“Young and Dangerous: Reloaded” Poster Criticized as Gay
The concept poster for Wong Jing’s (王晶) Young and Dangerous: Reloaded <古惑仔: 江湖新秩序> was revealed at the 17th Annual Busan International Film Festival in South Korea. The buff cast, Him Law (羅仲謙), Oscar Leung (梁烈唯), Philip Ng (伍允龍), and Dominic Ho (何浩文) appear in unbuttoned, all white outfits, showing their muscular chests. The film poster has been criticized as looking “gay” by the online community.
The 1990s classic film franchise, Young and Dangerous, was based on a popular comic series and chronicled the adventures of triads in Mongkok. Ekin Cheng’s (鄭伊健) iconic triad leader role, “Chan Ho Nam” will be portrayed by Him Law in the remake. In his casting choices, producer Wong Jing admitted that he wished to cast several musclemen to add more excitement.
Casting choices aside, the exposure of the concept poster for Young and Dangerous: Reloaded has already aroused criticism. With the male cast’s open shirts and huddling close to each other, netizens felt that the poster looked “gay”. Others complained, “Triad members do not have such large muscles! In real life, they are all spare-rib thin!”
Rather than make a realistic triad film, Wong Jing may be appealing to audience’s basic instincts. Portraying Francis Ng’s (吳鎮宇) role, “Ugly Kwan,” Sammy Shum (沈震軒) will have intense bed scenes with Category III actress, Winnie Leung (梁敏儀).
Mainland actress, Hu Ran (胡然), will portray a wealthy heiress and fall for Him Law’s character. Jacqueline Chong (莊思敏) will play a clergyman’s daughter.
Source: Sina.com
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Yes it does but more gay porn than gay.
Funn,
The poster does make them look more like male strippers than dangerous triads.
So funny! Maybe, maybe they will like threaten you by stripping off their clothes!!!!!! Red speedo?!?!
Funn,
Due to the trend of movies such as “Lan Kwai Fong,” Wong Jing is now selling now only female flesh, but also male flesh.
I do think they will go “pek yau” with their shirts unbuttoned and unprotected.
I jhust home they don’t go pek pek pek and suddenly pek until shirt off, pants off, close ups on ruppling muscle and slow mo and more pek pek pek and there, Him Law’s first frontal nude scene?
I meant to write “I just hope”
Jayne, the one with the shirt on, is that Jazz Lam? Why this one got special treatment? OFF WITH HIS SHIRT!!
And middle is Him? He looks tiny.
Is this poster a spoof? Maybe it is not the real thing?
Pek yau in white is so interesting. All those blood stains and other dubious stains. Worse than a teenage girl on her period I suppose.
Funn,
Your “pek yau” scene is too imaginative! I can see Him’s shirt tattered in the gang fights and he impatiently tosses it in the ground, not caring who may knife him.
Anyway, there should be enough gang fights, cursing, and bed scenes to justify the Category III rating.
Funn,
The current poster was likely quickly assembled for the Busan International Film Festival and not the official poster. But the concept of it gives hints that this will be glamorized muscular/ pretty boy triads.
Maybe Jazz was asked to keep his shirt buttoned, otherwise his chest may outshine Him’s? Jazz is pretty buff too.
Maybe it’s really a knock off of “Magic Mike” and not “Young & Dangerous”, lmao.
The poster looks as ridiculous as the idea to remake the franchise.
I swear I saw a french movie where a seriously handsome actor was stripped by the actress to fully nude in a scene where she was treating his I think shoulder wound.
Could happen here! I bet got music, and they go pek pek slow mo. If John Woo, expect wind and pigeons. If Zhang Yimou, with falling leaves or in heavy artistic looking rain and fog. With Tsui Hark, dark, can’t see a thing.
Wong Kar Wai? Expect to see something in 20 years time. In between Him Law will have to be cloned.
Busan eh? Even the Koreans really into hyung culture will say the poster is just too much.
U R A PERVERT, Funn
I almost hope this poster is a trick. I don’t know about everyone else but these “gangsters” aren’t exactly terrifying.
Surprised they showed it at the Busan Film Festival — that’s a pretty prestigious film festival in the Asian cinema world.
The original “Young and Dangerous” films actually found a niche in the US being played in gay and lesbian film festivals; I ran art house movie theaters in the ’90s and remember playing them and Swordsman III (under the title The East is Red) in such festivals. One even had someone lecture on the daring choices made to show lesbian infatuation in “The East is Red.” Afterwards I pointed out that it was the 3rd film in a series and the character they were praising had been a man in the earlier films…. they had no idea! But the Young and Dangerous films were pretty much just shown as eye candy. Maybe they are trying to cash in on that market again.
The poster did look gay pornish. The ‘huddling close to each other’ is not the problem. Many Y&D posters have the male cast standing very close together too. It’s the attire that is the problem.
Haha! I really thought this poster looked more like a gay porno poster. 😛
The male cast does look like Chippendales in white in the poster. They are just missing bow-ties to complete the look.
HAHA But you know that those bow ties will be taken off really soon 😉
My thoughts exactly!
HAHAHAHAHAHA GAY!
“Triad members do not have such large muscles! In real life, they are all spare-rib thin!”
I agree!
Not even a tattoo
similiarities:-
ekin cheng + maggie siu mei kei(older)
him law + tavia yeung(older)
same fate?
