On May 22, the movie "Don't Call Me a Love Saint" Tencent Video was exclusively launched, opening the network premiere mode. The film was written by Choi Chi-chia as the first co-writer, directed by Choi Chi-jae and starring Choi Chi-jae. Obviously, three consecutive "Cui Zhijia" have a lot of this comedian to prove his meaning. Based on the entire film content of "Don't Call Me a Love Saint", Cui Zhijia's directorial debut is hilarious and funny, with dense baggage, which is a funny comedy.
In this movie, Cui Zhijia plays a middle-aged "best-selling" author who does not know about it. And in an accident, he suddenly traveled back in time to twenty years ago. After learning that he has crossed, the male protagonist first found his youth self, and then helped his youth to start pursuing his first love girlfriend, and opened the protection mode of first love. It turned out that before crossing, the girlfriend died in a car accident. Therefore, the male protagonist after the crossing needs to appear at the card point, so that the young male protagonist and the first love girlfriend will not have accidents.
Then, a story of proving himself as a crosser and helping several brothers find their other half unfolds. In "Don't Call Me a Love Saint", there are three male protagonists in total. The middle-aged male protagonist after the crossing not only helps the young male protagonist to pursue love, but also helps the remaining two brothers to find their other half. The whole process, hilarious is very, but the final ending, also slightly youthful sadness.
This kind of "crossing" realized in the name of writing a book does not have the originality of the main story line itself. And there are already many similar youth films. Therefore, this "Don't Call Me a Love Saint" may face the question that the subject matter content is not fresh enough. However, Cui Zhijia added a lot of hilarious bridge baggage on the basis of an old routine narrative, which is the most shining place of the film. The film basically achieves the state of having a laugh-point baggage design every minute. From the perspective of comedy films, these designs are already sincere works.
Let the old editor feel that the comedy baggage that can most hold out the internal injuries is that Cui Zhijia and the first love chat about themselves are also called Chen Dongnan, originally wanted to explain, they are middle-aged Chen Dongnan crossed over, who knows, the first love directly responded to a sentence: Uncle, your family name is so casual. Similar laughter baggage, in the film, pitching is all. Obviously, Cui Zhijia is still relatively attentive to his own screenwriting and directing films, and can complete the script well from a comedic point of view.
Of course, the staleness of the main story line is also a hard wound that "Don't Call Me a Love Saint" can't get around. Many of our comedians, who have switched to creation, can have a very good laugh baggage design, but always on the big story line, lack of fresh and original content. This is a common conundrum faced by comedians turning to screenwriting and directing. Laughing at the baggage, relatively better design, and original and fresh main story structure, is not easy to design.
For fans with relatively high requirements, they may be moved by the fresh main story once, but they will definitely not be moved a second time. If the youth crossing of "Charlotte Troubles" can move many fans, then in "Don't Call Me a Love Saint", many of the main line terriers basically fail. This is actually the charm of the movie story, although it allows more copying, even imitation, but it will also eventually lose the basic function of the main story line because of the large number of reproductions and imitations.
Therefore, after many comedians turned to screenwriting and directing, they bluntly said that it was too difficult to create. Even many former sketch actors say that they no longer act in sketches, because the content of the sketches is not new. This new is not how many new things are produced by the laughter point baggage, but the main story structure should be new. Just a few examples. Teacher Jiang Kun's famous "Tiger Mouth Escape" in the north and south of the river, when I listened to it, it was the story of falling into the tiger pit, which was very new and interesting. The later "New Tiger Mouth Escape" is not good, too old.
Teacher Zhao Benshan's sketch "Selling Abduction" has a very good effect, a big flickering story, the audience has not seen, in the past sketches, there has not been a similar character. However, when it comes to "selling cars" and "selling stretchers" in the back, it is the end of the crossbow, the main story is old, and many comedy baggage has failed. Obviously, the main story is more important for comedy.
For Cui Zhijia, what can you prove yourself with "Don't Call Me a Love Saint"? I can prove myself and direct a movie. But can't prove that you can create effective comedy scripts. This movie lacks the freshness and originality it deserves. It seems that the biggest dilemma of comedy at present is still how to find new and interesting main story threads that others have not used. (Text/Ma Qingyun)