New Age Artists

Chapter 669 Shocking Results!

BJ has an IMAX theater.

Lao Hu is in so much pain!

The fluttering red cape of the Monkey King on the screen, the dazzling bright red, and the long, relentless close-ups made Lao Hu feel uncomfortable all over.

During the Chinese New Year, I feel like I was fed a mouthful of shit.

"Can Shen Santong just be a director? What is he trying to do? Can we compare with the outside world?"

The long shot at the end of the movie was designed to depict the mundane life of Chang'an City and the Tang Dynasty in the East, but why did it also have to depict the rampant evildoers and piles of bones at Lingshan?

Shen Santong has retired. Could you please be more sensible and not cause trouble for them?

Quiet down!
Old Hu was so angry!

Lingshan and the Heavenly Court conspired to stigmatize the Monkey King, combining the status of Fighting Buddha with political intrigue, and then constructed a narrative of historical nihilism through storytellers, making folk legends a weapon of political game.

It also nested pseudo-historical materials such as "Secret Records of Heaven" and "Commentary on the Lingshan Sutra Debates" under the bed of the Jade Emperor and Tathagata, constructing a text information maze and making conspiracy theory interpretations of every stage of the Monkey King's life experience.

What does Lao Hu do?

He works in the media!
Couldn't he see what Shen Santong was going to do?
It's a slap in their face!

From these plots, I can feel Shen Santong’s deep malice!

This is a slap in the face of these media warriors, both positively and negatively!
To put it simply, these plots are somewhat influenced by Shen Santong's personal emotions.

Generally speaking, there is a reflection of reality.

The methods of manipulating public opinion and how postmodern narratives deconstruct heroes are laid out before the audience through commercial film channels.

In the end, the story is left with an open ending. The Monkey King steps on the clouds to fight Ling Xiao again, leaving behind the oath "I am always here".

Shen Santong refused to act out the image of "sparks starting a prairie fire".

at the end.

The Monkey King steps into the Heaven again to face the ills of the Three Realms. His golden cudgel splits the chaos, symbolizing the breaking of the rigid divine authority.

Jiang Liuer inherited the way of the spark and became the spark of hope for mortals, and he used metaphors unscrupulously.

"Crazy political dog whistles, rampant attacks!"

Old Hu was feeling very upset during the New Year.

He didn't even care about his family, and was only thinking about concocting an article right away to guide public opinion that might be biased.

The scale of "The Monkey King: Hero is Back" is too precise to be accidental.

It's definitely intentional!
It implies the necessity of change. What should we do at this point in time?
Through the contrast between Eastern and Western rule, it expresses the need to uphold one's own subjectivity.

If there were no comparison between Lingshan and the Tang Dynasty later on, Lao Hu thinks this movie would at least be okay.

But Shen Santong just wanted to feed him shit, which made him feel sick and uncomfortable.

Lao Hu secretly cursed himself for being such a jerk!

I went to see Shen Santong's movie during the Chinese New Year. I felt so uncomfortable after watching it. It was really a sin!
Shanghai Xintiandi Cinemas.

Film and art critic Zhang Xiaowei also thinks the movie is not good.

"It's ruined, it's ruined!"

Shen Santong ignored so many good angles and ended up making a mediocre commercial film.

"Human magic is emotion, God's emotion is magic", this setting is so wonderful.

If we can elevate it and form an ontological speculation on the emotional energy and the operation of power, the connotation will be enriched on more than one level.

However, this setting is just a setting to serve the rationality of Jiang Liuer's explosion and the return of the Monkey King, without further expanding the philosophical connotation.

The Monkey King’s dilemma can actually be transformed into a workplace dilemma.

To explore the alienation of idealists in the institutional system.

The Monkey King’s horse-faced demon form would be better if it were uglier.

Breaking through the traditional image of the Monkey King, the alienated appearance symbolizes the disenchantment of the hero. However, the movie finally returns to the stereotype of the Monkey King.

