Song Seung-heon, Liu Yifei to collaborate in Third Love?
by awcoconuts
Actor Song Seung-heon (When a Man Loves) and actress Liu Yifei (A Chinese Fairy Tale) are mulling over offers to star together in the upcoming Chinese-Korean joint movie Third Love, which is based on a Chinese bestseller. A rep from Song’s agency confirmed that a proposal had been received and was being considered carefully, while various news outlets in China have also affirmed Liu is being courted.
In the melodramatic film about a man and a woman’s intense love, Song would play a chaebol heir and Liu a beautiful and talented attorney. If they take the parts, they would certainly make a gorgeous on-screen couple, and compounding rumors of the potential pairing, Song recently posted a photo of himself with Liu on Weibo.
Song recently received positive reviews for his performance in the erotic melo movie Obsessed, while Liu, who was already familiar to Korean audiences from such works as The Assassins and The Forbidden Kingdom, can be seen in the upcoming Chinese movie Hong Yan Lu Shui (or Rosy Cheeks) with the actor Rain.
Third Love will be directed by John H. Lee (Into the Gunfire) using his unique and gentle directorial style. Filming will begin next month, and the movie will be released in the first half of 2015.
Via TVReport
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1 luvnlife
June 28, 2014 at 12:18 PM
Love SSH! Wish he would come back do a drama though. We have to wait too long to watch the movies being streamed online. <3
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2 maldita
June 28, 2014 at 12:51 PM
He's just so pretty to look at. <3
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3 coffeenlucia
June 28, 2014 at 1:20 PM
SSH was cute and adorbs in He Was Cool and My Princess. <3
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4 jusash
June 28, 2014 at 1:47 PM
He and Won Bin (and SHK) were my first unforgettable K-encounters with the pretty, some 15 years ago.
Have a soft spot for SSH, and never tire of the eye candy.
So the towel finally did drop, but to be honest I didn't feel SSH over-stretched himself (out of his normal) in his movie Obsessed. I couldn't feel his yearning or intense emotions for her either, even to the end.
His X scenes just didn't have the intensity of Lee Jung-Jae An Affair/Housemaid, or Yoo Ji-Tae.
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ck1Oz
June 28, 2014 at 4:07 PM
Is it worth watching? And no don't care if the towel dropped or not. It's just that the stills had such a vintage feel and had such gorgeous colouring. If the story is there, the directing good, has a good music score and people or him/ her don't die in the end. Then yes will consider watching it. I am not a big fan of his but do like the Korean cinematography when it's good.
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jusash
June 28, 2014 at 6:27 PM
I felt the trailers and stills were actually better. The languid and nostalgia were captured nicely.
The overall movie ... ok, but nothing stood out, or was especially memorable. The cinematography is as in captured in the stills, and befitting of the era.
He delivered, but nothing out of SSH norm.
Movie was yawn-worthy at parts, but maybe that's just me. I just didn't feel any chemistry, much less the feelings he couldn't rein in, for her.
My above comments were really in reaction to an interview I happened to chance upon on Obsessed.
SSH was commenting that this movie marked a revolutionary change in the way he felt after denuding on director request (instead of swimsuits, as initially planned).
He felt a new way of looking at stuff or something. At the end, my thoughts were: "Really SSH, you think so?"
His surprising more enjoyable performance so far remains (for me) - My Princess. Dude enjoys comedy, and is more natural at it.
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jandoe
June 28, 2014 at 6:36 PM
Agree with everything you said about Obsessed. I feel the same way - nothing out of the norm, and cinematography and setting were beautiful but the acting were sub par. And on his supposed racy scenes, I feel like he over-exaggerated about stripping/being nude on-camera etc cos let's be honest that the girl did most of that. I didn't really feel the passion too between the two, throughout the movie. The movie was okay and I mean not entirely a lost cause, but in my opinion ultimately forgettable.
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ck1Oz
June 28, 2014 at 7:44 PM
Thanks for the reply. I'll give it a skip then. As it is I always have more than enough on my " to watch list " and if the movie is not good enough, can't be bothered.
The reason why I still watch movies even though the endings usually traumatizes me is that the acting/ directing/ music are generally superior to the K dramas around.
Newbie
June 28, 2014 at 11:37 PM
What I saw of it, it seemed they choreographed the X scenes to highlight his abs and other well formed bodyparts. Therefore and because of his acting it lacked passion as some already commented. Over all it had a clumsy, forced feeling. Korean filmmakers can do eroticism much better normally.
pohonphee
June 28, 2014 at 7:40 PM
I watched Human Obsession, when he did the X scenes, he looked like he's just doing it casually (lack intensity and all), not like they said he obsessed with her. I think the director had a part of it (beside SSH's expression, come on I want to know if you ever get "there" :D) that the scenes came off not as hot as we want it.
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5 jusash
June 28, 2014 at 6:32 PM
Oops, this somehow got deleted:
Yes, My Princess AND .... He Was Cool.
