QUOTE (Little_Purple_Bell @ Mar 4 2006 7 39 AM)

Isabella's wardrobes are definitely way more daring than Twins'. It might be because Isabella's mostly paired with Yumiko during performances for EEG celebrations and things like that, and Yumiko seems to have that daring image going on too. You know, it seems to be really easy to hold a place in an HK audience's mind in the film industry if you start with a really happy, positive, cute, and innocent role. Doesn't it seem that way? HK people really like those characters. Being an overseas viewer, one would find that half of those characters are really annoying, but HK is like

for them. Sometimes it also doesn't matter what kind of characters are in a drama, it all sums down to who is playing the character. For example, if Charlene and Isabella were to play rivals in a movie, due to Charlene's larger fanbase, most would side with Charlene's character and trash of how Isabella's character's so bad, but we can obviously see that if they were to switch roles, then all the comments would too be switched. So sometimes, people are just in to see the actress and not the movie itself.
You just read my mind about the whole situation of Sa and Isabella switching characters and the overall comments would also alter. Just shows how narrow-minded people can become. Then why even watch a movie when Sa's character Helen in Twins Effect 1, Spring in Twins Effect 2, YoYo in My Wife is 18, Ah Hey in Diva Ah Hey, Nancy in the Death Curse, Ellen in Papa Loves You, Crystal in Love On the Rocks, Meiyan in A Tall Chinese Story, Ziqing in All About Love, and Ella in House of Fury all have a different name for some reason so people should stop watching Sa for Sa and rate the movie based on the film character but oh yeah forgot, all those roles are Sa in reality.
HK does tend to adore and love those bubbly sassy roles which I find them to be cute in the beginning but twice?...grow up already!
QUOTE (Little_Purple_Bell @ Mar 4 2006 7 39 AM)

Since "Isabella" was entered in the Berlin Festival, it means that the movie had never been screened in HK before and it had only been viewed privately by the festival judges, so it's normal for us not to know anything about the film. The problem with Charlene's "serious" roles is she tries to get a serious character in when the film is included in the genre of comedy, so her "serious" character still ends up making a comedic effect to the movie even when the character is supposed to be serious. That's mainly why her serious roles aren't successful and that she mostly sticks with the cutie roles instead to my impression. Also because her cute image works with her for films, then it was eventually stereotyped into if Charlene plays a cute role, it's gonna be good, yet I think it does get repetitive at times.
Yup, that is true. Sa just adds a comedic effect to her character and film when initially, it's not supposed to be like that and it becomes extremely redundant to watch.
QUOTE (Little_Purple_Bell @ Mar 4 2006 7 39 AM)

Why was that question even raised to Gillian? And they just had to ask it on the premiere of "49 Days" too; it was so rude. It's much more reasonable if questions of comparison are raised between Charlene and Gillian since they have relations with each other because of being Twins. It's not the best thing to be compared with someone else, but it always happens in a group. One member is always compared to another. Actually reporters do ask things between Charlene and Gillian, but they just ask them towards Gillian, but rarely, or even never, to Charlene. I remember when Gillian expressed that she would like to star in more movies during this year, the reporters asked if she wanted to challenge and race up to her partner Charlene?

I was like, does Gillian even need to do that? How is her wish to film more movies equal to wanting to "challenge" Charlene? Anyway, Gillian is so nice to Isabella as her junior, so reporters shouldn't ask questions like that to Gillian. Gillian speaks out for Isabella that she's looking forward for Isabella to get the Best Newcomer Award for films from Bug Me Not!. Reporters have done it at a Bug Me Not! function before as well, they asked Gillian something about her having to be a supporting character for Isabella. Gillian then responded that it's a pleasure for her to be helping out her junior/Sze Mui for her debut movie. Reporters don't even get their facts straight; Gillian was in fact merely guest starring in that movie, but they just somehow include her in the "starring" category of the movie, which came the "Bug Me Not!" Starring: Isabella Leong, Gillian Chung introductory that I've mentioned earlier about seeing that being printed on a magazine.
Well, I blame EEG for that issue again because Gillian was pushed to be featured in Bug Me Not! but not A Tall Chinese Story??

Why does Gillian have to be guest starring to Isabella when Sa has never done so and has always carried the biggest characters amongst all EEG female artists. In fact, Isabella is actually always the minor character towards Sa like in A Tall Chinese Story and now the new film in Thailand. All of these film productions are sponsored by EEG so it's obvious that Gillian is placed in such a low level of respect that EEG even chooses to promote Isabella more than Gillian. Has Gillian ever played a lead in an EEG film?? Nope! The only main leads (not minor characters) both successful and not have all been out of EEG's realm of production (ex. Happy Go Lucky, Beyond Our Ken, Moving Targets, House of Fury, and 49 Days)! Both Twins Effect I&II (EMG=EEG Productions) were so geared towards Sa, they were driving me up the wall for the title Twins Effect when it was ALL ABOUT SA!

