Some people say that it is more difficult to make people laugh than to make people cry, and this sentence often reminds me of Stephen Chow's funny movies.
When I saw the classic funny Hong Kong film "Nine Pin Sesame Officer", I couldn't help but press the Play button again.
"Nine Pin Sesame Officer" is a costume comedy starring Stephen Chow in 1994, which narrates that Bao Longxing, the candidate of Jiu Pin Zhi County, is kind in nature, but learns to be a corrupt official, and often misjudges unjust cases with a conscience. The daughter of the people, Qi Qin, was bullied by Chang Wei, the son of the water master Titu, and after the matter was revealed, Chang Wei poisoned the Qi Qin family and wanted to kill people and destroy their mouths.
Fearing Chang's authoritarian power, the local county commander convicted Qi Qin and Jia Ding of plotting to kill their relatives. Bao Longxing learned of Qi Qin's grievances and wanted to overturn the case but was framed instead, Bao Longxing fled to the capital to file a complaint, the emperor made him the Inspector of the Eight Provinces, and ordered Bao and the Punishment Department to retry the case. Above the lobby, Bao Longxing wrestled with everyone and finally made the murderer ambush.
Stephen Chow's 1992 film "Weilong Breaking into Tianguan" can be regarded as the predecessor of "Nine Pin Sesame Officer", the main theme of "Weilong Breaking Tianguan" is: "To float in the chaotic world, only more evil than the evil, more deceitful!" 」 In "Nine Pin Sesame Officials", Bao Longxing's father, Bao Wei, also told his son on his deathbed: "Corrupt officials want to rape, and Qing officials are more adulterous than corrupt officials!"
From this, we can see the inheritance relationship between the two dramas. However, the biggest difference between "Nine Pin Sesame Officers" and "Weilong Breaking into the Heavenly Pass" is that the former collages a large number of elements of classical novels and operas, making the play a literary wrestling field at some level, and therefore, the play is full of dramatic tension and quite interesting.
"Nine Pin Sesame Officer" consciously inherits the tradition of public case novels and operas, which can be regarded as a deformation and regeneration of the story of "Bao Gong". The "Nine Pin Sesame Officers" is placed in the context of the gonggong novel and examined, and the so-called "good official" is examined, and how the so-called "good official" has changed in the play.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" > bao's family history and image</h1>
In the movie, Bao Longxing is the Qing Dynasty's Jiupin alternate county order, and he has a star-shaped granule on his forehead, reminiscent of the half-moon granulation on the forehead of the Chinese "Qing official" Bao Zheng.
Bao Zheng is a symbol of Chinese justice and honesty for thousands of years, "In popular public case novels and operas, Bao Gong has a black face, symbolizing selflessness and integrity in the iron face." He is the embodiment of law, justice and justice. He held the sword of Shang (Shang) given by the Emperor, from the emperor's relatives to the common people, and all were equal before his supreme authority and the law.
"Bao Qingtian" is the embodiment of ideals, and it is also a brilliant example of the demigods and half-human beings created by the public case novel." Bao Zheng's half-moon-shaped granulation bud has its symbolic nature in the opera face, symbolizing Bao Gong's ability to "judge the yang in the day and cut off the yin at night".
The star-shaped sprouts on Bao Longxing's forehead are a harmonic adaptation of his name, and from Bao Zheng's "black side" to Bao Longxing's "white face", all of the above not only imply that Bao Longxing inherits Bao Zheng in blood, but also symbolizes that Bao Longxing has essentially transformed Bao Zheng's image of a clean official.
Regarding the blood relationship between Bao Longxing and Bao Zheng, the film has a very clear explanation. When Bao's father was critically ill, he once instructed Bao Longxing to imitate the "ancestor" Bao Zheng and become a generation of Qing officials, and at the same time, he also gave bao Longxing the "ancestral" "sword above" and the "Qingtian Secret Book".
