Word: yeoh
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...latest Mulan is not the only post-Disney attempt to remake the folktale. In 2003, there was talk of a version starring Michelle Yeoh and Chow Yun-Fat. In 2006, the Weinstein Co. announced a big-budget Mulan film that would star Zhang Ziyi. Director Ma says his version comes at just the right time. "Eleven years ago, just because someone else made this film didn't mean that we had to come back and make our version right away," he says. "It was better to wait for things to cool down before we made our own Mulan. Back then...
...speedy reaction from a government that was criticized for not doing enough to curb the spread of SARS, which led to the resignation of the acting health chief, Yeoh Eng-kiong. "While we tragically suffered the 2003 SARS outbreak, it gave us a lot of valuable insight and practical experience in managing a large-scale outbreak," said Gabriel Matthew Leung, Undersecretary for Food and Health, at a news conference in Hong Kong on Monday afternoon. "It certainly prepared us very well for what may come...
...beginning, G.O.D. took images of proletarian Hong Kong - tenement frontages, old movie posters - and applied them to clothes and accessories, articulating a prototypical Hong Kong identity just as the city was in the throes of decolonization. "Fashion and dress [have] always been part and parcel of social change," says Yeoh Seng Guan, a communications professor at Monash University Malaysia, "both in terms of reflecting and inciting...
...ancient China, the Emperor Han (Li) means to secure the secret of eternal life from priestess Zi Juan (Yeoh), who loves the Emperor's second-in-command Ming Guo (Amer-Asian hunk Russell Wong; he battled Li in the Hollywood actioner Romeo Must Die). But the priestess has placed a curse on the Emperor: his eyes start bleeding a brown syrup and, in no time, he turns into a chocolate soldier. He and his thousands of soldiers are encased in terracotta - until 1946, when a modern Chinese general (Anthony Wong) sets Emperor Han free to wreak havoc on his homeland...
...deftly executed nonetheless). The terracotta warriors, once they are revived, move with the balletic precision of armored Rockettes. There's a decent chase scene through Shanghai streets with Art Deco buildings draped in chinoiserie. The whole production is handsome, and the second-unit work first-rate. Finally Li and Yeoh have their big face-off, and the movie rekindles old Hong Kong glories while offering some new ones...