What are the reactions of foreigners to watching Stephen Chow’s movies?

How do foreigners react to watching Stephen Chow's movies:

I watched "Yangtze River No. 7" in Toronto/Author: Let Me Planet

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I watched in the United States

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In Toronto I watched "Kung Fu" in a movie theater

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April 22, which is Friday in North America, at 13:00 pm, I watched "Kung Fu" in this movie theater The first screening of "Kung Fu".

I have been waiting for this for a long time. I even bought the tickets two days in advance. When buying the tickets, I carefully asked the white girl: Are there any tickets for "Kungfu Hustle" on Friday?

The white girl looked at me like a monster and said: Sure.

Everyone here buys movies on the spot.

I have watched Stephen Chow's movies countless times, but "Kung Fu" is the first Stephen Chow movie I will see in the cinema. I am also very happy that Xingye's movie has finally entered the North American market and is being screened across the board. And I can give a small support with a meager ticket.

I am still looking forward to entering the cinema and seeing the audience talking and cheering excitedly. I have also imagined that after the film ends, the entire audience will stand up and applaud enthusiastically.

When I burst into the dark cinema from daylight with excitement and apprehension, I stood in the middle of the aisle and turned around suddenly, just like the star in "Shaolin Soccer" rushing into the official theater for the first time. Just like participating in a game at a football stadium, imagine shouting to the dark crowd in the auditorium: Hello!

At that moment, I imagined that someone would throw a bunch of rotten bananas at me and say angrily: Don’t block me from watching the show! Or: Oh, why did you come? !

Damn! Rubbing my eyes, I thought the cinema was empty, but when I regained my composure, I found that there were only a few people in every corner. I sat in the last row and counted, there were only 15 people in a large cinema including our husband and wife duo.

Among them, there were about 5 Chinese, and the remaining 10 were mostly Indians and Pakistanis. It seemed that no white people were seen. This is really sad news.

"In the first game, you just have to make do with it."

I think the Chinese are not up to par. As for my group of three-to-five friends and their own three-to-five friends, everyone has watched "Kung Fu". More than ten people talk about it with gusto. If you ask them to spend money to watch it in the cinema, they may not Working as hard as I did.

In other words, about one out of fifteen Chinese people will go to see "Kung Fu". It’s not that they don’t want to see it, it’s that they have already seen it and don’t want to spend the money to see it again.

In North America, Xingye is a newcomer. If we Chinese people who have watched his movies for many years to find comfort and entertainment do not support him, who will support him? I am very proud to have such an excellent film being shown in North American cinemas, showing the intelligence of the Chinese people and promoting our traditional oriental martial arts culture. However, people like me are very rare.

Everyone watches Stephen Chow movies, but no one gives Stephen Chow a penny.

Sing Ye, we Chinese all over the world love you, but,

It was Hong Kong people who raised you.

I have watched the DVD of "Kung Fu" five times, but when I watched it in the cinema, I was very surprised that it was still as fresh as the first time I watched it. The fighting scenes and the emotions of the characters all felt more powerful than ever before. It was so exciting, so touching, and so enjoyable.

While watching, I silently said to myself: How could Stephen Chow make such an outstanding movie. This is simply not a movie, this is a fantasy, a dream. Such a scene can only be seen in dreams. Even the words in Jin Yong's novels can only be described to a limit that lingers, leaving us there to fantasize. However, Stephen Chow's "Kung Fu" shows real scenes. He allows you to use your eyes to see things that you thought you could only understand by heart.

No one knows whether he is the incarnation of a god or a messenger from hell.

Even my wife, who usually objects to me watching Stephen Chow, curled up into the shape of a little sheep beside me, with a kind of jealous tenderness in her eyes.

From her questions, I knew that when he was watching the DVD at home, he was simply absent-minded and just perfunctory with me, but now he was watching it in the cinema for the first time.

In the cinema, as long as it is a good movie, it will definitely attract your attention.

This is the benefit of cinema.

The movie is in Cantonese, and Chinese friends who don’t understand can only watch it with English subtitles together with Indians and Pakistanis.

Because I am already very familiar with the plot of "Kung Fu", so when I watched it, I paid attention to reading the English subtitles. It feels like you can hardly find any jokes in the translated language.

Oh, there is one scene where everyone is laughing when Master Ax scolds his younger brother in the car, saying that the neighbors don’t have to sleep anymore because they have to go to work the next day.

There is another scene where the fried ghost spoke English before he died, and the charterer told him to speak Chinese, which made everyone laugh.

To be honest, the character names and martial arts routines in it are really difficult to translate, and the poem "A heart-breaking song, how can I find a close friend at the end of the world", I can't translate that feeling.