It can be seen from this that Bao Longxing's body actually inherits the blood of the ancient "Qing officials" who have avenged injustice for the people. However, the film deliberately makes a rupture between Bao Longxing and his ancestors in a humorous way. Bao Mu suffers from severe amnesia, treats the salted fish as a sword above, and writes it with a small seal, and no one can understand the Qingtian secret book pad table foot, all of which imply that Bao Longxing will eventually "forget his roots", abandon his ancestral precepts, and reappear in the official arena with a new image.
What is even more interesting is that although the Qing official Bao Zheng is the distant ancestor of Bao Longxing, Bao Longxing's father "Bao Different" is a corrupt official, Bao Different once had twelve sons, all of whom died for unknown reasons, and Bao Different had deviated from his ancestral training in the official field and went to the road of corrupt officials, but he suffered the heavenly punishment of losing his son one after another, which made him return to the ranks of Qing officials in his later years.
When Bao Longxing returned home, Bao Gave him the word "incorruptible" and exhorted his son to be fair and honest, but Bao Longxing said, "This 'incorruptibility' looks like a 'poor' word no matter how it is."
From the above, it can be seen that although Bao Longxing has the blood of a clean official, the ancestral road of a clean official is lawless (untimely and cannot survive), and although his father Bao Has gone through the road of corrupt officials and proved that corrupt officials will eventually suffer punishment from heaven, Bao Longxing, who has just entered the official field, still chooses to be a corrupt official with a clear conscience, only because the price of "honesty" is "poor".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="36" > move between clean and corrupt officials</h1>
Bao Longxing, who was deposed before his dismissal, brought into full play the image of corrupt officials to the fullest. The film humorously criticizes Bao Longxing by means of the ancient folk punishment of "corrupt officials", borrowing the storyteller to say "the story of Bao Longxing being beaten by more than a dozen big men" and the small sale "Fried Bao Longxing".
The event that really changed Bao Longxing was the bloody murder of the thirteen members of the Qi family. When Bao Longxing was spurned by the whole village for corruption, only the Qi family was kind to Bao, and the kindness of the Qi family shook his heart.
In the face of Qi Qin's unjust case, Bao Longxing once hovered between "Qing" and "greed", but due to the return of zhengpai county order and the disturbance of The master Fang Tangjing, Bao Longxing could only watch As Qi Qin was put on death row.
Qi Qinshi fell in a pool of blood and fiercely bit out a blood stain on Bao Longxing's hand, as if to accuse Bao Longxing of his career incompetence and betrayal in personal friendship, this resentment not only reached the heavens, so that the "June Flying Snow" in "Dou E'e Grievance", but also made Bao Longxing, who was hovering between qing officials and corrupt officials, make the decision to overturn the case for Qi Qin.
Bao Longxing's initial defeat in the official arena was caused by "not being treacherous enough", and the teacher Fang Tangjing set a trap, framed Bao Longxing for accepting bribes, and then ambushed in the morgue, waiting for Bao Longxing, who was investigating the cause of death, to throw himself into the net, all of which led to Bao Longxing's arrest and imprisonment.
When Bao escaped from prison and returned home, his father Bao was different from his dying son: "Corrupt officials want to rape, and clean officials are more adulterous than corrupt officials!" It has been implied that Bao Longxing will cut off the blood of "corrupt officials" and reshape the image of a new "clean official".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="41" > the new "good official" cultivation technique - Bao Longxing's self-transformation</h1>
Bao Longxing, who sued the imperial court in Shangjing, happened to meet the acrobatic troupe members "Mo Zaiti" and "Mo Zaijiang" on the way, and he and "Mo Zaiti" exchanged feelings and ended the connection, and Bao Longxing's "marriage" actually implied that he, who had no ancestors to rely on and no father to inherit, would establish a family in "acrobatics", in other words, the so-called "new good official" would learn from "acrobatics", and "breaking cases" would become a kind of "performance".
Bao Longxing trained the "King Kong Incorruptible Body" in the acrobatic troupe, which is obviously the primary condition for becoming a "new good official", however, this is only the beginning of Bao Longxing's self-transformation, and to be truly completed, it is still to be completed by Bao Longxing's "brothel tour".
