"He is like a dog." After reading this sentence, you will understand why A Chinese Odyssey was deified.

Does every young person have such a regret? I believe this sentence is not only the monologue of the Supreme Treasure, but also the cry of every adult man and woman who has experienced youth and love, dreams and disillusionment-the sea of life. As long as you are not "Wang Sicong", there will always be some helplessness and unavailability in life and love.

It is precisely because of this * * * that a Chinese Odyssey has set off a westward journey in the mainland after the new century, and Stephen Chow and his works have been pushed to the throne of "Chinese king of comedy". Today, A Chinese Odyssey is still ranked second in the Douban Chinese language list (second only to Farewell My Concubine) with a score of 9.2.

however, I'm afraid not many people know that the life of A Chinese Odyssey was not easy when it first appeared. It flopped all the way in Hong Kong, and it was not until it was introduced to the mainland that its reputation gradually gained its due position. It can be described as "lost in the east corner, harvested mulberry."

Then you may be curious, given Stephen Chow's position in Hongkong at that time and the high quality of A Chinese Odyssey, why did it come to this?

at this point, we have to mention 1995.

1995 has been a long time, and I miss it very much.

This year, the songs of "Forgotten Water" and "You at the Same Table" have not stopped, and the labor law finally came to yet we called and urged a thousand times before she started toward us, and the concept of "double cease" came into being for the first time in China. This year, Java computer programming language was born, and Lang Ping was finally ordered to take over the position of women's volleyball coach-of course, you all know what happened later.

This year, the film market experienced a visual impact that was unprecedented after thousands of generations, and countless directors and screenwriters made great efforts to put a series of classics on the screen. There are Schindler's List, Forrest Gump, Brave Heart, Seven Deaths, The Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, This Killer is Not Too Cold, Love Letters, Years of Passion, The Lion King, The Bridges of Madison County, Twelve Monkeys and ghost in the shell.

Therefore, as soon as A Chinese Odyssey, which was born in 1995, came out, it was attacked by high-quality movies at home and abroad, and it was inevitable to jump on the street.

Of course, when it comes to the word "jumping on the street", we should look at it by comparison. Without comparison, there will be no harm.

In fact, A Chinese Odyssey has a good box office in Hong Kong, with the first two films earning 46 million yuan, both of which have entered the top ten box-office movies of the year. Of the Hong Kong films of that year, only five films, Red Fan District, Thunderstorm, Amazing Star King, Chariot of Fire and happy ever after, were more popular than it. At the end of the year, it was nominated for the Golden Bauhinia and the Golden Awards. Arguably, "A Chinese Odyssey" should be regarded as a blockbuster and a good movie.

However, for Stephen Chow, this movie is definitely a flop.

Compared with Stephen Chow's previous works, A Chinese Odyssey has a bleak box office. Due to Stephen Chow's high hopes and huge investment in A Chinese Odyssey, this work is also known as the ambitious work of Stephen Chow's "Color Star" company, with a box office of 46 million yuan, which can't make up for the high cost. Especially after it was released in the mainland, A Chinese Odyssey was defeated by True Lies and The Lion King.

After this battle, Caixing Company went bankrupt and the copyright of A Chinese Odyssey was sold to others.

At least in 1995, A Chinese Odyssey was just an investment joke in Hong Kong film and television circles.

after talking about the background of the times, I return to the work itself.

It is said that half a step ahead of the times is a genius, and one step ahead of the times is a madman. This sentence is completely applicable to A Chinese Odyssey.

grotesque style, parody of famous works, multi-shot editing and parody, which are familiar to us today and are not uncommon in various film and television works, were still new words in Hong Kong at that time.

Hong Kong films in the 199s are the epitome of all kinds of films and the peak of the history of Hong Kong films, which means that in the eyes of Hong Kong people, at least in the eyes of Hong Kong filmmakers, Hong Kong films have all kinds of films and themes.

martial arts, either with wanton guns and fire or with one move and one style, how can they fly freely? Literature and art are implicit talks and affectionate expressions. How can they be nonsense vernacular? Loyalty, that's what brothers * * * ride, fight for their lives, and betray and betray the glass brotherhood at any time?

The prodigal son, of course, is full of personality, handsome and a little handsome, and his refined style is close to perfection. How can he be unkempt and timid? Love is a unique, lifelong commitment, and certainly can't be a fickle unknown so?

