You two doofus! Finally we have some quality stills to look at! Why? Cause they held a press conference yesterday. I’m pleasantly surprised seeing ex-tvb and atv actors in the mix as well. Lu Han will be playing the role previously taken by Li Yi Feng (as Wu Xie) and Boran Jing tackles Yang Yang’s beloved despite the cut, Zhang Kylin. Sandra Ma was also there, portraying the character played by Tang Yan. Lu Han is the pretty one, Boran is the handsome one, and Sandra (sorry boys) is the badass one. That hair!
Stills:
If I didn’t know any better, I’d think Kylin is from the Beggars clan. Lol.
Posters.
Press Conference:
Boran Jing. So easy on the eyes.
Lu Han.
Sandra Ma looking spectacular from head to toes!
The duo.
The trio.
His perfect apple butt. Lol.
Lookie! Philip Keung! Ya’ll remember him? Some?
Directing is Daniel Lee (White Vengeance, Dragon Blade), and writing is Xu Lei (The Lost Tomb).
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Ummm. I’m not sure how I feel about Kylin’s/Jing Boran’s styling. Not really feeling it. At all. But. we’ll see. I really really like Jing Boran and the character Qilin, so. Yeah. Cross my fingers. Also, I hope I don’t dislike Sandra’s character as much as I did Tang Yan’s. Aka basically think they’re unnecessary. Idk, about Luhan. I mean, Wuxie’s supposed to be inexperienced, and perhaps ignorant in grave robbing, but as a person, he’s rather shrewd and sarcastic and very much not-naive. Thus, while Li Yi Feng’s acting was horrid in Lost Tomb, he sort of fit the bill of what I imagined Wu Xie could look like. Not particularly athletic, but sturdy and capable, maybe a little mischievous and sly. Luhan’s Wuxie looks very slender and thin and honestly kind of delicate and generally not very fit for grave robbing at all. Like Wuxie relies on the others a lot for physical stuff, but generally he should at least look like he holds his own. Idk, maybe it’s just cuz I feel like Luhan’s variety persona doesn’t fit Wuxie; maybe he’ll stun me with his acting or something.
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I’m on the same boat as you about the styling. I have never watched Lu Han act before so I can’t comment on his acting. Let it be a surprise for us two. XD
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Luhan can’t act in emotional scenes. You’d want to smash your monitor.
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LOL thanks for the tip, I won’t be watching him then cuz I value my monitor 😀
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I like Ah Ning’s poster best. The coin bracelet she wears is a identity of her.
Don’t really like the styling as well… maybe YY’s Xiao Ge has been etched into my mind that others need some getting used to.
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Agreed!!! The styling really…sigh. I almost thought Luhan is a reporter or sth…Boran fits the image of 小哥 but as huge YangYang fan, I shall support YangYang hahaha!
Ever since they announced the cast I have already said that Luhan does not fit the image of WuXie at all, I srsly can’t see Luhan as the 小三爷 in 沙海, not to mention 盗墓笔记 as a whole. Hopefully his acting will make up for it but I have heard that his acting isn’t that great. So *shrugs*, I shall just hope that the scriptwriter don’t screw the movie up and maybe give us a little surprise, unlike the drama which at the beginning seems okay but they screw up the plot near the end.
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Weirdly enough I like the delicate styling on Jing Boran. He doesn’t really have the typically handsome facial features to pull off the styling Yang Yang had.
Out of the two, JBR is by far the better actor. Luhan is probably the worst actor among the fresh meats.. him or William (although I love William).
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So he’s worse than Kris.. that’s hilarious…
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kris acting is good actually. he has a lot of potential as an actor as I see it.
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TBH while Li Yifeng screwed up big time as Wu Xie, half of it was the script’s fault. They turned the original Wu Xie character into some dumbass naive idiot who acts cutesy and spews propaganda and shit.
If they went with the original characterization in the novel, Li Yifeng would’ve been a perfect fit, cuz the novel Wu Xie is a wise guy with a wicked sense of humor (quite like LYF himself) and even looks wise really fit him.
I dun need to go on anymore about what a great fit Yang Yang is for Kylin cuz basically everyone has recognized this as fact LOL
Luhan is too girly looking to be Wu Xie and Jing Boran doesn’t have the ethereal/mysterious aura of Kylin.
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With that said, out of the young stars of his age, Jing Boran is one of the few with solid acting skills
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Totally agree Shimo! After listening to the audiobooks, LYF REALLY fits my picture of Wu Xie. LYF has that witty sly charisma that so works with Wuxie’s sometimes lewd jokes and sarcastic mental comments. Wuxie can sometimes be such an “dry old man” inside when you listen to his inner running commentary — it’s hilarious. He’s shrewd, smart, realistic, sarcastic, world-wise. He may be inexperienced in grave robbing, but he’s a FAR cry from the wide-eyed novice the script portrayed. Given the right script and directing, LYF and YY would have SO made it work! Such perfect actors for the two awesome characters..yet. Yet. Sigh. Jing Boran doesn’t fit my image of Kylin at all, but I agree. He is a REALLY solid actor. Not just in skill, but in things like his attitude towards his acting career, where he wants to go with, how hard he works at it. He just gives off such a serious-actor-who’s-serious-about-and-concentrated-on-his-work vibe. Very down to earth, but I guess it’s why it’s so incongruous with Kylin’s otherworldly aura. Don’t know about Luhan’s acting, but just his looks and reality tv persona alone just really don’t match up to Wuxie. Luhan’s too, polite and quiet, too cutesy and courteous and shy and just doesn’t fit the Wuxie image, physical or mental. Physically, Luhan just looks so…fragile and pretty-boy. Wuxie’s not a buff or athlete by any means, but he can hold his own and take care of himself and get things done and take charge when he needs to. He’s got a spine of steel and an outwardly unflappable countenance. Even when he freaks out, he can move on and deal with the situation at hand. Luhan just looks like he’s gonna do whatever Jing Boran tells him to do. And not even out of shrewd survival instincts the way Wuxie would, but simply because he looks like a brainless follower. Sorry for being so harsh, but he REALLY gives off that vibe. At least LYF’s wide-eyed naïveté was more, indignant stubborn child, are-you-an-idiot-wuxie-seriously where as Luhan is more, yes-obedient-kid-do-nothing-and-follow-my-orders.
