This Spring Festival, Shen Teng is hot again.
In the theater, starring in the new film "Manjiang Hong" of the National Teacher, he showed his skills.
On TV, starred in the Spring Festival Gala sketch "Pit", which received many praises.
Some netizens even said that this is the only program worth watching this year's Spring Festival Gala.
This sketch satirizing the "lying flat cadre" has a high degree of baggage completion, a low embarrassment index, and a satirical effect.
Placed on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, it is indeed eye-catching enough.
However, this sketch reminds many netizens of an old domestic movie.
There are many similarities between the two in terms of content and structure.
Uncle Yu immediately picked up this old movie and watched it.
Unexpectedly, although the film is old, it is not outdated in the present.
Whether it is the comedic effect or the degree of irony, it is full of surprises.
Today, Uncle Yu will come to kown to everyone——
"Before the arrival of the new director"
This story also stems from the appointment of a new director.
The head of the Niu Section of the General Affairs Section began the greeting work early.
Arrange for his subordinates to repair the new director's office.
At this time, Xiao Su, who managed the materials, found that all the ashes (cement) in the bureau were piled up in the backyard.
The room that used to store the ashes is now the new director's office.
Xiao Su did not understand:
There is no director's office in the bureau, so why install another one?
And what about the original office?
It has been transformed into the Office of the General Services Section.
Chief Niu attaches great importance to the work of "office decoration".
Workers are required to hand over work in the afternoon.
It's too late, and it doesn't matter if you give more money.
To meet the new director, the head of the Niu section is not short of money.
But when people asked to repair the staff dormitory, it became that there was no budget.
The next day, the head of the cattle section arrived at the unit early.
At this time, thunder had begun outside.
Xiao Su was worried about the damage to the ash, and anxiously found the head of the cow section.
But Section Chief Niu completely ignored her and wanted to go out to personally urge the furniture that had not yet been sent - the furniture placed in the director's office.
So anxious that Xiao Su cried.
The old Zhong, an employee, came to find Chief Niu for the purpose of repairing the dormitory, but Chief Niu was not there.
He asked Lao Li of the General Affairs Section to help him relay it, saying that he had found a boss Zhang to repair the dormitory and needed to negotiate the price with the General Affairs Section.
If the General Services Section still does not agree, the staff pays for it themselves.
At the same time, a person came down from the bus stop, he was the new Director Zhang who arrived early.
The director's surname is Zhang, and the boss Lao Zhong found to repair the dormitory is also surnamed Zhang.
This story is worth watching.
As expected, Old Li really recognized Director Zhang as Boss Zhang.
Kindly said, the dormitory should not be able to be repaired, because there is no money.
At this time, it was going to rain outside.
Employees rushed back to their dormitories to collect their things, fearing they would be damaged.
Director Zhang made a mistake, recognized Boss Zhang's identity, and also came to the door of the dormitory in the backyard to see the situation.
I happened to hear the staff complaining about the head of the cow section and the general affairs.
These two superiors and subordinates are really old ladies pulling bellows, a wave of evil.
Our former director, but I love to hear this bellows.
A staff member would like to take advantage of the new director's appointment to give his opinion and rectify the atmosphere of the General Affairs Division.
Other colleagues heard it, but scoffed -
Who knows, if the new director is weak, he will catch a cold when the bellows blows.
Director Zhang outside the window shook his head when he heard this.
On the other side, Section Chief Niu also returned, and ran into Xiao Su, who was looking for him for explanations.
Chief Niu felt that she was simply a "wonder of the present".
Xiao Su believes that Chief Niu will only "fight bureaucracy and brag about horses."
So angry that Section Chief Niu ordered to lock up the bureau chief's office and no one was allowed to enter.
All this was seen by Director Zhang.
There was a thunder outside, and it was raining heavily.
Lao Li asked Xiao Su to find someone to join him and move the ashes into the corridor in front of the director's office first.
Director Zhang also directly revealed his identity and joined the team of moving foreign ashes.
At this time, the most classic scene in the movie appeared -
The bureau chief and staff rolled up their sleeves to move the ashes in the heavy rain, and the chief of the Niu section sat in the office and rolled up his sleeves and gnawed pig's trotters.
A contrasting shot, ironic to the extreme.
