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Feb
11
2008

Twitch-O-Meter: Zhang Ziyi is ready for her extreme close-up, Mr. deMille!

Posted by Ard Vijn at 6:12pm.

Posted in Twitch-O-Meter .

Promise, soon we’ll have a regular Twitch-O-Meter up and running again but for now lets have some more fun with a quiz, just like last week.

Only this time we feature a lady! And this is also bound to be the most controversial yet. We didn’t get any negative reactions to either Song Kang-Ho or Tadanobu Asano, everyone seems to love them. But with Zhang Ziyi…

Whatever her name is, Zhang Ziyi, Zhang Zi-Yi or Ziyi Zhang, I saw her first in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and was smitten. Not only did part of my brain set off my ‘babe alert’, but I also thought her to be a damn fine actress. And, to quote Ghostbusters, a “nimble little minx” as well. She’s got moves, wires or not!

A few similar roles later and I keep reading everywhere she can’t act. Huh?
When I watch a movie like Wong Kar-Wai’s “2046” (see the picture top left), statements like that really baffle me. She’s got a very expressive face and is not afraid to use it. She’s definitely not a reason to avoid a film, especially if she’s allowed to jump around.

Which means that once again, instead of the usual list I’d like to do a gallery of 5 close-ups of another one of my favorite thespians.
Guess which 5 movies they’re from and I’ll post the answers Thursday (earlier if someone has all 5 of them right).
No competition, no prizes, just for fun, try to see how far you get without using IMDB.

The “2046” pic doesn’t count as it’s a cut-out of a screenshot, but good luck with the other 5!

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Reader Comments

  1. crazybee 02/11/2008 @ 8:11pm

    Hero, Flying Daggers, Crouching Tiger, Hero, Road Home.

    At least I think there are two Hero shots in there...then again, that first one could be The Banquet.  Could be Musa too, I guess.  Haven’t watched either in a long time.

  2. Ard Vijn 02/11/2008 @ 8:15pm

    Hm. How do I rate this?
    Your initial line-up of five is wrong, there are no two hero shots in there.

  3. crazybee 02/11/2008 @ 8:26pm

    I’m going by the order of pictures when you click the gallery link.  And for sure 4 of my 5 answers are correct.

  4. crazybee 02/11/2008 @ 8:27pm

    And that first one has to be Banquet then!

  5. ChevalierAguila 02/11/2008 @ 9:16pm

    She’s ok, never have catched my attention, without make up she looks like a 15 year old. There are better female performances in asia, and with better looks too.

  6. wisekwai 02/11/2008 @ 11:16pm

    From memory, without looking at other comments:

    1. Musa?
    2. House of the Flying Daggers
    3. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    4. Hero
    5. The Road Home

  7. Ard Vijn 02/12/2008 @ 12:19am

    Crazybee is right:

    1. The Banquet
    2. House of Flying Daggers
    3. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    4. Hero
    5. The Road Home

    Well done, Crazybee!

  8. Momo the Cow 02/12/2008 @ 9:38am

    What Aardvark said.
    It’s interesting here to see the juxtaposing of subtly distinctive ways that different filmmakers - Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Ang Lee and Christopher Doyle among them - have framed and lit the same face to such different effect.

  9. tok2006 02/12/2008 @ 2:39pm

    the banquet
    the flying daggers
    couching tiger
    hero
    a road to home

    i love Ziyi too, why people hate her? i like your initiative, i link this from my blog!!

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