In the history of domestic web dramas, the "Mao Deception" series has always been known as: the ceiling of web dramas.
To this day, "Mao Deception End" still maintains a super high score of 9.7 on Douban, and the only domestic dramas with the same score are "Dream of the Red Chamber" and "Daming Dynasty 1566", while compared with the last two powerful high-quality national dramas, the "Mao Deception" series is a low-cost web drama produced by the Grass Stage team.
Many people commented that the "Mao Deception" series proved that in the absence of money, domestic dramas can also be made.
The success of the "Mao Deception" series has gradually made the Li Hongsi team behind the scenes gradually known.
In recent years, the "Mao Deception" crew has gradually got rid of the title of "Nian Changing Crew" and has been testing the waters of new types of film and television dramas, such as "Can't Kill Undead" in 2017, last year's web drama "Can't Afford to Lose" and so on.
This year's "Mao Deception" crew "crazy" update, a number of works have been launched in a row, the web drama "Edge of the City" at the beginning of the year is the first time the "Mao Deception" series launched a story, followed by the mini-series "This Uncle is a Little Cool", the online movie "Very Bodyguard", and the recently launched "Spicy Dormitory" (formerly known as "Spicy Next Door Season Five").
This week, another online movie created by the "Mao Deception" team, "Unjust Family Solution" is online and broadcast.
The film is co-directed by Xing Dongdong and Che Zhigang, the actors are the original team of the "Mao Deception" series, the film is also the second online movie launched by the "Mao Deception" team, and the first day of the launch ranked first in the video platform.
Or the original recipe of the crew, a multi-line narrative suspense comedy, reminiscent of "Kill Or Not Die".
As a loyal fan of "Mao Deception", Fan Yingjun will talk about this movie today -
"Wrongdoers should be solved and not suitable knots"
An enemy should be solve
This drama is still created by Li Hongsi's team, from the actors to the backstage, are the original team of "Mao Deception".
The film adopts a two-male protagonist narrative, the two protagonists are played by "Xiao Bao" Yang Yu and "Shao Banxian" Shao Zhuang in "Mao Deception", the two continue the previous "brainless and unhappy" characters in "Kill Or Not Die", telling the story of two low-level small people, because of a series of accidents, forced to get involved in a ridiculous case.
In terms of other supporting roles, Xing Dongdong, Che Zhigang, Geng Xiaohui, AnNing, Wang Xiuyue, Da Niu, Wang Chenhao, Bao Zhiqiang and other original members of the "Mao Deception" series have almost all returned.
This "Unjust Family Should Be Solved" is a suspense comedy, the story style is similar to "Kill Can't Die", emphasizing suspense and reversal in addition to absurdity and funny, and this is also the best play of the "Mao Deception" team, the whole film has no waste drama, everywhere is foreshadowing, the details are full.
Where is the specific beauty of this piece, let's talk slowly.
The story begins in an apartment building, where office worker Qiu Tian (Yang Yu) and game otaku Liang Puzhi (Shao Zhuang) are upstairs and downstairs neighbors, but the two have frequent frictions and escalate conflicts because of their opposite schedules.
Qiu Tian is a real estate salesman, working during the day and resting at night, but Liang Puzhi is a game maniac, playing games day and night, often quarreling qiu Tian can not rest, one after another, the two began to compete with each other, interfering with each other's work and rest.
One day, Qiu Tian's mobile phone was accidentally destroyed, and he had an important customer meeting that night, and there was an urgent call to be made. But the trouble is that Qiu Tian has been alone in the apartment, borrowing a circle and not finding anyone willing to lend him his mobile phone.
As a last resort, Qiu Tian had to turn to his nemesis Liang Puzhi, and just at this time, Liang Puzhi was blocked by his creditor Brother Long, and Liang Puzhi hid in Qiu Tian's house.
Qiu Tian was in a hurry to call, took Liang Puzhi's mobile phone and replaced it with his own phone card, in the process, Qiu Tian accidentally lost Liang Puzhi's mobile phone card. Qiu Tian was anxious to use Liang Puzhi's mobile phone to call back, and Liang Puzhi was worried about playing games with his mobile phone.
The twist of the story begins, and the two people, who originally looked at each other unfavorably, were forced to share a mobile phone.
However, in Qiu Tian and Liang Puzhi, they each lead to different story lines.
First of all, Liang Puzhi's side mainly involves two groups of people, the creditor Brother Long and the fraudster Hao Ren.
Liang Puzhi is a heavy game lover, because of playing games, he owes the creditor Brother Long (Played by Che Zhigang) 100,000 yuan, Liang Puzhi has no money to pay back, the creditor Brother Long can't bear it, and comes to block the door with a few helpers.
Liang Puzhi fled to Qiu Tian's house, causing Qiu Tian to be involved in the incident and was chased and beaten by Brother Long and others. In order to avoid Brother Long, Liang Puzhi fled to his mother's house and took all the savings from his mother's family.
It turned out that Liang Puzhi's mother was surrounded by a young man named Hao Ren, who often sold him health care products.
Liang Puzhi believes that the other party is a liar, the purpose is to deceive the mother's deposit, from the family monitoring in advance, see the mother intends to withdraw money to Hao Ren.
Therefore, as soon as he escaped brother Long's pursuit, he came to his mother's house and involuntarily took away the money that his mother had originally given to Hao Ren.
And this Hao Ren is indeed not a good person, or a group of scammers who rely on fake health care products, watching the ducks in hand are going to fly away, so they do not do two things endlessly, and want to snatch the bag of money from Liang Puzhi's hand.
