Surprise

Also known as Wanwan Mei Xiangdao

Surprise is a low-budget 2015 Chinese fantasy comedy film directed by Show Joy. It is based on a Youku web series of the same name by Show Joy but with a different content. It had wide previews on 12 and 13 December and was released on 18 December 2015.

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Plot

The movie tells the story of Wang Dachui (Bai Ke), a youth blessed with some magic powers who often dreams of being the chief demon of the Stone Ox Village. One day, he meets with a surprise, which happens to be the arrival of the Tang Sanzang (Chen Bolin) and his three disciples, and his life meets with an unexpected change.

As for Tang Sanzang and his three disciples, while they find Wang Dachui boring beyond explanation, a magical story of love and killing is about to unravel for both parties.

Cast

Bai Ke as Wang Dachui, the main protagonist of the movie.

Yang Zishan as Su Xiaomei, Wang Dachui's love interest.

Chen Bolin as Tang Sanzang

Liu Xunzimo as Sun Wukong

Mike Pirath Nitipaisankul as Zhu Bajie

Show Joy as Sha Wujing

Ma Tianyu as Murong Bai, Wang Dachui's love rival and a resident in the Stone Ox village.

Eric Tsang as the Earth God (cameo)

Reception

The film grossed US$17.5 million from previews on 12–13 December 2015. It grossed US$24 million on its opening weekend.

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Also known as Wanwan Mei Xiangdao

Notable quotes

“A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.”
— Leo Buscaglia, in interview with Veronica M. Hay, in A Magazine of People and Possibilities (1998)
“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.”
— Rachel Carson, "Help Your Child to Wonder", Woman's Home Companion (July 1956), p. 46.
“Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, in The Crack-Up (1936), Notebook E (1945), as edited by Edmund Wilson
“Wonder is from surprise; and surprise ceases upon experience.”
— Robert South, "The Duties of the Episcopal Function", in Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions (Philadelphia: Sorin & Ball, 1844), Vol. 1, p. 75.
“When we affirm that philosophy begins with wonder, we are affirming in effect that sentiment is prior to reason.”
— Richard Weaver, in Ideas have Consequences (1948), p. 19.
“Man has to awaken to wonder — and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, notes from 1930, in Culture and Value (1984), translated by Peter Winch, p. 5.

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