There are so many similarities between the two films. It gives the impression that at least one of the screenwriters, producers or directors of this film has seen "Five Golden Flowers".
In both films, the hero and heroine met by chance in public, and fell in love at first sight, and then the woman had to do something wrong. It was obvious that the two could get along at that time, but the woman didn't immediately fall in love with the man, and the woman asked the man to find her again. The next plot line of the two films is that the man goes to find the woman again, and then encounters various misunderstandings in the process of searching. The film uses these misunderstandings to support and promote the development of the plot. In the two films, when the male protagonist is looking for the female protagonist, he encounters relatives, friends or warm-hearted people who come to help. The most amazing thing is that these people who lend a helping hand unintentionally further amplify the misunderstanding. In "Five Golden Flowers", there are the heroine's father, two writers and a nosy old man, and the relevant representatives in "Fate and Destiny" are the male protagonist's best friend.
Both films are full of various key coincidences that directly affect the direction of the plot. For example, when the two people take two elevators at the beginning of "Fate and Destiny", it is obvious that both of them have pressed the button on the same floor, but it is the male protagonist. In the elevator where he was, there would be an extra little boy who was sabotaged and pressed all floors of the elevator, causing the heroine who had been waiting for a long time to mistakenly think that the two people were not pressing the same floor. For example, in "Five Golden Flowers", in the process of the male protagonist looking for the female protagonist, it is clear that both of them have already answered the phone, and it is clear that they can identify each other at this time, but at this critical time, then The carriage driven by the two writers lost control and knocked down the telephone pole. As a result, the call between the hero and heroine was interrupted, resulting in the two people being unable to contact.
Another example is in "Five Golden Flowers", when the male protagonist attends a stranger's wedding banquet, he encounters the female protagonist and is punished to drink with the groom because of cheating at the wedding banquet. Drinking wedding wine at the wedding, which caused the male protagonist to be distraught. There is also a similar scene in "Fate and Destiny". The male protagonist and his best friend witnessed the scene of the female protagonist's relatives making out with her husband in front of the window of the female protagonist's house. They mistakenly thought that the female protagonist was making out with her boyfriend. And so on, and so on. At the end of the two films, there are lovers who get married. The heroes and heroines of both films end up meeting again at the same place where they had been together in the first place. "Five Golden Flowers" is at the Butterfly Spring, and "Fate and Destiny" is at the skating rink.
In the two films, the male and female protagonists have basically only dealt with each other at the beginning and end of the film.
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