When I typed this word, the Weibo that released the mv of "Once Upon a Time" had more than 40,000 reposts. "Journey to the West" The subject matter is a childhood that has accompanied several generations, whether it is the remake of the orthodox Liu Xiaoling children's TV series or the rebellious and subversive "Journey to the West", "The Legend of Wukong", or even the slightly funny "Journey to the West". ", "Monkey King Monkey King", almost every child can count down the great abilities of Monkey King: "Monkey King Monkey King, the great sage Monkey King, with a body like black iron, fiery eyes, immortality and seventy-two changes..." Parents They are also happy to use Sun Wukong to coax children: "Sun Wukong has boundless magic power. He once made a lot of trouble in the heavenly palace. Later, he protected Tang monks to study scriptures in the west, and slayed demons and demons along the way..."
We still need a heroic character to worship when we are young. The best candidate, he is powerful, arrogant, seemingly arbitrary, and traverses the world. However, when Sun Wukong loses his powerful ability and meets the innocent Xiaojiang Liuer, what will happen?
At this time, Sun Wukong has been reduced from the former God of War to an ordinary monkey, and Jiang Liuer, who was reincarnated by Jin Chanzi, is not the one who is full of sympathy for monks. They meet in the wrong time and space and start a journey that they have to take.
At the beginning of the MV, Sun Wukong held his head in pain and muttered to himself: "I can't control it, I can't control it, I can't control it..." He, who has lost the aura of "Monkey King", is like a stumbled horse and a bird with broken wings. The monsters that were originally looked down upon were vulnerable to a single blow.
"Old Tathagata, you have imprisoned me for five hundred years, isn't that enough?!"
"Don't forget, I am the Great Sage Monkey King!"
When ability and ambition are not directly proportional, what remains will only be powerlessness, shame, and resentful. He sank into the deep seabed, the surroundings were dark and cold, and he was almost suffocated by depression. No one saw how depressed the once high-spirited Great Sage was now, except...
"Great Sage! Great Sage!"
There were a few calls in his ears, he looked up and saw the boy's immature face, and the kind eyes mixed with curiosity and admiration, like a ray of light shining into the abyss, he couldn't help but reach out to grab, but, who? Can you hold the light in your hand forever?
The Jiang Liuer he met was an eight-year-old child who did not have the self-discipline and rigor of a professional monk, and some were just playful and naughty. He talked about the glorious deeds of Monkey King, the great sage of the sky, and he was not afraid to face the scolding and disgust of Monkey King. The dialogue between Sun Wukong and Jiang Liuer in the trailer is quite a tribute to "Journey to the West". For this noisy bear child, Sun Wukong's heart must have almost collapsed.
Jiang Liu'er's existence reminds Sun Wukong all the time that he was once, but not now, the Great Sage Monkey King who made a lot of trouble in the Heavenly Palace.
The perspective of the villains and monsters in the film is adult, they bowed their heads when Sun Wukong was the Great Sage Monkey King, and when his magic power was sealed, they showed their fierceness:
"Monkey King, your magic seal is still there, and now you are just an ordinary person. It 's just a stinky monkey."
"What the Monkey King, it's just a useless monkey."
Yes, Sun Wukong without mana is just an ordinary monkey, it is easier to kill him than to kill an ant. But Jiang Liuer doesn't care about this, his great sage is naturally invincible, so he will only say with certainty:
"We will follow the great sage, and we will not be afraid of anything!"
He was moved by a drop, and his attitude also changed from "don't follow me! Little brat" to the tenderness of "I am the Monkey King, I will not die" to comfort the child in a critical moment.
How complex is the composition of Sun Wukong's image. He is not only the devil who havoc in the heavenly palace to kill countless heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals, but also the hero who slays demons and slays demons. He is mixed with demon nature, Buddha nature and human nature. The softest human nature sparked out. Sun Wukong's tears for Jiang Liuer on the ruins is the moment he is closest to "human". At this time, he is like a father who has lost his beloved son. Jiang Liuer believed that the Great Sage would come to save him until he died. But powerless, Shengsheng let his trust and expectations betrayed, his anger and self-blame turned into a giant hammer that shattered the shackles, the seal disappeared, and the invincible Monkey King came back.
It is not unreasonable to say that this film is the prequel of "Journey to the West", it has satisfactorily filled up the bugs in the original work.
Who is Sun Wukong? Back then, he didn't even care about the Jade Emperor and the Tathagata. When he was making a riot in the Heavenly Palace, he faced 100,000 celestial soldiers single-handedly. This is especially vividly portrayed in "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons". Huang Bo's cunning and brutal Monkey King did not reflect on his past behavior during the five hundred years of torture. Is it wrong to make trouble in the Heavenly Palace? Is it wrong to seek equality? Is it wrong to fight against power? Tathagata's involuntary detention only made him hate and resent him even more. At the end of the film, Sun Wukong also succumbed to the suppression of absolute force. The subjugation chapter focuses on "subduing" him by force, and the real spiritual "submission" has to wait for the sequel.
