If we use the main theme in the original work—difficulty—to compile this story, it will inevitably involve something about Buddha, which is obviously the most ungrounded. But if the changes are too large, there is no way to avoid the "criminal" of tampering with the famous work. Therefore, the original adaptation is the most difficult. The plot of this film is not very well done.
That is, the theme changed from "difficulty" to "enlightenment".
There will be resistance when there is difficulty, but several places in the film show that resistance is useless, and self-examination is the right way. At the beginning, the Jade Emperor looked like a gentleman, and he would be more popular than the monarch of the United States. So this resistance must be vexatious. Different from the assertive in the original book, Wukong here is like a puppet, with a dull nature, controlled by dignitaries, and has no sense of resistance at all. It's not the Monkey King of the year at all, and Haotiangong has also become an angry youth who is fooling around for the woman he loves. The most terrible thing is that the director deleted the classic scene of the Tathagata urinating on the palm of his hand, and the writing of "Going here for a visit" was only a childlike joke, which made Sun Dasheng become a submissive, and finally had to voluntarily be suppressed. in Wuzhishan. This lost the spirit of resistance of the original work, and there was more of a joke in it. In short, without the struggle, the contrast between the little fox and Wukong is not obvious, which makes the appearance of the little fox slightly redundant, and the incompleteness of the story is infinitely magnified. It may be to cater to the current call to make Heavenly Court so decent. But ignoring the standardization of the plot is really worth the loss.
In the final battle, Monkey King once again became a gorilla, and the transformation of the Bull Demon is not only similar to the computer game advertisement, but also has the taste of the combination of the wrath of the gods and Percy Jackson and Kronos in the sea of monsters. In short, the field is broken, and the core is still too weak.
Chinese films always say they want to go beyond the world, but the problem is that they can't even tell a story. Not just sad, but happy. In the future, there may be many movies like Dream Havoc in Heaven. I hope that filmmakers can guard against arrogance and impatience, and be patient and write a story. In any case, this is also a very good domestic special effects blockbuster, which is still worthy of encouragement. I believe that the future of Chinese films will be bright. (Text - what ideas. There are deletions.)
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