Stephen Chow's movie I rank no-1! The opening credits are stunning enough, the whole film is a dream plot review (normal timeline) "Kung Fu" This movie is not just a simple kung fu comedy. Let's first analyze the title of "Kung Fu". Next, we analyze the end of the film

Today, I want to share with you the 2004 "Kung Fu" directed by Stephen Chow.

Referral Index: ★★★★

Suspense Index: ★★★

Visual Index: ★★★

Plot Index: ★★★★

Kung Fu poster

If I told you that the movie "Kung Fu" was actually a dream, would you believe it?

Zhuang Zhou Mengdi

First, take a look at the normal timeline of the Kung Fu story, and you'll find clues.

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Teenager - Star Boy when he was a child

An old beggar selling fake books peddles fake martial arts secrets to a teenager, and the teenager believes it to be true.

This sentence is found in almost every martial arts movie

I used all my savings to buy a copy of "Rulai Divine Palm".

Such as the palm of god

After practicing a few times, the teenager naively thought that he had practiced the world's best martial arts.

Painstaking cultivation

One day, the teenager encountered a group of older children bullying a little girl who had lost her voice and snatched the lollipop from her hand.

The little girl was bullied

The teenager wanted to use his own training "Rulai Divine Palm" to see the righteous and courageous, and as a result, his so-called kung fu was completely fake, and he became a laughing stock in front of the big children, and was squashed by everyone, and he was also peed on his head.

The teenager was beaten violently

Still peeing on his head

After the eldest children retreated, the little girl came to thank and comfort the teenager and wanted to give her lollipop to the teenager, but the teenager did not accept it and ran away in shame.

There was a girl who wanted to give me a lollipop and I didn't receive it

Then, the teenager becomes a youth, that is, the protagonist Xingzai played by Zhou Xingchi. He and the fat man spent all day idle, pit abduction. But they are always bullied because they are not cruel enough.

Out of the mix, sooner or later to pay back

Good pectoral muscles

This also seems to be familiar with the experience of practicing as a teenager and not being flattened.

Later, Zhou Xingchi and the fat man came to the "Pig Cage City Wall"

Pig cage walled city

The two wanted to use the name of the Axe Gang to extort and extort money from the villagers, but they did not expect that the village was full of masters, and they once again became a vulnerable group.

Shorts become eldest

The child becomes a block

The old man becomes a muscular man

Later, the Real Axe Gang came to the village and had a conflict with the villagers

An arrow through the clouds, thousands of troops and horses to meet each other

So the leader of the Axe Gang, Brother Chen, made up his mind to shovel the pig cage village to the ground.

Chenge

Chen Ge sent round after round of thugs and killers to harass the village.

Chen's soldiers and horses

First of all, he was an ordinary gang member, but he was beaten by the three hidden masters, the Twelve Road Tan Legs, the Hongjia Iron Fist, and the Goro Bagua Stick.

Twelve-way Tan legs

Hongjia Clematis

Goro Bagua Stick

Then he sent out the liver and intestines killer combination that temporarily ranked first in the killer list,

Liver and intestines cut off killer group

As a result, he was beaten back to his original form by the tai chi of the chartered gong and the lion roar gong of the chartered wife.

Chartered public tai chi

The lion roar of the chartered wife

In desperation, Chen Ge had to let Zhou Xingchi go to the "Abnormal Human Research Center" to find out the real number one Fire Cloud Evil God to fight.

Abnormal Human Research Center

As a result, the Fire Cloud Evil God accidentally opened up Zhou Xingchi's Ren Dou Second Pulse, and was surrendered by Zhou Xingchi with the Rulai God Palm.

The Fire Cloud Evil God beats star boy hard

In the end, Zhou Xingchi became a real master in the play.

Star Boy defeated the Fire Cloud Evil God

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If you think Kung Fu is just a simple kung fu comedy, you're dead wrong.

