brawl, which culminates in the duo eventually [[DestinationDefenestration shoving the boss through a third-storey window]] and sending him falling to his death.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler: Madam Yiu is set up to be a massive threat for the first half of the movie, but she gets killed in the bedroom scene and the movie still goes on for another hour or so]].
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Both Ding-lik and Men-keung went from RagsToRiches to becoming the number one enemy of every single mobster in Shanghai, and they went from FireForgedFriends to enemies destined to kill each other. And while Ding-lik manage to kill Man-keung in their final shootout, he himself ends up getting shot by multiple assassins moments later]].
* EyeScream: During a confrontation scene with rival triads, Ding-Lik subdues two of them while holding a plank with nails on its surface, by using the pointed side to whack them in the face. Both triads show up later with blood all over their faces and very likely missing an eye.
* FeatherBoaConstrictor: How Madam Yiu is depicted with her pet boa in her bedroom scene.
* FightingTheLancer: [[spoiler: Ding-lik is TheLancer to Man-keung, but ultimately they end up enemies trying to kill each other in the finale]].
* {{Fingore}}: Invoked, when Ding-lik had his hands tied to a table top by rival mobsters, and a mobster passes him an ax ordering him to remove his own fingers or they would kill him. He manages to bust his way out in the next scene however.
* FurAndLoathing: The sinister DragonLady Madam Yiu is frequently shown wearing lavish furs and coats.
* GanglandDriveBy: [[spoiler: How Ding-lik gets offed in the final scene]].
* GroundByGears: One of the triads on the ship in the opening scene gets squashed between gears while trying to pursue Man-keung.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Madam Yiu tries to feed Ding-lik to her pet boa, but Ding-lik, using a concealed pen, [[EyeScream stabs the boa in its eye]]. Thrashing about furiously, the boa ends up clinging onto a shocked Madam Yiu, who then proceeds to constrict around her and devour her instead]].
* HostileWeather: The movie begins with a ship full of refugees, among them Man-keung, driving through the storm and raging seas heading towards Shanghai harbor. Unfortunately for them, the triads intend to have the refugees killed and disposed in the waters, hoping for the storm to erase whatever evidence of their killings.
* ItBeganWithATwistOfFate: Man-keung starts off as the SoleSurvivor of a refugee ship massacre by jumping off the bow and swimming his way to the docks of Shanghai.
* NewYearHasCome: The final scene of the movie takes place on New Year 1934. [[spoiler: Man-keong and Ding-lik only lives long enough to savor the first few minutes after 12 of the New Year]].
* PragmaticAdaptation
* RuleOfPool: Boss Fung had a massive swimming pool outside his mansion. [[spoiler: In the scene where Man-keung attempts to assassinate him before being interrupted by bodyguards, the fight culminates with Man-keung tackling Fung outside into the swimming pool, and stabbing him repeatedly while both men are in the water]].
* ShowerScene: One scene had Ding-lik and Ching Ching taking their shower together.
* SnakesAreSinister: Why else would Madam Yiu’s pet and AttackAnimal be a boa?
* TheTriadsAndTheTongs
* TimePassesMontage: One depicting Man-keung and Ding-lik going from smalltime crooks to triad hitmen and professional killers, including gangland killings, beating up rival mobs, and taking over much of Shanghai in the process.
* WakeUpFighting: Ding-lik discovers Man-keung washed ashore on the coast of Shanghai, and tries to wake him up. Man-keung, still having memories of the previous night’s massacre, jolts up and delivers a punch on Ding-lik, and then falls back unconscious.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler: Ding-lik and Man-keung]]. The power struggle between gangsters is real…

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