What did the language programs of this year's Spring Festival Gala tell us? Let's try to summarize it in one sentence: primary school culture can also play Feihua Ling, "double standard" can make you invincible when debating, everyone must reach the level of a psychologist when chatting on WeChat, Dad praising his son's stick in person can make him burst into tears, Shen Teng's drama is quite wide, acting is decent, and there is a kang in the Northeast restaurant.
What are the characteristics of this passage? It is crazy rhyme, like a Spring Festival Gala sketch, the common funny methods are fully used for it, and even rhyme, such as "I don't need a guide, I mean you". Sometimes the rhyme is very stiff: "Shouldn't you be serious when you're a dad?" There is also a homophonic stalk: "You are not only a double standard, you are already a hurricane." ”
Stills from the 2024 Spring Festival Gala "Can That Be the Same".
There are a total of six language programs in the Spring Festival Gala: Yue Yunpeng, Sun Yue's cross talk "I want to be different", the sketch "Can That Be the Same", the cross talk "The Director's "Heart"", the sketch "Can't Open Your Mouth", the sketch "The Cold House is Not Cold", and the sketch "Our Family is Visitor".
The first language program to appear, Yue Yunpeng and Sun Yue's cross talk, is stronger than the first time they went to the Spring Festival Gala, mainly relying on the "cultural heritage" without a "cultural bottom line". But it's an ethical stalk:
Yue Yunpeng came to a three-stage formula, Confucius said: "If you are a threesome, you must have my teacher", and Mencius said: "There are no rules, there is no square circle". Lao Tzu said: "Don't talk much." ”
Sun Yue asked, "Is this what Lao Tzu said? When did Lao Tzu say it?"
Yue Yunpeng said leisurely: "When Sun Tzu asked." ”
Stills from the 2024 Spring Festival Gala "I Want to Be Different".
Yue Yunpeng said that Sun Yue is a grandson, which is taking advantage of him, but there is nothing wrong with it, in ancient times, "son" was still an honorific title for men. The question is behind, "Li Bai will want to go by boat" and "not as good as Wang Lun to send me love" are not connected, and there are two sentences in between. That long "Residual Flower" is not easy to say that it is Li Qingzhao's, "Flowers bloom for flowers, and flowers fly for flowers to be sad", which is more like a pop song.
In fact, Sun Yue can play like this: Yue Yunpeng said a sentence Lao Tzu, Sun Yue can say, "When did I say this?"
The cross talk "Director's "Heart" is a bit innovative in form, but it makes people suspect that it is inspired by the animated film "Mind Squad" produced by Disney and Pixar, and its core is still "workplace conflict": the director says a casual word, and the actor has to ponder for a long time.
Stills from the 2024 Spring Festival Gala "The Director's "Heart".
Zhao Benshan said, "It's not easy to make you laugh comfortably, it's not easy to laugh healthily, and it's too difficult to complete a complete story in a ten-minute sketch." ”
But two Americans believe that there is a formula for comedy, saying in their book "Laughing Points" that there are 10 tried and tested scenes in comedy that "have been used repeatedly and have been very popular with audiences since the beginning of the movie." Many of the episodes are just exaggerated versions of snippets of everyday life. In practice, two or more episodes may appear at the same time or in the same episode of a TV series. 1. Family conflicts. 2. Workplace conflicts. 3. Keep in the dark. 4. Break the balance. 5. Being abused. 6. Conflict of morality and ethics. 7. Sympathize with the weak. 8. Minor accidents. 9. Pursue something valuable. 10. Inability to adapt. ”
There are two sketches that are family conflicts, the mother's double standard, and the father-son relationship. The last sketch is a typical "kept in the dark", and the southern friends don't know that they won't be slaughtered. In Shen Teng's sketches, there were abuses and small accidents, he was forced to walk in circles, and emotional counseling was accidentally played on the speaker.
Stills from the 2024 Spring Festival Gala "Humble House".
Which episodes are exaggerated versions of everyday life? For the sake of humor, Mary redefines the greatest invention of mankind. The neighbor couple is very gossipy, often eavesdropping, and accidentally exposes the fact of (twice) eavesdropping.
Successful linguistic works are either explosive, unexpected, meaningful, derived from life but appropriately exaggerated, and the performance should be natural. The characters in "Can't Open Your Mouth" are too flat, and the plot of the father who can't praise his son and "one thing in front of him and one thing behind his back" is too exaggerated. Some of the jokes in "Can That Be the Same" are a bit old-fashioned, such as "The doorbell is ringing out of Mars", and even "The doctor's words can't be fully believed" Some people think it's funny?
Stills from the 2024 Spring Festival Gala "Can't Open Your Mouth".
The basic mechanism of humor is not to follow the audience's expectations, for example, you think that the dishes in the Northeast are very large, but when you come up with two small plates, you think that what is said in the travel guide is true, but people don't give you a taste.
In 1936, Mr. Lao She wrote an article entitled "On Humor", in which he pointed out that there are many kinds of works that make us feel funny and that we think are humorous: irony, satire, wit, farce, and whimsicality. "Rhetoric is a hint of conflict. That is to say, there are two opposite meanings in a sentence, and the true meaning of what is to be said is not in the words, but implied. "Sarcasm is a very strong cynicism, and wit is the use of a very clever, very sharp language to say something like an aphorism. Burlesque is the most inferior kind of humor. Because it has to be a messy action, it is easier to express on stage. As for the fun, "no matter what kind of jokes and whimsy can be expressed by this word, the wonders of "Journey to the West", the adventures in "Mirror Flowers", and the fables of "Zhuangzi" can all be called funny. ”
According to this elaboration, there are more burlesques in the cross talk "The Director's "Heart"", "Can That Be the Same" about double standards, and "Can't Open Your Mouth", which can't praise his son, are two satirical works, Yue Yunpeng's cross talk has a little wit, such as using the simple poem "Li Bai will want to go on a boat" to respond to all changes without change. Shen Teng's sketch has funny actions and some fun, and it actually feels like "The Great Gatsby"? Shen Teng stays shopping in Ma Li's live broadcast room, just like Gatsby standing on the beach looking at the green lights on Daisy's dock.
The show has been rehearsed many times, improvisation is not allowed, and this opportunity to play was given to Nigmaiti, who did not say a word, but contributed the most vivid performance in the audience, which is really endless.
Finally, imitate the southern friends, "This is Liu Wei, this is braised fish tail, this is the end of my article." ”