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There is a saying in Chinese - indigo arises from blue but is better than blue. It's frequently used to describe a derivative that is better than its origins.

Where Hana Yori Dango is concerned, I think it's a case of "poo-colour arises from gold and is crappier than gold" (spot the pun).

This is Makino Tsukushi. Apparently in casting her, the producer said, "Tsukushi needs to be pretty, not beautiful, but a clean and pure look...Her eyes are very clear, and she's unlike those beautiful girls who have a lot of life experience." Which one might interpret as "innocent-looking". I'm sorry, but she looks totally like an OBASAN. She looks even more OBASAN than the Korean version, which I didn't think was possible. She's meant to be 19, by the way, but she looks like she's 32.

The notorious F4, mainland version. From left: Pooch face, poodle face, Shaolin monk, and "Look, my mouth matches my hands" (stolen from the ingenious Irene XDDD). Guess which one's their leader, Doumyouji. You'd think being the leader he would be in the most prominent position...but nope.

I bet the Korean team is thanking their stars that they're not the worst of the lot.

And a random writer's block...

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Funny that I was lying in (my parents') bed just an hour ago thinking that maybe, once in a past life, I was a nocturnal animal and these habits haven't been shaken off yet. Sometimes I think daylight makes me feel tired...and night wakes me up O_o

A recent research paper supposedly said that people who sleep late tend to be more creative, and people who are early risers tend to not be creative. Broad generalisation aside, it's true that I do most of my writing and drawing late at night, when the Muse just doesn't stop singing. Especially right before exams. LOL.

Current Mood: bitchy

So anyway, finally this batch of assignments done, so I can theoretically relax for a few days although I really should start preparing for final exam ==;

最近Irene給了我新版的《射雕》。帥哥版哦~帥哥版*噗* 不過胡歌演起郭靖只有七分相似，可能因爲長得一副機靈的樣子所以角色也有小小改動，胡歌版的靖哥哥倒是忠厚老實單純，而不是書裏的“腦袋不靈光”的感覺。被罵時那嘟著老高的嘴當真是不可不愛啊 XDDDDD

其實我發覺我還蠻喜歡楊康這種矛盾的角色。的確他有很多可惡之處，可是他畢竟是個十八嵗的被寵壞了的小王爺嘛，對名利情的迷戀在那種年齡也不奇怪。金大俠在書裏好像不是怎麽同情他（不過好久沒看了），不過個人總覺得他滿可憐的。從某些方面他很像另一個墮落青年林平之，他們都有俠義的一面，只是命運很殘酷哦~殘酷~~ 當然他們是有經不起考驗的一面，要不也就不會誤入歧途，但是他們的缺點很平凡啊，只是遭遇太不尋常而已。袁弘版的楊康倒把這個矛盾人格詮釋的很在位，時不時很臭屁很無恥很可惡、但卻又覺得他很可憐。覺得環境對他的影響太大了所以很惋惜，如果他不是在金人王府長大、如果他的師父們有好好教導他的人品、如果他的母親堅決點……等等等等。

總的來講，這個版本的~~angst~~感情戲做得不錯，不過太拖了==; 楊鐵心和包細弱那段閙得催人淚下也就罷了……結果還拉得十幾集那麽長……擺明就是要搾干別人的眼淚嘛！

黃蓉還算可以啦，硬要挑就是不夠從容、不夠漂亮（不是很丑，只是不夠出衆）。穆念慈好漂亮~~ XD

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I'm about 15 minutes into Initial D movie (the one with Jay Chow).

OMG This will teach me that watching Japanese drama is bad for my health >___>;;;;;;;

One of the guys in the team they first race is soooooooooooo Kumai from Gokusen. And one of the guys on Jay's group is sooooooo Akira from Hana Yori Dango. And I swear I recognise the other guy too...he looks like Morita Go from V6...

Suzuki Anne is still really really irritating, but not yet as bad as her role in Ganbatte Ikimashoi.

Geh....it's kind of...infuriating (for the Japanese, I'll bet) that a movie based on one of their more popular manga has cast Chinese actors in most of the major roles while the Japanese actors stand around like trees. Bah.