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Thing is, Li Yifeng and Yang Yang was handpicked by Uncle 3 himself because he thought that they fit the roles in looks and aura. I know Li Yifeng gets a lot of shit for his acting but honestly for a guy who started out as a singer with NO PROFESSIONAL acting training (he didn’t even know what acting was the first time he had to get in front of a camera and be a small character in a TV role), he’s actually improving (albeit slowly).
The problem with Li Yifeng is that he’s quite inconsistent – if he can “get” into the feel of the character then he can get in form and play the character quite well. If he gets a character like the drama version of Wu Xie, who he obviously can’t understand or identify with very well, then he will very predictably struggle. His performance in Legend of Fragrance and Mr Six are among some of his best, and the reason is that because he really got into it and understood the characters. I think he relies on intuition/feel for the characters more than anything and he really needs to work with a good director or actor to bring out his acting.
Notice that in the Lost Tomb drama, LYF’s best acting in the entire series was in the last 2 episodes opposite Zheng Peipei. Acting opposite a highly experienced and skilled actress brought out his acting, so to speak. Just like acting opposite Feng Xiaogang also brought out his acting skill.
As for Yang Yang, I’ve rambled on and on about how perfect he fitted Kylin and how hard he worked for it and how much he loves the character. Plus his physical prowess isn’t something that many actors can replicate.
Jing Boran can act and is clear on where his acting career is heading, so I have no problems with him. However, the truth is that his aura doesn’t fit the character of Kylin and in that sense he’s a bit of a miscast.
As for Lu Han, he’s a very pretty boy (my mom and I mistook him for a pretty girl the first time we saw him) and he looks good and all, but he is one hell of a miscast for Wu Xie! Wu Xie is a wise guy but is also VERY masculine in terms of personality and aura. Not saying Wu Xie is macho but he’s a very everyday straight man type of guy. Lu Han from physical appearance to aura is just totally NOT Wu Xie. He’s so slim and delicate that he looks more like a beautiful boy than Wu Xie!
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I forgive the underwhelming of Jian Yao with Sandra’s short hair badassness! As for the movie, I’ll wait until I read other people’s reviews before deciding to watch it or not.
This is the first time I see actors wearing formal attire (black tie and such) to a movie press conference. Nice change! 🙂
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the press conference is the quickest one i have ever seen! only 20+ minutes or so. so i guess they just threw something on and called it a day. LOL not even a trailer released?!! so cheap.
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It’s because of the tension between Luhan and JBR lol
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which is more interesting/popcorn worthy than the actual movie LOL
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Did you guys hear about the issue between Jing Boran’s team and Luhan’s team? It caused quite an uproar on Weibo. Jing Boran’s manager posted and revealed about how sneaky Luhan’s team is – there was already a fixed billing order for the cast as stated in the contract but Luhan’s team threatened to pull Luhan out of promotions if they don’t list Luhan first and Jing Boran last.. so that’s what happened in the official weibo post of the release of the posters. Luhan was billed first while Jing Boran was billed last. And then they also revealed that Luhan was a diva who asked the entire cast and crew including Jing Boran to move around their schedules for him during filming and everyone had to work around Luhan’s schedule with no compromise from Luhan’s part.
His team sounds awful and Luhan isn’t looking too good either. I always felt there was something off about him.
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LOL honestly the whole mess is more popcorn-worthy than the actual movie hahaha. I saw the mess as it happened and it made me wonder if the Lost Tomb franchise is cursed or something, cuz the drama version was riddled with conflicts (culminating in Yang Yang leaving with his agent) and now there’s this feud over billing order for the movie version.
I won’t be watching this movie anyway cuz it looks shit TBH and the styling is even more tragic than the drama version (which already sucked big time).
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I did not read this!! WHAT THE HECK???!! After the incident in Australia, I’m starting to really believe that some of the stars think they are big shots. Lu Han is lucky he’s getting all these roles while others are still climbing the social ladder.
I know that technically he’s the lead but based on experience in the acting field, Boran is above him.
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What incident in Australia?
Not sure but, you know, young stars like Wu Yifan, Luhan, etc. who came back after a stint in Korea generally get way better treatment cuz apparently coming back from Korea = prestige
Just like Chinese film production companies worship Korean stars and pay them at least several times the salaries of Chinese actors and treat them like Gods
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Yeah it really bothers me the amount of attention Wu Yifan gets. The Chinese industry has a really solid base of rookies they could offer chances to, but instead they keep giving the return-from-Korea stars the lead roles when they haven’t even really proven themselves. Luhan with The Witness, Wu Yifan with a number of thing incl but not limited to Mr. Six, Victoria Song (who I REALLY CANNOT stand. At all, especially after her utter fail in Beautiful Secret) with Ice Fantasy and Beautiful Secret and others I can’t remember…this trend is really bugging me, cuz there are a lot of interesting productions coming up that I want to check out, yet they’re all angled with these stars who have no experience as the leads just because they, what, they have a fanbase in Korea and China from their singing?
