Thursday, December 22, 2005

A chinese Movie

I have had my fair share of chinese movies and some of them are really worth watching...so here I was offered free ticket to go for movies...hmmm who am I to say no especially when the stars of the movies were in town.







(see take pic with handphone camera and normal camera hahaha)

I got to hand it to SRP...that girl got the knack of winning contest and getting this done..this time it was the Nicholas TZE...and Fan Bing Bing. .there I was with SRP, Dory and the 2 kiddos going to watch a chinese movie heheheh the they entered said their hello answered their questions then i got memarized by Fan Bing Bing
Ding Ding Ding lol


The movie is actually based on the Novel/tv drama Journey to the West which I love to watch

The novel tells of a fictionalized and mythologized version of the Buddhist monk Xuanzang's (also named Tripitaka) pilgrimage to India in order to obtain religious texts called Sutras. In light of this quest called upon by the Bodhisattva Guan Yin, on instruction from the Gautama Buddha, the monk has been assigned three guardians or protectors in the form of disciples—namely

The monkey king Sun Wukong (孫悟空, also Monkey),
The pig-monster Zhu Bajie (豬八戒, also Pigsy),
The river demon Sha Wujing (沙悟淨, also Friar Sand).

Monkey, Pigsy and Sandy—together with a dragon prince who acts as Xuanzang's horse mount. All four characters have agreed to help the Buddhist monk as an atonement for past sins. The pilgrims undergo 81 calamities of all sorts before safely transporting the sutras from India to their place in capital Chang'an.

Part of the novel's enduring popularity comes from the fact that it works on multiple levels: it is an adventure story, a dispenser of spiritual insight, and an extended metaphor in which the group of pilgrims journeying toward India stands for the individual journeying toward enlightenment.


The movie however was with a comical twist, haliriously funny and the 2 kids were loving it... so was I

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