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'''Flirting Scholar''' (Chinese: 唐伯虎點秋香) is a 1993 Hong Kong martial arts {{farce}} starring Creator/StephenChow (Tong Pak-Fu) and Creator/GongLi (Chou-Heung). It showcases {{wuxia}}-style fights between martial arts legends Creator/ChengPeiPei (Madam Wah) and Creator/GordonLiu (Evil Scholar).
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!!’'Flirting Scholar'' provides the following tropes:
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* HollywoodHomely: One of the maidens is regarded as ugly, even celebrating when all the other maidens got disfigured, when the only thing wrong with her is wearing too much lipstick.
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* TheAce: The protagonist Tong Pak-Fu is a handsome kung fu master, scholar, poet, and wealthy artist. His paintings fetch outrageous prices and have made him famous.
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* TheAce: The protagonist Tong Pak-Fu is a handsome kung fu master, scholar, poet, and wealthy artist. His paintings {{paintings}} fetch outrageous prices and have made him famous.
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Tong Pak-Fu is a wealthy and famous painter, but he is less than happy because his eight wives are more interested in TabletopGame/{{Mahjong}} than him. He accidentally meets a beautiful woman who loves his work. He believes that she would love him for himself, but he can't court her openly. So he sells himself as a slave to that household to be near her.
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Tong Pak-Fu is a wealthy and famous painter, {{painter|s}}, but he is less than happy because his eight wives are more interested in TabletopGame/{{Mahjong}} than him. He accidentally meets a beautiful woman who loves his work. He believes that she would love him for himself, but he can't court her openly. So he sells himself as a slave to that household to be near her.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The original movies this film parodies were based on a famous historical character, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_Yin Tang Yin]] (唐寅) also known as Tang Bohu (Tong Pak-Fu in Cantonese) (唐伯虎)[[note]]"Yin" was his ''ming'', while "Bohu" was his ''zi''; see ''UsefulNotes/ChineseNames'' for more details.[[/note]]. Tang Yin was one of China's most influential painters and one of the "Four Masters of the [[UsefulNotes/MingDynasty]]" (明四家). Tang Yin's eccentric lifestyle made him a [[TheTrickster trickster]] figure in Chinese folklore. Supposedly Tang Yin once sold himself into slavery so as to court a woman within that household, a story which inspired this movie, among others[[note]]In a way, Tang's eccentricities were forced upon him; he was actually barred from taking the imperial examination for life in 1499, after being accused of benefiting from a question leak.[[/note]].
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The original movies this film parodies were based on a famous historical character, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_Yin Tang Yin]] (唐寅) also known as Tang Bohu (Tong Pak-Fu in Cantonese) (唐伯虎)[[note]]"Yin" was his ''ming'', while "Bohu" was his ''zi''; see ''UsefulNotes/ChineseNames'' for more details.[[/note]]. Tang Yin was one of China's most influential painters and one of the "Four Masters of the [[UsefulNotes/MingDynasty]]" UsefulNotes/MingDynasty" (明四家). Tang Yin's eccentric lifestyle made him a [[TheTrickster trickster]] figure in Chinese folklore. Supposedly Tang Yin once sold himself into slavery so as to court a woman within that household, a story which inspired this movie, among others[[note]]In a way, Tang's eccentricities were forced upon him; he was actually barred from taking the imperial examination for life in 1499, after being accused of benefiting from a question leak.[[/note]].
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The original movies this film parodies were based on a famous historical character, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_Yin Tang Yin]] (唐寅) also known as Tang Bohu (Tong Pak-Fu in Cantonese) (唐伯虎)[[note]]"Yin" was his ''ming'', while "Bohu" was his ''zi''; see ''UsefulNotes/ChineseNames'' for more details.[[/note]]. Tang Yin was one of China's most influential painters and one of the "Four Masters of the [[UsefulNotes/DynastiesFromShangToQing Ming Dynasty]]" (明四家). Tang Yin's eccentric lifestyle made him a [[TheTrickster trickster]] figure in Chinese folklore. Supposedly Tang Yin once sold himself into slavery so as to court a woman within that household, a story which inspired this movie, among others[[note]]In a way, Tang's eccentricities were forced upon him; he was actually barred from taking the imperial examination for life in 1499, after being accused of benefiting from a question leak.[[/note]].
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The original movies this film parodies were based on a famous historical character, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_Yin Tang Yin]] (唐寅) also known as Tang Bohu (Tong Pak-Fu in Cantonese) (唐伯虎)[[note]]"Yin" was his ''ming'', while "Bohu" was his ''zi''; see ''UsefulNotes/ChineseNames'' for more details.[[/note]]. Tang Yin was one of China's most influential painters and one of the "Four Masters of the [[UsefulNotes/DynastiesFromShangToQing Ming Dynasty]]" [[UsefulNotes/MingDynasty]]" (明四家). Tang Yin's eccentric lifestyle made him a [[TheTrickster trickster]] figure in Chinese folklore. Supposedly Tang Yin once sold himself into slavery so as to court a woman within that household, a story which inspired this movie, among others[[note]]In a way, Tang's eccentricities were forced upon him; he was actually barred from taking the imperial examination for life in 1499, after being accused of benefiting from a question leak.[[/note]].
