"Star Master" Zhou Xingchi said that he would make "Shaolin Football" because it was at the lowest point of his career at that time, so he wanted to make an inspirational sports movie that inspired people's hearts and encouraged himself. However, to say that it is just a common comedy movie seems to be too simple to think of it. Because underneath its rich special effects, the film's most inked is actually the urban martial arts atmosphere - and his next record-breaking Hollywood movie is actually just a continuation of this practice.
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Teenage girls working in steamed bun shops can do tai chi, street-side vendors will wash dishes, and Carrefour's fat employees will float on the water (especially the Devil's unspoken but very eye-catching center, who only uses his eyes and smile, but gives him an unfathomable temperament).
However, Zhou Xingchi's sports film lays out the personality of the six division brothers, the first step is to let them "forget", let them forget the martial arts, start from scratch, after one setback after another to find confidence, and then find themselves, and then jointly defeat the final "devil".
However, compared with the six actors who have special skills and point out the theme of the movie's "kung fu", in fact, the "golden right foot" played by Wu Mengda is the soul that runs through the movie, because ten minutes before the opening, his "greed" is broken.
Wu Mengda's excellent performance skills, the three looks of "low voice", "from anger to sorrow", and "laughing at their own stupidity", in the opening scene, absolutely impressed the audience, because of greed and lost life - but in the end it is also "greedy", wanting to struggle, full of disobedience, greedy for what he has lost, and his self-esteem under the head, because what he covets is no longer money, but "faith".
But beliefs are fragile things.
Everyone is in that kind of environment, that kind of Hong Kong, falling into the rivers and lakes, Qiang Xiong said:
"It's all my people on the pitch, how to fight with me."
It is the truth, the powerful one, full of faith and courage and means. So the real reality is that even if they have special skills, they no longer need that kind of Shaolin martial arts, so they have forgotten. That kind of choice is not a city servant or a forgotten capital, that is, everyone must follow the trend of the times in order to survive.
Just like, when Stephen Chow communicates with the soundtrack artist Huang Yinghua of this movie, he wants to pay tribute to bruce Lee, the eternal kung fu idol in his mind, hums the soundtrack melody of Bruce Lee's self-written and self-directed movie "Raptor Across the River" for Huang Yinghua to refer to, and the final result (I believe that without attaching a link, the melody also rings in your brain), has completely surpassed Bruce Lee in the seventies - this is the change of the times, but also the new trend of the times.
But it is obvious that Zhou Xingchi is nostalgic for the past, because the one who let them come back to play football is also the only master who obeys the orders
"I promised Master not to fight."
"I promised Master to carry forward Shaolin martial arts."
The fifth master brother, because of his belief, decided to do it.
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It is interesting that at that time, Zhou Xingchi often played a similar role: it seemed that he had never grown up, he was always a teenager, he always had a magnificent dream, and he bravely went forward, like the protagonist of mainstream Japanese hot-blooded manga. Zhou Xingchi put his sincerity into such a clumsy role, he seems to have not grown nor changed, but in fact, he is the role that has changed the most.
He was originally married to Ame because of an old pair of shoes, but later he told her:
"I'll throw away the shoe when it's broken, and we'll all have to look ahead!"
In the course of the journey, he becomes realistic and snobbish, and the person who misses the oldest becomes the least nostalgic for the old- because he is also "greedy".
Can you not be greedy? In addition to the continuous opponents in front of him, he also has to resist his inner desires, so when facing the devil, Zhou Xingchi, who controls the entire movie, finally, still has to let the shoes and the girl come forward, reminding him to always have the original intention, and finally let the movie win.
I think this should be the thing that Stephen Chow has been telling the audience most in his inspirational movies, borrowing Wu Mengda's mouth:
"Football is not something that can be played by one person."
Maybe the pursuit of dreams is not something that can be achieved by one person, but you have to go forward to chase your dreams, although the road is full of pain and setbacks, the rivers and lakes are sinister, but those who deeply believe in your dreams will also let you know, no matter what, hold the original intention in your heart, hold it, even if you shed blood, sweat and tears, victory must be in your hands.
And he said:
"The real game is the fight."
Maybe the real life is the same.
Everyone must fight in a non-stop life with faith and original intentions.