火爆麻吉 (2003)
Better Luck Tomorrow
本·马尼拜格(派瑞·沈饰)是一名亚裔美国高中少年——一个极其聪明的完美主义者，背负着亚洲人的传统思想，但是过于有成就感反而成为一种井蛙之见，直接束缚了他思想的正常发展。本生活在加利福尼亚州橘县的一个保守的郊区，学校和班级都是一样的压抑，生活中除了三点一线似乎再没有其他的激情可言。就这样平淡地渡过中学时光，本毕业时是班级成绩最优秀的学生，顺利地进入到最好的常春藤联盟大学。 在本高校生活开始的时候，他偶然帮助了达瑞克·鲁(罗格·范饰)，一个高年级致告别辞的毕业生代表——是另外一个过于有成就感的人。本在新环境里迅速结交了几个朋友，包括美丽的史蒂芬妮(卡琳·安娜·丘格饰)；还有关系最好的维吉尔(贾森·J·托宾饰)，他才华横溢却在社交上笨手笨脚；还有一个就是维吉尔的表兄韩(宋康饰)，一个丢失了灵魂、肌肉胜过大脑的家伙。但此时他发现达瑞克有些奇怪：作为班上最聪明的学生，他看上去似乎可信和亲切的背面潜藏着许多秘密。
演员阵容
- 派瑞·申 — Ben Manibag
- 杜俊纬 — Virgil Hu
- 姜成镐 — Han Lue
- Karin Anna Cheung — Stephanie Vandergosh
- Roger Fan — Daric Loo
- 杰里·马瑟斯 — Biology Teacher
- 约翰·赵 — Steve Choe
- Aaron Takahashi — Takashi
- Darian Weiss — Kenny Vandergosh
- Ariadne Shaffer — Rachel
- James Isaac Barry — Porn Jock
- Shirley Jean Anderson — Hot Dog Planet Costumer
趣闻
- 拍摄地：洛杉矶
Better Luck Tomorrow is a 2002 American crime drama film directed, co-written, co-produced, and edited by Justin Lin. It follows a group of overachieving Asian American teenagers who become bored with their lives and enter a world of petty crime and material excess. The plot is loosely based on the 1992 murder of Stuart Tay. The film stars Parry Shen, Jason Tobin, Sung Kang, Roger Fan, Karin Anna Cheung and John Cho.
Production
Justin Lin said that the title Better Luck Tomorrow refers to how the film explores "the whole youth culture of today, specifically Asian-American, but also just the general mentality of teenagers today. I mean, I work with teenagers, I grew up in the 80s, and already it's very different, the mentality. You go to suburbia, you look at upper-middle-class-kids, and through the media they've literally adopted an urban-gangsta-mentality."
The plot is inspired by the 1992 murder of Stuart Tay. Tay, a 17-year-old Chinese American high school student in Orange County, California, was killed by several peers following a failed petty crime scheme. Tay and the perpetrators were all high-achieving students who intended to attend elite universities and college, which led the media to dub the crime "the Honor Roll Murder." While Lin had followed media coverage of the Tay murder, he conscio…
While writing the script, he found inspiration in his work as a youth basketball coach and teaching high school students how to make community documentaries.
Lin's original investors wanted a white cast with Macaulay Culkin as the male lead if he wanted a million dollar investment for his movie. Lin objected and continued to fund the project with his 10 credit cards and life savings. He said knowing the film "potentially could've been the last film I ever made" he wanted to make it "about issues that were very important to me."
After those funds were depleted, finishing funds equivalent to one third of the film's budget were provided by Cherry Sky Films for post-production, preparing the film to submit to Sundance, after producer Joan Huang reconnected with Lin at the LA Asian Pacific American Film Festival.
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