Does anyone here know anything about a new Taiwanese gangster flick that is set in Wanhua? Apparently set in the eighties and has some famous Taiwanese pop star/actor in lead role. Due for a Chinese New Year release.
My son is in it and starts shooting scenes tomorrow but unfortunately I can’t make it. Above is about all I know about it. My wife said the Director is pretty well known also, but she can’t really tell me much about it in English and my Mandarin sucks!
There must be a mixture/foreigner in it as my son plays one of the characters as a child and he looks more foreign than Chinese.
Any info on it would be much appreciated. I just wanna know about the film as I think it’s pretty cool my boy has a part!! Albeit, probably a very minor one!
I saw the trailer months ago, and I thought, hey, there’s a foreigner playing in there, why is that? I read the review in last Friday’s Taipei Times, and as usual, I forget ordinary names but I remember special ones, your son being named Rhydian for example.
BTW, the movie is huge. The news today says it made 60 million NT in its first 3 days, which is more than Avatar, Titanic, or any other Taiwanese or foreign movie ever made during their first 3 days here.
I enjoyed the movie but it’s a bit a gangster movie like Twilight is a vampire movie. There is a lot of eye candy, for sure. How old is your son? I think you should definitely watch the movie before showing it to him if he is a child. There are a few semi-gross scenes that could freak out a young kid, I reckon.
I saw it on Sunday nite at cinema7 in Ximen… however there wasn’t any English subs so I had to guess most of the storyline… was cool to see a lot of local Wanhua places i recognized though…
I saw the trailer for this the other month attached to Avatar. Have the English subs improved since then? In the trailer it was obvious they had used Dr. Eye (or other machine translation) to do the job.
