Sorry, "Space Exploration Editorial Office" is a fast-moving big bad film

Author: Li Xiaotian

A reporter asked Kong Dashan, the director of "Space Exploration Editorial Department": Dai Jinhua once commented in his annual film observation, ""Space Exploration Editorial Department" has found its audience, and it should be a movie that is well received." What kind of audience group do you think is the most suitable audience group of "Space Exploration Editorial Department"?

Kong Dashan replied: It will definitely attract a considerable number of audiences who can accurately capture the temperament of the film, or in other words, the audience who like it will immediately receive the signals sent by the film.

In fact, this is a very chicken thief question, reporter you ask the question well, but you have to pull Dai Jinhua, the question has not been asked, the rainbow fart is blown first, Teacher Dai feels good, so what do you think?

Comrade journalist, do you think this is good?

Kong Dashan is also not polite, come on the pole, since Teacher Dai said good, it must be good, it must be able to accurately attract a group of fans, people who understand will feel good, should come to continue to shoot rainbow farts.

However, sorry, Teacher Dai feels good, does not mean that it is really good. Moreover, Teacher Dai obviously guessed wrong, she said that this should be a movie that was well received and acclaimed. Reality will come to teach Teacher Dai a lesson, and the box office will only be 17 million in three days of release, so that the box office will not exceed 100 million, and the attendance rate in the cinema also proves that it is not popular.

As for the applause, I'm sorry, I understand, but I don't think it's good, but I think "Space Exploration Editorial Department" is very poor, very bad, and it is a standard fast-decaying bad film.

This is a typical film whose strength is not enough to support ambition.

In terms of publicity, the team of "Space Exploration Editorial Department" strives to make it a science fiction film. Actually, it's a fantasy film. Because, this is a fantasy film that parodies "Journey to the West".

The protagonist of the film, Tang Zhijun, has always been obsessed with exploring the existence of alien life, and insists that there will be aliens, and the IQ and moral level will be higher than that of earthlings. At one time, his "Space Exploration" was a high-selling magazine with the same name as "Reader". As a result, now, the society is developed, and the culture should have prospered, but as a result, "Space Exploration" has gone the other way and has fallen, so poor that it can't even afford to pay the heating bills in the screenwriting department. However, Tang Zhijun still insisted that aliens must exist, and led the crowd to find the so-called aliens according to an absurd clue.

This story is not complicated at all, nor is it science fiction. On the contrary, it's magical.

In other words, the process of finding aliens in the Great Southwest becomes a story of learning from the Western Heavens, which becomes the routine and mode of "Journey to the West".

During the Tang Dynasty, in the Kaiyuan Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty prospered and flourished, but as a result, Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, adopted a policy of locking the country internally. Externally, it is developed, and foreigners can easily enter Chang'an City to trade. However, the subjects of the Great Tang had to rest at sunset, and Chang'an City would be closed at night, and the streets were allowed to move around at will. As for the country, it is strictly forbidden for Tang Dynasty people to go abroad.

However, the Tang monk Tang Xuanzang wholeheartedly decided that the true scripture to save the world was in Tianzhu, and he had to go abroad, he had to obtain the true scripture, and he would not give up.

The imperial court does not release people, what to do? Stealing abroad.

Therefore, the historical Tang monks who went to the Western Heaven to obtain scriptures were actually smuggled out of the country, and according to the law of the time, they were traitors and were to be killed.

However, the Tang monk didn't care, just to go.

At this point, Tang Zhijun is not the same as the Tang monk, but the scene has changed, and he is still surnamed Tang.

On the way to get the scriptures from the Tang monk Xitian, he was not alone, but also had several companions, namely Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Sha Monk, and White Dragon Horse. On Tang Zhijun's way to find aliens in the southwest, he was also not alone, and there was also a person surnamed Sun in his team, named Sun Yitong. In fact, it doesn't matter what it's called, as long as you know that the counterpart of this surname Sun is Sun Wukong.

As for Zhu Bajie, it corresponds to Qin Cairong, who has always poured cold water on looking for aliens. Zhu Bajie has to break up from time to time and wants to go back to Gao Laozhuang to marry a relative, Qin Cairong is such a person. That day Su, who worked hard and complained, and caused some trouble from time to time, corresponded to the sand monks. Xiaoxiao, a girl who was sick and abandoned by her father, corresponds to White Dragon Horse.

This is not my own hard work, after all, the English name of "Space Exploration Editorial Department" is "Journey to the West", and everyone who has studied English knows that this is the English name of "Journey to the West".

Moreover, director Kong Dashan himself admitted that Tang Zhijun had the shadow of a Tang monk. However, he added some shadows of Don Quixote to the top, as well as some shadows of Rick from Grandpa Rick in the cartoon "Rick and Morty". But the overall story framework is still the shelf of "Journey to the West".

Moreover, the adaptation of "Journey to the West" by the "Space Exploration Editorial Department" is not a simple copying of the character image, but excavates the magical origin of "Journey to the West" from the root.

