Since April 26, the period comedy "Xiaobao and Lao Cai", starring Fan Wei and Mao Bao, has been broadcast simultaneously on five David TV in Beijing, Tianjin, Jilin, Hubei and Xinjiang. The play skillfully combines epic and comedic elements, vividly restoring the original life of grassroots characters in the revolutionary era.
Epic with comedic elements
Set against the backdrop of warlord civil strife to the period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, "Xiao Bao and Lao Cai" tells the story of the struggle between Guo Xiaobao of the revolutionary Red Army and Zhou Laocai, a local tycoon and rich man. Their relationship is constantly shifting between predators and loved ones. The play shows the most absurd and dramatic era in modern China. Director Shang Jing played the new card of "Financial War of Resistance", taking the Mint as a clue and using several typical period representative currencies such as "legal tender", "anti-coin", "Japanese pseudo-military ticket" and "renminbi" to tell the historical story from the warlord melee, the infighting between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the War of Resistance Against Japan to the establishment of New China. The theme of national hatred and family hatred is doomed to the epic nature of the play. In the audience's previous experience of watching dramas, epic dramas are "tall", tragic, serious, and grand main theme dramas, and comedy elements are difficult to inhabit. However, "Xiao Bao and Lao Cai" cleverly solves the problem of the difficulty of integrating epic drama and comedy.
Restore the original scene of grassroots life in the revolutionary era
Epic dramas need not only magnificent scenes, thrilling stories, tall characters, but also inseparable from the details of the layout of the narrative. In the play "Xiao Bao and Lao Cai", the joys and sorrows of countless small people are connected into the big epic of small people, their love and friendship, their everyone and the small family, their laughter and anger, all blended in the original taste of life of chai rice oil salt sauce vinegar tea. Most of the comedy embodiments in the play carry the simplicity and plainness of the villagers of that era, neither exaggerated nor playful, and the joy of coincidence and joy in the magic vividly restore the original scene of the life of the grassroots characters in the revolutionary era. As the antithesis of villagers and revolutionaries, Zhou Laocai, although he loves money as his life and cherishes gold as his body, he is also happy in the details of trivial life.