Huo Yunxie Shen translated "The Beast", and Yang Guo and Xiao Longnu translated "Paris and Helen of Troy". No one laughed. The translation of Tathagata Palm is "Buddha Palm".

So what really made the Chinese, Indians and Pakistanis in the cinema laugh was the action. But what really touches people is the word "love".

This is a world-wide language that will be deeply attracted and moved by no matter which nationality, race or language they speak. As for other subtle meanings, the so-called truth and value, this is how it is seen by Easterners, but it may be different for other nations and races with different cultural backgrounds.

So, Stephen Chow's "Kung Fu" captures "action" and "emotion" and can become an excellent movie in the world.

Now, let me recall to you the hilarious reactions of these 15 viewers when watching "Kung Fu". Strictly speaking, "Kung Fu" cannot be regarded as a comedy. It is an action film and a drama. However, we are all used to watching Stephen Chow movies as comedies.

Since I can’t see the facial expressions of the audience, I’ll just talk about when I heard laughter. Maybe it’s different from the domestic audience.

The first time I laughed was from Jiang Bao. He stood there unconvinced, but the charterer took the picture out of the picture with his slippers. At this time, everyone laughed. I guess even foreigners think Jiang Bao is so handsome at this time.

Speaking of Jiang Bao, he is really an amazing character. He led to the charterer, he was blackmailed and caused the disaster in Zhulong City Walled City, and he led to a unique master. Of course he is a It's fake and obscene, but the seeds have been laid. There is a peerless master who is one in a million. The English translation is called "The one in a million". Or, when the star finally appeared, he was called "The One" by the charterer.

The second time, the charterer was beaten by the fat woman and fell downstairs. Maybe the action was too exaggerated. Everyone was laughing, but before they finished laughing, another flowerpot fell down and it was still in bloom. , and continued to laugh unexpectedly and happily.

As for the plots that everyone in China found funny, such as the charterer checking Ah Zhu's body, saying that a shooting star was kissing Ah Zhen, and secretly watching the fourth aunt take a bath, foreigners had no reaction at all.

The third time was the most impressive chain of laughter. The whole audience was laughing and the sound was loud. It was when Ah Xing singled out the Pig Dragon City and was beaten to the point of vomiting blood by the sister-in-law who was holding onions. They began to pick on the old, weak, sick and disabled, and the scene burst into laughter. First I found a short guy, and it turned out that the short guy was working as a bench. He stood up tall, and everyone laughed. Then he picked an old guy, and it turned out that he was so muscular, so he kept laughing. Finally, he finally found a kid, and he turned out to be very strong. These foreigners laughed so hard. So happy.

This may be a worldwide joke.

The fourth time was after the second master of the Ax Gang brought people over, the housekeeper said, "It's raining, it's time to collect the clothes." She ran back upstairs and lay down on the bed like a cartoon character, looking at the astonishment of the Ax Gang and the residents. expression, everyone laughed. This anime style works.

The fifth time, it was Ah Xing and Fat Pig running back to the city to kill the tenant woman, and there was also a lot of laughter here. Especially the part about throwing the knife. Xing was hit by the knife and everyone laughed. The fat pig came to throw it and was hit by the knife again. Everyone laughed. The throw was till the handle and the knife stayed on Xing. It was very funny. He pulled it out and said sorry and stabbed it back again. Everyone laughed so much that they raised the snake frame and the snake fell on Ah Xing. It was very funny. Ah Xing said: "I don't believe what you say anymore." Everyone was so funny. As a result, he whistled and was bitten by a snake, which made them laugh hard. The fat woman drove the Hot Wheels to chase Ah Xing. She didn't laugh as much as before, but in the end, she hit the billboard with her graceful body and slid down smoothly. Everyone was laughing. We have seen this shot many times, and this may be the first time for foreigners to see it.

The third and fifth times were the most impressive laughs in the audience.

The rest of the impression is not deep, maybe, little Ah Xing hit Mr. Hong with a standard palm gesture. He should have fallen down, but he didn't, and instead gave him a scratch on the ear. , little Axing was surprised, but the audience was laughing.

When the fried ghost died, he said: "What are you preparing to do?" The charterer called him "speak chinese" and everyone laughed.

In the scene where Ah Xing and Fatty Pig were bullied by gold-rimmed glasses on the tram, every time you click on it, it says that this time it is "Dragon Style", this time it is "Tiger Style", this time it is "Monkey" Style".

