STUDY IN CHINA GLOBAL (SCG)Today, I will introduce a Chinese film which called Movie-Fan Princess (影迷公主Yǐngmí Gōngzhǔ). So let us have a brief introduction.
During the late 60s Connie Chan (陈宝珠Chén Bǎozhū) was the idol of Hong Kong’s “factory girls,” the young women who worked in the colony’s booming manufacturing industries. These women readily identified with Connie’s down-to-earth nature and can-do attitude. In Movie-Fan Princess she herself plays a factory girl who ends up becoming a movie star and being romanced by her screen idol played by Lv Qi (吕奇Lǚ Qí).
Movie-Fan Princess was the first time that Connie was paired with Lv Qi, who would star as her leading man in 25 films over the next four years. Contemporary audiences are probably more familiar with the lampoons of Lv Qi than they are with the man himself. In this film, he plays a popular actor adored by Connie and all the other girls at the factory. Connie quickly loses her crush, however, when she finally sees him in person on the set of one of his films. He turns out to be quite the diva, demanding a break between each take to be pampered by three female attendants (one of them in a nurse’s outfit!). Her fantasy deflated, Connie tears up all of his pictures hanging on her bedroom wall. But when Connie later sees him at a hotel restaurant with one of his groupies and flings a spoonful of ice cream sundae in his face,Lv Qi is hopelessly smitten.
Their budding romance, however, is challenged by a jealous co-worker who schemes to break them up and by the evil factory owner who wants to turn Connie into his personal concubine. Deviousnous and misunderstanding ensue, but by the end of the film Connie saves the day in true heroic fashion and then rushes off—just in the nick of time—to make her eagerly awaited arrival at a special musical performance. The final scene in a hall packed with her young fans is a documentary tribute to the huge popularity of Connie Chan, the Movie-Fan Princess.
The film is really romantic, I hope you can like it.
