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In 1989, Wong Jing and Chow Yun-fat swept the Hong Kong film industry with "The Gambler", winning a record box office of 36.29 million, bringing gambling films into the golden age. Another extremely important role of this film is to give Stephen Chow a stage to imitate and become the future king of comedy.

Since 1990, Stephen Chow has almost dominated Hong Kong movies in the 1990s. The only one who can rival him, and even the one who beat Stephen Chow in the second half, is Jackie Chan. However, although Stephen Chow is the most popular at the local box office in Hong Kong, he has always been shut out of awards. Not to mention winning, it is not easy to get nominated.

But in 1991, Stephen Chow achieved both fame and fortune, and also made his most special, weirdest and weirdest movie - " truant and powerful ".

"Fight Back to School" was written and directed by Chen Jiashang, co-written by Huang Bingyao, starring Stephen Chow, Ng Mang-tat , Zhang Min and others. It was released in Hong Kong, China on July 18, 1991. After the film was released, it broke the Hong Kong movie box office record in one fell swoop, taking in HK$43.83 million at the box office, beating Jackie Chan's " Flying Eagle Project " to become the top box office ranking of Hong Kong movies that year.

At the same time, the film also won four awards at the Hong Kong Film Awards the following year: Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor. Films such as "Top Gun", "The Legend of Inspector Lei Luo" and "Across the World" compete. Currently, 362,000 people have given it a high score of 8.2 on Douban.

The following year, " Play Back to School Dragon 2" was again written and directed by Chen Jiashang, co-written by Chen Jianzhong and Ruan Kaizhi, starring Stephen Chow, Ng Mang-tat, Zhang Min and Zhu Yin, and once again received a box office of 31 million Hong Kong dollars, ranking first in the box office that year. Ranked 11th at the box office. and once again received two actress nominations at the Hong Kong Film Awards the following year. Currently, 216,000 people have rated it 7.9 on Douban.

In 1993, Wang Jing also used the IP of "Truy Back to School" to film "Play Back to School 3: The Year of the Dragon", which grossed HK$25.76 million at the box office, ranking 8th in the Hong Kong box office rankings that year. On Douban, 146,000 people gave it a rating of 7.7.

Judging from Luo Xue's personal perception, "Fight Back to School" is Stephen Chow's weirdest movie, and it can even be said that there is no other movie.

"Fight Back to School" is a bit like "Schrödinger's Cat", It is between a masterpiece and mediocrity. It can be interpreted as a masterpiece that surpasses the "Westward Journey Series", or it can be regarded as an industrial work. A mediocre comedy from an assembly line. Because it doesn't seem to have an extremely profound core, but it seems to have a shocking enough metaphor. However, this metaphor is extremely erratic. It can be said that it has a storytelling core, but it is not as in-depth as "Journey to the West Series", " 九品七品官", "神神", so the whole movie Became extremely erratic.

In terms of story, this film is an extremely standard commercial popcorn movie. The starting point and transition, the setting of jokes, and the character changes are all very standard, and there is not much worth discussing. Especially when compared with films such as "The God of Cookery", "Nine Levels of Sesame Official", " Tang Bo Hu Dian Qiuxiang ", "Westward Journey Series" and other films, it seems extremely mediocre. Even compared with " The Deer and the Cauldron ", this film is slightly Not as good as.

However, the film is perfectly mediocre, making the film extremely smooth in terms of logic, twists, and story advancement, and one cannot find any flaws.

It can be said that "The Dragon Back to School" is the weirdest and most complex of all Stephen Chow's movies, which makes this movie extremely embarrassing. It can neither be called a masterpiece nor a bad movie. Weird!

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, Erratic Kernel

Whether a movie is good or not mainly depends on how well the story is told, but whether a movie can become a classic or even a god depends on every core that can touch people's hearts. , to express what kind of thought.

For example, how come Stephen Chow's "Westward Journey" series can become the highest-rated comedy in China even though there are obvious problems with the story logic? The essence is that through the story of "Journey to the West", we see the sadness of love and the helplessness of reality. Under the cloak of comedy, hidden is compassion for the world. It is this kind of simple emotion that can establish a close connection with the audience and achieve a three-dimensional fit between the movie and the audience.

However, when we watch "The Dragon Back to School", we will find that the film does not have a core that can see through the essence of the world. The director does not want to discuss three views with the audience through the film. It simply presents a commercial comedy, but its essence is still "making money, not being shabby"!

However, when we dig deeper, we will find that the ubiquitous campus bullying, the infiltration of social evil forces into the campus, the collective ignorance of the police group, the victimized people in turn become the perpetrators, and even cheating. Learning methods that do not use the brain seem to be topics worthy of discussion, but they have a strong sense of being far-fetched.

One of the best characters in this film is Wang Xiaogui. He interprets the fierceness in appearance and the power of a fox and a tiger very accurately. When he faced campus bullying, he was a helpless oppressed. Even this oppression had been immersed in his blood, and he had become extremely cooperative when facing bullying. But such a cowardly and insensitive person became a perpetrator when facing his grandmother. Relying on his grandmother's doting on him and the young boy's physical strength, he arbitrarily bullies the people closest to him in life.