Jay Chow's canto is sooo cute XD

終于發現了我爲什麽看完戰神悶悶不樂。

零說過：“我們兩個各自從悲劇中出發，相遇而得救。”

也可能正是因爲如此吧。在得到幸福之前，他們究竟犧牲了多少，強忍了多少淚水，勇敢的活下去？

如果沒有相遇，他們倆的命運都是非常悲慘的。說他們互相承救了對方並不是誇張。

世界上有多少人又活在自己的悲劇中呢？多少人爲了等待這種幸福、解脫而掙扎活下去呢？

然而，他們相遇始終是命運的相遇 - 運。

有多少人真正會有這種運氣呢？有多少人又必須承擔著他們的悲劇，走到生命的最後一步？

他們的結局是童話般的結局，是嗎？誰知道悲劇究竟到底是終止還只是中止了？

零選擇的路是危險的，是一個毫無保證的。在賽車場上的每一秒都有失去性命的危險。況且，別的賽車手都承認：“他走的路是沒有回頭的。”

好不容易爭取到的幸福，卻是那麽脆弱，那麽容易失去。

可能我真的應該佩服綺羅，因爲她可以勇敢地支持零為他的夢想奮鬥，然後站在終點線上，把零引回到她的世界。

終于覺得，這個感覺很像看完古龍的“流星、蝴蝶、劍”。短暫、耀眼的美麗，含有那麽多的辛酸。

與其讓人痛哭一場的劇情，戰神留下淡淡的憂悶，卻久久不願離去。

I'm up to episode 13 of Mars...which is, in terms of the manga, the final volume, where various people get stabbed, sent to psychiatric hospitals, die, go to hell, amongst others.

Apparently there's more after this *shudders* Knowing how well the extension of Hana Yori Dango turned out, I'm not looking forward to this...

Rei: Vic actually plays the violent and playboy traits of this character very well, which comes as a surprise, seeing him in Meteor Garden. In fact, he's so good at being violent, I wonder why he wasn't cast as Doumyouji...LOL. Except, of course, Rei is violent without being stupid and narrow-minded. But the scenes where Rei-angst comes on is a bit...>__> Vic really overdoes the angsting. I realise that yes, Rei is a very mentally unstable person, who has probably been permanently traumatised by his experience in the mental hospital and with his brother, but Vic over-dramatises his vulnerability. Then again, I haven't really read the manga that well ~~;

Kira: DaS has the right petite stature and sweet face to bring this character off well. I don't dislike Kira that much, which comes as a surprise, because I tend to violently dislike typical Japanese "maidens in distress who are strong". Honestly, I don't see Kira as that strong. Certainly, what she went through was horrendous, but it would be disrespectful to rape victims everywhere if I were to say that she was exceptionally strong. An inconsistent trait in her character is that...after being assaulted, twice, by people who appeared to be kind, you'd think she would be more suspicious towards people she meet, but she's always refusing to see the bad side of people until she gets hurt =___= Stupid manga heroine trait again.

Tatsuya + QingMei: Lol, I wanted to see more interactions between these two and the main characters. QingMei becomes quite cute afterwards, and scenes with Tatsuya and Rei are always a laugh.

Masao: The actor for this dangerous character is either really good or really bad at acting. He sheds tears without looking sorrowful; his expression are slow to cross his face, as though he takes the time choosing which emotions to display; his laugh is dry and mirthless - as though he's laughing for the sake of expressing laughter, not because he actually needs to. He walks around slowly and woodenly...it all fits his character, but who knows, he might just be lucky it did.

Sei: (Rei's twin) This is one of the inconsistencies...He starts off being the sweet, gentle twin...then he turns out to be a pathetic little brother who spends his time whingeing to Rei...then he turns out to half a Dark Evil Side™ to him, which he leaves for Rei. Ugh. It'd be all well and good if it didn't seem like the mangaka was just making it up as she went along.

And the other major inconsistency is with the timeline. The manga timeline runs up until senior high, but the TV series decided to move it to a uni setting. For example, Kira gets raped when she's 16 instead of 13, as she was in the manga >__>; This...has a few repercussions on her character, but never mind that.

According to Rei, he moved to LA after his mother died when he was 5. He also claimed that, "Sensei, when I was 8, I've lived in LA for 8 years." This is either a gigantic inconsistency, or just another example of Rei's bottomless lack of intelligence.

Now, the next episode he gets stabbed ^0^ *Excited*

Argh, yesterday's entry was full of embarrassing errors =__=; Thank god no one read them all...LOL

Today's post is in Chinese because some things are easier to express in Chinese =P

哇咧~ 觉得很惭愧耶怎么会被Mars感动的鼻子酸酸的唉我真是一个伤感的人＊无缘无故的奸笑＊

还有昨天我发现我的口音完全变台湾口腔了是不是我根本就太容易被影响了？？

但是有觉得哦~ 如果不是仔仔的话不知道我还会不会那么同情他啊？因为说到底也就是爱情漫画的一幕ANGST 而且也有点没完没了的无赖ANGST感觉了

什么嘛~ 自己的孪生兄弟即使对他感觉不忿也不会故意会去杀害他吧而且还是相依为命好久的兄弟了耶所以说呢一般兄弟姐妹之间都有会打架啦也会做出故意伤害对方的事啊嗯而且他自己本身就很脆弱所以他选择的跳楼其实也没关零什么事吧干嘛零老是要执著这不放好像非得把自己定成罪犯一样的？很烦耶~

