There is a new play after the peerless master. Can there be another Stephen Chow in the "nonsense" world?

Speaking of China's comedy films, Stephen Chow is a mountain that cannot be ignored. Regarding the style of his works, worship and controversy coexist.

On the one hand, its nonsense comedy occupies a high position in the audience's mind. Classic texts such as A Chinese Odyssey have not only been interpreted and deconstructed by the audience many times, but their classic paragraphs have also become imitation models for comedy practitioners many times.

On the other hand, controversy has always existed. Some practitioners believe that nonsense comedy is a sub-culture that can't reach the stage and should not be promoted as a mainstream culture.

But it is undeniable that Stephen Chow's nonsense style has really aroused the passion of some mainland comedy creators. Here, I have to mention a younger brother of Master Xing-Lu Zhengyu.

He once served as the co-writer and executive director of "The Demon Journey to the West" and "The Mermaid", and he has his own understanding of the style of nonsense. As a fan, I am familiar with Stephen Chow-style performances.

The online drama "Hero Lu Xiaoyu Sunset Red Team" written, directed and performed by him was broadcast on the platform. Although only six episodes have been updated so far, we can also see Lu Zhengyu's obsession with nonsense.

Collage and contrast, stylized nonsense

Lu Xiaoyu (Lu Zhengyu) is a coward who is laughed at by everyone, just like the mountain thief and the ideal Chen Man Xuanzang. But in his heart, he longed to be a warrior like Supreme Wind and Innocence in Wulin, and to confront the bloodthirsty demon king. But in the eyes of parents, this is just an idiotic dream.

Who knows that parents were killed by demons, and the government did not dare to confront evil forces, so it had to take Lu Xiaoyu as a scapegoat. Overnight, Lu Xiaoyu became a sinner who killed his parents. In order to prove his innocence and find the real murderer, Lu Xiaoyu, with the help of Master Bai Mei, the head of the Air School, embarked on a long road of fighting and upgrading with the thrush girl (Cai Wenjing) and Diao Bao.

Like Stephen Chow's Kung Fu, the protagonist Lu Xiaoyu's "Sunset Red Team" tells the story that little people have no ambition and are inexplicably involved in disputes between rivers and lakes, thus completing their self-growth after a series of tempering.

Besides focusing on the legend of little people in story mode, Lu Zhengyu also followed the writing style of nonsense in content arrangement.

The biggest feature of Wulitou is collage. In terms of content, Lu Xiaoyu's Sunset Red Team has been edited and deconstructed by combining characters in other classic martial arts films and literary works.

The combination of a man, a woman and a sculpture looks very much like The Condor Heroes. The image of thrush and Artest after makeup also draws lessons from the modeling of Mei Chaofeng and the extinct teacher in Jin Yong's novels. The bat king of the western regions, one of the three saints of the magic religion, comes from "The Dragon Slayer by Eternal Adversity". The naive and lonely old man behind him obviously smells like a grandmother of a mountain child.

This time, it was broadcast in the air, and the main creator also added some secondary animation elements to the series, trying to narrow the distance with a specific audience.

In visual presentation, the shape and action of the character can find the shadow of the day. Enchant Taro's thousand-handed style when he uses the star-sucking method reminds Haimi (the nickname of nautical king fans) of Luffy's rubber machine gun. The image of the carved treasure is very similar to the magical creature Elizabeth in The Silver Soul. There are two feet under the doll holster, and the big move is also a machine gun attack.

When presenting the emotion of a character at a certain moment, the camera will immediately push the close-up of the face to reflect the extreme emotion of the character. This is similar to the treatment of two-dimensional solar diffusion.

At the same time, The Hero Lu Xiaoyu's Sunset Red Team also uses the sense of contrast before and after the characters to create a comedy effect.

In addition to the timid Lu Xiaoyu will become a peerless master, the ancient beauty who speaks softly is called "Jian Gang"; The granddaughter of bridled master is a woman, but she claims to be a beautiful girl once in three thousand years. Give the audience a sense of absurdity of "serious nonsense"

Moreover, the role often emphasizes an idea seriously, but breaks this persistence in the follow-up action. One second Lu Xiaoyu still dislikes thrush, and the next second is mainly under the threat of the other side; One second, Master Bai Mei was still emphasizing the importance of abstinence from color, and the next, he happily embraced the beautiful woman and became a large-scale real fragrance scene.

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In addition, the nonsense irony of reality is also reflected in "Heroes Lu Xiaoyu Sunset Red Team". For example, parents make various arrangements under the banner of being good to you, but in fact they completely ignore their children's ideals.

Opening the floodgate of magic teaching is also a reflection of current practical problems. The people in Wangxue Town are as lifeless as zombies, which corresponds to the current mourning culture. Naive town said that everyone has become a child, reflecting the reality of the giant baby society.

In a word, Lu Zhengyu still carried out the nonsense comedy style to the extreme this time.

In China's comedy creation team, which is well-known in the film industry for nearly ten years, each creator is interpreting his own works with his own different understanding.

Taking Wanhe Tianyi as an example, the classic story is deconstructed in the style of sand sculpture. I like to mix a lot of confessions in my lines to form a contrast effect. This also formed their unique comedy style.

After that, whether it is the big movie "Never Imagine" produced by Wanhe Tianyi or "Bathing Friends" filmed by Xiaoxing Yi the Beast, the end result of the story is warmth. The former is the truth, goodness and beauty of little people, and the latter is brotherhood beyond blood, trying to make people get emotional sublimation after laughing.

In order to be different from the previous online dramas, Xiaoxing Yi the animal also added some ritual fragments. In the final competition of Bath Friends in Peng Yuchang and Zhang Benyu, western symphonies and oriental ancient rhymes were integrated into the bath battle as background music.

Another China comedy movie is The True Story of MCA. Although it is a stage play adapted into a movie, the jokes of Twist FunAge always fit the current audience's ideas.

Goodbye Mr. Loser is a response to the daydreams of men at the bottom, while the richest man in Xihong is a utopia created for the poor and the sick.

When I came to Lu Zhengyu, I mainly imitated Stephen Chow's style. In his first big-screen directorial debut, Nothing Without a Owner, it is not difficult to find a tribute to idols.

Similar to the slum of Pig Cage City Village, the inspirational stories of little people under the oppression of the chaebol, the contrasting love between violent girls and gangs, and exaggerated performances, star guest eggs ... The audience can feel that Lu Zhengyu has joined his own understanding of the story while ensuring the original style of Stephen Chow.

Nevertheless, some viewers will question that these works are not like movies.

A peerless master is like a mixture of kung fu and food. This time, the "Hero Lu Xiaoyu Sunset Red Team" is also a pot of stew. Some bridges can't poke the jokes of the audience, but they look embarrassed. Some baggage did not promote the development of the main line of the story, making the story too lengthy.

How to play new ideas in comedy? Whether it is for Lu Xiaoyu or China's comedy, it is a question worth thinking about.