It turns out that what I have laughed at for so many years is the idol's inner drama

Eunice 2022-09-21 15:48:59

Especially when I was in middle school, I would probably say that my idols were all surnamed Zhou, Zhou Xingchi, Premier Zhou, etc. I didn't think there would be anything inappropriate to put them together.

Basically, adolescence is just watching the complete works of Stephen Chow's movies over and over again. The domestic 007 has not been introduced, but it is almost my favorite one. A large part of it is because of Yuan Yuyi's appearance in the film, which makes me prefer it.

Anyway, I watched it again in the past two days, and suddenly found that Stephen Chow's movie is actually quite routine. Take this as an example, it is almost the same as Danai Detective 008:

Sudden crisis, organizational difficulties

Everyday outstanding 001s were killed collectively. 007, who was treated as a fool for many years, was picked up from the trash can and used to die on the battlefield.

Who knows that the waste coming out of the trash can seem inconspicuous, but in fact it is probably not very conspicuous, but inexplicably completed major organizational tasks

In the end, I didn't become a "big official" but "go home"

The essence of the whole core theory is the sadness, obscenity, joy and nostalgia for the last tenderness of a small person. Including 007, the male protagonist is a garbage spy with an unqualified IQ and height. He does not pay for daily recruits. In the early days, Anita Yuan was judged to be a waste under the "regular temptation". "Fellow" used robbery, but in order to avenge a little boy who lost his father, he did not hesitate to kill the gangster. This is the first highlight.

The gangsters work at night, and the funny complex during the mission can basically be mapped to the repeated defeats and battles in the heart. She was fascinated by beautiful women, but she took risks for the heroine's white rose and became a real hero. After picking up the bomb, he found the true face of the heroine, and felt hurt and left sadly. In the end, he successfully escaped the execution with money bribes, and defeated the big devil and returned to his hometown with true love and invincibility.

I want to mention the constellation of Xingye here. If the exaggerated and funny plots are removed from the whole film setting, that is to say, the funny plots are directly regarded as feelings of failure or inferiority, and the particularly exaggerated heroic plots can basically be projected into the protagonist. Cheer up his own obscenity. Thinking about it this way, it's not just that the Moonlight Treasure Box is laughing with tears, but that Zhou Xingchi's background color itself is gray, and he himself is happy to immerse himself in this emotion and laugh at himself, feeling the discomfort and greatness of a small person.

Many times, the reason why comedy resonates is nothing more than the fact that in the details, there are sensitive self-deprecating adults in their hearts, disappointment and encouragement to themselves, and self-reconciliation and comfort after severely scrutinizing themselves.

I felt like I was watching Zhou Xingchi's own inner drama throughout the whole process. It was a bit interesting to repeatedly pull emotions, be happy or depressed. But he probably won't be a comedy again and he will never forget it. After all, the idol's play is his, and only his own is warm and real.

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  • Sandrine 2022-03-19 09:01:09

    Deconstruction pays tribute to spoof classics, nonsensical cult works. The post-modern characteristics of Stephen Chow comedy are beginning to appear, but Wang Jing is still standing still. The "national hero Xiaoping gift" on the pig-killing knife, the profile of cross-strait relations on the eve of the return, is better than the current co-productions. The malfunctioning flashlight, the big hair dryer, the razor, the fly nailed to the wall with the flying knife, Jacky Cheung’s Li Xianglan, the smoke sticking to the lower lip, watching the A piece of bone chiseling to take the bullet, the meat stall at the end shakes...

  • Winifred 2022-03-20 09:02:48

    One of the best Zhou movies

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