Director: Stephen Chow
Screenplay: Stephen Chow/Li Sizhen/He Miaoqi/Zeng Jinchang/Lu Zhengyu/Jiang Yuyi
Starring: Deng Chao/Luo Zhixiang/Zhang Yuqi/Lin Yun/Tsu Hark
Genre: Comedy/Love/Fantasy
Country/Region: Mainland China /Hong Kong, China
Release time: 2016-02-08
Length: 93 minutes
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"The bitterest things in
are wrapped in the sweetest sugar-coated
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has always been fond of tragedy before, preferably from the beginning. At the end, because I think comedy is always inferior to tragedy when it comes to moving, after all, it has less weight. But then I gradually discovered that the most bitter things are often wrapped in the sweetest icing.
On a winter night three years ago, after watching "Mermaid" in the cinema, I suddenly realized that the person who taught me this principle was Stephen Chow.
"Mermaid" broke the box office of 2 billion in nine days after its release, and became the single-day box office champion with a score of 300 million on Valentine's Day. This movie that made us wait for three years has also aroused fierce debate from film critics. There are different opinions in the film critics. Some people think this film is "very silly and naive", and some critics praise the fairy-tale softness of "Mermaid" . There are also some senior fans who say that with Stephen Chow's level, we cannot be satisfied with "The Mermaid". The curious thing about
is that it seems that a movie by Xing Ye always causes huge controversy.
's "Mermaid" is no exception. The story is simple: Liu Xuan, a local tycoon, bought Qingluowan and plans to develop it. And because of the sonar injury had to escape the deep sea. The mermaid clan living in the broken ship sent the innocent girl Lin Shanshan to seduce Liu Xuan, planning to kill him and retake his home. However, Liu Xuan and Shanshan had the spark of love...
"How lonely is invincibility." At the beginning of the movie, Liu Xuan, played by Deng Chao, sang this sentence, with bel canto and funny dancing. There was laughter everywhere in the cinema. But many comedic things have such characteristics, as long as you remember it again, those funny appearances will fade away, leaving only a sad core to hang there.
The song "Invincible" was written by Stephen Chow himself, and it is inevitable for people to think about it. This may be what Xing Ye said in his heart. When people arrive at the so-called "invincible" position, whether they are happy or not, Master Xing answered with this song.
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people encounter love in this life, and it is not rare to encounter sex
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for many years, as he said, movies made him feel safe.
Isn't Zhou Xingchi always hiding behind movie characters to show his vulnerability? In the movie, Liu Xuan expressed his views on money: "What is more important than money in this world?" Zhou Xingchi is also said to love money. But whether it is Liu Xuan, who started from scratch, or Zhou Xingchi, who was impoverished as a child. These two people have one thing in common: they were afraid of being poor in the past, and money has become a way to gain a sense of security, an armor-like thing. In addition to this value concept, Stephen Chow has always liked the softness and innocence in his heart, and it is also hidden in this movie. After the movie was released, there has always been a big controversy: such a local tyrant who wants something, meets Lin Shanshan, an ordinary mermaid girl, actually said that she fell?
Rich man Liu Xuan sat in front of the roast chicken stall and ate a few chickens with an ordinary girl, sang two songs, how did he fall in love?
Many people say that the plot is too thin and the emotional changes are too blunt. If this problem is explained in one sentence, it is to understand innocence with a pure eye. This is the part of the plot that represents the characteristics of "Mermaid".
ordinary girls use innocence, understanding and love to awaken the local tyrants who have lost their heart. What a cliché plot, but also so idealistic, so "Mermaid" is like a fairy tale.
Beijing female writer Liao Yimei said: "In our life, it is not rare to meet love and sex, but to meet and understand is rare."
Liu Xuan is also not rare, he is not rare to take Ruolan away. Her own investment is not rare for her beauty and sexiness, but she is rare to meet and understand. There is one detail that is worth remembering. When the two of them ate roast chicken, Lin Shanshan tore off Liu Xuan's fake beard. The beard is just a tool to pretend to be an adult. According to the director’s explanation,How does Liu Xuan cross the market, but still maintain the innocent part.
And Shanshan's move to tear his beard is like a metaphor, which is tantamount to dismantling Liu Xuan's disguise and understanding his loneliness. Love is interactive, and Liu Xuan also brought changes to Lin Shanshan. As an unmanned mermaid, it was also because of Liu Xuan that Shanshan tasted love. From the time when Liu Xuan closed the door that night, she was no longer the ignorant girl before. She fell in love all of a sudden and lost her mind, and even gave up a chance to save her people.
Later, Liu Xuan said: I made a decision for a few million business in a few seconds, but I thought about the decision to marry you all night. Like Zhou Xingchi, Liu Xuan has moved from the lowest level to his current position step by step. His money rights allow them to indulge in sensuality and indulge. He lacks nothing but "knowledge" and "sincere."
Lin Shanshan has what Liu Xuan wants, so who can you love if you don't love her? And the phrase in the song, "She who is hiding in the sky, can't listen to me, my loneliness", it seems that Zhou Xingchi is also talking about his own view of love. This king of comedy who is so beloved by thousands of people must also expect it. I hope to be understood, I hope someone can see through the loneliness under his funny smile.
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is naive
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Zhou Xingchi said that he believes in the existence of mankind in the world. In fact, this belief also represents a piece of pure land that Zhou Xingchi has always adhered to in his heart. I remember that there was a period of time when Zhou Xingchi's reputation was so bad that he could be called a betrayal of the people.
But I still believe that Zhou Xingchi in my eyes. Sleek sophistication is always an adult's way of life, but Zhou Xingchi always lives in the world where there are mermaids. In order to avoid danger, he wears a fake beard to act as an adult.
Later, Master Xing began to make his own movies, "Kung Fu", "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", to last year's "New King of Comedy"... I always remembered a sentence when I watched it. In fact, he is more like a kid hiding behind the movie and talking about himself.
The movie world he constructed is very pure, but it is not the kind of utopia without human fireworks, but full of secular fireworks, but this vulgar and vulgar is very moving. His movies are all kind of "unknown, deep" love, very simple, or thin, but very cute, which makes people feel happy and comfortable.
And what he showed was the bitter joy of the little people at the bottom. Using comedy as his armor, he hid in his movie world, laughing and crying wildly.
is like Jay Chou is synonymous with generations of youth, Lin Xi Huang Weiwen is the banner of Hong Kong's ci arena, hiding in the movie, only dare to say the lonely Stephen Chow, there is also an irreplaceable charm. In the end, the phrase "The world is always hello" that echoed in the film for a long time was given to our king of comedy.