The "Qingtian Secret Book" carried by Bao Longxing was burned to ashes, and Bao Longxing became an idiot and remained in the brothel to help, the destruction of the "Qingtian Secret Book" and the dementia of Bao Longxing actually symbolized the "complete rupture" between Bao Longxing and his ancestors.
Bao Longxing's dementia was not lifted until he saw the power of the brothel old bustard quarrelling, and this "epiphany" allowed Bao Longxing to find the trick to become a "new good official", realize how to become a good official who is "more adulterous than a corrupt official--- exercise his mouth.
The film uses the technique of exaggeration, showing Bao Longxing's verbal skills of "turning over the river and overturning the sea", "one breath", "bending to say straight", "dead to say alive", and his classic mouth fight clip with the brothel bustard can be regarded as Bao Longxing's self-transformation "graduation examination" and obtain the title of "Quarrel King".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="45" > from "trial" to "performance" - Bao Longxing's three "wrestling"</h1>
Bao Longxing, who was reborn, met the emperor in the Qinglou, and Bao Longxing thus jumped to the rank of inspector of the Eight Provinces, and was authorized by the emperor to retry the unjust case of Qi Qin.
It is worth noting that the screenwriter comically exaggerated Bao Longxing's trial process as a "boxing match", which subverted the traditional "trial" model and transformed the "public court" into a "performance" field.
However, this performance field is not a place of fighting power, but a boxing ring of language, and at the same time, Bao Gong's image as a judge since the Yuan Dynasty has also been transformed into a "lawyer" and "detective".
The climax of the video is the three wrestling races of Bao Longxing. The first show was the clash between "science" and "power". Bao Longxing transformed into a detective, opened the coffin to re-examine the white bones, found that the thirteen members of the Qi family were poisoned after death, in the face of the overwhelming evidence, but suffering from the support of Lafayette and the former red man Li Gonggong, and could not investigate Chang Wei, Bao Mu sent him to behead the Emperor and behead the "sword above" of the courtiers, but was sentenced by Li Gonggong, "You use the sword of the Ming Dynasty to behead the officials of the Qing Dynasty?" The question was dumbfounded.
In the first struggle, scientific handling of cases is ultimately invincible to the intervention of power.
Therefore, the last two games are bound to rely on "fighting mouth" and "fighting wisdom" to have a chance to win. In the second round, we see Bao Longxing fully display his self-reformed ability to argue, pretending to be beheaded by the waist with "acrobatics", and making a key confession that Jia Ding is illiterate, thus proving that Qi Qinshi cannot exchange affection with Jia Ding by letter, and also using public opinion to suspend Qi Qin's sentence.
In the third round, Bao Longxing showed "wisdom" and set a trap of "blood confessing" to induce Chang Wei to confess his crime. In the course of the trial full of exaggeration and humor, we see that a new image of a good official has been formed.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="51" > "Qingguan" no more? </h1>
"Nine Pin Sesame Officer" shows the way of survival of "justice" in the era of injustice.
When the emperor also indulged in fireworks and willow alleys, to be a good official who defended the people's grievances, he could no longer abide by the ancient precepts, but must transform himself to get close to the core of power.
However, at the end of the video, the emperor died of illness, and Bao Longxing resigned from the government to grant the secret recipe of "giving birth to a child", whether this means that the past era is gone, the so-called "clean officials" and "good officials" no longer exist, instead of looking forward to saving people for the officials, it is better to "re-become a person" and transform from the root.
From Bao Zheng to Bao Longxing, we see that the image of "Qing Guan" in popular novels and operas has changed greatly, and the theme of public cases has always been the mainstream in novels and operas, especially in modern times, there is a trend of merging detectives and public cases.
However, since then, the public case drama has disappeared for a long time, and in "Nine Pin Sesame Officials", we see the deformation and regeneration of Bao Gong, and this reinterpretation of "good officials" should be related to how modern people view "justice".
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