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Personally, I think lately Mainland China’s been all the rage (regardless of what I think of their quality…) and Korean dramas…well I stopped paying attention, but after You From the Stars, I haven’t really heard of anything spectacular from Korea. What is it that makes Korean stars so valuable to the Chinese industry? The Korean audience/market? As we can see with BBJX and Nirvana, Koreans will watch Chinese productions when they want to, readily regardless of the presence of a Korean actor/actress. (Haha, did you know a large portion of the Nirvana fanfic pool is written in Korean? How strange is that? I didn’t think Nirvana was a thing in Korea)
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Wu yifan is such an awkward actor. It makes me weep that he is getting such great roles, because disregarding his poor acting, he is definitely not that handsome to be getting so much attention.
Luhan has been an adequate, not embarrassing actor at least, but not better than Jing Boran and definitely not experienced enough to be demanding about billing. But Wu Yifan and Victoria Song just do not deserve to be anywhere near as famous as they are. the seniors in the acting industry need to stop coddling them too.
At least there were lots of breakout young Chinese actors this year like Wang Kai, Han Dongjun (Elvis), Yang Yang, and Justin Sheng Yilun which is nice. All of the first three (have to see more from Justin) have shown themselves to be charismatic nuanced actors. We need more opportunities for stars like them. Same with the women. Can you imagine if Crystal Zhang tianai from go princess go had Victoria Song’s roles? Or Dilireba?
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Man, I tried my best to like Wu Yifan but holy shit I can’t for the life of me understand how the hell he is so insanely popular. The guy is likeable enough but Goddamn he CAN’T SING FOR SHIT (and he’s a PROFESSIONAL SINGER FFS), like literally any KTV regular can sing better than him. Watch his performance in the Hunan New Year Concert and on Happy Camp and I’m just like HOLY EFFING SHIT WTF (O_O)
His acting isn’t that great either cuz I watched Mr Six and while Li Yifeng gets SO MUCH SHIT for his acting, LYF was actually way better than Wu Yifan was.
There are SO MANY TALENTED PEOPLE in China – they just haven’t had the chance to shine yet. As many have rightly pointed out, the newly discovered local talents like Wang Kai, Ma Ke, Dilraba, etc. are not only beautiful looking, but also GOOD ACTORS! I can’t for the life of me understand this mindless worship of Korean stars when there are gems right in front of our eyes! From a business point of view it doesn’t even make sense because WHY fork out 5 or 6x the amount of money for something that isn’t even as good as the local stuff (which is cheaper in cost but has greater quality!)? If the VAST POOL of local talents can have even HALF the chances and opportunities that the Korean stars (or people who come back for Korea, etc.) have… *shakes head*
Nirvana smashed TV ratings in Korea because of the great quality of the productions. TBH Kdramas these days are just recycling the same old shit over and over again with the guy and girl falling in love and then going through all the makjang difficulties (jealous girls/guys, bitchy family, etc.) and then being together forever, etc. etc.
I stopped watching Kdramas after My Love From the Star because it was the last Kdrama I watched that was actually enjoyable. The plot had SO MANY PLOTHOLES and doesn’t make ANY LOGICAL or SCIENTIFIC SENSE, but the leading actress was funny and entertaining enough to at least keep me interested in her character.
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Wu Yifan’s film offers are RIDICULOUSLY good for a young star like him with no acting experience or acting background. Honestly his offers are so good that many C-netizens have long suspected that he has significant connections to be getting all these roles that should be offered to much better actors.
Same deal with Ma Sichun whose aunt is a BIG SHOT in the industry, which is why she’s getting all these big shot/leading roles when she can’t act for shit with a forgettable (at best) onscreen presence.
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^^
Wow you guys really hate these Chinese Kpop stars huh? I’m kind of okay with Wu Yifan because of this video I saw of him interacting with his fans (he was SO sweet with them, so kind) so I went to follow him more closely but yeah he’s kinda awkward in variety shows. He has great interpersonal skills though off-camera because it seems everyone in c-ent loves him, especially Feng Xiaogang. Feng Xiaogang chose him to be the recipient of the coat he wore in Mr Six and has always spoken very highly of him – in a way that he doesn’t really do with Li Yifeng. Guan Hu feels the same too. Not to mention that Stephen Chow personally attended the Weibo Awards just to present him his award and we all know the guy – he wouldn’t do that if the person wasn’t someone he liked. As for the promos, I remember that Li Yifeng often liked to joke about them being a CP and kept teasing him about his dating life that it got annoying and even Feng Xiaogang was WTF and said they should just talk about the movie since they were doing movie promotions. Plus he did the bulk of promotions for Mr Six while LYF only did a couple.
As for his acting, I read this Mr Six review on FilmBiz (hk based film website) and I agree with the reviewer’s assessment – he did much better than Li Yifeng. In my opinion. Li Yifeng has always been such an awkward actor to me and his Beijing accent was so non-existent it was grating. Wu Yifan played the bratty entitled rich kid well. He was very awkward in SOWK though but I’ve seen his improvement in Mr Six. As for live singing…. well… Dude should just stick to acting although he does have a couple of nice OSTs. But he should grow his hair out asap because this bald look is not for him.
