HAHA! Since it's a celebration. I'll go berserk a little bit today.
I know that this could be a repeat of another post I did about the Taiwan Chinese drama scene.
After I finish the hottest Taiwanese drama, “Fated To Love You”, which is a story of all the comedic reason, a rich guy knocked up a poor girl on a cruise ship and got married and then girl friend drama, triangle and quadruple love angle drama, and then there’s the miscarriage, the remarried and then happy ending.... I left a little surprise out in the end. Chinese drama always is colourful that it’s the process of going through the story than watching it.
Anyway, this time I’m focusing on Ethan Ruan Jing Tian. I was curious the other day and actually got back to some of my old stash of DVD and magazine and see what I’ve left off. There’s this drama, Green Forest My Home, where Ethan is the second male lead. I felt that then he is a much better actor than in “Fated” because then he do not exposes his weaknesses as an actor, he is at his best, the serious, loving character and he is much natural then.
Regardless of his presentation, I always have this kinda hunches, when a good one comes along. Ethan Ruan if given the chance he will be the actor you’d expect to see great in the future. Some actor when you look at them, you’d know that they will be Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt. Some will be Tom Hanks and some Dustin Hoffman. This one though really green in the field. But Chinese have this strange attitude or should I say tradition.... that once decided we could goes all out and by then the improvement you’ll see from episode to episode and not from one drama to another like the American. US drama fix a person to a character and seldom get out of it and after a while people get bored and the rating drop. But Chinese and Japanese drama you get so many twist in one drama that you can be like a multi-personality guy at the end of the show. (of course the side effect could be it became long winded or almost every drama have the same kind of element that you think watching one and the other is the same and choose not to watch at all sometimes.)
Some of the industry is a great training ground. But it’s also dangerous because some are so poorly funded that you’d fade like yesterday news in 24 hours. Sadly the Chinese industry is much brutal than the Americans.
He got the look, he got the style, he have the perfect frame outside. He’s not too pretty, he is not too fixated that you still find there’s a possibility to mould him into some of the role. I did say that the Chinese is easy to please sometimes. Yet still, if there’s no improvement in the next show, he will be history. Therefore he must realise that he have to get better, skill wise and open up to the possibility of losing fame as quick as he gets them. You’d realise, if this industry, you get ups and downs, they call it a roller coaster ride, and it is and it’s a much more interesting to have a life as such. So you gotta focus and knows what you want. Money is one factor for enthusiasm but that’s all there is, you can’t control it. so if you are going to be an actor, or entertainer, then you gotta focus on improving on what you can control, your skills. So when there’s up you’ll know you can do what you head out to do, so do when there’s a down, you have the confidence that it’s just a trend and know exactly whether it’s something that’s about you that you need to improve on to be better?
HAHA! There I go again giving advice on something I have no involvement at all. My philosophy is that we do not need to really experience everything to know the consequences. And we can learn just by observing. Sometimes life is much interesting when we experience it ourselves, yes. Yet still, learning is possible with truthful observation.
I know that this could be a repeat of another post I did about the Taiwan Chinese drama scene.
After I finish the hottest Taiwanese drama, “Fated To Love You”, which is a story of all the comedic reason, a rich guy knocked up a poor girl on a cruise ship and got married and then girl friend drama, triangle and quadruple love angle drama, and then there’s the miscarriage, the remarried and then happy ending.... I left a little surprise out in the end. Chinese drama always is colourful that it’s the process of going through the story than watching it.
Anyway, this time I’m focusing on Ethan Ruan Jing Tian. I was curious the other day and actually got back to some of my old stash of DVD and magazine and see what I’ve left off. There’s this drama, Green Forest My Home, where Ethan is the second male lead. I felt that then he is a much better actor than in “Fated” because then he do not exposes his weaknesses as an actor, he is at his best, the serious, loving character and he is much natural then.
Regardless of his presentation, I always have this kinda hunches, when a good one comes along. Ethan Ruan if given the chance he will be the actor you’d expect to see great in the future. Some actor when you look at them, you’d know that they will be Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt. Some will be Tom Hanks and some Dustin Hoffman. This one though really green in the field. But Chinese have this strange attitude or should I say tradition.... that once decided we could goes all out and by then the improvement you’ll see from episode to episode and not from one drama to another like the American. US drama fix a person to a character and seldom get out of it and after a while people get bored and the rating drop. But Chinese and Japanese drama you get so many twist in one drama that you can be like a multi-personality guy at the end of the show. (of course the side effect could be it became long winded or almost every drama have the same kind of element that you think watching one and the other is the same and choose not to watch at all sometimes.)
Some of the industry is a great training ground. But it’s also dangerous because some are so poorly funded that you’d fade like yesterday news in 24 hours. Sadly the Chinese industry is much brutal than the Americans.
He got the look, he got the style, he have the perfect frame outside. He’s not too pretty, he is not too fixated that you still find there’s a possibility to mould him into some of the role. I did say that the Chinese is easy to please sometimes. Yet still, if there’s no improvement in the next show, he will be history. Therefore he must realise that he have to get better, skill wise and open up to the possibility of losing fame as quick as he gets them. You’d realise, if this industry, you get ups and downs, they call it a roller coaster ride, and it is and it’s a much more interesting to have a life as such. So you gotta focus and knows what you want. Money is one factor for enthusiasm but that’s all there is, you can’t control it. so if you are going to be an actor, or entertainer, then you gotta focus on improving on what you can control, your skills. So when there’s up you’ll know you can do what you head out to do, so do when there’s a down, you have the confidence that it’s just a trend and know exactly whether it’s something that’s about you that you need to improve on to be better?
HAHA! There I go again giving advice on something I have no involvement at all. My philosophy is that we do not need to really experience everything to know the consequences. And we can learn just by observing. Sometimes life is much interesting when we experience it ourselves, yes. Yet still, learning is possible with truthful observation.
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