Zhang Yimou's Curse of the Golden Flower

Gordonator SG

ok. but i personally felt that the storyline is paper thin. dialogue is bad. too much CGI fight scenes. action sequences too out of the world. Confused

monoslayer SG

the zhang zhiyi bare shoulders scenes oreadi make the movie value for money liaoz. Laughing

Gordonator SG

then u should really see Curse of the Golden Flower. lots of boobs.

check out this tailer to see for yourself. Laughing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFyrMoaDeLM

monoslayer SG

but jay chou the blockhead spoil the whole show. Laughing

Gordonator SG

i like jay and his music but i must agree he looks very silly in his wu xia getup. and what's with that salt and pepper moustache Laughing

TehJarVu SG

dunno why they used that stupid english title... the chinese title is a verse from a tang prose

ditzy SG

If zhang yimou wants it that way, zhang yimou gets it that way. Are you paying him? No? Then STFU. Laughing

Gordonator SG

Laughing

798 SG

why gong li keep showing her puppies one? Embarassed

TehJarVu SG

the costume designer ought to be shot, diu jin wo men hua ren de lian by portraying chinese like that

(human) SG

I feel that Crouching tiger hidden dragon is a poor movie. During that period Amoh were very curious or want to build more relation with chinese's industry. That was why they given off academy award to that movie. Personally i feel the story line sucks. My view is that Zhang Ziyi is not really beautiful and a great actress.

Good movie don't only come with good actor and actresses. The whole combination is the most important. The music, sound effects, visual effect, the story line and etc. They are the soul or pillars of the movie. You can spend multi million on that movie but sometime it does not produce good result.

Patrik SG

Rolling Eyes
Jay can't act,for god's sake.
And the costumes... Laughing
Ancient low cut?

Gordonator SG

even jay's role in the movie is named after himself, Prince Jie. Laughing

happyBABY SG

woo gong li.
nice titties.
Very Happy

mochou SG

This is just one hell of commercial movie.

selling point 1: Jay, he's famous bcos of his music, esp in Asia. As long as he's in the movie, no matter how silly he look or how bad he act, Jay's die hard fan will still watch the movie. Zhang Yimou can find someone who fits the role better than Jay, but that wont ensure a big group of youngster going to watch it.

selling point 2: The low cut dress. Almost every girl in movie wear low cut, with the boods squeezed too. Such dress should be in Angmo style ancient movie, not chinese ancient movie. Perhaps this is not zhang yimou's idea, maybe the producer wants this movie to sell in western countries too. So their dress code somehow suits the ancient western culture rather than chinese.

sellling point 3: Over-decorated palace. Out of the "GuZhuang" movies, i think this one spent the most on decorating the palace. This is one of the part that he do to make the movie become a "big movie", can say spent how much how much producing it.

selling point 4: Gong Li + Chow Yun Fat. Both of them are prestigious, well known in Aisa and even hollywood. This is same as selling point 1, but Gong ang chow targets the older generation instead. They create a "must watch" factor to make ppl watch the movie for the sake of watch the two of them.

crossover SG

a very nice movie tt i will introduce ot my frens but the costumes worn by the female in the show abit off. watch and u will know. kinda absurb. didnt know china so open wan.
but as ppl say zou hee siao kuo hee gong
make show crazy watch show dumb

daface SG

Zhang Yimou is desperate. Desperate for that elusive Oscar. In his third attempt to lift that statuette, he has stuck to the martial arts genre, still deciding to go headlong since Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon's (CTHD) win. For his previous attempts, he has utilized CTHD star Ziyi Zhang in both Hero and House of Flying Daggers (HFD), and had resorted to casting big Asian stars like Jet Li, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, all of whom are known actors to the West, and the likes of Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro. Here, he dug deeper, and went to snag CTHD star, and another recognizable face Chow Yun-Fat, as well as ditching Ziyi Zhang for his original muse, Gong Li, in roles fit for royalty.

Continues at http://anutshellreview.blogspot.com/2006/12/curse-of-golden-flower-man-cheng-jin.html

ditzy SG

It wasn't the designer's idea, zhang yimou wanted the designer to make it sexier. Laughing

ditzy SG

Doesn't anyone read the sunday times anymore? Laughing

laoda99 SG

Seen it.

My review: Not surprisingly, Jay Chow can't act. The movie is saved only by Chow Yun Fatt and Gong Li.

Wait for the vcd.

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