text/Wen Dao II
In 2016, the Chinese New Year movie "Mermaid" released on Lunar New Year's Day, with a historical box office of 33.92, became the first mainland member to break 3 billion, and it is still the top ten in domestic history.
"Mermaid" tells about the land reclamation plan of the rich man played by Deng Chao, which destroyed the homeland of the mermaid family played by Lin Yun. The rich woman played by Zhang Yuqi secretly studied the mermaid. When the mermaid was found, she brutally killed and caught her. The story of being rescued by Deng Chao.
Zhou Xingchi’s hand-painted
Following "Kung Fu", many viewers who like to watch Stephen Chow movies continue to watch Stephen Chow’s funny "nonsensical" performance, but after "Yangtze River Seven" ate the closed doors, they continued unwillingly. Watching "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", getting up again with scars, and then watching "Mermaid" tenaciously, finally understood a fact, Zhou Xingchi changed.
He has become a filmmaker before the audience is not aware of it. He expresses his thoughts and feelings more through films.
Zheng Shaoqiu, Lin Yun, Zhou Xingchi, Karen Mok
No matter what the outside voices, and no matter how others evaluate him, criticize him, or "black" him, he never talks back to explain. In his heart, his works and him The thought to be expressed is important.
to understand Zhou Xingchi's narrative logic, film structure, expressing thoughts and what he cares about next. The inner logic of
"Mermaid"
The jokes in the drama are all driven by this logic. Different worlds of cognition will have cognition based on their own inertia.
The root of all funny is that mermaids cannot adapt to human civilization, and their hearts are kind and pure. Even for rich people with deep hatred, the methods of killing are gentle (in human understanding).
"Mermaid"
The mermaid played by Lin Yun walks funny, goes home with a skateboard, uses sea urchins as weapons, uses alcohol to detoxify, can't see the glass, thinks that she is a beauty, and learns to make roast chicken. These funny supports are all because she is The mermaid, and the octopus monster tentacles played by Luo Zhixiang are cooked to make a variety of forbearance.
are all because they are not familiar with human civilization, they need to disguise themselves, and they need to achieve their goals, which creates a situation full of loopholes; however, humans do not know that there are mermaids, and all the strange and funny behaviors of mermaids will automatically be understood as Misunderstanding in line with human logic.
Stephen Chow’s fairy tale coat structure
The fairy tale itself is not a child’s story, but a story that conforms to the thinking and rhythm of children.
In the first half of "Mermaid", there are many funny plots in the first half. The fake museum of the museum curator uses gecko to make Tyrannosaurus rex, salted fish and Barbie doll to make mermaid, and golden hairy Wangcai makes tiger. Become a mermaid. Is it very similar to the games everyone played when they were young?
Lin Yun played Shanshan
Lin Yun played Shanshan with sea urchins. The weapon was fish bones. Liquor could actually detoxify. He used a slingshot when he went out. He stepped on skateboards when he went home. He likes to eat roast chicken and ride a pirate ship. Who are these childlike elements created by
Zhou Xingchi? It is for audiences with innocence in their hearts. Only audiences who have found their innocence can resonate and understand the theme of Stephen Chow's play.
Deng Chao as Regal Xuan Shao
When the audience believes in fairy tales and believes that the mermaid Shanshan is a simple, kind, and harmless mermaid, the beauty created by these fairy tales takes root in the audience's hearts, and she is naturally classified as a class of the same class. , Shanshan is no different from humans except for fish tails.
Humanity revealed in "Mermaid"
Children talk about right and wrong, adults talk about benefits! Obviously knowing that this is wrong, but the reality is so cruel.
The audience loves this simple little mermaid and no longer distinguishes her as a mermaid. At this time, the rich female tycoon played by Zhang Yuqi takes the mad doctor and prepares to kill and catch the mermaid. At this time, the audience is thinking about how they are. It's time to avoid and run, but ended up being trapped in the urn, stuck in the house, brutally chopped and killed like a pig or dog, with blood splashing.
