has no new movies released recently, let's take a good look at domestic comedies.
What is a good comedy and what is a bad comedy? What is the difference between them? The core of
comedy, or the core of the sense of humor, lies in the surprise and the sense of contrast.
Contrast is at the core of comedy films. What is contrast? For example, the appearance of Shen Teng in " Shame Tekken " is the best contrasting passage in a domestic comedy, not even one of them.
From his appearance when he appeared, he was a martial arts master, and then he knelt in the next second. This is a sense of contrast.
No matter what kind of comedy it is, there must be jokes, and to make the audience laugh, it is generally based on the drama brought about by this contrast and reversal. The main difference between a good comedy and a bad comedy is whether the jokes produced are advanced.
The relatively low-level comedy gameplay is based on blindly acting foolishly, causing the audience to laugh.
For many years, domestic comedy has a very bad habit, that is, like to make jokes about "fools" or disabled people, like a clown around you, making you laugh through his stupidity. But this kind of gameplay is often a farce. You can also clearly feel his intention to make you laugh, but his tickling purpose is so obvious and deliberate that it will make people feel embarrassed. You laugh, it feels quite boring; if you don't laugh, it seems to be sorry for his "working hard".
"囧 series" can be regarded as a representative of domestic comedies. However, the character played by Wang Baoqiang and is still a typical pretending to be silly and ugly. He makes a lot of laughs by deliberately messing up a lot of things. This technique is not very clever.
believe that many people are impressed by this scene, this is the typical pretending to be silly and ugly.
and deliberately ruining Xu Zheng’s computer during the Songkran Festival is a typical example of deliberately ruining things.
In fact, " Thai 囧" is already a relatively good representative of domestic comedies. Wang Baoqiang's performance is a pure-hearted "fool". The kind of "good intentions to do bad things" he showed is more convincing. The audience will not have much disgust.
In contrast, Bao Bell’s various destructions in "Hong Kong 囧", especially in the first half of the film, caused Xu Zheng to fall into various embarrassments. It looks more like a deliberate act. The audience is very annoying. At that time, there were even comments that Bao Bell felt bad when he smiled. This is a very failed comedy.
Bao Bell smiled, and the audience felt uncomfortable.
Therefore, it may be difficult to say what a good comedy is, but a bad comedy is usually using the infamous gameplay of pretending to be stupid and ugly, which makes the audience feel embarrassed. laugh.
I mentioned some shortcomings of "Thailand", but "Thailand" can succeed, after all, there are two brushes. The design of some of the jokes is also very impressive. For example, Wang Baoqiang used the technique of making green onion pancakes to massage Huang Bo , which is great. The most classic
is the conversation about the ladyboy in the elevator. Not only is it funny, but it also combines with the local characteristics of Thailand where the story takes place. It is very delicate.
Therefore, for comedy films, the most basic requirement is that the smile must be exquisite and a little more advanced, not the kind of pretending to be crazy and stupid. In the design of the laugh point, must be innovative, and let the audience feel fresh It makes the audience feel that the original joke can still be said like this. After all, who would want to watch a joke that already knows the result?
Otherwise, it is the lowest-level comedy. For example, the recent "Hotel The Sun Never Sets" is obviously the most influential comedy.
is because the jokes inside are too infamous.
and the recent ones, like "Big Red Packet" and "Wen"Warm Hug" basically has this problem.
like these comedies, you will know your level in about ten minutes. The quality of the laugh is too low.
A slightly better comedy, there are also some funny paragraphs, there may be so-called "gold sentences", but the overall movie feel is not strong, the rhythm is relatively sparse, and it is more like a collection of sketches. This is basically the case in many movies of
Feng Xiaogang . such as "Party A and Party B". In fact, this one is pretty good among domestic comedies.
Ge You’s classic lines: "The landlord has no surplus food"
and "Big Name" and many others are like this.
Li Chengru's monologue at the end of "Big Wrist" is also a classic piece
, which may be a kind of inertia of comedians created by so many years of Spring Festival Gala and various party comedians and sketches.
However, a movie is a movie after all. If there are only some good paragraphs, the overall structure is not good, and it can only be regarded as a disorganized sentence. The overall framework of "Party A and Party B" is actually well completed. If this kind of joke movie is not good, it will become " private customized ". Several stories are completely separated, and the whole movie is completely A mixture of several irrelevant sketches, how can this be counted as a movie? The advanced gameplay of
comedy is based on situational design, that is to say, the laughter is for the whole situation and the whole story, not just for the sake of being funny. Let me give an example of a sketch, Chen Peisi 's "Protagonist and Supporting Role". This is a very good comedy. All the laughs are to promote the progress of the plot, not just to be funny.
"Captain, don't shoot, it's me!"
So "Protagonist and Supporting Role" has always been called the best sketch in China. Although this sketch is short, the design of the jokes and the exquisite structure of the entire structure are really amazing.
Of course, the sketches are generally relatively short. To do this in a movie, it must have a more sophisticated plot design, which constitutes a complete work as a whole, and integrates the crazy comedy plot into the whole story very naturally.
In the history of Chinese film, Stephen Chow 's "Journey to the West" can be regarded as a relatively good job.
is what you can clearly see, the whole storyline of "A Chinese Journey to the West" is not separated, and its plot is very coherent before and after, and it is ultimately to serve the theme of the movie.
After watching "Journey to the West", there will be a deep sense of tragedy and loss, which is the core of this movie. Every successful comedy has a core. As Chen Peisi said, "Comedy has a tragic core."
can reach the level of comedy like "Journey to the West", I think it is "Crazy Stone" and "Charlotte Annoyance". The core of
"Crazy Stone" is black humor. Around the gain and loss of this stone, you will see a lot of things deep in human nature. In addition to being funny, you will think about something.
"Charlotte Annoyance" also has such a thought-provoking core. The protagonist, Charlotte, "the most lacking thing in this life is face", but in the dreamland after crossing, another life that seems to be infinitely beautiful is just another failure in the end. People still have to examine themselves more, whether they have made a mess of life, instead of daydreaming every day, hoping that the pie in the sky will change their life. The two films
have achieved that integrates the crazy comedy plot into the whole story very naturally, and has also achieved satiricality and achieved a certain degree of inspiration. Watching the entire movie, from the laugh at the beginning to the heavy at the end, this is the power of an excellent comedy.
Okay, let's discuss the content of today's movie appreciation, and hope to inspire you a little.
