The film "Great Night" tells the story of a three-person team of short video creation, and after breaking into the film crew, the story is both terrifying and ridiculous.
The form of the film is relatively novel, using the structure of "play within a play", the film contains the film, not only contains the form of the film, but also covers the form of short video.
The cast is also refreshing, gathering young actors from the variety show, film and television and music industries, including comedians with their own comedy colors and musicians who cross over to "funny".
1. The nested structure of the movie "play within a play"
In "Great Night", 3 people, leopards, monkeys and dogs, received a commission from Xiaoshan to secretly sneak into the crew and shoot some tidbits of Xiaoshan's filming. Xiaoshan hopes to use the power of short videos to hype it well, so that his first drama as the male lead can become popular.
In order to shoot some horror effect videos, monkeys dressed as female ghosts to add material to short videos, who knew that there were female ghosts pretending to be dogs in the process, and there were other ghosts, thus creating a scream video.
This is a nested structure of "play within a play", in which the film shows the process of filming, the shooting on the spot, the temporary change of the script, and the interpretation of the actors on the set, all become an integral part of the final film.
Ma Kai put his film experience as a director in this film, and tried to touch the joy, anger and sorrow of people in this group in the film.
This structure is actually more demanding on the script, relying heavily on a two-tier narrative to achieve a coherent theme, and be emotionally coherent. If it cannot be done properly, it is easy to become ineffective in the narrative of the film, emotionally inconsistent, and then affect the expression and logical consistency of the entire theme.
Ma Kai can control the nested structure of this film itself in this movie, which is already above the passing line, but there are still many regrets and flaws, which need to be perfected through more experience and script polishing,
But Ma Kai, a director who has always loved horror films, seems to have found a delicate balance between horror and comedy, and if he can continue to do it in this special type of field, he must be able to make his own unique film and television style.
2. The lineup of "Three Realms" comedians
The cast of "Great Night" is refreshing, gathering young actors from the film and television industry, talk shows and music industries, and the cross-border collision inspires a different spark.
Fan Chengcheng, who plays the protagonist Leopard, is a young idol who debuted by being a trainee and participating in reality TV shows, and Wang Zixuan, who played Concubine Li, also entered the entertainment industry through auditions.
And the three Jiang, Jiang Long, Jiang Yi and Jiang Shimeng, are all from the variety show "Annual Comedy Competition". Also appeared in "Great Night", which is the reunion of "Three Jiangs" since "Annual Comedy Competition".
There are also rock musicians, second-hand rose's lead singer Liang Long, who plays a philistine and idealistic director, and Jiang Shimeng plays the executive director, and he made a cameo appearance as an unscrupulous producer in the play on Monday.
Comedians from the "Three Worlds" gathered in this movie, played the instinct of comedians in the film, brought out more hilarious jokes, and also showed their different images on the screen.