Taiwanese movie “Monga” has made gays a trend topic!
“Monga” movie plot summary: When new transfer student Mosquito (Mark Chao) is bullied at school over his lunch box, he’s taken under the wing of the so-called Temple Front gang, led by handsome Dragon (Eurasian thespian Rhydian Vaughan), son of vet gang boss Geta (JuLung Ma). Other Temple Frontiers include Dragon’s deputy and childhood pal, Monk (Ethan Ruan), butcher’s son A-po, and fighter Monkey. With the addition of Mosquito, the Prince Gang was formed. Dragon is born with a golden spoon in his mouth and has always been protected by Monk since he was young. Monk was there to help him answer his test questions, to help him clear any trouble that he created, to scrub his back when showering. Just name any situation and Monk will be by Dragon’s side. The five then plunge into being full-time gangsters with the quintet undergoing martial arts training. But the relationship between the five brothers deteriorated. Monk bears all the blame for the troubles caused by Dragon, and is even prepared to compromise his personal safety to keep Dragon alive. He is there to comfort Dragon when Dragon’s father passed away and is there to bring Dragon to a hideout to tide over the chaotic period. And even at the end when Dragon plunged a knife into Monk, Monk howled in despair, “But I did all these only for you!”
Being the movie to succeed “Cape No. 7” as a wholly Taiwan produced movie, “Monga” combines a number of classic elements of a Taiwanese film: the sentiments of a teen flick, the blood of a gangster film, the ambiguity relationship within a gay film, and the heart wrenching moments of a tragic love movie. And no other elements attracted more eyeballs than the “Brokeback Mountain” relationship that was portrayed in the movie. During the casts’ participation in variety shows for the film’s publicity, the handsome hunks Rhydian, Ethan and Mark actually kissed on scene! This definitely aroused the curiosity of a huge audience. With an intense publicity act, the film raked in about 60 million NT in its first week of screening. What’s more, it defeated “Avatar” to be the top grossing movie of the week, and broke the Taiwan box office records for a movie’s opening week.
Now, would like to see these guys kiss?
In a January 20 episode of “KangXi LaiLe”, host Dee Hsu first asked the two actors Mark Chao and Ethan Ruan kiss mouth-to-mouth and promised that the entire movie trailer would be broadcasted. Surprisingly, the director Doze Niu who was on set encouraged them to follow suit since this will definitely help the film publicize. With that, the Mark and Ethan closed their eyes and kissed for all to see.
On a later date, when the crew was filming behind the scenes moments for the movie “Monga”, other actors coaxed Rhydian and Ethan to kiss. Cue immense commotion once the two agreed and pecked lips-on-lips.
