" Kung Fu 2 " and "Mermaid 2" were not available, but the short drama "Golden Pig and Jade Leaf" came.
A drama, as long as it has something to do with the name "Stephen Chow", is destined to attract the attention of the whole people. This short drama was released very quickly, from the official announcement to the meeting, it only took a few months.
Perhaps Stephen Chow made the right decision to enter the short drama market, although selfishly I still want to watch his feature films. Within one hour of
being online, it had over a million views and nearly 800,000 likes.
This is the appeal that belongs only to Master Xing.
couldn't wait to finish it, only to find that the short drama can really shine differently in the hands of Stephen Chow.
After reading it several times, I finally understood Mr. Xing’s good intentions. The Stephen Chow seemed to appear in front of us in another way, reflected on the mobile phone screen of every viewer.
Just like "Westward Journey" 29 years ago, Stephen Chow dug a big hole.
Now, he is using his talents to fill in the gaps one by one. What tricks can
do in a few minutes? How deep can a
short play be?
Today, Mr. Tomato will join you to watch the movie "Golden Pig and Jade Leaf" and read about Stephen Chow in his twilight years.
01, Stephen Chow carefully selected, the rhythm is vigorous, and Xu Zhisheng is used to the extreme.
Actually, Stephen Chow is not the "director" of this short drama in the true sense. The producer of this drama is Yi Xiaoxing and the director is Ma Shi.
But according to the actor, every word of the script has been read by Xingye.
In other words, Stephen Chow is the one who controls.
Internet short dramas have long since matured, and what Stephen Chow has to do is to deeply integrate his own style with the short drama style.
So, we saw a narrative work with a vigorous rhythm and full firepower.
The heroine’s name is Ye Xiaolai , and she is a lawyer.
Her sister Ye Xiaofen was defrauded by a "pig-killing plate" during an online love affair.
Scammers took advantage of Ye Xiaohui's love brain and defrauded her of all her property using false friends and personas, causing her to commit suicide by jumping off a building.
Although she did not fall to death, she was injured all over her body. She still had luck with the liar, thinking that it was her true love, and everything he did was out of necessity.
Just when Ye Xiaolai wanted to seek justice for her sister, she was also experiencing a turning point in her life.
During the presentation of an important project, Ye Xiaolai was attacked by his vicious colleague Kimura and stabbed in the back by his unscrupulous boss Sam.
Ye Xiaolai also discovered that Kimura and Sam had an affair behind each other, with the purpose of helping Kimura to gain power and ostracizing himself.
In just a few minutes, women help each other, telecommunications fraud, PUA love brain, workplace bullying, office intrigue... all the exciting elements of
are piled up in the situations of several characters, and the audience's excitement is quickly grasped. Give the audience the strongest conflict and excitement.
short plays are just like this, efficient, easy-to-understand, and useful.
A sense of immersion follows. Although it is only a few minutes, the fate of the male and female protagonists has begun to affect the audience's thoughts.
In just a few minutes, what stood out to Mr. Tomato the most was Xu Zhisheng.
In Stephen Chow's works, there are always a few male supporting characters who can attract the audience's full attention and achieve the effect of making a huge difference.
Xu Zhisheng plays Sam's follower, but the lines he speaks are full of scheming, more like the heroine's good wife.
Sam teased the heroine for always asking for leave, and Xu Zhisheng fired: Kimura's family discharged nuclear wastewater, and Sam's family suffered so many shootings, didn't they also suffer in silence?
Isn’t this an overt and understated sarcasm?
The next sentence is even more explosive: Do you think Kimura is easy? Can you be like her, working hard by Sam's side regardless of day or night?
is clearly exposing Sam and Kimura’s unclear workplace relationship, a typical workplace judge.
Coupled with Xu Zhisheng's cheeky little expression and his recognizable voice, the whole picture is full of joy, but also has a kind of joking and embarrassment unique to Stephen Chow. It makes you want to laugh inexplicably, but also a little secretly happy. .
is Master Xing, who can use "Xu Gong in the North of the City" to this level.
