Cross-dressing, you are doing it wrong!

[dangermousie]

I randomly skimmed the drama version of Butterfly Lovers (which I am not watching. Not even my Peter Ho obsesion can make me watch a 40 ep drama about scholars, especially when it's partially subbed and those partial subs are very Engrishy) and to my total shock, this is BL's idea of a woman successfully cross-dressing as a man:




Did I mention she's also barely 5ft tall, doesn't seem to have bound her breasts and didn't bother lowering her voice? And yet somehow every man in 100mi radius is fooled, including Peter Ho - he is supposed to be a genius scholar but if he can't tell this is a woman, I think he has severe mental and developmental problems.

Not putting on lipstick apparently automatically makes you a man. I've been a man most of my life it seems, horrors!

Ah, so much fail.

Comments

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

OMG, the movie thing sounds hilarious. I can only imagine. Poor guy. LOLOLOLOLOL.

male comedians dressing up at Diaochan and hitting on Peter Ho.)



Is it wrong that I sort of want to see that? :P

[arabesque05.livejournal.com]

One of the better ones where it's not just Peter trying (and failing) to look manfully unafraid would be this one (unfortunately, the quality isn't great). It starts at around the eleventh minute. Brief translation:

At around 11:03:

Announcer: All right, then this next Diaochan, I think--I personally think--I think she's pretty overwhelming, very passionate. This Diaochan, her passion mainly springs from her very distinctive manner of expression. So, following, I'll hand it over to her, all right?
Peter: All right.
(Diaochan places hand on Peter's shoulder)
Peter: This Diaochan is kind of rude/mannerless.
Diaochan: Little Lu.
(Caption on Peter read: "Sees a Demon")
Diaochan: Eh? Eh? He's pretending like he doesn't recognize me! You're pretending like you don't recognize me?
Peter: Um, auntie, you were about to go buy fruits, right? You--you got the wrong person.
Diaochan: I am Diaochan.
Peter: You...are....--
Diaochan: I really am Diaochan. Because my personality is very cunning/picky (it's a play on homonyms of "Diao") and my mouth is very gluttonous (play on homonym of "Chan"), and so people call me "Diaochan".
Diaochan: Little Lu.
Peter (choking it out): Chanchan (the affectionate diminutive of her name)
(11:55)
Diaochan: Oh, Little Lu--you're, you're so stylish (but specifically, a Western sort of fashionable; literally, it means "Western air") these days. You're not wearing your period clothes!
Peter: Diaochan--you...when did you stop shaving your beard? It grew out again.
Diaochan: I have a request. You have to look me in the eyes (ie, do essentially an eye-fucking scene) with me for ten seconds.
(countdown)
Diaochan: Oh my~! Oh my~! He really is formidable/great! Little wonder other people say "Among men, Lu Bu; among horses, Red Hare"! He can withstand (me)! My goodness. So many men, when they see me, they can't withstand (me). He can withstand me!
(12:35)

Meanwhile, this Diaochan is speaks with a rather...unrefined accent, and it's just a great hilarious to Chenhao's very proper Mandarin. And Peter, looking completely exhausted at the end. 8D

He actually gives some really great interviews. The ones he did for Sophie's Revenge are excellent, because the female host keeps cooing about how adorable he is, and Zhang Ziyi and Fan Bingbing sort of gleefully poke at him about his ex-girlfriends. His experiences in dating are seriously the stuff of idol dramas.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Thanks. LOLOLOLOL

His experiences in dating are seriously the stuff of idol dramas.


He likes poor but plucky girls who look like Rainie Yang? :P

[arabesque05.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha. :D No, apparently, with his first girlfriend, he ran into her at a restaurant, literally, and knocked both of them to the ground (and, haha, lost his heart in the process). But he only knew her last name when he left; so he pined and moped for a month; eventually, he went through the Toronto phonebook and called every family with that last name (it was a very common Chinese last name) for about five hours, and got cursed at as a crazy person for most of those calls.

Eventually, he did find her, all: "Do you remember a boy who knocked you to the ground at so-and-so restaurant about a month ago? And then he helped you up?" And she said, "I remember". And as he narrates: "Then...our flower bloomed ♥".

It's sweet in a super sketchy way. As per idol dramas. :D