The overarching narrative is relatively linear and simple to follow. The gang meets Bak Jing Jing and Spider Woman during their next raid and Joker ends up falling in love with Jing Jing, setting off a series of events that will begin to jog his memory and awaken his past self. Here, he is Joker, the leader of a small gang of bandits. Once in the mortal realm, he is stripped of his memories and power and takes the form of an average human. In the end, she regains her composure and sends Wukong to the mortal realm as a second chance to reflect on his wrongdoings and embark on the pilgrimage once again. The two go back and forth whilst Xuan Zang timely demonstrates his aptitude for nagging, which becomes so unbearable that even the previously prim and proper Guanyin hilariously begins to have thoughts of murdering Xuan Zang herself. Wukong argues that his mentor is too annoying and “naggy”, to the point where he is driving him insane but the still prim and proper Guanyin refuses to accept any of these reasons. The story begins with the Monkey King (Sun Wukong), played by Stephen Chow, right before he is banished to the mortal realm by Guanyin (a Buddhist bodhisattva associated with compassion) to repent for refusing to continue his pilgrimage with Xuan Zang, his mentor and benefactor. “A Chinese Odyssey” wastes no time in introducing itself as a crude and wacky satire of the original “Journey to the West”. Based on the classic Chinese novel “Journey to the West”, the movie offers a blend of Chinese mythology, “武侠” (Wuxia), comedy, romance and even elements of sci-fi as well. Out of the numerous films that Stephen Chow has starred in, Jeffrey Lau’s “A Chinese Odyssey Part 1: Pandora’s Box” continues to be one of the most intriguing and timeless in both its plot and humour.
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