Vote for the first asian actor on Firefly/Serenity
POSTED BY: Shiny
UPDATED: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 21:08
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Originally posted by TenthCrewMember:
Jackie Chan
And he's done it all, comedy, tragedy, action, adventure, thriller, romance AND he knows Chinese.
Actually, he speaks Cantonese, not Mandarin...but I imagine his Mandarin is at least better than the rest of our BDHs'! ;)
Jayne, your mouth is talkin. Might want to look into that.
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Originally posted by Cybersnark:Quote:Wasn't the character's name "Seraph?" Or am I thinking of someone else? Seraph was the Oracle's "Agent" who helped Morpheus & Trin breach the Marovingian's security.
Originally posted by Shiny:
Anthony Wong [First suggested by XJAYMANX]:
http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/PersonDetail/personid-16446/
The Matrix Revolutions (Ghost),
You're thinking of Sing Ngai: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0628877/
I've added him to the list.
Jayne, your mouth is talkin. Might want to look into that.
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Originally posted by Shiny:Quote:
Originally posted by TenthCrewMember:
Jackie Chan
And he's done it all, comedy, tragedy, action, adventure, thriller, romance AND he knows Chinese.
Actually, he speaks Cantonese, not Mandarin...but I imagine his Mandarin is at least better than the rest of our BDHs'! ;)
Cantonese is his Primary, and yeah, he speaks Mandarin slightly better than his English. I own far too many of his films (including the VERY BAD ones! LOL), but not all, not yet. He was the one who began the trend in the Hong Kong Movies of filming scenes in alternating languages. So one scene would have the actors speaking Cantonese, Mandarin, and English at different points. This is why sometimes the voice dubbing matches and sometimes its not quite right. Jackie felt that people would be more comfortable watching his movies if people felt (especially in America) they were not necessarily watching a foreign film where all the voices were dubbed. And he was right, and it is amazing how your mind begins to ignore the dubbing that doesn't quite match.
But now I am off topic, so back to topic...I think he would do it if they asked him right, he's played second to others before, even though he seem to always get top billing nowadays. :)
Anyone else have thoughts on who could be the Asian actor of choice for Firefly/Serenity? I'd love to hear some more alternatives, as mine is quite a biased selection! ;)
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BD Wong
Charlene Choi and Gillian Chung from "The Vampire Effect", an awfully good and terrifically awful film.
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Von Flores, who played Sandoval in Earth Final Conflict. The series itself sucked after the first year, but he was decent in it.
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