In addition to Sun Wukong, Monk Sha is also a main character on the road, so, since the Scriptures have not been acquired at this point, writers, Ning Wen and Cheng'en Wu, have added depth to Timothy Wu's storyline by associating character traits with the Buddhist monk.
This is legitimate artistic license, because the cultural context includes Buddhism, which makes common romantic questions germaine to a monk's commitment to his journey toward The Scriptures and enlightenment.
Add to those monkish facts the imprisonment of (another road) the River and, consequentially, also Womanhood and you have implicit dimensions of the Monkey King's wholistic story made explicit for the sake of a presumably universal language artifact embodied in The Scriptures, which Timothy Wu writes about, but does not create himself.
The best storytelling, at minimum, implies, or the more so, outright alludes to additional dimensions of being human, which the story's audience can choose to engage, or not. Therefore, The Monkey King 3 also works as basic action dialectic, especially if you remember such an extremely old and cosmically relevant story is not owned by whoever produces a more recent version.
This is legitimate artistic license, because the cultural context includes Buddhism, which makes common romantic questions germaine to a monk's commitment to his journey toward The Scriptures and enlightenment.
Add to those monkish facts the imprisonment of (another road) the River and, consequentially, also Womanhood and you have implicit dimensions of the Monkey King's wholistic story made explicit for the sake of a presumably universal language artifact embodied in The Scriptures, which Timothy Wu writes about, but does not create himself.
The best storytelling, at minimum, implies, or the more so, outright alludes to additional dimensions of being human, which the story's audience can choose to engage, or not. Therefore, The Monkey King 3 also works as basic action dialectic, especially if you remember such an extremely old and cosmically relevant story is not owned by whoever produces a more recent version.