Jul 1, 2017 - Film Review: 'Bad Genius'. Reviewed at Paragon Cinema, Bangkok, May 3, 2017. (In New York Asian Film Festival — opener.) Running time: 129 MIN. (Original title: “Chalard Games Goeng”). Production: (Thailand) A GDH 559 (in Thailand) release of a Jorkwang Films production. (International sales: GDH. Bad Genius, known in Thai as Chalard Games Goeng (ฉลาดเกมส์โกง), is a 2017 Thai heist thriller film produced by Jor Kwang Films and released. Watch Bad Genius (2017) Online Free Full Movie Putlocker - Putlocker Movies Free. Lynn, a genius high school student who makes money by cheating test. Bad Genius (2017) Watch Online and Download Free at MovieMixed. Lynn, a genius high school student who makes money by cheating tests, receives a new task that leads. Dec 12, 2017 مشاهدة فيلم Bad Genius 2017 مترجم - Duration: 0:21. Running time 130 minutes Country Thailand Language Thai Box office $42.35 million (as of 22 October) Bad Genius, known in Thai as Chalard Games Goeng ( ฉลาดเกมส์โกง), is a 2017 Thai film produced by and released. It was directed by, and stars in her acting debut as Lynn, a straight-A student who devises an scheme which eventually rises to international levels. Inspired by real-life news of students cheating on the, the film transplants the heist film structure to a school-exams setting, and features themes of class inequality as well as teen social issues. The young main cast consist of relative newcomers, and as Lynn's classmates Bank, Pat and Grace, while plays her father. Filming took place on location in Thailand and Australia. Bad Genius was released on 3 May 2017, placing first at the Thai box office for two weeks and earning over 100 million (US$3 million), becoming the highest-grossing Thai film of 2017. The film performed successfully overseas. ![]() It broke Thai film earning records in several Asian countries, including China, where it earned over $30 million, making it the most internationally successful Thai film ever. Critics praised the film for its engaging storytelling despite the mundane setting, as well as the acting, especially Chutimon's. It has been screened at several international festivals, winning multiple awards, including Best Feature at the and Best Director at the. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • Plot [ ] Lynn, a top secondary school student living with her father, is accepted into a prestigious school, earning a scholarship for her academic achievements. There, she befriends the good-natured but academically challenged Grace. Lynn begins helping Grace cheat in exams after finding out that their teacher has been leaking questions in private tutoring sessions. She is then approached by Grace's rich boyfriend Pat, who offers payment in exchange for also helping him and his friends. Although at first reluctant, Lynn agrees when she finds out that the school took payments of 'tea money' from her father, who earns a modest income as a teacher. She devises a system of hand signals, based on certain piano pieces, and uses them to send answers during exams. Her base of clients eventually grows. However, her cheating is inadvertently revealed by Bank, another top student. She is reprimanded by her father and the school, which suspends her scholarship, as well as her chance to apply for an international scholarship at the university level. Lynn returns to the cheating business when Pat and Grace ask her to help them cheat in the STIC—an international standardised test for university admissions—a scheme which will earn them millions of baht. However, Lynn tells them that she can only do it with Bank's help, and honest Bank would never join them. Bank, however, is from a poor family and is staking his future on the same university scholarship. When he is attacked by thugs in the street and misses the exam, Lynn approaches him with the offer and Bank reluctantly agrees. Together, they make preparations for the final operation. Lynn and Bank will fly to Australia in order to get a head start on the exams, which are held globally on the same day, and send back answers for Pat and Grace to distribute to the clients. However, on the eve of their flight, Pat lets slip that it was he who ordered the thugs to beat up Bank, in order to force him to join their scheme. Enraged, Bank attacks Pat and leaves. Lynn, shocked at the revelation, begins rethinking her actions. However, Bank returns to confront Lynn, telling her to take responsibility for the situation and finish what she started. Lynn and Bank's relationship further develops as they fly to Sydney. On the day of the STIC, they complete the first sections of the test according to plan, but Bank is overcome by anxiety and is caught. Lynn struggles to memorise the final section herself, but finally pulls through. She is pursued by the test administrator after feigning illness and leaving the test centre early, but is released when Bank tells the staff he doesn't know her. Returning home, Lynn finds that their scheme was a great success, but, broken by the experience, turns her back on her co-conspirators. Some time later, she