February 21, 2013 06:45
Source: Oriental Morning Post
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Cao Kou
is expressing my dislike of "Journey to the West" Before, I need to state that I'm never complacent about being "out of tune" or "anti-trend". In fact, on the contrary, in my limited viewing experience, I always indulge in all kinds of bad movies from ancient and modern China and foreign countries and can't extricate myself. Bad movies bring me as much joy (including sadness) as classic art great movies, and definitely no less. This is because I think Zhou Xingchi didn't have the original intention of making a bad movie. When I walked out of the cinema, I couldn't help nodding and agreeing: It's really not the cost and workmanship of making a bad movie. In addition, I also heard that the film has exceeded 700 million at the box office. There are not many movies that can save 700 million at the box office. I don’t know if Chinese movies are second to none, at least they are extremely limited. Although Zhang Yimou's films are not over 700 million, they often exceed 100 million. The people saved the box office for Zhang Yimou, and I heard that they went to the cinema to vent their "hatred" and formed a group to scold people. Now, Zhou Xingchi has 700 million, which is obviously not the case.
That is to say, "Journey to the West" is by no means a shoddy and bad film, and it is also suspected of being luxurious-using the popular first-line Shengdan Jing Mo Chou, and also catching up with the 3D fashion. In addition, "Journey to the West" is before, Stephen Chow + Journey to the West + four years of sharpening a sword is luxurious enough. But I want to tell you my personal impression, this is really a luxurious junk.
If you admit that the funniest thing about Stephen Chow's comedy movies is the banter and deconstruction (which is likely to be the "value" added by intellectuals), then you will find that this movie is still "Xing Ye's characteristics". The so-called characteristic is that when you see a conversation such as "do you want help? Yes! How to help? Go away!", you don't feel strange at all. This "no stranger" means that although you didn't expect Shu Qi to say this, you still didn't feel it was absurd or absurd, but only thought that Shu Qi was as "interesting" as Athena Chu, and then opened your mouth that you opened many years ago and laughed again (After all these years, have you lost a few teeth from laughing). The scene where the blood-spitting exorcist speaks while spitting blood might also be really interesting (although this person is no more wretched than Wu Mengda in "Journey to the West"), but you also have to admit that a scene I saw when I was a child was more Interesting: a child squatting on the side of the road to poop, he was still holding a rice bowl in his hand and scratching in his mouth. In my opinion, the prototype of "Three Hundred Children's Songs" is not "Tathagata's Palm" in "Kung Fu", but "Eighteen Palms of Subduing Dragons" in "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qi'er". As for Shuizhai and Zhulongzhai ("Kung Fu"), we also have reason to believe that the residents of Zhulongzhai immigrated to Shuizhai, and the graceful buck-toothed girl has grown into a shocking woman who can outperform on the seesaw. The super fat man of yellow croaker... To be honest, such characters who are either greedy for life or fear of death or have extraordinary origins or blame each other or demolish each other and finally come together to work together are the "classic masses" who rushed to the wolf for Stephen Chow's movie. Unfortunately, in my opinion Come on, they do get a little tired in this movie. I understand that this is the exhaustion of self-reproduction, self-reproduction and self-plagiarism.
The second point of "Xing Ye's characteristics" is obviously the lyrical part, and it is the love between men and women. The original form of this love between men and women may be the cry of Cecilia Cheung in "The King of Comedy": "Didn't you say you want to support me?" "The lollipop dedicated to Huang Shengyi. Making you cry while laughing, or when you're done laughing, isn't very clever in itself. Isn't it a stunt that Wang Shuo and Feng Xiaogang used to laugh out tears? To be honest, the sentence "I only envy the mandarin ducks, not the immortals" can almost sum up all the lyrical parts of Stephen Chow's films. However, it is not easy to obtain the realm in "Journey to the West", which involves the separation of human beings and gods, and the separation of life and death. This will be another perspective, that is, under the compassionate care of the Buddha, all the joys, sorrows and joys in our mundane life are so humble and hopeless, just as the song (must be written by Lu Guanting) sings: "The sea of bitterness, Love and hate." Love and hate are human nature, not Buddha nature, and human nature is the source of the sea of suffering. This ultimate speculation may be the core of "Journey to the West" breaking away from simple comedy. For this point, if we admit that it has achieved unprecedented success, then we have to admit that "Journey to the West" is neither necessary nor feasible as a waiter. "Material" or baggage can indeed be reproduced endlessly, as can increasingly dry laughter, but lyricism cannot be reproduced. Just like we can't and don't have any need to write Chen Ziang's "Dengyouzhou Taiwan Song", just like we can't use high-tech means to revive Sheriff Javert in "Les Miserables", we can't stop him from jumping, in Do not arrange lifeguards on the banks of rivers.
In fact, what I want to say is that Stephen Chow, as a director, does not have much creativity, at least not higher than the creativity he should have when he played the supreme treasure or whatever role in the film directed by Liu Zhenwei. In comparison, "Kung Fu" may be a concentrated expression of Stephen Chow's methods and methods derived from his acting career and life cognition, which are far inferior to his earlier films. The biggest effect of "Journey to the West", in my opinion, is to exaggerate Zhou Xingchi's lack of resources, poor skills, and unpleasant self-obsessed atmosphere. Although I don't see it as a pure commercial act like the movie "Following Love to the End" to make a profit for the old TV viewers, the already valuable end-of-life state of Zhou's films (actors and directors) can be determined. This is a state of creation that I don't like. As an audience, I also say this because I don't expect Stephen Chow to come up with anything that will refresh me, so there is no disappointment. My disappointment was concentrated in the movie theater, and the laughter one after another made me deeply humiliated, as if I didn't watch enough Stephen Chow movies, and there are dozens more of such cookie-cutter things, I deserve to be in the dark Disdain on their faces, or they wouldn't laugh out loud.
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