News Links - 11/14/06

[dleedlee]

Anthony Wong - The Painted Veil


AFI Fest Closing with a Bang - And a Curse of the Golden Flower
http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/3086/2006/1 ... 162705.htm

Hong Kong distributor pulls Chinese film from Taiwanese festival
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?fi ... ec=apworld

Fan Bingbing Plays Beer Girl for "City with No Mercy"
http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/3086/2006/1 ... 162707.htm

Pictures from Film "The Painted Veil"
http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/3086/2006/1 ... 162786.htm

Lin Chiling to Be Host on CCTV
http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/3086/2006/1 ... 162873.htm

[MrBooth]

What on earth is a "beer girl"?

[ewaffle]

What on earth is a "beer girl"?

Barmaid?

At least as surprising was:

are to star in the US$800 million project "City with No Mercy《破军》."

It can't be eight hundred million US. For that kind of money you could remake "Battleship Potemkin" and actually sink a Russian battleship--the Russian military will do wonders for bags of hard currency.

And it couldn't be eighty million US because no movie starts out with that kind of budget. While star driven, special effects laden movies may cost more than $80 million, everyone is on board the frugal train before shooting starts.

Might be eight million US which would be HK$62 million or RMB63 million...

It isn't only the words that get mistranslated.

[dleedlee]

What on earth is a "beer girl"?

I _think_ it's someone who walks around like a cigarette girl with a tray of drinks, except she promotes a specific brand with free samples or shots. There are a few examples in HK movies but I can't think of one at the moment.

[Fan]

There are a few examples in HK movies but I can't think of one at the moment.

Drink Drank Drunk

[dleedlee]

There are a few examples in HK movies but I can't think of one at the moment.

Drink Drank Drunk

Thanks, and in the upcoming City With No Mercy:

Fan Bingbing turns from her previous role as a footbath maid in the film "Apple" into a beer girl in this gangster film, playing the girlfriend of an undercover policeman played by Louis Koo.