"Journey to the West", on the surface it is a novel of gods and demons, with magical characters and twists and turns. But stripped of the skin of the Western Heavenly Scriptures, "Journey to the West" is actually a religious exhortation to persuade people to practice the law and become good.

The current "Journey to the West" is the result of many generations of continuous adaptation and continuous addition, and the original appearance of the story has been blurred. In fact, if you look at it a little carefully, you will find that the so-called process of obtaining scriptures from the Western Heaven is a process of cultivating the mind and pursuing positive results. The Journey to the West group, a group of five people, is actually the five illusions of one person, and the different manifestations of the five personalities.

The four apprentices other than the Tang monk represent the "heart ape and horse", especially Sun Wukong, which is directly the direct incarnation of the "heart ape". The characteristics of apes are impetuous and stubborn, and the so-called tightening curse is a tool that constantly binds the heart ape, and the heart ape that always emerges is restrained and finally cultivates the positive fruit. In addition, like "Oblique Moon Three Stars Cave", it is obviously a heart word. "Wuguan Zhuang" and "Zhenyuan Daxian", the five senses and Zhenyuan here are directly related to the Taoist Neidan Heart Method. By the way, "Journey to the West" is a book that mixes Buddhism and Taoism and has become a book for both Buddhist and Taoist cultivation. To pass one threshold after another is to temper the way of the heart.

"Space Exploration Editorial Department" has thoroughly eaten the essence of "Journey to the West", and then directly uses it. At the end of this film, it points out the true meaning of all the previous searches for aliens, that is, what Tang Zhijun is really looking for is his inner observation, and the length of the double helix DNA at the end of the film says this. All the absurd experiences in front of me are foreshadowing, and asking for me is the true expression. Just like "2001: A Space Odyssey", in the end, the whole film is actually about philosophy.

Therefore, "Space Exploration Editorial Office" is not science fiction at all, but uses a magical shell and tells a very philosophical story. This is also the fundamental reason why fans who like this film are really crazy. They were completely captured by the director, and never expected to end up watching a philosophical film. Then, I felt that the director was too awesome.

Is it really awesome?

Not.

Speaking of philosophy, the best work in Chinese films is "Infernal Affairs".

"Infernal Affairs" is ostensibly an undercover story. But what it really wants to talk about is philosophy, an ultimate proposition in Buddhism. "Infernal Affairs" is not a simple confrontation between good and evil, and the relationship between undercover agents and police and bandits is not the ultimate pursuit of the film. The brilliance of it is that both the police and the gangsters are on the same level. Tony Leung is obviously a police officer, but he has been undercover for 9 years and has been a bandit. For 9 years, he insisted that he would not be assimilated and still maintain himself. This is so difficult that Tony Leung suffers from a serious mental illness and endures endless hellish torture.

Andy Lau's bandit, the same is true, years of undercover, so that he blurs the boundary between good and evil, no longer feels that he is a bandit, but wants to be a good person.

Both police and bandits are suffering like hell, and this pain is the theme of the title "Infernal Affairs", and it is also what the story really wants to express. The real classic of this film is here. It is not a simple police film, but a heart-to-heart philosophy film, or a religious film.

However, even if you don't understand the values that "Infernal Affairs" wants to express, just looking at the story of the police and bandits undercover with each other on the outside is shocking enough. The story of the shell is good enough. Philosophical, but the appearance itself is good-looking, and the irreversibility of Infernal Affairs is here.

The same is true of "Journey to the West", no one cares about any religious advice at all so far, nor does it care about the cultivation of the inner dan heart method, just look at the story of the westward journey on the outside, it is already very good-looking. Others, like "Farewell My Concubine", like "Color Ring", are very meaningful films, but the reason why they are classic is not entirely in the connotation, but first of all, the film is good-looking, very watchable, and then deep.

The reason why "Space Exploration Editorial Department" is a bad film is that it is pretended to be profound, and even the story is not told well. The acting skills are also not good, except for Arya, everyone else is bad acting, and they can't move people at all.

Tang Zhijun's story of looking for aliens in the countryside of Sichuan, startled, not good at all, lethargic, dull for most of the day, suddenly told everyone that it was all fake, and finally the documentary-like double helix shot is what I really want to express, you see, I'm awesome, right?

I'll really go to your uncle's.

Pretend to be a ghost, fool me for a long time, and then suddenly take a turn, tell people that the true proposition is here, everyone come and worship me.

Come on, please, tell the story first, tell it well, okay?

There is nothing wrong with learning "Journey to the West", at least the story of people's journey to the west is very good, and you can also make your story better. There is no story, only inscrutable, this is not clever, but pretending, is a very low behavior.

The end result is that not many people watch you pretend, only remember that the movie is not good, and then quickly forget you, make you die quickly, and that's it. In the end, the ambition is still too big, and the strength is not enough to support.

What you can really learn is "Infernal Affairs", please study it well in the next film.