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6 Jo
June 28, 2014 at 8:25 PM
That's kinda hilarious since Liu Yifei is known for her wooden acting + pretty face in the C-drama industry too.
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7 D's handphone
June 28, 2014 at 8:56 PM
Crystal Liu?
It will be a very pretty movie to look at
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8 KDaddict
June 28, 2014 at 10:04 PM
Liu Yifei was truly marvellous to look at when she debuted in a TV drama, adapted from a Jin Yung Wuxia story. She was around 18 and looked angelic. I didn't even notice that she couldn't act.
To be, she's lost that innocent, angelic quality. Pretty faces are plentiful in the industry.
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shiroikiwi
June 30, 2014 at 1:34 AM
Well, plus that character was supposed to be reserved and not showing much emotion (and basically just be angelic-looking in all white) so the role suited her well. (Assuming you are talking about Return of the Condor Heroes and not Chinese Paladin, which isn't Jin Yong, though it was her first notable role.)
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9 shirley
June 28, 2014 at 11:59 PM
oh I lovee liu yifei!!
but...both of them are quite wooden right?
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shiroikiwi
June 30, 2014 at 1:36 AM
I love her too, but yeah I would say on the wooden side....
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shiroikiwi
June 30, 2014 at 1:37 AM
She really is a female SSH...beautiful and awesome, but not the actress with most depth that I've seen.
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10 heonheemoon
June 29, 2014 at 12:30 PM
As much as I like SSH, I'd wish he sticks with what he does best, rom-com. Like some of you had mentioned, Obsession did not revolutionize his acting one bit, the same SSH in a typical love story. Agreed with your comments, maybe due to the director and partly due to SSH himself, the X-scenes were there to emphasize his perfect body and features in the least exposed way, but not much to do with the depth of his acting. Contrastingly, the female actress was bearing it all literally. I did not feel any passion for a forbidden love from both actors but just a mere fatal attraction. On the other hand, I think it's kind of hard to express the full range of motion if the freedom of expressions weren't allowed. It seemed awkard at times watching the love making scenes folded, intead of unfold for lack of a better word...:)))
Sorry SSH ssi if I am being too harsh. I would love to see a reunite of you and the Princess in another rom-com!
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jusash
June 30, 2014 at 10:06 AM
YES, at least SSH looks like he's having a whole load of fun effortlessly ... in those rom-coms.
Can't blame him for wanting to stretch himself, or 'expose' (no pun intended :P) himself to other challenging? genres. But reality is reality after all this experimentation, and revolutionary breakthroughs.
Somehow the cinematography, vibe and whole premise around this one reminds me of Tony Leung and Tang Wei's 'Lust Caution'. But what a world of difference in the smoulder quotient of the entire equation. When Tony Leung is reining it in, he's also combusting!
SSH's signature pained grimace, and that gaze from under his eyebrows is all we get most of the time since Autumn's Tale, in all the heavier genres he's experimented with. Even in this newest 'revolutionary' soul-baring performance that made him open his eyes (to what?)
The gorgeousness of his entire chiseled-being aside ... his smile hardly changes either, in pictures (as above). In a beautiful coffee-table book kind of way.
I like the dude. To cut SSH some slack ... in Obsessed the actress is supposedly a rookie (somewhat like Shin Se-kyung) There are many shows out there with worse plots, and the actors totally ran away with it to make it actually work.
Here's another fusion genre. Nothing wrong with 100% fan-servicing exposure but in a rom-com, is there? :P
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Cyndibluebell
March 2, 2016 at 6:11 PM
I totally agree with you friend. I think Kim Tae Hee suits him better personally. Like you said, they are just infatuated with each other. I dont think they will last though. KTH looks more comfortable with him. AFter all they share the same language..dont u think so?
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11 jusash
June 29, 2014 at 2:19 PM
Ditto. While partial to him, I am not blind.
Dude has an amazing gorgeous bod, but the love-making was detachedly 'unsexy'-stilted in the feels department. Slotting Obsession right in there with BYJ in his X movies = Scandal, and April Snow.
Rom-com suits SSH, and he feels comfortable there. It is as enjoyable as a viewer watching him in this more natural to him genre too.
Maybe it would suit his purposes to act in yet another movie which is dubbed or in foreign collaborative category: So Close (HK) and Ghost (Japan) comes to mind. On the scale of blandness ... So Close fared a little better than Ghost, which was as blah (for me anyway) as they come.
In an international collaboration, once again the wooden can be justified = different language, different cultural nuances. The pretty in motion, but no connection necessary. :)
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heonheemoon
June 29, 2014 at 3:06 PM
Agreed with you! Rom-com is the only time where I don't see trying so hard to act. It comes naturally to him and makes him "shine". As for movies, I only enjoyed "He was Cool", and that was a domestic one. International, it certainly got harder handle. Tried but couldn't fisnish "Ghost", hence did not bother to watch any others.
In the end, any collaboration like this would just be another eye-candy couple with ticket selling power riding the high wave of global international showbiz in Southeast Asia. I hope someday I would change my perception, although I am not holding my breath.
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