The story of "Kung Fu", if you pinch the head and tail, is indeed a particularly easy to decompress the comedy.

Foreign posters, completely can't get what "Kung Fu" is shooting

But it is precisely because of its elaborate opening and ending that this comedy classic is complete.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="147" > let's analyze the title of "Kung Fu" first. </h1>

The butterfly at the beginning of the film - Zhuang Zhou Meng butterfly

As soon as the opening was just ten seconds, director Zhou Xingchi had already made it clear.

At the beginning of the film, we follow the perspective of a butterfly floating among the mountains. (Why butterflies, you savor)

Butterflies skipped over the mountains, but from the perspective of butterflies in this mountain, we couldn't see the whole picture, and it wasn't until the camera was raised to God's perspective that we could see these mountains, which was actually the title of the movie - Kung Fu.

The title of the movie composed of mountains

And the realm of kung fu, as expressed in the opening scene, is a mountain and a mountain high.

If you see this and don't think you understand it very well, then the crocodile gang boss shouted, "Who else?" "It should be enough to make people feel enlightened."

Who else

Feng Xiaogang flew the police chief on the plaque of "evil nemesis", so he naturally became the first "master" in the movie.

Sin busters

But he was obviously not happy for too long, and was immediately clearly cleaned up by the Axe Gang. In this regard, the Axe Gang also took over the mantle of "masters".

Axe Gang Boss - Chen Ge

However, the audience is well aware that the so-called Axe Gang is only one of the sticks in the master relay race. They went to the pig cage village in a fierce manner, only to be beaten by the three anonymous masters in the village and unable to find them.

Here we pay attention to the order in which the three masters reveal their true strength. Twelve-way Tan Legs, Hongjia Iron Fist, and Goro Bagua Stick, they do not appear randomly, but appear sequentially according to the level of strength.

The strength of the three of them was verified by defeating their liver and intestines killer group, and before the bullet leg could pass, the head had already landed on the ground. The Clematis barely managed to pass a few moves and lost. The gossip stick almost had the upper hand, but it fell short.

Slowly you will find that all the "masters" appear in accordance with this law. The next to show their strength are the "Liver and Intestines Killer Group", the "Divine Eagle Hero Combination", the Fire Cloud Evil God, and finally the Star Boy.

The positions of the various masters in the play, we can divide it like this:

The first order, I don't know if I'm a master — the typical representatives are the Crocodile Gang and the Axe Gang. With some force, they run amok and self-righteous. In fact, it's nothing.

Master - Axe Gang

The second order, I know that I am not a master - the typical representative is the three anonymous tenants of Pig Cage Village, the Twelve Road Tan Legs, the Hongjia Iron Fist and the Goro Bagua Stick, as well as the "Liver and Intestine Killer Group" and the "Divine Eagle Hero".

Master - Pig Cage Village Sanjie

Master - Divine Eagle Hero

Yang Guo vs Little Dragon Girl

They have self-knowledge, know that there are people outside the people, there is a sky outside the sky, and they do not easily reveal their identities.

The third order, I know that I am a master - the typical representative is, the fire cloud evil god. He hides his identity because he can no longer meet an enemy in the world, and he is only willing to show his face when he finds a real master. His understanding of kung fu is no longer a means of violence, but an art.

Master - Fire Cloud Evil God

The Divine Eagle Heroes join forces to fight the Evil God of Fire Cloud

The evil god is also quite handsome

Toad Gong

The fourth order, I don't know that I am a master - the typical representative is the protagonist played by Stephen Chow. Even he didn't know that he was actually skeletal surprise and had a special skill, until he was opened by his opponent to open the second vein of Ren Dou.

Master - Star Boy

Kick the evil god away

Star Boy is mighty

Therefore, in "Kung Fu", we see such a law - the more it will not disguise, the sooner it will reveal its martial arts, the sooner it will face the fate of being defeated. And the more powerful the master, the more he understands the truth that there is a mountain outside the mountain, the less he will casually take kung fu to show it.

