BoB and Partners Co. Ltd.
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Captures by
Chow Woon Gan
Video captures courtesy of
Asia Movie Logos
Background
BoB and Partners Co. Ltd. was a Hong Kong film production company. It was established by famed filmmakers Wong Jing, Manfred Wong and Andrew Lau during the success of the Young and Dangerous series. "BoB" stands for "Best of the Best".
1st Logo (March 21, 1996-Late 1990s?)
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Visuals: On a black background, a fiery explosion occurs, bringing forth a black stone background and a stone object whose parts spin around as it zooms up. Eventually, it unravels to reveal the giant letters "BoB". A stone bar and four written Cantonese letters fly under "BoB", and the stone bar turns into "& PARTNERS COMPANY LIMITED".
Technique: CGI.
Audio: A bang, followed by an Oriental percussion theme ending in a male chorus singing "最佳拍檔!" ("Jeui gāai paakdong!", which is the company's name in Cantonese) and tinkling sounds.
Audio Variants:
- On earlier films with this logo, such as Street Angels, the music is slower, lower-pitched and ends in four orchestral hits.
- There is a lower-pitched version of the normal music as well.
Availability: Appears on Cantonese films from the period, such as the company's first film Young and Dangerous 2.
2nd Logo (Late 1990s?-2003)
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Visuals: On a mountain landscape background, the high mountain morphs into a "BoB" from the previous logo. The camera then looks around while this happens. After the mountains completely morphed, red beams of light erupts from creases, causing the gold version of themselves to burst from them, and then the text "Bob & Partners Co. Ltd." places under the "BoB", with gold Chinese text under the text and four small red Chinese text below while the background turns black/murky green, forming the logo from before, only the red Chinese characters are now centered.
Variant: On some films, the logo takes place against the plains with hills, the mountain/hill morphing animation, camera movements and the way the logo forms are different and has the different gold texture.
Technique: CGI.
Audio: Same as the previous logo.
Availability: Appears on their films during the period, such as Conman in Tokyo. The variant with the hills is seen on Sausalito.
