The Comedy of Stephen Crow

Enter the second ten of 21th century; Stephen chucks new movie locomote to the West: Conquering the Demons has won more than two carbon million dollars box-office, which became the second best-sold get in Chinese fool away history. Stephen Chow and his japery fashion at once again became the way that media and people pay care to.\nStephen Chow, this name may be non that familiar to westerly audiences. However, as a comedian, Chow began as an extra for the television system station. He became quite well up known for his movie The final Combat (1989). After this, he initiated his Mo chaplet Tau prank title. He created more than 30 comedian characters in 1990s Hong Kong film and became Hong Kongs undisputed none 1 comedian. As a director, his Mo Lei Tau comedy style became more purposeful and ripe. His films again and again round the box-office. Time magazine once said he is the hotshot of Asian, because his films not only save Hong Kong film market in 1990s but in like manner reflected part of Asian conclusion in that period.\nThis research is commission on his comedy style, curiously Mo Lei Tau style and its influence. Mo Lei Tau is a Cantonese term that may be loosely translated as with no source, but is broadly speaking used to mean makes no sense. Regarded as an inviolate part of Hong Kongs popular culture, it is considered by some as be unique and untranslatable. Compared to Wacky prank film for a occidental cousin, Mo Lei Tau movies discombobulate a greater vigilance on puns and other Cantonese term tricks1. Mo Lei Tau is not just funny, the funny intimacy actually implies a threatening cultural connotations. Through the scratchy funny Mo Lei Tau way of expression, his films convey his difficult thinking of modern circumstance. As for Mo Lei Tau comedy, which is characterized by a nobody protagonist, golden ending, golden straight men, post-modernism and serious topics, etc. In this research, deuce-ace Stephen Chow �...