Francis gets to cry a few times, too, which he does with absolute conviction.
Her concluding scenes with Francis are fairly moving and I can’t help but think that she learned something by working with him. Likewise, Myolie Wu as Zoe, one of Francis Ng’s love interests, begins the show by ceaselessly mugging and overacting her ingénue role–by the series’ end she’s become a much more nuanced and affecting performer.
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By the end of the series he’s learned some skills and exudes a decent amount of on-screen presence. Ron Ng, one of the young turks who became a star after appearing in this show, starts out the series as a stilted and wooden performer. This almost seems to make the other actors get better as the show progresses, as they rise to the occasion of working with a truly talented performer. He has an uncanny knack for intently listening to and playing off of his fellow actors, elevating and enhancing their performances by his subtle and effective responses. Francis is clearly the best actor in the program but for the most part the rest of the cast holds up pretty well to his star-power and acting chops. But it’s a credit to the screenwriters that when the focus shifts to other characters and their storylines the show remains engaging. The show also directly addresses the fifteen-year age difference between the two characters, with running commentary throughout the series on the difficulties of this seemingly mismatched pair finding harmony.įrancis makes Myolie into a decent actor, Triumph In The Skies, 2003Īt some point the series basically becomes The Francis Ng Show, with long stretches of the plot devoted to his character’s activities. In the hands of a less skillful actor this May-December relationship could have gone horribly wrong but Francis convincingly moves from a reluctant target of Zoe’s affection to gradually becoming a willing partner in the relationship. This is most evident in Sam’s relationship with Zoe, the younger woman who chases after him and eventually wins his affections. The character of Sam could have been an insufferable, controlling bore but Francis makes him intriguing, sympathetic and ultimately loveable despite his restrained personality. He also proves that he can convincingly play a romantic lead and it’s difficult to imagine that this is the same performer who tore up the scenery playing hard-ass killers in movies like The Mission, Exiled, and Young And Dangerous.
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But a lot of the show concentrates on the professional training of airline pilots, which is presented in a surprisingly gripping manner and is deftly interwoven with the crisscrossing romantic storylines.įlora & Francis get friendly, Triumph In The Skies, 2003įrancis Ng puts in an amazingly disciplined performance-he sustains his character over the course of 40 one-hour episodes and actually shows a believable growth and change, while remaining true to the character’s organic persona. Cinematography, art direction, lighting, and direction are all solid and the storyline isn’t too cringeful, although of course there are classic melodramatic moments including several hospital and near-death scenes, many love triangles, and various other common soapy contrivances. The show is pretty expensive by TVB standards, with location shoots in Italy, Japan, and Australia, and has a huge and fairly decent cast including TVB queen Flora Chan as well as Francis as star-crossed lovers. His role as Sam Tong, the principled and upstanding pilot of the fictional Solar Airways, was a killer star vehicle for him and allowed him to showcase his great dramatic range to a hometown audience who had been mostly “meh” to the idea of him as a heroic figure. But it also made Francis Ng into a major idol, which, although he’d won acting awards and starred in many HK movies, he’d never been before in his home territory. It’s one of the most popular dramas ever made in Hong Kong and it made stars out of several of its younger cast members (notably the Solar 4 or S4-Bosco Wong, Sammul Chan, Ron Ng and Kenneth Ma) when it was first aired back in 2003. Gotta say that, despite myself, I really liked this series. Francis Ng gazes soulfully, Triumph In The Skies, 2003
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