In return they declare him The Handsome Monkey King – their leader and protector. There he saves his monkey tribe from the ferocious Rock Monster and leads them into a safe new home in The Water Curtain Cave. Wukong is sent back to his Mountain home to learn responsibility and to mature. He can transform completely into a human – except he can’t hide his tell-tale tail. He can transform into various animals, shrink or multiply himself into hundreds of clones, walk on clouds and somersault across thousands of miles through the air. En route to his goal of immortality, Wukong learns 72 transformations. It becomes apparent that his powers are, in fact, both amazing and frightening.
He names him Sun Wukong.Īlthough a difficult and insubordinate pupil, Sun obviously has powers far beyond his fellow trainees. Master Subhuti takes the monkey to The Tri-Star Cave and puts him in training with a class of human students.
Despite his celestial destiny, young Wukong seems to be having trouble just being a monkey, let alone a “god-in-training.” He is vain, mischievous, overzealous and often just plain silly. Master Subhuti, one of the Ten Disciples of Buddha, is sent by the goddess Guanyin to find the Monkey Spirit, born of Heaven’s crystal, and train him in the ways of the gods. The fox girl can transform into a beautiful almost human form, while the monkey (a handsome monkey with human features) has incredible strength and power.īut the playmates are separated when Silver Fox must return to her family village and Wukong joins the monkey tribe. As the Silver Fox (Xia Zi Tong) and Sun Wu Kong (Donnie Yen) grow, their affection for each other grows as do their powers. It is an event that will come back to haunt both the fox and the monkey as the Demon King will use them both in his insidious plans to conquer heaven. She enlists the aid of the Buffalo Demon King to use his power to break open the crystal and release the monkey. There it sits until a kit fox discovers it glowing in a mountain crevice. That single crystal plummets to Earth, landing on Mount Huagao – The Mountain of Flowers and Fruit. She gives every crystal of her being to rebuild and fortify Heaven - all but one. A beautiful princess sacrifices herself by restoring it and building an impenetrable wall around Heaven from crystals from her own body.
In the process the Heavenly Palace is virtually destroyed. He opens the story with an epic battle in Heaven where the forces of the Jade Emperor (Chow Yun Fat) turn back the invading Demon Buffalo King (Aaron Kwok), banishing him to Earth. Played by a major Western actor, the Old Sage serves as the narrator of our tale.
The monk is the current keeper of a hundred painted scrolls, each describing an event in the Monkey King’s life. He tells the tale to two children, one Chinese, the other from the West who come across the monk in a cave on a remote mountainside above the Eastern Ocean. In English the The Monkey King "The Legend Begins", the legendary creation of The Monkey King is told by an Old Sage, a Western monk who traveled from Europe to China in the 7th Century. This is a classic story of the responsibilities of power, acquiring true wisdom and finding redemption through sacrifice.
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