I don’t really have an opinion on Victoria tbh because she’s always seemed kinda invisible to me?? Where did she even come from? Like one day I’ve only heard of her vaguely then suddenly she’s in all these projects? She’s not even remotely beautiful it’s weird. And I’ve seen some scenes from her drama and… she should never act… again. I already expected Ice Fantasy to be a mess though so it’s fitting she’s in it.
And Lay… one of the blandest people in the biz. I watched Baby From The Universe and it was AWFUL. From the plot to the acting and to the direction. It was a mess. He has such an unattractive face too.
Luhan is average. He’s average in everything he does. From singing to dancing to acting. He has a cute face but not an appealing one, you know? He has the face only 12 year olds would appreciate. I was okay with him as a person but after reading the many things I’ve read about his shady team.. it’s changed my opinion of him a lot.
Tao is irrelevant which is probably why none of you mentioned him. Poor guy.
I agree that C-ent should also pay the same attention to homegrown talents like Wang Kai. Why are these EXO kids the only ones getting these huge movie projects while a lot of tv actors are stuck in idol dramas that offer no improvement? It’s not fair and it’s not like the local talents are lacking in fanbase size. I can see why they would choose Wu Yifan to push in international projects and events because he can speak English but there are a lot of local events too that ignore homegrown artists in favor of these EXO kids? It’s baffling.
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You do know the whole thing with JBR’s team was straight up slander right? The crew said he worked really hard plus the manager deleted it, he was only mad because JBR wasn’t top billing which is ridicolous because his character isn’t the main one like Luhan is. You sound like a typical Kris fan, face it, he’s bad at everything and the only reason he’s getting attention is because he kisses ass to everyone. Pretty funny Luhan is “average” well Kris is frankly straight up shit.
Oh, and everyone getting mad that Luhan got the role for Wu Xie, take that up with the author because he said he personally picked Luhan for the role. Lol..
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I’m glad someone finally said it. The lead actor gets billed first, this is nothing new and happens in every movie. All the comments from the staff and interviews from Jing Boran do not add up to what the manager posted and then deleted. The fact that people hold merit to it is funny to me. Luhan gets nothing but praise from everyone he works with, people want so badly to hate him. And will find anything to dislike him. Wait til the movie comes out to judge how it’s going to be.
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I got nothing against Wu Yifan cuz he seems a pretty chill dude (which is good) but I just can’t understand why he’s getting all these awesome offers when they should be going to people who deserves them more.
But then again the world is not fair and life’s a bitch so I guess the “it’s not what you know but who you know” maxim applies in all walks of life
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Argh — none of these other comments showed up a second ago when I was commenting about Sandra! Now I see that this topic has already been covered…grrr, wonder why the site wouldn’t show the comments earlier! And I still can’t “reply” to some of the later comments on this thread either…
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@Zlidia, If you click the comments directly on the “recent comments” sidebar – earlier comments won’t show up. It’s the plugin’s glitch. So you would have to remove the extra “wording” to see all comments in the post. Example below: extra wording after the link, I placed in the orange box.
As for the comments: If you don’t directly see a REPLY button on the top right hand corner of a comment, it means that it has reached the maximum threading levels. I can’t create so many threads because it will start skewing the page to the right, messing up the design.
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AnotherCommenter, everything you are saying that is
My two cents about the exo boys from what I’ve seen, as someone who did not follow the group when they were active.
I don’t particularly care about Luhan, and wish he would stop acting because he doesn’t look handsome like a leading man and he’s just so weird to look at, especially in his roles. But his singing is nice and his dancing I would say is way better than average. He looks so fluid and on point in his dance practice videos that I can enjoy watching them. He sounded way better in his song Medals for The Witness than anything else I’ve heard from Wu Yifan. Do I care if he sticks around in the industry? No . Not as an actor. I can’t take his face seriously and his acting is average.
As for Wu Yifan. Everything that you said is good about him is offscreen. He may have good interpersonal skills offscreen but he has almost nothing going on for him as an entertainer as of yet. I don’t even think he can pass as average. He is awkward on camera, on variety and And it is hard for me to like him just because other notable industry veterans seem to like him. I don’t see why they do to such a degree since there are plenty of hardworking nice guys in the industry that don’t get the recognition from Stephen Chow/Feng Xiaogang. He can not be that extraordinary personality wise to be completely singled out so I think something is fishy. He jumped right into the Hua Yi Brothers circle after leaving Korea (which backs both Feng Xiaogang and Stephen Chow movies) so I do not think it is that remarkable that they highlighted him and not Li Yifeng (who is not in the Hua Yi company). Side note: Li Yifeng’s acting ranges from bad to good for me.There’s better out there. But I do think he’s quick and humorous. *shrugs*
I just don’t see his use when I don’t think he’s THAT handsome (he’s no Yang Yang) and there are actors that are way better at everything out there.
TLDR – Wu Yifan and Luhan just range from passable to bad. I don’t even want to talk about Victoria. Gimme less boyband escapees and more shows like Go Princess Go which takes talented unknowns like Crystal Zhang Tianai (who did graduate from beijing film academy) and gives them a fighting chance.
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@Kaptain — thanks for the explanation. Makes sense. I appreciate the limit — I hate it when I read comments on my phone from other blogs and the tabs have gone off so much that it’s just a single character per line on the screen!