So in a way, it was rude of those reporters to abruptly ask Gillian that question but can't really say it's their fault when EEG themselves have placed Gillian on such a low level of respect in comparison to everyone.
QUOTE (Little_Purple_Bell @ Mar 4 2006 7 39 AM)

I kinda hope that they've already filmed one and just haven't released it yet. News reports are never made about the filming of TVB versions of MV's because the original versions of MVs are usually more invested and have more sponsors than the TVB versions. I remember that they released the original MV for Self Deception by Alex and Theresa for a bit of time, and then suddenly out of nowhere, there was a TVB version and no one knew that it had even been filmed. Let's hope that's what happened with Conscience Discovery too. Besides, Kindergarten is still hanging around in the charts, so they wouldn't want any clashes of Gillian VS Gillian, right? I hope.

I know, I do also hope that perhaps the TVB version isn't released yet since the official one is not yet online at least but normally, the TVB version comes out first right?? Just like Kenny's EEG version with Sa and the EEG one with Ella but both already had TVB Versions already. I guess, EEG promoting the KG Duet was too good to be true.
QUOTE (Little_Purple_Bell @ Mar 4 2006 7 39 AM)

I guess it's not exactly that bad for Gillian to be Ching Ling So. She'll get some exposure in Mainland/Taiwan that way on home television, right?

I hope that Gillian's costume will be something pretty because I've seen a photo of Athena's costume and it's messier than messy. She had this big fur thing on and her hair was just twisted and pulled out here and there. I hope that's not Athena's final costume and that Gillian's costume won't be like that.
Blame You For Being Too Beautiful once again proves that Gillian is better at singing songs of other artists rather than Twins songs. I remember when I just heard this song last year, I couldn't quite recognize Gillian's voice when she sang the first line because it's so different than how it sounds in Twins songs. It's much more mature and deep.
"Happy Go Lucky" is the best movie from Gillian's earlier products in the film industry, in my opinion. She had a decent amount of screentime, and the movie had a good storyline. Gillian's acting was also pretty good basing on her early products; it's probably not that good if you compare it to her recent films though, but Gillian knew how to cry all along. I loved that part near the ending where Snowie was thinking of what Cheung and Fat Cat said to her and about her parents as My Father, Mother started playing.
GILLIAN SUPPORTER!!
I also saw some pictures of Athena and Nie Yuan too. The ancient clothing looks so heavy and tough to fight in. The customes are messy but oh well...all we can do now is support Gillian and this serial.
Yeah, Gillian's voice definitely sounds way better in Non-Twins songs. Um, that one music video floating around online for a while now of Happy Go Lucky with Gillian's solo song My Father Mother was a Fan Made music video correct?? Nicely done. I love Gillian's innocence in that film.
QUOTE (twinsrock3000 @ Mar 4 2006 8 51 PM)

Thanks for the picture. Gillian looks mad cute with the almost straight wavy hair under that adorable cap.
QUOTE (rumikochan @ Mar 4 2006 11 35 PM)

Ahh..I am not sure if I am being sensitive but I was reading the asian news section and under Gillian's new serie news, someone has to bring up that Charlene act better. I mean , it's news on Gillian alone, I don't see why this person has to start comparing again!! And then when I went to read Charlene's breakthrough role, some said that her acting is better than Gillian again. I can't help but replied back. I don't see us Gillian fans doing that! It's so unfair that Gillian does more different type of roles but no one ever said it's a breakthrough but making such big deal on Charlene's role. I mean, they haven't even see it yet but think her acting is so good and may get the award. Anyways, maybe I am feeling too over protective of Gillian but yah..can't help it. Gillian's my #1 idol.
What can we say? Huge promotions and propaganda work in this industry. Not only is Gillian underrated as an actress and singer, her promotions aren't much.
QUOTE (bluehearts @ Mar 5 2006 12 22 AM)

People always predict Charlene's roles and movies before it even comes out so it's too normal to see people still doing that but I agree with what you said. It's just weird how they always think like. They have such high hopes for her yet it usually disappoints them which is just sad...These kind of headlines are just bs and so unnecessary to be in the newspaper..
One thing I'm sure of is that Charlene will get more recognize with this role though..I don't think it matters if she portrays this role good or bad but she will surely gain a lot of recognition just because she is portraying a mental person...These roles are just so 'overrated'.
Something that bothers me is that EEG lets Charlene accept this role yet didn't let Gillian accept a role similar to this!! They always rejects things that may help Gillian get more recognized and then right after a while they will give that opportunity to Charlene instead!
I know talk about hypocrites huh? EEG rejected Gillian's star role in Abnormal Beauty (which would have definitely multiplied her popularity and recognition) and accepted this mentally ill role for Sa??!!

