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A film series about this city features the violent priest “Lethal Weapon” and a gang including “Smartie” and “Chicken.” In the finale of a film set in this city, a man’s son watches him barbarically kill a companion with a rock on a fishing trip. The series Young and Dangerous is set in this city. (15[1])The Mexican standoff that ends a 1987 film whose title refers to this city as “on fire” was copied by Quentin Tarantino for Reservoir Dogs. In another film, a flashback to a religious blood oath for brotherhood sworn by a gang’s kingpins contrasts with their war for a (*) baton to become their new leader. Scriptural verses about “continuous hells” bookend a film set in this city in which a man tells his enemy “I’m not afraid of light” while handcuffing him at gunpoint on a rooftop. This city was replaced with Boston as the setting of that film’s remake by Martin Scorsese. For 10 points, Johnnie To’s Election and Andrew Lau’s Infernal Affairs trilogy are about what city’s triads? ■END■

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