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August 14, 2004
Ranting
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Olympics
First of all, OLYMPICS! Yeah! I am not sporty but I love the olympic spirit. Maybe Greece will win gold medal for football! How come got beach volleyball, softball but no Rugby? Cricket? Wushu? Lion dance? Computer games competition? What's your most favourite sport and which do you think is the least popular one?
I love gymnastics (women, and not those with ribbons and all), weight lifting and anything competetive except swimming. I bet many of you are watching football! My least favourite? Equasterian (how on Earth you spell this??) and maybe fencing, ok Hockey, ok everything other than my favourites.
Anyway some on acting.
The Art of Acting
I watched a new Mediacorp series today, called Wing of Desire. It's interesting, acting very bad but there are some interesting contrast. Let's compare a bit.
In Wings of Desire, there's this Taiwanese sex bomb who plays someone older than her real age. Her acting is typical Taiwanese, when in shock, walk back 3 steps, when questioning, tilt the shoulders forward and always, always speak as if you can't breath. Very dramatic acting. Then there's the Singaporean type of acting, more down to Earth, more realistic but that depends, because I saw one actor who was so bad in there I can't describe it. Maybe I can ... I don't know, everything about him seemed like timed, calculated, pre programmed. But many Singaporean actors or Malaysian actors in Singapore can act realistically. Then I saw TVB series, which really depends on the material. Like Take My Word For It boasts some real good realistic acting whilst Greed Mask (is that the title?) has some very dramatic types that can be pretentious and over the top. So we go back to Power of Love, which has Chinese, Malaysian, Singaporean all rolled into one nice series. Esther Kwan is the HK acting, a bit more subdued, a bit more serious, a bit more tense, maybe because Esther in real life is serious, subdued, tense. It shows in her acting. Then there's the Malaysian, Shaun Chen a bit not so realistic, I feel he is charming but acting wise he is a bit not as subdued, not as real as Esther. Then I say Singaporean actors, again mroe grounded, more believable and then there's the Chinese (as in China), a bit over the top but still believable.
It is difficult to compare but the basic point is, Taiwanese tends to over dramatise a certain emotion especially in drama series, Singaporean a bit more subdued, a bit more grounded, like Malaysian but really depends on whether that person is a good actor or bad actor so it is between natural grounded acting and robotic pre programmed acting whilst HK acting, represented by Esther (who makes all HK actors look good overseas) is grounded, serious but a tad unrealistic in the sense that I don't believe real people will emote the way she did. Some HK actors are just plain bad. Overall, I find Wings Of Desire a good series to study the differences in acting techniques.
Power Of Love
Anyway, Power of Love looks very interesting now. Check out EPISODE 27 - all Shaun Chen and Apple Hong Storyline and PREVIEW OF EPISODE 29 - dramatic return of Esther's character. All screencaps by Wuchang and more can be found here.
As requested by me, dear Wuchang has given a rather detailed recap of Episode 27 so anyone interested, do have a read and those not interested, do read ...
"Maggie and Coco went for an interview to enter a reputable primary school. But the principal rejected Coco's application after finding out Coco comes from a single parent family. Maggie was extremely upset.
Paco chanced upon Roy and Maggie entering a restaurant. Paco seemed worred. He called Coco and Coco told him about the failed school application. Paco suspects that Maggie is trying to get back with Roy so as to ensure Coco can get into a good school.
Paco got Maggie out to try to warn her about going back to Roy just so Coco can have a normal family. He even offered himself to act as the father in future school interviews.
Maggie laughed and clarified there was nothing between her and Roy now. Paco explained that he was worried because Maggie always had difficulties handling matters of the heart. Maggie got angry and rebutted that she has ecountered much and had become wiser for it, however, Paco's the one who has difficulties handling love especially commitment. Paco was tongue tied after Maggie correctly read Paco's commitment problems.
After that, Paco went to a bar and lamented to the bar tender he has lost the suaveness he once had. The bar tender recommended Paco go read the book "The Little Prince" as maybe the root of the matter is that Paco has found his rose just like the little prince ie he has fallen in love. Paco sneered at that and decalred he would rather play computer games than read that book.
We then see Paco reading "The Little Prince".
While out shopping for groceries, Paco bumped into Maggie and Coco. Maggie was buying ingredients to make a cake. Maggie says that she heard from Coco that Paco knows how to make great cakes and she wants to try. Coco seized the chance to get Paco to teach Maggie cake making. They went back to Maggie's house. Coco then left Maggie and Paco alone in the house saying she is going to a friend's house to play.
There was the flour on the face lovey dovey moment. And then Maggie went on about how they have all the ingredients for making a cake but it lacks a certain important ingredient to make a great cake ie courage. She was talking in metaphors. Paco frozed for a while then finally told Maggie he loved her. They kiss and made love. Not much dialogue here.
We then see them in bed under blankets without clothes. The alarm clock rang and Maggie realised it's time to send Coco to school. She hastily woke Paco up and threw him his clothes. Then there were more lovey dovey smiles all round. However, Coco was at the door went Paco came out, his clothes still disheveled. Coco declares she doesn't mind that he is sleeping with her mommy but requests that Paco next time finishes wearing his clothes before coming out to the hallway. Paco can only give an embarrassed look and said sorry."
Ok, it's a bit sugary, it's a bit awww-shucks but I like it. I await eagerly to buy this VCD. No need to repeat why of course. By the way you can download some bits and pieces of this series, although there's one full download of Ep 14. I definitely recommend this episode because it is the only full download. Maybe the webmaster may put up more later, I hope. So to download, just click on HERE and choose your episode.
Take My Word For It
A bit of update on this series. I think 3 more episodes to ending. This series shows how wrong first impressions can be. Already one useless husband out of the way now we have one useless boyfriend. This series boasts some very strong characters. I wonder why not many promote it? If it doesn't screw up, I am ready to give it a perfect rating. I especially love Chilam, Kenix and especially Bobby's performance. Where can you find such gems of characters to play? I definitely will explain more in my review.
Greed Mask
Very confusing first 2 episodes which sets the tone of mystery in the most juvenile way. It's almost boring with Helena Tam doing so many things but for what? Should I continue watching? For Roger Kwok, I think I must. I like Roger's hair though. Very stylish. But the first few scenes were really dreadful to watch as the story goes on and on and on about that dead starlett, crazy women and what nots. Next week the dad's gonna die and that will start the ball rolling on the mystery of whodunnit.
Updates
Coming soon some new reviews from me. Somehow I don't feel the urge to write for Better Halves. Very disappointed with the last 2 episodes that went through like speedboat in a chase. I mean why rush? Take 2 more episodes to wrap things up lar but noooo...I can't summarize how I feel anymore about this and other series I have watched in my reviews. Very difficult to even write the plot. Maybe I should just go to comments and skip the plot. In fact very tired to write.
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