I watched The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity and I won’t stop talking about it.
I didn’t expect it to be so good and so gay. For real, I only watched it for Xu Kaicheng (more on that later) and Wang Duo (who I casually found looking for someone else, it’s destiny) and thought it was going to be another cheesy paint-by-numbers fantasy movie with cringe-y visual effects but it’s sooo well-done and I actually care for all the characters?!
Boya is gay. There’s no heterosexual explanation for the looks he gives Qingming (who is canonically bisexual, fight me). Also, Boya is a bottom. This, my friends, is the face of a bottom:
(he’s screaming ‘top me’ on the inside)
Back to Xu Kaicheng and slightly off-topic: everyone wants him to be Jun Wu in the TGCF drama but I think he fits Hua Cheng much better. May the gods of cdrama casting bless me.
XKC is amazingly hawt in the five minutes of screen time he gets as The Mad Painter (btw, is he the palace painter the Hair Demon was talking about?)
(abs… chest… lips… tattoos… *drooling*)
At times I wish this was a series instead. The fast, almost breakneck pace is good and leaves no room to be bored (unlike a certain other movie I watched the other day) but some characters could be a little more fleshed out, specially the shikigami (looking at you, Killing Stone, you’re cute). On the downside, the budget would be spread through various episodes and we would get a giant snake on par with (or worse than) the Wen’s dog from CQL. Better not then…
(beautiful soft baby, I want to pet)
The makeup and costumes… simply gorgeous. I have a weakness for accurate period makeup and the Princess hit all my sweet spots. Correct me if I’m wrong, the eyebrows and hair are much more Heian Period in Japan than anything Chinese (the story is based on a Japanese book after all). The lips look like Tang Dynasty, though. The butterfly shikigami sports a hime cut and the main characters’ conical hats are also very Heian.
Ah, romance… I don’t hate the straights this time, in fact I almost cried (the horror!) during the flashback scenes. The power of Wang Duo’s abs, I guess. He is very hot and spends quite a lot of time shirtless. Thank you, Mr. Director.
Final rating: 9,9/10
