“When the Yellow Dragon wakes, the world will tremble.” (Ancient Chinese Saying)
Wherever members of the Chinese underworld meet and exchange gossip the talk inevitably turns to the legends of Fu Manchu and his protégé “the Yellow Dragon”. In hushed voices and with fearful and furtive glances behind their backs shopkeepers, drug dealers and petty criminals tell stories of that day in the late 1930s when the Great Manchu stumbled upon a parentless infant somewhere in the seedy underbelly of London’s Chinatown; of how he raised the infant as his own and perverted her soul and corrupted her mind to its very core; of how she grew up to become the seductive and lethal “Yellow Dragon” feared across half the globe for her ruthlessness and lack of compassion; of how she was mortally wounded during one of the numerous battles between the Si-Fan and the forces mustered by Denis Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie and of how Fu Manchy, in a desperate attempt to save the life of his favourite assassin, stored her remains in a cryogenic facility utilising experimental and highly risky scientific devices and techniques of his of own invention.
And one day, so the rumours claim, when the stars are right and Fu Manchu is once again ready to strike against his enemies, the Yellow Dragon will be awoken from her dreamless, icy sleep and together they will rule the Earth and the world will tremble in fear! And some people claim that this day has already come. They say that signs and portents declare that the Dragon is already among us, planning, contemplating, biding her time to the day when she will finally make her presence known to the world!
These, of course, are the tales of madmen and prophets and are not to be taken seriously. However, when asked to provide concrete evidence for their outrageous claims, these people all point to one and the same thing: The unexpected success of Foking Films’ series of post-apocalyptic zombie movies at the beginning of the 21st century. More precisely, they point to the remarkable – some would say downright creepy – similarity between “Malene Vestergaard”, one of the central persons involved in Foking Films, and the few existing photographs of the Yellow Dragon. Foking Films, they claim, is nothing but a mere façade: a legitimate cover for the criminal activities of the Si-Fan; a claim that would explain the hitherto inexplicable financial resources of Foking Film.
According to official records, “Malene Vestergaard” is a medical doctor with impeccable papers, no criminal records and no apparent connections to the criminal underworld. She appears in several of Foking Films’ most successful movies, including Son of Odin 1 and Creature from the Faeces Lagoon, and made an immediate impression on the audience. She quickly developed a cult following among young adults all over the world and for a while was known as “the promised one”.
However, if one digs into her background a bit more, inconsistencies and questions quickly emerge. What, more precisely, is her relationship with Hans Bruntt, the brilliant, but dangerously flawed director/co-founder of Foking Films? Why did she spend several years at Skjoldhøj Kolleget, a well-known meeting place for petty criminals, dealers in rare and extinct animals and members of a number of notoriously secretive occult sects? And why are there no official records documenting her life before the age of 20? The author of this entry have tried to answer these questions, but whenever I mentioned the name “Malene Vestergaard” my sources refused to speak to me and, in a few instances, disappeared overnight without any trace.
Whether there is any truth to the rumours about a connection between the Yellow Dragon and Malene Vestergaard remains to be seen, but the question clearly merits further investigation.
