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The creative idea of the 8-episode large-scale TV comedy The Legend of Wulin began in 22. After that, the screenwriter Caishen Ning spent a year making the script, and at the same time, Hao Yaning, the boss of Alliance Film, made a decision to establish Pinggu Film and Television Base for this purpose. In November, 24, it was filmed and finished in July, 25.

To put it simply, The Legend of Wulin is a martial arts drama that we shot in a joking tone, a comic gesture and an ironic way. As early as before the shooting, we gave it a positioning: laughing at the martial arts.

An inn team headed by Tong Xiangyu, the shopkeeper (a miserly female shopkeeper with a variety of amorous feelings but a kind heart, and her mother-in-law is a thief), including Bai Zhantang, a waiter (who knows acupuncture, has martial arts, is a thief and wants to turn over a new leaf, but is actually as timid as a mouse), and Guo Furong, a handyman (she relies on martial arts, wanders around the Jianghu and likes to touch her hands, although she is a daughter of a great warrior). There is a chef named Li Dazui (who fantasizes about learning martial arts as a hero all day, just doesn't cook well, and the food he makes tastes terrible), Lv Xiucai who can settle accounts (who always keeps saying, but is actually a useless scholar, who has no hands to tie the chicken but has stumbled into the title of "Kanto Hero"), and Zhu Wushuang who has a boarding inn (although she is a master of the Sunflower Sect Wulin, she is actually a weak woman who is often bullied, but beautiful. There is a naughty girl, Mo Xiaobei (rumored to be a devil in the Jianghu, but actually a little girl who loves to play truant and just wants to eat candied haws), and there are two catchers, one is Lao Xing and the other is Xiao Liu, who argue and solve big cases every day. In fact, they are two muddled eggs. Such a group of poor and lovely young people with different temperaments got together and experienced all kinds of risks and legends in the rivers and lakes in Tongfu Inn. They tasted the warmth and warmth of the world, experienced family love and witnessed the ups and downs in the process of growing up.

after watching the eighty episodes, you will find that we always have a skeptical attitude towards the so-called Jianghu and Wulin. Through this play, we are very clear against violence and killing. We debunk the myths of so-called heroes and how to become heroes one by one, just to tell people clearly that the legendary martial arts masters and unparalleled stunts are often fabricated out of thin air or even a scam; Many famous chivalrous men and martial arts are actually tricks and tricks; Some conventional Jianghu truths that people talk about are actually platitudes, unreasonable truths and preaching at the expense of others. If you believe in these things, you might as well believe in real life-friendship, love and family life.

when we know "martial arts" from this angle, we will think about the flying heroes (we have seen them in movies and TV too often)-the gods who call the shots, the warriors who treat one thing as ten, the tough guys who are invulnerable, the masters who fly over the wall and turn around Gan Kun, and we will feel particularly false and ridiculous. In history, there are too many times when they need to show their talents-when foreign enemies invade, when the country collapses, the people are pitifully looking forward to them ... However, at this time, none of these out-of-touch heroes can be seen! Therefore, most of the "martial arts" works are stripped of the shell of adult fairy tales, leaving only a "fake big empty" core. If you don't laugh at comedy, it's too bad for comedy.

Some experts say that the progress of comedy is closely related to the trend of the times. As the people step into a well-off society and the society enters the era of entertainment, joy, happiness, freedom, ridicule, pleasing to the eye and entertaining with education have increasingly become the main theme of recreational life. In the entertainment era, fashion is popular, full of joy and jokes; Jokes can relieve stress, fatigue and pain, so they are precious and essential. On the contrary, it is becoming more and more out of place to be serious and face to face. Comedy, comedy movies, TV comedies and all kinds of hilarious demonstration activities (such as advertising behavior, talk shows, variety shows, cell phone jokes, online jokes, small-scale self-entertainment) are everywhere, and they have penetrated into today's life in an all-round way. "Funny" has become a buzzword. "Joy" and "joke" have become the necessities and necessities of people's spiritual consumption at present.

The Legend of Wulin caters to this consumer demand. In this play, you can see wonderful stories, which contain all kinds of strangeness, changes, jokes, fun, bitterness and happiness ... Through these stories, we have completed a theme expression with practical significance in each unit, such as being honest, being kind to others, anti-violence, abstaining from gambling, paying taxes, the significance of reading, environmental protection and friendship ... and so on. As the saying goes: it seems that in ancient times, God is in the modern times, and it is fun to learn from the ancient times.

In the form of expression and handling means of the whole drama, we use diversified means of expression to package it. It should be said that this drama is a mixture of various comedy elements-among them, there are narrative entanglements of traditional dramas and lexical features of cross talk and other operas; There is a sense of black humor, and there are elements of popular farce; There are nonsense embellishments and defamiliarization effects; There are network languages, fashion information, advertising paragraphs, computer games, popular songs, variety simulations; Laughing and cursing, singing praises, exaggerating and being funny, affectionate and praising, all of which are eclectic, and all kinds of means are integrated. In a word, it not only inherits the classics, but also deviates from the norm, and pursues joy and warmth. It combines the teaching of traditional realism with the deconstruction of post-modern style, with the aim of creating a comedy that is refined and popular and enjoys a new look!

Our creative team takes the pursuit of comedy as the goal, and has made unremitting efforts from The Story of the Cooking Squad, Health Express, Urban Men and Women to Legend of the Wulin. Fortunately, I have a like-minded creative partner, Caishen Ning. As a comedy screenwriter, he is sharp and literary, and he writes 8 episodes in one breath, which is amazing. At the same time, as the Air Force Television Art Center and Alliance Film Company that successfully launched two cookhouse squad stories and Health Express, it has strong production and investment strength. They held high the banner of the main theme, insisted on diversified creation, and were interested in creating a new situation and promoting a new wave of comedy, so that Legend of Wulin came into being.

Ten leading actors in this drama are sure to become hot young comedy stars through this drama. They are Yan Ni (Tong Xiangyu), Sha Yi (Bai Zhantang), Yao Chen (Guo Furong), Jiang Chao (Li Dazui), Ni Hongjie (Zhu Wushuang), Wang Shasha (Mo Beibei) and Yu Entai (Lu Entai).

After The Legend of Wulin, we will join hands with Yu Baimei, a young writer (in the words of martial arts, he is another playwright with unique skills), and launch a large-scale civilian epic TV series "In front of the house and behind the house". At the same time, he shot "Health Express II", and the screenwriter of this play was Xu Jundong, the main screenwriter who participated in the creation of "The Story of the Cooking Squad", who was also an extraordinary screenwriter.

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