By the way, there is also a section that is full of laughter, not that kind of funny, but the section where the fat woman and the charterer get on the ax to help the elder brother and the master's car, the master tells the younger brother not to make a fuss, The neighbors have to go to bed, and they have to go to work the next day. They call them scum, and everyone is laughing. The fat woman's gesture for Brother Chen was also very funny. In the end, the two of them ran away in the car while putting out the fire and puffing up smoke. Everyone was laughing, but it could be felt that it was a hearty laugh.

Axing arrived at the Abnormal Human Research Center and had just released the episode of "The Beast". Fire Cloud Evil God was sitting in the Ax Gang's hall. Everyone was laughing at his pair of slippers. Ah Xing said that as long as he "cleaned" them, they would look like "The Top Killer".

A Xing's head was smashed into the floor by "The Beast", and he also used a small wooden stick to hit Huo Yunxie Shen. The foreigner was also laughing, but it was not obvious. There was also the part where he stepped on his toes. Originally, I thought they would laugh, but they didn’t laugh much either.

In the last paragraph, when the beggar appeared on the screen again, everyone started to laugh, and they took out more martial arts secrets. Everyone was laughing when they saw the child's slightly demented expression due to temptation.

Basically, the above is the comedic reaction I felt from the multi-racial audience watching "Kung Fu" in the cinema. It is still different from the reaction of our purely Chinese audience.

Collecting some of these materials may be useful for Xingye's next comedy-tinged action movie to be released in Hollywood.

Beside me in the same row was an Indian-Pakistani young man who looked like a student and held a big popcorn in his hand. He had the loudest and most continuous laughter in the audience. He laughs when people laugh, and laughs when people don't laugh. When he laughs, the popcorn shakes, and some of it falls to the ground. What a pity. Someone who is not from my race can actually enjoy watching Stephen Chow movies so much. I deeply despise him.

Okay, now let’s talk about some shocking shots, because in these shots, although everyone didn’t laugh, they made “ah”, “eh”, “oh”, “ah” and other similar sounds.

The first scene shows Coolie Qiang trapped in the axe formation of hundreds of ax gangs. I guess everyone is worried about him.

The second scene is the scene where Coolie Qiang was harmed by the overwhelming sound of the piano and his head fell to the ground.

The third shot is of the fried ghost charging towards Tiancan and Dican in the air with a gun in his hand, and the sound of the red tassel gun shaking in the air after breaking off several swords.

The fourth scene is the part where the chartered public performs a trick and knocks out all the teeth.

In the fifth scene, Ah Xing robs the mute girl, the mute girl recognizes Ah Xing, and Ah Xing escapes, all the while kicking the fat pig.

The sixth scene is that Fire Cloud Evil God shot himself and caught the bullet. Everyone was surprised. Maybe none of these foreigners would have thought of such a scene and had never thought about it.

The seventh scene is the scene where Fire Cloud Evil God throws Ah Xing in the air and punches him on the head. From the moment he grabbed Ah Xing with one hand and clenched his fist with the other, the atmosphere at the scene became tense.

The eighth scene is the part where Ah Xing is pushed up into the air by the Fire Cloud Evil God and taps the back of the sculpture. Many people make a strange sound. Weird? surprise? Anyway, I feel something.

The ninth shot is the two huge Tathagata palm prints made by Ah Xing.

In the tenth shot, "The One" said to "The Beast": "You want to learn, I teach you." Then "The Beast" knelt down to "The One" and said, "Master !” (Chinese means “I surrender!”).

This sentence came out with English subtitles. It was a little less playful and a little more powerful. It was a sudden shock to the audience.

Some friends may have doubts about the audience reaction I mentioned above, thinking that maybe the laughter came from a few Chinese audiences. I say, you are wrong. Because in addition to our husband and wife duo, there seems to be a man and a woman, that is, among more than ten people, apart from me, the Chinese guy was the only one who made a sound, but he sat too far away, and the laughter around him But very close.

In addition, Chinese people are not as fond and expressive as foreigners, and their behavior is more restrained.

After the film ended, the name of the director "Stephen Chou" was printed on the screen. I immediately applauded enthusiastically. Someone in the front row echoed my applause. I don't know if it was the Chinese guy, but his applause It went out quickly, probably because he was stopped by his girlfriend. My wife also came to support me, but I drummed louder and louder until the lights in the theater came on and I suddenly stopped. (I am also Chinese and a bit shy).

Okay, I’ve finished writing the documentary that everyone wants to read. Because the "Kung Fu" pictorial in the movie theater just changed to "Now Playing" today, and North American audiences like to watch impromptu movies in the movie theater. I think on weekends and the following days, the auditoriums in movie theaters showing "Kung Fu" will be... It will be like the auditorium for the games in "Shaolin Football", with more and more people every game. It will attract more and more attention and love from North American audiences until it becomes the box office champion!