
Chinese title:
公主嫁到English title: Can't Buy Me Love
Producer: Miu Siu Ching (梅小青)
Genre: Costume, Romance & Comedy
Number of Episode: 32
Starring:
Charmaine Sheh / 佘诗曼
Moses Chan / 陈豪
Linda Chung / 钟嘉欣
Fala Chen /陈法拉
Raymond Wong / 黃浩然
Kenneth Ma /马国明
Susanna Kwan /关菊英
Lee Heung Kam / 李香琴
Louis Yuen / 阮兆祥
Selena Li / 李诗韵
Susan Tse / 谢雪心
Sharon Chan / 陈敏之
Other cast:
Kara Hui / 惠英红
Synopsis:
Set during the Tang Dynasty of China, it tells the story of the Third Princess, Princess Zhao Yang/昭陽公主 (Charmaine Sheh), of the Tang Emperor (Samuel Kwok), who is beautiful but very unreasonable, and, as such, no one wants to marry her. The Jin family/金家 is the largest gold manufacturer in the grand capital Chang'An, but because they are deceived, the business runs into troubles. The second son of the Jin family Jin Duo Lu/金多祿 (Moses Chan) has to marry the Third Princess to save the family business, because then they will have the right to manufacture gold pieces for the Tang Palace, the Third Princess only agreeing to the marriage because otherwise she would be married off to the Tibetan royal family, as schemed by the evil Concubine Wei/韦贵妃 (Kara Hui).
The Princess brings lots of servants to the Jin family after marrying Jin Duo Lu, and constantly comes into conflict with the members of the Jin family (Lee Heung Kam/金太夫人, Susanna Kwan/丁来喜, Selena Li/阮小玉, Louis Yuen/金多福, Raymond Wong/金多寿). The Princess brings Situ YinPin/司徒银屏 (Fala Chen), with her to the Jin family, who has been awarded "Best Servant" by the Concubine Dowager Chui/崔太妃 (Susan Tse). The Princess originally decides to leave the house, but when she misunderstands that the Jin family speaks negatively of her, she stubbornly stays. Later, she and Jin Duo Lu fall in love. When the Jin family is convicted of a capital offence, she divorces Jin Duo Lu to secretly save the Jin family.
Review:
Okay, it's yet another unruly-princess-turns-good-storyline.
But nonetheless, it never bores me with this same old plot.
I've watched several drama series with the similar storyline, a rich lady or princess(usually the main female lead) meets a guy (the male main lead,duh) and they fell in love. Before falling in love, male either don't know that female is from a rich family or female is unruly stubborn and thinks that money can do everything, until the male does all sorts of things that touched her, then she changed her thinking and they fell in love.
Well, this drama series gives me a lot of flashbacks upon watching;
Firstly, the Jin Family/金家 reminds me of Virtues of Harmony/皆大欢喜 where they also used the 金 as their family name. (金年/月/日).
Not just that, the family is filled with family warmth, and focuses a lot on Family Unity.
In this series, the grandma often comes up with 'Daily Jin Family spirit/'金家精神
followed by a sequel of 'spirit clap' that consists of 11 claps.
(The typical cheer-clapping)
Secondly, the costumes worn by the characters are similar to Beyond the Realm of Conscience/宫心计. Well, it is mentioned that this drama series is an indirect sequel of the previously mentioned drama. They both shares a similar lavish costumes and sets, cast members, and close time period (both set during the Tang Dynasty of China.) Most importantly, they shares the same producer, Miu Siu Ching.
Lastly, it's the name of the characters!
in Beyond the Realm of Conscience they have Liu San Hao/刘三好 (Charmaine Sheh)
in this Can't Buy Me Love, we have Wu Si De/吴四德 (Linda Chung)
三好 refers to 说好话,做好事,存好心.
四德 refers to the 德,容,言,工 in 三从四德
I'm currently at episode 11 only!
21 more episodes, release soon soon ah!
:@
Cheers!
Labels: Review - Drama
Yet another entry by WEN SHENG.