Text/Ye Qiuchen
The long-awaited comedy variety show " Happy Wonderful Night " has finally been broadcast.
After watching the entire program, what I most want to talk about is the quantum mechanics group, the work jointly performed by Lu Yan, He Huan and Deng Shuai - "The World of Sketch".
Lu Yan is an old acquaintance in the comedy industry. In the past, I have never missed a stage where he collaborated with Tudou. I know the lines of "Father's Funeral" and "Evolution" by heart, and I even went to watch them. They starred in the short drama "Don't Panic, Your Majesty".
"King of Sketch" He Huan is also a frequent guest on comedy shows. He also appeared in the movie "Hello, Li Huanying", playing the role of Zhang Jiang. In addition, he also participated in the TV series "The Pretender Apocalypse", and his vision for the quality of scripts can be said to be quite good.
I was not familiar with Deng Shuai before, but I saw on the show that he is quite accomplished in the field of drama, and he has acted in Liu Zhenyun's ", one sentence is worth ten thousand sentences ". Lu Yan introduced that Deng Shuai is one of the six sons of Fanxing (Drama Village). The other five sons are Zhang Chi, Wang Hao, Liu Tong, Zuo Lingfeng and Zhang Weiyi.
The faces of these five characters must be familiar to the audience. They have outstanding performances in major film and television dramas.
For example, in the recent hit drama "Celebrating More Than Years2", we can see the four characters Zhang Chi, Liu Tong, Zuo Lingfeng and Zhang Weiyi. Zhang Chi played the role of Deputy Commander Jing, Liu Tong, Zuo Lingfeng and Zhang Weiyi starred in Chunwei's candidates. In addition, Wang Hao participated in the movie " Annual Conference Can't Stop!" "" has sold nearly 1.3 billion at the box office, which can be said to be a good harvest of word-of-mouth and popularity. I never thought that Wang Hao's role as Dapeng would be so close to his face when he was young. He was simply the best choice.
Now it should be the sixth son Deng Shuai’s turn to enjoy such incredible wealth. This time in "The World of Sketch", he played the role of the mother of a rebellious son. Before taking off the headgear, there was no sense of disobedience during the process, which shows his strong acting skills.
When I first saw the combination of Lu Yan, He Huan and Deng Shuai, I thought that the three elements of cartoons + sketches + dramas would be superimposed, and the effect would be very tearing, but I didn’t expect that it would be this difference that made the difference. The same spark.
They cleverly transformed the contradictions and conflicts in the creation itself into the theme content of the work. This is really a very smart approach.
The most amazing thing about "The World of Sketch" is that it explains the sense of fragmentation just right.
The parents’ old jokes often appear, and the son’s crazy complaints. This awkward relationship just explains the generation gap between the two generations.
But is this just a generation gap between people?
No, it’s still between stages in different eras. The work
attributes the son's rebellion to his adolescence. In fact, what is hidden in it is the changes in sketch culture in the past 30 years, the changes in people's attitudes towards comedy works, and the aesthetic orientation of people of different eras towards language programs. There have been earth-shaking changes.
The wall they have always wanted to smash down in "The World of Sketch" is indeed not an "ordinary wall". In fact, it happens to be the difference in people's perceptions of sketches.
As expected, as long as you break it, you will understand everything.
When you peel this work apart and completely divide it into two parts, you will find that the core ideas of the comedy creator have changed.
used to prefer "lively", but now pays more attention to "reality".
Only when you understand this point can you understand the whole performance.
The wig that the mother on the stage threw off when she wanted to lift a sledgehammer against the wall represented the farewell to past ideas and the gradual acceptance of innovation on this basis.
It’s no exaggeration, my scalp was numb when I saw it.
is not pretentious at all, and its sensationalism is not oily or greasy. How rare it is to be able to achieve this level.
not only affirms current innovations, but also pays tribute to past classics, taking all aspects into consideration.
"I feel like this world is unreal", and the plot that people outside are paying attention to me is quite a bit like "The Truman Show", and the creator also pointed it out directly.
He Huan said after the performance that he found that what he was doing was derailed and out of date. If you don't want comedy to eliminate you, then try to keep up with the pace of changes in comedy. This is the reflection that is fed back to the actors after the work is completed.
Although there was indeed a collision of ideas during the creative process, the final effect was ideal.
I was grinning the whole time, and there were quite a lot of jokes and points. For example, when my mother asked me if I "quarreled with my girlfriend", I confessed, "I really hope I can have this little trouble"; "rex" and "relax" "The difference paved the way for subsequent differences; in the second half of Liang Bingbing's phone call, the atmosphere was in place, but the result was a big reversal; the dumpling-making joke was directly linked to the classic work "The Annual Comedy Competition" A bad show".
The characters are all representative, including a mother who is very avant-garde in speech and thought and continues to output various novel opinions, a father who often speaks rhymes and uplifting limericks, and a son who can always hit the lungs just right.
Lu Yan's performance was really impressive, almost to the point where he wanted to laugh when he opened his mouth. After his lines came out, the atmosphere became much more lively. It completely transformed into the real-time reaction when watching the performance. The content and expressions exactly matched what I was thinking. I spontaneously revealed all the unreasonable elements in the sketch and directly brought the audience's perspective to the scene. to the stage.
Every time I felt that the plot started to be tacky, Lu Yan said "This is too sketchy", which instantly broke the dull atmosphere, indicating that these "tackiness" itself are part of the creation.
At the same time, he also output the most critical and core point of the entire performance, that is, "this world is a sketch", and by the way, he even complained about his own style.
From the perspective of the audience, Lu Yan entered this "sketch world" as a participant, so he can jump repeatedly between the stage and the auditorium, and has the ability to stop the curtain that is about to fall. You can interact with your parents in the performance, and you can also interact with the audience present. Those words that specifically cue the host are also intended to reasonably extend the perspective beyond the stage, allowing him to always stand with the audience. The setting of this son looks like it has been mixed into a sketch from many years ago, and it also seems like a modern person has traveled to the stage 30 years ago. The strong contrast brings many surprises.
While laughing, there is also deep thinking.
Facts have proved that "The World of Sketch" is really good.
text/Ye Qiuchen
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