One of the cottages - Back to the Mountain

Gabe 2022-03-02 08:01:41

Fighting Victory Buddha heard the news from Somersault Cloud that the six-eared macaques, the twin brothers who had died together before, were killed by an arrow pierced through their hearts. Although the Buddha had promised him a chance to upgrade because of his single-minded practice, he decided to go back first.

Returning alone to Huaguo Mountain after a long absence, everything is still the same as before. The monkeys are still insatiable, monsters are rampant, and there is chaos. He angrily found out that the six-eared macaque was not dead, so he tried to lure him back. One was to let him meet the old Bodhi ancestor who was suffering from Alzheimer's disease, and the other was to use his cross talk to attack the Demon King Xibian. He only promised to stay for three days.

What did these three days bring?

Fighting Victory Buddha can't bear to look back on the lavish life in his early years, and hate the magic that Bodhi Patriarch taught him, but still treat him as a dull monkey. The eared macaque is unreasonably valued and content with such a life. He just wanted to find a way to practice and let life return to peace.

The memories that Huaguoshan left him were all things that he was eager to abandon.

But the six-eared macaque didn't think so. The master brewer knew best what his famous brother was missing. He dug up the Pantao tribute wine that had been buried for many years from the back mountain, and he also found the sister of Baigujing (Titanic Black Slimjing?), this girl is beautiful, sexy and smart. Sun Wukong was suddenly confused. He didn't understand whether he couldn't resist the temptation or what.

The six-eared macaque is rambunctious by nature and loves freedom. This time, he turned against the Bull Demon King because he was going to form his own family, and he could no longer risk the danger of being wanted by the Heavenly Court. The Bull Demon King was furious, but was KO'd by the six-eared macaque and his best friend who had already prepared, and made the scene look like three anti-monsters, anti-monsters, and anti-magic people were taking revenge on the society.

Just when the six-eared macaque thought everything was perfect, a village party who happened to meet the Buddha when he returned to his hometown in the fog discovered everything. The township party, who was driven to the point of insanity by the pressure of family, career and life, decided to hit the two monkeys. As a result, he accidentally killed the six-eared macaque because he was too nervous.

Fighting Victory Buddha has learned a lot from his brother's death, and this is not the end. It decided to sell the illegal wine cellar of the six-eared macaque to the boss of the demon world who took over the Bull Demon King's territory (previously a minion of the Bull Demon King), and the money it got would be used to supplement the life of the six-eared macaque's widow. But this rogue is not greedy enough to swallow an elephant, and the business cannot be successful. Evil arises from the side of courage - an arrow from the back shoots the Buddha in the opposite direction.

Fighting Victory Buddha, who survived the death, understood more precisely the value of life and everything that existed before. (At this time, the promotion and so on are also floating due to various reasons...), he suddenly felt that everything was like a dream, and he never left Crossing Huaguo Mountain, he loves everything here. He is still the wild monkey Sun Wukong who was naked and drunk at the moment: the past and the future, which he thought were parallel lines and no longer connected, overlapped at this moment in reality.

Finally, Sun Wukong and Hei Leijing joined hands to usher in the first rain after returning to Huaguo Mountain.
(End)

Pure spoof...and ignored the role of the director (and screenwriter and supporting actor), because I really don't know how to play him. He is like an outsider in the whole play, and he is always opposed to his own ideas. A little awkward.

In the end, I added superfluousness to a line I liked in the play (to the effect):

"Epicureus said that death is not enough to worry about, because we exist, death does not exist. So what we really fear is life."

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Leaves of Grass quotes

  • Bill Kincaid: [Janet has just caught a monster catfish with her forearm through its mouth, called "noodling"] You have a spiritual objection to monofilament?

  • Brady Kincaid: [talking about Janet] She's a poet.

    Bill Kincaid: What?

    Brady Kincaid: Seriously. She writes fuckin' poetry. And she's the Ladies Noodling Champion of '05.

    Bill Kincaid: Her?

    Brady Kincaid: 125 pounds of catfish in under 10 hours with nothing but her bare hands.

    [sigh]

    Brady Kincaid: I tried to get her and Colleen in a three-way once, but wouldn't neither of 'em go for it.