Jeannie Chang
Chang Yung-Yung | Lisa Chang
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Biography
A discovery of director Joseph Kuo, who have brought us the likes of Polly Shang-Kwan and Jack Long. She, though a decent actress, was not of the "Kung-fu" mold (Human translation: She couldn't fight). She seemed mostly like she'd be one of those actresses who would get the hero killed, trying to save her. She mostly appeared in movies with Jack Long and his real life "Peking Opera" classmate Li I-Min (Mystery Of Chess-Boxing (1979) and World Of The Drunken Master (1979).
It would have suited her (and us) better if she could’ve threw some serious sidekicks or something, because being in a "Joseph Kuo" film you have to fight. She did a beautiful form in the film 36 Deadly Styles (1979), [but, elsewhere in the movie] she didn’t really look like she knew what she was doing (when fighting another person). She was a novice and it showed. Watching her perform, she looked like she was [really] just “Going-thru-the-motions” for the sake of the film.
I think the chance at stardom was pushed upon her and in making the transition, the workload, became too much. Had she learned this valuable lesson, she would have been more successful in that field and a more famous name in the world of kung-fu films. I don’t think she really wanted to be an actress, as she exited the film world, after a few short years. Also, she came into the genre, when Kung-fu films were beginning to die out, in Taiwan. So, either way, becoming successful in films, would have became even harder, for her.
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