The breaking of the golden hoop would have helped to resolve the violent deconstruction of the mythological symbol, but it was reassembled to serve the final transformation in The Return of the Great Sage.

Many lines are not simplified, but simply lost.

There is also a lot to explore in depth regarding the stigmatization narrative line.

Depicting victory as written by the victor, exploring the "historical truth", and then making a profound criticism of violence can be a good way to explore Foucault's theory of discourse power.

Shen Santong was only used to add luster to the Monkey King, and to enhance the tragedy of the Monkey King himself through stigmatization, in order to gain the love of the audience.

Jiang Liuer's dark side is a superfluous awakening. If his "hedgehog personality" is deepened, it can fully express and reflect the spiritual dilemma of Generation Z and make a beneficial criticism of the Generation Z group.

The counterattack of the Tianjiang Group is just a clichéd villain role, lacking flesh-and-blood and concrete description, and no interest chain involved.

It would be interesting if the Chaos Demon King had a dual characterization. While eating young boys and girls, he also showed his good side, highlighting his powerlessness in front of the Heavenly General.

Unfortunately, it didn’t happen, and the Demon King became a cliché villain.

The original multiple narrative metaphors are also gone.

The plot of the Heavenly Court's political intrigue was not expanded at all, and it only focused on the cognitive limitations of Jiang Liuer's perspective and his personal growth.

Obviously, as long as the Monkey King continues to be deconstructed, the divinity of the hero is removed, and Jiang Liuer's individual values ​​are strengthened, it can become a representative work of deconstructing classic IP, construct a mirror universe full of realistic pain, and is expected to become a benchmark work of new mythology.

Unfortunately, there is none of it.

Whether it is the deconstruction of traditional myths or social metaphors, they are all only for the service of the character's growth arc and the thrill of the movie, and do not serve the artistry of the movie even a little bit.

The beginning of the movie was wasted.

It depicts the complex struggle between Lingshan and Heaven, and the Tang Dynasty also has the struggle for power between the new and old nobles in the garrison.

Dig in!
How wonderful it would be to use metaphors to their full potential, dig deeper, make it a little more absurd, a little darker!
"The visuals, the texture of the film, the color symbol system, it's all ruined."

Zhang Xiaowei felt so uncomfortable.

Shen Santong only focused his perspective on the little boy Jiang Liuer, which made the film childish and ruined the eerie atmosphere!
Why make it so easy?

How much money have you, Shen Santong, made? Shouldn't you pursue some art?

The ending is also a popular family-friendly one.

Jiang Liuer and his master rebuild their lives, the garrison captures the dignitaries who are colluding with the mountain monster, and Chang'an City shouts "Great Sage!"
So vulgar. So vulgar.

When some people are unhappy, the audience is happy.

"The Monkey King: Hero is Back" was released nationwide on February 2, the first day of the Lunar New Year. It focused on family fun and nostalgia, and with 10% of the screenings, it took in 40 million yuan at the box office, accounting for 4.2% of the market.

With extremely exaggerated results, it set a record for the first-day box office of Chinese-language films and topped the single-day box office champion.

As soon as it was released, it topped the trending searches on all major platforms and made headlines.

#The Return of the Great Sage#
#The Great Sage#
#Jiang Liuer explodes#
#Shen Santong has some personal emotions#
A film of the same type, "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", also achieved far better results than its predecessor thanks to the appeal of Stephen Chow, with a box office of 180 million on the first day.

Just when all the industry insiders and even the audience thought that "The Return of the Great Sage" had the highest box office performance on the first day, the box office did not drop but increased on the second day of the Chinese New Year, exceeding 500 million.

Instead, "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" began to decline.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, "The Return of the Great Sage" grossed 5.3 million yuan.

The domestic box office grossed an incredible 14.5 billion in three days, becoming the world box office champion in 2013.

Whether it is the box office performance or audience reputation, there is no sign of decline.

The industry is shocked!

The audience was shocked!

People abroad are also shocked!

Too scary!

(End of this chapter)