Anti-war dramas have always been a film and television theme that China likes to make very much, but in addition to "pure blood" anti-war dramas, there is also an "alternative" existence, that is, anti-war comedies with "red humor" characteristics.
When it comes to anti-war comedy movies, everyone is more familiar with films such as "Sanmao From the Army" and "Raise Your Hand" starring Pan Changjiang.
However, in the field of television dramas, for the audience who have been baptized by the main dramas such as "Bright Sword" and "My Regiment Leader My Regiment" for many years, it seems too rebellious to put "anti-Japanese" and "comedy" together.
And there is a drama that opened the door of "the first anti-Japanese comedy in China" and became another classic sitcom after domestic dramas such as "I Love My Home" and "Northeast Family".
It is the "Underground Traffic Station" that enjoys a high score of 9.3 on Douban.
Now in the past 16 years, it still has tens of millions of traffic on major platforms, which is a well-deserved top stream.
In fact, "Underground Traffic Station" is a pity, it was broadcast a year earlier than "Wulin Waichuan", but "Wulin Waichuan" was rotated by major television stations to gain super high ratings and popularity, while "Underground Traffic Station" was only broadcast by Shandong Satellite TV, and the popularity was not a little worse.
Therefore, if it were not for the dark horse of "The Tale of Wulin", it is estimated that "Underground Traffic Station" could still make a small fire, and it would not become a buried god work.
As a relatively special type of TV series, sitcoms are characterized by the fact that they can ignore the coherence of the plot.
No matter which episode the audience starts watching, it will not affect the viewing effect, and any time a baggage is thrown, it can cause laughter.
Of course, this is very demanding for screenwriters, so the number of excellent sitcoms in China is very small.
Yingda and Shangjing are undoubtedly two names that Chinese sitcoms can't jump over.
Yingda has a cousin, named Yingzhuang, whose parents are high-quality students in the Department of Architecture of Tsinghua University, and Yingzhuang is also blue and graduated from the Department of Physics of Peking University.
After tinkering with the life sitcom "I Love My Home", the brothers jointly directed this anti-war comedy "Underground Traffic Station", which was well received.
The background of the story is set in the early stage of the strategic counteroffensive of the War of Resistance Against Japan, and anqiu, a small and medium-sized county town in Hebei, is located on a major transportation route and is occupied by the Japanese army.
Our army decided to set up an underground transportation station in the Dingxiang Building of the Donkey Meat Pavilion to fight against the enemy and the hypocrites.
Zhao Hua, a soldier of the New Fourth Army, alias Cai Shuigen, entered the Dingxiang Building as a Shaodongjia and served as an underground traffic officer.
The picture of civilian life under the oppression of the Japanese and the pseudo-Japanese is slowly unfolding here...
In the "orthodox" anti-Japanese drama, it is either a scene of war in the sky full of gunfire and corpses, or an underground intelligence activity with a life hanging in the balance.
And "Underground Traffic Station" integrates the entire picture of the times into this sesame-sized county town, using the transmission of intelligence as a clue to resolve the solemn anti-Japanese behavior in the form of "comedy".
In fact, it can be found that the character setting of this drama is somewhat facial, the good guys obviously have the face of a decent gentleman, and the villain has a face that looks like a villain.
Because it is a comedy, it can naturally exaggerate and demonize the enemy army to achieve unexpected results.
For example, in the play, there are two little Japanese, Masakawa Nojiri and Nobuzo Kuroteng.
One who does not say Chinese, and who wants the traitor to come up with an idea in everything; a person who goes out to eat when he is angry, a proper rice bucket.
Of course, the soul villain in the play, the "Captain Jia" of the traitor detection team, is regarded by netizens as the only male god in the whole drama, and the king of heaven superstars appears.
People who have not seen the play, their hearts are excited, thinking that they are a handsome man.
Unexpectedly, it is indeed an unprecedented face, thin to the skin and bone figure, and will fight eyes when talking.
Director Yingzhuang said, "He can stand there without making a sound, and he can make the audience laugh and make the enemy as ugly as possible." ”
Captain Jia is the role that dedicates the most laughs in this drama, searching for "Underground Traffic Station" on the website, the most edited videos that come out are all Captain Jia's hilarious collection, and the bullet screen is full of screens, which shows the love of netizens for this role.
He played the ugly face of the traitor to the extreme, but it was quite brilliant and unforgettable.
For example, in the play, there is a plot in which he robs people of things in public, which is called a god logic and has also become a famous scene.
He took someone's hookah, and when someone said that his name was engraved on it, he asked the others, "Why did you engrave your name on my hookah?"
He also possesses the passive skill "I scold myself", whether the other party is Japanese or Yaji, preemptively attacking and leaving the other party speechless.
Captain Jia's personal experience of Yan Guanying, who played the role of Captain Jia, is also very interesting, he has worked diligently in the ironing post for twenty years, and as a result, the unit restructuring arranged for him to go to the bathhouse, and at the age of 48, he resigned and lost his job.
More than half a hundred years old, he began his acting career, frantically shuttling through the various crews, starring in various small dragon sets with only 0.01 seconds of shots.
Some people say that Yan Guanying's acting skills are old drama bones, but some netizens joked that Captain Jia only entered the industry at the age of fifty, and he is clearly a newcomer.
He participated in many TV series, playing the role of Liu Quan in "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo" and briefly appearing in "Huan Zhu Gege".
In 2002, the second part of "Waiting Hall" "The Story of the Waiting Room", Yan Guanying continued to play the blind son of Sun, and was appreciated by director Yingda for his excellent performance.
Later, in "Underground Traffic Station", Yingda tailored a role for Yan Guanying, that is, the most beautiful boy in the whole drama - Captain Jia.
The show has a luxurious cameo lineup that adds a lot of surprises and highlights.
For example, Xiao Tao Hong, who dresses as a woman in men's clothing, comes out with a bit of pride from a good family, and as an underground worker, she must often play Qinggao to avoid being discovered by the Japanese hypocrisy;
For example, Guo Degang and Yu Qian made a cameo appearance as a pair of diners who ate donkey plate intestines in DingxiangLou and ate the taste of crosstalk;
There is also Pan Changjiang's cameo as a puppet army of dog fighting and human power, bringing a Chinese version of "Tiger Mouth Escape".
This drama adheres to the consistent style of Ying's comedy, the lines are spicy and bold enough, the behavior is full of irony, and the basic quality of excellent comedy is achieved.
However, it is a pity that since "Underground Traffic Station" and "Wulin Wai biao", China's sitcoms are desolate, and there is no "fierce work" that makes people happy and breathless.
Whether it is British comedy or shangjing comedy, their excellent original scripts and the courage to pin current events are now a rare treasure.
When we revisit the best works of the past, we are also proud and sigh at the decline of today's sitcoms.