Seeing the audience here are silent, their hearts are very heavy, why are they so cruel? So cold-blooded? Then I remembered what they said before they left: how valuable the new species is!
laughed in the first half of the film and leaned forward and backward. Deng Chao even burst into tears when he found the article to report the crime. Those joys and childlike innocence were also brutally killed. The plot of
seems a bit irrational, why didn’t the mermaids find a way to resist? Why don't the elders who have spells shoot early? Why should research institutions treat precious research samples like livestock?
Because "The Mermaid" maps dolphins, in reality the dolphins are slaughtered unreasonably. They cannot be reasoned or negotiated. They are slaughtered just like beasts. High-IQ dolphins have absolutely no power to fight back against humans. If they don’t act cruelly, humans will probably forget after watching it, right?
Human beings don’t know how to cherish their accustomed existence, just like Lin Yun’s line in the play: If there is not even a drop of clean water and a breath of fresh air, what is the use of making so much money?
The empathy of mermaid
"Mermaid" is about empathy, the purpose is more human introspection and reconciliation. In
, the rich man played by Deng Chao ended the reclamation project because of his conscience discovery, and then donated all his property for environmental protection. He also stayed with the mermaid and lived together, expressing the fairy tale that humans and mermaids move towards reconciliation through love.
Deng Chao
But the tragedies portrayed by the film's theme are also passed on through fairy tales, because "the stories in fairy tales are deceptive"; the cruel harm of human beings to wild animals for their own benefit occurs at any time in the real world outside the fairy tale movies . The tragedies of
slaughtering whales, sharks, seals, dolphins, elephants, etc., exist more tragically than the human capture of mermaids in the movie. Really kind people will be silent and depressed because of the fairy tales in the movie, seeing the cruel reality they are not familiar with, and fall into deep sadness. The core of
comedy is tragedy. Mr. Lu Xun pointed out the soul of tragedy: it is to destroy beautiful things for others to see. The purpose of tragedy: to make the audience more strongly aware of the beauty of things through destruction, so as to realize regret and learn to cherish.
This is exactly the purpose of the movie. This is what Zhou Xingchi cares about. His childlike innocence has never been lost. His hope is like his sudden endings, full of the beauty of fairy tales.
Zhang Yuqi
In "A Chinese Journey to the West", the fairy Zixia actually passed away forever and could not be found, and there was no chance of regret. In "Kung Fu", even after defeating the evil god of fire cloud, many good people have been killed. Xu Jiao of "Yangtze River No. 7" has already got her father, and she can't wait for her best friend Qizai to return for a lifetime. In "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", the phrase "just fight for the day and night" is just a sentence of regret in the article's life. "The Mermaid" Lin Yunhui was killed and the mermaid went extinct.
But at the end, Stephen Chow gave a fairy-tale beauty.
"Journey to the West" The sunset samurai and Zixia are together. "Kung Fu" Zhou Xingchi Huang Shengyi turns back into a child, and the dead reappear. "Yangtze River Seven" Qizai returns with his friends. "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" Monkey King accompanied the article to learn from it. "The Mermaid" Shan Shan and Xuan Shao live in seclusion and are committed to environmental protection.
Luo Zhixiang
Conclusion
Zhou Xingchi has changed, and he has become more obvious to express his humanistic feelings. Under the packaging of his childlike innocence and the plot of the fairy tale story, he let the cruel and cold-blooded facts bring the audience's thoughts to the impact, and he makes the fairy tale The ending brings the audience the beauty of hope. He hopes that more people will pay attention to everything around us, the environment in which we live, and all the lives that live on the earth with mankind.
Zhou Xingchi's hand-painted
films without Stephen Chow personally appearing are less funny, but more thinking about life and the world. As a filmmaker, Stephen Chow's responsibility is to spread, spread those beautiful things and beautiful emotions.
