Bad, Bad Boys

At a recent party, I discovered that one of my Taiwanese journalist thought that Hong Kong actor, Anthony Wong, was very sexy.

Me too! Me too! I like Anthony Wong too! In fact, I fancied him even more when he plays psychotic, erotic characters. Like that crazed, amorous fella who intruded into a blind woman's house in Three Days of a Blind Girl (1993).

I'm not the sort who easily idolize male celebrities. My journalist's remark sparked off a conversation among the ladies about which male celebrities they fancied.

Brad Pitt turned out to be the common favourite. Gah. Just another pretty boy. Pretty boys give me goosebumps. Bad boys are better. No, not the sort of bad like those who cuss too much, pick fights but run when the police comes.

I like my men wild, raw, powerful/rich, hard on the rest of the world but holds a certain soft spot for the woman they love.

I like them bad, like Jon Bon Jovi. And with strong fingers, like Steve Vai.

At the same time, I realise that I tend to fancy the characters that the actor plays, rather than the actor himself. So instead of listing which actors I fancy, I shall share with you a few of my reel life loves. Here's the count:

Look at Hugh Jackman's Wolverine. He is the epitome of raw. Just look at him! So angry, so wild, so manly. And those blades would come in handy in the bedroom for tearing clothes apart. Plus, he has a superhuman ability of healing from any injuries. Which means I could bite him hard on his shoulders, fore arms, thighs and butt, and not hurt him at all. Whooop!!



Ben Affleck in Daredevil. OK, so I have a weakness for superheros. I can't help it! Powerful men with a tender heart for humanity is just so alluring. Plus, superheros always have a weaker alterego. I love my men with a little flaw.

So what if Daredevil is blind? We can always make out in the rain or in the shower to help him visualise my outline. Damn kinky. Bedroom romps can get quite excting, as proven in my dream about making out with Superman. Heh.



Make a man really suave, make him the world's leading illegal trader of arms and weaponry, make him incredibly smart such that he always manage to dodge arrest. Give him the immense capacity to love and protect his loser brother and wife who loves to splurge. Then let Nicolas Cage portray this man. And my heart is taken.



Then there's the one single man who plays wild, dark characters most of the time. Even off screen, he seems dark. Johnny Depp's so dark and sexy, he makes Charlie Wonker alluring.



I'm sick of how Bae Yong Jun was cast in the saccharin-sweet Winter Sonata. Have you seen him evil and lusty? Geez, he's so sexy when he is bad. Untold Scandal is the Korean movie version of the French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Bae plays the lusty seducer with such finesse, I want him to deflower me too while he is wearing that pristine white robe and gigantic hat.



Richard Gere was absolutely charming in Sommersby (1993). If you only remember Gere for Pretty Woman, you ought to be ashamed. Damn, he made me weep buckets with his fierce love for Jodie Foster's character. Plus it was some kind of kinky to know that Gere's character is not Jodie's real husband and is just a lookalike, but he is sleeping with her.

You got to watch the movie to understand why he stole my heart. But come on, 'fess up! How many of you have actually watched Sommersby, huh? Most friends drew a blank when I mentioned this movie. *sigh*



Yes, Gere in another romantic tear-jerker. I love tear-jerkers. It helps me to rid water retention. Basically, he plays a 50-odd rich, charming man who dates scores of women. Winona Ryder plays a 22 year-old girl-next-door with a heart disease. Rich man gives up womanising ways out of love for a dying plain Jane. Cool. Age is never a barrier for true love. Neither is impending death. Winona's strange pregnant-woman-meets-gypsy girl-meets-cold-granny dressing is no deterant to true love either.

Frankly, it helps that the fiftyish man is played by Richard Gere. If it was a fiftyish man with an awful comb-over and yellowed dentures dressed in a plaid shirt, white berms, nude socks with leather shoes, I'd rather get a cardiac arrest than snuggle up with him. Wealth is no matter here.




Leon (aka The Professional) was the first Luc Besson movie I saw. And I loved all Luc Besson's creations thereafter. There's something really seductive about Jean Reno's scruffy character, who is Leon, a hired hitman who killed the little girl's (see picture) family and then took her in to care for her. For some reasons when I first saw the movie in 1994 (I was only 14), I wanted to believe that Leon is in love lust with the little girl. Yeah yeah, I have an innate attraction towards older men.


Alrighty, I've drooled enough for one afternoon. So you know see how I really love the powerful bad boys. So it is scary how the tourism industry is filled with intelligent, witty, funny men who hold high positions. Some are so good looking too. And most of them are bloody good flirts.

Ooh, completely bad and alluring.