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Love Is… Photos – Love Triangle

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

Here are some photos that I stole, er, borrowed, er, am using pursuant to the fair use doctrine of the relevant copyright laws of this jurisdiction.

As you can tell from the watermark on these photos, they are courtesy of The Media Evangelism Limited. I’ve also added some commentary below each picture. Enjoy.

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Dressing room. I have no idea who the person in the baseball cap on the very left is, but the rest of the people in this shot are the three main cast members for the “youth love triangle” story in Love Is… That’s Tracy Ip in the center, dressed in white; Selena Li is sitting cross-legged on the stool; and Zac Koo is flashing the peace sign in the lower right-hand corner.

You can tell who’s supposed to be the good-girl protagonist and who’s the villainous “other woman” just by looking at what they’re wearing. Tracy Ip is obviously the “other woman” because she’s dressed like a call girl and her skirt is shorter than her last name. Selena Li, on the other hand, is clearly the good-girl character with whom the audience is supposed to sympathize because she’s wearing leggings that cover her knees and is dressed like a beggar. I don’t know what Zac Koo’s role is, whether unredeemable cad or antihero seeking redemption, but I distrust anyone wearing a dress shirt with pockets on the sleeve. Save it for the outback, mate.

Note that Tracy Ip is breaking out her Mona Lisa smile, again. I guess if you’ve got a good thing going, why change, right? This is also a much better picture of Selena Li…if you’re into beggars, that is. Just kidding! With her hair down, Selena Li looks ten thousand times more attractive here than in the group photo from the last entry.

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Selena Li, sitting on a Hong Kong sand dune, possibly toxic, contemplating why Zac Koo left her for a whore.

Note the directional marks in the sand–that’s the craft of movie-making in action, folks.

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Selena Li stalks sleazeball boyfriend Zac Koo while he’s two-timing her with Tracy Ip. Note Koo’s wardrobe: neon pink shirt with suit. Very Miami Vice. After his date, I think Koo is going to meet up with Tubbs, buy two keys of coke, then go gun down Calderon.

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What ridiculous plot point could have possibly led them to film a scene with actors in full wardrobe standing thigh-high in the waters of Hong Kong at night?

I can’t wait to see this movie!

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Again, I must ask: what plot point required a hailstorm of feathers? The avian flu pandemic finally emerges? SARS returns? Plane full of chickens explodes? When it comes to Christian HK movies, feathers-in-water equals looming disaster.

Again, I will declare: I can’t wait!

Love Is…a bunch of Beauty Queens?

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

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Love Is…, the latest film from The Media Evangelism Ltd., has just finished production and will be released in August. This is the third film in ME’s Life Movies trilogy, which is inspired by real-life calls to a Christian telephone counseling service in Hong Kong. The first film in the series was The Room starring Yoyo Mung and Sharon Chan and it was about depression. The second film was Fearless starring Roger Kwok and Kenix Kwok and it was about childhood trauma and homosexuality.

And now we have Love Is…, the Chinese title of which can roughly be translated as Real Love?

One of the most interesting things about this movie is… (more…)

And We’re Back… Maybe

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

So it’s been over six months since I posted anything on this site and nobody noticed. Sad.

In any case, we’re back for the moment, so let’s get caught up on those missing six months with a cursory look at some of the more notable events that took place in Hong Kong Entertainment Christendom since my last post.

First, in September 2006, Ada Choi & Company came to evangelize North America…and I was there! I went to see their show in Pasadena and even dragged my parents along. Ada Choi talked about her gambling-addicted mother. TVB actress Esther Wen talked about beating cancer. Singer Angela Pang talked about getting knocked on the head, losing consciousness, and then ending up in the hospital for six months. TVB character actor Wong Cho-Lam talked about being a short, unattractive teenager who couldn’t get chicks (until he started doing impressions…and found Jesus…and started doing impressions of Jesus). And veteran actress Tomi Wong pretended to be even older than she already is by performing as a geriatric grandmother in some skit with Wong. Interestingly, one or more members of my immediate family could directly relate to the experiences of four out of the five entertainers who spoke. Afterwards, we went to Monterey Park and ate dinner at a Chiu Chou restaurant.

In October, news emerged that TVB actress Maggie Cheung Ho-Yee had converted to Christianity while taking an extended break from acting to recuperate from Graves disease. If you can read Chinese or are adept at snatching coherency from the snapping jaws of obtuse translation software, then check out her blog here.

As most observers of Hong Kong pop culture know, this is the “other” Maggie Cheung, not the more internationally renowned film actress who was severely miscast as a recovering wannabe punk singer/addict opposite a raggedy-looking Nick Nolte in Oliver Assayas’s Clean. Perhaps Nolte and Cheung should have switched roles. Ironically, both Maggies spent their formative years in England, both participated in the Miss Hong Kong Pageant, and both were/are actresses for TVB.

December was a huge month for news and happenings. First, after numerous rumors and tabloid allegations, Sammul Chan pulled a Mike Piazza and announced that he is NOT gay. Well, then.

Second, former TVB actress Fiona Leung was injured in a car accident while in Australia to film a program for The Media Evangelism, Ltd. Reports indicated that Ms. Leung suffered broken ribs, as well as a broken face. Thankfully, the most recent reports indicate that she is more or less on the road to recovery.

Third, a December news article revealed that former TVB actor Kong Wah and his wife had become Christians within the last year…although their kids did not, which is interesting.

Fourth, actress May Kwong got married. Christian artistes in attendance included Angela Pang (she of the bopped head and six-month hospital stint), Gary Chan, Noel Leung, and Leanne Li.

Finally, after several aborted attempts over the last year or so, Ada Choi managed to make it all the way to Israel to film a travel program about the Holy Land for TVB. More on this in another post.

The new year has also brought news of babies, babies, babies. The following Christian actresses are either pregnant or have already pushed out a kid: Noel Leung; Cecilia Cheung; Eugenia Lau; and Pauline Yeung. (Wait, is Cecilia Cheung still Christian? Or was that just a phase? Uh, will have to get back to you on that one.) Also, Boston-bred Catholic Flora Chan got married for the second time, to her manager.

Alright, now we’re pretty much caught up with what’s gone on in Hong Kong Entertainment Christendom during the last six months or so.

Next time: “Ada Choi in the Holy Land…” Or, “Who Took My Pita?” Or, “That Sea May Be Dead, But I’m Alive in Christ!” Or, “Kiss Me, I’m Israeli!”