Text/Ala Ping, Naranze Self-Media Editorial Office
This week, the most eye-catching thing in the Chinese film market is the "White Snake 2: Green Snake Robbery" produced by Chasing Light Animation.
Due to the word-of-mouth paving of its predecessor "White Snake: Origins" and the obviously strengthened publicity of this work, before the release of "Green Snake Robbery", many viewers could not wait to find out.
After the official release of "Green Snake Robbery", although its reputation has been polarized, the overall reputation is still very high-quality.
In addition, due to its grand world view, complex plot and extremely rich related elements, the audience also had a heated discussion about its plot.
There are a few key and interesting points, more interesting, let's guess together, these things that are not revealed in the plot, in fact, what kind of truth may actually be.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" >01 How are the color rings and killing rings of Fahai broken? </h1>
At the beginning of the movie, Xiao Bai and Xiao Qingshui flooded the Golden Mountain, and were defeated by Fahai in one fell swoop. When facing Fahai, Xiao Qing angrily rebuked his color ring and killed the ring.
This is a clip that makes many viewers wonder, that is, when did Fahai break the color ring and the killing ring? Judging from the TV series "The Legend of the New White Lady", Fahai did not break the color ring.
But some attentive viewers pointed out that the film actually has many details that pay tribute to Xu Ke's 1993 film "Green Snake". The movie "Green Snake" starred Wang Zuxian and Maggie Cheung as White Snake and Green Snake, and there are many ambiguous scenes between their sisters. Zhao Wenzhuo played Fahai in it.
In this movie, Fahai, played by Zhao Wenzhuo, was provoked by lust. In order to strengthen his Buddha's heart, Fahai made a bet with the green snake that if the green snake could make The green snake break the color ring, he would let the green snake die.
As a result, under the temptation of the green snake, Fahai completely lost his square inch, and was thus broken. Annoyed and angry, Fahai did everything he could to sabotage the marriage between White Snake and Xu Xian. Because he could not bear the suffering of Qing Cultivation, Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian were able to enjoy the happiness of husband and wife.
Because Fahai seduced and imprisoned Xu Xian, this led to the white snake and green snake flooding the Golden Mountain, and also caused many people and monks to lose their lives, and Fahai also broke the killing ring.
In addition to flooding the Golden Mountain, Fahai actually committed a killing ring in Shuluo City. The obsessive bodies inside were all brought into reincarnation by the leaders of the Four Robbers and the Minotaur under his own control.
That's why fahai's color rings and killing rings are broken in this way. There is a detail that confirms this speculation, that is, the ending song of "Green Snake", "Streamer Flying", has also been caught in "Green Snake Robbery".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="16" >02 What is the identity of the leader of the Minotaur? </h1>
In "The Rise of the Green Snake", in addition to fahai, which seems to be evil, but actually helps Xiaoqing to make progress in cultivation, the biggest villain should be the minotaur leader who is blessed by the golden light of Fahai.
Because of his strong obsession, this Minotaur leader was willing to be used by Fahai, and hoped that by unifying the Shuluo Realm, he would accept the name of Fahai, so as to gain the opportunity to return to his own world without losing his memory and obsession.
The Minotaur Chieftain is basically the peak of the film's combat effectiveness. Xiao Qing, who had come out of the illusion and lost his mana, was not his opponent at all. And Sima Guanren, who originally seemed to be equal to him, was eventually defeated by his giant axe.
In the case that Peach Blossom Ji and Fat Shusheng both have past lives to confess, who is the identity of the leader of this Minotaur?
There is an important detail in the image of the leader of the Minotaur, that is, the left corner of his head is broken.
Along this detail, we will add some background information, and it will be better to guess.
In the animated film "Nezha Reborn", an animated film produced by a light-chasing animation before "The Green Snake Robbery", Sun Wukong is an important character in the plot throughout. And Yang Jian in the Fengshen Rendition not only appeared in the end egg, but also appeared in the end egg of "Green Snake Robbery". Not only that, Xiao Qing, the heroine of "Green Snake Robbery", also appeared as an Easter egg in "Nezha Reborn".
That is to say, "Nezha Reborn" and "Green Snake Robbery" can coexist in a world view. In "Nezha Reborn", through Sun Wukong, the existence of the matter of taking the scriptures is also clear, which is equivalent to acknowledging the existence of the worldview of Journey to the West.
If the Journey to the West worldview exists, the role of the Bull Demon King will also be called out.
In the Journey to the West novel and TV series, the Iron Fan Princess, the bull demon king who finally transformed into his original form, was broken by Sun Wukong with a golden hoop stick. The Bull Demon King not only lost his brother and was cut off from his horns, but even more tragically, his wife and daughter were separated, so he was completely steadfast in his obsession with revenge.
Fahai also said in his dialogue with Xiaoqing in the illusion that the Minotaur did not end up reincarnating, but returned to his own world. His own world was definitely not Xiao Qing's original world. Under the current three worldviews of white snake, fengshen and journey to the west, the leader of the Minotaur will merge with the world of Sun Wukong whether he returns to the world of journey to the west or the world of the gods. Finally, perhaps in some form, several worldviews are unified.
Therefore, the identity of the leader of this broken-foot minotaur is eight achievements of the Bull Demon King.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="29" >03 What is the real identity of Sima Guanren? </h1>
As an important figure in "The Robbery of the Green Snake", Sima Guanren played a huge role in protecting Xiaoqing in the early stage and helping his character grow in the later stage.
Such an important drama character should obviously not be a nameless person.
