"The King of Comedy" Is Tragedy

Dorothy 2022-04-19 09:02:45

At the end of the last century, in 2001, I watched Zhou Xingchi's "The King of Comedy", and that year I was just admitted to university. In 2006, when I went to work and watched "The King of Comedy" at home during the Chinese New Year alone, I felt very different from before.

Zhou Xingchi's name is easy to think of Hong Kong's endless laughs. Before that, whether it was "Fighting Dragon", "Journey to the West", etc., they could not escape this inherent pattern. If you eat abalone every day There will be a boring day.

It can be said that I have seen all of Zhou Xingchi's works, and I think "The King of Comedy" is the best one among them. Watching a movie does not mean that it is good at the box office, nor does it necessarily mean that everyone thinks it is good. Movies, the important thing is that you like and resonate with yourself. Many works, we think are excellent, do they all resonate with you?

Kai Changbai, that is, the first sentence, Zhou Xingchi, facing the vast sea, shouted "hard work, struggle!" In a simple sentence, who has done it? I don’t think so. I think I have worked hard and struggled, but in fact it is far from enough. How can a person who works hard have time to read my bad writing?

From the very beginning, this film told us that this is the growth history of a small person, and the big outdoor advertisement after that also left a deep impression on me "shit, I am a piece of shit", and from then on, another small person also played Now, the dancer Liu Piaopiao played by Cecilia Cheung. When they focus on the same thing, I know they will eventually come together. There's no better match between a dead-on-the-scene and an excellent lady at the stage. And what exactly is that outdoor advertising? It's an advertisement. You can get a doll by watching "The King of Comedy", which is the one on the advertisement. An advertisement that has nothing to do with the movie, what it wants to say, I still don't know.

There is a small part that touched me once, that is the part where Zhou Xingchi invited the gangster to play "Thunderstorm", the grandmother coughed and persuaded her grandson not to fight, an old lady should sit at home and enjoy the happiness, but every day I also have to worry about my grandson, who is still ignorant and collects protection fees to live. When she heard that her grandson would act, the old lady was excited, and she happily ran to tell her, she knew that her grandson had proper things to do, and an elder who doesn't want his younger generation to have a good future , or at least don't go astray. And a seventeen or eighteen-year-old child is still the age of rebellion, arrogance, arrogance, frivolity, and restlessness. Anyone who has experienced that age knows it.

"Your grandmother worked so hard to bring you up by herself, she is the hero, you are not!" In a word, the little bastard woke up, what did he do? Nothing, you call yourself a hero? what hero? A hero who knows nothing?

Next is the climax, which is what I think is the climax, the scene on the beach. "Thank you!" A series of thanks is enough to prove that Zhou Xingchi is grateful to the woman by his side from the bottom of his heart, and that anyone who is by his side when a man is at his worst, even if this person is the old grandmother just now, you must also I will fall in love with this person, not to mention a beauty. Think about the times when we are all lost and sad, who is the person around you at that time? It's your parents, it's your lover, it's your friend. In the same way, a sympathy becomes love.

"Hey, look how dark it is in front of you! You can't see anything"

"No, it's beautiful after dawn"

Yes, the darkness before dawn is indeed pitch black, but the darkness will eventually be dispelled by the dawn, and when the sun rises At the beginning, it must be very beautiful, which also heralds the fate of the two little people. One is a trooper, although very attentive, but has not been reused for a long time; the other is a young lady who has no future at all. So, after saying this, Cecilia Cheung stood up and walked away. A runner can be the protagonist in the future, but a lady sitting on the stage has no future at all. For her, the future is this darkness, the boundless darkness.

Later, Du Juaner, a famous female artist, promoted this hardworking extra. Later, Zhou Xingchi admitted that a dancer was his lifelong partner, so Zhou Xingchi returned to the original self.

It would be great if the movie ends here, because the later "I'm sorry, I'm undercover" is really bad, it feels like it was added, it's too blunt, and it doesn't have any flavor.

In the end, he finally succeeded. How could a person with such perseverance fail? No reason to fail! However, the famous Du Juan'er is here again. Is it Zhou Xingchi's success or Du Juan'er's success? I can't figure it out till now.

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  • Guiseppe 2022-03-17 09:01:08

    When I watched it before, I didn’t understand the true meaning of the movie, but when I grew up and experienced more and more things, and when I look back on these things, I can understand the true meaning of life in the movie. , The same reason can also be applied to "A Chinese Journey to the West". ps, every time I see the phrase "I raise you!" I will undoubtedly burst into tears. ★★★★☆

  • Wayne 2022-03-18 09:01:07

    Zhou Xingxing’s favorite movie