Frankly speaking, Xu Zhisheng does not have the natural and relaxed style of a professional actor, but this kind of jerky gags gives the short play a down-to-earth feeling, which seems to let us find the flavor of Stephen Chow's comedies before.
So far we have also discovered that "Golden Pig and Jade Leaf" has enough material and gimmicks, a fast pace, many twists and turns, and conflicts one after another.
Careful viewers may find that this short drama contains countless metaphors and ridicules, and it is also unique to Stephen Chow, which is wonderful.
02. There are a lot of metaphors and sarcasm, and Easter egg memories pop up frequently. Stephen Chow made the right bet again.
Although short plays cannot be like movies, the core of the theme they want to express is placed in the creation of characters and the elaboration of the plot.
But he is probably the only one who can play with metaphors, ridicules and eccentricities so smoothly.
In "Golden Pig and Jade Leaf", there are many things that other dramas want to say but dare not say, and there are also many things that many people want to do but dare not do.
Laughter, anger and curses are all turned into articles. Every line and every action has an intention behind it.
We all know that Stephen Chow's short play theater is called "9527". The four numbers
may be familiar to everyone. They have appeared many times in Stephen Chow's movies.
In " Tang Bohu Dian Qiuxiang ", Tang Bohu's code name in Washington is "9527".
Specifically in short plays, this connotation is even richer.
Let’s look at the character settings first. The heroine’s name is Ye Xiaolai. Judging from the fact that her sister Ye Xiaohui uses traditional Chinese characters and input methods when sending text messages, the two sisters should be from Baodao.
Their names are also puns.
Ye Xiaolai's "Lai" can remind people of the "Pig Lai Incident" that happened in Baodao for a second. Combined with the story of the short play itself, it is a "pig killing plate" setting, which mocks certain groups on the island. , self-explanatory.
And the names of the two sisters together are "Anilai (come back)". When combined with their identities, it is obvious that Master Xing is using their names to imply Baodao Angelica.
The male protagonist Zhu Hao, both in appearance and character design, are reminiscent of Linglingqi’s pig-killer identity in "国产Linglingqi". Even the knife is very similar, except that the knife The inscription on it was changed from "National Hero" to "No. 1 Sword in Northeast China".
Based on Mr. Xing’s habits, Mr. Tomato guessed that in the following plot, this "Zhu Hao" may also have another identity.
Even the chat between Ye Xiaolai and the liar can be seen in many Stephen Chow movies.
For example: The sentence "maintaining world peace" obviously comes from " Kung Fu ".
The poster behind Zhu Hao pays tribute to "Lord of Destruction" .
When Zhu Hao was live broadcasting, among the toys and figures on the shelf, there were Qizai from " Yangtze River No. 7 " , Stephen Zhou and Tang Niu from " God of Cookery " .
Fans of Stephen Chow's movies will surely smile knowingly when they see this.
In addition to the easter eggs, the lines in "Golden Pig and Jade Leaf" are even sharper.
When Ye Xiaolai returned to the company, her assistant told her, "Sam is a bad person, Warwick has been fired, and Tiko Toko has been banned."
Warwick alludes to Huawei, Tiko Toko is undoubtedly the overseas version of a certain sound, and Sam is the abbreviation of Beautiful Country. This wave of
can be said to be closely integrated with actual facts and full of satire.
In the plot of the workplace power struggle in the conference room behind
, Stephen Chow is even more powerful.
Ye Xiaolai's boss is Sam. The colleague who robbed Ye Xiaolai's project is named Kimura, a Japanese name. The character played by Xu Zhisheng is named "Alu", which is a metaphor for the green camp of Baodao.
Xu Zhisheng's lines that seemed to be flattering, but were actually revealed, also stripped the bottom of the United States and Japan.
The Kimura family's discharge of nuclear wastewater is actually criticizing Japan's discharge of nuclear wastewater into the sea.
The shooting at Sam's house is a mockery of the continuous shootings in the United States.
said that Sam and Kimura stayed together day and night, but in fact they were scolding the United States and Japan for making peace.
