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February 5, 1995
For all Hong Kong citizens, it is just an ordinary day in winter, but for Stephen Chow, the slightly cold morning in February is enough to destroy all his pride and self-confidence. The Hong Kong media, who once vigorously praised him as the "hope of Hong Kong films," have turned against him one after another and criticized Zhou Xingchi and Jiang Lang for exhausting their talents.
This morning, Xingye and his old friend Wei Zai ate breakfast together, but Liu Zhenwei suddenly found that the king of comedy who had once been the King of Comedy in Xiangjiang was now looking at him and fidgeting. Later, when recalling this day, Liu Zhenwei once said:
At that time, I was very uncomfortable inside, not because of what Zhou Xingchi said, but when I saw this look, I understood that there was no light in Zhou Xingchi's eyes.
Also in 1995, 43-year-old Liu Zhenwei sat anxiously in the Shaw office building, while he was being pointed at by Miss Fang Yihua and scolded for neuropathy. This Lady Shaw, who is known for her fierce wrists, can't understand how Sun Wukong can have love no matter what? Similarly, Liu Zhenwei can't understand in any case, why such a work that devotes all his imagination to it will encounter the double flutter street of word of mouth and box office? Failure and reluctance made him feel frustrated and hesitant that he had never felt since his screenwriting career.
This film that makes Zhou Xingchi have no light in his eyes and makes Liu Zhenwei feel aggrieved and unwilling is exactly the next episode of "Journey to the West" that we are going to talk about today.
Behind the scenes of Hong Kong films, pay tribute to the classics, hello everyone, I am Dousha. A few days ago, Dousha released, about the explanation of the episode of "Journey to the West", interested friends can go to see it.
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In July 1994, when "Chongqing Forest" was screened in Hong Kong, Xingye, who was sitting in the car, faced the changing scenery outside the window, and suddenly a line flashed into his mind:
If memory is also a can, I hope that this can does not expire, if I must add a day, I hope it is ten thousand years...
This line suddenly inspired Xingye, so in his new work "Journey to the West", he murmured tearfully to the Purple Xia Fairy who was looking for love:
Perhaps Zhu Yin, who was immersed in love at this time, could not understand the regret in Xingye's mouth, and she stubbornly believed that the "I love you" in the population in front of her, which had a ten thousand-year term, was the sea oath she had made to herself.
But the ending of the story is just like her line in the film for love after death: guess the beginning, but can't guess the ending.
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On December 20, 1994, "Moonlight Treasure Box" and "Fairy Tales", which carried the dream of Star Ye's transformation, waded through the knife-like wind in the vast desert and attacked all of us with sincerity.
In order to make this new company's pioneering work a hit, Star Ye held a grand premiere in Hong Kong. In the next few days, Star Ye and the actors in the play rushed between the major movie theaters. In the first 2 days of the film's release, the total box office revenue of 60 theaters in Hong Kong reached 5.3 million, slightly lower than the Jackie Chan movie "Red Fan District" released at the same time. Xingye, who thought he had a chance to win, could not imagine what happened next, which made him experience the impermanence of life.
After experiencing the initial box office hit, "Moonlight Treasure Box" began to tend to be flat in the film market. Fans who are accustomed to the nonsense funny of Star Ye have complained after watching this movie: the plot is messy and can't understand the dense lines and not funny. In the end, the investment of more than 60 million yuan in the big talk westward journey, only got more than 50 million box office revenue, the newly established Star Color company immediately announced the closure.
And those media who once regarded him as the "king of comedy" also turned against Xingye Jiang Lang at this time. In the face of this noisy and noisy city, the cold and warm self-aware Star Ye felt helplessness and trepidation that he had never felt before, and the teenager who had seen the cold and warm of human feelings but shouted hard to struggle, there was no light in his eyes at the moment....
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What makes Xingye feel even more lost is that this year, his love road with Zhu Yin has also come to an end.
From a kiss and a promise in "Truant Veyron 2" to the hotel capture JIAN in "Journey to the West", Zhu Yin has never escaped the spell of love shelf life. In the years of falling in love with Zhu Yin, Star Ye has focused almost all his energy on the movie, so he ignores too many things. So he presented those regrets in real life to all the people of the world through lines and lenses, and then kept silent on the controversy and incomprehension of the outside world alone.
However, Zhu Yin tearfully complained that "Zhou Xingchi is too flowery", and frankly said that Zhou Xingchi is not suitable for love, and even gritted his teeth in the face of the interview:
"Don't mention that name in front of me again!"
Once a male talent and a female concubine, but now it has become a strange road, such a situation is like Li Zongsheng sang in the song:
The vows of old love,
It's like a slap in the face.
Whenever you remember a sentence,
Just get a slap in the face,
And then for several years I couldn't smell the fragrance of women...
Or as Zhang Ailing wrote in "Red Roses and White Roses": every man has had two women like this. Married to a red rose, over time, the red turned into a touch of mosquito blood on the wall, and the white was still 'bright moonlight before the bed'. Married to a white rose, the white is a grain of rice sticky on the clothes, and the red is a cinnabar mole on the heart.
Luo Huijuan and Zhu Yin were like red and white roses, but in the end they both became a cinnabar mole that could never be erased from xingye's heart. As for what Xingye said about the person who missed the whole life, maybe juan mei, maybe zhu yin, maybe Mo Wenwei, maybe Yu Wenfeng, or all of them. As Liu Zhenwei said in an interview, Zhou Xingchi loves everyone, but what he loves most is himself.
So in 2017's "Journey to the West, Voldemort", he borrowed the mouth of Tang Monk to say this: There has been pain, Fang knows the pain of sentient beings; there has been attachment, let go of attachment; there has been worry, there is no worry. Then he asked Shu Qi to sing in "The Love of a Lifetime":
Once upon a time until now, love is still there, willing to wait for you to drift, beyond the white clouds...
