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Ten years less, I haven't seen a decent sitcom. Knowing that the post-00s are also holding the rough picture quality of "I Love My Home" and "Wulin Wai Biography" to continue their lives, lamenting that they missed that golden age at the same time, I have a big question in my heart, is the sitcom really falling?
On May 22, the Oriental Satellite TV comedy variety show "Start broadcasting! "Sitcom" was launched, and like the middle-aged men who watched Wang Xinling sing, there were many people who saw the four words of "sitcom" laughing and opening up one by one.
Yingda, Li Chengru, Gao Yalin and Sha Yi sat in the chief advisory seat, and six initiators Shang Jing, Yang Chaoyue, Wang Zulan, Xiao Shenyang, Li Xueqin, and Wang Qiuyu led 30+ comedians to form six crews, which will take turns in the show.
"Broadcast! Sitcom Advisory Board
It's just that in addition to the "Beijing faction", "Hong Kong style" and "Northeast Gang", the lack of Local Sitcoms in Shanghai is regrettable, after all, some Shanghai-Pai works have also been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, no wonder some audience comment area protests: "Is Shanghai local sitcom not worthy?!" But anyone who had a little bit of "Black Tea House", "Old Lady Uncle", "Happy Apartment" and other cast members of the year, I would not be so angry. ”
This has only been broadcast for one episode, whether the familiar faces of Shanghai can appear or not is unknown, and in terms of the audience's resentment, it is also caused by the expectation of the show.
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Comedy is still just needed.
With last year's popular "Annual Comedy Competition", the audience's judgment of comedy variety shows is obviously more stringent than before, and every face on the stage is not alarmed: "It is difficult to laugh at us!" ”
But who said that variety shows can't come out of good comedy, Jia Ling's box office champion movie "Hello, Li Huanying" is also born out of the stage of comedy variety shows. Therefore, after the twelve programs, whether or not to leave a work that can withstand the test of the times is the focus.
After the first episode was broadcast, it caused a hot discussion. In the opening round, Yang Chao's "Family with Sisters" pk Shang Jing led the team's "Salary Theater", and the comedy rookie actually defeated the sitcom boss with one punch.
Stills from "Home with Sisters"
"Family with Sisters" begins with the family problems of Lao Fang (Fan Ming), the eldest daughter Fang Hong (Played by Ni Hongjie) has a son and a daughter, but the career strong woman does not come home all day, and the younger daughter Direction (played by Yang Chaoyue) is a self-media master who stays at home all day.
"Salary Theater" began when Wen Salary (Han Jiunuo) spent the money her parents used to invest in her homestay to establish a salary theater, as the boss, screenwriter and actress, she is facing a financing failure and gang crisis...
Stills from "Salary Theater"
Leaving aside the work, Yang Chaoyue talked about the "label" problem of sitcoms, which was quite good.
Yingda said that after acting in sitcoms, it may be necessary to carry this "label" for a lifetime, yang chao said calmly, "Yang chao" this label is already very heavy, there is a new role label to replace, it is not a good thing. Her frank communication made Li Chengru, who has always been unforgiving, not hesitate to praise her, praising her as "the future of sitcoms", shocking everyone.
On the other hand, the Shang Jing group faced a large area of questions on the scene of "too high expectations, more disappointments", and yingda, who finally voted, twisted and said that Shang Jing was brought out by himself, and he certainly did not want to see the random punch kill the teacher, but he could only objectively and fairly (according to the effect of the scene) personally send the Shang Jing group to the final seat.
Interestingly, after watching the performance of the Shang Jing group, Gao Yalin and Sha Yi did not hesitate to praise the words, and were also criticized by the audience for being "sophisticated", while Li Chengru's "disappointment with Shang Jing" was called the qingliu existence that dared to tell the truth.
Li Chengru's blunt words
"I hope to find Yao Chen and Yan Ni who belong to this era, and take the newcomers without regret." Shang Jing responded after the performance.
It is said that in 2005, "Wulin Wai biography" was planned to shoot, originally wanted to let Yingda direct, but Yingda did not even finish reading the script, directly refused: "This is not a sitcom at all, joke about classic things, even the logic is not clear, fooling around." Unexpectedly, after the drama was broadcast, the fire was highly sought after by young people, and Indah regretted that his intestines were blue, but he also admitted that he could not shoot this effect.
