Ma Li + Chang Yuan, New Year comedy, and the beginning of 2022, is it a perfect match?
Just listen to the laughter in the theater. Well, "Li Mao Dresses up as a prince" is indeed the funniest way to open in 2022.
As the first domestic comedy film in the beginning of the year, the box office of the film broke through 100 million on the first day of release, and the audience laughed on the first day of the year.
If I could sum up my viewing experience of the film in one sentence, it would be that the taste of Chinese New Year comedy is back.
What's the origin of Chinese New Year comedy? Naturally, it is from Hong Kong films, but why do so many classic Hong Kong comedies have to be put in the New Year file? The answer is: laugh a lot.
The New Year's Eve comedy of that year, no matter what type, as long as it is put together with the costume comedy, it is broadcast in the New Year file, so that the audience can laugh happily, and the box office is naturally not bad.
However, how long has the domestic film market not had the opening costume New Year comedy that broke 100 million on the first day? Ma Li Changyuan + Allen, Wei Xiang, Wang Chengsi, Du Xiaoyu, Song Xiaobao, Zhang Zidong and other more than 10 comedy celebrities starring in this New Year comedy that has exceeded 100 million yuan, what is the killer skill?
The answer, perhaps, is hidden in the audience's comments - "Movies that don't require brains and tears are really good, very funny." ”
How funny is that? This bowl of 2022 comedy head soup, I first help everyone taste, this product, taste three kinds of taste. New Year's Day, it's time to laugh.
First taste: 100 minutes and 75 laugh points, funny is the New Year comedy
Really, the comedy of "Li Mao Dressed as a Prince" is funny.
As a veteran audience who has seen too many comedies, my favorite daily mantra is "boring", and I am impromptu spitting at all kinds of terriers that are not funny, boring, boring, and boring.
But after watching this film, the intuitive feeling is: the laughter point is enough, everywhere is the stem, the point is that the laugh point is the real laugh point, the stem is the real stem, the scene I watched was full, and the laughter almost ran through the whole scene.
According to incomplete statistics, there were 75 laugh points at the screening meeting, and with the number of public screenings, it was expanded, which was equivalent to laughter like a wave, one wave had not subsided, and one wave had invaded.
It is rare to encounter a comedy that makes its own boring spit and has no way to do anything, and suddenly feels, Ma Ya, there is finally a real comedy. So excited, so happy, life is suddenly interesting.
Hurry up and see where the other party is coming from? It turned out to be a misplaced comedy of the exchange of identities between ancient people.
Ma Li and Chang Yuan play a couple of joyful enemies, one is good at hedong lion roaring, and the other is good at obedience.
Li Mao, a young catcher who was strict in his wife's management, was repeatedly unbwarded and was blinded by his father-in-law and mother-in-law at home. Until, of course, he met—another me in the world.
He looked exactly like the prince of the dynasty.
One wants to be promoted to knighthood, one is uninhibited and indulgent in love of freedom, get it, identity swap it.
Next, all kinds of funny famous scenes + plots to foil the villain's conspiracy have come.
The story is complete, there are motives, there are contradictions, there are conflicts, there are climaxes. Most importantly, changing identities, playing misplaced, and borrowing identity differences have become the best source of laughter.
Comedy movies, the most important thing is the "baggage rhythm".
The most heartfelt thing about this film is that the means of shaking the baggage are quite rich, and the main creator really has something.
Jittering bag method one: character relationships are funny.
He Bing said, what is the performance? Character relationships.
That comedy performance, playing a funny character relationship.
The first time Xiao Yu quickly saw his father-in-law and mother-in-law, he still relied on his daughter-in-law to tell a big lie to the family, saying that Li Mao was terminally ill and saw the last one. With your red face, your father-in-law was so angry that he wanted to break off relations with him.
As a result, the two privately spat on the words of the second elder, which was directly amplified by the horn, which was publicly executed.
Yang's mother heard her daughter say that she was "snobbish", and was just about to get angry, Yang Father held her down: "Listen again, it is not wrong." ”
Then the next second, when he heard his daughter say that she was "opening a dart game because of Biao", just about to have a seizure, her mother-in-law held him down: "That's all right, listen to it again." ”
Hahahaha laugh not to live, heartache for a second tool man father-in-law lord.
