Chinese Esports movie makes netizens angry because it insults the true spirit of E-Sports

Falling Into Your Smile (You Are The Most Beautiful When Smiling) is the latest drama with the theme of Esports of the Chinese screen, after such cult names as Love You At First Sight, General Manager, Go To The End Of The World With You Or Squid Fish Stewed With Honey, …
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Adapted from the novel “When I’m Smiling” by author Thanh Each, the film is about the ten thousand favorite game League of Legends (LoL) performed by many famous young actors such as: Hua KhaiTrinh Tieu, Trach Tieu Van, … Thought the above factors would be a favorable springboard for Falling Into Your Smile to become this year’s hit movie, but no, the film is being heavily criticized for having too many absurd details, scandals of plagiarism and distortion of the original image of Faker.

Players are ready… to sell to flirt with girls

Just aired the first episode, Falling Into Your Smile had to “receive bricks” from not only the audience but also the gaming community. The reason is because of the detail that the male and female Gian Duong (Trach Tieu Van) wanted to flirt with the female lead Dong Dao (Cheng Tieu) but had the act of throwing the game, giving the victory to the team crush. If it was real life, this player would have been investigated and banned for a long time, but he couldn’t brag like in the movie.
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After the match ended, Gian Duong even announced to the beauty that maybe because of her, he was willing to sell as many times as he wanted. It is this segment with cheesy love story that has caused the film to encounter a strong boycott wave, many people believe that the director and screenwriter do not understand Esports and are insulting the spirit of E-Sports. main. They are building up the image of characters who are willing to throw the game, sell the game, betray their teammates, the audience just to achieve their personal goals.

Esports movies but all talk about love

Because of the above details, the LoL fan community in particular and Esports in general are condemning the movie for taking advantage of the topic of E-Sports as a background for the love story of the main characters. The spirit of Fair-play, the effort to practice, the will to compete for the national flag, the desire to win, … are not seen in the first episode of the film, nor in the original work.
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Instead of love stories, the players of this team flirt with the female players of the other team, the game takes a break to talk about love, the men and women don’t care about their teammates but only wholeheartedly play the role of the marshal. , …

Faker and Faker’s misrepresentation scandals Team WE.
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In the original novel When You Smile, author Thanh Each was also accused of distorting Faker’s image. Specifically, Faker’s Chinese name is Ly Thuong Hac, the character in the story is named Ly Quan Hac with many similarities with the Devil King in real life, but is portrayed as an arrogant and contemptuous character. weak, … and is the villain for the main character to overthrow.

In the story, the male lead Luc Tu Thanh is a member of an Esports team called Team WE and coincidentally, there is also a Team WE playing in real life. Author Thanh Each has added many dramas and scandals to Team WE in his work, and netizens have noticed that these details are taken from false rumors on the Internet of Team WE in the Auth version. This has affected the image of Team WE more or less in real life.

Falling Into Your Smile has just taken the first steps, so we can’t say anything in advance, hopefully the next episodes of the series will convey the eSports spirit that fans want to see the most.

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