One actor a year, Stephen Chow for a hundred years! As a fan of Stephen Chow, I would like to share a movie with you from an unprecedented angle, this movie is "Journey to the West". The filming of "A Journey to the West" actually requires a lot of determination, because whether it is a novel or a movie of "Journey to the West", it has little influence in Hong Kong and many people cannot understand it! This is also the reason why this movie failed miserably at the box office in Hong Kong, but it was immediately popular after it spread to China, so I have to talk about the novel "Journey to the West".
The novel "Journey to the West" has been very popular since its publication, and the interpretation of "Journey to the West" has never stopped. In fact, "Journey to the West" is equivalent to a reinterpretation of "Journey to the West", "Journey to the West" Who do we like the most? There is no doubt that it is Monkey King, but what really touches us is the determination to go west and the success after ups and downs. Many people interpret it from the perspective of workplace, humanity, and Buddhism, but no matter how we interpret it, the points that really touched us have never changed.
As for why the audience was moved and why this movie could become a classic, Stephen Chow understood it, so his later works could still become classics. Director Liu Zhenwei did not understand, so he later made a continuation of the movie about the Westward Journey series. All are bad movies, no exceptions. What does Stephen Chow understand? He understood why people are moved, because the most attractive part of the whole "Journey to the West" is actually a kind of spirit, no matter how you read it.
The four masters and apprentices (especially the Monkey King) experienced repeated difficulties and ups and downs. In the conflicts, contradictions, misunderstandings, and even despair, they still insisted on their goals. They have been shaken, they have been lost, and they all want to Give up, but never really give up. Therefore, what touched us most is the implicit meaning of the learning itself and the spiritual encouragement it brings to us. Once we are separated from the learning itself, we are destined to have no soul.
expresses all of us the difficulties we will encounter in life, the pain we will experience, the inner conflicts and contradictions we will have, and the pursuit of dreams. This process is a process of deconstruction and reconstruction. I believe everyone has heard the term deconstruction and construction. But what does deconstruction and construction mean? I don’t know if you have ever played with building blocks. We build a castle from a building block. This process is construction, and if the completed castle is demolished, it is deconstruction.
But if a castle is well built and we want to keep the most beautiful part, we don’t need to split all the building blocks. We can completely remove the things we don’t like, keep the parts we like, and try again. Some of the elements we like, the newly built castle retains the feeling of the previous castle, but looks completely different. This is what Stephen Chow’s Journey to the West is doing. This kind of deconstruction and reconstruction makes us feel It's very comfortable, and it triggers us to think differently.
But why did so many people feel so uncomfortable when watching the movie when they re-shooted "Journey to the West"? Because they completely deconstructed the part of the previous classics, the kind of not trying hard for the goal, the kind of inner conflict and the kind of moving to break through the conflict, the kind of spirit that finally became steadfast, completely disappeared, and some are what? Some are just selling dog meat.
Many movies just bear the name of Journey to the West, the protagonist is called Monkey King or Zhi Zun Bao, to tell completely irrelevant stories, even the whole theme is the love of men and women, spirit? It has long been abandoned, so no one likes watching many Westward Journey movies. Many comedy people don’t know why we laugh, why we are moved, why we cry, or why we like Stephen Chow’s movies so much.
