QUOTE(mookie @ Mar 21 2007, 04:12 PM)
^ hi there Soy~!!!
But I'm totally supportive of Jin Young's decision of not working with TVB though as a hker, grown up with TVB drama, I have very mixed feelings, it's more tetering towards distaste/bitterness now. I dun recall watching a TVB remake of JinYoung's work that is even borderline watchable in the last decade. TVB has become a machine churning out boring works with no effort into any artistic genuinity (ok exception: War and Beauty and to Catch the uncatchable), just a general laziness as a result of lack of competition. We should know by now that TVB wont even bother with any thoughts into casting, they'll just use whatever actors/actresses that r the favor of the month.
If I were Jin Young, I would be mad furious with their rapings of his works, I'd rather feed those masterpieces to rascals.
hehe no worries to the hk viewers, ATV and actually TVB too usu bought those series and dubbed them (sometimes lousily) into cantonese, in all my selfishness, I'd rather prefer this than sitting through another latest TVB remake. But the TVB adaptation of these classics in the 80s still hold up, Barbara Yung is still THE HR, maybe Ariel can give us a shocking surprise, we never know.
Though I'm not a fan of the last JinYoung remake Return of the Condor Heros, but that maybe due to that's my least fav book out of the collection. The scenery is still super out of this world for most Chinese production, yes there's some tweaking needed for like background music, the script can be less draggy, and there's just tonnes of absurd redundant CGs...but usu the casting, I can deal with.
I see promise with Hu Ge too as Guo Jing, and yes as Soy says, Ariel as HR, I'm quite skeptical, but HR is the hardest role to play in JY's books, a 16 year old cunning witty genius with a very simple heart of gold and a naivety hidden behind the brattiness. She has to come off as adorable amidst all that. It's just sucha complex role for any young actress to attempt so...good luck to Ariel and I for one would not be too overtly critical with her effort. Afterall if she nails it it's quite a miraculous feat, if she doesnt, as long as she's bearable I can live with it.
omg i totally agree they basically killed the ending of i think heavenly sword, dragon sabre 2000, and did it completely different from the book, i bet thats why jin yong was furious. i would be mad too. yeah tvb is slacking off
.. there hasnt been any good period dramas in a while.
yeah HR has got be one of my favorite female characters from all of his book, her and Zhao Min (another one of his cunning, witty female characters). im going to give praise to ariel, for even attempting the role, its one of the hardest shoes to fill imo. lol i think im going to enjoy this series as long as HG stays true to his acting roots.
As for ROCH, haha i liked the story so-so, i think it focused a bit too much on the love story and not enough on the martial arts content, so i was a little bored at times, but YG's character was likable, annoying at times, but likable none the less.
