Lucy Liu (China)

can i start a topic about Lucy Liu ?

Liu began acting in 1989 after auditioning for a role in University of Michigan's production of "Alice in Wonderland" during her senior year. Liu won the lead role although she tried out for a supporting role.

Liu had small roles in films and TV roles (for example in X-Files), Sex and the City before landing a break on Ally McBeal. Liu's role on the series was originally not meant to be regular but the enthusiastic audience response to the actress' 'feisty' Ling Woo secured Lucy as a permanent cast member.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Liu

Good Morning xkoreanenergy,
I will be brief because it is nearly 3:30 am here. I have tons of information on Lucy Liu because of the need to research her for my book. I have tried to write within the boundaries of what I believe she is capable of actually portraying. During my research for information I found out that she is a pretty powerful lightning rod of conversation within the Asian and especially Asian American community.

I will post more later.
Like a Star @ heaven

I am hoping that my book is published and ultimately gets turned into a movie so that she can finally portray a character that has range, depth and finally shows transition from one point-to-another-to-another. I have looked over a lot of her movies and I was surprised at how much many of her roles aside from Charlie's Angels are different versions of the Dragon Lady/Man-eating Ling Woo role from Ally McBeal.

I think, personally, that she has yet to really get a chance to show the world her true acting talents. Her best role in my opinion was in Shanghi Noon as Princess Pei Pei. She actually comes across as a warm woman who is simply trying to find happiness and gets tangled up in things beyond her control.

i have seen her in ally mcbeal also too Cool

i have fing this inside one blog :

Ally And Ling..
I enjoyed Ally McBeal pretty much when it was still airing. But I didn't watch every episode faithfully, only as and when I was able to catch it. And this episode that had Ling (played by Lucy Liu) dreaming about kissing Ally (Calista Flockhart) was definitely one of the more memorable episodes for me.

http://les-personified.blogspot.com/2006/05/ally-and-ling.html

Shocked

she have beautiful eyes !

In 2002, the actress also gained notice for her small, but impressive role as Kitty Baxter in the Oscar-winning film Chicago (2002). Liu won her second Screen Actors Guild and a Broadcast Film Critics Association award for her performance in the film. In the year 2003, she continued attracting the attention of the public when she was cast as the deadly O-Ren Ishii in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003, starring Uma Thurman), in which she was honored with a MTV Movie award for Best Villain in 2004.

karate

i don't like when the producers need to shock (like their kiss) to do their show more interesting... i didn't watch Ally Mc Beal until the end, coz few actors from the original cast were not here... but when Ling Woo was here, it was funny... Razz

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I had a very indepth post that I just put together concerning Lucy Liu that is based off of the information that I have collected over the last few years, but when I went to post it the page could not be displayed properly and the post was lost, ouch.

So, because of that I will just give a short version for a complicated issue and Actress.

#1) Lucy Liu is either loved to death by the Asian and Asian American community or hated with a passion
#2) Her roles are often all the same and this I know from actually sitting and renting ALL of her movies. The only MOVIE that I have NOT seen her in is 3 Needles which was a Canadian Film in which she plays a Chinese woman who is collecting blood samples but finds out that her husband is actually testing and spreading the AIDS virus. These are the synopsis that I have found on line and IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes as well as critic's who have seen this movie. I have tracked down bits and pieces and seen a few clips, but nothing more. The movie Chicago was a bit part and I have not seen this movie.

With that said to prove what I am talking about I have tracked down EVERY OTHER PIECE of movie listed IMDB Filmography including the movie Flypaper, which was GOD AWFUL and she speaks in broken English with memorable lines like "I ain't no duck" because she is a Chemistry student working with a guy making drugs and these two other losers were talking before they come in and kill her partner, one guy (Mexican) was talking about how his got so horny that he had sex with a duck. So after they catch Liu the White guy tells the Mexican guy (notice I cannot even remember these characters names) that Liu could be your duck since you are "backed up."

