Meaningless subject

"Wulitou" is an incoherent and illogical teasing dialogue. Radio Softhard duo and movie star Stephen Chow are both famous for this.

In the film A Chinese Odyssey starring Stephen Chow, there are some dialogues, which combine some irrelevant words together, making people puzzled, thus achieving the purpose of being funny. So it can be said that Stephen Chow represents the "nonsense" performance mode.

At that time, the whole market was expecting some breakthroughs, because Chow Yun Fat was not a 100% comedian. He can play Mark or do some sad plays. Jackie Chan's Kung Fu movies are made once a year, and they are getting more and more biased, not only in South Africa and Australia, but also in Spain and Yugoslavia. Such comedies are too expensive. Others are hard to be original. Finally, in 1988, Stephen Chow appeared in the public eye. At that time, there was a group called "Softhard" in the Hong Kong broadcasting circle. "Softhard" is Eric Kot and Lin Haifeng. The way they do programs on the radio is nonsense, even reporting road conditions. However, this kind of nonsense is very popular because it is irresponsible, or it seems that there will be no jokes tomorrow. As a result, Hong Kong has a "nonsense" culture, and may suddenly say "Why don't we sit down, have a cup of tea and eat a steamed stuffed bun" in the TV series. Why does this nonsense culture come into being? It is precisely because before Hong Kong's return to China in 1997, Hong Kong people felt that Britain was once the matrix and later became China. If we wanted to talk, no one seemed to listen, so the feeling of Hong Kong people at that time was: Since no one listened to what we said, let's talk nonsense. Anyway, we can't face our future seriously, so we might as well not think about it at all. We just take it one day at a time and combine all the comic culture into a temporary joke. This caused a sensation among Hong Kong people.

Wulitou contains at least three meanings: exaggeration, irony and self-mockery. Life is impermanent, and many pains and misfortunes cannot be resolved. Facing the darkness and filth of society, the greed and selfishness of human nature, the good looks of men, the impetuousness of women, the boredom of work and the troubles of making money, everything is the object of irony. In "Moonlight Box", a group of men led by Supreme Bao collectively pretended to be dead when fighting against the goblins, which is an irony of loyalty, because at the beginning, all his men appeared in a self-centered manner. In The Wedding of the Great Sage, he can't get rid of his love for a very annoying woman-Xia Zi, which is an irony of his promise, because he has promised Bai Jingjing to be her husband, and he will be someone else's 500 years later; In "The God of Food", Stephen Chow died unsatisfied for the proposal of a double-edged turkey to draw a heart, which is an irony to women-for a woman, no matter how loyal, responsible, intelligent and capable she is, she will always be just a skin in men's minds.

Wulitou culture is a subculture that sprang up suddenly in 1990s, among which Stephen Chow is the most outstanding. This kind of culture dominated the whole Hong Kong society for ten years, until it gradually disappeared after the Asian financial turmoil, but its influence can not be ignored.

Wulitou culture has flourished in Hong Kong through comedy films and popular areas, and has been widely accepted by Chinese-speaking areas. It has become a comedy art performance form widely accepted by the generation of young people born after 70, and has been gradually applied to real life.