And yeah, that's Roger Kwok playing a deadbeat bum as well as the young and charming dad who woos Jimmy's mother and wins her heart. That was actually another reason why i wanted to watch Bao Lian Deng. I've always liked Roger Kwok ever since i saw him in TVB's Mystery of the Twin Swords with Dicky Cheung which is a series from 1991. I think there was a slight lapse in him doing tv series and then all of a sudden i saw him in this (and especially since it was a non-TVB series) so i was intrigued.
By the way, since I'm Vietnamese, i basically have to watch all of these series dubbed in Viet. So i'm not exactly sure who Chong Ling from Tian Long Ba Bu is. Is that the girl that Jimmy first meets when Duan Yu first appears in the series? You know, the girl with the funky hair (the two pig-tails)? I don't really remember that girl's character name but i do kinda remember everyone else's Viet-equivalent name and it doesn't sound like any of them would be Chong Ling.
I am definitely enjoying watching TLBB. I haven't seen any remakes of this series. I've only watched the one from the early 80s. I don't even remember if i ever watched the whole thing since i was pretty young at the time. I think i was more of a Return of the Condor Heroes fan at the time because of Andy Lau. Anyway, i don't really know what Duan Yu's character is essentially supposed to be like but if he's supposed to be this really wide cheeky smile kind of guy who has a very kind heart and is willing to help whomever, then i think Jimmy plays him well. Sometimes i think Jimmy kinda overexaggerates his facial expressions depending on the character he's supposed to play, but i think he's a lot more natural-looking in this one.
You know, i had a similar question about the whole Jimmy voice thing. Even though i have to listen to a dubbed Viet voice for the most part anyway, i was still curious. I had asked whether or not they use his real voice for any of his series. Why do they have to dub over him? I'm waiting for Liao Zhai to come from YesAsia too and since i'll be watching this series with English subtitles, i wanted to be able to hear Jimmy's real voice. And i wish they would really stop pushing the ship out date. It's been quite prolonged now. Such a bummer too since i had ordered it together with Jimmy's latest cd. Everything has to be shipped together so because of that i haven't received his cd yet.
So did you get the I Love How You Love Me movie from YesAsia too? Does it have English subtitles? At times like these, i wish i would motivate myself more to go take a class and learn Mandarin or Cantonese.