My drawing
2007-02-28
Yay!!! I finally got in. I can write now. Sweet...
I just thought I log on one more time to see if I can load the editor to write and this page load. :) But it's sort of my bed time now. I can't write about a chinese movie, unless I stay up late and get yell. But I am not going to risk it.
In the mean time, here is a picture that I draw some time last year.
Who do this remind you of? Could I be an artist someday? I know I sort of make it too dark, because I use a mechanical pencil. It's not a right pencil to draw. There are certain things that needed to be fix. I haven't have the time to redraw this woman again. I am having a hard time drawing people. I need alot of practice. Objects are easy to draw. If you mess up a little, people don't notice. But when drawing people, a little mistake can make your picture look like no one. I think I should learn to draw manga and stick with it, atleast it is not real people. It's easy to draw people's eyes as a big oval shape. ^_^
TVB: Journey to the West 1
2007-02-09
English Title: Journey To The West
Vietnamese Title: Tây Du Ký
Year: 1996 by TVB
Cast:
Dicky Cheung --- Sun Wukong
Kong Wah ------- Tripitaka
Wayne Lai ------- Pigsy
Evergreen Mak -- Sand Monk
Marianne Chan -- White Bone Demon
Angie Cheung --- Spider Demon
Rain Lau Yuk ---- Spider Demon
Rebecca Chan --- Iron Fan Princess
There are lots of different version of the story, Journey to the West. This one is made from TVB, a hong kong series. It is a little different from the CCTV one I've posted earlier. It's more comical. But it still have a similar story, the story of Tripitaka's journey to India. Well, this movie start out with how Sun Wu kong was born, out of a rock. The Jade Emperor was very angry with the new giant monkey. So he ordered Pigsy to go down and stopped this monkey (Wukong) from destroying the island. Pigsy accidentally chopped the monkey's tail and so the monkey was defeated. Just when Pigsy was about to kill the monkey, Kuan Yin (the goddess of mercy) came down and told Pigsy to spare the monkey's life. With Kuan Yin help, the monkey was still alive and free to go about his business.
The small monkey found his kinds and live among them in Water Curtain Cave as their king. Then one day an old monkey died. The monkey king afraid that one day he too will die and so he decided to go to a nearby island where he heard that there are gods there that could teach him to be immortal. The small monkey used a raft made of coconuts to go to that island. On the island he learn how to talk in human language. He learn how to walk on two feet. With the help of a dragon he was brought to an old man place. He heard this old man know the art of immortality and so he beg the man to teach him. The old man refused saying that the monkey wasn't a child of anyone. The monkey argued with the man that the sky is his father and earth is his mother. The old man finally accepted the monkey and he gave monkey a name, Sun Wu Kong. One day when the kids were supposed to pick their choice of which skill they want to learn, Wu Kong say that he wants to learn how to be immortal. His teacher told him that he had to be burn by fire, struck by lightning, and freeze to death by cold wind for 49 times a day. Wu Kong didn't care. He is willing to take that risk. And so for about 100 years Wu Kong learned the 72 transformations and immortality from his teacher in the World of Illusions. He also learned how to summon the Somersault Cloud. With one somersault he can travel to about 108,000 miles. After he left his teacher he goes back to his home island where he met his 2 old friends, Bull Demon and Iron Fan Princess. With a little misunderstanding, Wu Kong was taking down to hell. He was so angry, that he tore all the books that record all people's deaths. So from then on he and his monkey kind can't die.
A little while after, there was a disturbance under the eastern sea. It flooded the Flower and Fruit mountain, killing lots of monkeys. Wu Kong was angry that he went down under the sea to see what is going on. There he found a giant cudgel that is trying to break lose to find its old master, which cause the flood. Wu Kong pick the cudgel up and toss it in the sky. He went back home. The cudgel follow him home and from then on the cudgel was his weapon.
The King of the eastern sea reported to the Jade Emperor that Wu Kong has taken his cudgel. The King of Hell also went to heaven and reported to the Jade Emperor that Wu Kong went down to hell, create chaos and ripped off all the books of death. The Jade Emperor was very angry. He was about to order his armies to capture Wu Kong but the prime minister stop him. He said that Wu Kong can be tamed. So the Jade Emperor gave Wu Kong a job, the guardian of the heavenly stable. Wu Kong thought that it was so cool at first. Because his job title has 3 words he thought that it means that it is a good position, the lesser the word the better the position. Later he found out that it is not and he return back to earth and declare himself the Great Sage Equal of Heaven. When the Jade Emperor heard of Wu Kong return back to earth without consent, he was very angry. He was about to order his armies to capture Wu Kong, but the prime minister stop him again. This time he told the Jade Emperor to give Wu Kong the job title the Great Sage Equal of Heaven. This is just the title but without power. He can assign two men to watch over Wu Kong and teach Wu Kong proper etiquette. So the Jade Emperor give Wu Kong another chance. Sun Wu Kong didn't know about this trickery until later when the 3 eyes god, Erlang told him. You can imagine Wu Kong blood is boil. :) He went to the Jade Empress's party and wreac chaos there. He eat all the immortal peaches and drink all the wines. When the Jade Emperor found out, he order his army lead by Erlang to capture Wu Kong. The Prime Minister can't stop him this time.
