Internet movies, the most like to rub the popularity of classic movies, such as the eye-catching "Spring Spring" version of "Qimen Dunjia", Qian Xiaohao's "Mr. Supreme", "Mr. Four Eyes", "Spiritual Master", etc., Liang Xiaolong Yuanhua Yuanqiu's "Fire Cloud Evil God's Shuluo Mask", Xu Dongdong's "Chasing the Dragon Fan Outer Chapter of the Billion Inspectors", Zhao Wenzhuo's "Huang Feihong's Heroes of the North and South", "Huang Feihong's Fury of the Sea", etc., most of them are playing love cards, and the production is general, so the praise and criticism are mixed.
Recently, a big emotional network movie has been quietly launched, that is, "The Needle of the Sea God of the Demon Voldemort", Cao Rong directed himself and acted himself, and the former fight defeated the Buddha and returned. Many of his classmates may not be familiar with Cao Rong, who started work under Xu Xiaoming in the early days, and later worked in the Hongjia class, cooperating with Qian Jiale in "Overlord Unloading Armor", and Liang Jiahui in "Qi Ma Ma Yi Yi", and the Shaolin Temple monk who was not as effective as Jet Li in "The Demon Sect Leader of the Dragon Slayer".
Of course, the first time we really know him is still in the "divine drama" "Journey to the West Sequel", in the play he is the originator of the ghost animal, is the "face paralysis" fight to defeat the Buddha, aside from these, he is the most intelligent, witty, the highest force value of the monkey in history, like a superhero, and finally sacrificed himself to save everyone, let me ask who does not love such a fight to defeat the Buddha?
"Journey to the West" has been rising in recent years, and the "magic reform", "facial paralysis" and "triple attack" that were criticized by people in recent years are not a problem in today's view, but a source of happiness. Classics can stand the test of time, the world view of "Journey to the West" is magnificent, the story is novel, the climax is repeated, and the elements of action, love, friendship and so on are not lacking, which is called the peak of Chinese magic drama. Even the villain is not a simple villain, the lawless is a combination of contradictions, he is similar to Thanos, he just wants to make the Buddha's world better, not simply right and wrong and good and evil.
It is everyone's love for "Journey to the West" for many years, so after 20 years, Cao Rong once again used this IP to shoot the network movie "Dinghai God Needle", and as in that year, personally starred in the role of Sun Wukong, who "Fighting buddha".
First of all, let's briefly introduce the plot, Sun Wukong asked Taishang Laojun to upgrade the golden hoop stick, wanting to make it into the form of "human". During the upgrade, it was destroyed, and the golden hoop sticks were scattered in the human world and reincarnated into a family. The "golden hoop stick" reincarnated as "Haiwa", because the value of force is high, which is a harm in the local area.
On the other hand, Taishang Laojun lost the golden hoop stick, fearing that Sun Wukong would blame him, so he sent his apprentice Silver Horn to the human world to find it. Silver Horn went to the human world under the pseudonym Ruyi, and married "Haiwa" and had a child. Together, the two solve two other pests for the village, namely the Nine-Headed Worm and the Man-Eating Youkai. (Drawing on the allusion of the three harms in the week)
While dealing with the Nine-Headed Worm, Haiwa transforms into a golden hoop stick, thus sensing Sun Wukong. It turned out that the "Fighting Victory Buddha" who had been blessed with the golden hoop stick before was not the real Sun Wukong, but the six-eared macaque, after the true and false Monkey King, the real Sun Wukong was imprisoned, and the six-eared macaque followed the Tang monks to learn the scriptures and became the Fighting Victory Buddha. The six-eared macaque is worried that one day Sun Wukong will come out and affect his status, but he can't find him, so he uses the golden hoop stick and his induction to find Sun Wukong.
Sun Wukong and the two brothers of the golden hoop stick joined forces to defeat the six-eared macaque, but the matter was not over, the six-eared macaque was defeated, but there was a "nine-headed six-eared macaque", it turned out that Haiwa scattered the nine-headed insect at that time, but did not destroy his yuan god, so the six-eared macaque and the nine-headed macaque combined to become the "nine-headed six-eared macaque", and caused the river to flood and flood the people.
In the end, the "nine-headed six-eared macaque" was destroyed, but there was no way to stop the river, and the only way was for Haiwa to turn into a golden hoop stick again. In the end, Haiwa sacrificed herself to block the flooding river, and his wife Ruyi said that she would live with her husband for a lifetime, so she went with him, so the golden hoop stick became the "Ruyi Golden Hoop Stick".
After talking about the plot, and then looking at the cast, director Cao Rong did not say much, one person played two roles, Sun Wukong and the six-eared macaque, this time no longer "face paralysis", but it is not good. The male protagonist Ao Dog, also known as Zhuang Haoquan, is a Taiwanese provincial actor who once starred in the role of Cao Guosheng in "Those Years, the Girl We Chased Together".
There is also a Taiwanese actor who is more familiar to everyone, that is, Hao Shaowen, who plays another apprentice of Taishang Laojun, Jin Jiao. Hao Shaowen can be called a childhood memory, when he and Shi Xiaolong were the hottest child star combination, "Laughing Forest Boy", "Chinese Dragon", "Dragon in Shaolin", "Ten Brothers" and other films are not tired of watching.
The actor of Taishang Laojun did not recognize it for a while, it turned out to be the cute "Hatsumo Zhi" Li Guolin, who and Hao Shaowen were the comedy directors of this film and contributed a lot of jokes. Li Guolin, an old Hong Kong drama bone, in addition to Xiao Zhi in "Tianlong Eight Parts", there are also classic characters such as Du Zijun in "Forensic Record", Yu Daiyan in "Yitian Slaughter dragon record", and Shen Gongbao in "Fengshen List".
Then "Haiwa"'s mother Han Mali is also a Hong Kong actor, also an old drama bone, who has portrayed "Laughing at the Wind and Clouds", Shi Meizhi, Feng Jie in "Looking for Qin", Fan Qinghui in "The Legend of The Tang Dynasty", it is worth mentioning that her husband is Du Yange, a well-known voice actor, Gu Tianle's "Divine Eagle Hero" Yang Guo, "Full Moon Curved Knife" Ding Peng and Luo Jialiang's "Genesis" and "Heaven and Earth Boy" are all from him.
From the perspective of the cast, "DingHai God Needle" can be described as full of sincerity, and it is enough for director Cao Rong to play Sun Wukong after 20 years, and it is even more rare that there are old drama bones such as "Hatsuma Zhi" Li Guolin and Han Mali to join, which can see the intentions of the crew. (The heroine Jenny is a post-90s singer and a newcomer actor, of course, the appearance is still very beautiful )
In fact, the story of "Ding Hai Shen Needle" is still relatively new, before there were many people speculating that the true and false Monkey King that section, Sun Wukong did not obey discipline, so he got a six-eared macaque monkey on it to replace it, instead of him to take the scriptures; then the film also paid tribute to the allusion of the three harms in Zhou, and finally the theme was also sublimated with positive energy, giving up the small family to save the righteousness.
Of course, "Ding Hai Shen Needle" also can't avoid the common problems of online movies: rough production, special effects of 5 cents, and starring acting skills are not passed. At the same time, although the story is new, the details are not handled well, and the logic does not make sense in some places, and the jump is too fast.
Under the limited funds, Cao Rong's "Dinghai God Needle" is remarkable, I personally feel that finding a big director, inviting some powerful actors, and then polishing the story, it should be a good magic movie, what do you think?