Open Weibo at the beginning of the year, the first hot search into the eye is ——
I couldn't help but trance for a moment.
I only feel that the years are rushing, and the love of too many people still stays in place.
I'm one of them.
In 2019, Yao Chen and Sha Yi sang "Chivalrous Travel", setting off a generation of memories of "Wulin Wai Biography". The dean also wrote an article with great emotion, analyzing why it can become a classic of the times.
(Forget the words poke here to review the → Douban 9.4, this drama is not on the hot search to be strange).
Now two years later, "The Legend of Wulin" can still be played.
In the eyes of many people, it is the last glory of the domestic sitcom before the weakening of the West Mountain.
But recently the dean found that there was a handful of people silently guarding another treasure in their hearts—
《Underground Transportation Station》
The start time is a year apart, but compared with the "Wulin Waichuan" led by CCTV and broadcast by various local stations, and the "Underground Traffic Station" broadcast by Shandong Satellite TV, at the beginning, the popularity was more than a little worse.
However, when it comes to the behind-the-scenes team, the two brothers Yingda and Yingzhuang are not weaker than Shangjing and Ning Caijin.
"I Love My Family", "Idle Centaur Big Sister", "Northeast Family"... The furniture is a classic.
If there is no "Wulin Wai Biao" this dark horse out of the sky, "Underground Traffic Station" will probably not become a pearl, at least can be a small fire.
Fortunately, time always reveals real gold.
More than 10 years later, "Underground Traffic Station" has had more than 40 million plays in Station B, which is well-deserved.
There are even iron fans who make bold remarks -
Numbers may be virtual, and happiness is absolutely true.
Today, the dean will take a look at the unique features of "Underground Traffic Station" to see what magic it has, which can make people laugh and worship it as "God's Work".
Big times
When "Underground Traffic Station" was broadcast that year, it was the "first anti-Japanese comedy in China" that reared its head.
For the audience who has only been baptized by "Bright Sword" a few years ago, "anti-Japanese" and "comedy" together seem to be too rebellious.
But you don't have to say, "Underground Traffic Station" really kneaded these two words on both sides, just right.
Set back the time to 1942, the early stage of China's strategic counteroffensive in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
Anqiu, a small and medium-sized county in Hebei, is located on the main road of communication 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.
With shuigen entering Anqiu City, the picture of civilian life under the oppression of the Japanese and the pseudo-Japanese also spread out——
The Japanese army owed money and was common food.
Occasionally, I met a person who was willing to give money, and the vendors were like the gods of the plague, preferring to send them away in vain.
The Japanese army issued a large number of reserve tickets, resulting in rising inflation.
Yuan Datou, a rare thing, rarely flows into the hands of civilians, and can only race against prices every day.
In the morning, you can buy two pounds of kerosene, and in the afternoon you can only get a bottle of vinegar.
The Japanese army ran amok and overbearing, and the traitors under them also followed suit.
Relying solely on the item of Zha Liangmin's certificate, I don't know how much oil and water have been looted.
Who stipulates that anti-Japanese dramas can only be filled with smoke and corpses?
Taking the transmission of intelligence as a clue, the whole era picture is brought together in the daily life of the small county, and the hand of "Underground Traffic Station" plays beautifully.
But you must want to ask —
The atmosphere is so depressing and serious, how can it be "comedic"?
The secret, on the character.
Little
Don't look at Anqiu is a small county, there are many characters in the play.
The people of Dingxianglou were the best representatives of the small people at that time.
Hate the Japanese army to the bone, but do not dare to face it.
People shout "Taijun" in front of them, scold "devils" behind their backs, and secretly damage two sentences when they encounter traitors.
Sun Youfu, the treasurer of Dingxianglou, is an outstanding language artist:
The disciple Yang Baolu is the master chef in the shop, and he is more straightforward and reckless than Sun Youfu.
As soon as I meet a traitor or a Japanese person who comes to the restaurant for dinner, he begins to let go of his cooking skills.
Even if salt is more expensive than meat, let the other party eat for a day.
On weekdays, I am fine, I love to hold the old white dry drink twice.
After drinking too much, he likes to brag, and once lied to people that he was the eighth way, which almost caused a big disaster:
As for the two masters and old ladies, please call them "empty ears and queens of heaven".
The words could not be heard clearly, and it was a scolding and a quasi-accusation to the pseudo-traitors of the upper days.
In addition, no one is embarrassed to talk to a stupid old lady, so in the "angry person" item, it is often possible to win a big victory.
Feel this crazy output -
Each episode watches this group of people struggle to survive under the oppression of the Japanese and pseudo, bending the corner to fight and curse people, and unconsciously they can enjoy themselves.
This is not enough.
