I haven't written in this blog for quite a longggggg time. :D Welcome back MEEE! I doubt I will be back . My grammar still as poor as ever. hehe. Goal for the remainder of the year : finish up Monkey King's blog. I will do ittttttt.. OILLLL!
Being extremely bore, I suddenly went to one of my blog and voila.. pictures are gone. Photobucket suddenly decided to want money and won't let you share photo on other site anymore. booooo. Many of the pictures on my blogs are all gone, replace with a weird picture. It messed with all the layout. Sadly my awesome layout for this blog is gone. ;/ I have been with photobucket for long time . It is sad that I have to find another site. sad sad sad. I guess I have to fix one blog at a time. Or combine and delete. :D
On another note: I rarely check my email and today I check it . Guess what? Google send me an email about violating term of adsense. What? O.o Adsense? o.O I have been gone forever. Is it because I am not actively writing? o.o Also not like the ads earn me anything. I have not gotten any money for these supposedly ads that is on this blog >.> I think we all have adblocker plugin <,< Money doesn't want to come to me. >.< But then again, I didn't write for the money. If I did, I wouldn't disappear for 10 years. OMG 10 years have passed. Ahhhhh..
And lastly, Nicholas Tse and Faye Wong haven't split as rumor speculate. Good for them. :D Marriage should be a forever thing.
English Title: Monkey King - Quest For the Sutra Chinese Title: 齊 天 大 聖 孫 悟 空 Vietnamese Title: Tề Thiên Đại Thánh - Tôn Ngộ Không Year Produced: 2002
Casting:
Dicky Cheung ...... Sun Wukong ( Tôn Ngộ Không ) Edmond Leung .... Tripitaka ( Đường Tam Tạng ) Eric Knot ............. Pigsy ( Trư Bát Giới ) Sam Lee ............ Sand Monk (Xa Tăng ) Andy Hui ............ Dragon Horse (Bạch Mã ) Kristy Yeung ....... White Bone Demon ( Bạch Cốc Tinh ) Sammi Cheng ..... Kuan Yin (Quan Âm ) Jimmy Lin ........... Na Ja ( Na Tra) Leung Ka Yan ...... Na Ja's Father ( Lý Tịnh ) Jackie Lui ............ 3 Eyes God ( Dương Tiển ) Choi Cheuk Yin .... Purple Orchid Fairy (Tử Lan Tiên Tử ) Chung Yan Tung .. Purple Rose Fairy ( Tử Y Tiên Tử ) Nicholas Tse ........ Chung Kwai (Chung Quì ) William So ........... East Dragon Emperor (Đông Hải Long Vương ) Yuki Hsu .............. Red Boy ( Hồng Hà Nhi) Xiao Qiang ........... The Red's Boy Mother (Thiết Phiến Công Chúa ) Cheung Sai ........... Hồ Ly Tinh Fan Do Ngoi .......... Black Spider Demon Suen Kai Kwan ...... White Spider Demon Fennie Yuen ......... Snake Demon ( Xà Tinh )
In this series Nic play the role of Chung Kwai (Chung Qui). The real Chung Kwai, according to the myth is very ugly and scary, unlike Nic. ^_^ He has a black beard. He wear a red suit. In this series Chung Kwai and Sun Wu Kong are friends. I remember a scene, the only scene where Nic appear, Nic and Wu Kong is playing and kicking a lion demon around like a soccer ball. And that's how they became friends. But we never heard from Chung Kwai again. This relationship between Wu Kong and Chung Kwai should never happen according to the real story. In this series, it looks like everything is rewritten. Me personally, I love Monkey King, but I don't like this series much because of the change in plot.
