Didn't you say that we would lose money after filming?

Chapter 241: Just a Skin
The first thing he did when he arrived in Xinhai was to find a house and settle down.

It has to be Xinhai. This place is worthy of being the economic center of Hanxia. Every inch of land is worth a lot of money. He found a one-bedroom apartment with a monthly rent of 6000 yuan, and the commute is an hour.

Fortunately, he is now a blogger with millions of followers and has a certain level of economic status, so he was able to solve the problem of accommodation so quickly.

So, after solving his housing problem, he went to the cinema to watch Director Xia's "A Chinese Odyssey" first.

I have watched both the first and second parts, more than once.

how to say?

When he watched it for the first time, he didn't understand what was so special about it, but the one conclusion he could draw was that it was a standard Xia Yuan-style comedy, which would always give you an unexpected laugh in an unexpected place and in an inexplicable way.

This method of setting up laughs is very clever. If someone else shoots it, it might not have that flavor and people would just feel confused, but when Xia Yuan shoots it, it makes people laugh.

And this is Xia Yuan, how could he simply shoot something that has no substance?
So he went to watch it a second time, and a third time, and finally he saw some clues.

The more he looked, the more frightened he became.

Sure enough, Xia Yuan is still the same Xia Yuan, and this "A Chinese Odyssey" really contains some personal agenda!

If you want to understand this movie, you have to watch it from three levels.

On the surface, this is a nonsensical comedy.

The second level is a touching love story, which tells the story of the unrequited love between Zhizunbao and Zixia.

In today's film and television market where all subjects are about love, such sad dramas are simply plentiful.

But when you really understand it and reach the third level, you will discover the awesomeness of this movie.

Do you think the theme is about the love between Zhizunbao and Zixia Fairy? The love story between Zhizunbao and Bai Gujing?

"Let the Bullets Fly" is just a story about a bandit seizing an official position and taking office!

But why is this movie regarded as a classic, and why are so many people clamoring for it to be listed as a world heritage site?
It's nothing more than Xia Yuan using the excuse of being a corrupt official to talk about some sensitive history.

The same is true for "A Chinese Odyssey". From a distance, it is a sad drama, but from a closer look, Xia Yuan is just pretending to be the love-loving character of Zhizunbao and Zixia Fairy, and what is revealed is the hypocritical mask of Buddhism!
Judging from "Journey to the West", what is the most ridiculous part of the stories about gods, ghosts and monsters that have been passed down from ancient times to the present in Hanxia?
Isn’t it just Sun Wukong, a stone monkey who jumped out of the Sky-Repairing Stone, possessed some magical powers, and after becoming a disciple of Patriarch Bodhi, he went to make trouble in the Heavenly Palace?

Among a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers and generals, and numerous immortals and gods, there is not a single one who can be a match for him?
The Jade Emperor had to speak to him in a nice tone because of the difference in power, and he even had to go to the West to ask the Buddha to suppress this naughty monkey?
And even so, they were unable to kill the monkey, but only suppressed it under the Five Finger Mountain for five hundred years?

What is the strength of Sun Wukong?
Although he can be the king in the human world, what kind of place is heaven?
Why can the Jade Emperor sit in this position?
According to clear records, the Jade Emperor experienced 1,750 kalpas, and one kalpa lasted 124,800 years.

In other words, he practiced hard for 200 million years before he could sit in this position!
There are many other powerful gods and Buddhas in the sky!
But even such a heaven was turned upside down by a stone monkey who had just been born.

You can say that Sun Wukong has a high level of aptitude and great talent, but that is a bit too far-fetched.

Therefore, in the eyes of many scholars who have studied "Journey to the West" in depth, and even some professors have suggested that "Journey to the West" is nothing more than a conspiracy of those in power, and Sun Wukong is just a chess piece in this big chess game.

Maybe he is the most important chess piece, but he is just a chess piece!

The original purpose was to find a reason to capture this monkey with a very powerful background, make him useful to himself, and then complete the mission of spreading Buddhism to the East by traveling west!
Haven't you seen that all the little demons who passed by without any background or followers died under the stick of Sun Wukong? No one asked, no one knew. Some demons were not even involved in any evil deeds. One of the most unfortunate ones was the black bear demon who had never harmed anyone.

He had only stolen some robes, which was not a serious crime. He even had some knowledge of Buddhism, but in the end he ended up in a bad way.

Then there is the Yellow Lion Demon. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is the kindest demon. Like the Black Bear Demon, he has never harmed or eaten anyone. He has never even thought of eating Tang Monk's flesh. Even when he held the Rake Meeting, he asked his men to buy the meat at the market!
The reason why his men wanted to take some money was just to buy some cotton clothes for the winter. They would even secretly help the local people and rob the rich to help the poor.

However, it was this Yellow Lion Demon who died the most miserable monster in the entire "Journey to the West".

What about other monsters in comparison? They eat people and commit crimes in troubled times. When Sun Wukong wants to kill them, some powerful people will appear to stop them. They are either the mounts of this powerful person or the pets of that powerful person.

In the end, they survived.

Until the end, Sun Wukong became the Fighting and Victory Buddha in the West.

Where is the Monkey King Sun Wukong who was once so arrogant and believed that his fate was in his own hands?

Perhaps he had already died, died under the rules, toyed with to death.

Under the rules of the Almighty, even someone as proud and hostile as the Monkey King had to bend his proud waist, be put under a golden hoop, and become the laughing stock and entertainment of all the gods and Buddhas like a monkey.

Unfortunately, there are only a few people who can understand this level, and there are also very few people who can understand the core of what "Journey to the West" wants to express, not to mention that the TV series is actually a beautified "Journey to the West", and the original novel is even darker.

A Taiyi Golden Immortal Stone Monkey going to cause trouble in the Heavenly Palace which was full of Quasi-Saints and Daluo was doomed to fail from the very beginning.

But why is the Monkey King so popular? It is simply because he represents a will to resist from beginning to end.

"A Chinese Odyssey" is just a metaphor created by Director Xia.

Based on the 100 chapters of "Journey to the West", this scene "Chapter " was filmed, which means that this is just an additional joke.

Then the essence of "Journey to the West" is alluded to through the story of Fairy Zixia and Zhizunbao.

This can be seen from the details in the film that Erlang Shen Zhenjun and the four generals of the Demon Family were no match for a little fairy of no rank who was transformed from a treasure spirit and who even escaped.

Many people who see this passage will just think it is nonsense and extremely stupid.

But what is the reality? In Hanxia, ​​who doesn't know the power of Erlang Xiansheng Zhenjun?
But Xia Yuan still took the photo like this. What does this mean? There must be a deeper meaning behind it.

Then there was the scene where Sun Wukong wanted to eat Tang Monk’s flesh and conspired with the Bull Demon King. In fact, this is what the Great Sage should really be like.

The Monkey King Sun Wukong was a demon king. It was an insult to him to willingly submit to the Buddha and go on a journey to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures.

The Sun and Moon Lamp is the natal Buddha lamp of the contemporary Buddha Tathagata, and Zixia, the wick, is in charge of the Buddha's treasure house. How could such an important person be tempted by earthly desires and escape to the human world without anyone noticing?
Even Buddha didn’t notice?

Is this normal?

(Here I am. I finished work late. Next, I will explain Westward Journey to you. But the article won’t be too long. After all, I have to consider the plot, so I will just go straight to the point.)
(End of this chapter)