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i love this picture of her.
in fact, i've always loved gong li and her attitudes in movies. she always has that standoffish-lady kind of attractiveness that makes her stand out from the rest of the asian female stars in hollywood--really. (i mean zhang ziyi, maggie Q, zhang zilin, and rinko kikuchi are all undeniably beautiful and charming and talented, but gong li tops them all ;)
shanghai (2010) is the movie i and dev have been longing to see since the day we saw the trailer. not only because the casts are great, and there's a ken watanabe there (hehe); but the storyline seems very promising, and the cinematography is great.
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anyway just finished all of my end-of-term projects, as well as last crazy week where i smoked countless cigarettes to keep my head from spinning but hey... those days had already passed and i'm back to my relaxed, play-everyday state again (so is dev). we're prepared for more photo sessions and there's still one i'm about to post here in the next couple of days!
but for now, i still want to unwind a bit--still a bit tired from last saturday's ramblings.
on a side note, i've just finished reading zhou weihui's shanghai baby (1998) which is really amazing because it's blatantly honest and beautifully written. now currently reading claudia gray's stargazer and i can't seem to keep my eyes off them. it's so attractive--the storyline, the characters, and how she made them all so flesh-and-blood... just attractive!
i love the main character bianca olivier very much, and the vampire guy balthazar more (not the main character, but he's certainly the most attractive one there!).
trust me, it's certainly not twilight and gray's certainly not meyer. (i've never really liked her and her novels--they're just so unreal and i don't get all the hypes about them) and i think the evernight series should be the ones to be made into movie.
positive and negative, though--just wait until they ruin the novel's beauty with wrong casts. hehe. novels turning into movies are mostly dissatisfying--although not the boy in the striped pajamas (2008) in which most of the charms from the novel remain still.
how are you, cool people?
sorry for the long read-- i really, really miss you guys so much!!!