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I’m watching Mr. Six now, and honestly I can’t stand Wu Yi Fan’s acting. He’s supposed to be this cool ringleader, but he’s really not impressive at all. He just constantly sounds sullen and sulky. His voice acting has the same problems as Shimo’s issues with Sandra Ma in LMIYD. It’s really wispy in a feathery way like he has no energy to say things “with the stomach” if you know what I mean. Like his voice and lines don’t sound solid, they sound sort of spineless and really weak. And he mumbles. He’s got absolutely no presence! Like his walk is slouched and lazy, his talk is monotone and weak, his head’s constantly lowered. The whole “slow” effect doesn’t work with him. With Feng Xiaogang, he’s got a slow walk and slow speech rhythm, but it works because even with a slow walk, he’s got a steel frame and solid posture. When he’s riding the subway, his figure is eye-catching because despite the slouch he’s got the aggressive upward head tilt. He’s got an aura that Kris just can’t match, so it makes it hard to watch this movies believing that Kris’s character is supposed to be an obstacle for FXG. His speech is low and slow, but his sound carries in a way that sounds like his voice has substance. It’s not weak and empty sounding like Kris’s is.
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I saw Mr Six without reading any critics remarks so that I could form my opinion before actually reading reviews.
Interpretation is subjective but I must say I don’t think Wu Yifan was good in Mr Six at all. His whole character was “acting cool, being a rich kid, and showing his handsome face”. That’s pretty much it. And yeah his voice didn’t impress me either.
Not being biased towards Li Yifeng (cuz we all know how much I complained about his Wu Xie back in the day and I will still complain about his Wu Xie because it was just fucking terrible), but his character Bobby was a much more fascinating character and LYF played it quite well. I found him much more interesting to watch and his interaction with Feng Xiaogang in the movie was great.
I only believe what I see on camera and the fact is that Wu Yifan is awkward as hell in all the variety show and promo appearances I’ve seen him in. I have nothing against the guy but dude can’t sing or act, and isn’t drop dead gorgeous either.
Huayi is DESPERATE to sign Wu Yifan up. Mr Six is funded by Huayi so Wu Yifan is guaranteed to have a decent role (and his role was a great role especially for someone so inexperienced! Get someone who can actually act to play that role and it would’ve been AWESOME) and be highly praised by anybody linked to Huayi.
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Hell, even Draco Malfoy does the villain rich kid better than Wu Yifan does
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Honestly speaking Boran should be billed above Lu Han just based on acting experience and industry standing/recognition alone. The fact is Jing Boran’s had lead roles in movies with awesome box office figures and also been nominated for film acting awards. That in itself speaks volumes.
OK, even if they bill Lu Han above Jing Boran because of Lu Han’s character Wu Xie, there is no way in hell Boran should be billed last. Not taking any sides but that’s what I think.
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Totally agree with all your comments. Truer words have never before been spoken. I’ve given up on kdramas for a while already. I honestly couldn’t tell you what the last drama I watched was. I don’t even remember. At all. That’s how unimpressionable they’ve been since a long while. I didn’t even watch My Love from the Star. Despite its popularity, I really couldn’t get into it. T.T Totally not your fault cuz I mentioned Nirvana first, but guys, don’t mention it. Every time Nirvana is mentioned, I have an urge to rave about its awesomeness as well as an urge to cry because I have nothing to watch that will take that hole away T.T (I know I’m being dramatic, but can’t help it, I’m in LOVE!). Moving on. Don’t know anything about Ma Sichun, but as people can see from many previous posts, I’m very much NOT a Wu Yi Fan fan. Lol “fan fan”. Anyways. He’s just so…untalented! And he’s an awkward variety presence too. Like, have you guys SEEN his episodes of Happy Camp?! He’s SO awkward! At least with ZLY, she’s cute cuz when she’s awkward you can tell, she’s just inexperienced. With WYF, oh my god I can’t. He’s awkward and quiet in a don’t-bother-me-I’m-reluctant-to-speak way. In his promos with the Mr. Six cast, Li Yi Feng has to include him in jokes and stuff just to make sure WYF’s more than just a physical presence, and even then he seems very uncooperative. In one part they clearly rehearsed a princess-hug segway, yet WYF was so awkward and mumbling and LYF’s just like dude, get on with it (not in so many words, but…). He mumbles, has no stage presence, and his half-time singing at Happy Camp was SO. BAD. He should have just stuck with lip-syncing. If he was lip-syncing and that was his pre-recorded voice, then I’m sorry, it was bad. And he’s not even likeable, like He Jiong kept making jokes about the boys’ hair, and LYF just kind of rolled with it, WYF just made it seem like he’s a vain person. He would ask about his hair, and “fix” it, but not even in a confident way but more of a rehearsed-awkward-I-need-to-do-this way. WHY is he so popular?!!!! He’s not even insanely hot or pretty or anything!
And don’t even get me started on Victoria. Her “personality” on Sisters over Flowers? So despicable. People argue that it was scripted and not her real personality. All I can say is, she has a really crappy manager then if they’re allowing her to make such a horrible impressions of herself. In other shows like Happy Camp, she keeps trying to act cute! It really bugs me; like I don’t understand how that works in the Chinese industry. She’s like bringing all the overly-exaggerated “aegyo” thing korean variety loves so much, but culturally it’s just not going to fly! And her acting in Beautiful Secret. I. Can’t. I think Peter’s a stiff actor, and he was WAY better than her. Go and watch ep 2 or something and freaking tell me that her acting’s not utter crap. I’m pretty sure I wrote a rant somewhere else on her abhorrent acting in Beautiful Secrets. Maybe in the cbox. I gave her a chance, cuz I was kind of looking forward to Ice Fantasy, but now, I don’t think I can stand it. Honestly it’s so bad I would rather her be a quiet pretty vase than have her attempt to act again. I really can’t stand her acting. Every expression is exaggerated, like she’s embodying the worst of bad actresses of korean idol dramas. She’s acting cutesy 24-7; even her angst scenes where she’s supposed to garner sympathy, she pulls the most contrived lost-little-fake-puppy face I’ve ever seen.
