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Chinese Reporters love to hate her, Audience love her.

posted 15 years ago by moviesbest
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It's strange some Chinese reporters and people are still so poor mentally even in these new millennium.

In the past Chinese from the mainland are always jeolous and hate any of their actresses or singers who went overseas.

The first Chinese actress they hated is Joan Chen when she went to Hollywood. After that, they hated Gong Li when she went to Venice and Cannes, and when her movies(by her ex-bf) got Oscar nominated. Now they hated Zhang Ziyi.
More recently, Tang Wei was even banned by the Chinese government for nearly 2 years.

Wonder when these people can really think.

Anyway, the fact that newspapers and reporters got so much news about them(despite the hatred) proved that these newspapers needed them more than they neeed the papers.

The fact that she(Zhang) is still the highest paid Chinese actress today and her last Chinese movie Sophie's Revenge was a box office success in China proved she is the best and the audience want her.

I think audience today have matured enough to appreciate an actress's acting ability and not care about their personal lives.

What do you think ?

[–] moviesbest 15 years ago

You are right. There is also the possibility she being "used" for publicity by the movie producers. Sometime in the movie industry, "unconfirmed" news are announced for a new movie to promote it to get more support from financiers.
There are many possibilites:
a) She was never really considered for the movie but her BIG name used for publicity;
b) She was considered for the movie but contract not signed yet due to some reason like unpaid deposit, etc;
c) She never accept to that movie in the first place;
d) She left the movie on her own;
e) She was really considered for the movie but dropped before production starts.

So the last possible reason is only 20% yet reporters wrote as if that is the only possible truth. Actually it also reflect how inmature is the chinese or asian news industry. In the west, such "uncertain" news will not even be published.

In fact, anyone in his right sound mind can figure that (e) is the least possible because ZZ or her manager never make any announcement that they are involved in that movie.

Just during the last 2 days, she got 3 "news".
1) She has a rendevous with Zhao Wei's husband in Singapore but Zhao Wei told the press yesterday "please don't get anyone not in the movie industry involved". Strange is "IF" ZZ really is involved with Zhao Wei's husband, why should they meet in Singapore when Zhao Wei is residing there now ?
2) She was initially considered to be a "guest of honour" for a certain function but dropped. If it is true, it only showed this organisers has no integrity for announcing it. I hardly heard of such news in the West. It's just like an actor or actress announcing they rejected any roles and passed to others. Any professionals with good ethics will never make such announcements even if they are true. Furhermore such announcement only make the announcer himself or herself stupid because no one may believe them.
3) She was wanted and cast by a director for a leading role in a new movie. Again, ZZ or her manager never mention anything. She could be just "used" again because her name is big.

One thing is sure, all the news of her was mostly written by others and she or her manager NEVER asked for it like some cheap singers/actresses who face reporters to create news on their own.

For this I really respect this lady. It proved she is not cheap or eager for making news. She is confident.