The woman in this clip is Barbara Yung (7 May 1959 – 14 May 1985).
Please remember her. :) She is a special one.
Maybe I am not being objective here.
But to be able to appreciate the ancient clip above while enjoying Taylor Swift or Sistar's songs all the same,
I guess I am really privileged to be born in the 80s.
Wouldn't have it any other way.
Legend of the Condor Heroes/LOCH (1983 version) was the first wuxia series that I watched on RCTI.
Bloody hell they dubbed the series into Indonesian.
The only good thing that ever came out of their dubbing was the voice actor behind Yo Ko & Kotaro Minami. That man's voice was memorable.
LOCH aired every weekday night at 11pm.
I painstakingly negotiated with my mum every night to let me watch it.
Now that I re-watch the movie stills on youtube, I thought these 80s wuxia shows were really something.
There is an aura of legend in them.
Even this song.. if you are a self respecting wuxia lover, you will know this song.
LOCH is not even my favorite novel. But this 1983 version along with Andy Lau's 1984 Return of the Condor Heroes are truly special.
The woman in the clip is Barbara Yung who played the female protagonist, Huang Rong / Wong Yung.
Even when I look at her now, I think she is really, really captivating.
She is really so.. Huang Rong.
This series immortalises her. There is simply no better Huang Rong.
But ironically, she committed suicide in 1985, two years after this series aired.
She was 26 then. Well.. if you read the wiki..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Yung
it could have been a murder too
But still.. I feel very sad.
How could a person at the peak of her career and life committed suicide?
Watching her acting, you can't help but to fall in love with her lively spark.
Well.. such is life. such is happiness. vanity indeed.
Please remember her. :) She is a special one.
Maybe I am not being objective here.
But to be able to appreciate the ancient clip above while enjoying Taylor Swift or Sistar's songs all the same,
I guess I am really privileged to be born in the 80s.
Wouldn't have it any other way.
Legend of the Condor Heroes/LOCH (1983 version) was the first wuxia series that I watched on RCTI.
Bloody hell they dubbed the series into Indonesian.
The only good thing that ever came out of their dubbing was the voice actor behind Yo Ko & Kotaro Minami. That man's voice was memorable.
LOCH aired every weekday night at 11pm.
I painstakingly negotiated with my mum every night to let me watch it.
Now that I re-watch the movie stills on youtube, I thought these 80s wuxia shows were really something.
There is an aura of legend in them.
Even this song.. if you are a self respecting wuxia lover, you will know this song.
LOCH is not even my favorite novel. But this 1983 version along with Andy Lau's 1984 Return of the Condor Heroes are truly special.
The woman in the clip is Barbara Yung who played the female protagonist, Huang Rong / Wong Yung.
Even when I look at her now, I think she is really, really captivating.
She is really so.. Huang Rong.
This series immortalises her. There is simply no better Huang Rong.
But ironically, she committed suicide in 1985, two years after this series aired.
She was 26 then. Well.. if you read the wiki..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Yung
it could have been a murder too
But still.. I feel very sad.
How could a person at the peak of her career and life committed suicide?
Watching her acting, you can't help but to fall in love with her lively spark.
Well.. such is life. such is happiness. vanity indeed.
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