visits Bank, who has invested his share in revamping his mother's laundry business. Bank invites Lynn to start a different scheme, this time with a much wider client base—those taking the national GAT & PAT exams. She turns him down, telling him that she's made her choice. Lynn finally decides to come clean, tearfully confessing to her father, who comforts her and helps her redeem herself by submitting a formal confession to the STIC organisation. Production [ ] Development [ ]. Director previously directed GTH's 2012 psycho thriller. Bad Genius was produced by and, executives and veteran producers at (previously ). Jira came up with the film's premise when he heard on the news that scores were being cancelled in China due to a cheating scandal. The producers then invited to direct the film. Nattawut had previously directed the company's 2012 psychological thriller, and the producers believed his ability would lend itself to developing Bad Genius as a heist film. Nattawut was immediately intrigued, and agreed to direct the project, which was developed under the working title '2B Come Won' (a reference to the 2B pencils used to fill in test choices). Nattawut wrote the script together with Tanida Hantaweewatana and Vasudhorn Piyaromna, researching the format details of current standardised tests as well as actual methods of exam cheating seen in the news. The script took about 1 1⁄ 2 years to complete. ![]() The story was developed as a Hollywood-style heist/caper thriller, but the writers made efforts to ground it in a context that would still be relatable to a Thai audience. A major challenge, according to Nattawut, was telling the story of students taking exams—'perhaps the most boring activity on earth'—in a compelling manner. The film's secondary theme, that of the characters' contrasting social backgrounds, emerged during the writing process. Lead actress is a fashion model making her film debut. ![]() The film's main cast is relatively inexperienced—none of the four young main actors had film roles in a major studio production prior to 2017. Lead actress, who plays Lynn, is a fashion model making her acting debut. Plays the role of Bank, and Pat and Grace are played by and, respectively. (Chanon, Teeradon and Eisaya have past TV acting experience.) According to Nattawut, casting for the four main actors took a long time before arriving at the four final choices, who were virtually perfect fits for their roles. He was so impressed with their work that he allowed them considerable room for improvisation during filming. The chemistry underlying Lynn and Bank's relationship, for example, was unscripted, and part of Pat's sales pitch speech was ad-libbed by Teeradon. The only veteran actor in a major role is, who plays Lynn's father. Primarily a singer and songwriter, Thaneth had been absent from acting for over thirty years when Nattawut came across a magazine interview of him, and invited him to cast for the role. Thaneth brought a special warmth to the character, leading Nattawut to modify the script and make the father less controlling, resulting in a more profound father-daughter relationship. The actors underwent acting workshops for a couple of months before filming commenced. Romchat Tanalappipat served as acting coach, and worked with the actors before and during filming. Special preparations by the actors include Chutimon having to practice writing with her left hand, as her character is left-handed, and Chanon memorising the value of to over the 30th digit. Was the location for a particularly challenging scene. Most of the filming took place in Thailand, while about 30 percent was shot on location in Sydney, Australia. About ten crew members flew to Australia from Thailand, while most of the Sydney filming unit was sourced locally. Filming in Sydney was subject to many more restrictions than in Thailand, including strictly limited shooting times. A particularly challenging scene to film was a chase scene which took place at the underground, which had to be fitted into the trains' normal running schedule. Stylistically, Nattawut says he was inspired partly by 1970s thrillers such as, and, leading him to mix in a certain 1970s retro/vintage style in Bad Genius. Stills from were used as a colour palette reference during post-production work done with Kantana Post Production. Nattawut also used 2011's as a reference. The film was officially announced by GDH at a press event on 20 April 2017, along with the release of its theme song 'Mong Chan Tee' ( มองฉันที, which translates as 'Look at Me'). Performed by, the song is a rearrangement of the song 'Why Can't You See' by Thai indie pop band Fwends, with new lyrics. Release and reception [ ] Release [ ]. • The Thai title ( pronounced ( ),: Chalat Kem Kong), is a play on the Thai phrase chalat kaem kong ( ฉลาดแกมโกง, pronounced ( )), which means 'clever/cunning in a cheating way'. The English loanword game supplants the middle word, giving the meaning 'clever in the game of cheating'. • The film also lists three additional producer credits: Suwimon Techasupinan, Chenchonnee