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The word "WuLi tou " (also known as 'Nonsense') is derived from cantonese, and it is said in the "Bite Text Chewing Character" that "Mile Head" is "Coming Head", and "No Mile Head" means no head, no head and no brain, no reason, and inexplicable, which leads to the meaning of spoof, funny, funny, joke and so on.
Now when we think of the Wulitou style, we must first think of Zhou Xingchi, but the founder of this style in Hong Kong is the "soft and hard master" Lin Haifeng and the combination with Ge Minhui.
In March 1988, "Soft and Hard Heavenly Teachers" joined the Hong Kong Commercial Radio broadcast program, and its style caused imitation by teenagers, attracted complaints from many teachers and parents, and was considered a spiritual poison that "taught bad ways (teaching bad children)", but it also made them popular.
On August 18, 1990, Stephen Chow's "Gamble Saint" starring Stephen Chow was released, breaking the local box office record of Hong Kong films in one fell swoop, becoming the first film in the history of Hong Kong films to exceed 40 million Hong Kong dollars, and establishing Chow's headless performance style that was different from many previous comedy stars.
Since then, Stephen Chow has become one of the most popular "double weekly" in the Hong Kong film industry, and "No Mile Head" has also become a unique performance style of Hong Kong movies.
Of course, if you look at the film industry around the world, this "no mile" style that is frequently funny and spoofed in movies is actually not the first in Hong Kong.
As early as 1980, the American film "Unprecedented Flying", written and directed by David Zach, Jerry Zach and Jim Abrams, has begun to apply a playful approach to filmmaking.
Hong Kong comedy films, including Stephen Chow films, are more or less influenced by their works, and some films even directly copy their bridges.
1984's "Laughing Through the Iron Curtain" is a more mature work using the style of no mile head, although it is now 35 years, it is still the best in funny movies, with a length of 90 minutes, almost a laugh point per minute.
"Laughing Through the Iron Curtain" 丨 1984
top secret!
Directed by: David Zach / Jerry Zach / Jim Abrams
Starring: Fang Kimmer / Peter Cushing / Christopher Villiers
Runtime: 90 minutes
Since the end of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union have fought a 44-year-long Cold War in order to compete for world hegemony.
At that time, Germany was divided into two sovereign states, the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in the soviet-occupied areas in the east and the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) in the three occupied areas of the United States, Britain and France in the west.
The male protagonist in the film, Nick Ray, is from the United States, a rock singer, and is invited to perform in East Germany.
At the hotel, Nickry meets Hillary, an East German girl who is the daughter of scientist Freyman and a member of the underground resistance.
Hillary's father, Fremann, was imprisoned in a prison where the East German government ordered him to make a lethal weapon.
Hilary's boyfriend, Nigel, is the leader of the Resistance, and they plan to rescue Fryman and transfer him abroad.
As a result of assisting Hillary, Nickry is arrested and imprisoned, but makes him mistakenly find Freyman in prison.
The Resistance decides to go to jail to rescue Nickry and Fryman, but their actions are always detected by the enemy because of the treachery in the organization.
It turned out that Hilary's boyfriend, Nigel, had already defected, and he was the one who betrayed the organization.
After some twists and turns, Nickery finally defeated Nigel, successfully rescued Fryman, and the three of them flew away from East Germany with Hilary.
The story of the film itself is very simple, but the highlight lies in the mileless spoofs and dense laugh points from beginning to end.
First of all, from the title to the story framework, it is a parody of the 1966 Alfred Hitchcock film Breaking The Iron Curtain (originally titled "Top Secret!" from Torn Curtain).
Clips of actress Hilary recalling her life on the island with her boyfriend Nigel spoofed the 1980 film "Coral Island of Youth."
The strange thing about the actor Nick Ray escaping from the central air conditioning vent is a parody of "Dr. No. 007" starring Sean Connery in 1962.
Of course, a headless dialogue is also essential, such as this paragraph.
Nick Ray took out a set of "sexual blessings on the right" out of thin air from the ground.
Liu Zhenwei also used this trick in "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter".
Headless props are also standard in this type of movie, such as this magnetic secret weapon, which can suck submarines several miles away. I really sucked a submarine over!
The headless figure seems to be reading a book with a magnifying glass, but his eyes are actually so big.
It is worth mentioning that the actor who played this character, Peter Cushing, also played Governor-General Wilhelf Tarkin in the Star Wars series.
At that time, in order to make this big eye, the film crew made a plaster mask from his face.
Peter Cushing died on August 11, 1994, but the star wars story: Rogue One, filmed in 2016, required the appearance of Governor Tarkin, and the preserved plaster mold helped a lot to make Governor Tarkin's CG avatar.
The plot of the headless head is endless, only you can't think of it, and you can't do it without him. Looking at the telephone set magnified by the close distance, it is actually that big.
A spy disguised as a hawker and selling spoof props.
Strange grenades.
A resistance army carrying cannons.
Breaking glass turns into a tic-tac-toe game.
Unbreakable glass.
Along with the car was crushed into a pie of spy Sed Rick.
Beautiful women on the beach.
"Fragile" soldiers.
People who think they are very tall, but they are actually very short.
When I saw the boots, I thought they had been discovered, and it turned out to be a pair of boots.
I thought the train was moving, but it turned out that the platform was moving.
Fighting underwater, a tavern appears.
Pac-Man is messing around.
The kissing of the male and female protagonists instantly turned dirty...
There are also hilarious and amazing songs and dances.
Everything makes the movie so exciting.
It was the first film starring theatrical actor Fang Kimmer, who was only 25 years old at the time and contributed his best performance.
Although the acting skills are unfamiliar, it can be seen that it is very hard, and there is no need to jump up and down without a stand-in.
Later, he successfully portrayed Batman Bruce Wayne in 1995's Batman Forever, and his acting career reached its peak.
But then several films were not satisfactory, and gradually fell from the high to the bottom.
Fang Kimmer can still be seen in Hollywood movies today, but time has passed, and the small fresh meat of the past is now a greasy fat uncle.
It is "the back wave of the Yangtze River pushes the front wave, and the new people in the world catch up with the old people." "The change of times, the passage of time, these are all unstoppable things.
But good works will become classics forever, such as David Zach, Jerry Zach and Jim Abrams, their "Home with Evil Husband", "Laughing Through the Iron Curtain", "Unprecedented Flying" series, "Bald Detective" series, "Screaming Laughter" series, these works are still repeatedly homed and imitated funny classics.
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