Jackie Chan has starred in comedy action films since the 1970s.
In the early films, Jackie Chan consciously created this kind of comedic image that combines martial arts and funny personality. I thought that the comedic style of Jackie Chan's films could not be imitated, but in the South African movie "God Is Crazy" released in 1980,
Comedy is all the same, in addition to having a critical stance and realistic orientation, excellent comedy films should also combine more subtle and meticulous feelings such as sadness, warmth, longing, and nostalgia in terms of emotional connotation, so as to bring the audience a richer aesthetic level. Although many viewers said that when they walked into the cinema to watch a comedy movie, they wanted to laugh out loud, and they did not care whether the film had a deeper ideological connotation, a higher cultural taste, and a richer aesthetic level.
But while comedy brings people laughter, it is the most powerful thing that can make people laugh and cry.
"God Is Crazy Too" is a film that deserves to be watched and sought over and over again. The film was shot in the 1980s and consists of two films. The tone of the film is relaxed and pleasant, integrating humor, friendship and love, and is a representative of classic humor dramas.
But it's not just comedy, it's about a lot of analyptic perspectives
The story revolves around bush tribe, zoologist Andrew Stie, and volunteer teacher Kate Thompson.
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A Coke bottle that fell from the sky has since opened up the fierce conflict and collision between modern civilization and primitive society.
All kinds of coincidences, jokes, conflicts, and reconciliations in the movie are cleverly run through, witty and humorous, and wonderful.
The film tells the story in three main lines:
First, the Bushmen accidentally found the Coke bottle that God had dropped and eventually discarded it;
The second is the love story of biologist Dr. Andrew Stie and Miss Kate Thompson;
The third is the great escape of the militant Boha gang.
The film interlaces these three lines together, so that different cultures collide with the spark, but also let the audience see a lot of ridiculous pictures, after laughing, began to think: human society continues to develop from low-level forms to high-level forms, which is an irresistible historical law, and the impact of this development process on people's concepts of life and quality of life is very extensive and profound.
The empty Coke bottle that Aboriginal Ki picked up was something new and unseen for him, and in modern society, it was regarded as garbage, that is, this garbage, which brought a lot of convenience to the simple life of the aborigines, and also caused jealousy between them, which disrupted their originally peaceful lives for a while.
At first, Ki brought this transparent and beautiful secret object into the tribe with curiosity, because he had never seen such a beautiful thing, and the tribesmen exclaimed that it was perfectly constructed and said that it was the best gift god had given them.
Gradually, the use of the bottle became more and more, but there was only such a unique bottle between them, and soon everyone had a feeling of not wanting to share it with others, and the original excitement was replaced by other emotions, and the people who were accustomed to equality and common ownership began to want to take the bottle for themselves, and then everyone began to quarrel, and even fight, and for a time there were contradictions.
Ki, who first picked up the bottle, felt that he could not continue like this, so he decided to return the bottle to God and restore the peaceful life of the clan, so he took the bottle and began an unknown journey.
Of course, pure goodness is common to all people, past, present, and future.
I believe that there has always been, and it is also shown in the film: the natives who left the tribe felt hungry on the road, saw a flock of sheep, shot one with an arrow, and then walked over to pet the sheep and apologized to it, explaining that his injury was not out of intention, but forced to survive; what he did not know was that after leaving the tribe and entering the civilized world, these sheep were all lords.
All he did was seen by the little children watching the sheep, and the children shouted at him, but he naturally invited the children and said, "Let's eat with you!" Later, the child ran away, one of his children went to ask his family to come and share, did not expect the child to bring the police, the police did not say a word to snatch the sheep away, he felt that the police wanted to swallow the sheep alone, although not polite, but also not angry, but continued to look for other food that can make him survive...
But there is never a real villain in the film, even the terrorists, the poachers, they are just clowns, not villains. In the eyes of the natives, modern man is God, because from their point of view, modern man can do too many incredible things; but in the eyes of modern people, the natives are God, because they are in the most original state of the soul.
Still, I'd rather believe that everyone is God — their own God.
In fact, how should civilization develop? Is it controlled by us? Where will it go? All these questions are incapable of being answered by human beings themselves, nor can they be solved by the so-called God. If there is any flaw in the film, then it is the director who thinks that he designed "God", in fact, in the concept of the people of the primitive tribe, there is no God, they are just a primitive and simple life, and everything is conventional.
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The film takes us to understand the two synonyms of civilization and culture. We all know that civilization and culture are two separate concepts.
In his book Primitive Culture, Taylor has important implications for the concept of normative culture, arguing that:
In short, culture is a spiritual thing such as knowledge, values, and consciousness.
Civilization, on the other hand, transforms objects into material or spiritual products through human practice.
The two are independent of each other, but there is an interconnection, civilization and culture are created by people, the history of human society has also had an era of culture without civilization, just like the indigenous people in the film are less civilized but have a more ideal culture, indicating that culture will be transformed into civilization when it develops to a certain extent, that is to say, culture is the basis for the emergence of civilization, and it is also the essence of civilization.
They are never high or low, only strong and weak.
Can you look at a comedy like this to bring us a lot of thinking, and life is not only stormy, but also calm...
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