Not right. In the following years, films about Stephen Chow were also metaphysical. Advanced concepts such as deconstructionism and postmodernism were popularized as derivatives of "I hope it is ten thousand years". With a piece of "Western Journey", it stands out from Zhou Xingchi's many nonsensical works and embarks on the altar. In fact, until now, I haven't completely understood the so-called "postmodern". What is the definition? What is the performance? Where are the connotations and extensions, and I doubt that Zhou Xingchi himself understands what they are talking about.
Whether you understand postmodern or not does not affect whether Stephen Chow is an interesting director, because there are so many bad directors with culture, but not many good directors with attitude. So many directors who film comedies can make the audience cry. Stephen Chow has at least the ability to make you smile comfortably wherever you should. One important reason is that he has unconcealed, clear loves and hats, and clear values-these values may not be in the right direction, or even have a nasty taste, but how many people can be as courageous and knowledgeable as a star , Magnanimous attitude?
That's why I liked Zhou Xingxing who bombed the school, the abbot of Shaolin Temple with the name of "Wandering Dream", and now I also like Wukong who turns his face faster than a book, and the emptiness boy who is low-key than high-key. Even if you don’t meet a boss with kidney deficiency like the empty son, you must have rubbed shoulders with a low-level colleague who feels overwhelmingly self-conscious. That persistent old lady, Sahua, repeatedly emphasized "Why didn't you say it earlier?", It's a line that makes people laugh and tick. Of course, Luo Zhixiang’s repeated mispronunciation of "emptiness" and "kidney deficiency" looks a bit clichéd and boring, but I suspect that it is the Xingye who uses himself to get rid of it. (male) people can solve the two things of emptiness and kidney deficiency. , It's really not in vain to be a (male) person.
In "Journey to the West: Conquering the Devil", my personal favorite part is to make the greasy pig Bajie transformed into a handsome man with a palace flower on his head and a flag on his shoulders, playing in the costume of Wusheng in Peking opera, and then being exorcised by Shu Qi. The man punched back to the pig head prototype. This attitude is as interesting as before, but the form is higher than before. If you change to Zhou Xingchi of the year, Shu Qi will definitely make Shu Qi curse: "Do you know that you are dressed in such a weird manner, and you are yelling, and making such inexplicable gestures? , I just don’t talk for a long time. I really hate it! You are a pig, so don’t pretend! Hey, the fan behind you, let me play
. Journey to the West writes the story of the devil, and speaks all human words. This is so rare.
The biggest advantage is that I can really do nothing to steal money in 3D, the flaws of special effects, and the far-fetched story. Anyway, I never expected Stephen Chow to become Cameron. I also don’t care about the narcissism in "Falling the Devil", the star master repeatedly pays tribute to himself. A director who sincerely exposes his values and aesthetics can really only say so much, so repeating it is not a problem, the key is to say it well. Whether it’s meticulous, whether it’s interesting, whether it’s in the repetitive props, embodies feelings and emotions, and tells the traces of time in the changing details.
In "Journey to the West: Conquering the Devil", many objects remain unchanged, and things change their minds: "An Actor's Self-cultivation" has become "Three Hundred Children's Songs", and "Returning My Fist" has become "Destroying the Demon Sandbag". "Palm", the ultimate tactic of surrendering Wukong is so familiar, isn't that the legendary "Tathagata Palm"? Even the salted fish is still that salted fish. Even if it is upgraded to a thousand-year-old salted fish, it is still despised as "such a precious baby, we can't collect it". All the unchanging details express one point of view: dreams are more pure and beautiful, and reality is more cruel and ruthless-all the films of Xingye have been looking for a path that connects the two seemingly and lightly.
The only thing that has changed is Master Xing’s attitude towards love. It is no longer the frivolous "If God gives me a chance, I hope it will be 10,000 years", but "Don’t be a thousand years, 10,000 years, just now." . The girl sitting next to me watching a movie, she couldn’t help sighing, “Don’t say it” before seeing the article tearfully burst into the three words "I love you." Along the way, the 30-year-old man pursues touching romance. At the age of Master Xing, he sighs that it is the price of romance. If life is destined to be boring, it is better to have no regrets.
After talking about the funny and touching parts, I seem to be able to sort out the reasons why I have such a good impression of Master Xing for decades. Master Xing does not pretend or underestimate the audience, nor does he overestimate or underestimate the audience. He does not even think about the audience. He just speaks very frankly and persistently about his views on the world. I remember watching an interview with Star Master in the past, saying that he came out of the wireless artist class and became a children’s show host. He who hates children the most has to be patient with his children. I think that for so many years, Zhou Xingchi is still the host who talks to a group of children.
At this point, I have to admit with a bit of a loss: we have never changed the world, it has always been the world that changes us, or changes our view of the world. The only thing we can choose is to stay in my time like Stephen Chow. If you look at Zhou Xingchi now, you no longer laugh into a stupid as you did in the past, not because you are no longer a stupid, but because you already thought you were no longer the stupid you used to be.
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