French version of the Kung Fu poster

So the question is, is Star Ye the most powerful person in the movie? I don't think so.

Because the really powerful person, you may not necessarily know that he exists.

When the Axe Gang first came to Pig Cage Village to make trouble, the second in command of the Axe Gang played by Lin Xue was knocked over in an asphalt barrel.

The second in command is gone

Later, the twelve-way Tan leg - coolie strong came forward to claim this violent incident.

Coolie strong top bag

At that time, the camera flashed by, we didn't see any shots with strong coolies, no one saw clearly what was happening, what was already happening. This is obviously not something that can be done by ordinary capable people

If the coolies could have such abilities, I don't think they would die at the hands of the liver and intestines. Obviously, the coolie is in a hurry, and can't stand up to save people. But the one who really turned the axe over to the second in command, we still can't confirm who it is.

This who

Who is this one, is the real master.

In "Kung Fu", such masters, and masters who are more powerful than such masters, should be everywhere.

You can never know how many other people there are, how many people are better than yourself. This is director Stephen Chow, a blank space for the audience. In this blank space, it is the real master of the jianghu.

A mountain is more than a mountain high

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="150" > Next, we analyze the end of the film</h1>

Without this ending, the classic degree of "Kung Fu" would have been reduced by at least half.

At the end of the film, Stephen Chow and Fat Man open a candy store, right next to the traffic light where they often haunt.

When Zhou Xingchi walked out of the candy store, he transformed into the teenager who had seen righteousness and courage, and across the road was the aphasia girl who was grateful to her.

adult

juvenile

The little girl handed the boy the colorful lollipop, and then walked into the candy store hand in hand with the teenager.

But what I want to draw your attention to is not these two "protagonists", but the characters in the background behind the protagonist.

The various characters coming and going in the background, if you don't look closely, it is difficult to find that many of them have actually appeared in the play.

There are the "Fire Cloud Evil God" who directs traffic at the entrance of the store, there is the sauce explosion youth with his butt exposed, there is the glue-like "Divine Eagle Hero", and a large number of martial arts masters appear in the film.

Condor Heroes

Fire Cloud Evil God

Sauce burst youth

Tooth Jane and Four-Eyed Boy

Clematis

Therefore, half a cat believes that the protagonist on the surface of the film is Star Ye, but the real protagonist is this teenager.

And the various bizarre and bizarre and absurd adventures experienced by Zhou Xingchi in the movie are all a dream of this teenager.

Those martial arts masters are just ordinary people who see and hear around teenagers every day, and after the fantasies of teenagers, they have become martial arts masters in "Kung Fu".

In fact, there are many such types of movies, typical of which are "Death Illusion", "Life and Death Stay", "Foggy" and so on. The whole film is made up of fragmented information in the protagonist's reality, supplemented by the brain.

Hallucinations of death

Life and death stay

Foggy

Below, I'll cite clues and evidence from the film to prove this point:

&gt;&gt;&gt;1, more obvious, just mentioned, is the end, Star Ye and the girl in front of the candy store in front of the face of each other, when the boy woke up, back to reality, the two held hands into the store.

Then we saw the fire cloud evil god, sauce explosion, god eagle hero, clematis, Gong Yazhen and other characters in the play all turned into passers-by.

&gt;&gt;&gt; 2, which I think is one of the most exciting places in the movie, the fat man next to Star Boy.

Star Boy and Fat Man are always inseparable

When the two men appeared, they had a big billboard above their heads.

Billboard intentions

The advertisement says "serve three times a month, the skinny boy becomes fat", and then the camera slowly shakes from the close-up of this billboard to a fat and a thin two protagonists, I think such a lens language is enough to show the meaning of it, obviously hinting at the relationship between the two, in fact, they are two different personalities of a person.

