Recently, jia bing, Liu Hua and other starring costume sitcom "doctor is medicine two is two" ended, coupled with the same type of drama "Washe Jianghu" broadcast during the Spring Festival, costume sitcom has a recovery trend. These two dramas invariably "imitate" or "pay tribute" to the classic drama "Wulin Waichuan", but the quality of the works is far from the latter level. Everyone misses classic costume sitcoms, but such good dramas are really encounterable and unattainable.
Can't get around "The Tale of Wulin""Doctor is Medicine Two is Two" tells a face-saving, flickering Northeast master brother Li Xiaolu, with a group of "big hero brothers and disciples", all the way to Juxian Street in Xiaoyao Town, determined to kill a new world, did not expect yin and yang mistakes, martial arts hall to become medical hall, "big hero" to become "doctor" of the funny story. The main story line includes the "Kanto Gate" brother revitalizing the Gate Sect KaiWuguan, as well as the funny emotional line of Li Shizhen, the head of the Gate Sect played by Liu Hua, Li Xiaolu played by Jia Bing, Xu Erniang of Juxian Street, and Niu Yang Pigeon Mother and Daughter.
If you compare "Medicine is Medicine II is Ii" with "Wulin Wai Biao", you will find that "Doctor Is Doctor II is II" actually follows many of the creative rules of the classic work "Wulin Wai Biao", and is a new creation within the narrative framework of the latter.
The character setting of "Doctor is Doctor Two is Two" is the story of a group of "jianghu factions" and widowed bosses and their daughters, and there are also a large group of cameo characters in the play, who are also supporting characters with different characteristics and different funny functions. Characters who constantly "fall from the sky" construct a fragmented but fresh comedy plot of the whole play. For example, murong suozhu, an uninvited visitor, has the body of King Kong that is not bad, the life of the five thunderbolts that is not injured, for thousands of years it is impossible to die, and to come to the medical center is to seek death, he has been "unable to die", and he is about to drive the Brothers of the Guandong Gate Master crazy.
Like "The Tale of Wulin", the core of "Medicine is Medicine II is Two" is also a kind of dissolution of the "great hero spirit" and "Wulin Jianghu". In the play, the funny process of the Kanto brothers changing from "hero" to "doctor" is itself very dramatic. The Kanto Gate Divine Gong secret book "No Two Classics" was originally an important tool for Li Xiaolu to defeat the villain Uncle Shi to reshape the image of the "Great Hero", but it was played badly, and "The No Two Classics" was replaced by a non-nutritious and domineering president Wen Chuanjianghu, under the brainwashing of many inferior novels, some people went crazy.
The first half of "Doctor is Medicine Two is Two" deconstructs some sacred things in the martial arts jianghu, and some plots are also funny, but the second half of the play finally makes the male protagonist Li Xiaolu become a hero with Gestapo martial arts and open a martial arts hall. The front of the play is like a sitcom, and the back is like a normal costume comedy.
"Doctor is Medicine Two is Two" also presents a platter-style language style. In the play, the characters sing two-person turns and sing allegro books at every turn, using a line to say that "swallows make nests, all by one mouth". "The right way in the world is vicissitudes, and you can't be too arrogant" and other old terrier lines are very many, which are imitations of "The Legend of Wulin". The character played by Li Chengru also reproduced the classic scene of "Six Groups of Serious Cases", as well as lines such as "like a fish in the throat, like a needle felt, like a man stabbing the back".
Sun Bo, the screenwriter of "Doctor is Doctor Two is Two", is a northeast comedy creator, serving as an assistant director, acting as a screenwriter, and participating in works such as "Country Love" series, "Three Rush Case Surprises", "Veteran", etc., so that the language style of this work has a strong northeast regional color. The drama will gather Jia Bing, Liu Hua, Sun Tao, Li Chengru, Wang Ning, Jiang Shimeng and other comedians, from the perspective of the play only selected comedians to play the main characters, the producer really wants to create a new work that inherits the classic comedy, but helplessly this drama is still in the plot, lines, terriers, character design, actor performances and other aspects of the lack of fire, failed to explode.
Sitcoms are demanding on screenwritersAfter "The Tale of Wulin", the audience's aesthetic standards for costume sitcoms have been very high, and new works can not escape being compared with them.
The recent costume sitcom "Washe Jianghu", starring deokyunshe cross-talk actors, has also been compared with "The Legend of Wulin". The character structure and story direction of "Washe Jianghu" actually have no similarities with "Wulin Wai biao". The story of "Washe Jianghu" unfolds with the emperor of the current dynasty concealing his identity as a member of the Washe guy, and there are many jokes in his brain. The drama takes Washe as the background, cross-talk, opera, counting treasure and other folk traditional music and arts run through it, Meng Hetang played by Lanling singing "Fenhe Bay", "Huaihe Camp" and other classic opera excerpts, each episode of the pre-plot review in the form of traditional music art "counting treasure", the cross-talk in the play is also reflected in many.
Presenting traditional cultural elements and "national tide" elements in the work is the practice of many costume dramas at present, which is worthy of affirmation, but "Washe Jianghu" is actually somewhat similar to the variety show "Deyun Dou Laughing Society", more like a comedy work customized for fans, it is a modern funny drama dressed in costumes, many laugh points are actually very awkward, and many terriers are still very vulgar, suitable for young audiences with low laugh points and spoof style.
"Doctor is a doctor two is two" is the creation of traditional costume sitcoms, the lines have a certain degree of excitement, but the wonderful lines are not dense enough; the main character settings in the play, so that the personality complements each other and the styles are different, but it cannot be compared with "Wulin WaiChuan", and the overall attention of the "six-person protagonist group" is not enough. "Doctor is Doctor Two is Two" The audience positioning age group is high, which also affects the spread of the play.
Audiences are nostalgic for "The Tale of Wulin" every year, and it can be said that the costume sitcom market still exists. The platform invested in the filming of "Doctor is Doctor TWO" and "Washe Jianghu", which also saw this demand from the audience, but high-quality costume sitcoms like "Wulin Waichuan" can be encountered and not sought. "Doctor is Doctor Two is Two" may also be a script that the screenwriter has been grinding for many years, but the traditional cultural content of the lines of this drama, the content of contemporary popular culture, the content of "network play terriers", and the creation of personalized lines of characters are not dense enough, not enjoyable enough, and the digestion and reconstruction of these cultures are not very eye-catching.
The costume sitcom "The Tale of Wulin" is thriving, and this kind of drama has not been able to develop, mainly because there is no soil for its development. This type of drama must have both laughter and depth, and the requirements for screenwriters are extremely high, while comedy screenwriters in the film and television circle are scarce in themselves. It can be seen from the starring of the elderly actors in "Doctor is Doctor Two is Two" that comedians are also very scarce, and sitcoms need to have their own performance characteristics, rhythm and stage sense, this kind of training is difficult to achieve overnight, and actors need to work hard.
"Doctor is Medicine Two is Two" and "Washe Jianghu" are actually an attempt by the platform for costume sitcoms, the former is more traditional, the latter pursues rejuvenation, although they have not been able to explode, but let the audience see that costume sitcoms have not died, and creators continue to devote themselves to such works. Only if such works do not die out, can we talk about slow recovery.