Sunday, November 21, 2010

Shawn Yue X Vogue: ANYTIME SOON

this post must be in English

of course!!!!!

and this is super long

because I found the articles on it

simple beautiful

 

directed by Jean Claude Thibaut

featuring Shawn Yue

donning Hermes 2010 Spring/Summer collection

for 《Vogue》magazine

 

the storyline,

taken from Advanced Room:

the production company owned by Mr. Thibaut

 

and thanks for uploading the clip too

I tried myself, attempting a mandarin version

but they disabled the audio

on copyright ground by WMG

oh, no again…..

 

A film director (Shawn Yue), is suffering

of looking for a hidden treasure :

«the ideal woman».

This Man is searching for balance:

between reality and idealism,

the sensual and the intellectual,

the sense of touch and the sense of sight.

 

Between women in film

and the one he meet out of screen,

in reel life,

he cannot establish a link.

He should say where began the other one ended.

 

Inevitably,

he is as much a reflection of ourselves:

striving for greatness,

only to achieve the ordinary and familiar...

with episodes of momentary oblivion in between.

 

Thematically, the film begins and ends

with the same impossibility

to see the beauty of a woman in time.


The film director,

unable to hear the cryptic message,

returns to his latest distraction...

perhaps still dreaming of attaining

the elusive sweet life.

 

ANYTIME SOON / Shawn Yue

A harried love retreats into

his introspective journey and fantasies.

Stalled on a film set,

he struggles half-heartedly to

work on his love life with a sense of courage

 

this is basically a series of story

by 《Vogue》

one of the clips featuring J.Lo

Shawn is the 1st ever Asian male star

working with 《Vogue》

in its shooting project

 

background of the project

and a little about Mr.Director

link from Nowness.com

provided by Shawn on FB

 

The ideal woman:

mysterious, alluring

and, ultimately, a fantasy.

 

Director Jean-Claude Thibaut is

fascinated with the search for this elusive creature,

portraying her in different guises–temptress,

sylph, goddess, movie star—

in his sensuous short films and commercials.

 

Listing Fellini and Yves Saint Laurent as influences,

Thibaut has previously created perfume promos for

Armani, Dolce & Gabbana and Pierre Cardin,

and in 2008 founded Advanced Room,

a production company that

specializes in the fashion and luxury industries.

 

He keeps returning to the fashion world

not for its seasonal trends

but because it allows him to

celebrate beauty for its own sake.

This much is clear from his latest short film

《ANYTIME SOON》

 

Set in the Tin Hau temple in Hong Kong

a working shrine, where

“incense ash kept dropping onto the clothes,” Thibaut says,

the film stars one of the city's rising stars,

Shawn Yue,

fresh from the set of John Woo’s latest

swords-and-daggers epic,

《Reign of the Assassins》.

 

Yue plays a film director suffering from

the disjunction between the real world a

nd the universe he constructs for his films,

inhabited as it is by impossibly perfect women

(typified here by model Cara G).

 

The mood of Anything Soon was partially

inspired by the costumes,

which Thibaut sourced from

the classic Parisian fashion house Hermès—

he describes it all as “a bit Gatsby.”

 

Thibaut works from the premise that

wardrobe comes first:

“You can’t choose the actors,

and then afterward the fashion for them.

In fact, you have to do it

the opposite way around.”

 

Music comes courtesy of

Chinese classical musician Bei Bei

and London-based producer Shawn Lee,

whose collaborative album 《Into the Wind》

was released earlier this year on Ubiquity Records.

 

余文樂 X 愛馬仕

法國導演 Jean Claude Thibaut 之作

女主角為香港名模 Cara G

 

樂仔為首位為《Vogue》

拍攝網上短片

的亞洲藝人

 

一個關于追逐的故事,

幻想與內心的旅程。。

就在片場的背景里,

余文樂飾演的男主角漫不經心地在愛情里掙扎著,

但過程當然還包括了勇氣。。。

 

如果你夠八卦

花邊新聞請看這里...

 

The Making of… in Cantonese / Shawn Yue

余文樂成為首位亞洲藝人拍攝vogue國際雜誌網上短片