For a long time, the character of Tang Seng in "Journey to the West" has been a princess character with a force value of 0 and needs to be protected at all times.
Recently, however, the monk has turned over and become as fast as the Buddha Cow*.
"Wukong, what nonsense are you talking to him"
Poor monk Tang San was buried
This transformation is inseparable from the contribution of a series of videos called "Tang San's Funeral".
Image source: @唐三葬啊
This kind of second creation is splicing the original film and television pictures to create a completely different plot from the original. For example, when he saw the king of the daughter country, he directly broke the color ring on the spot, and when he saw the demons and monsters, he directly committed the killing ring, etc. And the essence of these two creations is to use a few extremely short sentences to create a huge personality contrast that does not match the public perception.
"The burial of the poor monk Tang San - bury the sky, bury the ground, and bury all beings. ”
"If the donor doesn't understand Mahayana Buddhism, the poor monk also knows a little bit about fists and feet."
In just a few sentences, the story was changed by magic, the character design was subverted, and a parallel cyber-style Journey to the West world was formed.
In this parallel world, the holy monk became the most capable warrior monk, and his three apprentices no longer played the role of protectors, but instead became Tang San's little thugs.
The eldest apprentice, named Sun Xing.
He was able to become a disciple of the Three Burials because the holy monk said to him: "Either you go to the West Heaven with me, or I will send you to the West Heaven"
Source: @Tang San's burial
The second apprentice is called the Eight Realms, and the third apprentice is called the Dharma name to kill everything.
And whenever these three people scratched their ears and cheeks in the face of monsters, the master would always throw out a sentence lightly:
"You all retreat behind your teacher. ”
The blueprint for the sentence "Retreat behind the teacher" comes from a classic description of the protagonist's way of life in "The Legend of Mortal Immortal Cultivation": "Han Li frowned and retreated behind everyone."
Tang San's strength is naturally not just in the face of ordinary people. If he throws out words like "If you come to see me, why don't you worship?", then the Jade Emperor will tremble when he sees it, and the Emperor Xudu will bow a few times when he sees it, and he will sigh to himself when he sees it.
Source: @Special effects brother studio
Yes, just like the cool texts of Long Aotian's paradigm, these "Tang San's Funeral" literature does not have too many profound connotations to be interpreted, and some are just endless contrasts and domineering.
You can interpret these "Tang Sanfu literature" as the erosion of traditional masterpieces by the cool texts on the Internet, or as people's obsession with extreme contrasts, or simply say that it is not worthy of being associated with the word "literature" - but in any case, it is quite emotional, really emotional.
The picture shows the relevant pictures of "Zombie Journey to the West", and all four masters and apprentices are blackened
We can naturally classify Tang San's funeral as a second-creation interpretation of the culture of "Journey to the West", and for the deconstruction of the traditional screen image of Tang Seng, there is naturally more than the above. From "Journey to the West" to the comic called "Tangshan Burial", from the Tang monk cos brother who pulled out a gun in Happy Valley in Sichuan to the "Buddha Billiards" series, almost every kind of second creation is provoking the audience's nerves......
In the comic "Tangshan Burial", Sun Monkey is a tsundere short-haired girl who is best at turning a golden hoop stick into a self-* stick......
However, if you put aside the Tang Seng himself and go back a year or two, you will find another form of writing that is quite similar to it in the wave of the Internet.
Only strong
I don't know if you remember, but there was a trend called "strong literature" before.
Only, refers to "Wolf", and strong, refers to the bald head of "Bear Infested".
Image Credit: @ Legion of Faces
It is said to be literature, but it is actually a unique Internet sentence structure. It originally originated as a mod in One Wolf that replaced the protagonist with a bald head. Use the obvious difference in art style to create a laugh, just like putting Teletubbies into a horror game.
But soon, under the interpretation of netizens, the meaning of this mod changed. In the short dialogue created by netizens, the bald head reversed the image of being persecuted, and turned into a peerless swordsman who still has nostalgia for the past after experiencing things and people.
"I've cut down a total of five trees stronger than you, if Your Excellency only has this kind of strength, you don't deserve to grow in that jungle!"
"You should be glad that he didn't take out the chainsaw" - Xiong Daxiong II
Simple and brainless pretending, no longer funny contrast, but also with a little bit of vicissitudes of life. The breath of the second middle school, the surprise of breaking the dimension, the emotion of things and people, and the bearing of dominating the world...... All emotions were released in that knife. (Of course, "Strong Literature" has also caused some loyal wolf players to be dissatisfied, as it has weakened the presence of the game's villains out of thin air.) ）
Yes, among the similarities in the nature of "Only Strong Literature" and "Tang Sanfu Literature", you may be able to get a glimpse of some commonalities:
Nowadays, the Internet seems to be more and more keen to deconstruct those characters that have become recognized by the public, and enjoy the ultimate sense of contrast and emotional pleasure in the process of deconstruction.
This process focuses on one that uses too much force. Since Xi is used to one extreme, it must be shaped from the other extreme—the more feminine it is, the more it must show its fierceness; the more forbearance, the more it must stimulate its bursting. In the past, Lin Daiyu uprooted the weeping willows, and now there is Tang San's funeral speed, which is difficult to win the total MVP, highlighting a word that is not amazing and endless.
And this deconstructed essence is condensed in the short text created by netizens.
"The holy monk splits the lion camel ridge, and Manjushri kneels to protect the lion spirit"
It's like a mapping of those short videos in the realm of text. People are keen to pursue the sense of story, contrast, and passion in these short, easy-to-understand sentences, and pursue those short and fast dopamine secretions - and only short and fast sentences have the strongest effect.
Although many people are clamoring to "publish books" and "novels" with the ideas of only Qiang and Tang San's burial, when they finally land, the results are often a bit miserable. The most exciting ones are often made up by the readers themselves.
As for the reasons for this trend, we seem to be able to pick out many, many more. We can classify it as a love for contrast and freshness, being impregnated by Internet culture, or it can be attributed to the slightly disappointing reality of today and the reality of contemporary martial arts culture, or we can see Tang San's funeral and only Qiang as a subconscious reflection of people's expectations of self-image.
But anyway, through these things, I finally came to a deep understanding:
The adaptation is not a random editing, but the random editing is really good-looking.