Jitter baggage technique two: the dramatic situation is funny.
It is said that Li Mao, who was forced by his in-laws to walk without a way, was pointed out to the county order in order to be promoted to "give gifts", and mistakenly hit and rushed into the scene of the villains' Moon Black Wind High conspiracy.
Isn't that nine deaths?
Guess what, "You look at me? After the thrill of look at you, he actually successfully participated in the villain topic with a strong social, and became part of the villain Moon Black Wind Gao's plan to assassinate the prince, of course, from the result, this is the strongest undercover.
This leads directly to the following plot - after Li Mao accidentally fell into the pool where the prince was bathing, he thought that the other party was the assassin's prince and strangled his neck: I am pinching your lifeblood!
Li Mao did not want to show weakness and responded: "I am also pinching your lifeblood."
You two can.
Then there was another scene in the world where I met and I.
This in turn leads to the film's jittery baggage technique three: the dislocation funny caused by "identity swapping".
In order to successfully complete the swap plan, after Li Mao pretended to be a prince, he had to learn how to talk and walk, and Chang Yuan's training of Chang Yuan drove Chang Yuan crazy as a result, and he also had to poke his mouth with that mean whizzing expression, which really laughed at me.
Here, the false prince met the emperor and shouted "Hi" with his mouth open.
Over there, the fake Li Mao met his wife, and he opened his mouth and called him "sister-in-law".
Here fake Li Mao eats wild vegetables porridge every day, facing his sister-in-law's "show of love",
That little look is eight words: Sister-in-law, make it impossible!
Over there, the false prince of the box learned to doubt life every day.
This taste, who sour and refreshing who knows.
JitterIng Technique Four: Funny Lines. The lines are unforgettable.
What "is not a matter of money, give money to do things" "today I can't do things", "even three lights", laugh to earn!
Shake Bag Technique Five: Movie Montage Funny.
There is a hilarious famous scene in the film, when Li Mao told the prince the love story of him and his wife, he directly came to a "sound and painting out of sync", here is about his hero saving the United States, and the film uses the real method of the documentary to restore how Jiazhen saved the dog, and the real scene of Li Mao's blindness.
For another example, the bath scene between Li Mao and the prince is shown in parallel editing, and the two face Li Mao's wife played by Ma Li, switching identities back and forth, successfully creating a comedic effect of falling from the bathtub for a second.
In short, throughout the major film and television works, comedy is not funny has always been the hardest hit area of the overturn, and this film borrows a classic terrier, but from the old terrier to find a new laugh point of Baotu Spring.
In the end, a villain called you to assassinate the prince, you ran to meet another you in the world, the prince let you pretend to be yourself, you pretended to be the brother with the emperor, and finally "I called you brother, you called me uncle" Reversal story.
Simple, pure, brainless, tearful, crow's feet, the film finally succeeded in doing it: since you do comedy, you have to amuse people.
The second taste: Ma Li is often far away on my laughing point, Wei Xiang is stuck on my laughing hole, this lineup is amazing
To say that the matter of making people laugh is definitely technical work, making you laugh for half a day, the audience does not laugh that is a tragedy, you laugh is a comedy. This film is a comedy of laughter.
Technical work must be divided into divisions of labor, the comedians in this film have a clear division of labor, and Chang Yuan plays two roles to support the whole scene with "split" acting skills.
While playing the nest bag but love to brag about the fast catcher Li Mao, while playing the little arrogant prince of the dynasty.
The front foot is still a weak chicken that is squeezed out of the unit at home, and the back foot is changed to the identity of the prince to walk extremely pompously, laughing until the audience wants to hammer people.
Ma Li is an action comedy bearer, and the lines, expressions and actions are all terriers everywhere.
Being slashed by Chang Yuan with a hand knife to the neck and not moving, he just prepared to practice with Li Mao, who was dressed as a prince, and the action of comparing for half a day was quite domineering, so domineering that he wrung himself out of his white eyes and fainted.
In the face of the reaction of the two Chang Yuan, the theater has once again become an ocean of joy, and the queen of comedy is indeed strong.
This pair of CPs are the two cornerstones of the entire film. But the cornerstone is not enough to summarize the whole movie, because there are also colorful supporting characters.
