There is a joke passage that was heard at the dinner table: "There was a village chief who was a gentleman when he was young, and he was full of ambition, kicked the widow's door, cut the grave of the family and did everything that lacked morality, and walked in the village when he was old, and found that half of the children in the village looked like him." "There are many paragraphs like this kind of semi-meat and vegetarian food, and it is a pleasure after tea and dinner." I really didn't expect that such a story could be made into a movie, or a warm comedy, and that paragraph was improved to be this "Star Daddy".
First of all, this film is a very selling point of a sperm donation youth in 23 months to the sperm bank 693 times, in exchange for 533 children, hit rate of 75.3%, to use the line in the movie to describe: your sperm quality is really strong.
Therefore, this story is very similar to the beginning of the village chief's paragraph, if the paragraph is continued, when the villagers find out the truth, it is estimated that the village chief will be ruined. But the problem of "Star Daddy" is more powerful, sowing seeds everywhere is a hooligan crime, and the seed of this person in the film is plucked out, although it is not to talk about crime, in a sense, this way is more humiliating. "Star Daddy", to use a fashionable phrase to describe, is really a fighter in the dick.
In the past, I often found a message from a popular person on the comment board of a sperm donation news: If you donate all the money you have previously picked up to the sperm bank, it is estimated that there are now several suites, fortunately, you can comment anonymously, if it is a real-name system, it is estimated that no one will say so. Most of the 533 children in the film want to know who the biological "father" is. The contradiction that faced the fact that every pistol shot had to be made public constituted the film's original dramatic conflict, or very selling.
The subsequent development of the film has a unique side. In the process of secretly looking for their own "children", their children, all kinds, football stars, second-rate actors, drug addicts, singers, autism, dementia, homosexuality, a variety of characters constitute a variety of social conditions. It has also formed a selling point, breaking the shackles of the traditional family father-son contradiction, other films most use generation gap and rebellion to say things, and this film has everything.
Although the film as a whole inevitably falls into the mode of traditional warm films, and also encounters the problem that many space of the characters cannot be unfolded, "Star Daddy" bypasses this situation and simply takes the route of a warm movie, in order to enhance the drama, it also places a second-rate fat lawyer friend next to the protagonist, the latter's four children are miserable, just in contrast with the protagonist.
Even so, the development of the film is too smooth, you know, the kinds that are picked up represent "lack of love", which is a very powerful conflict point, but the length of the film does not have enough space to install too many characters, only a non-mainstream male, and finally it is gone. The second half of the film mainly reflects the warmth, and the scene at the end of a father and hundreds of children recognizing each other is also very touching, and it is no wonder that the story of the film itself is utopia, defining the city as a village, even a family, paying attention to harmonious coexistence, so the whole is also more idealistic. This is already the maximum that a 90-minute movie can do, and if it is made into a TV series with more conflict points, it is estimated that it will be better.
Light comedy, wonderful warmth, no deliberate sensationalism, still relatively healing, "Star Daddy" This movie can be said to be good, several main characters have flesh and blood, just the right jokes dotted with a few laugh scenes, these are the routines of conventional movies. And the really powerful thing about this film is that this script is not so good, and the starting point is very novel and interesting, even if the subsequent story is shot according to the big cliché, there are fewer normal conflict points, but because the starting point is pulled up very high, it can still get a good effect. The book of "Star Daddy" can provide reference for many screenwriters in China, as long as the idea of the story is novel, it is not afraid of clichés, and this idea may be in your tea and dinner.
The following has little to do with the movie itself.
The protagonist's pseudonym "Starbucks" when donating sperm has a certain meaning, and the concept of Starbucks is to make Starbucks stores around the world a warm and comfortable "third living space" in addition to workplaces and living places. This third space refers to "creating an atmosphere of mutual respect and mutual trust", which is probably the starting point of the plot of this film, and I don't know if the physical store has sponsorship.
Saying that the domestic translation name is really quite bad, the English name "Starbuck" translated this result, at first glance really think it is a Starbucks promotional film, if you did not see the Hong Kong translation and folk "Super Fine Dad", "Star Daddy Ke Super Kind", I would never go to see this movie against the official translation name, sorry.