I’m really not hating on her personally — I don’t know her personally At. All. BUT. I am totally reaming on her acting. She’s like a worse version of Michelle, practically a parody of Michelle, and I at least try to like Michelle most of the time.
With acting like that, why can’t Victoria just start as a rookie! She’s getting SO many lead roles for so many anticipated works. People like Peter Ho, Feng Shao Feng, Ma Tian Yu, while they aren’t veterans, they’re definitely experienced and generally solid and consistent, yet Victoria, a literal newcomer in the acting scene with no particular talent, is getting so many good opportunities and getting treatment on par with other more experienced actors. There are SO MANY talented newcomers who actually deserve the chances Victoria’s getting, like jen mentioned above. I mean, like shimo said, LYF also started as a singer. But even as someone who has a GREAT deal of talent and natural potential, he also had to start from low-key productions and little known dramas in secondary minor roles. Why does Victoria, a nobody in the acting world just like LYF was, get what she does? Like LYF, she has no training in acting, yet the moment she enters the Chinese entertainment industry, ” She also began to take up acting in China, playing lead roles in dramas” according to wiki. You know what bugs me about that sentence? With no experience, no skill, nothing to base any sort of acting potential on, she just begins to “take up acting”? Her first role was a lead roles. In fact, in the small number of dramas she has been in, she’s always been lead. That’s just fucking bullshit. As you can clearly see, Song Qian’s situation pisses me off. To an insane degree. I can’t even begin to fully describe how much I hate the number of baseless privileges she’s just handed.
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LOL it was actually Wu Yifan’s “performances” in Happy Camp + Promos that kinda turned me off … for exactly the same reason you said.
With Li Yifeng, while he didn’t awe me with his acting skill, I found myself really liking him after watching his many appearances in variety shows like Happy Camp and in interviews/promos, etc. He’s got such a charming personality and has such a wicked sense of humor and is ALWAYS such a great entertainer. All the media reports of LYF being high in EQ and IQ aren’t bullshitting because the dude is obviously very smart and has such great interpersonal skills! He’s always quick to diffuse any awkward situations and always manages to make other people laugh. He entertains the audiences so well in variety shows and I always love watching him whenever he happens to be in a particular episode because if he’s there then it’s guaranteed fun! 🙂
I mean, physical attractiveness is very subjective but I actually found myself liking LYF more for his personality and work ethic more than his looks (of course he’s a very good looking guy but he never struck me as the drop dead gorgeous type of guy … I found him more attractive because I liked his personality, does that make sense?). Dude is deathly afraid of heights and wire-work fight scenes make him puke and he fainted with fright during the filming of Ancient Sword because of the many wire-work scenes, but he still stuck by it and keeps filming action dramas because it’s required of his job.
While many people were lip-synching in the Hunan Concert (I don’t blame the actors but there were professional singers who did this), he sang for real (even though he forgot some lyrics half way through and made up his own lyrics on the spot LOL … I didn’t even notice it until the media reports came out afterwards and then LYF was like, “Sorry forgive me! *cute smile*” LOL), which shows me that he has professional ethics. For the filming of Mr Six, he got a dialect coach to teach him how to speak the Beijing dialect (because he’s not a local and has trouble with pronouncing Beijing dialect words) and worked closely with Feng Xiaogang and director Guan Hu to try to play his part as Feng Xiaogang’s son as well as he could. He admitted that he was so nervous during the audition for the part and it was only because Feng Xiaogang and Guan Hu being awesome seniors that made him feel more at ease. And then after wrapping up filming for his part, he wrote this epic reflection essay about his character and wrote a letter (in his character’s point of view and using the speaking/interaction style of his character) explaining all the details of the ending and addressing it to his “father” (Feng Xiaogang). It was so damn moving that audiences and Feng Xiaogang got all teared up after reading it. I read it too and it was fricken awesome.
As for Victoria, I don’t know her at all cuz I don’t watch any of her stuff, but I can totally understand why you feel so angry at the unfairness of it all, because I feel the same way too! We have hardworking and talented people like Feng Shaofeng and Ma Tianyu, etc. who slowly work their way up, so why do people with no talent or experience get everything handed to them on a silver platter? People feel puzzled about why Wang Kai, Ma Ke, or Li Yifeng are famous but if you study their career history then it’s pretty obvious how hard they worked their way up, from the roles of extras on set to minor roles and then gradually to small parts and supporting characters, etc. The only reason I can think of is that Victoria must obviously have very good connections (and other reasons which I won’t say but is actually the most obvious reason, given what insiders have told me about the industry…)
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Tell JBR’s team this then, they’re so petty coming after Luhan, but it looks like people who have predisposed prejudices will beileve anything on the internet. Trust me, Huayi (JBR’s agency) are known for pulling shady stunts like these.
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…You do know Zheng Kai was the one throwing a fit right? We get it you hate Luhan for not comforming to how men are supposed to look.
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Nope that is typical Huayi BS and you’re falling for it.
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Okay — I have to ask — who else feels a little odd about Sandra’s GIGANTIC rise in the c-ent world? I haven’t seen any of her stuff, so MAYBE I’m just not giving her enough credit — I acknowledge that she did get nominated for a serious acting award for her role in Left Ear — but she seems to have gone from absolutely nothing…with no acting background (right?) to suddenly being cast in A-list dramas, movies, the works.
