Counting the comedy memes in "Exchange Life", it must be admitted that comedy is always just needed

"Big Head" Lei Jiayin teamed up "Our Mother" Zhang Xiaofei, "Exchange Life" released on the first day of the New Year, from the trailer to the poster renders a strong family comedy flavor, which can be called the most suitable movie for a family to watch together during the Spring Festival, and finally warmed up this winter.

Looking at the box office of 80 million pre-sales, it must be admitted that comedy will always be a rigid need in the film market.

Especially in this Spring Festival file when several tens of billions of actors have switched to the main drama, "Exchange Life" strives to make the audience laugh with three axes of fantasy comedy - character terriers, plot terriers, and line terriers!

Character terriers

1. Contrasting personality

From Stephen Chow's comedy to Happy Twist in recent years, all comedies from daily life must have a goddess role, she must stand up beautiful, and she can shake off face, and the key character "30+ sister" Jin Hao in "Exchange Life" is such a character.

As soon as Jin Haoyi appeared, his wavy long hair, exquisite makeup, temperament steps also came with BGM, and anyone who saw it couldn't help but praise "beauty".

She herself even used the topic to ruffle her hair - and then her hair was twisted on the button, looking embarrassed.

Finally passed through the crowd, Jin Hao shouted "to be late" step across the five steps, the beautiful goddess became helpless in seconds, and finally rushed into the classroom at the last second, only to be scolded by the supervisor to the point of blood.

With just a few details, sending the seemingly tall heroine back to life itself is both a comedy routine and a narrative efficiency.

2. Comedy CP

Although it is the first time that "Big Head" Lei Jiayin teamed up with "Our Mother" Zhang Xiaofei, from the trailer to the main film, the two have a serious and funny interpretation method, and they do have the fun of a life sketch.

You know, not only Zhang Xiaofei, who is experienced in the Spring Festival Gala, has shined in the comedy industry with "Hello, Li Huanying", but Lei Jiayin has also collaborated with Tong Liya in the fantasy romantic comedy "Time and Space Cohabitation", and the two have always flowed a funny gene of urban light comedy.

Even without CP fans, the atmosphere and scale they look like are still just right.

3. The little people counterattack

Throughout Chinese comedies, works that can successfully come out of the circle must return the camera to small people, and "Exchange Life" directly turns the protagonist of the story into a "child" - Xiao Gu, who has just turned eighteen.

Because of his crush on Jin's good sister, Xiaotani has always dreamed of becoming her boyfriend, but after stepping into the adult world by chance, he found that difficulties, temptations and choices were not as easy as he imagined, and he also found his own right place in it.

Such a standard four-act drama structure is not only the cornerstone of the laughing point, but also the trajectory of the character's counterattack.

Plot memes

1. Soul exchange

From the Japanese anime "Your Name" to Happy Twist's use of "Iron Fist of Shame", soul swapping is a story topic born with joy, especially the gender swap, there are many details that can be mined both physically and psychologically.

But what about switching to identity instead of focusing on gender?

What if you get rid of the cliché plot of inevitable love and re-examine two different lives?

Zhongda, a cold-blooded lawyer who is lustful and unscrupulous in order to achieve his ends, has never put anyone in his eyes, and he and Jin Hao are just blind dates to get a bank card for money laundering.

Eager for freedom and hoping to jump into the emergence of a teenager who has a life to adventure, he silently has a crush on Jin Hao's sister, and after discovering that Zhongda is a scumbag, he chases after him, just to bring justice to the goddess.

The uncle's worldliness, meeting the blood of a teenager, what will happen when the two souls are exchanged, naturally becomes the most interesting attraction of this collision of good and evil.

2. Age gap

Do 30+ sisters like teenagers or uncles?

This is not only a hot topic in the current society, but also the temptation that young Xiaogu proposed to Jin Hao after he became his uncle Zhongda.

And this question points to another plot setting of "Exchange Life" - the age gap.

When Zhongda accidentally turned into Xiao Gu, he hid in the body of an eighteen-year-old boy who had seen the sinister heart, and listened to his parents' nagging, and the starring Zhang Youhao needed to use his youthful appearance to interpret maturity and worldliness, even cold-blooded and murderous.

When Xiao Gu's soul wears barrister Zhongda, he has no intention of wandering in the adult world, what "office murder scene", "gentleman dating goddess", Lei Jiayin must inject a simple youthful atmosphere into the superficially mature role.

This is not only interesting in the plot setting, but also puts forward higher requirements for the ability of the actors.

Line stalk

1. Homophonic terrier

Although "homophonic terriers are to deduct money", it is still a kind of line art that audiences buy the most.

For example, when Xiao Gu got the magical game console to make a wish, he hesitated because of hesitation, so he really became a big "goose" on the spot, and the same dilemma was repeated in Zhongda, which really made the audience laugh out of "goose".

Although such a homophonic meme does not have much ingenuity in it, this kind of "goose to goose" cheerfulness can throw just the right amount of laughter in the frequency of rapid switching of the camera.

2. Comedy dialect

In recent years, the film industry has begun to popularize the "Northeast Renaissance", even if it is used in crime themes, Northeast dialect has a unique comedy gene surging.

In "Exchange of Life", too, Jin Hao enlightened Zhongda, who was pierced by Xiaogu's soul, to release pressure on the rooftop, saying that Northeasterners shout "roll calves", Beijingers shouted "play", asked where Zhongda was, and Xiaogu directly reported his address "Inner Mongolia Xilin Gol League Taifu Temple Flag", which was also a dialect joke cut into the trailer.

And hidden behind the dialect, there is also the Xiaogu family who moved to Shanghai from the north because of the TV series "Shanghai Beach", and their Northeast dialect that comes out from time to time always immerses the story in a relaxed and humorous atmosphere.

3. Refers to mulberry scolding locust

Comedy movies also have a kind of joke that is not tired of playing, that is, it refers to Sang scolding Huai, scolding this person on the surface, but actually scolding that person's line operation, but it can cause a lot of misunderstandings.

For example, in order to make Jin Hao hate Zhongda, Xiaogu tasted the lobster in the hotel when the two were dating - the two beards were greasy and wore clothes with so many pleats, and Jin Hao just combed an oily hair style and a red pleated skirt, and properly bumped the "Lobster Sister Flower".

Although "Exchange of Life" mainly focuses on the first half of the laughter, there is a problem of adjusting the focus of the story from the perspective of love to the perspective of family, and the protagonist's story is obviously not finished, but as a Spring Festival family fun, the laughter concocted by soul exchange is still very kind, and it also allows the audience to experience through the perspective of an eighteen-year-old teenager that in the face of a life that cannot be repeated at will, only by cherishing the family can we be truly happy!

This is the "exchange of life" between Xiaogu and Zhongda, and it is also a strange "exchange" journey that makes the audience hilarious and a warm fable about love, responsibility and family.