Westward Journey: Monsters Don’t Run! (2015) 西游之妖怪别跑！
Director: Lawson
Starring: Xu Qing / Wang Haoyu / Hu Haofan / Song Binwei
Genre: N/A
Country/Region of Production: Mainland China
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Date: 2015-05
Number of Movies: 4
Number of seasons: 1
Number of episodes: 15
Single episode length: 15 minutes
Adaptation: Reimagining
Summary:
The spoof drama “Journey to the West: Monsters Don’t Run” borrows from the past to satirize the present, using classic characters from the famous “Journey to the West” and combining real social deeds as the main storyline of each episode to narrate the moral issues and warmth of social relationships. This drama will use humorous narrative techniques to reflect the political intrigues and interests in real society, such as forced demolitions, abductions, high prices, loneliness, dishonesty, and other moral concepts. In each episode, various punishments are used. At the end, it has a macro concept of educating people and doing things, which has certain educational significance and promotes the positive energy of the Chinese nation.
The Monsters Don’t Run (2015) 大话西游之妖怪别跑
Picture: N/A
Director: Lawson
Starring: Xu Qing / Wang Haoyu / Song Binwei / Hu Haofan / Zhang Yiwen / Lona
Genre: Comedy
Country/Region of Production: Mainland China
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Date: 2015-03-11 (Mainland China)
Duration: 69 minutes
Also known as: Westward Journey: Don’t Run, Monsters / 西游之妖怪别跑
Adaptation: Reimagining
Summary:
The parody drama “Journey to the West: Don’t Run Away Monsters!” uses the past to criticize the present, and uses classic characters from the famous novel “Journey to the West” and combines real social events as the main storyline of each episode to narrate the moral issues of social warmth and coldness. This drama will use humorous and funny narrative techniques to reflect the power struggles and interests in real society, or forced demolition and trafficking, or raising prices, or being lonely and helpless, or breaking promises and other moral values. Each episode ends with various punishments, which has a macro concept of educating people and handling affairs, and has certain educational significance to promote the positive energy of the Chinese nation.
Westward Journey: Monsters Don’t Run 2 (2015) 大话西游之妖怪别跑2
Picture: N/A
Director: Lawson
Starring: Xu Qing / Hu Haofan
Country/Region of Production: Mainland China
Duration: 60 minutes
Adaptation: Reimagining
Summary:
The popular classic story of Journey to the West narrates various events in real society, whether it is human nature, morality, or power. Through the mouths of classic characters, the mythological narrative tells the lawless monsters, the evil local tyrants, the bullies, and the low-handed swindlers, showing the game of power and the intrigues in interests in real society, and using the sharp, sarcastic and funny tone of mythological characters to deeply expose the absurd real society.
Westward Journey: Monsters Don’t Run 3 (2015) 大话西游之妖怪别跑3
Director: Lawson
Starring: Xu Qing / Wang Haoyu / Hu Haofan / Song Binwei
Country/Region of Production: Mainland China
Duration: 62 minutes
Adaptation: Reimagining
Summary:
The well-known classic stories of Journey to the West narrate various deeds that happened in the real society, or human nature, or morality, or strategy. Through the mouths of classic characters, the mythological narrative tells about lawless evildoers, local tyrants and bullies who commit all kinds of crimes, gangsters who bully others, and swindlers who are indiscriminate. The ironic and funny tone deeply exposes the absurd real society.
Westward Journey: Monsters Don’t Run 4 (2015) 大话西游之妖怪别跑4
Director: Lou Sen
Country/Region of Production: Mainland China
Date: 2015
Duration: 61 minutes
Adaptation: Reimagining
Summary:
A spoof drama “Journey to the West: Monsters, Don’t Run!” Borrowing from the past to the present, using the classic characters of the famous book “Journey to the West”, combined with real social deeds as the main line of the story for each episode, it narrates the moral issues of social well-being. This play will use humorous and funny narrative techniques to reflect the power and interests in the real society, such as forced demolition and abduction, or sitting on the ground to raise prices, or being lonely and helpless, or breaking promises and other moral values. In each episode, various punishments are used. In the end, it has the macro concept of educating people and doing things and has a certain educational significance to promote the positive energy of the Chinese nation.
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