On December 17, 2022, the finals of "Hi 2" came to an end.
"The Young Master and Me" won the runner-up, and "scars on bangs" became a popular comedy gag.
"You touched my reverse scales and you dared to leave scars on my bangs."
How popular is "The Young Master and Me"? It appears in
Douban’s popular short comments.
At the beginning of 2023, Zhang Songwen, who became a hit with "Kurst", has also watched "The Young Master and Me".
In the blink of an eye, in 2024, we will find that "The Young Master Is Me" can also be a representative comedy that changes the style of film and television.
The conventional strategy for domestic dramas is to link up dramas and drama series, with the drama first and then the drama series. The two are in an upstream and downstream relationship.
"Master and Me" is famous in variety shows and is a pathfinder for variety dramas.
After watching the first 9 episodes, I feel that this drama is worth talking about.
1. We are all leeks
"Master and Me" has a total of 12 episodes, each episode is 20 minutes. Although
is small in size, it has a lot of laughs.
One of my favorites is the first episode, "The God of Dumplings."
The god of dumplings is best at making dumplings stuffed with chives and eggs.
The ingredients are very particular. The water is from the diners’ hometown, the eggs are from legless birds (Godard and Wong Kar-wai smiled slightly), and the noodles are from Taiping powder, because the “powder” is Taiping. Why is there no leek in
?
Because "we are all leeks."
During the dumpling eating session, the golden sentence came out.
The first step is to smell the dumplings.
What you smell shouldn't be the smell of dumplings, but "it's the smell of wheat, the ten thousand acres of fertile land in your hometown."
The second step is to listen to the dumplings.
What did you hear? It’s not thousands of acres of fertile land, but “the sound of wind blowing through the forest from white mountains and black waters.”
The hungry gourmets began to be dissatisfied.
The God of Dumplings plausibly said, "Are you eating dumplings? It's my half-life cultivation."
"The God of Dumplings" is an exaggerated parody of high-end restaurants advertised with food culture.
In this exaggerated food culture, food becomes a appendage and culture is the purpose.
This is the brain's affront to the status of the stomach.
shared a piece of trivia: our brains will affect our judgment on diet. Sometimes, what you think is what you think.
The line between social reality and physical reality is blurred, and we can prove this through scientific experiments. Research shows that when wine is expensive, people think it tastes better. For the exact same coffee, people will think that coffee with an environmental label tastes better than coffee that does not. Brain projections immersed in social reality change the way you think about eating. Lisa feldman barrett's "Understanding the Brain"
"The God of Dumplings" has a spicy point. A gourmet who relies on food reviews for a living, he very much approves of the God of Dumplings' interpretation of food.
Both are essentially the same type of people.
For them, the primary function of food is not to satisfy their hunger, but to become a cultural carrier and a spiritual comfort.
The fundamental reason why those flashy high-end restaurants can be packed with guests is that there are always diners who need them to show off. Both sides get what they need.
It is worth mentioning that "The God of Dumplings" and the seventh episode "Eighty-One Difficulties" give the characters a fatalistic relationship.
"If you want me, I will be a chef, specializing in making dumplings, the kind with leek and egg fillings, I will make them."
"Then I will be a dumpling eater."
"Eighty-One Difficulties" The quality of the drama is very high.
It uses the 9981 difficulty in "Journey to the West" as the starting point. It has dense comedy scenes and also shows the nature of Chinese gods. The gods are just high-level migrant workers.
The immortal in "Eighty-One Difficulties" is a social beast with heavy thoughts, a middle-aged man with many worries. I love this episode because it uses contrast to great comedic effect.
Comedy is inseparable from contrast. Or, only when there is contrast can it become comedy.
At the end of "Eighty-One Difficulties", Jing Muyan said goodbye to Zhang Yuelu. Just now it was the scene of the separation of friends, and then he said, "I have one orange left."
I believe everyone who is familiar with memes will say "Hahaha. "
In the context of the Internet, sending oranges is tantamount to saying "I am your father" (this stem comes from Zhu Ziqing's "Back View").
Where are the good friends?
"The Young Master and Me" is good at using unexpected contrasts Create laughter. For example, a witticism I once liked to say is "Happiness is only one day, and unhappiness is also one day. Why should we be happy every day?" "
Then the question is, why is there an operating mechanism that has unexpected contrasts that can make people laugh?
david eagleman has a point of view in "Flying Species", which is shared below.
