What are the creative skills of comedy?

Comedy is not necessarily an interesting person with a sense of humor. As long as you are a qualified screenwriter and master the technology, you can write comedies. I agree with half of this sentence. Comedy still needs talent, but it can also be practiced. If you are just an entry-level screenwriter, or have relatively junior qualifications, where do you want to write a comedy? This requires understanding the rules of comedy.

Comedy can be divided into personality comedy and sitcom.

We will divide him into comedy character and comedy situation. What is comedy character? There are two points in comedy, personality, desire and defect, which are reflected in comedy. Love, money, be affirmed, be competitive. When you pay a disproportionate price for these desires, the comedy effect comes into being. In "The Big Bang Theory", Xi Erduo is a typical desire, stronger than anyone else, the desire for love, and the marriage madness among girls. When the desire to speak and desire become a track, comedy comes into being.

Medieval religious dramas and fool dramas. There are also poor communication skills, poor intelligence, sissy and neuroticism, which can arouse the reaction of the audience. A threesome. To hit Heng Pao is to interrupt.

Desire and defect also exist in drama. Why is it a comic feature?

The biggest feature of comedy is alienation. The audience can't substitute without sympathy and pity for the protagonist. In fact, the core of all dramas is that the characters get into trouble and then break through. Difficulties are big and small, true and false. Comic dilemma, the audience will not have pity. We often want to stir up feelings in comedies, but later we find it unnecessary, because the audience knows what you want to show from the beginning, and there is no need to explain it to him. This is not what the audience expected. Therefore, we should refrain from grandstanding and deal with it in advance. Otherwise, it is redundant.

"A Beautiful Life" should not immerse the audience in grandstanding for too long, but let the audience get rid of it immediately. If you put warmth in the comedy atmosphere, it will be effective.

In concrete operation, what is the trend of comedy character?

The same is true of the drama, and the characters are getting more and more interesting. The story is getting worse and worse. Storytelling is a craft. Because it is more and more convenient for people to study, after seeing many types of bridges, they gradually feel pressure. So we have to mold the characters to the extreme.

How to achieve the ultimate?

The Big Bang Theory has made four otaku. Characters must have characteristics, if they are comic and unique. Characters should be distinct, unique and vivid. The highest state is that the ordinary stage of life is not ordinary. Bright, I can't forget it all my life. Unique, if you want to show his uniqueness in some details. Hilton can only sit in certain places and ask for the angle of light. Knock three times. The laughter of "Mozart" is very characteristic and childish, which symbolizes Mozart at once. This is the importance of characteristics.

Write the characteristics to the extreme.

But in extreme cases, there is a premise, that is, grounding gas. Any narrative literature, telling any story should be grounded. In the big bang, most people who like him are technical houses, smart and withdrawn, single-minded and competitive, and extremely unable to take care of themselves. There are many such individuals now, especially in the case of rising unemployment rate, and high IQ is also the dream of technical houses. This is actually very practical. The four aliens I wrote stayed at home, and I gave them four symbols, sofa, sleeping, never leaving the computer and game machine, and eating instant noodles all the time, characterized by laziness and laziness to the extreme. I was locked in the elevator for more than an hour because I was too lazy to press the elevator button. I found such people in my life when I was writing, but I wrote to the extreme. Fix yourself on the sofa in order not to be hygienic.

These actually represent the essential desires.

People with comic personality are lower in intelligence, physical strength, status and circumstances than ordinary people, such as cats and mice. The audience is satisfied with their sense of superiority in front of these. Comedy characters have also made our dreams come true. They are all doing what we want to do but dare not, because secondly, they are braver and more courageous than us. There is a saying that if people live according to their own ideas, they are either crazy or legendary. Bean, Forrest Gump, we not only like to watch Bean, but also like to watch the reactions of people around Bean. We have pleasure and even want to be a bean.

Comic conflict

There are two kinds. Anyone's conflict, such as Chaplin and Zhao Benshan, is a conflict with comedy characters. There is also the conflict between people and the environment. Bean, little Englishman. Only the protagonist is a cartoon, and everyone around him is the most normal Englishman. Mixing beans in it is something we want to do but dare not do, and it is a challenge to rigid culture and even the system. This is a European drama, which is very interesting and reflects people's dissatisfaction. These are two ways of comedy conflict, and we only have the first one now, but there is no second one.

How to shape the role?

