09 December 2010

Yeoh, Michelle

Miscast alert: Luc Besson is making a film called Into the Light, a biopic of Aung San Suu Kyi, starring Datuk Michelle Yeoh in the title role. Of course the two ladies are completely different types. Filming has already been going on in Thailand; Ms Yeoh has met with Ms Suu Kyi in a Rangoon, and the two ladies have chatted, amicably, it seems.
One of the world's most elegant women, and to me one of the most stylish (she seems so intelligent, genteel and dignified - full of grace), Aung San Suu Kyi is a noted Burmese political figure; she was the General Secretary of the National League for Democracy in the country when her party won a victory in general election which, by right, should have taken power away from the military government that seized power by coup in 1962. (The election was the first general election in the country since the ’60s.) The military government refused to hand over power, and she was already under house arrest between July 20, 1989 until November 13 2010. She read Dickens and tended to her garden.
(Not to make light of political oppression, but I really wouldn't mind being placed under house arrest if I had my books and garden, do you know what I mean?)

8 comments:

  1. Ms Yeoh would be better cast as the man who swam to meet Ms Aung? But seriously, I can understand how she got casted. Both look a little masculine but are very womanly, well one is and one tries.

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  2. agreed that the two ladies in question are two different types; but one also has to concede that they both share the same facial bone structure, non? the type of face that visually embodies virtue, righteousness and integrity.

    Michele is the kind of actress who needs a really good solid director for her to shine at all. let's hope Luc Besson is her new Ang Lee.

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  3. Dear Beauty: Why don't you say that Ms Yeoh should play Ms Aung's father, the dead general? There certainly is a family likeness.
    Dear Erudite Anon (can you please identify yourself and sign off as EA in future? Sometimes I can guess it's you, sometimes I'm not so sure): I so agree with you that Ms Yeoh needs a new Ang Lee - as i've mentioned before, both she and ZZY have been reprising basically the same role created for them in crouching tiger for more than a decade, in flop after flop (including the dreadful geisha). as for the bone structure thing - if you can look beyond all the dross of her hollywood conception - the dreadful hair extensions, botox and glitter - yes certainly, there is a family resemblance. But then one can say similarly for quite a multitude of other asian women.

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  4. okay dear i shall try to reveal my identity as much as possible. it's just that being anonymous is soo liberating. :)

    also: pray check out Daw Suu Kyi's youngest son, Mr Kim Aris - handsome chap, but i'm getting rather a Friend-of-Sandy vibe from him:

    http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=kim+Aris&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1360&bih=609

    whaddya think?

    EA

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  5. Yeah, I caught that vibe too. I blame the pursed lips.

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  6. PS. Via the Guardian - not sure if you've seen this, Uncle G:
    http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=5374614&sid=50d2d9db-bba2-4e1f-b1a0-0c6939fea3b6

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  7. Dear EA and Dear Uncle CF: You guys are amazing - I scrolled through all the pictures but can't be at all sure if Kim Aris is or isn't. But then again, my gaydar is famously defective. But i'm intrigued - is this the son that she hasn't seen in a decade? Also you mentioned that Kim is the youngest - what happened to the elder? Interesting.
    And Uncle CF, yes i've seen the kate pic i think it was published previously in W mag, ages ago.

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  8. yes she last saw Kim during Xmas 2000. and yes i too was wondering about what had happened to her eldest son, Alexander Aris. intriguingly quiet & news-less this time round...

    EA

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