Compared with the "lying flat" Chief Hao played by Shen Teng.
This bureaucratic section chief is even more gnashing his teeth.
Section Chief Niu's requirements for the new office of the director are very high.
The color and pattern of the walls must not be sloppy.
How to brush this color, this light red is a hot color, look at the heart is stuffy.
It's late spring and early summer, you should brush a cold color, do you understand?
This lace is too Su, there is no bit of this national style.
But when faced with his own work, he changed a lot.
As soon as Section Chief Niu entered the office, many staff members approached Section Chief Niu to handle official business.
There are those who ask for approval of office expenses, those who ask to see the design drawings, those who apply for cars, and those who are worried about employee accommodation.
But the head of the cattle section ignored them all.
He only emphasized one sentence -
The central work of our General Services Section today is to welcome the new Director with all the preparations.
But is he really welcoming the new chief?
On the matter of renovating the new office, Chief Niu said this -
To do this, you have to know where to use your brain.
In particular, when we are engaged in general affairs work, we must establish a service perspective.
Let others eat well, live well, and be comfortable.
It's convenient for people, it's convenient for yourself.
The "person" in this "convenient with others" is not just a random person, it must be a high-ranking and capable person.
"Convenience with others" is the means, and "convenience for oneself" is the end.
When the Director has a new office, he has a new office.
When the chief has a new sofa, he also has a new leather chair.
Section Chief Niu also makes a special hat button.
On the day the new director took office, Chief Niu arrived at the unit more than half an hour earlier than normal office hours.
He also asked why others hadn't come to work yet.
Lao Li reminded that it was still early.
Hearing this, Chief Niu buttoned down his "employment point of view" hat.
The new director is here in the afternoon, how many things are waiting to be done, why are you still waiting for work time?
But when Xiao Su came, he said that it was not yet time to go to work.
Xiao Su mocked him for "really keeping time", and Chief Niu snorted and said-
This is in line with the general line.
The general route told us to increase production, but did not tell us to work overtime
In the face of Xiao Su's question about foreign ash.
Section Chief Niu also issued a big hat.
This should be comprehensive
Don't just see the three hundred bags of ash in your construction section
This is a bit too basic, but here is the head of the cow section, what is the overall benefit?
It was raining heavily, and the furniture company wanted to bring a few oilcloths over the new sofa cover placed in the director's office.
Section Chief Niu disagreed, demanding that it must be delivered by large truck.
Have you studied the general route?
The sofa is the property of the public and should be cared for
That set of sofas is more than two hundred fast, covered with oilcloth, and it is broken to count what happened to you
And what about the three hundred bags of ash, which are also public property?
A ragged and tattered tarp like a "child's diaper" was dismissed.
Whichever is more important than the other, Chief Niu has a rod scale in his heart, and the scale is his own interest.
A small cattle section chief, why is it such a cow?
The tiger is not at home, and the monkey is called the king.
The previous director fell ill shortly after he arrived and was hospitalized for more than two years without coming to work.
Section chiefs often hold meetings and often go to work to inspect the work, and basically only section chief Niu is in charge of the bureau.
But at the end of the day, "a monkey is a monkey after all."
The head of the cow section, who had been flying for too long, still overturned.
He recognized Director Zhang as Boss Zhang, and he was also putting on official authority and lighting up the background.
As a result, before they finished speaking, they let Lao Li and Xiao Su expose the old bottom.
Only then did he realize that it was Director Zhang himself who was sitting in front of him.
This farce performed by Chief Niu is finally over, and it is time for him, the protagonist, to step down.
The movie is just about a very simple thing -
Repair of the new office for the new director.
And this simple thing has vividly shaped the image of Chief Niu, a character who is rich and praised while filling his own pockets.
Although the film era is old, the lens language is clean and clean, and it looks light and comfortable.
There's a transition design, which is very subtle.
Before the new director took office, Chief Niu's first priority was to prepare for it.
He was dissatisfied with the group of employees in front of him who were anxious to deal with official duties.
But he still said a word first, and then coughed, pretending to blow ash on the table.
The camera gave a close-up of the calendar at this time, which said No. 7.
Then, Chief Niu pretended to pick up the materials at hand and continued to sweep away the non-existent dust.
