"This killer is not too calm" This movie is really the dark horse of this year's Spring Festival file, first invisibly reducing expectations, the result is a word of mouth, and now the total box office has broken 1.8 billion!
The film is adapted from Japan's 2008 word-of-mouth work "Magic Moment", and has a lot in common with "The King of Comedy", both of which use "dragon set actors" as an entry point.
A dragon set Wei Chenggong (Wei Xiang), who loves acting, has been given the first male protagonist in his life - the killer.
He thought that his career as an actor was finally affirmed and his dream was finally realized, but in fact, it was a ridiculous scam.
According to jianghu legend, the whereabouts of "Killer Carl" are unknown, but because no one has seen Carl, Wei Chenggong has become a fake Carl. And because of his obsession with the play, the person who hired him told him that this was a special shot that used hidden cameras and daily lights to operate, you just have to play Carl well, and nothing else.
Everyone knew it was a desperate mission, but he didn't know that he was actually an unlucky egg. Wei Successfully did his best to play this male protagonist for the first time as the last. Fake Carl is circling between the two forces, and Miss Milan (Ma Li) is afraid of his acting, but still tries to convince the gang that he is Carl;
The other side, as a gangster, does not know that this is a fake killer, and tries to make him do what the killer should do, with his head tied to the waistband of his pants. And Wei Chenggong, as a drama maniac, is true and false, and between the two forces, there are many flaws but many jokes, and each time he perfectly pulls his own life back from the brink of being killed, and saves himself.
If you compare carefully, you will find that Wei Chenggong and Yin Tianqiu belong to the same kind of people, in prison, crazy for drama, even if they can only play the role of the dragon set, they will show 100% enthusiasm and concentration, even if they die, they will die differently from others. Because of this, both are abandoned.
Some of the bridges are really good, whether it is a tribute to the song and dance fragments of "Song in the Rain" or the use of the music "Genius Idiot's Dream", they are very good, and what is valuable is that these bridges are very well connected with the plot, and there is no embarrassment at all. And these fan film bridges also tighten the core theme of the film to inspire the majority of filmmakers not to forget their original intentions.
The real most critical factor for success or failure is Wei Xiang, the protagonist' actor.
Wei Xiang, who was born in 1979, joined the military literary and industrial troupe at the age of 21, re-studied after retiring, and was admitted to the 03 higher vocational class of the Beijing Film Academy in 2003, insisting on interpreting his dream.
After that, Wei Xiang met Bole Shen Teng and Peng Damo in his acting career, thinking that this would become famous overnight, no, during which he has been playing inconspicuous cameos in dramas and TV series, but every time Wei Xiang seriously speculates on the role - even if the role is small, the audience still remembers it.
For example, in "The Richest Man in Xihong", the coach of three mouths and a pig, the mayor of Wei Village who speaks bad Russian in "My Hometown and Me", the field worker holding the yin and yang of the teapot in "Hello, Li Huanying", the giant Mao in "Joyful Secret Agent"...
Wei Xiang's love of acting and his outstanding talent for comedy fully explain a typical supporting role life: there are no small roles, only small actors, as long as they come with their hearts, everywhere is the stage.
This time Wei Xiang's acting skills are really good, the male protagonist Wei successfully played vividly, perhaps from the plot point of view, the script of the whole movie is not so good, but Wei Xiang's acting skills are enough to support the whole movie, if it is replaced by someone else to act, perhaps the effect will be much worse, but this movie, with Wei Xiang's appearance, has become, even if it is not called how top-notch excellent, at least in the domestic comedy film, can occupy a place, and is excellent that seat.
For example, he runs the dragon set to play the soldier who was shot, the actors around him are shot directly to the ground, he prefers to design the prehistory of the role, and he looks back and smiles before falling to the ground, the director is completely speechless by him, and he still vigorously pulls on his performance concepts that sound ridiculous but he believes in;
When he first played "Male No. 1", the top killer he played was originally taciturn and calm, but Wei successfully tried his best to add drama to himself, and few top killers were so "broken-mouthed", and the strong contrast between the two created a strong laugh...
In addition to the professional ability of the actors themselves, there is also a sincerity. That song in the rain seems to see the actor's first self and second self merge into one, it is Wei Chenggong and Wei Xiang, and it is the dream that shines into reality. Therefore, when the truth comes out and Wei Chenggong gets deeper and deeper in the scam, and then plays a life soon, the audience will feel heart-wrenching;
Milan scolded Wei for his poor acting skills, and he sat lost on the broken bridge on the seashore, looking at the crabs struggling to climb to the shore, and he suddenly forgot his sadness to cheer the crabs. I can't remember exactly which clip it looked like, but the atmosphere and the feeling of Wei Xiang's performance really reminded me of the feeling of watching the king of comedy at that time, and that loss was not only sadness, but also helplessness of ambition.
In this way, the joy he brings to us is even more precious, because behind it is a person's lifelong dream.
When Wei Xiang held a bouquet of flowers in the closing tidbit of "This Killer Is Not Calm" to deliver his speech, I couldn't tell for a moment that he was really crying, or was still in the play.
Because the sentence he said: "Thank you for helping me complete the first male protagonist in my life" is precisely the inner monologue of the character Wei Chenggong in the play.
Inside and outside the play, Wei Chenggong and Wei Xiang became the same person: an old actor who held a huge passion for performance and ran a dragon suit for more than ten years, but was always considered unable to carry the banner. In middle age, he was finally remembered.
Today, when the relationship between Happy Twist and Shen Teng is becoming more and more delicate, Wei Xiang reflects the potential of Shen Teng's successor. Like Shen Teng, he has the characteristics of a comedian, that is, even if he does not speak with a simple few expressions, he can make people laugh.
After watching "Killer", even Shen Teng sighed: "Wei Xiang made me feel the real threat. In the future, the viewing standard of twist flowers is no longer 'containing teng', but 'containing xiang'. ”
Hopefully, this is the beginning of his soaring skyrocket.