Friday, December 12, 2008

The Little Nyonya

OMG!!! It has been almost a month since i last blog!! Haha. Hiaz...I need more time!!!

Anyway, have you noticed the title for this entry? Haha. Yesh, it's going to be my review for the drama. Actually, this isn exactly a review la. It's just my personal opinions of that show! Haha.

Have you guys been following the drama? Actually, i am trying hard to follow the drama because this is a 大制作 of Mediacorp and being an avid fan of the entertainment circle, how can i miss this!!! Furthermore, the story of The Little Nyonya is written by 洪荣迪! Nvm if you don't know him. He is the guy who wrote 《出路》,《有福》,《黄金路》 and many of the much more memorable dramas that Mediacorp has produced! Haha. I know you guys will be wondering how in the hell do i get to watch this drama serial when i am in camp. Haha. We do have some free time in the evening on some days la.

OMG!! I know you guys must be exclaiming how lucky i am in the army now!! Fuck you!!! You don't know the pain i went through. Hahaha.

Okay, back to the topic on The Little Nyonya.


If you haven been following the show, i suppose you can leave my blog now because this long entry is going to be just about The Little Nyonya. Haha. But you do follow this show, it's a must to read this!!! Haha.

Seriously, i think that the story is really well written but unfortunately, due to the lack of funding from Mediacorp, there was some parts of the show that left me feeling absurb! I shall now relate them to you!!!

Okay, lets first start from the some minor details of the show. Haha.

1)Can someone explain to me!!! 潘玲玲凭什么演欧萱同父异母的姐妹! OMG!!! 许美珍已经有点让人生气了,还来个潘玲玲!

2) Next, i wonder why characters in the show don't grow old!! YueNiang is already 20 and yet, Apple Hong still looks exactly the same as how she looks like when JuXiangwas still around. Furthermore, Ah Tao also didn age when 向云 looks like she has already lived through the millennium. (I am not mentioning about the part where Felicia Chin has a role to play, i am mentioning about the part where they are still living in the 1950s) Not only so, many other characters also doesn seem to age. Perhaps this is because they are acting the roles of kids from rich families. That is why they can afford to have lots of bird's nest. But what about Ah Tao. She is just a maid!! She must be using water that was used to wash the rice to wash her face!!! (Remember that Sk 2 advertisment! Haha)

Okay, we shall go on to the much more absurb parts of this drama serial!!

First, can someone explain to me how in the hell YueNiang can make her way to her grandma's house!!!! This is so amazing!!! When JuXiang died, she merely passed her daughter a pot!!! Haha!! Yes!! Just a pot!!! Moreover, JuXiang was a mute!! How could she had conveyed the msg to her daughter!! To make things much more unbelievable. YueNiang was in Singapore when both her parents died. However, her grandma was living in Malacca!!! You mean she walked there!! They could have at least shown her hitching a ride from some kind hearted souls that were heading for Malaysia right!!!

Next, when 小日本 was shot dead by the Japanese, YueNiang and her mother was actually fleeing for their lives!! I believe they had already walked quite a distance when JuXIang finally passed away. I wonder how YueNiang,a 10 year old kid, can actually get both the bodies of her dad and mum together when their bodies were like kilometres apart!! She drag her mum's body all the way!! Back to the spot where Dad died!!! Amazing!!!

Worst, there was a scene showing the Japanese digging the graves for YueNiang's dad and mum!! Wooo~~!!! When did the Japanese suddenly evolve into such samaritans!!! At one moment, they kill her dad!! The next moment, they help bury their bodies!! During the Japanese occupation, i thought they even raped young girls!!

Lastly, JuXiang can actually lip read!! Isn this a little too exaggerating!! There were many moments when JuXIang wasn even looking at the lips of the people talking to her and yet, she could gather what they had said. The story could have been made more complete if she was just a mute!!!

Actually, there are still many loop holes but i shall not mention them all because i will have a hard time typing them all out!!

Also, i was reading Paul Chan's blog. ( If you don't know him, Paul Chan is actually a major figure in Mediacorp. Read his blog if you want too. I linked him ) Apparently, 欧萱 and him was rather annoyed with a news article critising 欧萱 playing the role of a mute.

The new report goes like this: 安排欧萱演哑巴 《小娘惹》剧组刻意‘藏拙

Even though the role was created before the crew even audition for anyone but it's so true that 欧萱 acted so much better before she starts to speak!!!




Just look at this!!! OMG!!! I know you don't have the time. Just go straight to the 1.19min!!!!! OMG!!!!!! Listen to how she introduce her character!!!! ARGHH!!! She sound really really really weird. People don't speak like that!!!

欧萱 has a very very wrong misconception about her speech problems! I read from interviews that she thinks that her pronuciation of words is her biggest problem. But this is actually not so!!! 方展发 then has this problem. Haha. The biggest problem with 欧萱 is her intonation of words!!! 阴阳顿挫,阴阳顿挫!!!!!! She is having a major problem with this.

Okay, i think i shall stop here. OMG!!!! I really wrote a lot!! Haha. I will still follow the drama even though i may sound really unpleased because the script is really quite well written. Kudos to 洪荣迪!! Mediacorp would have perished long ago if not for him!!! Imainge 《手足》,《同心圆》 and 《心花朵朵开》 bombarding us everyday!!! Hahaha!!!

Bye!!! Shall blog soon.