vrijdag 24 juni 2011

A Chinese Odyssey I - Pandora's Box 1994


A Chinese Odyssey (Chinese: 大話西遊) is a pair of 1994 films, directed by Jeffrey Lau and starring Stephen Chow, Karen Mok, Ng Man Tat, and Athena Chu. The first movie in the duology is A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box (西遊記第壹佰零壹回之月光寶盒) and the second is A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella (西遊記大結局之仙履奇緣). The films combine slapstick comedy and a love story, and are loosely based on the Chinese classical novel Journey to the West.


A Chinese Odyssey Part 1 & 2
Directed byJeffrey Lau
Stephen Chow
Produced byJeffrey Lau
Written byJeffrey Lau
StarringStephen Chow
Athena Chu
Ng Man Tat
Law Kar-ying
Jeffrey Lau
CinematographyHang-Seng Poon
Distributed byMega Star
Media Asia
Release date(s)Hong Kong 1994
Running timePart 1: 98 min.
Part 2: 95 min.
CountryHong Kong Hong Kong

Pandora's Box
The film begins with a prologue in which the Monkey King is punished by the Bodhisattva Kuan-yin for attempting to betray his master, the Longevity Monk, whom he found too annoying. The Bodhisattva Kuan-yin stops him and is about to imprison him forever; Tripitaka, however, says he is partly responsible for Monkey’s actions, and sacrifices himself in order to give Monkey a chance for redemption. Monkey is imprisoned for 500 years.
The main part of the film opens 500 years later, when Monkey has been reincarnated as Joker (Stephen Chow), the leader of a group of bandits, who does not know he is Monkey. Soon, Joker’s band of outlaws starts being attacked by a demon who looks like a beautiful woman but whose true form is a spider; she claims to be looking for a man with 3 birthmarks on his feet. The spider woman’s sister, Pak Jingjing (Karen Mok), who looks like a beautiful woman but whose true form is a ghostly demon, arrives and reveals that their plan is to capture the Longevity Monk and eat him to gain immortality. Joker, however, falls in love with Jingjing, who discovers that he is the reincarnation of Monkey, but Joker doesn’t believe her; an immortal called Grandpa Buddha arrives and explain to Joker what the demons are planning.
The group is later attacked by a powerful demon named King Bull, who is also looking for the Longevity Monk; Joker and his second-in-command flee with Jingjing and the spider woman to Waterfall Cave. When Jingjing refuses to kill Joker, she and her sister begin fighting, and ultimately she and Joker flee the cave while the spider woman reluctantly becomes impregnated by Joker's second-in-command. Jingjing was poisoned by her sister and loses consciousness however, Joker soon goes back to the cave, without telling her, to seek medicine. The spider woman imprisons him there again, and in the meantime, Jingjing is captured by King Bull who removes the poison from her body. While Joker is in the cave, he finds a magical item called Pandora’s Box, which has the power to send a person back in time only during a full moon. He also has a vision in which Kuan-yin tells him he is Monkey, and he will become Monkey for real once he meets an immortal who will give him three birthmarks on his feet. King Bull has Jingjing lead him to the cave, where Jingjing kills herself because she believes Joker has abandoned her to conceive a child with her sister. Joker finds her body and then uses Pandora’s Box multiple times to go back in time and attempt to save Jingjing. After finally being able to go far enough back in time to stop her from committing suicide Joker is separated from Jing Jing and attempts to use Pandora's Box once more but ends up accidentally going back in time 500 years and encountering a beautiful immortal named Zixia (Athena Chu), who confiscates Pandora's Box and puts three marks on his feet to mark him as her servant. He sees his reflection in the magic mirror that Grandpa Buddha had given him, and sees that although he still looks like Joker, he has actually become the Monkey King.

Language: Chinese
Subs : English

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