Vote for the first asian actor on Firefly/Serenity
POSTED BY: Shiny
UPDATED: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 21:08
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I vote for http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1259103
Shin Koyamada
Saw him in The Last Samurai and in Jake 2.0 and I think he could be a funny yet interesting character.
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Good one. Actually, I think Ken Watanabe would make a great soldier (innepennent or alliance):
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0913822/
Jayne, your mouth is talkin. Might want to look into that.
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I'm with greenmachine on Shin. I loved him on "Jake 2.0" (which was sadly never even aired in the US).
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everyone listed are excellent actors!
but i guess my vote goes to "family": Daniel Dae Kim.
second vote: Pat Morita. i love this guy! hes a god!!
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“With the first link the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, changes us all irrevokably. The first time any man’s freedom is trodden on, we are all damaged."
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Come on everybody, the best asian actor available is Chow Yun Fat. He was THE MAN in John Woo's Hong Kong movies (Hard Boiled and The Killer) and ruled in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Another good actor would be Mark Dacascos who was in The Brotherhood of the Wolf. An excellent movie, as long as you watch it in the original French with subtitles. He was also in a bad television series based on The Crow, but it's best if we forgive him that. Great female leads might include Michelle Yeoh or Zhing Ziyi from Crouching Tiger or even Lucy Liu. I'm sure none of these will happen, but I can dream, can't I?
"Thou art God"-Valentine Michael Smith
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Quote:
Originally posted by HowardRoarkLaughed:
Come on everybody, the best asian actor available is Chow Yun Fat.
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Great female leads might include Michelle Yeoh or Zhing Ziyi from Crouching Tiger or even Lucy Liu. I'm sure none of these will happen, but I can dream, can't I?
Darn your hide :-) You beat me to Michelle Yeoh and Zhang ZiYi. They both do it all: drama, romance, action, comedy. But the decision would probably fall to Zhang (who will soon be seen in House of Flying Daggers by Zhang Yimou) because, aside from talent (although her English is marginal, or was), she meets the demographic appeal. (---Okay imagination running away from me, Must. Stop. Now.---)
There's also Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung (unforgettable in In the Mood for Love, and a bunch of other HK actioners).
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"When one man chases a hare, he finds a hare. But when many men chase a hare, they find a dragon."
--Source: The Darkness That Comes Before, by R. Scott Bakker.
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I think Chow Yun fat is a great actor, however I think he might be too big or his roles and style is too differnet and would not suit firefly...Chow yun fat has his own thing going on from Hong Kong, so it would be hard to put him in an outer space western but from his great work in the killer he might do a jessie james type role nicely, I agree that Mark Dacascos mnight also do this well
Vince Crestejo who played "Lord Yu the Great" or Al Leong ( Albert Leong ) might be very good, the Allaince is basic horrible mix of US and China power in a big ugly universal NATO type army, it would be nice if some of those Alliance commanders were mean ruthless Chinese guys like there are many western commanders, the 'Lord Yu' would fit nicely here.
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How about the guy from Space Above & Beyond, Joel de la Fuente.
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I vote for Ziyi Zhang, she was on Wo Hu Cang Long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and on Ying Xiong (Hero).
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0955471
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What about Grace Park, who plays Boomer in the Sci-Fi channel's recent Battlestar Galactica re-make, as well as Edgemont, Jake 2.0, Dark Angel, Romeo Must Die, L.A. Law, and The Immortal.
http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/PersonDetail/personid-47084/
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