Friday, December 22
Watched Curse of The Golden Flower yesterday afternoon with a few friends and I just have to get this out of my chest. The unbearably horrifying scenes of Jay Chow in an armor, that goatie and those sharp Chinese eyes ain't actually leader-of-ten-thousand-soldiers material man. The posters were already hilarious, I won't go further about how ridiculous he looked in motion.
It struck me that he looked like a certain character in an old Chinese folk tale character from Journey To The West. The resemblance goes way back to our ancestral roots.
The rest was history.
The fact that Jay Chow wrote a song based on the movie doesn't actually give him acting status in the movie. I still love Jay's song.
Aside from the bad role casting, the story line and the background set up was really good. If only it was another actor, then it'd be perfect.
It struck me that he looked like a certain character in an old Chinese folk tale character from Journey To The West. The resemblance goes way back to our ancestral roots.
Monkey King - Sun Wu Kong
I was thinking of what was so familiar about that look, the similarities were striking. Then it hit me."In the name of our ancestors!"
The rest was history.
The fact that Jay Chow wrote a song based on the movie doesn't actually give him acting status in the movie. I still love Jay's song.
Aside from the bad role casting, the story line and the background set up was really good. If only it was another actor, then it'd be perfect.
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Dezmond sprouts at 12/22/2006 03:42:00 PM | Permalink
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dono leh, I think its pretty good for Jay already in his first movie. I think, compare to other singers-and-actors, he can be rated as VERY GOOD already.
Still got space for improvements though. (stands at his side maybe i'm his fan(not biggest though)! =p ha)
Agree with you. The plot and effects are really good, as expected from Zhang YiMou.
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