Even at this point, Mr. Xing stopped hiding it and directly borrowed A Lu’s mouth to make a series of mocking verses: “They work together, they are all in the same family, they are despicable and despicable.”
Through Ye Xiaolai's analysis, it was discovered that Sam and Kimura did have an improper relationship.
After that, Ah Lu made another big move and directly sang the lyrics of "Hiroshima Love"...
We all know that Hiroshima is a special existence in Japan. We didn't think about it at first, but in the end, Ye Xiaolai gave Kimura a sentence The lines directly name what Mr. Xing wants to say:
Why do you still accept the words when you know that the fat man and the little boy are a charlatan?
Fat Man and Little Boy was the American counterattack against Japan on August 6 and 9, 1945.
I have to say that Mr. Xing is very ruthless, and this kind of scar was revealed for him as soon as it was revealed.
Of course, the following sentence, "Tit for tooth, repay twice as much" came out of Ye Xiaolai's mouth, which lacked a little momentum.
But overall, the experience of watching "Golden Pig and Jade Leaf" is still very different from watching other short dramas.
As previously advertised, "Golden Pig and Jade Leaf" does have a cinematic quality that other short dramas do not have. No matter in terms of lighting, production or connotation, it is obviously a higher level.
Moreover, the metaphors are straightforward, the current affairs are piled up, the jokes are dense, the metaphors are satirical, and the plot is funny, they are all the best among the short dramas of the same period.
As far as Mr. Tomato is concerned, if you don’t follow the standard of a feature film and only watch short plays, the star of "Golden Pig and Jade Leaf" is considered to have made the right bet.
As a theater, "9527" cannot be the only drama, but it has aroused many people's expectations. The only drawback of
may be that the update is too slow. It takes half a month to complete the update.
But again, if you have a good meal, you are not afraid of being late.
03, Mr. Xing is still the same Mr. Xing, there are some pitfalls that should be filled.
Audiences who like Stephen Chow all know the characteristics of Stephen Chow's works.
In addition to nonsensical comedies and filming low-level characters, Xingye's movies never ridicule love.
Because of this, people said that he dug a big hole in "Westward Journey" 29 years ago.
Because of the relationship between Zhizunbao and Zixia, it has become a source of frustration for many people.
Some viewers also said that Star Master's love in real life is an imperfect portrayal of the movie.
In fact, there are all kinds of love in Stephen Chow's movies.
There are many films that offer the best of both worlds, especially films such as "Domestic Lingling Paint", "Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance" and " Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qier ". The love between the male and female protagonists is always enviable.
In "Golden Pig and Jade Leaf", we can once again see the view of love that Xingye upholds.
Ye Xiaolai and Zhu Hao seem to be destined to come together.
is also the pork prince. Linglingqi and the female agent from the opposite family can have a passionate fight together.
As a network anchor, Zhu Hao can naturally get married to the strong woman from Baodao whom he helps.
However, there seems to be another layer of meaning in this love.
In "Golden Pigs and Jade Leaves", there are allusions to the international and domestic situations everywhere, and it also dares to cover topics that other movies keep tabs on.
Zhu Hao from the mainland and Ye Xiaolai from Baodao can be together, which also expresses a kind of hope.
Although this is just a romantic, film and television drama expression.
However, in just a few minutes of the play, Mr. Xing’s feelings about his family and country were enough to move the netizens who came for Mr. Xing’s comedy.
There is no need to shoot a low-cost short script like this, but Mr. Xing still insists on this expression.
From the initial love between children to the beautiful personality of the people at the bottom, from the hero saving the world to the current feelings of family and country.
Stephen Chow seems to have a longer-term vision, standing higher and looking further.
I would rather believe that he did all this intentionally.
Because there are some things that must be said by someone.
There is some consensus, which must be expressed through film and television works.
Whether it is a joke or a ridicule, nonsensical or a topic-packed one.
If the audience can understand it, it is very good and precious.
Of course, as an audience, facing this free short drama, we are looking forward to the subsequent plot development.
also looks forward to the day when Mr. Xing can produce more and better dramas and movies.
(Movie Rotten Tomatoes Editorial Department: Miaomiao)
