Those close ups of the Dumb "Father" cracks me up. I can't decide whether he really doesn't know the truth. Or maybe he doesn't care. But still, his gaze as he stares into the camera. LMAO.
They aged her by all that extra pale makeup and orangey eyeshadow
I think it's because this is a thing the director has about it being a Chinese opera. All the characters are like Chinese opera masks, with the and reds and oranges. Of course, they couldn't make them that bright, so instead, you get the pale mask-like makeup. However, the Bad Guys are acting so exaggeratedly, just like the Bad Guy Chinese opera makeup would be.
The weird closeups are also mask-like and the characters' conversation are soliloquy-sounding, like a Chinese play.
Repeating and adding to previous post about flirting wordplay between Duke Su and Jiang Li throughout the episodes:Four…
Yes, I love how they push each other to say what they want from the other. When she was drunk, she accused him, "XH, you're not a man! You drink so much and still won't get drunk. Have you never spoken the truth?" (She wanted him to say he was as drunk over her as she was over him--the OST also sings about drunken love at that moment!) He looked at her and said, "And what about you? Having drank that much wine, you still won't tell the truth." (He was more serious, wanting the truth about her identity)
I tell you, I can write an essay on all their little tete-a-tete conversations!
Repeating and adding to previous post about flirting wordplay between Duke Su and Jiang Li throughout the episodes:Four…
There's another one too. At the banquet when she was trying to hide from people looking to ruin her reputation, she BACKED into him, and then their conversation contained the words backing, retreating and road. He censured her, "Don't you know an arrow does not retreat?" She had backed into him and I'm taking this as a reference to her being his arrow too. She kind of mocked back, "Isn't that your way (lu = road)?" meaning (for me), Weren't I going the same direction/way as yours? He then questioned, "Is MY road/way that easy?" It's a rather complicated conversation, a lot of pull and push, but I think they were feeling each other out and she was also telling/mocking him that she knew what he was up to. I didn't put this with my post because I can't explain the whole thing well enough, LOL.
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Her, "Kwei!" command!
The weird closeups are also mask-like and the characters' conversation are soliloquy-sounding, like a Chinese play.
He looked at her and said, "And what about you? Having drank that much wine, you still won't tell the truth." (He was more serious, wanting the truth about her identity)
I tell you, I can write an essay on all their little tete-a-tete conversations!
He censured her, "Don't you know an arrow does not retreat?"
She had backed into him and I'm taking this as a reference to her being his arrow too. She kind of mocked back, "Isn't that your way (lu = road)?" meaning (for me), Weren't I going the same direction/way as yours?
He then questioned, "Is MY road/way that easy?"
It's a rather complicated conversation, a lot of pull and push, but I think they were feeling each other out and she was also telling/mocking him that she knew what he was up to. I didn't put this with my post because I can't explain the whole thing well enough, LOL.