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济公
The Mad Monk

《济公》（英语：The Mad Monk），是由香港喜剧巨星周星驰主演的电影，于1993年上演，导演为杜琪峯。此片是把颠僧济公的传奇故事加以包装，在喜剧之间点出人间有情的主题。除了有周星驰演出外，还包括当时未成为金像影帝的黄秋生，和两位金像影后梅艳芳和张曼玉主演。尽管由导演以至演员阵容庞大，有评论认为此片搞笑元素不足，各演员未能演绎出喜剧感觉。原因是此片虽然是周星驰领衔主演，但风格上以杜琪峯的元素比较多。因此电影拍竣后，周星驰与杜琪峯之间常有不和的传闻，而杜琪峯亦长达一年多没有拍摄电影以思考自己的去向。另外，尽管本片评价不一，却仍是电视上重播率很高的电影之一。

The Mad Monk (Chinese: 濟公; pinyin: Jì Gōng is a 1993 Hong Kong fantasy comedy film directed by Johnnie To, and starring Stephen Chow as the "Mad Monk" Ji Gong, a popular Chinese folklore figure from the Southern Song Dynasty. The film follows "Dragon Fighter Luohan" as he accepts a challenge from the gods to change the fate of a beggar, a prostitute, and a villain in three heavenly days. He is reborn on earth as a mere mortal and ultimately battles an evil demon to stave off hell on earth.

Starring演员
周星驰Stephen Chow, 张曼玉Maggie Cheung, 黄秋生Anthony Wong, 吴孟达Ng Man-tat, 潘恒生Hang Sang Poon, 黄志强Kirk Wong, 黄一飞Wong Yat-fei, 梅艳芳Anita Mui, 卢海鹏Lo Hoi-pang, 陈欣健Philip Chan, 刘天赐, 黄新, 曾近荣, 郑家生, 杨佑祥, 陈惠敏Michael Chan, 陈志良, 刘江Lau Kong, 鲍起静Nina Paw, 黄一山, 司马燕Michelle Sima, 苑琼丹Kingdom Yuen, 龙天生, 曾建明, 许思敏, 黄梓玮, 黃雄

Plot
The gods in Heaven complain to the Jade Emperor about the malicious practical jokes played on them by Dragon Fighter Lohan. The Emperor summons Dragon, but Tiger Fighter Lohan appears instead to defend his friend. Dragon then appears and rebukes the various gods for their own horrible judgments on mankind, and insists that he can do a better job. The Jade Emperor banishes Dragon and Tiger to be reincarnated as animals, but the Bodhisattva Guan Yin intervenes. Jade Emperor issues Dragon a challenge: if he can change the fates of three people destined to nine incarnations in the same roles — a beggar, a prostitute, and a villain — within three heavenly days, he will not be punished. The Bodhisattva gives Dragon a magical fan to help him in his mission - but Tiger takes the fan away from him moments before he is forced down from heaven. Dragon is reborn to a couple who visit a Buddhist temple to pray for a child. Tiger enlists the aid of a heavenly soldier named Unicorn to help him take the magical fan to Dragon. When Tiger is reincarnated he is much younger than Dragon has grown. Unicorn uses his magic to make Tiger rapidly age - physically; Tiger's mental abilities remains that of a baby. Dragon's parents adopt Tiger and treat him as their own son. Dragon regains his memories when he is struck by lightning during an encounter with Bai Xiao Yu, the prostitute. In short order, he also encounters the beggar Ta Chung and the villain Yuan Ba Tian. When the clouds block the moon and heavenly security is the most relaxed, Tiger regains himself enough to give Dragon the magic fan before being forced to return to Heaven. Dragon tries to instil dignity to Ta Chung, persuade Xiao Yu to change her trade, and Yuan to turn over a new leaf. After he notices Ta Chung retaining some dignity while in front of Xiao Yu, Dragon arranges a date for the both of them. Yuan attacks Dragon during the date, and goes on to murder Ta Chung. Yuan then forces Dragon to watch while he assaults Xiao Yu. Before Ta Chung dies, he regains his dignity by seeing himself by his own name and not as a beggar. Dragon retrieves a holy relic called the Golden Skeleton, his body from a former life. He uses it to travel to the underworld where he confronts a demon and trades his skeleton for Ta Chung's soul. The demon keeps both the soul and the holy relic and sends Dragon back to the land of the living. Dragon rushes back to the temple and learns that all of the local gods housed there are leaving; because of Dragon's deal with the demon, they do not want to be associated with him. Dragon seeks out Xiao Yu and promises to marry her if she gives up the sex trade. She agrees, but when Dragon begins to transform into a tree because of a prohibition against gods marrying mortals, she thinks he is playing a joke on her. Yuan slaughters all the people in the brothel so he can use the blood of 49 people to rid Dragon's relic of its power. Dragon goes to the brothel to confront Yuan and, with the help of Tiger and Unicorn, is able to regain his proper form. Dragon beats up Yuan and discovers that Yuan has been given an invincible body by the demon. Dragon pulls Yuan's heart out to show him that the demon gave him a stone heart. A dying Yuan regrets all the bad things he has done and crushes the stone heart, wishing to be an animal in his next life. Dragon is given a chance to return to Heaven, but he decides to stay to prevent the demon from bringing destruction to those on Earth. Dragon imbues his power into his holy relic and makes it into golden paint, which he uses to write protective talismans around the temple. The demon blows away the talismans and chases Dragon. While fleeing from the demon, Dragon meets the temple Abbot and asks for his help: the Abbot manages to make the demon laugh and simultaneously open his mouth. Dragon jumps into the demon's mouth while he is laughing and causes the demon to explode and die. The gods celebrate in Heaven as Dragon has seemingly lost the bet. Guan Yin interrupts the festivities and shows how Dragon has succeeded in changing the fates of the three people: Ta Chung has regained his dignity, Xiao Yu has left prostitution behind and opened a bean curd restaurant, and Yuan has renounced violence to be reborn a pig. Dragon is in the end victorious.

剧情

降龙罗汉与诸位仙班发生龃龉，众仙指控降龙不顾天庭规矩任意妄为，降龙则指责众神弄权，罔顾人间疾苦。幸得观世音菩萨从中调解并支持降龙，众仙最后与降龙达成协议并打赌，若降龙下凡后能在指定时限内改变三个凡人命数便得胜，否则永不能回天庭。于是降龙投胎为“济癫”和尚一面游戏人间，一面普渡众生，并伺机接近目标人物：九世乞丐、九世野鸡（妓女）及九世恶人。济公为了达成感化目的曾与邪神黑罗刹打交道弄得人神共愤，但最终牺牲自己肉身与金身打败黑罗刹，而他的所为也改变了三人命运，因此打赌得胜，圆寂后回复真身重返天庭，并晋升为降龙尊者。