Speculation is mounting that Nicolas Cage may have dumped Alice Kim and moved on to the next woman half his age:
On Wednesday, someone posted pictures of Cage on a date on a yacht with another young lady on an Internet site with the Korean portal site Daum. The picture was entitled, “Nicolas Cage’s New Girlfirend.”
The picture, which is drawing an explosive amount of Internet attention, has no further explanation other than its title, so there is debate as to the authenticity of the photo.
The woman in the photo however may belong to someone else on the boat though since there was other people present:
Besides the woman indicated as Cage’s new love, there are two boys also on board the boat; all are brightly smiling as they enjoy sun tanning and swimming.
Even if the photo does confirm that Cage has split from Kim, why is anybody surprised by this? Why is this making headlines in major South Korean newspapers? Who cares, we all knew this was coming sooner or later. Save it for the tabloids.
This just made my day seeing a headline that Chinese action movie star Zhang Zhi Yi will star in another Korean movie. She is best known in western cinema for her roles in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”, “Rush Hour 2”, and “Hero”. All great movies. She first starred in a Korean movie as a Chinese princess in the movie “Musa” but her role did not feature her martial arts ability. She just played the damsel in distress. With her eyes and martial arts ability, that role just did not suit her well. Great movie anyway. She then made a cameo appearance at the end of “My Wife is a Gangster 2” as a rival mob boss. Now that she is set to star in “My Wife is a Gangster 3” I think it is safe to assume that she will probably continue her role as a rival mob boss.
With a big international film star like Zhang Zhi Yi starring once again in a Korean film, I think it shows the quality of Korean movies and the respect foreign actors are beginning to have for them. If you haven’t watched Korean movies, you should check them out because many of them are really good and equal to Hollywood standards. I wonder if any big name actors from Hollywood will ever star in a Korean movie? I bet if someone asked Nicholas Cage he probably would.
I am going to start doing reviews of movies I saw recently here in Korea. I’m going to concentrate on Korean cinema but I am also going to slip in some Japanese and Chinese movies also. With that a great movie I saw last night was Hero. This movie was actually released in China two years ago but was released this year stateside because the publisher did not want to release the movie to soon after 2001 hit movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Well I’m glad the movie has finally been released. The movie has a great story line based on actual historical events. However, some fast, furious, and artistic fighting sequences are thrown in to add a fantasy element to the movie. The movie takes place 2000 years ago during the warring states period in acient China. Ying Zheng (played by Cheng Daoming), King of the state of Qin, brutal and ruthless, was the target of many assassination attempts by his rivals. Among them, Broken Sword, (played by Tony Leung Chiu-Wai), Flying Snow, (played by Maggie Cheung) and Sky (played by Donnie Yen) play the top assassins trying to kill the King of Qin. However, their plan was challenged by No-name (played by Jet Li)who is a minor Qin official. He spoke little and no one really knew what he was up to. No-name told the king that the assassins had been wiped out by his hand and he explained his story, but the king wisely did not trust him. The events after this would lead the divided country into unification for the first time under one emperor and the building of the Great Wall of China.
The movie is a thinking mans action movie. Just like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon you really need to pay attention to the plot line. This is just not mindless action. However, as great as this movie is I do have to say I liked Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon better. Crouching Tiger had better all around characters with Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeo, and Zhang Ziyi all playing well developed characters with distinct personalities. While in Hero, Jet Li’s character is the only one with any substance. Zhang Ziyi also plays a part in this movie but it is only a minor part. But the action and storyline help make up for the unexplored characters and I highly recommend this movie. I give it a 8 out of 10.
