Li Qin (Young Xue Baochai), Jiang Mengjie (Lin Daiyu), and Yang Yang (Older Jia Baoyu) in InStyle
Even though there have been many trailers already for The New Dream of the Red Chamber, the previous ones tried to only convey an moody ambiance. This new trailer actually had dialogue, and shows off the beautiful camerawork and sets. The total costs of production for the 50-episode series reached 118 million yuan (for comparison, even the elaborate sets of The Message cost around 50 million yuan), but the producer, sounding much more confident than in previous reports, said that the costs should be definitely recoverable.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3As7GrII1k]
Vid thanks to fountainpark723.
Part of the reason for the confidence is the buzz around the series, despite the early criticism over the hairstyle. The cast has already been in three photoshoots already, in L’Officiel and iLook magazine, and most recently for the Christmas season, in Instyle. More pictures of the young three leads in Instyle China here.
The project is the culmination of the efforts of one of China’s most famous directors, the only(?) female director of China’s fifth generation, Li Shaohong. Known for her focus on the relationship between women and society, she works back and forth between television and film. For this series, she said she wanted to make a “Hong Long Meng” to last for the ages and once this begins airing on Chinese New Years, we’ll know if she succeeded.
@JJ: sorry I just saw a comment about SNSD and thought of that. But yea we should all stop and stick to the achievements in cpop. And I know I do it too, but we all need to stop bashing allkpop, they even admit themselves that they are a partly gossip site.
Victoria should really be a model or actress instead, she doesn’t look like she belong in a girl group at all especially not f(x) cause they are all so unique/distinct looking.
Annway, can’t wait to watch this! But damn! it cost almost 3x as much as the messenger (which I still havent watched).
I really like Li Shaohong, her films/tv series are guaranteed to be eye pleasing. I remember watching DaMing Palace (the one where Zhu Xun first got noticed when she was really young), and the camera work was so beautiful that I was surprise to learn that it was made in early 2000 (or late 90s).
@chinkirox, SNSD will have a concert in China? wtf
SM needs to learn that although China is large with lots of people with enough money and time to go see a concert, it does not mean Chinese people is without a preference and wants to go any Hanliu concert offered to them!
Actually I don’t really hate SNSD, I just hate the fact that random Korean groups/singers (this exclude SJM cause they actually worked hard and did promote in China) feel like they are entitled to a piece of Chinese market when they never bother to promote in China or learn about Chinese culture when there are many many more deserving Chinese singers who fail to get any attention.
@chinkrox
That’s what I thought too! I always thought she was going to become a model or an actress not a singer. =/ I wonder if it’s 13 years with SM too. You should really watch The Messenger! I ｈａｄ ｇｏｏｓｅｂｕｍｐｓ ｗａｔｃｈｉｎｇ ｔｈｅ ｇｒｕｅｌｓｏｍｅ ｓｃｅｎｅｓ．
ahh these threads move kinda fast. anyway, i like the idea of a forum
i know right! cfensi should just set up a chat box lol
Forum is almost functional. It’s not prettified yet, but that can be arranged later, I guess. ^^
As for a chatbox, well, it does have a shoutbox. I’m not sure how realtime you’d need it to be, though, LOL, since that still requires hitting F5 all the time.
thank you neph! can’t wait for the forum to offically start
Thanks neph! Do you have the link?
I think the new concert listing/guide is out. I’m not sure how accurate it is since sjm and zly are still in there. I’m kind of disappointed that tc is still singing cotton candy, why can’t the do fan xing?? But they are doing qi tian da sheng so that’s good.
Can’t wait to see jiang yingrongs dance again to that maybelline song!
Some people were still interested in Idol Girls
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTQyMDE3NDI0.html
Allkpop is having another go at china bashing. Sigh. I’m so sick of this.
^Think idolgirls going to last? I thought it was smart of them to first debut their girls, due to the lack of girlband competition, but now I’m not so sure. They seem to be lacking the momentum needed to get off the ground.
MIC on the otherhand is picking up momentum:
They performed MJ:
http://ent.sina.com.cn/y/2009-12-30/17412829716.shtml
The Yi guy Zhao Yongxin, the vice captain, is hot.
@julie They’re probably singing Cotton Candy because it was such a huge hit. While their album was better than their EP by miles, nothing is reaching the widespread popularity of Cotton Candy. I’m worried.
Yeah, Cotton Candy was epic… I doubt Ma Xueyang can top it with his other compositions- and I’m really worried. Btw, How’s tcs album sales doing?
Glad to see MIC doing well. I think out of all the boy groups in china, they have the most guy fans. LOL
http://www.soompi.com/forums/index.php? … ry15186539
http://www.soompi.com/forums/index.php? … pic=324236
UGH. I hate how people are generating false accusations for the sake of publicity and bashing China. Oh, and Allkpop sucks.
^ ignore them. They have inferiority issues.
hmm, checked this out a few days back. it looks fantastic as expected. I do believe in starts airing in May in China… right?
Regarding TC still singing Cotton Candy and not promoting Fan Xing as much, I wonder if it’s also possibly because Fan Xing’s MV hasn’t come out yet? Also, it’s not abnormal for bands and artists to perform hit songs long past the original promotional period.
That said, it IS true that there’s no breakaway song in their new album, in terms of popularity. This may be because it’s hard to focus on a single song when most of the songs are of roughly equal quality, whereas of the EP, Cotton Candy was significantly better and more notable than the other songs. It might have been wiser to choose one of MXY’s compositions to start off with instead of QTDS, though, because QTDS is in the style of Arrival instead of Cotton Candy…
As for the forum, I’ll post the link up around nine-ish tonight, hopefully. Shoutbox is now operating on realtime, after a bit of fiddling around with code.
Neph, you’re a computer genius. Thanks!!!
@Billy – I think it’s going to air around Chinese New Years? That’s what all the articles have been saying. Where’d you see May?
@Neph – Thanks for the site! I’ll make a post about that and other Cfensi stuff once you tell me the link.
@cfensi…. Hmm, I remember reading somewhere that its going to air on the 5th month. It was a Chinese article.. here it is ^_^ “新版《红楼梦》将于2010年4、5月起，陆续在全国各省台播出，而唐一菲饰演的秦可卿将集中在前7集中。本报记者 露耘”
http://ent.sina.com.cn/v/m/2009-12-28/10122826262.shtml
my Chinese isnt the best but doesnt it say around april or may? ~itd be great if it was February though
Wow…you may be right. It makes more sense that it would air around new years, but crap that’s long.
I say plan for a May release, especially since release dates get pushed back all the time.
I like the old version of the “Dream of Red Mansions” very much,but I do not know the new version look like?
http://world-culture-research.org/c.asp?d=15862
old version,Lin daiyu acted by Chen xiaoxu , she has made very deep impression to me.