#yibo sdc

[accio-victuuri]

the wang bros reunited 🤍 // source: 落日出逃_0805x1005

[ranfused4ever]

I love everything about this (except the background music, I suggest watching it on mute), thank you to whomever put this together!

[yibo-best]

[yibo-wang]

✧.⋆milestone celebration requests⋆.✧

➻ @yougetsomekisses asked favourite Yibo SDC moment: Watching YiBou’s friendship evolve 🥰

[anotherdescentintomadness]

Wang YiBo and that cute crouching thing he does

The fingers too… in fact, he does it so much that it’s on the new poster for One And Only.

See the fingers?

[p-h03n1-x]

Wang Yibo Weibo update 1.10.2024 See you at the finals

[valarinde]

STREET DANCE OF CHINA S03E05 | S04E11

[starrie-amethyst]

Yibo being adorable

[peterpumpkinhead]

I can't, for the life of me, pay for that terrible Y*uku app and now I just have to live with the fact that I can't watch SDC 5 because there are no subtitles anywhere.

[gianggiaygiua]

“If someone loves something so much, he can keep doing it for a really long time and he can still have a good attitude (about it). So it makes me feel that loving one thing and keeping doing it until the end of life is really moving.”

And the same goes for loving someone too, right DD? 

[accio-victuuri]

a very cute and expressive yibo @ SDC 🥹🥹🥹

[ranfused4ever]

The awesome sounds that come out of wang yibo (especially the laughter)

[yibo-best]

Cr: 极光Aurora_博肖视频放

[yibo-wang]

Yang Kai (B-Boy Keven) booked One and Only movie with all the team members & children of Star Space

"I was deeply touched by Captain Wang Yibo's performance I often feel that he is myself. I think of myself chasing my dream when I was 13 year old. From the streets to the world stage!"

Yang Kai's kid was also wearing the necklace Yibo gifted him on his birth 🥹

[anotherdescentintomadness]

If you think CQL is the only reason Wang YiBo’s star is on the rise, please check yourself. He’s been grinding since day one to get where he is. There are roles he landed that people think he only got because of CQL, but they’re wrong.

People have been underestimating Wang YiBo for his entire career, because he’s pretty, because he’s young, and because he entered the industry on the idol track. And as evidenced by the fact that so many are upset that he removed CQL from his bio — saying he’s ungrateful, that he would be nothing without it — even these fans underestimate him.

Sure, CQL helped his trajectory to move faster, but he was grinding every day there too, on set. Because he gives 110% to everything he does. Every time. Without fail. In spite of fatigue, illness, injury, harassment, fabricated scandals or anything else. He’s not a success because of CQL. He’s a success because he’s Wang YiBo.

This video collects some of the work Wang YiBo has done, along with quotes from directors and other industry colleagues, and does a great job showing that Wang YiBo’s success is due to his insane work ethic, his passion, and his unflagging vision for the career he’s building for himself. And all of this before the age of 26.

[cybernaght]

One and Only: a review of sorts

I bet you did not expect the actual topic of this blog to resurface, and yet, here we go.

The previous time I went to a cinema to watch one of those Chinese films was actually completely by accident. I had a long break/cancellation situation at work which meant a three-hour break with a cinema around the corner. I ducked into said cinema and found out that a screening of Born to Fly has just stared, so… what’s a girl to do. I then didn’t write anything about it because I didn’t have much to say about it.

This one, however, was planned.

One and Only/热烈 is a story of a working class boy with a passion for dance (Wang Yibo - obviously) being roped into being an understudy for a cocky obnoxious star of a dance team by that team’s coach (Huang Bo - obviously), learning a thing or two about himself, finding friendship and hoping to one day complete in the Nationals.

As the film is in cinemas, I cannot provide visuals, so, instead, I’m gonna populate this with some of my many gifs from Street Dance of China season 3-5.

Plot-wise, it’s not really unpredictable in any way. The highs and the lows are placed roughly where you would expect them to be, all the lulls are appropriately proportioned for character development, and the final-act dance competition is as exhilarating as one might hope.

And yet… this one has a heart, it really does, and the writing really does a lot to elevate a cookie-cutter premise. The characters have a hell of a lot of inner life, including whole sets of circumstances that are merely implied - a real joy to see in any movie, I love the effect this has on the feeling of the characters’ realness. There are also fantastic decisions made pacing-wise in the final two acts, with one specific time-skip which I found very exciting indeed.

Themes of mutual respect and cooperation are not by all mean new to this kind of a movie, but I really appreciated how well developed they are, being set up in the opening scenes, and paying off in the eleventh hour; and it was lovely to see those themes explored organically. Again, writing elevates the premise here, too.

Wang Yibo’s acting keeps improving in a way which is pretty damn impressive. He seems to be a very hard-working young man, and that hard work seemingly pays off, too. Good for him. There are a few idiosyncrasies that are still very “his” (I swear I have never seen him have any screen chemistry with any woman ever), but there were also moments that read as character, and that read as truth. Honestly, he’s all grown up now, it’s very sweet to watch.

And if you are here through Street Dance of China route, whoooo boy do I have good news for you.

Ye Yin is here

Jr. Taco is here

B-Boy George is here — with plot! (Is this a spoiler? It might be. It might not be.)

Rochka is here, with the signature ankle spin

So are Klash and MT Pop, by the way.

Liao Bo is here AND he! is! actually! dancing!

Kevin is in it, although he is not, in fact, dancing

I am certain this list is not comprehensive. Suffice it to say, there is enough on the screen to make a Street Dance of China fan very happy.

(The only real crime was that Chick was not in it. Because he absolutely should have been.)

Speaking of dance — I really want to know who choreographed this, because some of the routines were fantastic. I only wish that we could see them uncut - but of course this is a movie, and it is edited as one. Besides, you have to have cuts to be able to cut-in Wang Yibo’s dance double*, the true unsung hero of this cinematographic show.

(*last year the boy could do like, one freeze. He is a fast learner so I am ready to believe that he can be pretty good, but he is definitely not “halo five times in a row” good.)

All in all, if you are feeling sad that SDC 6 seems to be nowhere in sight at the moment, and One and Only is in cinemas near you, this comes with a cybernaght stamp of approval.

Go see your favorites doing the thing that they do - and doing it well.

You made a promise. Please hurry up. It's late August already, and you've not even announced the captains yet.