Talking about the Monkey Picking Corn —— A satire on the script

Satire is the most subtle expression of the happiness of this story. It is such a comforting feeling: "Ah, this is life." It looks at life in two; It makes a big fuss about our contradictory living conditions until there is an bottomless crack between the appearance of things and the truth of things. Language irony lies in the difference between the discourse itself and the meaning of the discourse, which is the main source of jokes. But in the story, irony is between action and result-this is the main source of story energy, between appearance and reality-this is the main source of truth and emotion.

Satire is a valuable property, a sharp knife that can cut to the truth, but it cannot be used directly. Let the characters wander in the story and say, "How ironic!" It won't bring us any benefits. Just like dealing with symbolism, pointing out irony directly destroys irony.

Irony must be revealed casually. On the surface, the author seems to know nothing about the effect of irony, but he firmly believes that the audience will understand.

Because irony is not clear in essence, it can't be quickly defined in clear language, and it's best to explain it through examples.

In The Story, robert mckee also summed up six modes of satirical stories.

1. He finally got what he always wanted ... but it was too late for him.

The monkey finally picked the corn, but in the process of fighting with the enemy, he had already thrown the corn into the fire.

He was pushed farther and farther away from his goal ... only to find that he had actually been guided to his goal.

Someone tried desperately to stop the monkey from picking corn, but in the end, he found that the man was just giving him a shortcut to the corn field.

Only after he abandoned him did he discover what was indispensable to his happiness.

He refused a female monkey for corn. But after picking corn, he found that he was giving it to the female monkey.

In order to achieve a certain goal, he took some opposite steps.

In order to pick corn, he trusted a bad monkey, and the bad monkey took him farther away from the corn field.

He took action to destroy something, but it backfired and was destroyed by it.

He wanted to pick corn, but unexpectedly, he died in the corn field and became fertilizer and nutrition for corn.

He got something that he thought would bring him bad luck and tried to get rid of it ... only to find that it was a happy gift.

On the way to pick corn, he found a heavy sack. Later, he discovered that it was because of this sack that all the corn he picked could be brought back.