Therefore, it is indeed arbitrary to judge based on the content of one episode alone, whether "Salary Theater" has this longevity gene, and indeed it needs to be seen again, but the audience's feelings are also hard-hitting, and the first episode is indeed not much baggage, which can only be regarded as a pre-plot summary.
Shang Jing also strongly said that the creation of sitcoms should pay more attention to the whole, rather than blindly pursuing "bursting stems", hoping that everyone should not be in a hurry, give sitcoms a little time, and patiently taste.
You see, this is exactly the point where the relationship between the market and sitcom creation is broken. At the same time, it also throws the creator a question, can the patience of the audience and the quality of the work really be directly proportional?
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Looking back at the strengths and losses of the two works.
First of all, the script setting: "Family with Sisters" innate characters "good looks", different ages, different personalities of beautiful sister flower setting, itself will derive a lot of social frontier topics about women, worry about the father's joining, the identity of the guy, and more family intergenerational problems, "Family with Sisters" has a very good character structure, no wonder Gao Yalin will directly ask: "Do you want to pay tribute to "Family with Children" and "Bankrupt Sisters"? ”
On the other hand, the script of "Salary Theater" is the theme setting of "the double life that young people want to live", which seems to have more room for change in the later stage. The first issue does not focus on the point is not clear, parents, ex-boyfriend, the father of the gold lord, relying on a mobile phone to show the relevant links of the heroine are slightly smooth, plus there are many characters, but the personality characteristics are blurred, after three times and four shakes, the baggage is not very loud, but it seems to be a little too strong.
Stills from "Salary Theater"
However, after watching the afterword of the show, I learned about the difficulties of director Shang Jing, temporarily changed the female lead role, and added the role to hope that a bowl of water was flat, which also explained it.
In terms of performance, several actors in "Family with Sisters" are famous stars, and the acting skills of the performance single are remarkable, and Yang Chaoyue is indeed eye-catching. Star affinity can add points to the role, but it is also a double-edged sword, Fan Ming and Ni Hongjie stand together, it is difficult not to think of Xing Catching Head and Zhu Wushuang...
This scene is familiar...
The disadvantage is that the actors together somewhat lack tacit understanding, because the details of the performance are too little processing, resulting in the living conditions between family members are not enough. This old Fang family, which is like a "temporary formation", also needs to be carefully polished in the performance, and if it can be adjusted in time in the later performance, it is not too much of a problem.
On the contrary, "Salary Theater" uses newcomers, the advantage is that it is easy to integrate with the character role, the disadvantage is that if you want to stand the character, then every character in the play must pass the acting skills, the actor can be new, the role can not be new. Once a supporting character destroys the boundary, then the entire drama may be ruined at any time, but the risk is higher.
But Shang Jing's ability to direct is still worth waiting for. Before in the "Wulin Wai Biography", Shang Jing's control of the rhythm style was somewhat unexpected, initially the actors were not very receptive to the requirements of Director Shang Jing, normal actors between the play, to have a reaction before speaking lines, this is also the normal performance of people in normal life, but Shang Jing asked the actor to speed up the rhythm, even do not need to react, directly read the words, he repeatedly on the scene: "Pick up and hurry up!" "These abnormal performance methods, coupled with the gong and drum point BGM of "Wulin Waichuan", I have to say that the unique performance style of "Wulin Waichuan" has been formed, and when dozens of episodes have been broadcast, these characters have planted grass in your heart, and you don't feel strange how crazy they are.
Finally, there is the sense of atmosphere, and both scripts are actually lacking. The sense of atmosphere between the characters is closely related to the relaxation of the actors themselves and the tacit understanding between the opponent actors, and I even think that this is particularly important.
For example, if a person has lived in this home for three years and lived in this home for three days, the sense of atmosphere is completely different, you are the only one in the family and there are three people in the family, and the sense of atmosphere is different.
