As the second work directed and performed by Stephen Chow, "Shaolin Football" not only won the Golden Horse Award at the 38th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, and the Best Film Award at the 21st Hong Kong Film Awards. With this film, Stephen Chow also won the 2nd Chinese Best Actor (Nominated) at the Film Media Awards, Best Director at the 21st Hong Kong Film Awards. It can be seen that the excellence of "Shaolin Football" is generally recognized by the public and professionals.
Shaolin Football in Zhou Xingchi's Heart
Everyone knows that nonsensical, funny and exaggerated are the consistent style of Stephen Chow's movies. Of course, "Shaolin Football" also continues the nonsensical tone of many classic films of Stephen Chow, but it is a little different from the previous films of Stephen Chow: Compared with previous movies, In the film, the male protagonist Five Senior Brothers (Daily King Kong Legs) lacked all sorts of scheming and worldly emotions, and showed more seriousness, simplicity and optimism. Dressed in rags, earning a living by selling garbage, but didn't complain about others, and left with a smile when bargaining with the owner of the waste recycling station;
Embracing the dream of the whole people to practice martial arts, in order to carry forward Shaolin Kungfu, we will discuss methods with the big brothers, singing and dancing plus Shaolin Kungfu;
Not forgetting the friendship between the teachers and gates of the year, step by step awakened all the brothers from the beginning of martial arts, successfully persuaded the six people to reunite, remember the teacher's teachings, do not fight but "kick".
Although there have been many similar little characters in Zhou Xingchi's movies, including the odd shots in "Ouchi Detective Zero Hair" who will not be belittled by the emperor in martial arts, and Stephen Zhou, who is so downhearted and thrown on the street corner by gangsters in "The God of Cookery", etc., These characters have more or less unpleasant personalities, but although the five seniors in "Shaolin Football" are poor, they never hurt the people around him. He only encourages and comforts his friends. It's pretty straight forward. I think this should also be the one who is closest to Zhou Xingchi's "want" performance.
In many movies of Stephen Chow, there will be more or less clips about kung fu and martial arts. For example, Stephen Zhou in "The God of Cookery" learns cooking in the mainland and he strays into the Shaolin Temple and meets the eighteen bronze men. In "Kung Fu", he deceives children. The cheats of "Tathagata Palm" and the iron legs that float on the water in "Domestic Lingling Paint". In "Shaolin Football", the six brothers have iron head skills, strong vajra legs, iron cloth jerseys, golden bells, ghost capture hands, whirlwind legs, light skills and water floats. Such a setting can be said to be general The world of martial arts in Zhou Xingchi's mind is shown in the most popular way, as illustrated by a large number of actions on martial arts skills in the film.
At the end of the film, the same incident occurred in Times Square at the beginning, but the difference is that everyone has learned martial arts suitable for them and applied martial arts to life and work. The ideal world of “no one in the world does not practice martial arts” can be a dream come true in the movie.
Excellent director ability
Don't underestimate this movie because the whole film is based on nonsense. It is no exaggeration to say that many parts of the film have been carefully considered, whether it is funny clips or affectionate emotional scenes, they have been carefully arranged. At the beginning of the film, Zhou Xingchi is an insignificant person who takes in the tatters. Shaolin Kungfu is gradually declining. At the end of the film, Zhou Xingchi has accomplished his accomplishments, but he still wears old shoes, only with patches, and everyone around him is already proficient in martial arts. Isn't it the "front and end echo" commonly used in writing?
Stephen Chow threw the gold right foot at his can and kicked it away. A few days later, he found an empty can embedded on the wall with his right foot. He realized the amazingness of Dali's Vajra legs. Then he pulled out the can and the wall collapsed and found that Stephen Chow was about to let it go. The person who beat him apologized, and at the same time once again demonstrated his skill, so that Jin's right foot ignited the will to form a team, the plot arrangement is very clever.
And the section where Mei, who is sweet in Xin Mantou's skill, used his skills was to pave the way for Mei's shaved head to replace the goalkeeper, and to use soft Tai Chi to turn the tide and win the championship. This kind of simplest and simplest thing often reverses the situation at the last moment in the story structure, and it also has a strong color of Stephen Chow's movie.
What is worth mentioning is the role played by Zhao Wei. When Zhou Xingchi first met Mei (Zhao Wei), he was simply impressed and admired by Mei's superb skill in kneading the dough. Later, Mei returned the repaired shoes to Zhou Xingchi, and Zhou Xingchi took Mei to see the expensive clothes. Mei thought that Zhou Xingchi liked herself, and even plucked up the courage to ran for plastic surgery. It wasn't until the part of drinking and arguing with the fellow seniors that they said that Mei was ugly, and realized that they were just wishful thinking, and even the steamed buns made the next day were extremely bitter.
Among them, Mei poses, smiles and suddenly gets angry, and Zhou Xingchi wants to give the ticket to Mei, and finally picks up the steamed buns on the ground, rinses them with water from the drain, and eats them, and then the camera cuts to Mei’s tears. The scene of the falling scene is worth savoring. In addition, a lot of jokes needless to say, this is inseparable from Stephen Chow's excellent director and screenwriter ability.
Exaggerated and cool action design
Some people always find it difficult to adapt to the exaggerated design in Stephen Chow's movies, and some even comment on "Shaolin Football": What kind of kick is this? Indeed, there are very few descriptions of football skills in the movie. The scenes of playing football are largely based on exaggerated action designs. But it is also these large-scale action freezes, exaggerated character expressions, and slow The cool special effects and breath-taking sound effects under the lens aroused the kind of "must win" in the hearts of countless audiences, and also made a unique Stephen Chow style movie.
In addition, "Kung Fu Football" has also produced countless golden phrases, such as "Sweeping the floor is just my superficial job, in fact, my true identity is a research monk!" Educational." "My pair of precious sneakers was originally priced at two yuan, because it was you. If you count one and five, I will take you one more bun."...
Finally, end with a classic line: If you don't have a dream, what is the difference between it and salted fish?
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