Chinese TV dramas and movies thrill Vietnamese
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| A poster of "The Mermaid". [Photo: mtime.com] |
Chinese TV dramas and movies are becoming evermore popular in Vietnam as evidenced by their growing market share, with movies in particular posting record ticket sales with the features themselves receiving rave reviews from local audiences.
This year, the Chinese blockbuster science-fiction fantasy movie "Mermaid" directed by Stephen Chow, has swept box offices in Vietnam after debuting on Feb. 10, during the traditional Lunar New Year holiday.
The movie, an environmental parable and a comic love story between a rich businessman and a mermaid, created a "mermaid fever" in Vietnam with audiences expressing their deep enjoyment of the film that made them both laugh and cry.
In March, "mermaid fever" became even "hotter" in Vietnam after photos of a cute six-month-old Vietnamese girl wearing a mermaid costume at a swimming pool went viral on the internet.
Her parents said the idea of dressing up their daughter in a mermaid costume came as they were inspired after watching the "Mermaid".
Earlier in 2015, the TV drama "The Empress of China" also created a craze in Vietnam with audiences eagerly waiting everyday to watch the TV drama unfold on the internet.
"I was so excited to wait for the next episode to see the new developments of the story," Nguyen Ngoc Dong, 33, said.
At the same time, an online app which helps editing photos to look like characters in "The Empress of China" also went viral in Vietnam.
The makeup app adds vivid red lips, almond-shaped cat eyes with long eyelashes and a red flower mark on the forehead.
"I used the app on my own photos, and even on my husband's and my cousin's photos," Dong laughed and told Xinhua. "It was so fun."
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