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Don't say moral words to others.
Let's take a look at a conversation between Stephen Chow and his old partner Ng Man Tat in the movie (this is based on the impression of watching this movie, not necessarily accurate):
Stephen Chow's Su Beggar (who later became a beggar, but was originally a rich boy) was fighting with someone when the general's father () arrived with the guards.
Ng Man Tat: "Son, who bullied you?" Stephen Chow: "I am bullying others!" " "Ng Man Tat:" His family has money and status. Are you qualified to bully? "
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Stephen Chow: "Dad, I'm going to Beijing to take the top martial arts exam." Ng Man Tat (excitedly): "Son! We Su Chahar family have been waiting for this sentence for 20 years! Stephen Chow: "No, I did it for a woman. Ng Man Tat: "Good! Die for women, die for women, and take exams for women! Hero! Who dares ask? Stephen Chow: Yuan is like a frost girl. Ng Man Tat: "Ah? ! Prostitute! !” Stephen Chow: "What's the matter? Ng Man Tat: "I dare not love what people dare to love. I have different tastes. I admire you, Dad! "
In Stephen Chow's films, there are many wonderful and humorous dialogues like this. It is these dialogues that violate morality and even the logic of daily life that make people smile in an accident, thus forming the comedy color in Stephen Chow's films.
In Taiwan and Hong Kong movies, if Jackie Chan and Chow Yun Fat are heroes, they will leave a deep impression on the public, while Stephen Chow's role is anti-hero. The little guy he plays is not only far from the hero, but also smacks of the prodigal son coming back-treating morality like dirt. Like the above dialogue, morality is regarded as non-existent. If it is said that loving prostitutes may not conform to the old morality, but it may conform to the new morality, then it is a bit excessive for a father to ask his son if he has enough money for you to bully. But there's more.
In another film, Stephen Chow plays a lawyer. The lawyer's wife gave birth to a child, and Stephen Chow (lawyer) checked the sex of the child and said, "Ha, it's not a son, it's a chicken condom! Ok, the chicken cover is also very good! " God, my father said his daughter was a chicken condom. I dare say this is the most shocking theory I have ever heard!
Mencius once cursed Yang Zhu viciously: "No monarch, no father and no beast." Stephen Chow's comedies are also without a gentleman and a father. The little person he played not only transcended the constraints of morality, but also transcended the constraints of power. There is no father and son, and there is no monarch and minister. Emperors are often cowardly and ridiculous, and courtiers can tease the son of heaven. There may even be a farce in which the monarch and his subjects huddle under the bed and go whoring with the same prostitute. There is absolutely no Emperor Rowen who can be seen everywhere in mainland movies, and there is no morality that you can call me dead and I can't die.
Stephen Chow's comedy stories are not only immoral, but also violate the logic of daily life and the axiom of 1+ 1 = 2. In a movie, Stephen Chow learned the skills of swearing from a pimp (what a strange skill, I'm sure it's not among the 72 lines). He studied hard, kept improving, and finally became proficient, and he was able to scold tables and chairs. You can scold the dead and the living to death (this is not a metaphor, it is a real scene. In Stephen Chow's comedies, you can make your dreams come true. ) you can swear, you can spit out a lot of colorful staff. How fun it is!
Fun is fun, but because it completely violates ethics and life logic, it is full of boring and mediocre farce. In these stories, only the traditional morality is destroyed, but no new morality is established, which makes people feel that these films are ethereal and lack weight. Thackeray said that humor is wit and love, while humor in Stephen Chow's movies is wit without love.
The reason why Stephen Chow's films make us feel kind is that our era is a non-hero era. The era of heroes has long since ended, and the sublimity is declining. We are more and more mediocre, and we are willing to be mediocre. We no longer struggle tenaciously for lofty ideals. We are drifting more and more, drag out an ignoble existence, and even lose our conscience for material desires. Hong Kong people have gone further than mainlanders on the road of non-hero. They live in Hong Kong, a place where Chinese and Western cultures meet. They are far away from the mainstream traditional morality of Confucius and Mencius and have not accepted too much western morality. The cornerstone of morality is inherently weak. Once it is impacted by the material desires of modern cities, it will naturally fail. Hong Kong has become a moral quasi-vacuum zone, and Stephen Chow, a boring and vulgar comedian, was born here rather than elsewhere.