Reasonable movie fans will certainly not expect Jet Li to be the Foshan Huang Feihong, Jackie Chan or the Royal Police Chen Jiaju, and even we can't expect Yuan Ba Ye to be the creative Ba Ye. So even if the fighting scene is unhappy and not full of fun, it is still quite satisfactory, not lower than expected. Just seeing the monkey king playing the golden hoop so weak, it is inevitable to think of how Huang Feihong and Nalan Yuanshu turned the two long sticks into two dragons back then; seeing Lu Yan practicing drunken fist so plainly Oddly, it is inevitable to think of how another Huang Feihong drank a can of alcohol back then and made some strange tricks. ——Time is no longer, time is no longer, if this kind of cooperation appeared fifteen years ago...not to mention it.
In short, the fight is justified as long as it is well-formed. As for the plot, who cares, I hope that there is no plot and let the double J play for 90 minutes. But this film is embarrassing: I obviously gave up paying attention to the plot, but its plot still pops out from time to time to chill me.
Monkey King, Chivalrous Girl, White-haired Witch, White Boy... Trying to figure out the director's intentions, it may not be enough to simmer this hodgepodge without sorting out. But in the eyes of Chinese audiences, it still feels nondescript, not embarrassing or embarrassing. It's no wonder that foreigners are still learning Chinese with a foreign accent, let alone making a Kung Fu movie with a Chinese cultural background.
In Chinese myths, there is a clear distinction between gods and people, and gods will never be mixed with secular meanings. Moreover, there is a difference between gods and immortals. Mortals may become immortals through cultivation, but there is almost no precedent for them to become gods through their own efforts. But in ancient Greek mythology, the fireworks of gods are much heavier, and they can even marry people, creating many demigods and half-human heroes. ——This difference can be seen from the residences of the Eastern and Western gods: Zeus lives on Mount Olympus, and no matter how high the mountain is, it stands on the ground. The Jade Emperor lived in the Lingxiao Hall, a pavilion in the sky far from the ground.
The American director Minkov obviously doesn't make much difference. So we saw this plot: Lu Yan had the opportunity to "take an exam" when he was young, and as long as he passed it, he would be "ranked in the immortal class"; the palace of the God of War was actually built on the mountain, and ordinary people could ride in with horses... and so on. , And so on. It is very awkward for the Chinese to make the knights and gods entangled.
In recent years, magic movies have become popular. An American director who does not understand Chinese cultural background, of course, made this "Kung Fu King" according to the number of magic films. If you keep reminding yourself "This is the Chinese version of "The Lord of the Rings", this is the Chinese version of "The Lord of the Rings" while watching the movie...", the understanding will be much smoother, even when watching the heavy eye shadow makeup of Yujiang God of War (Zou Zhaolong) Better accept it: This is the badass fashion in foreign magical stories. As for the Jade Emperor, he was clearly the yellow Gandalf.
However, what does "The Lord of the Rings" have to do with China?
The awkwardness of this film does not stop there. Jet Li's version of Monkey King is already very thunderous with its ponytail shape alone. The pitted old face squeezes its eyebrows and makes goose bumps. By the way, I miss the "genuine" Monkey King of the six-year-old boy. Boss Jie, please, when you were Fang Shiyu, maybe you still have a little bit of capital to play witty and funny. But you were Huo Yuanjia two years ago!
The white kid obsessed with kung fu movies returned to ancient China and kept talking to the two masters: "Will you teach me the palm of the Tathagata? Will you teach me the shadowless legs?... I have seen Bruce Lee in the movie!" ——The silent monk and Lu Yan were obviously cold, and I, as an audience, were really cold. What does this line mean? Where is the laugh? This... Isn't this really a cold joke? So cold, so cold.
And, Li Bingbing's white-haired witch's look is amazing. But in my impression, the long hair of the white-haired witch was only used for murder, but now Li Bingbing grabbed his hair and climbed up, which is really a groundbreaking application. At that moment I thought of an old joke: "I fell into the mud, and then pulled myself out by pulling my hair..."
All in all, the ignorance of cultural background runs through almost every detail of the film. Let's not pick it either, it will be endless if we pick it like this.
Kung fu movies come from China, more specifically, from Hong Kong. Jackie Chan + Jet Li’s cast may only be used in Hong Kong movies to truly reflect its value. ——Even if Wang Jing is the director.
At the beginning of the film, a white child wakes up from a dream. It is clear that a TV series about China's Westward Journey is being shown on the TV. I was surprised to see that scene at first, and thought it was the CCTV version of "Journey to the West". But if you look closely at the Monkey King inside, it's obviously not a six-year-old boy. This detail can quite reflect the embarrassment of the whole film.
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