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This kind of design does not seem to prevent "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" from becoming an excellent movie, right?

Put away the notebook.

Listening to the warm applause ringing in her ears, Xu Wenjing smiled slightly and joined in.

"call."

Zhou Xingchi breathed a sigh of relief.

The handling of the last plot was quite risky, and it was completely different from the first version of the script. Even if the audience didn't resist it when the trailer revealed this, he had been worried about evaluation problems, but based on his observations of today's premiere, Everyone seems to have good senses.

"How about it?"

Luo Xun asked Xia Yu beside him.

He and Zhang Sui Ning both participated in the movie and had read the script in advance. They had too many personal feelings, so he wanted to see what Xia Yu thought of it.

"Not bad."

Xia Yu thought for a while and said: "This is the first time I have seen such a powerful Tang Monk. It is very novel. For Journey to the West, this is a subversion."

"This was designed by Luo Xun."

Zhang Suining said, still a little proud.

Xia Yu was immediately curious: "Why is it designed like this?"

Luo Xun smiled and said: "Because Jin Chanzi is the second disciple of Tathagata Buddha. It is said that once, when Tathagata was giving a lecture, Jin Chanzi did not listen carefully and made a mistake, so Tathagata punished him to reincarnate once. , and it turns out that after reincarnation, he is Tang Monk, who is Xuanzang in this movie.”

"Didn't you pay attention in class?"

Xia Yudeng's face suddenly became strange.

Luo Xun nodded: "The crime is to despise Buddhism."

In the original work "Journey to the West", a passage from Tathagata Buddha to Tang Monk can roughly answer Xia Yu's question. He said: "Holy Monk, you were my second disciple in your previous life, named Jin Chanzi. Because you have not heard the Dharma. , despised my great teaching, so I despised your true spirit, and was reincarnated in the Eastern Land. Now I am happy to take refuge, adhere to my teachings, and take advantage of my teachings to take the true scriptures. It has great merits and achievements, and I will be promoted to a great position."

The Tathagata spoke very generally.

When preparing the character's biography, Luo Xun had to search for information in many ways to enrich the character image: It turned out that Jin Chanzi was the most proud disciple of Tathagata. Among the ten disciples of Tathagata, Jin Chanzi was ranked second, but he was the most talented. Invincible——

The third disciple of Tathagata is Avalokitesvara.

Why such a talented Buddha was punished for dozing off in class is actually nothing more than an excuse. The real reason is:

The ideological dispute between Jin Chanzi and Tathagata.

So Luo Xun boldly designed that the person Tathagata really wanted to save was Jin Chanzi, the disobedient and most powerful second disciple.

As for Jin Chanzi beating up Wukong...

The original work "Journey to the West" does not have a specific description of Jin Chanzi's strength, but it doesn't seem too abrupt for a guy who can discuss Taoism with Tathagata to beat up Wukong. At least that's how Luo Xun persuaded Xingye.

There are some sideways descriptions of Jin Chanzi in the original work.

In terms of profile description, Jin Chanzi is a very good person. The ancestor of the Earth Immortal whose martial power is more terrifying than Sun Wukong. Even the Guanyin Bodhisattva has to give three points to the Immortal Zhenyuan. He likes Jin Chanzi very much. Chapter "Journey to the West" Chapter 24, Zhen Yuanzi told his boy the story about himself and Tang Monk: "How did you know that? That monk was the reincarnation of Jin Chanzi, the second disciple of the Western Saint Tathagata. Five hundred years ago, I and I We met him at the Lantern Festival, and he personally served me tea. The Buddhist disciples respected me, so we are old friends.”

old friend.

After 500 years of acquaintance, Zhenyuan Daxian still remembered Tang Monk, his old friend, and asked Qingfeng and Mingyue to entertain him well. The gifts were two prickly pear fruits. These prickly pear fruits are very precious and only 30 of them can be produced in ten thousand years. .

result……

Such a polite young Buddhist talent was demoted to the East because he did not listen carefully when Master Tathagata lectured and was accused of "disrespecting the Dharma". He was then punished by going to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures to atone for his sin. The punishment was really enough. Heavy.

Therefore, the debate over ideas is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Including many subsequent interpretations of "Journey to the West", this is also believed. Although Tang Monk was born as a monk in the world, this did not affect his future at all. He became a great mage and decided to go to the West to learn Buddhist scriptures. During the selection process, Nanhai Guanyin was responsible for the assessment and selection. In order to please her superior Tathagata Buddha, she naturally chose Tang Monk. She left her cassock and crutches for fear that others would not know. After everything was arranged, she walked into the air and dropped a note explaining:

"I am Nanhai Guanyin."

The King of Tang saw that this was the person chosen by Guanyin of the South China Sea. As a little king in the world, how dare he neglect him? In the ending, Tang Monk was named the Tantan Merit Buddha, and he was forgiven by the Tathagata Buddha and returned to the Buddhist world.

Sun Wukong is very famous.

The world says that Sun Wukong, who defeated the Buddha in a battle, is just a monkey who was recruited and lost himself. His words are always full of regret. So is the Golden Chanzi who returned to the Buddhist world another monkey?

So Luo Xun thought it was good for Xuanzang to be the protagonist.

While echoing "Westward Journey", Jin Chanzi's identity can also be used to make a fuss. After all, he is Tathagata's senior brother, a man who dares to argue with his invincible master.

The original version didn't mention this.

Therefore, Xuanzang in the original movie did not have any highlight moments from beginning to end. In the end, he summoned the Tathagata through the "Great Sun Tathagata Sutra" transformed from "Three Hundred Children's Songs" and then defeated the monkey.

"That sounds so ironic."

Xia Yu smiled and said, "But when I watched it, I didn't think so much. I just felt fresh. I was quite happy to see Sun Wukong being beaten by Xuanzang. Who made him so fierce? In addition, I suspect that 80% of the money you spent on special effects was spent on the battle between Jin Chanzi and Sun Wukong. The dignified Tathagata only gave a stingy picture of the Tathagata Palm when he took action. Is this a tribute to "Kung Fu"? "

Luo Xun shrugged.

Xia Yu said the truth. The most difficult part of the special effects in the whole movie was the part where Jin Chanzi beat Sun Wukong violently. It was a pity that Tathagata intervened at the end and slapped each of them. They both went to the West to obtain the scriptures obediently.

"Do you know your mistake?"

In the movie just now, Tathagata asked Jin Chanzi this question. The movie did not explain whether Jin Chanzi knew his mistake, but in the last shot, Sun Wukong and Jin Chanzi joined forces to fight against Tathagata's palm. This picture design is quite interesting-

This is Stephen Chow's idea.

Luo Xun didn't ask Stephen Chow what this design meant, maybe it was also a hint of the true beginning of the master-disciple relationship?

It's hard to say.

In short, judging from the later stories of Journey to the West, Sun Wukong did respect Tang Seng, not just because of the threat of the tight hoop and the pressure of Tathagata.

In fact.

Many designs in the movie are quite ingenious and do carry some of Zhou Xingchi's emotions, such as Sun Wukong's ridicule of Xuanzang, "Because you are blind", and "Ten thousand years is too long, just love me, now" and so on.