Allen played chang yuan's father-in-law Ma Li's father-in-law this time, facing the current prince he thought it was Li Mao, snatched the prince's fan, and also knocked the prince's head with the fan, this father land is also quite biao.
Wei Xiang played an arrogant emperor and prince, and the majesty was quite majestic, and as soon as he appeared on the scene, he met Li Mao, who had just learned to stand up and be a prince after special training.
Li Mao's way of greeting is very modern: "Hey, I'm the prince", Wei Xiangmian does not change color and live, "otherwise"?
Li Mao was instigated in the second, "The grass people see Your Majesty." Wei Xiang continued to live without changing his face, "You are going to break off relations with me", hahahahaha it is true that the emperor abused him a thousand times, and he treated the emperor as if he had seen him for the first time.
Every time Wei Xiang appeared, I sighed in my heart that the emperor was too difficult, and the emperor was not yet angry to death, which was really the eighth miracle of the royal family's survival.
The contractor foreman played by Song Xiaobao is also iconic and funny, and the bargain with Li Mao's modified theater building is not counted, and he also snatched Li Mao's money box and ran away, hahahahaHa the whole theater is happy again.
The tragic supporting roles of Stephen Chow's comedies before were often the source of comedy. This time we saw the unlucky supporting characters of the Star Lord comedy brushing the screen.
The unlucky killer played by Zhang Zidong is really the more tragic his role, the happier the audience is, especially the killer organization's role in the code, which directly leads to the childhood divine comedy, and the resonance is the degree of the inner chorus of the whole theater.
There is also the "King of Jiji" Liu Guanlin and Ximen Pvp who finally died together hahahahaha.
The iconic wild shape of Geng Nursing Home in "Son-in-law", the reproduction of "Wolong Phoenix Chick", and the classic "which dish is salty" of Jiabao are also absolute!
Each supporting role is responsible for shaking out the right baggage in different rhythms and with their own performance methods.
The whole staff is funny and bursting, and the joy is in one go.
Such a comedy group like performance is enough to taste.
The third taste: the reality of life this bowl of porridge, is to laugh and drink to have good luck
The reason why the former Chinese New Year comedy is good is because it gives the creators the freedom to do things out of the blue.
The funny thing about this film is that it continues this whimsical beauty.
But freedom, if there is no limit, becomes wanton spoofing and bottomless funny, which is actually more boring.
And "Li Mao Dressed as a Prince" is good, the comedic elements of the film are very solid and grounded.
Although it is a costume comedy, it reflects reality everywhere.
Li Mao encountered a variety of modern people in the situation: gifts to the leader do not receive, at home there is no right to speak, want to have children without money dare not have children, mid-life crisis came early.
Just refracting reality is nothing, the most important thing is reflection.
Li Mao and the prince are like people who are dissatisfied with reality, but when they achieve their initial goal, they find that they actually jumped into another cage, just like the prince said to Li Mao, you and I are all ants, but I am an ant with a higher status.
Li Mao pretended to be the crown prince, but was forced to go to the neck hanging beam cone to stab the stock, so that the official Shangshu quickly arranged for Li Mao to be promoted to a pin, but the official Shangshu said that he was also only a second pin. The official still did not rise.
The prince was freed, but he could not escape the pursuit and killing caused by the prince's identity. Still not free.
When the story reaches the finale, the film also takes the audience to complete a life reflection, and it turns out that living in the present and laughing in the present is the most precious.
Li Mao was once afraid of his wife, but in fact, he also enjoyed the other party's Hedong lion roar. Strong women and weak men can still live in harmony and happiness.
The crown prince and the emperor "torture each other", but the starting point is love.
Life is a reversal of all kinds of upheavals, but it may not be impossible to harvest a happy ending.
After watching the movie, some viewers left a message saying that the first comedy this year watched "Li Mao Dressed as a Prince" and "laughed happily to please himself." ”
I really understand this mood.
The epidemic is repeated, life is changing, the first sentence of the media's New Year's message is difficult, but after such a difficult year, it is even more necessary to have a relaxed, decompressing and happy movie.
Because comedy that makes you laugh from the heart is the best luck in life.
Bidding farewell to 2021, no one knows what kind of story will be in their own lives this year. But at least, at this moment, we can laugh strongly in the theater.
And the drama of life may start from this new year's laughter, laughing and laughing, good luck is another year.