"Lau Ching-wan finally won it as this is our preferred story."

My Name is Fame (我要成名)

Director: Lawrence Ah Mon (劉國昌)

Main Cast: Lau Ching-wan (劉青雲), Huo Si-yan (霍思燕)

Year: 2006

Though it lacks the originality and genius, My Name is Fame is not shameful to compare with Francois Truffaut’s Day for Night. It is interesting to see Lawrence Ah Mon, a South African-born Hong Kong director who is famous for realist cinemas such as Gangs (童黨) and Spacked Out (無人駕駛), his My Name is Fame being a rather relaxed, over optimistic story of an underrated actor played by Lau Ching-wan. He abandons his trademark style to focus more on the system of Hong Kong entertainment industry market. It is hardly regarded as a system, it is so bad, it is so rotten. Lawrence Ah Mon prefers to show something more interesting in this bad system. Finally, it is still pretty pleasurable.

It is a bit ironic that Lau Ching-wan, a veteran actor in Hong Kong, won his first Best Actor Award by this film. He has had much better roles and has performed much more impressive. But he finally won the award by playing a film actor who finally regains the award. He really deserves to be an actor that he even plays himself more convincingly in a cinema than in reality. Everyone likes a story that a good and hardworking guy having a good ending. So Lau Ching-wan finally won it as this is our preferred story.

Obscure Rating: 7/10

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0843287/