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Jay Chou leads old people to dance hip-hop
by kelvin@multistars - 3rd September 2004Jay is very popular with young people, yet he likes old stuff. In the album "Common Jasmin Orange", you can see the old style he likes everywhere, in the new song "Casualties Of Stopping War" he shows off the old military uniform, in the "My Territory" MV he plays the Monkey King in Peking opera; in the "General" MV, by himself he plays a Chinese chess player and a chess piece, and he also shows off his "dance moves", he hangs from a wire and he leads old granddads and grandmas to dance hip hop, hundreds of gimmicks.
In the "General" MV, Director Chou runs on eaves and walks on walls to play Chinese chess with old granddad, then he incarnates into a human chess piece in the board charging and occupying the enemy's positions. At the start he is slaughtered to the point of retreating in defeat after another by old granddad, the granddaughter by the side wanted to give him a hint, yet it was rejected by him with "true nobleman don't talk when observing chess", at the end he turned defeat into victory, the granddaughter's heart bled at her granddad losing so she cheated, without changing his coolness he said: "A gentleman will not take back a move once his hand has been lifted".
Granddad and grandma dance hip-hop
In order to show the intense battle of capturing and killing when playing chess in the song "General", beforehand Director Chou went to the park to observe the old people playing chess in the morning; he held a recorder by his side quietly recording. When he was filming the MV, he invited over 10 granddads and grandmas to the camera, he led them to dance hip-hop exclusive to young people, all you could see was the scene crowded with old people over 50, all of them twisting their bodies for their life, the scene was very amusing.
Betroth granddaughter as wife
On the day of filming the MV, there were a lot of grandsons and granddaughters who heard granddad and grandma were filming an MV with Jay, they hurriedly asked granddad and grandma to get autographs for them, the filming scene suddenly became an autograph session, Director Chou smiled while signing saying: "This perhaps are the oldest bunch of fans I have had since doing autograph sessions." There was also a grandma who wanted to betroth her granddaughter to Jay as a wife, on the spot it made Director Chou have a red face and not knowing how to reject it.