Chinese Movie 2015

Weekend Classic

Fall In Love Like A Star (Chinese Movie Review & Summary)

• Genre: Romance, Showbiz, Music
• Release Date: December 2015
• Origin: China
• Film: 1hr 38 min

Cast:

• Li Yifeng as Su Xingyu
• Yang Mi as Tian Xin
• Zhang Yunlong as Gao Mang
• Dilraba Dilmurat as May LI
• David Wang as Chen Xuan
• Chen Shu as Mei Ji
• Tiger Hu as Song Ming

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This is an ideal movie for the weekend.  It has very pretty people and the story is light-hearted, nothing that would give you any serious angst.

It is just like flicking through a glossy magazine; there is the occasional article that may interest but otherwise more of the same lovely pictures.

Just let yourself be enthralled by the gorgeous cast.  Yang Mi is stunning as usual.  And Li Yifeng is fanciable.

I have to say, Dilraba delivered another scene-stealing performance, though her role is not that large.

Zhang Yunlong is as cute as a button.

Chen Shu, I have to say is so elegant.  She is absolutely stunning.

Anyway, the story is about the long-running relationship of Xingyu and Tian.

Five years ago, Xingyu worked as an assistant in charge of the musical instruments to a rock band and young Tian was their manager cum personal assistant.  These two were beginners to a fledgeling band.

Xingyu got fired when he tried to teach the drummer a lesson for being coarse to Tian.

He got fired but he had Tian and they enjoyed a careful, love up experience for a while until Xingyu had to go to England and study.  He will be away for two years.

They promised to be true to each other.  He gave her a red string bracelet that would bind them together and in return, she gave him a pink glittery ball pen. He promised her that he will use the pen to compose his music.

Their long-distance relationship worked for a while but Tian out of the blue broke up with Xingyu.

She told him that he was now inconveniencing her calling every day.  She has a busy life and a busy job being an executive manager and also she had found someone more suitable to her.

Xingyu was obviously very upset with her.

Five years later.

Xingyu had become a very famous and multi-awarded singer. He had earned the sobriquet of being the Prince of Music.

Anyway, Tian just joined an entertainment agency, which managed Xingyu among others.

Xingyu and Tian saw each other for the first time after five years.  Xingyu looked at her for some precious minutes and then walked away purposely, snubbing her.

Xingyu was unhappy with his current manager, who had tried to get him a lead role in an idol youth drama.

Though Xingyu does not hate branching out to other areas of the entertainment business, he would much prefer to concentrate on his music career.

His manager obviously was annoyed with Xingyu who was acting like a diva and diva he was.  He said that he wanted another manager and picked Tian who was looking at what was happening with Xinghu and Mei ji.

Xinghu tried to torture Tian for a while, making her realise what she missed for dumping him.  This torture took about 2 minutes because before long he became protective of her.

He became jealous when a food critic, Chen Xuan, became interested with Tian.  He, in turn, tried to use a budding actress, May Li, to make Tian jealous.

But before long. Tian confessed why she dumped him all those years ago.  She was only thinking of him.  He was spending far too much money calling her every day.  She knew that he was starving himself to save money to pay for the calls.

So they made up but their making up became rather compromising which was caught on film by a paparazzi.

Mei Ji showed the photos to Tian.  She told Tian that a manager should love and know everything about her charge but she must not get too close, or she risks killing the career of her artist.  She then said that Tian did just this.  As a damage limitation, Tian had to disappear for Xinghu’s career’s sake.

This is really what is different between Southeast Asian and Western artists career path.  In the west, the fans are all agog to know who their idol or famous artist was currently shagging while in the east, they have to remain pure and fancy-fee.

Tian left, leaving a lipstick message to Xingyu on his dressing room.

It was the award ceremony, the best album of the year was between Xingyu and Gao Mang, a budding pop idol.

Xingyu won of course for and use his speech to declare his love to Tian and to remind her of their promise to meet at the square (where there was a fountain)

They made up and lived happily ever after to do another drama called Swords of Legend.

The End