I would normally chalk this up to great publicity or a great agent/company and the new rise in “idol” stars (i.e., Li Yi Feng and Chen Wei Ting also seem to have risen like meteors after Ancient Sword) — except that Sandra isn’t the classic triple threat (sing/dance/act), as far as I can tell, she is NOT headlining any agent/company (i.e., no ShanDong/HuaWei/TangRen is trying to mold her to be their top player), and while I think she looks fantastic, China fandoms have been criticizing her looks to no end (mainly due to her weight, since she looks like a normal person instead of a stick) so she’s clearly not going the Yang Mi/Liu Shi Shi/Zhao Li Ying route. She’s not even a Zhang Yi Mou prodigy or anything like that, where you get projects for being in that ONE film (i.e., Zhou Dong Yu, Ni Ni).
And then I think about those reports of her coming from connections — I think her aunt is someone famous in the older generation of actors or something like that?…is this a sign that all of C-ent is nothing more than who knows who in terms of who gets the best roles…?
I’d love to believe that C-ent is placing talent above connections…can someone who is familiar with her actual acting put my brewing conspiracy theories to bed? Like, is she on Liu Tao/Sun Li levels?
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Sandra Ma’s aunt is a BIG SHOT in the C-ent industry
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It’s who you know not what you know, it’s what they say…
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I think like any large entertainment industry, it’s a combination of luck, perseverance and talent in the mix with occasional nepotism and connections that get you far in C-ent. If you look at how people become famous it ranges from working your way up from film academies, to talent shows, to just randomly catching the eye of a famous producer/director (Yang Yang).
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She’s not exactly A-list or on the same levels as Liu Tao/Sun Li. Far from it, actually. (Funny no one ever mentions about Sun Li’s relative on her dad’s side–Sibelle Hu. Not a big shot but still respected by the film industry.)
Personally I think it gets tricky for any celebrity who has relatives or parents who also actors because there’s always that accusation of them getting roles using connections. I’m not saying that there aren’t celebs who use this route, but I’d like to give some of them the benefit of the doubt. When they don’t perform up to everyone’s expectations, they get all sorts of criticism, not all constructive, but mostly that they’re getting roles because they’re so-and-so’s daughter/niece/granddaughter, what have you. If I were her, I’d probably be thinking, “Gee THANKS for the criticism–can you at least critique my acting seriously instead of constantly REMINDING me that my aunt is a big shot?”.
Yeah, I’m starting to feel sorry for her. Not that I don’t agree that her acting needs work, but people make it seem like it’s her fault that other up and rising stars aren’t getting any opportunities because she exists and that her aunt is Jiang Wenli. And she had used her aunt’s connections to the max, you’d think she’d wait until her current age to really grab onto lead roles? 27 is not old by any means but when you have actresses who are in lead roles in their early 20s…well, there’s that.
And yeah, she got a lot of criticism for her looks. Netizens’ obsession with bones is a little scary imo. I hope they realize that these actresses are a lot more skinnier in person. The camera really does add 10lbs to you.
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*if
And by “people” in my post, it’s mostly what I’ve seen on weibo and in general across drama blogs and forums.
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Having families/relatives in the show business, especially if they are influential, certainly opens the door for many actors. That these connections land you leading roles in relatively short time isn’t exclusive in China/HK/Taiwan. It’s pretty obvious in Hollywood (recent examples being Dakota Johnson, but let’s not forget the highly respected Angelina Jolie is Jon Voight’s daughter, and countless more) or Bollywood (e.g. Abhishek Bachchan — and he got to marry the super gorgeous Aishwarya Rai too!). But their longevity in the business lies on themselves. Sandra’s Golden Horse nomination was not her first acting acknowledgement either. She may not be widely known prior to The Left Ear, but she’s not exactly a rookie. That’s why I said here how surprised I was with her underwhelming performance in LMIYD. She’s got lots of criticism for that, so let’s hope she learns her lesson there. Personally, I still want to check out her next projects.
I also think her healthy look is such a breath of fresh air, especially in an industry AND culture that tend to be very judging to female’s appearance. Speaking of which, although I’m not a fan of Michelle Chan, I like that seemingly she’s kept her chubby cheeks and droopy eyes instead of running into plastic surgeons. This said, I have nothing against those who prefer to alter parts of their face or body as they see fit.
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I didn’t realize she wasn’t a rookie! The first time I heard about her, it was a post from the author of the left ear novel, who said that she recognized Sandra from being a book cover model…I sort of assumed that Sandra had been a print model before, but not an actual actress.
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According to Wikipedia, Sandra’s been acting since the tender age of 7. She’s had her fair share of movies and television series. She won the Golden Phoenix award (sort of like the Screen Actors Guild award in Hollywood) for best new actress for the movie “Silent Years”. So the Golden Horse nomination was her second acting recognition. While it’s very likely that she’s had helps from Jiang Wenli, I think it’s fair to say she’s been working her way up too 🙂
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Sorry, the English title of Silent Years is “Time Flies Soundlessly”.
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If Sandra is NOT a rookie then she is even more deserving of my complaints about her fucking terrible performance in LMIYD. She’s been in the business for so long and she still can’t even deliver a line properly? How the **** is she getting all these major roles if not for her industry connections?
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In all my years of drama and movie watching, I’ve never yet had the displeasure of seeing such a terrible performance by a lead actress as her Jian Yao.