This method is not limited to comedy, but more effective in comedy. First of all, you have to determine a character type. This type can be self-abased and stingy, which are all comedy types, called basic characteristics. The second is to explain this character in one sentence. The third is to write a paragraph, for example, XXX is a self-pity person, and to what extent, each paragraph begins like a gossip, which is to make up stories and write biographies for people. What you write is the best story that best reflects the character. The fourth is to design features for him, to design features that constantly strengthen behavior, or language features. For example, I designed an otaku sofa instant noodle game machine. The fifth is to write a script, which is a play between this character and another character. After writing, you will find this person is like this. This method is useful, a qualified comedian, but a bit rigid.

Comedy situation. When I was doing the Spring Festival Gala, I found that after 30 years of doing it, there were 200 sketches in a * * *, and almost all the good comedy situations were used up. The core of comedy situation is misunderstanding and coincidence, that is, a person is in trouble. This is a container with unchangeable rules. Like comedy movies. There is a saying: all good stories can be finished in one sentence, not necessarily true. But a good comedy can be finished in one sentence. American comedy, simple and honest dancer, clean man broke the dancer's fish tank, can't afford to pay for it, and got a call to add a dancer to make money, but he didn't have a figure or dance, a series of jokes. But the other person is not watching the dance, but a woman who is addicted to swearing and needs comfort? This is a typical comedy situation.

There is also a Hollywood movie in America. The thief hid the diamond somewhere and got out of prison two years later to get it, but this place became the LAPD, so he pretended to be a policeman. ? Zhao Benshan's Happy New Year is a very qualified comedy. Misunderstandings and coincidences are used. Why the misunderstanding has not been revealed is very technical. The advanced level in the script is not reserved, but has a solid reason. Fan Wei was worried that his brother-in-law would cause trouble, so he didn't say that he was grateful. This is a very good reason. Misunderstandings and coincidences have been used repeatedly, and the secondary audience has seen too much, so it is a great challenge for screenwriters. The writers' salon, if any, is a good form of discussion. Many things in America are done by teams.

Comedy situation, Wei Liu's new house, afraid of her mother-in-law's dissatisfaction, secretly said that it was not rented, but bought. My mother-in-law is aggressive, and my father-in-law is honest and can't lie. We can see that all comedies finally act on the relationship between characters and enter the situation. The relationship between people is the most important, core and crucial element. There are many examples of handsome men and beautiful women crossing the desert, and they have no money. Men want girls to dance pole dancing to earn money, but the bartender takes a fancy to boys because this is a gay bar. Men are timid, but they are happy with everyone's encouragement? This is to grasp the relationship between people.

Make good use of misunderstanding and coincidence. At the core, people fell into a dramatic dilemma and the story came.

Problems in comedy creation.

What things have we not overcome yet? Comedy is more than just shaking baggage, telling one-liners or telling jokes. Sometimes it doesn't matter what you say, who says it matters. In a threesome, you feel a little funny, and the dialogue itself is also very funny. But some lines are not funny. You will laugh when you think about this role. What makes you laugh is his state and personality. A man who never reads books makes love in the ladies' room of the library. The role of comedy is the golden finger, which turns stone into gold. Everything is character.

What words are we used to writing?

I love my family's Tian Liang. He is a big fool. He can make plans, is unreliable and knows nothing, so people write easily. The stage is not common, and we don't write much about what is common in life. Young veteran cadres are anxious to hear the scandal, that's all. There are fewer such roles because our roles are more conceptual. We will want to write correctly first, not well, which is very bad. When we write playboy, we first want to write about a morally corrupt person, a bad guy and a lover, which are generally the opposite, but the gel coat of the six-person line is a simple and kind playboy. We generally use value judgment instead of artistic judgment, so we must break through this rigid thinking mode.

Some people say that comedy is enough to write something. But I think sometimes, it's just restraint. During the king's speech, the doctor wouldn't let his wife correct the mistake for the king. When his wife came in, she was afraid to see the king and queen. This scene is not a dog's blood trick at all. She is very restrained. This is of course consistent with the genre and style of the play itself. But this treatment is very advanced. Appropriate blank space is very effective for us.

Finally, talk about the taste of comedy.

Let's talk about Chaplin. He once said that it is the most classic summary of comedy. I set out from the human tragedy and established my comedy system. That the highest comedy is tragedy. What is the most relevant thing about comedy and people? The aliens I wrote have no special effects and super powers, but four thoughts are particularly strange. Audience evaluation is the four best diaosi.

This popularity stems from the audience's self-mockery and deep affection for life. Stephen Chow and Chaplin are both nobody. When we take back the regret of being excluded from comedy, we will find that everything in Stephen Chow is a tragedy. He wrote a lot about the dark side of human nature, the social system and the helplessness of life. It's just a dramatic treatment, that is, the alienation of miserable life. When a person is on the road, it is a tragic performance, and his ideal state will be sad, not funny as we think. This is the meaning of comedy.