Yes, love has always been there, but Star Master has long lost the ability to love someone. So he chose a person to spend the rest of his life tasting all the regrets and pains in this world.
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In a work on Dousha, a netizen left a message like this: Zixia likes the Supreme Treasure, the Supreme Treasure likes The White Crystal, the White Crystal Crystal likes Qi Tian Dasheng, and the Qi Tian Dasheng likes Zixia. You think that the Great Sage of Qi Tian and the Supreme Treasure are one person, but they are 500 years apart, and everything is right, except for the wrong time. If you want to save Zixia, you must defeat the Bull Demon King, if you want to defeat the Bull Demon King, you must become Sun Wukong, and if you want to become Sun Wukong, you must forget the seven emotions and six desires, and you can no longer have any contamination.
Sometimes life is like this, if you want to be free with your beloved, you must have a successful career, if you want to have a career, you must abandon your innocence and put on a mask, when you become capable of giving everything to your beloved, you find that you can't find your original self, and you have lost the ability to love...
Writing here, DouSha suddenly remembered the whole "Journey to the West" with almost no dirty words. But when the Bull Demon King stabbed Zixia to death, and the Supreme Treasure Smashed the Round Iron Rod, it was me CAO who shouted, followed by I want your life!
Why? Because the Bull Demon King wanted the life of the Supreme Treasure.
At this moment, Dou Shaduo wants to return time to the moment when the movie begins, and the Purple Xia Fairy holds a long artemisia, through the reeds that have withered, and the river water spreads out wave by wave, touching the reeds, and then scattering into the distance again, rolling up the heartwarming ripples. The Purple Xia Fairy, holding a purple-green sword and a purple-gold bell on her wrist, beats a horse through the thin youth of all of us in the whispered language of "Reed Swing".
Through the reeds, through the desert sand, through the sadness and impermanence of the fate of the world, on the city tower of the sunset, a love that will never be separated from the supreme Treasure.
This is the lifelong wish of the Purple Xia Fairy, and it is also the hopelessness of each of our teenagers.
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Let's talk about the behind-the-scenes soundtrack of the movie, the interlude "Reed Swing" when the Zixia Fairy appeared in the play is from Zhao Jiping, the top score master of the Western Film Studio, although this bright and sad interlude has now become everyone's favorite, but the teacher Zhao who had done the soundtrack work for Zhang Yimou's "Red Sorghum" and Chen Kaige's "Farewell to the King" asked not to appear in the film staff after completing the film soundtrack work.
It turned out that in order to make the soundtrack more in line with the style of the movie scene, Teacher Zhao had run to the set to find inspiration. When he came to the scene, just in time for the Spring Thirteenth Lady vs. the Bull Demon King, after watching several scenes on the scene full of various blood-red internal organs, Zhao Jiping felt completely incomprehensible, and even a little ridiculous. So he decided that it was a bad film, but out of professionalism and professional ethics, Zhao Jiping had to complete the soundtrack work according to his own understanding, and asked the producer not to sign the film.
Just as Zhao Jiping was not optimistic about the movie, the fans of that year were also disappointed in this innovative work of Xingye, which made Xingye, who has always been conceited, feel desperate. But Xingye, who never accepted defeat in his bones, found Liu Zhenwei again and wanted to make a "Night of Returning to the Soul" to turn over, but the result was also the opposite of his wishes. The box office performance of 16 million made Chow's situation even worse, and Liu Zhenwei also broke the contract to pay liquidated damages in a round of scolding, leaving Hong Kong, a land of right and wrong, and going to Canada on the other side of the ocean.
At that time, Xingye, who was in a deep trough, could not imagine that this "Journey to the West", which made him lose money to the bottom of his family, was completely on fire at the Beijing Film Academy 2 years after its release...
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In 1996, The Journey to the West was screened at the Beijing Film Academy in the form of A VCD, and the film's swirling structure and romantic lines fascinated all The Students of Beiying. They repeatedly chew every line in the film and taste all kinds of deep meanings in these lines.
Soon, the culture of big talk to the west and the big talk to the west sentence pattern quickly became popular in the mainland with the development of the Internet. Becoming popular again in this way is completely beyond the imagination of Xingye and Liu Zhenwei, the two of them have re-watched the movie countless times together, but they have never been able to understand the preference code of mainland film fans.
And those young students have grown up and matured now, and after tasting the sour and spicy pain of society and the thousands of turns of love, they are even more sympathetic to this movie. So when the Big Talk Journey to the West was re-screened in 2014, people flocked to the cinema to spend 110 minutes to make up for the movie ticket that owed to Xingye that year.
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Perhaps every one of us who likes to travel to the west with big words sees more of his own life from this work, and sees the transformation process of a rebellious boy to a mature man. And maturity is often a very painful word, it does not necessarily get, but it will definitely lose.
Losing the love of the old days, losing the angularity, when the golden hoop was the head of the western heavens to learn the scriptures, I still couldn't help but look back at the sunset and the desire to say goodbye on the castle tower.
If one day what makes your heart move can no longer move you, what makes you angry can no longer provoke you, and what makes you sad can no longer make you cry. You will understand what this past life has given you, and what have you paid for to grow?
At this point, will you remember the last sentence of the film like BeanSha:
That man looked so weird, I saw it, he looked like a dog...
Yeah, one day, we'll be walking on the road too, like a dog....
Paying tribute to Xingye and the regrets and losses on our way of growing up, perhaps the biggest incomprehension of xingye in the world is that people define "Journey to the West" as a romantic comedy.
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