Just to annoy him! The ultimate preview of ＂Grey Monkey＂ staged a farce of antique competition.

1905 movie network news　On July 10th, the comedy film released the final preview and poster of the film "Just to annoy him", which truly showed the spiritual core of the film focusing on small cities and positioning small characters, and interpreted a chase drama with humorous but tortuous stories. "Grey Monkey" is directed by new director Zhang Pu, starring Wang Dazhi, Gao Feng, Wang Jingyun, Luo Dahua and Li Mi, and will be released on July 18th. The film has been held in Xi ‘an, Jining, Nanchong, Chengdu, Beijing, Qinhuangdao, Taiyuan, Datong, Zhengzhou and other places, and has been well received by audiences all over the world.

"Grey Monkey" poster "Just to annoy him"

The ultimate preview exposes "antiques" for farce, funny stories and profound themes in series.

The title of the movie "Grey Monkey" is taken from Yanbei dialect in Shanxi, which refers to a bad guy who misbehaves and refers to a close friend. In the final announcement made public by the film, all kinds of little people chased after the reeds in Yunzhou City for an "antique jar", and they were pushed into the abyss of interests by greed and staged an ironic own goal. Posters, on the other hand, vividly show the state of each character and intuitively show the relationship between the characters in the film. It shows the struggle between people for interests.

Stills of "Grey Monkey"

Gray Monkey uses black humor to create a group of impressive and vivid characters. Twenty-three little people, such as the foolish noodle shop owner, the unscrupulous profiteer, the Smith’s stupid thief, the amorous young woman, the unaccustomed killer, and so on, BLACKPINK appeared, which made people laugh and cry. Oolong took turns to appear on the stage, and they were connected in series to form an absurd but hilarious black humorous story, which showed a profound theme and made the audience "laugh and think deeply".

Exquisite content with rich local characteristics was praised as "summer dark horse"

"Grey Monkey" tells the story of a group of little people vying for the "high-priced antique jar". It is cut into different perspectives and scenes with the lens, supplemented by dialogues in the whole dialect, which shows all kinds of people easily and humorously. In the film, Zhang Pu, the director, chose chapter-to-chapter structure and circular narration to promote the development of the story. He said, "I love my hometown of Shanxi very much, and I want to show the regional characteristics of Shanxi by circular narration, so that China and the world can know and understand Shanxi." In director Zhang Pu’s lens, profiteers who forget their righteousness, masters who are unaccustomed to the environment, old men who are just as wise as fools, and so on, form a painting of Shanxi’s local conditions and customs, showing the humanistic quality that the director has absorbed by taking root in the land.

Stills of "Grey Monkey"

The film "Grey Monkey" won the gold medal in the China Competition Unit of the 42nd Montreal International Film Festival, and was also recommended by the 27th China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival as the screening unit of the 2nd Pingyao International Film Festival "Starting from Shanxi". In the screening, some viewers said: "Shanxi version, as a domestic comedy, is really worth recommending, and it is definitely a dark horse in the summer vacation."