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| Online Celebrity Wants to be Movie
Star | China's newest online celebrity, who
calls herself Sister Hibiscus
, has starred in a five-minute film in Beijing recently.
The script was said to be tailored for Sister Hibiscus and the short
film would only be shown on the Internet and mobile phones, said Chen
Weiming, the producer of the film.
Like Mu Zimei, the sultry and sensational female blog star, 28-year-old
Sister Hibiscus has quietly captured the spotlight with her sensuous photos and cocky statements.
Sister Hibiscus uploaded photos and brief diary entries onto Qinghua
University and Beijing University's BBS at the start of the year. She
described herself as bold and self-confident in her Web logs with some
saying, "I'm pure and noble (this is how my classmates describe me, which
isn’t my fault). My sexy appearance and purity brings me a lot of
attention wherever I go."
As her popularity grows, Sister Hibiscus has been getting more
confident. She tells netizens she is now the focus of the world. "My life
is now so annoying. All the time I am the center of attention. Why do men
look at me eagerly? I have no place to hide."
She has become the center of constant online debate ever since with
netizens heaping her with praise and scorn. Most believe that Sister
Hibiscus is brave. Others have called her "a pioneer in anti-intellectualism." As media platforms
are controlled by so-called "elites," the public tends to go to the other
extreme and create heroes who epitomize the opposite of all academic and
aesthetic norms.
According to Sister Hibiscus, the original idea was just to set up a
BBS posting to expose her natural beauty and grace and to find a good
lover. She once worked as an editor for an electronic publisher, but now
she would try a career as a performer.
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Updated: 2005-07-04 14:18