This is the only pic of Nic as Chung Kwai that I have. ^_^Read more
A Chinese Tall Story (2005) Director : Jeff Lau Chun Wai Producer : Albert Lee Nga Bok Country : Hong Kong Film Company : Emperor Movie Group Limited
Cast :
Nicholas Tse ------ Tang monk Bo-lin Chen ------ Sun Wu kong Kenny Kwan ------ Pigsy Steven Cheung ---- Sand monk Charlene Choi ---- Mei Yan Fan Bing Bing Isabella Leung
I have watch this movie a more than a year ago. This movie is about the Tang Monk, Tripitaka. It start out with the arrival of Tripitaka and his 3 disciples to the Shache city. Then a demon show up (I think he is a tree demon) with all his deminions. Wu Kong fight with the demon but fail to beat him. Wu Kong has no choice but to wrap Tripitaka to his magic cudgel and throw him far away from the demons. Wu Kong, Pigsy, and Wu Jing all get capture, while the flying Tripitaka landed to a demon lair. There he meets a young lizard imp named Mei Yan (Charlene Choi). She is very ugly, as you could see in the picture below.
Anyway, Mei Yan falls in love with Tripitaka and she is willing to go with him to help rescue his 3 disciples. She stick with him during his fight training. The other demons also help. And also he met a princess from outer space name Xiaosha (Fan Bing Bing). She's willing to help Tripitaka in the fight to rescue his disciples too.
During the training I believe they, Tripitaka and Mei Yan, went to a realm where they kill the 4 imperial gods. For that they will pay later. During their time together, Tripitaka eventually fall in love with Mei Yan.
Mei Yan later discover her true identity. She is actually one of the space warrior. Then she transform into a beautiful "angel". She went to help Tripitaka rescue his disciples and kill the demons.
After the battle, Mei Yan surrenders to be punished for killing of the gods before. Tripitaka rebels against heaven. (awesome ) But he is no match for all those gods in heaven. Wu Kong manage to hold the Jade Emperor hostage but it was too late. The bleeding Tripitaka try to crawl to the tie up Mei Yan. With his last breath he manage to said "I love you" to Mei Yan by hand signal.
Then Buddha show up and promise to save Tripitaka's live on 1 condition. That is Tripitaka must go on a journey to the west to get the sutras. And so begin the Journey to the West.
Chinese Title: Wu Ji English Title: The Promise Director : Chen Kaige Producer : Chen Kaige, Chen Hong Cinematography : Peter Pau Art Direction : Tim Yip Action Director : Tung Wai, Dion Lam Cast : Jang Dong-Kun, Cecilia Cheung, Hiroyuki Sanada, Liu Ye, Nicholas Tse, Chen Hong, Cheng Qian
A little girl in rags scavenges for food among corpses on a battlefield. An older boy, the son of the commander of the troops she is looting, catches her and offers her a deal: if she agrees to be his slave, he will let her keep her findings. The little girl accepts but breaks The Promise immediately, fleeing with the food to find her mother. The Goddess Manshen (CHEN HONG) appears and tells the girl that her mother no longer has any use for the morsels - she is dead. The goddess then presents the girl with a fantastic proposition. She will lead a pampered life as a celebrated beauty, adored and kept by the most powerful in return for a small sacrifice: every man she loves, she will lose. The girl accepts.
Twenty years later, the mighty General Guangming (HIROYUKI SANADA) dons his magnificent red armor and prepares for a fierce battle. He sends a band of slaves in to absorb the first attack of the enemy and lure them deeper into the battlefield. Incredibly, one of the slaves, Kunlun (JANG DONG-GUN), survives the merciless task and provides the Crimson Army with the advantage by demonstrating a mythical ability to run faster than the wind. The General leads his men into battle and demonstrates his own talent -- for combat. He conquers the enemy with great skill and grace.
As the General and his troops celebrate, word comes of treachery in the Imperial City; the General must return immediately to save the King. He orders Kunlun to accompany him. Traveling through a dark forest, Kunlun runs ahead to find the way out. While they are separated, a frightening entity in a black cloak attacks the General. Kunlun returns to find the General seriously wounded but manages to lure the Assassin (LIU YE) away from his victim.
Astonishingly, the shrouded figure is able to match Kunlun's impossible pace move for move. Locked in a deadly embrace, the Assassin stares intently at the Slave and asks if he is from the Land of Snow. Mysteriously, he leaves without killing Kunlun, disappearing into the night. The injured General instructs the Slave to put on the crimson armor in his stead and rescue the King.