At the same time, Brother Long and his gang also chased after Liang Puzhi's mother's home, and both Brother Long and Hao Ren mistakenly thought that the other party was a helper invited by Liang Puzhi, so the two sides fought a big fight, and Liang Puzhi and Qiu Tian took the opportunity to escape.
The two escaped got into Bao Ge's taxi and went to the café where Qiu Tian met the customer.
Qiu Tian is an office worker, his job is so-so, but he loves to make cakes, has always dreamed of opening a cake shop, originally tonight made an appointment with an investor to meet in the café, and made a cake in advance.
For him, the cake in his hand and tonight's meeting are very important, because hundreds of thousands of dollars will be decided.
As a result, Qiu Tian originally just wanted to borrow Liang Puzhi's mobile phone to call back, but unexpectedly, the two began to be targeted by Brother Long and Hao Ren at the same time.
Hao Ren wants to snatch a bag of cash from Liang Puzhi's hand, while Long Ge and the others overhear the conversation between Qiu Tian and Liang Puzhi, mistakenly believing that the cake in Qiu Tian's hand is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, so they plan to snatch the cake in Qiu Tian's hand and force Liang Puzhi to repay the money.
At this point in the story, four groups of people and horses are mixed together, but they are hostile to each other.
Qiu Tian remembered to meet the customer to get the investment, so the cake in his hand was very important.
Liang Puzhi and Qiu Tian originally looked at each other unfavorably, but only temporarily became partners because they wanted to share mobile phones, but Liang Puzhi loved to take advantage of qiu Tian, taking advantage of Qiu Tian's lack of attention, and secretly took Qiu Tian's money to recharge his game account.
The creditor, Brother Long, led a large group of people to find Liang Puzhi to collect the debt, only to see the fraudster Hao Ren and snatch a bag of cash from Liang Puzhi. Brother Long's men thought that Hao Ren had also come to Liang Puzhi to collect debts, but they had done so before they got the money.
Therefore, Brother Long mistakenly believed that the money bag that Hao Ren got was originally deserved by himself, so he planned to get the money bag from Hao Ren at all costs.
On Hao Ren's side, he was actually involved in an underground criminal group that manufactured and sold counterfeit drugs.
Because Hao Ren's money bag happened to have his mother's mobile phone, Liang Puzhi used the mobile phone location to track all the way to Hao Ren's fake medicine factory. Hao Ren found out that the matter was exposed and decided to transfer immediately, and Liang Puzhi was trapped in the van of the counterfeit medicine group.
As accidents continue to occur, events spiral out of control. Liang Puzhi, who was in danger, used his radio expertise to fix a walkie-talkie and recalled that when he took a taxi, he happened to hear the taxi's channel often cross the stage.
Therefore, Liang Puzhi used the walkie-talkie to connect to the taxi channel for help. Qiu Tian had already parted ways with Liang Puzhi, but when he learned that the other party was in danger, he still came to the rescue without hesitation, and Long Ge and others were also on the way to chase Hao Ren.
At the end of the story, the two sides staged a Shijiazhuang version of "Fast and Furious" with the assistance of bugg-level Bao Ge.
This "UnjustIfied Solution" has no gorgeous special effects, nor a shocking big scene, completely relying on exquisite story conception and skillful narrative skills to win, although there are many characters, multiple sets of story lines intertwined, but can be complex and not chaotic, this alone has won many shoddily made domestic suspense films.
On the other hand, this film continues the style of "Kill Or Not Die", with both suspense and comedy attaching equal importance to the two genres.
In terms of suspense lines, the script is very meticulous, there is no particularly large logical loophole, and almost all reversals have been arranged before foreshadowing and laying, which shows the intentions of the screenwriter.
For example: at the beginning of the movie, Liang Puzhi is a high-quality student majoring in radio, but he dropped out of school because he was addicted to the game, and in the second half of the film, Liang Puzhi used his professional skills to repair the walkie-talkie to save himself; and then liang Puzhi and Qiu Tian sat on Bao Brother's taxi, heard the taxi driver use the radio to nag, and at the end, these details were all used, becoming the key clue for Bao Brother to lead people to rescue Liang Puzhi.
In terms of comedy baggage, the comedy of this play belongs to a very grounded style, and has the effect of adjusting the tone of the story, and occasionally when the story goes downhill, the choreographer will throw out a stroke of genius.
For example, director Xing Dongdong himself played the role of Brother Long's subordinates, this role in the first half of the film is always in the image of timidity and fear, every time Brother Long sneaks the fastest is him, but in the end, he shows his skills, and is actually a hidden master.
The most hilarious scene is that Qiu Tian and Liang Puzhi, after experiencing a series of accidents, broke out in the street, when the sprinkler truck next to them passed by, and the two people who were sprinkled with water were finally "forced to calm down".
In addition, a major creative feature of the crew of "Mao Deception" is that the story is based on reality, and many plots have a certain degree of realistic care. For example, in the movie, Qiu Tian's neglect of his mother will cause the elderly to easily believe in the scammers who sell health care products at home; for example, the projection of workplace pressure and the phenomenon of indifference to contemporary interpersonal relationships are very commendable.
In general, as an online movie, "Unjust Family Should Not Be Solved" can be said to be quite conscientious. What the "Mao Deception" team is good at is this kind of small pattern, grounded suspense comedy, the foreshadowing and recycling of the grass snake gray line, the familiar reversal formula as always, and the familiar faces and hidden Easter eggs of many "Mao Deception" series, which is estimated to make many old fans smile.
By the way, in the easter egg in the film appeared "Foreign Object Chronicle", I just don't know when this drama that has been hidden for several years will be broadcast?