It’s been a really long week. I’m really happy it’s Friday, though I don’t think I’ve ever been unhappy it’s Friday. So much to do at work this week that I’ve been leaving rather late. Though I did make it up with sleeping till 10am.
So I watched The Myth 神話 (yes! unicode now works!). It’s a new movie by Jackie Chan, though I had to see it in Mandarin. I’m pretty sure the movie is in Cantonese, but according to my dad, China is allowed to bootleg Hong Kong movies as long as they don’t bootleg it in the original language: Cantonese. That’s why you always see dvd screeners of Hong Kong movies in Mandarin months and months before the Cantonese version is released. How true is this? Who knows? My dad probably just made that up because it sounds right. Although, this gave me a chance to brush up on some Mandarin, which I haven’t used for some time. The overall movie storyline wasn’t all that great, but it was fun and the 2 female actresses on it were pretty cute.
The movie website wasn’t loading for me, so you can check out these links instead:
- 神話 THE MYTH – Yahoo!奇摩電影
- 【神話】玉漱公主為愛痴等兩千年，金喜善惹人憐 – Yahoo!奇摩電影頭條
- Endless Love – Music Video 1
- Endless Love – Music Video 2
- San wa (2005)
No wonder I had parts I didn’t understand! The main female character was korean! Haha! Probably also explains why she’s cute too! The movie poster image I posted above doesn’t really show off her cuteness. Try the 2nd link or either of the music videos. Though I’ve gotta say, the Indian girl didn’t really get enough screen time. She probably got less than 15mins of screen time for the entire movie.
Stop reading here if you don’t want spoilers. So a simple synopsis of the movie is Jackie Chan is an archeologist. He keeps having these dreams about a general and a princess back during the Qin Dynasty (秦朝) and the mystery slowly unravels. Wow! I didn’t know there was a Qing and a Qin dynasty. No wonder the subtitles in the movie didn’t make sense. I kept thinking they used the wrong character for it. My Chinese history is pretty weak. I don’t even know how many dynasties there are in total. I just know that the 3 most important ones are Tang (唐), Song (宋), and Ming (明) because these were the only dynasties where we were ruled by our own people and not some foreign tribe.