"This is related to the reward-related neurotransmitters in our brains. The activity of the system is closely related: Random, unpredictable rewards cause the brain to be much more active than predictable rewards. In other words, only the unexpected satisfies the brain. "
"The Master and I" uses a lot of unexpected contrasts in comedy. It can make people laugh, but it is more than that.
2. Behind the laughter are tears
Nietzsche has a point of view, "Comedy and tragedy have the same thing. The roots and core are just different in form.
Chen Peisi also said, "The core of comedy is tragedy."
Many of the stories in "The Young Master and Me" have reached the point where they are comedy on the surface but tragedy if you think about it carefully.
For example, the sixth episode " killer " adopts the shell of " buys a murderer and shoots a person ", using truth and rhetoric to expose the health dilemma of contemporary people.
Alcohol is highly addictive, cigarettes are harmful to everyone, and sugar is the code of wealth in the beverage industry.
This story has a serious discussion topic - it is never the killer who kills you, but your lifestyle habits.
This is not alarmist.
Contemporary people are suffering from chronic diseases. The fundamental reason is that our bodies formed in the Paleolithic Age are unable to cope with the current dietary environment. The extensive use of tobacco, alcohol and sugar is destructive to our bodies.
Take sugar as an example. Since the birth of mankind, sugar has been a precious and rare resource 99.9% of the time. However, the sugar content in any bottle of carbonated drink today exceeds the normal needs of the human body.
In this era where highly processed foods are increasingly taken for granted, it is easy for us to follow our parents and just focus on eating delicious food, while ignoring the health traps behind the delicious food.
For example, the eighth episode "Building a Family in the City" is an aria on the anti-war theme.
In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, there were endless battlefields, and the characters needed to have martial arts moves.
The two leading actors are both comedians, and the martial arts scenes can easily be faked. The interview with the main creator talked about "The Young Master and Me"'s serious investment in this scene.
"So for this scene, I specially hired a martial arts instructor and asked them to fight to death. Moreover, the roles they played were small soldiers and they couldn't have any moves. They had to fight hand-to-hand with real swords and guns."
Why should I go to all this trouble? ?
Because the fighting action of hard bridge and hard horse consolidates the image of the ancient soldier, the audience can feel the contrast. On the one hand, it is cruel fighting, and on the other hand, it is tenderness. The greater the contrast between
, the stronger the impact.
For another example, the ninth episode "It's a Comedy" is obviously a tribute to " The King of Comedy ".
The issue it raises is: Is art supreme, or traffic is king? The two are not incompatible, but many times, comedy creators have to face the dilemma of choosing one or the other. Only if
has traffic can it win the favor of the sponsor. The beginning of "A Comedy" emphasizes the influence of the sponsors on the troupe. Its sponsors are Lao Liu Roujiamo and Pangge Pork.
Meituan, as one of the sponsors of this show, also contributed to the laughter of the story.
Liu Bo: "Which theater troupe are you in?"
Long Xiaotian: "I'm in Meituan."
This kind of product placement takes into account art and business, and I'm convinced.
It has a great open ending.
Liu Bo and Long Xiaotian said no to traffic and chose art first.
In the commercial after the ninth episode, Liu Bo called Long Xiaotian, who was still a delivery boy, and told him to introduce him to the role of detective assistant.
This small advertisement that appears automatically after the end of episode nine still has an open ending. Liu Bo introduced the character to Long Xiaotian. He may still be frustrated, or he may succeed.
So, I can draw two conclusions. The first one, ideal and reality, seems very close but seems very far away. Second, ideal and reality seem far apart but are very close together.
I like "The Young Master and Me" because it makes the little characters approachable and cute.
"Eighty-One Difficulties" captures the friendship of small people, "City Family Establishment" captures family and country and anti-war, and "The Land God and Me" captures the conflict between little gods and powerful institutions.
The protagonists in these stories are small people, but their images are tall.
We have seen too many domestic dramas that favor snobbery. They invariably use family background to assign appearance, and appearance to match morality.
"The Young Master and Me" allows us to see the character, nobility, strength and friendship of the little people.
Conclusion:
Judging from the presentation of the first nine episodes, "The Master and Me" is a gratifying step for comedy variety shows towards drama production. The scary thing about
is that it only has three episodes left.
I hope the creators of "The Young Master and Me" can save more interesting ideas and create better works.
Dreams always have to be had, and maybe they will come true.
