{"id":595141,"date":"2023-10-21T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-andy-lau-plays-a-vain-version-of-himself\/"},"modified":"2023-10-21T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T01:00:00","slug":"watch-andy-lau-plays-a-vain-version-of-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-andy-lau-plays-a-vain-version-of-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Andy Lau Plays a Vain Version of Himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af18aeb98fd7\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af18aeb98fd7\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-andy-lau-plays-a-vain-version-of-himself\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Andy_Lau_Plays_a_Vain_Version_of_Himself%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online Andy Lau Plays a Vain Version of Himself&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-andy-lau-plays-a-vain-version-of-himself\/#%E2%80%9CAndy_Lau_Plays_a_Vain_Version_of_Himself%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Andy Lau Plays a Vain Version of Himself&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Andy_Lau_Plays_a_Vain_Version_of_Himself%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online Andy Lau Plays a Vain Version of Himself&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CAndy_Lau_Plays_a_Vain_Version_of_Himself%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Andy Lau Plays a Vain Version of Himself&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In America, doing what Andy Lau does in Hong Kong film industry satire \u201cThe Movie Emperor\u201d would likely net him an Oscar nomination. Or at least an MTV Movie Award. Or maybe just the admiration of his peers, considering how few stars are willing to poke fun at their own image, much less entertain the question of what might h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en if their fans were to turn on them tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Reteaming with \u201cCrazy Stone\u201d director Ning Hao for an ultra-polished, good-sport parody of A-list vanity, Lau plays Dany Lau \u2014 not quite himself, but a megastar of roughly his own stature. The movie is loaded with inside jokes, but like French <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> \u201cCall My Agent,\u201d it should have no trouble translating around the globe. Between Lau\u2019s international standing \u2014 bolstered by roles in everything from \u201cInfernal Affairs\u201d to \u201cA Simple Life,\u201d plus a Cantopop singing career \u2014 and the script\u2019s deft way of contextualizing some of its best jokes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Dany Lau should not be read as Andy Lau so much as an amalgam of various top Hong Kong stars, including Tony Leung and Stephen Chow, all of whom share one thing in common with Hollywood heartthrobs: Everything they\u2019ve strived so hard to build could be snatched away in an instant. That possibility has never seemed more intimidating than it does in the age of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a>. Dany has no business managing his own profile, which leads to a series of easily avoidable mishaps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    That may sound like fodder for an easy-target sketch comedy, but Ning aims higher, shooting the film in the style of a crisp, meticulously composed Ruben \u00d6stlund movie like \u201cThe Square.\u201d \u201cThe Movie Emperor\u201d is cinema, designed to be screened on the biggest possible screen, as DP Wang Boxue constructs each shot the way Jacques Tati might have: from such a distance that each location starts to feel dehumanized and absurd \u2014 as when Dany attends the Hong Kong Film Awards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    At what appears to be the actual kudocast, he\u2019s not only snubbed for best actor, but subjected to the indignity of accepting the trophy on behalf of \u201cJackie Chen,\u201d who didn\u2019t even bother to show up. In Hong Kong, as in Hollywood, actors are celebrated for \u201cserious\u201d roles, and Dany\u2019s mistake (he thinks) is that he hasn\u2019t played a peasant in a self-important art-house movie. \u201cIn Chinese films, it\u2019s all about cotton padded jackets,\u201d explains director Lin Hao (played by Ning) at a wardrobe fitting where Dany tries on the uniform of stereotypical salt-of-the-earth Chinese farmers (essentially the safer version of the \u201cSimple Jack\u201d joke in \u201cTropic Thunder\u201d).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Dany should have recognized this new part was patronizing (festivals may flip, but \u201csticks nix hick pix,\u201d to quote a classic <em>Variety<\/em> headline), just as he ought not to have solicited product placement from an electric car company for such a project. But driven by something between commitment and a deep-seated inferiority complex, Dany doesn\u2019t stop there. He locates a genuine mainland farmer and researches his mannerisms for maximum authenticity. Dany rejects a rig that simulates horse riding, insisting instead on doing his own stunts, and he even goes as far as to adopt a pig.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Of course, every step backfires in a big way, to the point that Dany\u2019s being canceled by animal rights activists over the horse situation (that plot point lands awfully close to what happened to Ning after video surfaced of a dog being mistreated on his film \u201cCrazy Alien\u201d). His half-hearted attempt to apologize on a celebrity talk show only digs him in deeper. Off-camera, he has even more problems. Dany\u2019s discreetly trying to divorce the wife (Kelly Lin) he swore to secrecy \u2014 lest his fans lose interest \u2014 while attempting to date a young female promo director (Rima Zeidan).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In a running gag, Dany is terrified of being filmed unawares, so every time he sees a blinking red light, he overreacts, which leads him to smash the windshield of a random van whose dashcam sets him off. \u201cThe Movie Emperor\u201d doesn\u2019t take a position on AI, but virtually all other new <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> conspires to oppress Dany, from the autonomous hotel robots to a fitness app that\u2019s constantly reminding the health-conscious star to exercise. Little by little, these annoyances pile up until such point that his whole life seems to be in freefall \u2014 like a pig dropped from a 43rd-floor balcony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    By the time a battle royale breaks out on the set of his Chinese peasant project, Ning has so successfully melded lowbrow humor with the film\u2019s otherwise respectable tone that he can get away with such insanity. One of his cleverer strategies involves letting the camera linger on something upsetting in the frame after a scene has wrapped, like <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> reports of an actual disaster or a sketchy colleague (Pal Sinn) hitting on a younger female assistant. Dany Lau\u2019s so self-involved, he\u2019s oblivious to such \u201creal world\u201d issues, but \u201cThe Movie Emperor\u201d has more on its mind, making it one of the year\u2019s savvier satires.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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