What's the difference between the low-level play and the high-level play of domestic comedies? Give a few examples.

There are no new films released recently. Let's take a good look at domestic comedies.

What is a good comedy and what is a bad comedy? What's the difference between them?

The core of comedy, or sense of humor, lies in surprise and contrast.

Contrast is the core of comedy. What is a sense of contrast? For example, Shen Teng's appearance in The Iron Fist of Shame is the best contrast in domestic comedies, and it can even be said to be one of them.

Judging from the imposing manner when he appeared, he was a martial arts expert, and then he knelt down the next second. This is the sense of contrast.

No matter what kind of comedy, there must be jokes. To make the audience laugh, it is generally by this contrast that the drama brought about by the reversal is reversed. The main difference between a good comedy and a bad comedy lies in whether the jokes told are ahead of time.

A relatively low-level comedy is to make a fool of yourself and make the audience laugh.

For many years, domestic comedies have a bad habit of making fun of "fools" or disabled people, just like a clown around you, making you laugh through his stupidity. But this kind of play often turns into a farce. You can obviously feel his intention to make you laugh, but his purpose of tickling is too obvious and deliberate, which will make people feel embarrassed. Laughing is boring; Don't laugh, you seem to be sorry for his "hard work".

"Jiong Series" is the representative of domestic comedies. The role played by Wang is still the typical one of playing the fool and pretending to be ugly, deliberately screwing up a lot of things and making people laugh. This technique is not very clever.

I believe many people are impressed by this scene, which is a typical act of playing dumb.

Xu zhēng's computer was deliberately damaged at the Songkran Festival, which is a typical case of deliberately screwing things up.

In fact, "Thailand" is already an excellent representative of domestic comedies. Wang's performance brought a simple-minded "fool" to life, and his appearance of "doing bad things with good intentions" was quite convincing, and the audience would not have much resentment.

In contrast, Bao Beier's sabotage in Embarrassment in Shanghai, especially in the first half of the film, makes Xu zhēng fall into various difficulties, which looks more like deliberate and despicable behavior, and will make the audience very annoying. At that time, there were even comments that Bao Beier felt bad when he smiled. This is a very bad comedy.

Therefore, it may be hard to say what a good comedy is, but a bad comedy usually embarrasses the audience by playing dumb and ugly.

I mentioned some shortcomings of "Thailand" earlier, but "Thailand" can be successful, after all, there are two brushes. Some punchline designs are also very impressive. For example, Wang massaged with scallion cakes, which is great.

The most classic is the conversation about the shemale in the elevator. Not only is it funny, but it is also very clever in combination with the local characteristics of Thailand where the story takes place.

Therefore, for comedy, the most basic requirement is that the paragraph must be exquisite and slightly ahead of the curve, not the kind of pretending to be crazy. In the design of the paragraph, we must innovate, make the audience feel fresh, and let the audience feel that the original paragraph can still be said like this. After all, who wants to see a joke that already knows the result?

Otherwise, it is the lowest comedy. For example, the recent Hotel Never Rises is obviously the worst comedy.

Because the jokes in it suck.

Then several recent movies, such as "Big Red Packet" and "Warm Hug", basically have this problem.

Like these comedies, you will know the level after watching them for about ten minutes. The quality of the punchline is too low.

There are some funny jokes and so-called "golden sentences" in a slightly better comedy, but the overall film sense is not strong, the rhythm is sparse and broken, and it is more like a collection of essays.

This is the basic situation of many films in Xiaogang Feng. For example, Party A and Party B. In fact, this film is not bad in domestic comedies.

And "big shots" and so on.

This may be an inertia of comedians who have created comic sketches at the Spring Festival Evening and various parties for so many years.

However, movies are movies after all. If there are only some good paragraphs and the overall structure is not good, it can only be regarded as a sentence without chapters. In fact, the overall framework of "Party A and Party B" is well connected. If this kind of joke movie is not good, it will be like "Private Custom", where several stories are completely separated and the whole movie is a mixture of several irrelevant sketches. What is a movie?

The advanced play of comedy depends on the scene design, that is to say, the punchline serves the whole scene and the whole plot, not just for fun. Let me give an example of a sketch, the protagonist and supporting role of Peisi Chen. This is a very good comedy, and all the paragraphs are promoting the progress of the plot, not just for fun.

Therefore, the leading role and supporting role have always been called China's best sketches. Although this sketch is short, the design of the punchline and the exquisiteness of the whole structure are really powerful.

Of course, sketches are generally short. To do this, a film must have a better plot design, constitute a complete work as a whole, and naturally integrate the crazy comedy plot into the whole story.

In the film history of China, Stephen Chow's A Chinese Odyssey is quite prominent.

That is to say, you can clearly see that the whole story of A Chinese Odyssey is not separated, and its story is very coherent, which ultimately serves the theme of the film.

After watching a Chinese Odyssey, there will be a profound sense of tragedy and loss, which is the core of this film. Every successful comedy has a core. As Peisi Chen once said, "Comedy has a tragic core".

I think the two films that can reach the comedy level of a Chinese Odyssey are Crazy Stone and Goodbye Mr. Loser.

The core of Crazy Stone is black humor. Around the gains and losses of this stone, you will see many things deep in human nature. Besides being funny, you will think about some things.

Goodbye, Mr. Loser, there is such a thought-provoking core in it. The protagonist Charlotte "in this life, what is lacking most is face", but in the dream after crossing, another seemingly infinite life is just another failure in the end. People still need to review themselves more, whether they have made a mess of their lives, instead of daydreaming every day, hoping that pies will change their lives.

These two films have realized the natural integration of crazy comedy plot and the whole story, and they are also ironic and enlightening to some extent. Watching the whole movie, from the first laugh to the last slightly heavy, is the power of an excellent comedy.

Ok, that's all for today's movie appreciation, I hope it will inspire you.