Yes, the project previously known only as The Jija Project - featuring Thai martial arts phenom Jij Yanin from Chocolate - now has itself a proper title, proper artwork and a promo reel. What we already knew about this one was that it brought a romantic element to the proceedings. What we didn't know is that the film is also fusing martial arts with hip hop dancing for something rather unusual. The footage in the current reel is still fairly raw but it definitely shows a different side to Sahamongkol's star and shows that they're trying to push into some new - and very different - directions with the fight choreography and action.
Let me be the first (and possibly only) one to say I actually like the new hairstyle. They need to come up with some sort of consensus on her name though (Jeeja/Jija).
proper title, artwork and promoreel? Where? :)
Okay, that was like going on a date with a hot chick and going back to her place and she tells you to get undressed while she goes in the bathroom to slip into something more comfortable and you get naked and jump in the bed anxiously and she comes out the bathroom in flannel pajamas with feet in them and promptly goes to sleep after pooting under the sheets. WHERE'S THE FREAKIN' PROMO REEL?!?!?!?!?
Gee whiz. What a trip. The movie is gonna be weird.
And weird is a good thing.
Different hairstyle, different spelling.
Jija? JeeJa? English spelling/transliteration has never been a major concern in Thailand.
Kicking butt IS a major concern though.
"using martial arts with hip hop dancing"
That's one of the worst phrases the english language can produce. Unless the trailer/promo reel properly kicks my ass all i can say is: do not want.
Oh yeah, she looks quite hot in that image, but again, "hip hop martial arts" jebus no....
No way Sahamongkol is going to release the current promo to the public. Footage hasn't been through post yet.
My question is: does she transform after yelling "CUTIE HONEY"?
No fair, I wanna see the promo real too!
What a tease!
I was interested in the movie until I read the words "hip hop". Seriously??? Martial arts and hip hop dancing??? Do people not know that hip hop ruins everything?
Lighten up, ChevalierAguila! Ever seen capoeira? It's cool. Also, and I realize that it was just an anime, Samurai Champloo did the same thing with dancing and fighting and it, too, was cool. I like what I'm hearing from this article, though. Sahamongkol's movies are wafer thin, plotwise, but the action has been number one with a bullet on the world stage, lately. I say bring it on. I can't wait to see more about this.
Sorry but i'll have to jump into the bandwagon of hate towards hip hop. Don't blame me, blame all the hip hop "artists" that have helped to create such a repulsive genre.
Capoeira uses traditional brasilian percussion-based songs. Samurai Champloo is also quite cool, and thankfully knew how to keep the whole hip hop thing at minimum. So, in other words, i'm still on the fence with this one.
Samurai Champloo is also quite cool, and thankfully knew how to keep the whole hip hop thing at minimum.
If you think Champloo wasn't neck deep in hip-hop from start to finish, you ought to learn more about hip hop because you might be mistaking something else for it. Certainly don't believe what the radio tells you is hip hop, because they're brazenly lying to you. That's pop music with rapping, and it is in fact repulsive, awful and it has as much to with hip-hop as poker has to do with sports. It might come on ESPN but it's not a sport. The radio might refer to certain music as "hip hop", but it doesn't make it so.
I'll let the "repulsive" thing pass, only to add that some of y'all sound uncomfortably like my great-grandmother complaining about that n****r music that my parents and I listened to, which you may know better as rock & roll. Just saying.
Rhythm-X - post after post ..are you ever "happy"?
Regardless, perhaps the whole "hip-hop" bullshit is just a marketing scheme and we'll, instead, be focused on an amped up ol' fashioned Jee-ja sophomore ass whuppin' affair! The girl has talent ..just give her some age and power ..the latter which was terribly lacking in Chocolate. I'll look forward to this film ...but more so for the next one.
Bangkok and other cities in Thailand have small but pretty lively B-boy street-dancing cultures, as well as a Thai-language hip-hop music scene, and if this movie puts the spotlight on those scenes, then I think that will be great.
It'll show another side of Thailand other than what folks are hearing about everyday on the news.
Bring back the tracksuit-wearing, popping-and-locking little guy from the closing fight in Chocolate. and get him to bring his friends.