When Sima Guanren faces Wuchi, he can see that there are rich character stories. So we have to look for his possible origins in some details.
Still in the movie "Nezha Reborn", Sun Wukong also used another meme, which to a certain extent has the possibility of opening another world view - the world of Huluwa.
When being tortured by the Dragon King, Sun Wukong mentioned that in addition to him, Hulu Laosi would also have three tastes of true fire. This gourd old fourth is the fourth baby with the ability to spit fire in the gourd cartoon. For the light-chasing animation that can magically change the world view, the merger of the huluwa world view is not completely impossible.
In the plot of "The Robbery of the Green Snake", the obsession of Sima Guanren is a gourd. What he sees in No Pool is also a relationship.
In the plot of "Huluwa", the gourd dolls with gourd props are only seven babies and the gourd little Kongo after the combination. And this gourd little Kongo just happens to have a love scene, that is, the love with the little butterfly. But the little butterfly lost his life in order to protect the gourd little Kongo, and the gourd little Kong had such an obsession, which can also be justified. And the gourd itself is also his magic weapon.
Interestingly, the villain that Hulu Xiaokong confronted in "HuluWa" is the Green Snake Spirit. In the plot of Hulu Xiaokongo and Hulu Sister later, the villain becomes the White Snake Essence. Therefore, Huluwa and The Green Snake White Snake originally had a feud.
Therefore, the real identity of Sima Guanren is likely to be the gourd little King Kong among the gourd babies in the setting.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="39" >04 Is the real identity of the owner of Baoqingfang Daji? </h1>
In addition to the heroine Xiaoqing, the role of the little fox of Baoqingfang should be the most popular character in the entire series.
This little fox is Lori on one side and a thousand-year-old fox on the other, both intelligent and calm, and the most important thing is that she always makes people feel that the city government is extremely deep and hides countless secrets.
In "The Green Snake Robbery", the little fox finally begins to reveal his own life.
She transformed into a large fox in the poolless pool, indicating her mana. Judging from her close-up shots in the movie, she has a total of eight tails. In the Easter egg at the end of the film, the Dragon King sends him a treasure chest, and the treasure chest happens to be placed in another severed tail.
Let's combine the worldviews of the gods and the white snake again, and the identity of the lord of Baoqingfang will be revealed, that is, dai-self. At that time, Dai Ji was corrected by Jiang Ziya, and it was likely that what was cut off was only a tail into a doppelganger.
And the Dragon King said that they want to join forces together, obviously the Baoqingfang owner should not be just a single fox, there is also a whole strength system hidden behind, which is also in line with its setting of why it is magical in the movie.
Combined with the plot of "Nezha Reborn" in which the Dragon King said that the list of gods would be reopened, we can boldly guess that the Dragon King and the Lord of Baoqingfang joined forces to achieve a win-win situation in which the fox revenge and the Dragon Clan's god list were on the list.
Some viewers also said that the fox without a pool in the movie should actually have nine tails, and one tail was overlapped with one of them, so it was not seen. This possibility is there, but not high. Because for cartoons, it is not difficult to get the tail out, and there is not much need to deliberately misunderstand this key information.
Therefore, the identity of the owner of Baoqingfang is likely to be Daiji, even if the information of Nine Tails is not correct, she is at least a character with whom Daiji has an intimate relationship.
Only such a character can match the identity background of Nezha, Yang Jian and the Dragon King.
In addition, according to the content of the producer's interview at the premiere, she also said that the protagonist of the third part will most likely be placed on the owner of Baoqingfang. If the fox is just a character without a complex background, it obviously can't support the story depth that an independent film should have.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="51" >05 Is Fahai in the illusion the real body? </h1>
Inside Shuluo City, there is also a Batu Cave, which is the illusion that Xiao Qing has been boiling Fahai to death for 20 years.
So is this Fahai the real body?
We can pay attention to a detail, that is, when Xiao Qing first entered the illusion, it was just a small green snake, and the phoenix was a large fiery phoenix. However, with Xiao Qing's continuous cultivation, this little snake grew into a large jiao, and even had a little dragon flavor, and the phoenix was like the size of a small snake in contrast.
Correspondingly, Fahai is also 20 years older, but his mana has not grown with the battle with Xiaoqing at all. Xiao Qing also did not grow old at all.
From this point of view, Fahai could not be a real body in the illusion, at most it was just a wisp of yuan god, or an illusion created by a magic weapon.
Why is Fahai old and Xiaoqing not getting old?
In the case of assuming that it is not a big bug in the plot, we can make such an inference: in fact, people who enter the Batu Cave will not grow old, but as a magic weapon, there will be losses. The aging of Fahai is actually equivalent to the loss of the magic instrument or the continuous consumption of equipment power, and finally reflects the aging state.
This involves another question: Why does Fahai want to help Xiaoqing? Because according to Xiao Qing's will and training methods, Fahai could foresee that he would inevitably fail, and he did not need to have an epiphany after being defeated. Therefore, from beginning to end, Fahai was helping Xiao Qing to level up.
At the beginning of the film, Xiao Bai said that Fahai would not kill her. Xiao Qing secretly attacked Fahai, but Fahai repeatedly showed mercy to his subordinates, which can show that the relationship between Fahai and Xiaoqing is not simple. Xiao Qing fell into Shuluo City, and Fahai's expression was complicated, and it was obvious that he was not an enemy at all.
Let's combine XiaoQing's statement that the sea broke the color ring, so that the logic is smoother.
The above is the speculation about several major characters in the movie, do you think it is reliable?
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