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      • The travails of an old gangster in a contemporary Beijing overrun with privileged brats is at the heart of the largely winning “Mr. Six.” Among other things, this gritty and sometimes acerbic film from director Guan Hu (“Cow”) is a crime-genre satire about the fallout of new wealth on narcissistic sons of China’s modern capitalists.
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  2. Mr. Six is an advertising character since 2004 for an advertising campaign by the American theme park chain Six Flags. Appearing as an elderly man wearing a tuxedo and thick-framed glasses , he was usually shown stepping slowly off a bus before he suddenly performed a frenetic dance to an instrumental version of the Vengaboys song " We Like to ...

  3. Dec 23, 2015 · Mr. Six is a grumpy old fixture on his Beijing back street, ready to scold or shoot a withering look. But as we are frequently reminded in the director Guan Hu’s character study “ Mr....

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  4. Feb 12, 2015 · It's Playtime! Remember Mr. Six? The creepy old guy from the Six Flags commercials? It's been over ten years since this first one and it's still one of the b...

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  5. Its central character is a former gangster, Zhang Xuejun (Feng Xiaogang) known as Mr Six, whose power base is strictly limited: he has a mynah bird who calls out his nickname, a small circle of old friends, and a no-nonsense girlfriend (Xu Qing).

  6. Many years ago Mr. Six was a notorious gangster. That was back when there was still such a thing as honour among thieves, when criminals earned respect and maintained principles. These days Mr. Six is all but forgotten, a living relic residing in a narrow alley.

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  7. Dec 24, 2015 · Movie review of “Mr. Six”: An aging, former gangster (Feng Xiaogang) with a serious heart problem is drawn into a protracted conflict when his son is taken prisoner by some of Beijing’s ...

  8. Dec 28, 2015 · Afraid to involve the police and trigger greater retaliation from the Xiao Fei’s high-ranking official father, Mr. Six scrapes together the money from old friends, his anger seething just beneath the surface of a poker face that would make Clint Eastwood proud.