When it comes to Stephen Chow's films, I have to mention "The King of Comedy", and "The King of Comedy" has two pictures that are most "out of the circle".
They are:
"The Self-Cultivation of Actors"
and "I raised you"
These two products, the former can be used in a variety of situations without hindrance;
The latter, on the other hand, has the experience of falling from the altar to dust: the first is the most beautiful love story, but later it is considered to be a "cheat" that makes women lose their independence.
They are all detached from the existence of The King of Comedy.
Today, I want to return to "The King of Comedy" itself.
"The King of Comedy" is simply a story of a dragon set actor who does not forget his original heart, strives hard, and finally does not become popular, but still loves to perform with tears in his laughter.
It sounds quite inspirational, and Zhou Xingchi's yin Tianqiu is an allusion to his own uninitiated time.
In his heart, there is an undead heart that loves acting, and he mixes on the set all day, even if he plays a dragon set, he does not even have lines, he is serious.
Even if it is a corpse, Yin Tianqiu can analyze many kinds of deductions.
Because of his stubbornness, the director on the set, the actor, and the sister who organized the extras had a headache when they saw him.
But even so, Yin Tianqiu was convinced that he was right.
Yin Tianqiu, who was not recognized on the serious set, always regarded himself as an "actor", and did not hesitate to guide others to act outside the set.
For example, teach prostitutes to play "first love lover", in the party, with a drop of seemingly false tears to harvest the love and money of the guests;
For example, teaching street thugs to play fierce gangsters, collecting protection fees from neighbors...
Finally, one day, a big pie fell from the sky, and the big star Juan Jie handed him an olive branch and asked him to play the male lead of the new film.
Just like a dream, Yin Tianqiu and JuanJie went in and out together, and in the paper drunken gold fans, there was even the illusion of falling in love with Juanjie.
But ah, the dream will always wake up.
Just when Yin Tianqiu thought that he wanted to realize his ideal and go to the peak of his life, Juan Jie let him go, and frankly chose him only because the original male protagonist did not have a schedule;
And when the original male protagonist has a schedule, his substitute can only give way.
In just a few days, from heaven to hell, Yin Tianqiu was beaten back to his original form.
How cruel, how cruel.
The main context of the film is sorted out, and how to see how it is a story that is not met.
However, if you think carefully about Yin Tianqiu's path, you will find that this is not necessarily the case.
The prerequisite for Huai Cai is "talent", and whether he has "talent" is very debatable.
For example, the analysis of the dead body is a number of psychology, which is said to be deduced from the real experience of Song Bingyi in Zhou Xingchi's performance of "The Legend of the Eagle Hero";
But do you think, playing a dead body, does it really need so many "levels"?
Is it really good when a corpse that should have been dead refuses to die?
Film and television drama is a comprehensive art, like a machine, screws have its indispensable use, but it should not affect the operation of the machine.
As a dragon set, it is the same.
Just to show that you "have acting skills", you will desperately perform, so that the whole scene will be stopped, which is probably not a good practice.
Speaking of Yin Tianqiu's proud acting skills, yes, he can perform the expression of ten consecutive, but those exaggerated expressions, is it very good and appropriate?
I don't think so.
To put it bluntly, Stephen Chow's performance can only be called wonderful in a specific environment.
In his directing work, in the "nonsense" style he created, no matter how exaggerated and deformed the performance is, it is not abrupt.
Not only is it not obtrusive, but it also supports the soul of his work.
But the same performance, placed in other people's works, loses the soil of Chow Sing Chi's film "irony" and "self-deprecation", which can be called bad acting.
From this point of view, Yin Tianqiu, who has low emotional intelligence and is not professional, is an abomination.
The so-called "poor man must have something to hate" also.
But the beauty of "The King of Comedy" is that it is not one-sided; it is like Yin Tianqiu analyzing the mood of a dead body, from each side, it is different.
For example, we know that what Huai Cai did not meet does not exist, then, Yin Tianqiu is a rotten boy who does not deserve sympathy?
Not.
Yin Tianqiu, who was extremely frustrated in his career, unexpectedly got the true feelings of the world.
Why did Liu Piaopiao fall in love with Yin Tianqiu?
Because of his attachment, even if it is anachronistic attachment;
It is not easy to empathize with them all struggling at the bottom.
Why do the little bastards obviously like Yin Tianqiu when they are pitted?
Probably because they are the same bottom, but he is different from them.
Because of his sincerity, his kindness; he has low emotional intelligence on the set, but he can soothe every weak mood among his neighbors.
From this point of view, Yin Tianqiu is not so undesirable.
To put it bluntly, he is an ordinary person with ideals and insufficient ability.
If you can't realize it all the time, you may go on for the rest of your life, and you will be depressed and unhappy.
In the words that are now popular, that is, he will be forced to become a "lying flat tribe".
Isn't it like a lot of you and me?
The vast majority of us, because of our lack of ability, can never achieve the ideal in our hearts, we have to pretend that we don't care, and we are not happy; externally, we all say that we are "pregnant with talent."
In fact, where so many "huai cai do not meet", the fact is that the talents are at the top of the pyramid, and you and I are just the cornerstone.
So, what should you and I, as the cornerstones, do? A lifetime of self-pity and self-lamentation?
"The King of Comedy" broke the game with a very "fake" bridge.
It turned out that Wu Mengda, the field worker who repeatedly poked the truth on the set, turned out to be a police undercover agent.
Because of the accident of his colleagues, Wu Mengda asked Yin Tianqiu to take over on a mission.
What Yin Tianqiu has to do is to play a takeaway brother and deliver guns for Wu Mengda.
But Yin Tianqiu, who prides himself on his excellent acting skills, has failed to act.
In the rain of bullets, he and Wu Mengda almost died.
This role of Wu Mengda guides Yin Tianqiu throughout.
From pointing out his inadequacies, waking up his incompetence.
In the end, use a most fake play to tell him one of the truest truths of life:
Every moment of life is a straight line forward, you can't NG, you can't start over; every step you take is the ultimate you little by little.
So, every step, please be careful, work hard, and live.
After experiencing all this, Yin Tianqiu found his own life value.
He's still the average guy who's been struggling for years, but he's also the one who loves acting.
It seems that the path of life is no different, but for his personal state of mind, it has been turned upside down.
No longer "nostalgic talent does not meet", but put their limited talents in the most appropriate place.
It's more important than anything else.
This is "The King of Comedy", breaking life open and breaking it up for you to see.
There are joys and sorrows, laughter with tears, tears with laughter.
You can't define life with a label, the so-called "coffin conclusiveness" is nothing more than a paradox.
Three or seven points or four or six points, can not tell even the life of an ordinary person.
Feeling, thinking, laughing and crying – that's what King of Comedy is all about.
Because uncle Da passed away, the previous paragraph re-watched a lot of films that they cooperated with.
One day, watching "The Great Inner Secret Agent Zero Zero Hair" at a relative's house, several post-70s and post-60s were amused;
The sister of the post-90s generation said that it is difficult for her to understand why we like Stephen Chow because she does not think it is funny at all.
I think, an era, really over.
It doesn't matter, this represents the arrival of another era.