《西游记· 女儿国》:大众文化时代的喜剧生产与美学

The Monkey King 3·Kingdom of Women:Comedy Production and Aesthetics in the era of Popular Culture

电影《西游记·女儿国》以一种戏谑的方式改编了《西游记》原著中女儿国故事中的部分情节。电影在受孕人数、受孕原因、落胎与否等几个方面改编了原著中受孕情节,唐僧是否生产在原著中不是问题,但在电影中成了一个重要问题,到底生还是不生,成为摆在唐僧师徒等人面前的重要问题。究其原因,是大众文化利用了《西游记》这一经典文本,重构了唐僧师徒四人及众多妖魔鬼怪的形象,利用种种错讹、乖谬、戏谑的形式制造出了种种喜剧冲突,完成了大众文化时代的喜剧生产,在收获了观众笑声的同时,抽空了《西游记》文本的文化内涵,构建了当代大众文化的喜剧形式,尽管收获了令人难以置信的庞大资本,但并未形成更高的时代喜剧美学。

The movie The Monkey King 3·Kingdom of Women adapts some plots in the original novel in a joking way.The movie revises the plot of fertilization in the original works from the number of pregnancies,the causes of pregnancy,whether the baby should be born or not.It’s not a question whether Tang Monk gave birth to a child in the original work,but it has become an important question in the movie.Whether the child should be born or not becomes an important question.Why does the movie revise the original work?The reason is that the popular culture makes use of the classic work of Journey to the West,reconstructs the images of Tang Monk and his three apprentices and many demons and ghosts,makes use of all kinds of errors,perverseness and banter to create all kinds of comedy conflicts,completes the comedy production in the era of popular culture,gains the laughter of the audience,takes time out the cultural connotation of the text of Journey to the West,and constructs the comedy form of contemporary popular culture.Despite the incredible huge capital,the movie has not formed a higher comedy aesthetics.