Playing with multiple clues, using the past to explain the present, breakthroughs and reflections on low-cost comedies

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Domestic low-cost comedy films once relied on multi-clue narratives and the style and characteristics of borrowing ancient dramas to talk about the present. In the first decade of the new century, they created many interesting films. Astonishing results.

As a successful template for low-cost comedy films, "Crazy Stone" draws on the multi-clue narrative of Guy Ritchie's "Two Smoking Barrels" in its narrative style.

Using parallel cross montage to interweave the actions of several forces as things develop, and the competition and duel between several forces each form clues to promote the development of the story.

And these people all belong to the main line of "stealing treasure" and "protecting treasure". It is under the guidance of one main clue that the various branch clues are organized in an orderly manner. As the story progresses, many coincidences and conflicts arise.

When describing the same thing, the movie will show it multiple times from different angles. It seems to be a repetition, but it is actually expressed through clever lens design and repeated and non-repetitive detail processing. The respective actions of several forces and their responses and feedback to each other.

This method of interweaving multiple clues and repeatedly laying out the key clues of the plot can sort out the story of each clue and lay important foreshadowing for the next clue crossover.

The multi-clue narrative technique makes the rhythm of the film relaxed and moderate, and can tell the story more clearly. At the same time, the different performances of the characters can be presented in a humorous way to bring joy to the audience. .

In addition, telling the story with multiple clues clearly can make the logical structure of the entire movie more rigorous. The interlocking plots and logical and self-consistent character actions make the movie more beautiful and durable.

After "Crazy Stone" was both well received and a box office success, small-budget comedy films such as "Crazy Racer", "Club" and "Let's Go" also used it to a certain extent. The multi-clue narrative technique has been adopted.

The comedy elements are more closely combined with the multi-clue narrative style, which to a certain extent satisfies the public's aesthetic needs and movie-viewing appeals, and set off a multi-clue narrative trend in domestic low-cost comedy films.

For China, which has a long history, movies based on ancient Chinese history have a unique style and great appeal

Playing with history, tearing up serious things, and The presentation of playful things either uses the past to satirize the present to reflect the trends of today's society, or uses popular culture and slogans to create a scene of "the carnival of the ancients".

Focus the narrative on the ancient people’s incomprehension and doubts about modern things, thereby constructing plots and laughter points that can make modern people laugh, and use the alienation effect of things to produce a series of coincidences and misunderstandings.

These low-cost comedies deliberately downplay storytelling and reasoning, turning the various ancient worlds into a big stage for people to entertain themselves, and then arrange a reasonable and happy ending, directly turning the joke into The basic appeal of the film.

Such films such as "Nine Beauties" and "Panda Heroes" basically achieve the purpose of amusing the audience in terms of comedy effect, but the lack of rigorous narrative and well-designed plot clues makes the film very confusing. It is difficult for the audience to recall it over and over again. Except for one or two funny lines that can be remembered, the rest can be laughed off.

Although this kind of "playing the past and talking about the present" has certain flaws and disadvantages, for the entertainment demands of the comedy movie itself, it has basically met the requirements, but how can we make the story more exciting? To be good-looking and yet humorous requires continuous exploration and innovation in costume comedy narrative.

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