Ekin is with Yoyo now, so the fate for Him Him will be the same? Mandy is the candidate?
ROFL!!
Ekin didn’t get caught with Maggie’s face in his crotch and driving dangerously without passenger wearing seatbelt and too slow which can be incovenient for other vehicles on the road.
Greasy looking boy band from the early noughties?
hahaha, they do look like backstreet boys or boyzone or some talentless boyband from the 90s.
I rmb there was a poster of Backstreet Boys like this
come on now, it’s’ not the 90’s….gangster don’t looks that crappy anymore…they wear suit now!
Even gangsters in the 90s didn’t look so crappy. I just looked at Ekin’s and jordan’s version of the poster, and it didn’t look as bad!
they are spitting on the Y&D franchise, Ekin and Jordan are probably laughing their asses off
agree, jordan did post a pic on weibo of the real YD gang having din straight after the remake of YD was announced…a sign to mock the remake..
It proves that i’m right, all of them look like chip and dale. All look so chiseled.
My first thought when I saw the poster was “BOYBAND!!!11” but with a second look… yeah. It does look pretty gay.
I would watch this movie even if the poster ends up being official because it reminds me of Magic Mike. And Magic Mike was a pleasant movie to watch for my eyes.
Looks more like male strippers than gangster. yuck.
What’s the point of remaking this movie again? No one can replace Ekin Cheng in Y&D.
It dun look gay, but awful.
And look at Him Him’s pose, meh he only has 1 pose for everything?
This is a pretty gay poster! Are they trying to scare off all the male audience?? kaka
haaah they do look like strippers more than gangsters hahaa… oh god haha… and they dont have to ALL wear the same color? OMG…
One of the old Y&D posters also have all the guys wear white, but, they look good in said poster.
http://i998.photobucket.com/albums/af106/joshuaongys1/younganddangerous.jpg
This is the old poster I was talking about. White attire is not the problem.
They all looks like professional gigolo in the poster..omg…
#1 That poster is so freaking blurry and bleh
#2 this show you that the entertainment industry just went from entertainment to ENTERTAINMENT 😉
#3 is this suppose to be like gangster/mafia look?? Are they like um.. trying to hard (being nice here) … maybe they should like go see real gangster and practice or something geez.
#4 omg, not Him Law again, why is he even in the middle??
#5 White shirt with a white pant, someone need to learn how to dress well at least… and the muscle *rolling eyes*
Actually, the poster looks more like a hip hop, rap or singing group similar to the k-pop male groups.
kinda look an amateur boy-band, and not the eye-candy type. I’m not buying Him Law’s in the role of 陳浩南. He does not have that dashing good-look compared to that of Ekin Cheng in his younger days. Him Law kinda looks like a body builder with no brain.
ekin still looks dashing now, Him cant even pass as chan ho nam’s underlinings
To be honest, Him is cute, but he is nowhere as good looking as Ekin, specially during Y&D. I’d saw again that Him is too bulky for Chan Ho Nam.
The poster look more like gigolo than gangster.
Fans be drooling should them all in Black Tie!
I hope this is not the actual poster and hope is not their outfit in the movie.
Rofl thank u for a good laugh Jayne LOL. At the first glance, all I can say is CHEAP. More like young and stripperous lol. Thanks wong jing for embarassing hk film industry lol. So this is where hk is heading, cheap and cheesy movies…sigh….
They don’t look like triad members. They look like gay gigolos or gay boyband members.
The original Y&D poster also had a white clothes poster but didn’t overflaunt their chest and abs and didn’t look this gay.
yeah agree with you that they dont look anything like triad members at all, they looks like some buffy male models posing for AD..
Are you serious Wong Jing? -_-
I think it shall renamed Young and not dangerous or gay and dangerous .
Where’s the hair and the tatt? Him Law doesnt even fit the super good look criteria to play chan ho nam! As i will quote from the hk newspaper
“no matter in looks, image, acting,level him law is a light year behind Ekin Cheng”
What?? Him Law looks way better than Ekin! Ekin so old now ewww lol
shutup zu!
what is zu? any wy is your name Anekin, shouldn’t it be OLDEkin?
SO MUCH EYE CANDY +__+
I won’t be surprised if they gain a lot of homosexual fans after this film hehe 🙂
I honestly don’t think the poster looks THAT bad like most stated. However, it does give off more of a “boy band” than triad feel. I wonder how the official poster will look like.
The only slight problem I have is why are they not carrying any weapons? Do gang members nowadays carry pistols and fight with their fists? o_O
Anyway, interested to see how the movie will turn out!
Just curious…
…to all who stated that it looks like “gay porn”, I’m assuming that you all watch it …? o_O
momo you don’t need to watch something to know what it looks like, just like i don’t assume that you’re homosexual coz u know what homosexual fans like
Himhim can look better than this. Maybe WJ will make a high quality poster later when the series ready to air in cinemas
LOL I mean ‘movie’. Many TVB faces in there made me mixed up 😛
He looks hawt!!
Gay my butt. HimHim and Phillip looks friggin hot in the pic. If only the picture wasnt soblurry.
The poster reminds me of a 90s boyband…. What a huge wardrobe malfunction!
I doubt it can hold up to the standard of the original Y&D… but we shall see 🙂
The poster is actually quite similar to Young and Dangerous 2 where Ekin and the gang are also dressed in white sans the muscles.
I think HimHim said in one of his interviews that this film is not to surpass the original but to salute them instead.