Sunday, July 1, 2007

Comments Again about the Episode Hosted by Bobby Chen and Patty Hou with Rene Liu as a Guest

I watched a selection of “Kidnap”(环结,又名綁架) starred by Rene Liu(劉若英) and Lin Jianxin(林嘉欣), and part of “Happy Birthday”(生日快樂) starred by Rene Liu and Gu Tianle(古天樂), prompting me to search for an episode of a talk show hosted by Patty Hou(侯佩岑) and Bobby Chen(陳昇) with Rene Liu as a guest. I was moved by the show, which I have watched months ago and written down some comments about it.

I have to say that this episode is a piece of works with staggering complicated implications and has even a richer context to analyze than the two movies that I mentioned above, although Rene's acting is absolutely outstanding on the movies. Why do I say so? Here come some points I hold.

First, Rene, a famous Taiwanese actress who has won more than hundreds of acting awards in Taiwan, in Mainland China and even in Asia, expose the “real herself” without any disguise from the very beginning, a situation described by some Internet comments as “totally break down”, because her master declined to accept her offering of brand new album. The guest instantly wept and consequently the inexperienced hostess suddenly did not know how to handle the accidence, resulting in the entire program out of control. Thanks to her inexperience, the audience got the luck to see the real sentiments of the guest and the host, who acted as if he was also one of the guests of that day. In fact, I would say there was no host or hostess in this particular episode. Rene and Bobby Chen just took advantage of this show to communicate their respective attitude and feelings which might not have any proper opportunity to express in other occasions.

Second, although movies tend to be designed to move the audience and to be schemed many climatic plots, sometimes a real life story could be more touching and more intricate than them. For example, after Rene asked Bobby to sing a song called "The Kite”, whose lyrics similized a person with liberal and unrestrained personality as a kite, He by his own picked a second song to sing for her, whose lyrics immersed in a tone of sorrow, wisdom, and open mind used a man's perspective to tell a woman who was going to take a train by herself in the platform of a train station that the time has changed and a woman should have her own dream to pursue. Each word of the lyrics sang by Bobby was fully fit with the thoughts which he want to express. The lyrics seemed to tailor for this moment, while actually they were written by him many years ago.

Finally, I noticed even these days, many fans are still writing their comments about this episode which was produced many years ago. People could easily find this material on various video sharing websites such as Youtube, Tudou (土豆網), and other similar Chinese sites. The popularity has proven not only the popularity of Rene Liu, but also the formidable Internet distributing effects on an event or a program. No matter how long ago a word, a comment or a piece of works was generated, once it was put on the Internet, the impact is going to exist almost perpetually without the limits of space and time.