When the film first started filming, I always thought it was going to be "Journey to the West", and Jackie Chan and Jet Li were both in it, so I was very curious about who would play the sweet pastry of Sun Wukong. When Li Bingbing and Liu Yifei were added to the cast, and the white-haired witch and Jin Yanzi were among the characters, I realized that it was a big mistake. They didn't shoot "Journey to the West", but just wanted to make the two big ones that are very popular in Hollywood. Action superstars get together for a farce. The story is very simple: Sun Wukong was plotted against the Yujiang God of War and was turned into stone. He needed a golden cudgel to be resurrected. So Jason, a kung fu fan from the United States, took the golden cudgel to travel through time and space to China, and went with Lu Yan ( Jackie Chan), the silent monk (Jet Li), and Jin Yanzi (Liu Yifei) took it to Wuzhi Mountain after all the obstacles, resurrected Sun Wukong, and finally defeated the white-haired witch (Li Bingbing) and the God of War in Yujiang (Zou Zhaolong). In fact, for such a film, the audience chooses to watch it for a very obvious purpose. It is to watch the double J fight. The director also knows this. The more energetic Donnie Yen or the deadly handsome Wu Yanzu with 8 charming abs? After all, the era of Double J as a stand-alone kung fu movie superstar is going away, Huang Feihong has become Huo Yuanjia, and Chen Jiaxun has also become flip-flops. When I see Sun Wukong, who is full of folds and pits and laughing with a ponytail, and Lu Yan, who is obviously already wide and fat, but continues to dance drunk fists and juggle fights, I can only be glad that I am not a Hong Kong-style action movie. Die-hard fans. But the director knew that he understood but did not intend to follow the will of the general public, because Jet and Jackie did not appear in the same scene until about 35 minutes into the film, and it took more than a minute for the two to start fighting. After less than 4 minutes of fighting (it's well explained by the theory of relativity of time), the two of them learned that everyone turned out to be a gang, so we hope to see the double J fight violently and fight to the death. Faint wish shattered. I don't know if the director Rob Minkoff has seen "The Wire". Pacino and DeNiro are the police and the gangster. The tension of the whole film is in the 8 minutes on the coffee table. However, the director is very fair and knows that he can't offend the fans of either side of Double J, so it's better to be careful about the arrangement of this scene. So, Double J each played two roles, the first scene was Jet Li, so he had very few scenes in front of him, and only appeared as a part of the retrospective, which is fair. Of course Rob Minkoff's most famous film is "The Lion King". He probably knows the box office mysteries well and understands that children's box office is king. A child can drive the whole family to the cinema, so of course he will ignore these old kung fu fans. But if so, why add the white-haired witch and the golden swallow? This was a complete mess.
The white-haired witch is a character in Liang Yusheng's novel. She was originally called Lian Nishang. Because of a misunderstanding with Zhuo Yihang, she hated men overnight because she thought that there were only lies in the mouths of men. In Brigitte Lin and Leslie Cheung's version of "The Legend of the Witch with White Hair", Lian Nishang has a strong personality, daring to love and hate, and then to love and hate. When the knife in Zhuo Yihang's hand was deeply stabbed into her body, when her hair suddenly turned white, She swore to kill all the men in the world, and I still have a sympathy for Brigitte Lin's fierce and desperate eyes, the roar when she was angry, and the scene where the white hair directly pierced the man's body. But don't worry about these, you can't see it in "King of Kung Fu" at all, and it is much gentler. Here, there is no Zhuo Yihang who is waiting for the snow lotus in the Tianshan Mountains for her, so she can only obey the Jade Border War God, so that he can give her some jade dew that can live forever. The white-haired witch here still has contempt but lacks ruthlessness and despair and hatred in the original book. The weapon used is no longer white-haired (and she threw her hair twice later), and it is very strange, like a white-haired witch Those who hate men like this are full of men. At the end of the film, she wrapped Lu Yan with her white hair, and then grabbed her hair with her hands and climbed up section by section, which finally made me laugh. As for Jin Yanzi, Shaw Brothers Zhang Che's film is for love triangle. Here, Jin Yanzi is just a little girl who wants to avenge her parents. As the only possibility in the film that she can have a relationship with Jason that fits the children's viewing angle It wasn't until about 52 minutes that I could clearly see the signs of the relationship, and from the beginning to the end, the two of them only had pure eye contact. Jason also shed precious tears for Lu Yan, and between Jin Yanzi and him is probably just a great comrade-like friendship. And Jin Yanzi's pipa, I always thought that it would be like the previous Hong Kong movies, when it was played, sound waves would be emitted, but it turned out that it was just a relic of a mother, and playing the pipa was just for the sake of love. Anyway, the director wants to go against us and avoid what we think. Besides, this film is not for the Chinese audience, otherwise why is everyone talking in English?
When I saw that Skywalker was an American, I was thinking about how this place is in China, and the main characters are all Chinese. How to solve the communication problem, whether he obeys the majority and speaks Chinese, or everyone speaks English together with him. As a result, when Jason said: "I don't understand what you said at all", everyone spoke English together to "take care" of him, and often switched between Chinese and English freely. That's fine, and I can barely figure it out, but why did the Jade Emperor speak English at the Pantao Conference, which was full of Chinese immortals? But this movie also taught me a lot for the first time. It turns out that the God of Heaven is in Wuzhi Mountain; it turns out that the immortals are not immortal, but need to drink the jade wine from the Peach Fair; it turns out that the Jade Emperor admires Sun Wukong very much and is not angry with him for breaking into the heaven; it turns out that the Jade Emperor is 500 years old It 's a reincarnation...
but there are still bright spots in this film. Around the 56th minute, the four of them were too thirsty in the desert and asked Lu Yan to ask for rain, so he devoutly wrote a talisman with a writing brush wrapped in saliva to ask for rain from Taishang Laojun. At this time, "rain" fell from the sky. Intoxicated, he bathed in the rain with a satisfied smile on his face, but when the camera was pulled up, he found that the rain was just a silent monk urinating on him on a rock. The shot of Jackie Chan's eldest brother and his prince. In the end, Sun Wukong was resurrected, and the silent monk was restored to his original shape. He was actually a hair of Sun Wukong.
At the end of the film Jason returns to real life, Lu Yan appears, the ancestor of Lao Huo, and Jin Yanzi also appears, it should be the ancestor of the girl in the shop opposite Lao Huo, so it is speculated that the silent monk will also appear.
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