tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289278000277019122.post4586890794235030159..comments2024-03-27T18:23:34.322+08:00Comments on WEBS OF SIGNIFICANCE: Brigitte Lin back in the limelight!YTSLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930487923185001591noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289278000277019122.post-64695706368521246172011-07-25T23:20:17.029+08:002011-07-25T23:20:17.029+08:00Hi ewaffle --
I first encountered Brigitte Lin Ch...Hi ewaffle --<br /><br />I first encountered Brigitte Lin Ching Hsia in Taiwanese weepies that my mother adored and dragged me to as a kid. Many years later, I saw her in Hong Kong movies and it took a few of them before I realized that the Brigitte Lin in those works and the Lin Ching Hsia of those Taiwanese romances were one and the same -- so different were her different movie personae and soYTSLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09930487923185001591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289278000277019122.post-84465391746949719002011-07-25T02:57:43.362+08:002011-07-25T02:57:43.362+08:00It seems strange but I can't recall the first ...It seems strange but I can't recall the first time I saw Brigitte Lin in a movie, although I recall when watching "Boys Are Easy" thinking that she was doing commentary/parody on some of her gender bending roles so I must have seen at least one of her classic roles by then.<br /><br />A surprise was her role in "Chunking Express" costumed in a trench coat, blond wig and inewafflehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03339565669634286677noreply@blogger.com