"Happy Thriller" "Great Night": How to play comedy + thriller?

Entering 2023, the mainland cinema film market is performing hot, and the first Spring Festival file after surviving the "cold winter" has created the second best result in mainland film history under the leadership of "The Wandering Earth 2" and "Manjiang Red", which both exceeded 4 billion at the box office. Taking advantage of the residual heat of the Spring Festival, a new round of content competition has officially kicked off, a large number of works with more diverse theme types have been officially announced to enter the audience's attention one after another, and the mainland cinema film market is full of flowers and a lively scene.

Among these complex works, the thriller comedy movie "Great Night" released on March 31 has become a topical word-of-mouth dark horse, which innovatively takes comedy + thriller elements as the main creative grip, and leads the audience to experience a joyful "shock" night with laughter and tears flying at zero distance with multiple high-energy reversal ingenious ideas and accurate combination of current young trend elements, and successfully conquers the audience's taste buds with strong difference stylized content.

Multiple reversal thriller comedy "Great Night"

Bring a new rollercoaster movie-watching experience

Written and directed by Ma Kai, produced by Yi Xiaoxing, Fan Chengcheng, Jiang Long, Jiang Yi starring in the thriller comedy movie, tells the story of three brothers due to a special invitation to the thriller crew for secret filming, but unexpectedly the shooting scene is full of conditions, the misunderstanding between the director and the actor intensified, the three brothers adapted, a story about the set, dreams, friendship and friendship unfolded brilliantly.

Only two days after its release, "The Great Night" achieved a double blossom of box office results and word-of-mouth evaluation, not only successfully topping the mainland box office champion of domestic thrillers in 2023 with more than 690,000 times, but also gaining 9.1 points in Maoyan audience reputation, 9.2 points in Taoqiao tickets, and 91% evaluation of big V recommendation (data update as of press time), while the box office trend is bullish while the public opinion reputation is also stable and improving.

The reason why "Great Night" was able to stand out as soon as it was released is inseparable from the main creative team's excavation and ingenuity in the elements of the film genre. As a genre film that has been vacant in the market for a long time, "The Great Night" breaks the stereotype of comedy or thriller genre with content full of detailed design. Ma Kai, a young director who is good at the thriller horror genre and has attracted attention inside and outside the industry with the movie "Zhongxie", joined hands with Yi Xiaoxing, who has been deeply engaged in the field of comedy for many years and has a big brain, as a producer, the combination of thriller elements and comedy elements has brought the audience the ultimate and novel viewing experience, and many viewers said that "I feel that the style of "Great Night" is very fresh, and it is very silky to switch between the two genres of thriller and comedy."

It can be said that "The Great Night" opens a new mode of thriller comedy creation, and the creative team subtly combines the two types of elements with great contrast in layers of reversal, and the film presents not only "drama within a play", but also a sense of fun with the triple reversal design of "play within a play". The on-site shooting of the "Legend of Concubine" crew in the movie is the first scene of "Great Night", the main tone of this weight is absurd funny, the comedy effect of the director team and the cast team in the scene confrontation and game itself is full of highlights, the second drama is the director team in order to force out the best state of the actors and the scene "do" of the major accident, the presentation of this heavy drama focuses on the wonderful and exciting sensory experience, and the last drama is precisely the perfect combination of the first two scenes, The moving brotherhood has become the main expression of this drama and the entire movie.

Such a "matryoshka doll" structure allows the audience to repeatedly jump in comedy and thriller, comedy expression can hide thriller experience, thriller perception can contain laughter Easter eggs, the audience in the movie's blind box constantly guessing and solving problems, as if peeling an onion. One of the most representative bridges is the high-energy famous scene in the movie played by Jiang Long played by Xiaoshan and Kong Lianshun, two eunuchs played in the play, after learning the news that the Lifei actor had died, he performed the high-energy famous scene again to the "deceased" Lifei in front of him, on the one hand, the audience felt a chill down the spine for the resurrection of the "Lifei" who came back from the dead like the actors in the movie, and on the other hand, they were involuntarily laughed by the overly real thriller acting skills of the two actors.

"The Great Night" is intertwined with a strong comedy style and inspired thriller elements, which can always inadvertently arouse the audience's taste buds, and the whole movie is like a roller coaster of joy and excitement, and the fresh genre style makes many audiences shout.

All Comedian Acting Online 

Laughter continues, and there are sincere emotions behind them

If the exquisite story type and narrative structure have built a solid main structure for "The Great Night", then the vivid acting skills of the protagonist group portraits in "The Great Night" are beautiful building materials that make the film elements present twice the effect with half the effort.

The film vividly and efficiently portrays three types of people in a limited time, the first is the group of self-media people represented by Brother Leopard, played by Fan Chengcheng, who have found another way to make videos with more than one million likes; The second category of people is the group of actors in the play represented by Jiang Long, Kong Lianshun, Wang Zixuan and other characters, who work the set with their own acting dreams; The third group of people is the crew team represented by Liang Long, Jiang Shimeng and other characters, who must not only ensure that the film is shot on time, in quantity and quality, but also may face the pressure of the producer's whim at any time.

