Mr. Star brings a refreshing breeze to cultural studies
Two weeks ago, Stephen Chow was invited by Dr. Wu Junxiong of the Department of Sociology of the University of Hong Kong to talk with Leo Ou-fan, a visiting professor at Harvard University. The title of
is: "Wandering Between Modernity and Postmodernity", which is very cultural. Dr. Wu calls the two masters, which makes sense. Professor Li has been well-known in Eastern and Western academic circles for a long time. Sing Yeh is a master of Hong Kong comedy. He is capable of writing, directing and acting. He has been at the top of the charts for many years, but he is not a deceiver who lives up to his fame. It's rare that the dialogue between the two is completely unscripted, a head-on confrontation. And everyone speaks out from the bottom of their hearts without any falsehoods. The host said about Mr. Xing: "My classmates from Peking University praised your film as a masterpiece of postmodernism!"
Mr. Xing was definitely not hypocritical. He responded: "I don't understand what postmodernism is at all!" A straightforward statement that speaks volumes about today's One of the biggest problems with popularizing cultural studies in academic circles is the easy use of "labels" and the unspeakable bad habits of some people in academic circles.
This is a curious thing about cultural studies. Culture creators immerse themselves in creation and don’t care about anything else. Their motivation is usually just survival. Just like Stephen Chow, he is a filmmaker who makes a living by making movies, so he must make movies in order to maintain his identity. Not for survival, but for interest. Rarely do people engage in creation in order to contribute to culture or create cultural works. But after the work came out, cultural researchers used a lot of very difficult to understand terms, such as "postcolonial", "postmodern", "semiotics", " structuralism ", etc., and used a completely different set of methods to study it. cultural works. It is even said that "the author is dead", believing that after the work is completed, it will no longer have any relationship with the author. Researchers can completely ignore the author's original intention and use their own theories and methods to analyze the work. Methods such as
were started by the "Frankfurt School" formed by a group of foreign Marxists in the 1950s. After decades of development, they have become very powerful in academic circles, but they may not necessarily be used by cultural creators themselves. Everyone accepted it.
It is rare for Stephen Chow to speak directly, which suddenly brought a refreshing breeze to the strange atmosphere in the academic circle.
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Stephen Chow has his own way of handling scenes. He believes that the audience is very smart and is already familiar with the general development of the plot. Therefore, the development of the play must be unexpected and unexpected by the audience, so that the theatergoers can be surprised.
"Hey! If you do this, the audience will definitely guess it!" He said this more than once at the scene.
It is said that Xingzai pays great attention to the plot processing of comic books, and often steals lessons from them and incorporates them into his performance methods.
Mr. Xing is smart. He knows how to absorb the best advice. If he can't think of it himself, he just asks people everywhere.
"Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance" There is a scene in which the prince played by Lin Wei was defeated by him and became angry with shame.
He was not satisfied with the reaction arrangement of the villain in the script, so he asked everywhere: "What is the best way for him to lose his temper?"
Everyone offered suggestions, and he chose the most incredible one.
"This is good! This is right!"
made a quick decision.
absolutely does not care who submitted the opinion. As long as the opinion is useful, adopt it immediately. Unlike some producers, once the concept is not their own, they are very resistant.
When he was working, his tone was sometimes not very tactful. "How is this okay?"
However, if you have questions about the script on set, being too tactful will waste time and delay things. There are hundreds of people working on site, and every minute is worth money, so it is more cost-effective to be straightforward.
He is also a very observant person.
"Uncle Zhan! I think you are just talking about this matter!" He laughed.
gave him a chopstick, so he had to admit it!
"Hey! Fatty will definitely show up tonight!" he said one night.
Before the voice finished, the young screenwriter appeared in front of us!
"Isn't that right? Tell me!" It's so good to know everything.
Then the laughter shook the ceiling! He smiled and his eyes were very playful.The humorous eyes that kept flashing along the way, coupled with the dimples that appeared when she smiled, I looked at it and completely understood why my daughter was obsessed with Stephen Chow.
The melancholy look on his face makes you want to go over and comfort him politely to relieve his worries. And when he smiles, the world will be filled with sunshine everywhere, making you deeply affected! How can a person like
not be obsessed?
