http://en.huanqiu.com/www/english/world/Entertainment/2009-04/427552.html
News from Xinhua reporting that Chow Yun Fat, HongKong's most famous male action hero being cast in a biopic about Confucius has reverberated and created a buzz in blogosphere.
I have not and will not prejudge what is essentially a major undertaking in portraying a great humanist in Confucius into a 2 to 3 hour movie; or whether such a movie can ever do justice to the sum and substance of Confucius' "Analects" and give justice to one of China's greatest cultural and intellectual icons.
I hope and pray that the script writer, the producer, the director give justice to Confucius and not exploit this icon purely and solely for box-office receipts.
As we all know, Chow Yun Fat is a great Chinese actor and he has wonderfully portrayed some movie characters in multi-dimentional light which were also very poignant and provided the complexities and wonderful dynamic of human character.
That said, we also know that since shifting and relocating to Hollywood, Chow Yun Fat has foundered in his Hollywood endeavors, starring in roles which were not only quite mediocre, and quite unbefitting to suit his heroic and gargantuan roles he used to beget when he was a superstar in HongKong.
For the sake of greed, Chow Yun Fat had acceded to play "heavy roles" as a villain against Johnny Depp's "Pirates of the Caribbean;" a rather demeaning stereotypical role that the white gweillos typecasted this multidimentional Chinese actor.
Let's hope that Chow Yun Fat redeems himself now that he is back starring in a Chinese-made movie, to be made in China.
Will it be another one of those Hollywood chop chop "Kung Phooy" movie, a stereotypical white racist movie made about a Chinese character geared for a white audience ?
You be the judge.
I can't wait to see this movie about Confucius. Let' hope that it does justice to our MAN.