Both her Jianyao and Wallace’s Bo Jinyan made me forward 90% of the drama because they were both just effing awful.
Zhang Luyi / Wang Kai / Liu Yijun / etc. were wasted in this drama.
HHL better get a decent female lead for Snail or else they can expect it to fail.
In other news, Lost Tomb, Go Princess Go, Wuxin the Monster Killer have been banned on internet channels by SARFT. Web dramas will now align with TV dramas in terms of the “requirements” for broadcast…
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T.T What?! Why is SARFT sticking they’re claws into everything! With SARFT around, we can definitely expect to NOT see original stuff like Wuxin, nor awesome progressive gender-fluid stuff like Go Princess Go. There go my last hopes for a cdrama with a gay main OTP. Sigh.
Lol @shimo, for Snail, I’m definitely rooting for Song Yi.
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Jen, Julianne and shimokuren – thanks for replying but I can’t reply upthread so I will do so here.
About his acting – this is a very subjective topic as we all have different preferences on acting and different factors on what we find good acting. I didn’t read reviews before watching. I went inside the theater not even knowing what character he was playing. His line delivery was pretty much perfect, especially in the scene where he asks Liu Ye what they should do to settle the score and a fight was proposed. His portrayal of Xiao Fei moved me in a way that Li Yifeng’s Xiao Bo didn’t (interesting that you guys point out Wu Yifan’s voice – because I thought Li Yifeng’s voice was the worst out of everyone. His accent was non-existent and his delivery was whiny and shrill. His face was also in a permanent state of bratty sullenness – very one dimensional and in the big scene with his father I wanted to fast forward the movie in the theater because he wasn’t the least bit convincing). I thought Yifan did very very well. My 45-year old aunt who watched with me thought so too. You guys don’t and that’s cool. We can just agree to disagree.
Jen – I’m very familiar with Feng Xiaogang because I studied his movies in school and trust me, he’s not the type of guy any company can influence into saying or doing something they don’t actually believe in. He’s a shareholder in Huayi but he openly criticized the company for making reality show movies like Running Man and pointed out how it was all about money, money, money with no thought for quality. I remember this clearly because it was all over entertainment news. Let’s not forget this was also the guy who openly criticized China’s censors on live TV. So to accuse him of being pushed by his company to support an actor is just very contrary to who he actually is.
As for Stephen Chow, I just googled his name with Huayi.. and both sides are in a huge court battle over the profits of his 2013 movie that Huayi distributed. They haven’t worked together since and they’ve been suing each other all these years. I highly doubt he would even answer Huayi’s calls much less do a very huge favor for them. Tsui Hark, Zhang Hanyu and several other veterans have spoken very highly of him. So I think he really is that great personality-wise that even people who are against each other (like Huayi and Stephen) have one thing in common and it’s liking him. Jing Boran is Huayi’s latest golden boy, if Huayi were to push anyone it would be him. But you don’t see these influential people praising him… so I don’t buy that Wu Yifan is liked solely because of his association with Huayi.
As for Luhan, a lot of those things are subjective and I just think differently. Again, agree to disagree.
Anyway, this was an interesting talk. Your thoughts are all very insightful! Great discussion.
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agree with you tbh. not a fan of wuyifan but I watched the Mr.Six 2 days ago and I have to say he acting was great and he was much better than Liyifeng in the movie. I read a lot of criticism about the movie
and a lot of people thinks same way too. I think he has great potential as an actor.
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hi, have everyone here watched luhan’s the witness? is it good, bad, average?
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He’s good, don’t listen to these bitter ******.
MOD EDIT: No personal insults to other commentators please.
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he’s cute boy but his acting bad, really very bad.
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The movie is out on youtube. I watched somewhere we only know first and thought that Luhan’s acting would be as cringe worthy as Kris Wu’s, but I was surprised. He did well for it being his second movie. There wasnt a moment when I was like OMG I can’t watch this. It sounds like the people saying he can’t act just don’t like him. Cause as a non-fan I didn’t think he was bad.
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He’s less awkward than Wu Yifan, but he’s very exaggerated in his acting which was even more obvious next to Yang Mi. But he wasn’t awkward bad, so the movie was still enjoyable if that makes sense.
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@AnotherCommenter
“Tao is irrelevant” is a bit an amateur statement given he has yet to make a real acting debut.
He’s got two films due out later in the year and that’s when you can finally start comparing his work, otherwise leave him out please.
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i dont think another commentoer meant anything bad when he/she said Tao is irrelevant. it was just a curiosity as to why no one brought up his name. and i can tell you with certainty that 90% of the ladies here have no idea who Tao is. he has two movies, he will soon become relevant to these comparison. but because he’s another one of EXO boys to cross over, another commenter merely wonders why. thus, he’s irrelevant in the discussion in terms of projects and making a name for himself. nothing bad.
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Luhan’s looks doesn’t fit that role tbh. most importantly luhan’s acting is very bad. I know he’s new but as an actor I don’t see any improvement in him since his return to China. At least kris improved a lot and he’s on way to becoming a good actor. I haven’t jing boran’s acting,can any one tell me how he is?
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luhan is alright.. not great everyone is exaggerating. i think everyone is being too harsh, he looks fine for the part, hey if the author thinks he fits then it’s fine.
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Seems like people have a pre-prejudice towards him. I can’t see people going out of there way to hate on the kid by just seeing one of his movies. Seems like there is more towards their hatred.
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hello mod, i want to ask, are you able to see IP address of each commenter like another site?