I believe that many viewers are no strangers to Bao Bell, who is known as the "king of bad films".
The previous remake of the Korean movie "Sunshine Sister Tao" was scolded by netizens as a sieve. He starred in "My Girlfriend is a Robot", a Douban score of 3.6, and was complained about as a big bad movie that was completely out of control.
Recently, Bao Bell has broadcast another remake of the movie "Northeast Brother Lover".
This article contains spoilers.
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Yu Tie (Bao Bell) is a jerk who helps people collect debts, and on the skill of collecting debts, Yu Tie is a lever.
In the early morning, Yu Tie came to the fishmonger Han Xu (Xu Juncong) to ask for an account, but the other party continued to complain and delayed again and again.
Therefore, Yu Tiemeng drank gasoline and drank with the other party, which scared Han Xu enough, and he quickly took out the money he owed. Yu Tie is kind after all, and he still leaves a part of the money to see Han Xu's mother.
During a debt collection, Yu Tie met the creditor's daughter Jin Jiali (Liang Songqing). Because the creditor is paralyzed in bed, he can only pay the debt of the father and daughter. The bastard next to Yu Tie said a lot of threatening things to Jin Jiali, and the group did not leave any good impression on her.
Yu Tie was moved by Jin Jiali, and soon opened a crazy pursuit mode for Jin Jiali.
However, Yu Tie's pursuit method is too straight, in order to attract the attention of Jin Jiali, he specially ran to the bank where Jin Jiali worked to "harass", and also gave various methods to make her pay off her debts as soon as possible. For example: go to work in a dance hall, sell kidneys...
Yu Tie seems to be hanging Er Lang Dang, but in fact, he is really good to Jin Jiali. He helped Jin Jiali pay for the medical expenses, and also ran to the hospital to study for Jin Jiali's bedridden father.
Of course, Yu Tie also has an inner little nine-nine in doing all this, which is in exchange for the opportunity to date Jin Jiali.
Jin Jiali had no choice but to agree. But the whole dating process Jin Jiali did not say a word, as long as she turned around and left after the agreed time, even if Yu Tie did not cross the line with Jin Jiali.
The two maintained an employment relationship until Jin Jiali saw Yu Tie's violent face again, and she decided to end everything.
Just when Yu Tie came to the hospital again to pay for Jin Jiali's father, he learned that Jin Jiali's father had passed away. When he saw that Jin Jiali could not hold a decent funeral for her father because of her poor living conditions, Yu Tie called an acquaintance to help and changed the auditorium for her father to hold the ceremony.
Everything Yu Tie did, Jin Jiali saw in her eyes. She also learns that hidden in the soft heart of the iron violent character, everything he does is to protect the debt collector.
Jin Jiali has a change in her view of iron, and also makes her open her heart to accept iron...
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Love is always good, and although the two of them are not rich, they have a taste. But Yu Tie's daily fights and kills always worry Jin Jiali, and they decide to go to another city to start a new life. For Tie, the place where there is Jin Jiali is home, and what Jin Jiali yearns for is his ideal in the world.
It is that when Tie wants to quit his job of collecting debts, the people around him are making a round, letting Yu Tie invest money to do a big vote. Out of trust in his partner and wanting to provide happiness for Jin Jiali's future life, Yu Tie invested all his savings in it. But what Yu Tie did not expect was that what was waiting for him was the betrayal of his friends...
Yu Tie said a lot of ugly things in order not to drag Jin Jiali down, and wanted her to retreat. After Yu Tie was imprisoned, Jin Jiali came to visit her repeatedly, but Yu Tie refused.
Not long after, Yu Tie was released from prison early. He was released from prison because he had a tumor in his brain, so he was treated outside of prison.
The first thing Yu Tie did after he was released from prison was to return the money that had been cheated away and return it to Jin Jiali.
Because of the long-term debt collection life, it has left an incurable injury to Yu Tie's brain. He had just walked downstairs to Jin Jiali's house and fell down in pain...
From the perspective of story setting, "Northeast Love Brother" is indeed a cheesy three-piece set of "chasing girls + prodigal son back to gold + terminal illness", and you can see a lot of complaints about the plot and characters on social media. But it is undeniable that this so-called mainland version of "When Men Are in Love" does do a lot of localization.
The first is the film's sense of atmosphere and detailed restoration of the northeast region, the discotheque and billiard hall in Harbin at the end of the 90s, the posters of the ancient puzzle boy on the wall, and the grilled garlic little sister who sits on the side when eating barbecue, and the flower shirt and large cotton jacket worn by the debt collector, all of which are quite in line with the regional style.
In addition, Bao Bell adapted the original work, retaining the main story line, adding some details and deleting some plots. For example: deleted the plot of the female protagonist running for life, added the details of the male and female protagonists falling in love; deleted the plot of the male protagonist's debt collection, added a plot that highlighted the male protagonist's personality, although it was high and sweet, but made "Northeast Brother Lover" completely reduced to a dog blood love film.
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For a romance film, the character's appearance and temperament are standard. Most of the audience is accustomed to watching Bao Bell use his life to be funny, and he suddenly transformed into a handsome debt role, which is a bit unsatisfactory.
However, the film sets the background of the story in the northeast, and the temperament of Bao Bell's northeast old iron is quite in line with the iron, enthusiasm, heavy affection, good face, the juvenile spirit at the beginning and the lack of money, and the final sadness, he appropriately shows the transformation.
But for the audience who has watched the Korean and Taiwanese versions of "When Men Are in Love", after seeing the handsome faces of Huang Zhengmin and Qiu Ze, there will be a gap between Bao Bell.
As the heroine, Liang Songqing's performance is also unsatisfactory. The Taiwanese version of the heroine Xu Weining looks weak, there is a feeling of pity that I see, even if she has fewer lines in the early plot, she can let the audience quickly enter the play. Liang Songqing, the old sister of the northeast is full of feelings, the face is stiff, it is difficult for the audience to feel that the male and female protagonists are in love.
Originally, Jin Jiali had no feeling for iron, just because she was touched and Yu Tie. But now this kind of "touching" love is difficult to resonate with young audiences, who are more eager to go in both directions.
At the end of the film, Yu Tie left Jin Jiali forever because of his illness, and could have done more profoundly at the point of the death of his lover, but the second half of the film is vulgar in emotional sublimation. Before the male protagonist is about to die, he tells his love story to his demented father, and he cannot explain his love, but because the emotions of the male and female protagonists are not deep enough, there are no tears.
Ordinary people's love, there are not so many ups and downs, let alone a hundred turns. And the dramatic plot and the awkward acting skills of the actors are really unpleasant. We don't see what the point of making this movie is, is love endlessly inclusive, or is it to sprinkle some dog blood on life to get by? Perhaps, in the name of the hot love IP, consume everyone's thoughts about domestic romance films.