Myolie Wu and Feng Shao Feng in Schemes of a Beauty - Part 1

[dangermousie]

As you can probably tell by now, SoaB and I are not working out. But if there is one thing I loved unqualifiedly about it, it was Feng Shao Feng and Myolie Wu as Liu Zhang and Lu Yu - their story was everything I love in dramas and I ended up wishing the drama was about them entirely. I loved their story and their characters and their chemistry.

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[anonymous]

I admit, I might have replayed, about a million times or so, that scene where Myolie says, "You wouldn't be interested in a woman like me anyway," in that scene where she's asking him how she can pay him back for rescuing her from her scumbag of an ex-boyfriend. And FSF looks at her, just looks straight at her, and backs her slowly into a wall while he keeps staring at her like he's really, truly looking at her, straight at her, for the first time ever. And Myolie freaks out and covers her face with her fists and yells out, "What do you think you're doing?" The music adds an awesome comedic touch to the scene, which is oh so, so, so cute

[dangermousie]

I really liked Lu Zhi too. Yes, she did some monstrous things, but she knew that is what she was doing, she never tried to full herself or justify it. And she was smart and a good ruler, even if being in the court was pretty close to a death sentence if you weren't careful.

I replayed that scene too. Oh, they had so much chemistry. And I love that this is the first time it occurs to her that yes, she might be pretty and be 'worthwhile.' And OMG, the way he looks at her. *dies*

[anonymous]

Can you believe Myolie was like 30 when she filmed this? She did the "cute", naive parts so well, I was absolutely bowled over when I found out her real age. I like the part where she scratches her head, trying to think of how she can repay FSF. She doesn't overdo the innocence/naivete, unlike so, so, so many Asian actresses, too many than I want to think about. I think I have issues with how Asians seem to equate "cute" with "sexy", particularly the Japanese. I guess I'm too Western?

[dangermousie]

30? No way, I was sure she was in her early 20s.

And agreed on cute v sexy. I don't get it.

[calixa]

She has such a baby face.

I think the cute = sexy thing has to do partly with the patriarchal culture (men wanting their ideal spouses to be as young, as submissive as possible) and partly with just the physical reality of most asian women being of a more diminutive size than our western counterparts - bombshell bods being hard to come by. Still, I'm glad I grew up in Canada.

[dangermousie]

That makes sense. It's interesting how it's culturally different. I am what would be considered pretty feminine (and tiny) by either American or Russian standards but I am unlikely to qualify under the Asian ones :)