![]() ![]() The father is resurrected and reinstalled as king. They liberate a captive princess and punish her abductor, who has also murdered her father. He and Monkey thereafter recruit Pigsy and Sandy. Along the way, he encounters and frees the Monkey King. The young monk Tripitaka volunteers to undertake the pilgrimage. The hope is to retrieve sacred scriptures by which the Chinese people may be enlightened so that their behaviour may accord with the tenets of Buddhism. Waley chose to translate the entirety of the introductory and ending chapters, as well as three episodes, each several chapters long, of the journey to the west.Īt the outset of the novel, the Buddha seeks a pilgrim who will travel to India. "A must watch for any fans of Chinese kung fu films and Stephen Chow.Journey to the West may be roughly divided into three parts: first, the introduction including the origin of Monkey ( Sun Wukong), Tripitaka ( Tang Sanzang), Pigsy ( Zhu Bajie), and Sandy ( Sha Wujing) second, the actual journey to the west, which has an episodic nature and last, the ending, telling what happens when the pilgrims reach their destination. ![]() "Rarely is it that a CGI-heavy spectacle such as this could be called both entertaining and inspiring in the same breath, but such is the unexpectedly special magic of Journey to the West." "It’s a pageant of eye-popping strangeness." "Might Be Stephen Chow’s Craziest Movie Yet." "The film finds the sweet spot between spoofy and sincere, rollicking and dark." "Delightful blend of fantasy, action, comedy and romance." "(Stephen) Chow at his weirdest and most entertaining." "Stephen (Chow) is able to make us feel like giddy children again." "Some of the most outrageous visual effects yet seen in the cinema." "ONE OF HONG KONG’S MOST POPULAR ACTOR-DIRECTORS EVER… STEPHEN CHOW IS BACK IN BOX-OFFICE STORMING FORM" ![]()
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