In "I Love My Home", you can often see this sense of atmosphere that seems to be natural. I remember that it was probably such a scene, when Fu Ming, the retired old bureau chief played by Wen Xingyu, discussed things at home as usual, while the little nanny played by Shen Chang concentrated on dragging the ground and dragging it to the old bureau chief, the little nanny did not stop, and the old bureau chief could not stop but immediately raised his legs. This is the sense of atmosphere created by the two actors, convincing the audience that one is the little nanny in the house and the other is the owner living in the house.
Those actors who can really treat theatrical scenes as real scenes of life will surely reflect the scenes more realistically. Yang Di once broke the news in an interview, the crew of "Wulin Waichuan" is very shabby, the well is particularly fake, there is no room on the second floor, after the performance goes upstairs, everyone will be crowded behind, he then sighed, "Such a group of people have been in Pinggu for eight months, and now there is not much such a creative spirit." ”
"Broadcast! After all, "Sitcom" is a competitive variety show, and it is still very different from the actual recording of sitcoms.
Fan Ming also posted on Weibo: "Although the sitcom was moved to the stage, there was a real-life cut on the scene, there was a scene allocation, and through some technical means, it did not lose the character of the sitcom." Particularly exciting is also the early stage of the competition form, is not to interrupt like a drama in one go, before shooting sitcoms have not been in this form, may be the charm of variety shows, in fact, I also raised doubts to the program team, but do not deny, so that the performance can have more vivid things to show. ”
In short, it can only be said that the requirements of variety show competitions for the creators will be higher.
Stills from "Home with Sisters"
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As the first person in China's sitcom, Yingda has also explained why sitcoms are gradually withering away, because sitcoms are not cost-effective, the investment cycle is long, the script requirements are high, and filming needs to be filmed and television shots.
For the pickiness of the script, you can look back at the premiere of "I Love My Home" in 1993. At that time, the society's evaluation of this divine drama was very polarized, such as "boring", "not into the stream", "satirical cadres" and other comments were not in the minority, was rated as "the worst TV series of the year", after 6 episodes of Beijing Television, it was once stopped broadcasting.
From the perspective of creation, whether it is from "I Love My Family" that focuses on the big family, "Family with Children" that focuses on the reorganization of the family, "Idle Centaur Sister" that pays attention to the community family, or is no longer limited to "family" and expands to more background sitcom themes such as military barracks, cities, and even overhead history, you will find that "parents are short" and "interpersonal relationships" are still the core emotional writing foundation.
Here's perhaps the general inner OS of viewers watching classic sitcoms:
"His (her) life is really a failure! Not as good as me, hahahahaha! ”
"His or her handling of this is really bad (so brave)!"
Unsatisfactory than in real life + amazing treatment of the ideal state = the audience's inner resonance, so as to achieve the purpose of the character taking root in the audience's heart, the privilege of the sitcom to accompany the character to grow, and finally return to the audience.
In an interview with Johnny Galtsch, the star of The Big Bang Theory, when asked what kind of audience the show's audience belonged to, his answer was that there was no clear region or age limit. "I usually hear people say that these characters are the same as my children, and others say that these characters are like my great-grandfather, it feels great, it's so close to life!" 」
And asked why the show is popular? His answer should be what all sitcom creations are worth noting: "This play is very touching when it is not funny, it is really touching, and these characters have a common weakness, that is, the general public believes that they are outsiders, they are losers, and this is something that ordinary people will resonate with." ”
Although "Start Airing! "Sitcom" appears in the form of a variety show, but it is really recommended that creators still treat it with stricter standards of drama. Relying only on the explosion of large dense funny lines is not the highest level of sitcoms, I prefer to rely on the character plot to advance to the extreme humor, even if you don't speak, the embarrassing ground can make the audience laugh for a few minutes.
In short, the basis of everything is still the vivid characters created in the solid script.
Variety shows have editing effects and preset topics, and the reality show part is not evaluated for the time being. After the hilarity, the final sitcom still has to return to the market comprehensive judgment, but the big cake of the comedy market is no longer something that can be eaten if you want to eat. Only in the hot talk show, all kinds of star comedy variety shows, and internet celebrity short video funny paragraphs, really spell out a road to the sky, such a sitcom, is the real "complete victory".
Editor-in-charge: Cheng Yu
Proofreader: Shi Gong