The mermaid is a fairy tale character who meets Stephen Chow's feminine standards: she continued to endure for love, and eventually turned into a bubble. This is almost the fate of all heroines in Stephen Chow's movies. How to change this story by Stephen Chow is a very interesting process. Because the story of the mermaid, although touching, the problem is that there is no interaction and there is no contradiction. And the setting of the prince is very boring. Zhou Xingchi changed the image of the prince: He must have some characteristics of a prince, and at the same time have the characteristics of Zhou Xingchi. He is an incomprehensible prince with painful memories in his heart. The setting of the mermaid has not changed much, she is pure and beautiful, and she would rather sacrifice herself for the one she loves.
"Hurry up." This is the line in "Lust Caution". And just like "Lust Caution," the heroine is someone who doesn't seem to be able to act at all, but this kind of immaturity has the right effect: they make the fake come true precisely because they can't act. There is something very subtle in this: it can't be too much, and it can't be enough. In short, the director has good control.
Although Deng Chao is a rich man, he has many cartoon elements and is not a very realistic setting for the rich, so it can barely be established. Otherwise, we can't understand a rich man, and ask ignorantly: "Are we going to destroy the environment?" He is like a kid imitating a rich man, with no sense of reality. This kind of unreality must be created in order to tell the story smoothly. Otherwise it is very dangerous to beautify a rich man.
These two people were totally unlikely to have any touching love. To be honest, the original "Mermaid" is not touching either, because the hopelessness of love is beyond love. In the movie, the two people ate chicken together and vomited in the playground. "If this is the last minute of your life, what do you want to do?" The question was serious, but the person who answered it didn't know, "Just look at you like this." She undressed in the moonlight. This paragraph is very natural, not pornographic, and has a different kind of tenderness. After that, she let him go for the first time.
Octopus's love is also very touching, and at the last minute he wants to eject her. Then the mermaid desperately tried to escape with a huge wound. This escape scene was filmed for a long, long time, which fully showed her helplessness and despair. This long foreshadowing made Deng Chao desperately sent her back to the sea in the end and it became touching. .
It's funny and touching, it's very, very difficult. In recent years, few Chinese-language movies can easily do it. It is always unavoidable to be embarrassing and unnatural. (For example, "Looking for the Dragon", how hard I want to be funny, but it's not funny at all. Love is not touching either. So is "Hong Kong Joke". So is "Monster Catch". There are many more.) But Stephen Chow seems to be very easy to do . Including the various visual settings in the broken ship, they are all very good.
Of course not to say that this is an amazing movie. The shortcomings are also obvious. In this movie, the desire to make money is obvious. He wants to return what he didn't get in the mainland. "Yangtze River No. 7" is said to be in arrears. Although "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" has a good box office, Stephen Chow did not make any money and lost the lawsuit. This is a very big blow to him, not just because of money, but because of dignity or something. Personal talent is not worth mentioning under the huge system.
He struggled all his life, but received not many affirmations, was always belittled, not understood, and there were many disturbances after he became famous. Although he is loved by fans, he is too far away from his life to really comfort him. In his private life, one can imagine, full of all kinds of unsatisfactory. In recent years, his premature aging state is obvious, and he has a sense of giving up, always saying that he has failed. After breaking up, it seems that there is no new relationship, and the whole person seems very lonely and lonely. But it is probably because of loneliness and loneliness that the love scene can be made touching.
However, there is no mermaid in the world. There has never been a person in the world who can truly understand another person, trust him blindly, and dedicate himself to him without regret. This kind of feeling, no matter how you pursue it, doesn't exist. Just like there is neither "Tathagata Palm" nor "Moonlight Treasure Box" in the world. Stephen Chow is like a person who stays in the childhood world for us. His core will never change. He asks the world instead of children: "Why is the world like this?" "Why can I never get what I want?" Disappointment is nothing more than this.
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