Actually I do have a question/comment for you. It's been on my mind for a while and I haven't been able to find anyone to pose it to because while Huang Xiao Ming is better known in the English-speaking world than a lot of Asian actors, it's still a little hard to find a fan who speaks my language.
Is it just me, or does he do the sick/injured/vulnerability thing almost surreally well? I don't know if you've seen The Message? He plays this villainous Japanese Colonel who for some reason for the first hour or so in has a head cold. There was a scene where he and some cronies were entering a basement where someone was being tortured and the thought that floated unbidden through my mind was "looks damp down there. Should he be...oh right! Torture. Never mind."
And this was one of the first things I saw with him in. I didn't even really have a crush on him yet.
Of course it's more pronounced when he's the hero of the piece.
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Re: Ummm...
Date: 2011-02-18 02:59 pm (UTC)Is it just me, or does he do the sick/injured/vulnerability thing almost surreally well? I don't know if you've seen The Message? He plays this villainous Japanese Colonel who for some reason for the first hour or so in has a head cold. There was a scene where he and some cronies were entering a basement where someone was being tortured and the thought that floated unbidden through my mind was "looks damp down there. Should he be...oh right! Torture. Never mind."
And this was one of the first things I saw with him in. I didn't even really have a crush on him yet.
Of course it's more pronounced when he's the hero of the piece.
I've dubbed it the "not fair" factor.