The Hong Kong-style gags, the young and the bewildered group, and the page-game-like special effects make people feel friendly and playful, but this movie is actually a comic book movie with a tragic core structure.
1. Prophecy. The main point of the tragedy is the struggle and resistance of people in their fate, so the audience must know the fate of the characters from the beginning. The movie starts with the prophecy of the Bodhisattva to explain the ambition, power and fate of the domineering.
2. To comply. Xiongba conforms to the prophecy, collects wind and clouds, and is unstoppable. The more powerful Xiongba is at this time, the more greedy he is after fame and power, and the more suspicious he becomes, thus distorting his personality and virtue, and laying the groundwork for subsequent tragedies.
3. Obsessed. People with power in the world often have the illusion that they can control everything. When Xiongba learns the prophecy of the fortune in the second half of his life - the dragon roars in the sky will change, and the wind and clouds will swim in shallow water. Intrigue to change fate and induce infighting.
4. Coincidence. Bu Jingyun cut off his hand, was rescued by a genius doctor, and also grafted a unicorn arm; Nie Feng was poisoned, and when he was dying, he ate blood bodhi, and his power was greatly increased when he was resurrected when he was full of blood. Use coincidences to plot to rationalize subsequent reversals.
5. The ending. Xiongba was obsessed from the beginning to the end, thinking that "success is also the situation, and defeat is also the situation", but in fact, it was his own paranoia that destroyed everything he built, and finally was tortured by his own evil hallucinations, the audience did not have the kind of happiness Positive comfort, on the contrary, is more sigh and helpless.
Although the protagonist is the wind and cloud, what drives the whole story is the tragic fate of Xiongba himself.
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