还有嗯觉得仔仔也不适合那种 ANGSTING 角色喔~ 零在那里……呃撒娇真的好不适合仔仔还有还有仔仔演圣真的是演得超烂超烂的耶~！！怎么圣的态度跟零的一模一样的？？喂~拜托你都演过花泽类了连一个圣都演不了？？不就是差不多的木偶角色嘛？？干嘛演的生气勃勃的 ==; 看起来像零在那里伪装圣一样的

所以驳回前言演技没有太进步

越说越远了就是说如果演零的人是……堂本刚的话我大概会当喜剧看了吧？爆！！

哦　还有　在火车站仔仔吻大S的那一幕　看起来很像仁～嗯　下巴颏很像～爆！！！

喂　Irene　你也说得好离谱　仔仔才23耶　==; 比Takki才大９个月

这次的post跟我想说的完全相反下回再说吧　~~;

I've always wanted to do episode reviews...it's interesting to see the process of ideas and plots coming together...so if you're bored by me, don't read the rest ^^;

( Episode 2 )
( Episode 3 )
( Episode 4 )

I'm told Mars is the archetypal shoujo manga, in that unlike the average shoujo, there's a very good plot behind it...I've only read the last book, so I can't tell, but it's surprising that apart from shoujo addicts, not too many people have heard about and read it. But if you want what seems like a fairly objective review, look here.

Anyway, I watched episode one of the Taiwanese live action production of this manga, which has Vic (Zhou YuMin) and Big S (don't ask ~~;) in it. These are the same two people who were in Meteor Garden - Hana Yori Dango - by the way, with Vic as Rui and S as Makino, and that was an acting achievement that made you squirm all the way through it.

Thankfully, both Vic and Big S are much better actors now ~~; At least Vic now has more than one expression in his repertoire...not that, as the original Rui, he needed more than one expression.

Mars starts off fascinatingly different from HYD, which was, in a shell, a repetitive light-hearted love story dragged too far beyond its finish. I mean, there's only so long that two people breaking up, coming back together, breaking up, coming back together can remain interesting to the readers.

Vic also goes out of type for this one...I think (not too up-to-date with his TV credits). He plays Chen Ling - manga equivalent Rei, an apparently uncouth, devil-may-care playboy...who spends half his screen time checking out the chicks at his uni. His best buddy, Tatsuya (Da Ye - played by...er, I can't read the last character...Xiu JieJie?), is the rather typical cool-headed, gentlemanly "foil" to Rei's character. Big S plays the impossibly shy girl, Kira (*waves fist* why does it have to be Kira???), whom, in Tatsuya's words, "is a strange girl who doesn't talk to anyone, but spends all her time drawing".

Rei has a special fascination with a drawing of hers which she had accidentally given to him when he asked for the way to a hospital. This brief meeting sparked Rei's interest in her, and he spends all his time trying to pick her up.

Within the rather fluffy romantic set up are interspersed moments of Dark Angst™. The reason behind Kira's phobia of men is because she had been raped before - by a boyfriend, perhaps? And somehow this draws the attention of her English teacher, who, because he knows she is too shy to defend herself, begins to sexually harass her.

Rei is hardly what he seems either. A moment in front of the mirror at a convenience store shows no reflection...and then one that smirks back at him. We find out that he has lived in a hospital before - though, I'm guessing, it was probably a mental hospital for children.

A patient from the hospital - whom I remember from the last volume of the manga - a boy called Masao appears with a rather ominous entrance. He is watching something with avid fascination, and when called back by his caretaker, who asked what he was looking at, he answers dreamily, "The most beautiful thing in the world." ...The camera then closes up on a snake halfway through killing a frog. I think the actor - whoever he is - brings off the character of the tragic Masao very well. In his perfectly gentle demeanour is a trace of mad savagery. He is a character that calls up both fear and pity, and the ending is not kind to him.

It's certainly not a set-up that is revolutionary. There's the expected romance, the underlying angst, the people and broken relationships of the past that they must overcome. The acting *could* be better, but it's not distracting from the plot, which is a good start. I wonder if actors ever rewatch their earlier acting and squirm in embarrassment...

And Vic looks good only when he doesn't smile x__x