Subbed: 舍不得星星 You Are My Lover Friend trailer 1 + So Close gifs

[halfcactus]

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I actually subbed this entire thing on my phone and then my phone crashed and I apparently lost my draft, so I had to redo it on my computer which was 1) faster, 2) srt-friendly.

Fun facts: Wang Yuwen and Zhang Xincheng are real-life childhood friends (I haven't been keeping up with their promos, but the ones I've seen have been a lot of fun, though unshippable because of the sibling energy), and Zhang Xincheng and Guo Yunqi are college buddies. And IIRC this is the one where the Young Blood cast has a cameo?

Also just rewatched So Close, which was gayer than I remembered, I guess because a lot of Karen Mok's character's moments flew over my head when I was younger. This movie was really formative for me in spite of me only having seen it once. Assassin sisters, all-woman cast with extended fight scenes, enemies to lovers... what's not to love? (Okay, the shot of Karen Mok in her underwear was unnecessarily male gaze-y as neither of the sisters was around to witness it.) (And they appear to have spent all their music budget acquiring Close to You because the BGMs are so repetitive... The clubbing scenes are dreadful.)

Anyway I made a bunch of GIFs.


Shu Qi gifsets (please appreciate her tear-away suit)


Zhao Wei x Karen Mok gifsets (yes they kiss)

Comments

[halfcactus]

Thankfully it was only a two-minute video with light dialogue, but I did spend some time styling the text orz I should have just done soft-subs from the beginning. (•̀⤙•́ )

Do you have any fav Karen Mok movies? I'm so tired of being disappointed in cmovies, which is why I've been going back to older TW/HK works.

[geraineon]

I didn't specifically seeked out Karen Mok (I didn't watch movies based on actors back then, it was mostly what was on TV and what was in the cinemas and what my family wanted to watch) so I can't really recommend.

and then I went looking at her wiki and hm, I don't remember watching this movie but hmmm all girls school: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Those_Were_the_Days_(1996_film)

[halfcactus]

Girls!!! (ง ◉ _ ◉)ง