Who is Tang Seng? He is a learner. There is no emotional fluctuation in the eyes of this scripture collector. It seems that there is nothing in the world that can move him except reading scriptures. There is no rudeness in the slightest; this person who has a weak temperament will burst into tears if he is slightly frightened; this person who has learned the scriptures is so friendly and pedantic, whether it is a human being or a demon, as long as he pretends to be pitiful, he will definitely be soft-hearted... ... [This paragraph quotes Xu Xiaoxi, the author of Journey to the West, the author of "Little Tang Becomes Self-improvement"]
It is conceivable that even if there is a curse, Sun Wukong cannot sincerely protect such a Tang monk. What made Sun Wukong willing to sacrifice his life for such a Tang monk? In the original novel, Sun Wukong has had an unreasonable closeness to Tang Seng since they met. Even if he has some temper tantrums, he always takes care of him and protects him fully.
Someone once put forward a terrible guess about this, "In fact, when Sun Wukong put on the hoop, he was already dead. The Monkey King who accompanied Tang monk to study scriptures was just a walking corpse. What he really lived was the scene of the havoc in the heavenly palace. "
When I first heard this point of view, my nose was sore, as if my childhood was always deceived. We think that Sun Wukong, who is so powerful and brave, who is almost omnipotent, finally lost to Tathagata, Guanyin, and Tight Hoops.
He was instructed to protect Tang Seng from fetching scriptures, from death to life, and to be misunderstood again and again.
And "The Return of the Great Sage" gave this puzzle the warmest and most sadistic explanation-it turns out that they have known each other for a long time. Just because he didn't protect him well in the last life, he always protected him with his life on the way to learn the scriptures. Even if the person standing in front of him is no longer the innocent little boy who worships Monkey King, even if he is pedantic and hypocritical now, he has forgotten the memory of his previous life.
I always remember the way you used to be. I am Monkey King, the great sage of the sky. I can't change my name or my surname. I said that I want to cover you. This life, the next life, the next life, I will cover you. I hate to owe people favors the most. I owe you last time, let me pay it back in this life.
At the end of the MV, Monkey King sat on the top of the mountain wearing a golden armor, returning to the original state of Monkey King, still alone, similar to the beginning, but looking up, what he saw was not Jiang Liuer, but Tianbingtian. General, thousands of troops, when a "Great Sage" came, Sun Wukong's response seemed to be astonished or sobbing, and he handled it too well.
The lyrics and the plot of "Once Upon a Time" are in harmony with each other, and they are literally precious, with a little appreciation:
the calling in my heart is always in
the clouds in the wind, it comes to me
, the person in the distance is still waiting for
the familiar voice that is no longer
there to say you If you want to leave
tomorrow, you will come back . You
can't forget it. Now ,
do you still remember to come
and turn around ?
If you meet me in the past,
please bring him back. The
stars and moon are so bright and windy
. The grassland in my dreams is full of promise. After
singing this song, who will wake up first and
say
that we
will
never part. Now ,
do you still remember that coming
and turning is not goodbye
, separation is inseparable,
flying over the sea of time and space of thoughts,
are you still
there, you say you are leaving
,
do you still remember that
turning around is not goodbye
, separation is inseparable, but inseparable ?
If you meet me in the past,
please bring him back.
In the film, Jiang Liuer has been calling out the "Great Sage", admiring, curious, anxious, loving, in various tones, "My favorite is an unparalleled hero, one day he will Wearing golden armor and riding on colorful clouds to marry me." Zixia's words made colorful clouds and golden armor the representatives of Monkey King, Monkey King is the "first love" of many people, their longing for lovers and their love for them. The expectations of idols are actually very similar. I am the only one who remembers the past, but your time is stagnant in this life, turning around is not goodbye, because our destiny has been intertwined, ten lives and ten lives, entanglements are endless, in the next life, I will meet you, the reincarnation of Jin Chanzi, Even if you are completely different, even if you don't remember anything, I will still sacrifice my life to protect you.
"I used to be", the title of the song has three meanings. Sun Wukong always wanted to find his former self, the omnipotent Monkey King in golden armor and clouds. But when he found it, he lost something more important. The former Jiang Liu'er can no longer be found, but can we come back with the pure and innocent hearts of the adored Great Sage Monkey King in the past?
The lyrics of the whole piece are simple and unpretentious, combined with Chen Jieyi's quiet tone, as if a story told in a straightforward manner, passing through time and space, quietly soaking into the present from the past.
It is worth mentioning that the lyrics of this song are written by Tian Xiaopeng, the director of the film, who participated in the animation production of the 1997 version of Journey to the West (if you don't have an impression, please sing with me: "The white dragon's horseshoe faces the west, lying on Tang Sanzang and following the three apprentices~ "), and the composer Huang Yinghua is the composer of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" and has cooperated with Stephen Chow many times. These people who have participated in your and my childhood memories are assembled in a wonderful way, as if all the things you like will come to you on their own initiative, and they will always accompany you in the process of growing up, although they have different paths but the same goal.
Some people compare this film with Disney animation, because although it is an animation, it is actually a film for all ages. This is an innovation of domestic animation films, which means that animation is no longer only aimed at the market of young children. When adults bring their children to the cinema, they are not only companions, but also moviegoers. In the same movie, children learn love and courage, while adults find their original aspirations.
The return of the Great Sage is a journey of return, and the journey must be filled with laughter and tears. However, it is not only the Great Sage and Jiang Liuer who want to return, but also our childhood dream that drifted away.
Heroes don't die,
come home!
ps: The definition of this movie is comedy. The official po said that there are five episodes, so the ending will not be a tragedy. Of course, it will still make people cry. I think it doesn't matter if Jiang Liuer is dead or not, the one Sun Wukong wants to protect and learn from the scriptures is destined to be Tang Sanzang.
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