Unfortunately, A Chinese Odyssey, which embodies all the above shortcomings, has become a representative of deviant. This kind of serious and nonsense cold humor, parody of various famous works, and tearful and laughing love are just like the unremarkable gossip on the street, which comes and goes in a hurry.

to put it bluntly, a Chinese Odyssey is not commercialized enough!

An authority like Shaw commented on A Chinese Odyssey as "a toy for children, or the kind that will break when you play".

But today, this style of "children's toys" has become a textbook for all kinds of comedies and romantic films, especially mainland films. I won't list them here.

Then why is A Chinese Odyssey beaten in Hong Kong, but the flowers inside the wall are fragrant outside the wall, and it is praised as an altar in the mainland?

The students in Beijing universities and the DVD movie market were the first to put A Chinese Odyssey on the altar.

In the new century, the flourishing and declining Hong Kong film market has gone downhill. Filmmakers are still clinging to the glory and mode of the past, but little do they know that the "Hong Kong film mode" that was invincible at that time has completely failed to meet the aesthetic trend of the new generation of young people.

Being young means innovation, creation, breaking away from convention and bondage, and it means endless whimsy.

the mainland, which has just entered the WTO and is fully integrated with the world economy and culture, is full of novel thoughts and ideas and ideals that break the old shackles. Therefore, when A Chinese Odyssey meets the Beijing Student Circle, a literary pioneer in the Mainland, it will be like a dry fire.

This mode, which inherited Zhou's comedy and pushed it to the climax, relied on editing and parody, reinterpreted traditional culture with carnival language, and immediately conquered boys and girls who longed for love, and conquered the young people who drifted to the North in front of their ideals and faces.

Love no longer needs to be serious, but can also be expressed in a nonsensical way; Heroes have finally changed their aloofness and become complex beings. The Monkey King is cunning and violent, Guanyin has different faces and different hearts, the immortals have different minds, and the Tang Priest is wordy. The journey to the West to learn from the scriptures is no longer a great achievement to save the people from fire and water, but a game of fate full of personal love and hate.

This is not so much a young people's struggle and challenge to official orthodoxy and all kinds of morality and ethics, but rather a cry for personal impermanence.

Actually, personally, I think the movie reached its climax at the end. After the Monkey King woke up, he found that the verbose Tang Priest became concise, and selfish disciples became friendly. Suddenly, he couldn't tell what waking is and what dreams are, so-called Zhuang Zhoumeng Butterfly, but that's all: "I don't know if Zhou's dream is Hu Die and Hu Die's dream is Zhou and?"

And the sentence "He is like a dog" uses the most vulgar language to completely sublimate the theme of the film, and completely eliminate the strangeness and sadness of life.

who was never an ideal when he was young and didn't want to be a man driving colorful auspicious clouds, only to find out in middle age that he was always bumping around in a cage and couldn't be idle for a moment.

Who was not full of expectations and fantasies about love when he was young and had a girl who haunted him, but most people ended up like a dream. If you think about it, you can't get it. What do you want in life?

People who like A Chinese Odyssey see not only the Supreme Treasure and Fairy Zi Xia, but their own past that needs to be remembered, and they are still reluctant and unwilling.

this kind of youthful atmosphere full of unwillingness and dissatisfaction can only be found in the mainland market, which is undergoing great changes, full of various ideological trends and full of vitality.

if you can't accept new things, it only proves that you are old. Only by staying young forever, at least staying young in mind forever, and maintaining acceptance and tolerance for new things, can there be hope forever.

Mark Twain once said: "The internal source of humor is not joy, but sadness". Comedy can bring temporary joy, but tragedy can make classics. Just as Stephen Chow himself said: "Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same body, and the best thing is the one with tears in it."

As far as I am concerned, A Chinese Odyssey with a strong personal tragedy is undoubtedly the peak of the tragic culture of Hong Kong films.

fortunately, gold always shines. On Douban, the audience of A Chinese Odyssey is increasing day by day, but it has always maintained a high score of 9.2 points. In 25, among the top 1 Chinese films selected by the Hong Kong Academy Awards Association, a Chinese Odyssey ranked 19th.

Classics are tested by time.

white clouds occasionally cover the blue sky, but the blue sky is always above the white clouds ...

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