Soonthonsaratul and Weerachai Yaikwawong. • Pronounced, rtgs: 'Mong Chan Thi'. • Countries and territories include Laos, Singapore, Cambodia, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei, Hong Kong and Macau, Indonesia, Myanmar, Vietnam, mainland China, the Philippines, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, and Japan. References [ ]. Nattawut Poonpiriya’s caper, about a ring of teenage exam scammers, opens the New York Asian Film Festival after scoring high at the Thai box office in May. Four years after making his debut with the New York-set horror flick — in which three Thai teens get more than they wish for from a goateed drug dealer called Jesus — 36-year-old helmer Nattawut Poonpiriya manages to turn a comparable premise into a relentless, high-octane caper with nods to Hollywood heist flicks past and present. Based on in the international college-admission Scholastic Assessment Tests (SAT), Bad Genius scores high marks as a ceaselessly entertaining thriller that cedes little ground to the cheap comedy and sentimentality of recent Thai hits. Nattawut admitted he watched The Conversation and All the Presidents' Men for inspiration, and it shows as the film flourishes through its simple narrative and taut editing. With exams now basically an essential part of modern life, Bad Genius could easily resonate across various demographics — and even qualify as a mildly worded social critique, with its allusions to the inequality and corruption engulfing the young Thai protagonists. And just like his characters, Nattawut has turned his exam scams into big business: The May 3 release topped the Thai box office during its opening weekend and now stands as the highest-grossing homegrown title in Thailand this year, with takings of nearly U.S.$3.3 million. The film opens the New York Asian Film Festival on June 30, and it wouldn’t be a surprise if someone snaps up remake rights after that. The titular heroine (or anti-heroine) here is straight-A student Lynn (played by model Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying in her first screen role), who, as the film begins, has just enrolled in an elite school. Hailing from a lower middle-class background — her father (1980s pop singer-producer ) is a plain, recently divorced schoolteacher — the teenager discovers, much to her chagrin, that fraud is endemic in her new surroundings. While the school charges students 'tea money,' teachers leak exam papers to students in return for 'tutoring fees.' Watching her father scavenge money for her tuition, the good girl soon turns bad as she develops a plan to earn a quick buck. Egged on by the beautiful but dim-witted Grace (Eisaya Hosuwan) and her rich but equally dense boyfriend Pat (Teeradon Supapunpinyo), Lynn devises a system by which she can relay answers to them — and anyone who's willing to pay — during tests. Beginning with a small-scale experiment in a classroom, Lynn's operation eventually balloons into a derring-do venture with a bigger test taking place in the school hall, as she scrambles to beat a cheat-proof device in the exam papers. Having somehow passed the test on that one — a mission Nattawut conveys very impressively via a mise-en-scene resembling that of a heist more than a high-school comedy — Lynn’s fortune-making enterprise grinds to a halt because of a complaint lodged by her impoverished, equally talented but much more scrupulous rival, Bank (Chanon Santinatornkul). Soon enough, however, Lynn finds bigger fish to fry. Asked by Grace and Pat for her help in their efforts to score decent results at the STIC tests — a fictional equivalent of the SAT — she comes up with a more elaborate and profitable venture, one that would require more logistics, a trip to Australia and, most problematically, Bank’s help. Devoid of the fantastical gadgets that many a 21st century media-savvy maverick would conveniently throw in, Bad Genius is as markedly low-tech as its unassuming title: here, the scammers operate with consumer-grade smartphones, pencils and old-school printing presses, table-tapping fingers, strategically timed bathroom breaks and extreme ways of feigning sickness. Nattawut has managed to make all this work (glossing over a few problems in the plotting) with his dynamic storytelling, thanks to Phaklao Jiraungkoonkun’s camerawork and Chonlasit Upanigikit’s cutting. While allowing just enough of a glimpse of the internal anguish of Lynn and Bank, the director — here helped by engaging turns from Chutimon and Chamon — refrains from expanding that emotion into cliched melodrama. In an audacious move, he denies Bank a chance at redemption, as the boy emerges from his ordeal with his values utterly and dismayingly transformed. Perhaps to avoid being accused of advocating that crime pays, Nattawut has Lynn repent on her misdeeds. But he keeps that note brief and devoid of moralizing or high drama. Bad Genius ultimately is more about the escapade than its consequences, showing that bad things continue to happen in this crooked world.
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