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Thursday, October 9, 2008

"Butterfly Lovers" Cheng Du promotion; if box office breaks $80,000,000, will not take nude photos, instead will film sequel


source: 66wz.com (also thanks to Livi @ AF!)
translated by: x-WISHFULthinking@asianfanatics.net

On the 8th of October, Chun, Charlene and director Ma came to Cheng Du to promote for their upcoming film “Butterly Lovers”. Earlier, there were media reports that said that if the movie is successful at box office, Chun should let Charlene take nude photos to celebrate. Chun smiled and replied, “If box office breaks $80,000,000, we will film sequel instead of take those photos!”

Celebrities coming to Cheng Du will definitely not miss out on going to eat Si Chuan hot pot. The cast of “Butterfly Lovers” is of course the same and as soon as they got off the plane, they found a restaurant to eat hot pot. Due to Chun’s greediness, his throat was still feeling spicy at the afternoon’s press conference, hence he did dare say much, but just secretly smiling the whoel time. Chun also laughed and said that during filming, director Ma would personally cook food at the scene, for everyone to eat; really is movie touching, filming even more touching. And on the side of him, Charlene also expressed her love for hot pot, and she said that everytime she came to ChengDu, she would secretly go to the same restaurant to eat the Si Chuan hot pot, wonder what charm that restaurant has!

This modern version of “Butterfly Lovers” is different from the original Chinese version, and a significant message in the modern version is “You need to fight for your love, don’t give up.” Director Ma spent over 5 hours changing the script again and again, especially about the ending, whether they should die or not, or who dies, who does not die, who dies first etc. In the end, he decided on “girl dying first, guy then dies, in the end only guy dies.” It seems that adaptations of classic stories is not a easy thing to do!

The 2 male leads in this movie Chun and Hu Ge, are both sunshine good-looking guys in many girls’ eyes. However, if they were to compete with Andy Lau, Charlene will still pick Andy without any hesistation! She says that she has always been Andy’s very loyal fan, and “likes him very much”. When Chun heard her reply, he covered his face and made a hurt expression on his face and repeated that he “did not hear anything at all.” He even blamed the reporters that they should not ask this kind of question infront of him, to make him sad. The 2’s close relationship is evidently not your average relationship.

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