Translation of Da She Hui

Translation of Da She Hui episode aired on 2009.03.31 at PTS channel
FULL TRANSCRIPT
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[b](Zai's interview is very good)
Translated by Laiou @ vicpower

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Previously posted translation :
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reporter:

01:31 Dressed in a white suit
01:34 Zaizai looks like someone walking out of a manga.
01:35 An aristocrat.
01:37 His demeanor
01:38 is elegant.
01:40 During a photo shoot for promotional use
01:42 there are 4-5 people waiting on him.
01:43 A touch-up on make-up, spraying hair-spray on his hair.
01:44 Just to make certain that every photo
01:46 looks perfect.


reporter:

01:31 Dressed in a white suit
01:34 Zaizai looks like someone walking out of a manga.
01:35 An aristocrat.
01:37 His demeanor
01:38 is elegant.
01:40 During a photo shoot for promotional use
01:42 there are 4-5 people waiting on him.
01:43 A touch-up on make-up, spraying hair-spray on his hair.
01:44 Just to make certain that every photo
01:46 looks perfect.

01:52 A carefully packaged idol.
01:54 He is the dreamboat of numerous girls.


01:59 But, when asked of what is his ideal partner,
02:00 at the moment, he doesn't have much idea.

Zai:

02:03 At present I
02:05 really feel there isn't any
02:09 particular kind of girl
02:11 that I can really describe
02:13 about what she actually attracts me.

02:17 I've become more focused.
02:30 I'm so busy with filming everyday.
02:23 My work schedule is fully booked.

02:26 However, With such a full schedule
02:28 I still want to have time to relax.

02:32 I don't have time for the other half.
02:34 Neither do I have the opportunity to think
02:37 what kind of person my other half will be.


Zai:

03:22 I'm afraid if I try to assimilate
03:23 traits of some other successful artists
03:26 and make them become part of me,
03:27 then I'll be just a substitute for him.

03:29 So, I just said
03:31 how about letting me use my own methodology
03:32 to make the PiZi character come alive.


Chun Ning Chang:

03:25 Once again I see a different Zaizai
03:27 because, how do I put it,
03:40 his role is unique.
03:41 I think this role fits him well,
03:43 that is, a very good-looking and yet mischievous guy.

03:48 Also, his character is quite cute.
03:51 The director says it is what he is.
03:53 As a matter of fact, it is a part of Zaizai.

reporter:

03:54 Create an acting style of his own.
03:58 Zai is anxious to rid of the burden of an idol.

04:00 His intention is very clear.
04:02 He has been in the show business for 8 years.
04:03 Although he know what it is like to be super hot,
04:07 he has also been badly blasted.




Zai:

04:10 For example when we went to the various big

awards ceremonies,
04:14 it was always the same. Whether it was rumored
04:17 or people's actual attitudes towards us,
04:19 you knew how other people felt.
04:21 The look in their eyes.

04:22 You know what I mean.
04:25 Oh F4... Win an award.
04:27 Um, how do you do?

04:29 They didn't remember you afterwards.
04:31 They didn't think of you as anything, either.


reporter:

06:29 Zaizai's handsome appearance and his quiet temperament
06:30 closely resembled the manga character.
06:33 However, at the time, he didn't have any acting experience.
06:36 When he opened his month, he spoke Chinese with a Taiwanese accent.
06:39 It caused the director headache.


Director Cai:

06:41 It was a very noticeable problem with him.
06:46 But we couldn't do anything.
06:47 Because he looked so much like the character and was suitable for the role,
06:50 we'd rather make it part of his characteristic.
06:52 Moreover, he was working hard to change it.
06:54 He kept practicing.

07:13 Let them get used to acting.
07:15 Let them understand what's acting.
07:17 Because they didn't have time to learn what that was about.
07:20 Within a very short period of time, immediately they had to
07:21 be in front of the equipment and perform.


Zai:

07:34 I didn't know what was acting.
07:35 Neither did I know why I wanted to be an artist.
07:38 It was all because of what my mom said to me.
07:40 You could give it a try.
07:41 Anyway, they had found you.
07:44 So she told me to do as a part-time job. Meteor Garden.
07:48 I came with a mentality that I was doing a temp job.


Zai:

08:07 Some media friends
08:09 write untrue reports
08:11 or make outrageous guess out of thin air.
08:13 I feel that I don't need to be nice with you.
08:14 Because I know even though I smile,
08:17 these paparazzi reporters would still make up stories about me.
08:19 You know what I mean.




08:20 I may as well just not meet you
08:22 So, I don't mistreat myself.
08:23 You're just pretending with me, aren't you?
08:25 I'm already doing acting on my job.
08:27 I don't need to act with you after work.
08:28 Why do I need to bother with you?


08:43 Actually, I have never
08:45 got used to the media
08:51 At that time, it was because my mom
08:54 told me you weren't doing it as a profession.
08:56 Mom told me I was just doing it as a short term job.
08:58 How did I know it would have become like this.
09:00 That was how I felt.
09:02 I really had no idea it would turn out like this.
09:03 It was like now I had to take this route.


Zai:

11:07 I thought it was only acting.
11:09 It wasn't. When you became famous
11:10 you need to release albums
11:11 you need to publish photo albums
11:12 you need to hold concerts.
11:13 you have to do anything.
11:15 you need to do a world tour.
11:16 So, people will get to know you,
11:17 people will go crazy for you.
11:18 Wow, is that so? But I didn't want it.
11:21 Because I didn't know what I was doing.
11:22 I only felt
11:23 these were just things with extra values.
11:27 I wasn't happy.
11:28 I only felt
11:29 the four of us were together every day,
11:32 shooting commercials.