No one can capture Wu Kong. Erlang power only match his 72 transformation powers.
To be continue.... Got to go. I will write more later. For now look at those pictures below. Click on it to see a bigger version.
I love this movie.
Handsome Siblings
2007-02-05
English Title: Handsome Siblings / Proud of Twins
Cast:
Dicky Cheung - Xiao Yu Er
Nicholas Tse - Hua Wu Que
Fan Bing Bing - Tie Xin Lan
Yuan Guan - Su Ying
Yang Xue- Jiang Yu Yan
Bai Xue - Xiao La Ni
Yumiko Cheng
Tsui Kam Kong
Episodes:
40 episodes
This TV series is an adaptation from a classical martial arts novel by Gu Long. It is about Xiao Yu Er and Hua Wu Que. They are twins separate at birth by this evil lady (I don't know her name.) She is Hua Wu Que first master. This lady is also the one who kill their parents. The reason she didn't kill the twins when they were born is because she want them to kill each other when they grow up (because she hates their parents so much). Xiao Yu Er was raised by the Ten Villians and Hua Wu Que is kept by that evil lady and her "sister" side. When Xiao Yu Er grow up, he went to the outside world trying to find out who he is and about his family. During his search, he met Hua Wu Que, Tie Xin Lan , Xiao La Ni and got a disciple. .... Will he ever found out who he is? Will he and his twin brother kill each other? Well u have to watch it to know more. But it has a very sad ending. If u have watch the Legendary Siblings, the one with Jimmy Lin, this one is different from that one. I am lazy to write more. ^__^
Handsome sibling's movie with english subtitle. You can also search on youtube . I don't watch movies online because it has a small video size. I prefer the big tv to watch these martial art movies, so I went to the store for all my chinese movies. But I do use the internet to see what new releases are good.
Chess Warriors
2007-02-03
English Title: Chess Warriors
Cast:
Dicky Cheung Wai Kin
Amy Fan Yik Man
Ho Mei Tin
Howie Wong Man Ho
Summary:
This movie is about a chinese emperor and his love to play chess. He love it so much that he has created a huge chess board and the chess pieces are the the real life human, he called them his chess warriors. The rules are a little different from normal chinese chess game. When one chess piece beat the other, they will fight until one piece kill the other. The player control the chess pieces, telling where each pieces will go.
My understanding of chinese chess are limited. I used to watch my dad play when I was little. Not much of a player myself, so I can't actually explain it quite well. There is an online chinese chess game if anyone wanted to play with a real life person. It's at http://www.clubxiangqi.com
Anyway back to the movie. In every kingdom there is a corrupt official. That corrupt official hated the Chess Warriors because the guy in charges of teaching the other chess warriors are always ruin his plan to overthrow the emperor. During a chess match with the neighboring king, the emperor listen to an advice from the corrupt official and lose the game. As promise the loser will lose lands previously agree. (The emperor thought this is better than going to war for land) Not only that but his car piece lost his hand from the battle and the guy in charge of the chess warriors lose his life.
After the match, the corrupt official blame the lost to the chess warriors and their bad fighting skill. This led to the leader of the chess warriors' family arrest and the car piece guy left to die. Luckily the daughter manage to escape and she plan to get revenge. The car piece guy was save by a handicap chess lover and somehow gets involve in his affairs. Later on they will learn cool kungfu from a martial artist and will use it on a chess game.
There is also a love triangle going on in this movie too. It turns out that the car piece guy (I can't translate his name so I'll just use his chess piece name) will fall in love with the evil official's daughter. The leader of the chess warrior's daughter has also love the car piece guy but he doesn't love her. The guy that love her is the handicap chess lover, who later turn out to be a prince. In the end, well you have to watch it to find out. ^__^
I have to give this movie a 7/10. I am not a chinese chess fan. The only reason I actually watch this is because of Dicky Cheung is in it (He is the handicap prince). He is funny. I guess he's a comedian, like Stephen Chow. Lots of people say he copy Stephen Chow style but I don't know. No comment here on that. I don't care. All I care is after finishing a project or homework, I just pop in a Dicky's movie and he makes me laugh. That's money well spent. ^__^
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