The scary thing about Wang Xiaogui is that he will be extremely submissive and numb when bullied. However, this kind of bullying actually planted the seeds of superiority in his heart. So when he met his grandmother, who was weaker than him, instead of being grateful and sympathetic to her, he Instead, he directly becomes the perpetrator and enjoys the pleasure of becoming the bully.

So, when he followed Officer Zhou to achieve enlightenment, what he thought of was not to break the bullying order and destroy things that had hurt him. Instead, become the new bully and enjoy the fruits of victory. He is a victim of the old order, but he is also a defender of the old order.

If you look further, you will find that Wang Xiaogui's essence is selfish. Whether it is bullying his grandmother, assisting evil forces, or becoming a supporter of the old order, they are actually extremely selfish manifestations. And behind this individual selfishness, what is even more sad is that they all have extremely excellent parents.

In other words, they will become a family, will gain greater rights in the future, and then let their selfishness become a more terrifying weapon. If Wang Xiaogui succeeds, will he be good to ordinary people? He will just become like Stephen Chow in God of Cookery.

But the most frustrating thing about this movie is that the director did not delve deeply into this point. These are just Luoxue’s personal interpretations, and they even have a very far-fetched meaning. It does not have the same extremely clear and repeated mentions as "Nine Levels of Sesame Official", "The God of Cookery", and "The Deer and the Cauldron", and it does not even use the differences in mutual recognition to metaphor misplaced love like "Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance".

Therefore, Luoxue thought that the core of this film was extremely erratic, just like "Schrödinger's Cat". You can say that it is full of connotations, or you can say that it is just a very simple commercial comedy. However, compared with the erratic core, the film’s excellent handling of the story is extremely obvious.

, Standard Story

The story of "Truant Dragon" is the same as its core. can be said to be amazing or mediocre, but Luoxue prefers to call it standard.

This film tells the story of the Commissioner of the Hong Kong Police Department whose police gun was lost during a student visit. In order to quietly retrieve his beloved gun, the Commissioner decided to send Zhou Xingxing back to school as an undercover agent. Zhou Ye grew up from a poor student to a top student, solved the bullying on campus, fell in love with a female teacher, and recovered the director's beloved gun.

From a story perspective, the overall story of the film is extremely concise, with new side stories derived from the main story of undercover and gun hunting. At the same time, in order to prevent the film from being directly turned into a campus youth film, the director forgot the main task of hunting for a gun. Therefore, in the movie, the director is constantly used to remind people about the gun hunt, and as the story develops, the police force value, branch weapons smuggling cases, etc. are constantly shown to complete the main tasks.

In this way, even if there are a lot of plots in the movie such as Zhou Xingxing studying and chasing female teachers, the audience will not feel that the movie has deviated from the main line. This is a very obvious gap with "Domestic Lingling Paint". In "Domestic Lingling Paint", since Ah Xing entered Hong Kong, it was as if he had forgotten the main plot of finding the dinosaur skull and the Golden Gunman. The story becomes extremely scattered.

At the same time, this film is extremely standard in its genesis and transition. For example, Zhou Xingxing entered the school because of the lost gun, and finally successfully recovered the lost gun, making the whole story form a logical closed loop. At the beginning of the movie, Zhou Xingxing, as the captain of the team, only knew how to show off his personal heroism. Although he successfully rescued the hostages, he killed all the team members. At the end of the movie, he directed Wang Xiaogui and bully classmates to defeat the terrorists, and finally achieved his goal. A logical closed loop for personal growth.

However, this kind of succession and transition seems extremely stiff at the final turning point. Especially when Uncle Da happens to know where Da Fei’s arms are hidden, it is a plot that is like a cheat, which seriously destroys the smoothness of the movie’s logic. , making the whole story no longer smooth and natural.

However, because the genesis and transitions of this film are generally very standard, it gives the characters in the film room to grow, and the characters have a growth arc. The contrasting twists and turns not only serve the educational purpose of the story, but also increase the number of characters. The entertainment properties of movies.

Unfortunately, although the film has a growth arc in the treatment of characters, it fails to completely enlarge the characters. This means that although Zhou Xingchi, played by Stephen Chow, has grown, this growth is not obvious in performance. At the same time, his character never felt convincing. For example, when he was bullied in the early stage, he lacked a sense of misery, a feeling that he really felt like he was being bullied. Comparing the scene where Cecilia Cheung knits a scarf in Stephen Chow's "The King of Comedy", you can feel that Stephen Chow's acting skills are limited by the comedy performance form, and it is always difficult to reach the deepest heart of the audience.

However, as a popcorn comedy movie, the script, comedy, and performance of this film are all extremely standard. Especially in the handling of school life, the director handled the story, rhythm, and comedy just right. It is an extremely qualified popcorn movie, but the second and third parts of the series fell apart directly, and the plot became extremely stupid. Blood and deliberateness.

Generally speaking, although this film does not have a particularly emphasized core theme, and the final story twist and performance are not good enough, but as a popcorn movie, this film is definitely worth watching. People who like it can call it a divine film, and people who don't like it can call it mediocre. It is an extremely special and extremely weird movie.

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