Chun Ning Chang:
13:32 It was the director.
13:34 It was because later he
13:35 wanted us in the last scene
13:37 to go back,
13:39 filming the memory of our past.
13:41 He said you two could decide how to act.
13:42 Then he said
13:43 you could play by chasing each other.
13:46 After he started to shoot a bit.
13:47 we looked at the tape.
13:48 He said he felt there could be something more.
13:53 Then, every time he
13:54 went to look at the tape,
13:55 he would say there could be something more
13:57 but he wouldn't tell you
13:58 what he really wanted.
14:00 As a matter of fact, when you heard of it,
14:01 you knew the director
14:02 simply wanted a kissing scene
14:02 but he wouldn't say it.

Zai:
14:24 I once
14:26 imaged that I would get marred at 25.
14:27 Now I started to image.
14:29 A while back,
14:30 I started to image I would get married by 30.
14:32 But I've found out all these thoughts are useless.

14:34 If you don't have something concrete
14:37 to be recognized by others
14:38 and to prove Your value,
14:41 people will always think your prospect is not good.
14:45 No body will expect
4:47 you to be good at any role.
14:50 For both parties involved,
14:51 whether you can protect her,
14:53 or you can keep14:55 a good long-term marriage,
14:56 or you can be a good husband,
14:58 or you are matured enough...
14:59 I'd rather spend the next few years...
15:01 Things people have doubt
15:03 and think I'm incapable of,
15:05 I'll do my best to accomplish them at work.
15:09 Later, I can talk about things like love.



Ke you lun:
16:50 He really wants to tell everybody
16:51 he has improved a great deal in singing.
16:55 So I wrote him a song
16:57 which was rather difficult to sing.
16:58 When he first heard the song,
17:00 he wondered if the notes were too high.
17:03 and he might not be able to hit those high notes.
17:15 He works very hard,
17:18 not only just as a singer.
17:19 everything else too.
17:20 For example, as an actor
17:21 He's never late.
17:22 Instead, he is early. When recording a song,
17:25 before recording, he would keep asking.
17:29 Here, how about this sentence.
17:31 How could we make it better?
17:33 After he checked,
17:34 when we started recording in the studio..
17:35 Actually, I like his type of singer very much
17:38 because he leaves everything...
17:39 He trusts the producer very much.
17:41 I wrote the song for him
17:42 and also produced the song.
17:43 He trusts the producer a lot.
17:44 He would leave everything to me.




Continuation of translation till the end of show :

reporter:

17:59 In the eyes of his friend, he's a diligent singer
18:01 Finally, Zai has gradually rid of an idol's baggage.
18:04 But, to cross the threshold of a good actor,
18:06 the last step, still missing for him, is to win an award.



Zai:

18:20 Why
18:21 do I only consider winning an award as an affirmation?
18:22 It is because...
18:25 I can only say that as an F4 member,
18:30 we have enjoyed and experienced everything.
18:32 I mean it.


18:35 When life is good, people
18:35 place us at a very high position
18:39 They adore us.
18:40 At such time, many forget to think
18:44 why you have reached such a position,
18:46 Why today people are worshiping you like mad.

18:51 It was all because of the 'Meteor Garden' drama.

18:52 But how about after the 'Meteor Garden',
18:56 shouln't one reflect inside oneself
18:57 that there should be something really solid.


reporter:

19:00 The emptiness inside, only he can feel.
19:02 Because when he was still at the very young age of 20,
19:05 he was already a mega star.


Zai:

19:08 Now You suddenly got placed so high up there.
19:11 but it's empty space in between
19:12 you need to fill out the space.
19:14 At least, you need to make your path more solid
19:17 so in the future people won't bad-mouth you.


reporter:

19:28 Just a commercial
19:29 can rake in tons of money.
19:31 He's not even 30 yet!
19:33 Rumor has it that Zai's fortune is already over NT$100 millions.

19:36 But he knows that he has his lucky star to thank.
19:39 Only by working harder
19:41 can he make money without guilty conscience.


Zai:

19:45 It's been many years.
19:46 Although in the eyes of many people,
19:50 I can do other things after so many years
19:52 and can do better. That's right.
19:53 I can do better.
19:55 But I have earned money I should haven't.


19:56 May I put it this way?
19:58 I want to earn money that I'm entitled to.
20:00 This is how I humble myself
20:02 and become an actor,
20:03 starting from the very basic.
20:05 No one is born to be a leading man.
20:08 I rather use the mentality of a supporting actor
20:10 to play the male lead .

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After watching this show and reading the full translation, we understand more now why ZZ pushes himself so hard as an actor. At 19:08 to 20:10, ZZ frankly and honestly talk about how he wants to fill-up the gap between his Red-Hot fame and the real talent/ contribution he brings to the audience. How can you NOT LOVE an actor who he thinks like that. He has a maturity beyond his age. And he thinks so deeply, intelligently and also with such sensitivity. A highly responsible man, and a man of accountability. He doesn't want to earn money he does not deserve.

I salute you Zaizai Zhou Yumin, not just the actor but also the person. Cuz you have a attitude towards work and life that deserves our respect and admiration. biggrin.gif JIAYOU !! You are the best !!