The actors accurately and without losing their characteristics presented the group portraits of these three major groups of people to the audience, not only the whole acting skills online, but also all the members turned into comedians, and the baggage was shaking. The young actors represented by Fan Chengcheng threw their glamorous appearance in the movie, and even took the initiative to put forward and gain 30 pounds for the role effect, and under the change and blessing of the external image, Fan Chengcheng played a very good image of a big brother who has dreams and ambitions but is hesitant in the face of life difficulties, but is extremely responsible for friends.

As a film with comedy elements as the biggest selling point, the creative team selected Jiang Long, Jiang Yi and Jiang Shimeng's "Annual Comedy Competition" "Three Jiang" to play important roles, and in the end, they also lived up to expectations, successfully using acting skills with personal style characteristics but very suitable for the characters in the movie to fill the comedic effect intensity of each scene. For example, Jiang Long's Xiaoshan needs to take the initiative to show the director three different styles of "plastic" crying scenes in the movie, Jiang Long's every kind of crying scene has successfully made the audience laugh, the comedy is accurately handled, and the eunuch actor combination formed by him and Kong Lianshun can be called a pair of living treasures in the play, and it comes with its own laughter, plus Jiang Yi's "faceless man" version of Concubine with the attribute of catching horses and Liang Long, who cross-border starred in the play-within-a-play director... The comedy temperament of each actor coincides with the character, and the effective superposition of multiple comedians and comedy elements makes "The Great Night" successfully make the audience laugh to tears.

In addition to the family cheerfulness of comedy elements, the details and emotional content integrated into "Great Night" at the level of emotional expression also successfully poked the audience's emotional points, in fact, many characters and story prototypes in the movie come from director Ma Kai's own experience when he was a horizontal drifter and running tricks in Hengdian. The three brothers in the movie stepped onto the set with the dream of shooting a million-click video, and although their initial idea was not to help the crew shoot the movie, when everyone pinned their hopes on them, they bravely took on this much-anticipated responsibility.

At the end of the movie, the monkey's persistence in trying to finish the movie despite being seriously injured, and the bridge where the three brothers supported each other to the hospital in the background of a spark at the end of the film successfully made the audience cry, and the emotional cry of Concubine Li played by Wang Zixuan after learning that the film was going to be stopped by the producer also made people deeply feel the difficulty of an actor persevering for his dreams... These tearful heart-to-heart plots have successfully poked into the hearts of ordinary people and triggered the audience's general empathy.

As a thriller comedy, "Great Night" not only has entertainment attributes of funny and thriller, but also shows the joys, sorrows and sorrows of real life, carefully presents the life status of small people and what they think in their hearts, so that ordinary audiences can also have strong emotional resonance when watching, with multiple film elements, topic gimmicks full of discussion value, and more sincere human nature and emotional expression.

Deep focus on real-life fragments 

"Great Night" presents a youthful creative gene

Among the solid and excellent film creation standards and content expression of "Great Night", its youthful creation gene is one of the important differentiating factors that make it highly respected by audiences, especially young audiences. The data shows that in the portrait of the movie's people who want to see the crowd, young audiences aged 30 and under account for a staggering 75%, and the success of "Great Night" directly proves that the film uses young expressions and the mainstream audience to match the correct "joint code". "Great Night" is created by a group of young people full of blood and vitality, and the team deeply captures the fragments of the lives of young people today, truly presenting their most authentic life conditions.

The life elements with typical contemporary young people's tones, such as live detective broadcasts, secret rooms, script killings, and short videos, which appear in the movie story, make young audiences have a strong sense of substitution, intimacy and freshness, which truly takes the hi points of contemporary young people's lives and vividly presents these elements in the form of movies. The selection of such theme elements not only shows the creative team's desire to live seriously, feel life, and show life, but also shows their thinking about the content of film creation.

As a literary and artistic work with young people's genes, "Great Night" hopes to use the struggle stories of such a group of enthusiastic young people to continuously encourage contemporary young people not to be afraid of the challenges of life, but to always be ready to face difficulties and bravely pursue their dreams. The protagonists in the play either have the seemingly unreliable dream of shooting a million-like video, or they are running tricks in the crew in order to let more audiences see their performances, even if they only have one line, they carefully prepare, or they force themselves to complete the various instructions issued by the producer in order for their film works to be filmed smoothly...

"Great Night" takes the small world of the crew as a microcosm of society, projecting the ordinary people in contemporary society who are struggling to survive, everyone may encounter insurmountable difficulties in life, but as long as you have a dream in your heart and always persevere and fight unremittingly for this dream, then you will eventually transform into a "great self".

The popular movie "Great Night" takes thriller and comedy elements as the content background, and the universal emotions of contemporary dreamers as the pen and ink, drawing a long scroll of blood shining with young people's genes, and leading the audience to deeply experience a joyful "shock" night of laughter and tears flying together under the premise of successfully playing "comedy + thriller" elements, and more "surprise" laughter and "surprise" color, which is worth the audience to personally enter the theater and explore on the big screen.