And Sa was the one who ran out of the movie theatre because 49 Days was so claimed to be too much for her??!!

What is up with that?
QUOTE (Little_Purple_Bell @ Mar 5 2006 1 03 AM)

You're definitely not being sensitive over this because I'm sure we all feel the same way. Comparison is nothing that even two separate artists can avoid, never mind that Gillian and Charlene are in the same group. It is true that there are less Gillian fans who step on Charlene to supposedly bring Gillian up than there are Charlene fans who step on Gillian to supposedly bring Charlene up. Over in the poll section, there was a time where every Gillian-related poll was replied to by the same person and they wrote that Gillian is fat.

More like what does that have to do with anything?
No offense, but there are quite a bit of Charlene fans who do many meaningless things. For example, at a chinese forum called baidu, I think it is, each artist has their own thread of discussion with a moderator, and guess what Charlene fans do? They don't just stay in the Charlene/Twins thread, but they go ahead to open up and sign up to be the moderator of other threads such as the Kenny thread, Steven thread, Nicholas thread and end up writing comments like "KC Rocks!/SC Rocks!/NC Rocks!" and most importantly, "Gillian sucks!/KG Sucks!/SG Sucks!/NG Sucks!" all day long.
Seriously, by the effect of EEG, the HK Media is pretty much biased towards Charlene over Gillian as well. For each role that Charlene gets, they ALWAYS say it's a breakthrough role; they ALWAYS say that she's going to get Best Actress with it BEFORE the movie is released or sometimes even filmed yet. For heaven's sake, Charlene never even got a nomination yet. Many of Charlene's roles appear different, but it still all sums down to being the same cutie/wacko role in the end in my opinion. I agree that whether or not a role is a breakthrough role should be judged AFTER the movie has been released and seen by viewers. On the other hand, Gillian gets judged of her breakthroughs the correct way that it should be done, which is AFTER the movie has been released where there is concrete evidence that a breakthrough has been made within a film. It's still biased and stupid that Gillian still doesn't get at least the same amount recognition that Charlene does in acting when she's received many recognitions due to her recent leading roles.
Gillian fat?

That person needs to stop viewing life with 10 cameras (cameras do contribute additional weight) and screw her/his glasses on correctly because if Gillian is fat, then I don't even know what term I should use to describe myself.

Gillian is 5'3 and 100 lbs, that's already bones. I'm like 5'4 and 115 lbs. so I guess I need to begin a Miss Hong Kong diet too and look like a stick like um Sa?!
Well, Sa fans are always pairing Sa up with Kenny (which I don't have a problem, KC do make a cute pair), Nic, Steven, and GR!

Edison because they know or should realize by now that in reality, those males have once before claimed to have a crush on Gillian so sorry to those fans but reality bites doesn't it??
I wouldn't be surprised at all if Sa's mental role turned out to be all bubbly as usual but with a slight twist just to define the "breakthrough" part of her portrayal. Gillian is gradually gaining recognition but much of it sort of depends on promotions because in order for Gillian to receive a sufficient amount of recognition despite the disadvantages of a crappy bias company and an exaggerated favored partner, Gillian has to portray daring roles consecutively to support the fact that her acting abilities have by far exceeded Sa's, Isabella's blah blah and not just by mere chance that she happened to get a good role but it seems like EEG is pushing Gillian out of the way just to make accommodations for Sa.
Hm, it's a Pang Productions, very plausible Sa might get nominated for this role especially with all the authorities rooting for her already anyways. Wouldn't it be extremely hilarious if Isabella got nominated instead?? Wahaha!

Oh...here is a new EG MV I just made last night.
Here is a short explanation.
It's called "The Myth"...not the Jackie Chan song.
An Ancient Era: Edison and Gillian, destined soulmates but tragedy stikes their pure love as they embrace each other in death from the same sword wound promising an everlasting love even time cannot determine nor define. Modern Day: memories bring forth tears of confusion but at last united in an eternal paradise on earth.
Youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvdB7R9JGOwThe file is 78 MB so I didn't upload it to YSI OR RS because normally people don't download it anyways but if you want the file PM me so I can upload it. And I will only be sending the files to people I know because I would hate to see these clips be associated with anyone else other than Edison and Gillian. There are some Pro Sa Anti Gillian fans entering this thread back and forth I can never monitor so it's safer for me to send the files personally rather than posting them on here because dang it, these files were difficult and I didn't watermark my files either and have experienced stolen clips/pictures before because I trust people to be courteous but turned out the opposite but I didn't watermark this MV because it'll look kinky. I had to scan all of my movies, capture them on my camera, convert them to mpeg, trim/cut them to the correct scenes, and then combine and that was a lot of work. I know, I'm strict but oh well. If you guys wanted to use any of these clips to create your own...I'm more than happy to send them to you. ENJOY!
GILLIAN SUPPORTER!!!