At this time, I gave a close-up of the desk calendar -
Under the seemingly casual action of Section Chief Niu, the desk calendar turned to No. 8.
As soon as the camera turned, the picture was already on the 8th.
This series of actions seems to be unintentional.
In fact, the character of the head of the Niu section who ignores business and only values personal interests is fully revealed.
There are also some baggage designs in the film, which is also very interesting.
For example, when the head of the Niu section accepted the work results, he almost slipped twice on the overly smooth floor.
The sarcasm is in place, the jokes are appropriate.
These are still out of date in the present.
We can still find similar shadows in our lives.
Art comes from life.
The reason why such an excellent work can be shot is closely related to the legendary experience of the main creator.
The director of "Before the New Director" is Lu Ban, known as the "pioneer of Chinese satirical comedy".
Lu Ban has always cherished movie dreams since he was young.
In 1931, he joined the Left Theater League in Shanghai.
The following year, in order to revitalize the film industry in his hometown, he chose to leave Shanghai and returned to Shanxi to establish Northwest Film Company.
In 1936, on the recommendation of Zhao Dan, Lü Ban starred in "Cross Street", in which he played the role of college student A Tang.
His talent in comedy began to manifest itself at this time.
"Cross Street" stills, Lu Ban (left)
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Lüban actively participated in street anti-Japanese propaganda activities.
Before the Wuhan retreat, he and Tian Han went to Taierzhuang to comfort the soldiers, but were accidentally captured by the Japanese.
Unexpectedly, Lu Ban used his superb acting skills to pretend to be a mentally disabled patient and successfully escaped and returned to Shanghai.
At that time, the news of "Luban's return" spread throughout Shanghai.
Lü Ban propaganda on the streets of Yan'an
After the war, Lü Ban joined the Northeast Film Studio (the predecessor of Changchun Film Studio) and starred in New China's first feature film "The Bridge".
Later, he filmed the well-known "The Legend of Lu Liang Heroes" and "The Legend of the New Children of Heroes".
"Bridge" stills, Lü Ban as Director Wang
Later, Lü Ban and Tianjin's opera writer He Chi established the "Spring Drama Society", of which crosstalk masters Ma Sanli and Hou Baolin were also members.
"Before the New Director" is a work of this period, and it is also the second part of his "comedy film trilogy".
The other two are "Informal" and "Unfinished Comedy".
The former is a satire on uncivilized behavior.
The latter satirizes extravagant bureaucracy, bragging and unfilial parents.
A still from "Informal" (left), a still from "The Unfinished Comedy" (right).
You know, satirical comedy was not something that anyone dared to make at that time.
After all, sarcasm that is too obvious and direct can make people feel offensive and stinging.
When he first created "The Informal", Lu Ban was admonished -
Start with the trivial things around you, and don't touch the system
But in "The Unfinished Comedy", Lu Ban still set up a literary critic named "Yi Bangzi" (a stick) in the movie.
With it as the core, the entire film is interspersed, implying an allusion to the cultural supervision of the time.
Yi Bang purple, Fang Hua ornament
Unfortunately, this 1957 film became Luban's last work.
His film career ended until his death in 76.
Lu Ban once talked about his creative philosophy——
Irony and irony, both "irony" and "thorn", if there is a thorn, it is necessary to prick the person, and the person who is pierced will definitely hurt. A random stab is called "untargeted", a stab that is not accurate is called "blind man touching an elephant", a stab that is too large is called "making a fuss", and a stabbing that is not large is called "scratching the boot". To put it bluntly, I am afraid, I am afraid of being self-defeating, I am afraid of making low-level vulgarity, I am afraid that the size of irony is inappropriate, I am afraid of turning irony into slander, and most of all, I am afraid of some clear rules and precepts that sound quite reasonable...
One word "fear" covers everything.
Back to the present.
Whether it's a sketch or a film and television work, Uncle Yu is often thinking about a problem -
Why aren't comedies "good-looking" now?
I want to be funny, but I don't get grounded.
I want to be sarcastic, but it's superficial.
I want meaning, but it's just "cramming" preaching.
Is it also because of this "fear"?
Not entirely.
We seem to be missing some people, some people like Lu Ban.
"Before the arrival of the new director" group photo