New Film in Production: “Shanghai, I Love You”
Seems like it’s trendy to advertise your city via a romantic movie now. After Paris, je t'aime, New York, I Love You and a similarly named flick Chengdu, I Love You, Shanghai is the next to throw itself in the line.
It’s been confirmed by our inside man that a movie named Shanghai, I Love You will start shooting this October. Further details are still to be announced around April.
Curious about what stories the movie will carry? We don’t know yet. But why don’t you post your best Shanghai-related love stories here? Maybe they will make the final script.
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Rich expat with a fat salary meets local beautiful girl. Girl turns out to be a cruel, heartless gold digger. She runs away with all his assets. Rich expat becomes a hermit on top of Jinmao Tower, and starts binge-drinking. During one of his long starry night of solitude, he realizes how beautiful Shanghai is. He jumps off his lonely Jinmao Tower retreat, drunk as ever, as he likes the Bund. End of the story.
lol
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haha, a hermit on top of Jinmao Tower? How's that gonna work if he doesn't have any money?
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He's going to resort to his fat IBanker bonuses kept in a tax-proof coffer in some dodgy Swiss bank.
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"Rich expat with a fat salary meets local beautiful girl. Girl turns out to be a cruel, heartless gold digger."
Impossible. Don't you know how these women perceive themselves? Even the heartless goldiggers believe that they are nothing short of saints!
Far more likely is that Imperialist Running Dog Foreigner does something naughty, like tries to bulldoze a community only for the brave and noble residents to repulse his wicked efforts and be saved by their pluck and resolve.
Or the heartless foreign man marries the poor, defenceless Shanghainese girl, he leaves her to go on business trips, she is faithful, diligent and keeps house for him (instead of, y'know, getting a job or something like an ordinary person would). A handsome young delivery courier spots her lonely plight and falls in love with her, but she keeps with her husband (who it just so happens keeps her in Gucci, Prada and Longchamp).
Because that is basically how we're perceived: either ruthless invaders with hearts of steel or heartless walking piggy banks.
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"Because that is basically how we're perceived: either ruthless invaders with hearts of steel or heartless walking piggy banks. "
Overgeneralisation, but mostly accurate.
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You guys are out of control. Keep it coming!
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River8: Sounds absolutely realistic and plausible... A "good" or "happy-ending" intercultural Shanghainese love story seems quite unlikely.
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Not quite sure... I think that the intercultural variable is a trouble multiplier in any kind of love relationship, particularly in a city such as Shanghai, where huge stereotypes and expectations loom on foreigners. Don't know about you guys, but if you're foreigner and you work in Shanghai (and you're not an English teacher), many (but not all obviously) women hastily jump to the conclusion that you are either a super-ultra-rich bachelor (i.e. marriage material) or a super-ultra-rich expat with kids and family back home (i.e. lover/sugardaddy material). Ok, I know, I am overgeneralising and this is not respectful, but so far this is what I've observed.
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Schanghai ! Ich liebe dich !
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I met a local girl once: gorgeous beyond belief. It just so happened I was single at the time and she was most definitely looking for a boyfriend/husband. She said the following:
1: I'd like a rich foreign man.
(so far so good)
2: He should have good prospects and come from a good family.
(big "yes" there)
3: He should like to work and work very hard.
(workaholic, aye)
4: He should work and I should go and see my friends every day, spending money on shopping for myself AND my friends.
(Uh... wait, what?)
5: He should go away on business regularly so I don't have to see him often.
(... um...)
6: When he's away, I will have parties and have boyfriends over for the weekends.
She ended by asking if I was still single or not. I told her that just that minute, I had decided to join a monastery, so no.
I suppose that at least the honesty was valuable. :/
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They have hermits on top of the Jinmao Tower? Where is that story on CW?
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Sorry , but the end really sucks. There is no suspens. First of all, Shanghai is a business town, where people are always trying to have some money, because they like it, and a movie has to show it. You guys are always talking about the shanghainese heartless gold diggers because YOU are foreigners, but the others people are not. You have to search something deeper than that.
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jesus, what's with all this dreary hating on local girls?
I think narf weasels' "gorgeous beyond belief" girl sounds great. she wants other boyfriends too? that's one spunky chick.
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I think the issue is not so much being spunky, but being full of everyone else's spunky...
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so? big respect for all girls going out getting what they want. no one complains about white guys sleeping around - why is it an issue if girls do it? I guess western culture also has misogynistic undertones.
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Actually, many Chinese parents complain about "white guys" sleeping around, and make life difficult for prospective son-in-laws due to the negative perception Western morals have over here.
The issue here is that someone basically wants to be a high-class hooker, with the financial security of marriage, but none of the emotional attachments i.e. "I'll let you sleep with me, and you give me whatever I want.".
See a lot of "white guys" doing that, Zammo?
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"Curious about what stories the movie will carry?"
No! It'll be boring and derivative just like "Paris, Je t'aime!"
I hope this is the last time we ever here of this!