Movie Summary [Formula 17]

Title: Formula 17 / 17歲的天空
Release Date: 2004
Language: Mandarin
English Subs available? – Yes

Cast:
Tony Yang – Tien
Ducan Lai – Bai Tieh-Nan
Chin King – Yu
Dada Ji – C.C.
Jimmy Yang – Alan

Basic Plot Summary:
Innocent Tien travels to Taipei, to meet an internet friend…being the romantic lemon that he is he is disappointed when his ‘friend’ turns out to be sex hungry sleaze
Tien leaves and goes to a bar and runs into his friend from school Yu.

At the bar he becomes aware of a very sexy man: Bai Tieh-Nan AKA ‘Number 1 playboy’ as he is infamous for his one night stands.

Tien ends up staying with Yu and he gets a job in a gym and runs into Bai on many occasions, it’s obvious they both have feelings for each other, but will Bai’s nature as ‘Number One Playboy’ affect their….relationship?!

My Thoughts:

SPOILERS

In the original post I spent the entire time raving about how much I this film. If you think I’m going to do that again…then you would be completely correct!

I loved everything about this film. I think what I liked so much was how realistic their relationship was; the energy between Tien and Bai was so natural and for me, they really portrayed the innocence of a first love –  although Tien wasn’t technically Bai’s “first” he was still the first guy he loved.

The way they conducted themselves around each other: not knowing what to say, awkwardly shuffling around and not knowing what to do are exactly how you would imagine an encounter to be when you meet the guy you like. Oh it was so sweet!

I swear Tong Yang and Duncan Lai are amazing actors who had such chemistry, when Tien was standing outside Bai’s door and there was the awkward moment where they avoided looking at each other and then their eyes locked and shared their first kiss…..being able to portray emotion like that, even if it is only for a few seconds, is just incredible.

Yes the two main characters were fabulous, but what about Yu, Alan and C.C!
Ah those guys were totally hilarious and I think they really made the film.

Formula 17 really is my go-to happy film. Usually I watch a BL film and think “oh yeah it was good” and never watch it again, but with this film I’ve seen is so many times I’m surprised I don’t know the dialogue off by heart!

Plus it’s really nice to watch such a upbeat BL film when there are so many depressing ones out there! (looking at you Scud)

Also if you enjoy “light hearted” movies like this, check out Go Go G-Boys

My Rating, for this amazing movie, would have to be
9.5/10
(lost 0.5 because of those cringy moments, nothing is perfect !)

Watch Online
As of 2020 this film is still avaliable online on dailymotion – if you would like me to send you the link (if you can’t find it yourself) then please let me know!

Soundtrack:
It took me a long time to find these songs, since I couldn’t read Chinese at the time (I’m still not very good ahaha!) So I would just listen and type into google what I could hear…quite often it worked! So here are the two songs I could find in pinyin.

1 – From the scene with Tien and Bai on the scooter!
Wo Xiang Ni De Kuai Le Shi Ying Wei Wo – Rock Bang
2- From Tien and Bai’s sex scene
Ni Shen Bian – Stanley Huang

Screencaps :

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[original post: 27/2/12]
[Moved: 28/4/20]

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