He and his wife needed to move for their daughter, Julie (Jessica Song), who’s asthmatic, and probably averse to Beijing pollution, and for some reason one of them has to give up their career? And since she makes more, as executive at some international company, he drew the short stick?
Just as she's really a magazine editor, he’s really Hao Zhi, a famous surgeon from Fuwei hospital in Beijing! So why is he picking up pregnant girls at the airport? Huang’s residential neighborhood-the kind without sidewalks-where she comes across Frank’s car, invites herself in, marvels at how nice the place is given his circumstances, then finds out why. The Chinese tycoon is supposed to visit but instead sends another designer handbag, and Jia Jia, despondent, walks in the drizzle of Mrs. Or at least Vancouver, B.C., where most of the non-establishing shots were filmed.Ĭhristmastime is when Jia Jia begins to be a better woman. Same with those tired buildings in downtown during the Christmas months. That freeway exit you encounter after a long slog up from Portland is suddenly exotic. Gotta say: It's kinda fun to see your city through foreign eyes.
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What happened? According to The Guardian, this movie happened. Right." In 2014, our office moved from lower Queen Anne near downtown Seattle, to Bellevue, Wash., and I was surprised by the number of Mandarin-speaking Chinese people there. That's how I first heard about “Finding Mr. Right” one of the highest-grossing movies of 2013, they made Seattle the destination spot for Chinese living abroad. Was it refereshing to Chinese moviegoers? For they not only made “Finding Mr. She gets drunk at a nightclub, and after Frank gently suggests she not drink for the baby, she accuses him of looking down on her and declares, “As a mother, I’m a hundred times better than any of those women!” You want to be a million miles from her. She walks into a room where a movie is being watched and gives away its ending. Huang (Elaine Jin of “Yi Yi”)-she demands a bigger room, then demands and gets Mrs. At the illegal maternity center-the house of Mrs.
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She berates the driver who meets her at the airport (Frank), calls him “mouse boy” (for the gerbil cage he has in the backseat), and makes him carry her heavy, designer luggage everywhere. And since she can’t legally have the baby in China (since she's not married), she flies to the U.S., specifically Seattle (because she loves “Sleepless in.”), to have the baby there.Īnd she's just awful. Jia Jia (Tang Wei) is somehow both former editor of a gourmet food magazine and spoiled, pregnant mistress to a Chinese tycoon. The female lead? She's the worst of humanity.
Here, the male lead, Frank (Wu Xiubo), is quiet and centered, lovely around his daughter, and with infinite patience around even the worst of humanity. Right” (Chinese title: “Beijing Meets Seattle”). How often is the man the moral corrective in a romantic comedy? Ever? Generally, the men in these movies have issues (think “Pretty Woman,” “As Good As It Gets”), and it's up to the woman to, you know, make them want to be a better man.
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