The two were born into death

Thin, because he was bullied as a child, determined to be a bad person; fat, always bad, drop the chain at key moments. These two people are the evil thoughts and good thoughts of the teenager.

Fall asleep at critical moments

Hit my teammates hard

The thin one thinks that the fat one is dragging himself down, but the fat one is the good heart that still exists in the heart of the teenager, and does not want the star boy to fall to the evil side. However, when the two went to rob the lollipop woman, the thin one could not find a way to open the box, but the fat one pulled out the latch and opened the box containing the money. Here is a turning point in the protagonist's inner struggle, the good side is doing evil things, indicating that the protagonist is shaking to the evil side. Then the lollipop was broken by the skinny man, and the fat man was chased away by the skinny man.

Star Boy drove away the fat man

Symbolizes the blackening of the protagonist's steps.

Inner turmoil

The Lollipop Woman did not give up on Star Boy

However, Xingzai was kind after all, and at the critical moment, he still shot at the axe to help Chen Ge and the Fire Cloud Evil God, although he hit the stone with a pebble a little, but he was also blessed by misfortune to open up the second vein of Ren Dou. He used his own blood to restore the broken lollipop, showing that the goodness in his heart had not been completely extinguished.

Blood-painted lollipops

Patchwork together lollipops

At this time, the camera once again gave the fat man under the traffic light, he looked at the handprints on the traffic light one by one, and suddenly realized something.

Handprints on traffic lights

The fat man saw the handprint

Then, Xingzai learned the unique martial art of Rulai Divine Palm.

&gt;&gt;&gt; 3, after Zhou Xingchi opened the second pulse of Ren Dou, his martial arts improved by leaps and bounds, but he used a trick of stepping on his toes in actual combat, and he was also spat on the spot by the Fire Cloud Evil God.

Step on your toes

Because adults never step on their toes in fights, but in children's fights, stepping on the fingers is the most common move. This is also because the protagonist's mind is still a child.

&gt;&gt;&gt; 4, the old beggar reappears, but compared with the way the protagonist looked when he met when he was a child, he did not grow old at all, twenty years as a day, how could it be.

The old beggar in the memory

Now the old beggar

That's because boys don't grow up at all, and time never goes by. So the beggar is still the same beggar.

And the beggar mentioned to the teenager at that time - "I will not go to hell, who will go to hell", the motto of the chivalrous man,

I don't go to hell, who goes to hell

It left a deep imprint on the young man's young heart, so much so that the "Divine Eagle Hero" Xiaolongnü in his dream also said the same thing.

Chivalrous aphorisms

At the end of the film, the old beggar not only took out the "Rulai Divine Palm" for peddling, but he also took out the "Thousand Hands Divine Fist", "Descending Dragon Eighteen Palms", "Nine Yin True Scriptures", "One Yang Finger", "Nine Swords of Solitude" and many martial arts secret books.

Earned

And it is a martial arts cheatbook marked with a price tag.

Clearly marked price - top good group

Thus the true identity of the beggar is already very obvious – a total liar.

But for the teenager, "Rulai Divine Palm" did not make him lose nothing. It is precisely because of "Rulai God Palm" that he will have the determination to see righteousness and courage, and win the affirmation of the little girl.

I give you a thumbs up

The deaf-mute girl in her youth insisted on giving the lollipop to Xingye, which was the subconscious of the teenager who hoped to get the girl's affirmation.

I'll brush you with lollipops

In fact, whose childhood will there be no dream of becoming a big hero? The final frame of the film is frozen in the face of a little boy with a runny nose and licking sugar. He was in high spirits, his eyes lit up, and he probably already had in his mind the picture of himself saving the world.

Once...

Isn't this also our own childhood?

So I said, Kung Fu is actually a dream. It is a teenager's dream of punishing adultery and eliminating evil and saving the world. It is also a heroic dream that each of us ordinary people once shared in our hearts.

Star Lord

The movie behind it is called "Top Hat"