This is just one example where the centerpiece of Liu's character is more of a caricature then an actual role. For me, this was early in her career so it was understandle, I will not get into her rolling around in that movie with a pit of snakes will being bitter... it's a weird scene and a long story and of course she shows her goods and that is pretty much the path that she has been stuck on since in one way or another.

In Payback she is a sex object and is ultimately punched out by Mel Gibson.

In Play it to the Bone, she is a junkie-tart and she's a whore. She has sex behind a gas station with Woody Harrelson in one of the most repulsive, but totally non-believable scenes that I have ever seen. Mind you her character was met by Harrelson and Banderes while they were enroute to Vegas and being driven by a White actress that I cannot name. Needless to say after F'n Harrelson behind the gas station, where I felt scummy just to watch that scene she eventually is punched out by the White actress and runs off with some trucker and is later seen at the fight picking someone's pocket.

The bottom line is this. Her role as Ling Woo was one where I could only stand three episodes of seeing her and I was not a big fan of the show to begin with because it was not about anything in particular and nothing important. But when she said you only have control of a man when you're hand is on his/the dipstick I had heard and seen enough of the Asian Whore who supposedly could survive in Law Firm talking and acting like a total slut and useless wench and yes I was that turned off by it, because of course when I went to work after those three episodes all that the guys at work wanted to talk about was how HOT she was and the fact that they wanted to F her, but when I asked "What do you think of what she's supposed to represent on that series?"

No one lied regardless of whatever their race was they all said the same thing "She's just a f-doll and she's there to shock and when she gets old then her career will be over."

Lucky Number Slevin was a huge flop and watching her throw herself at a loser like the king of failed movies Josh "Uni-brow" Hartnett was beneath her. She is a stereotyped role player who has generated enough animosity within the US by Asian American's that some have called her out and others have called her a self-hater who wishes she was a White woman. I'll post all the pro's and con's and whatever else another time, because I think I've probably been booted out again... so this time I'll save this post with a copy and then log back in and paste.

Here is one of my many pics.

her new movie..... Very Happy

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there's something in this world that's more painful than death, it's letting you go... i think i can get anything in this world if i had enough money but, i can't buy time.... should i ask you to wait until i can get into your heart!

Bonsoir,

Nous avons replacé le topic dédié à Lucy Liu dans le sous-forum actrices à la demande de Sushimi. Je ne sais pas pourquoi elle n'y était pas depuis le début. Lucy a sa place entière ici.

jocolor

Whew,
Okay I haven't been back to Lucy in a while and she is currently filming in New York City in a movie called Watching the Detectives. We have had some interesting conversations on IMDB about her, but since I have been really trying to finish my work I have kept it to whenever I have time. I'll be brief. I hope that my work can actually give her the chance to actually show some range and depth. I don't know if my book will even get published or put on the shelf and then beyond that is beyond me, but if it should make it to the shelf and do well and Tarantino decide to make it into a movie, Lucy Liu will be called upon to do a lot of what she rarely does now and I honestly think that she could pull it off.

Especially with the amount of material that the O-Ren character had and was not allowed to brought to the forefront. It would be amazing to see her portray a character that has to face down her own decisions and inner demons and actually come out on top in the end.

I do a lot of bitching and moaning about Lucy Liu because to me she sometimes makes decisions that make her out to be her own worst enemy, but I would really like to see her succeed and be happy. One on-line person thought I was her dad or something
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lol!

Later

Lucy passe ce soir sur France 2 en première partie de soirée dans le film US Charlie's angels (2003).

Nice to see you back on our board Geesehoward4life,

Yesterday Charlie's angels was on a regular TV channel here, a good occasion to see Lucy in a funny movie. Well, channel programmations are chaotic down here as there was at the same time Tomb raider with Angelina Jolie. That's life.

Just a short off-topic question, is Pineapplesoda from the CK fandom board an asian girl ?

Have a nice day,

jocolor