Surrounded on a windy rooftop in the Imperial City, the King is confronted by Wuhuan, the Duke of the North (NICHOLAS TSE), who is intent not on capturing the throne but on possessing the Princess Qingcheng (CECILIA CHEUNG). The little girl has indeed blossomed into a great beauty, and as she steps forward to address the invading soldiers, her loveliness subdues and intoxicates them. The King sees the effect she has on the troops and shamelessly taunts them with her, humiliating her in the process. She turns on him, and he pulls his sword on her. Arriving at the scene in the General's armor, Kunlun witnesses the beautiful Princess in distress and instinctively drives his sword into the King's chest.
The Slave and the Princess make a spectacular escape, but at the end of their dramatic flight, the Duke and his men surround them on a cliff. The Duke promises to let the Princess live if the man in the crimson armor will jump off the cliff into the ferocious waterfall below. Until now, the Princess has been disdainful -- the betrayal of her last benefactor is still fresh in her mind -- but when the man who has just saved her agrees to save her again at his own peril, the incredible act of valor moves her. She stares on in disbelief, as the man in the crimson armor disappears into the mist of the waterfall.
As word of the King's assassination spreads, the General's men desert him in disgust, tying him up in a tree. The Goddess Manshen comes to him in a vision and tells him all he has truly lost -- he is no longer Master of the Crimson Armor. She speaks of the true master who has emerged -- an authentic god of war who will win the enviable love of Princess Qingcheng. Arrogantly, the General defies her. To prove he alone is the master she is describing, he will regain his armor and his honor. He will also, he adds with bravado, win the love of the legendary beauty.
Miraculously, Kunlun survives the waterfall and returns to his master. When the General learns that his reputation has been ruined in defense of a woman, he is furious. He will exact his revenge, but first Kunlun must help him. The General retrieves his armor, then dispatches the Slave to find the Princess Qingcheng.
At the Duke's palace, Kunlun rescues the Princess from the gilded cage the insolent Duke has locked her in, but as they flee, the Princess sees the General wearing the costume of her savior and runs to him. Kunlun has no choice but to help them escape while he is left behind and captured.
The Duke learns the truth about the King's murder and orders the masked Assassin to kill Kunlun. The Assassin and the Slave are evenly matched, but Kunlun's desire for the Princess gives him the edge. He convinces the Assassin to help him escape. Once freed, Kunlun returns to his master only to find that he, too, has fallen under the spell of the Princess. Remembering her pact with the goddess, the Princess leaves to protect the General from his fate. Vexed, the General dismisses Kunlun.
Kunlun wanders the earth, abandoned and desolate. The Assassin finds him and takes him on a journey into the past to show him their common origin, the Land of Snow, populated by honest and noble people who can run faster than the wind. During this journey, Kunlun learns how he was sold into slavery at an early age and how the Assassin - the only other surviving member of the tribe - came to be the servant of the Duke of the North.
Kunlun returns to the General's house, where he finds the once ruthless warrior now listlessly pining for the Princess. Kunlun offers to help find her. When they are reunited, the princess, weakened by love, is ready to surrender to her passion. But the Princess is in love with wrong man…
The lovers' domestic bliss is soon interrupted by the arrival of members of the Crimson Army, who lure the General away and imprison him. While conspiring with the Princess, Kunlun offers to turn himself in as the true culprit in the assassination of the King. The Princess is delighted by the Slave's willingness to sacrifice himself for his master, mistaking Kunlun's love for loyalty to the General.
During the trial the Princess realizes that their "story" is actually the truth, and it becomes clear to her at last that it was the lowly Kunlun who risked his life to save hers. The deeper realization that she has loved the wrong man all along takes root as the court sentences all three of them to death.
While the three await their fate -- poetically bound within view of each other in a courtyard with food and water just out of reach -- the Duke comes to mock their misery. He offers the fallen General, once the hero of the land, the opportunity to serve as his personal slave. But the Duke does not realize that the love he has sought to destroy runs deeper than the circumstances from which it sprung; it runs deeper - and faster - than destiny itself.