If you really want to talk about the laughter of this play, you have to look at the villain.
Television dramas that infinitely deify the strength of our army are generally called "anti-Japanese dramas."
"Underground Traffic Station" is known as "anti-Japanese comedy", just borrowing the exaggerated method of comedy to do the opposite, infinitely ugly the enemy army.
For example, the two highest-ranking Japanese in Anqiu Castle, Nojiri and Kuroto.
One who does not speak Chinese, and everything must be a traitor to come up with an idea.
When you are angry, you run out to eat, which is purely a rice bucket.
A self-proclaimed Chinese good, loves to abuse idioms, and can often achieve unexpected results.
Two sub-sons who didn't seem very smart.
The Japanese are like this, and the traitors are naturally not much better.
Below there are the soul characters of this drama -
Captain Jia Guijia of the traitor detection team, AKA Universe Beauty Center, the only male god of the whole drama, and the target of the attack on both the enemy and us.
How popular is it, just look at the line of bullet screen brush screens:
The people who chased the drama for the first time, when they saw this posture, did not know how high their expectations were.
Even if it doesn't look like this:
At least it has to look like this:
Koko.
Vulgar, vulgar!
Our captain Jia "can't find such an unprecedented face in all of East Asia."
unbelief? You see --
In the words of director Yingzhuang, "He can make the audience laugh and make the enemy as much as possible without making a sound at that stop." ”
Just ask you what more memorable face value than this?!
Obviously, he can eat by his face, and Captain Jia should be funny with his strength.
Do a line of love, and be a traitor, you must also do a bright and upright job.
Grabbing things in public, that's called a righteous person.
Being bullied by the pseudo-army commander Jin Biao, who is also a traitor, is simply wronged to the point of not being able to do it:
The passive skill "I scold myself", regardless of whether the opposite is Japanese or eight-way, preemptively attacking, leaving the other party speechless:
Stupid, adulterous,.
The traitorous trait of the slave face and the bone was exerted to the extreme, but it was brilliant and unforgettable.
In addition, like most sitcoms, "Underground Traffic Station" also has a rather luxurious cameo lineup, and even every actor is impressive.
For example, Xiao Tao Hong, who dresses as a woman dressed as a man, comes out with a bit of pride from a well-off family.
Because he is an underground worker in Beiping, when he contacts outsiders, he often has to play a high-cold posture to avoid being discovered by the Japanese and the pseudo-suspects.
Guo Degang and Yu Qian made cameo appearances as a pair of diners who ate donkey board intestines in Dingxiang Building.
The lines are big dream linkage, and this taste looks like it follows the father Wang Laozi.
Period and Pan Changjiang respectively made cameo appearances as two puppet armies of the dog fighting the human force, and the mountain fell from the sky, bringing a Chinese version of "Tiger's Mouth Escape"...
As a sitcom, there seems to be too many characters.
However, it can be done that each character has a distinct image, there are advantages and small problems, and it is necessary to mention their own stems, which shows the screenwriter's work.
Thinking about today's domestic dramas, most of them have people who set up shells and dare to shoot down, the characters are facialized, the plot is routine, 2 times the speed is dragged out, and there is nothing left in the heart.
Being ridiculed by the audience is, of course, expected and reasonable.
Curvy humor, straight line patriotic
People who love to watch sitcoms generally do not watch the opening of the film, and can distinguish between Shang's and Ying's comedies purely by the plot.
The former takes the family-friendly route, loves to work the plot, and sometimes breaks the fourth wall, which always makes people can't help but be funny.
The latter specializes in lines, ridicule and irony, and strives to make the audience chew twice on each line in order to feel the true taste.
Take a chestnut -
Most of the villains in the play are stupid and bad, and trying to flatter the Japanese often backfires.
Really beat my teammates:
Praise my opponent:
There are Japanese people pressing on, and there are traitors exploiting.
The depressed days of the people at the bottom were all summed up by Yang Baolu in a smooth sentence:
Ordinary people dare to be angry every day and dare not speak, and when they have a chance to open their mouths, they are all old yin and yang people:
The lines are spicy enough, and the behavior is also full of irony.
When Mizune first arrived at The Dingxiang Building, a word of "Paul" shouted to Nojiri Taijun, who did not understand Chinese, to lie down.
The Japanese fear of the Eight Roads is evident.
Captain Jia, who was kidnapped by the eighth road, gave full play to his sense of self-management and insisted on not letting the other party a little more.
The hateful energy of the traitor's soft bones was all written on his face.
It is clear that he learned how to impersonate the Eight Roads at the behest of the Japanese.
However, a group of traitors remembered that they usually ate guns and landmines for the Japanese, and sang military songs, and there was always a feeling of a large-scale rebellion:
Baggage dense look at the music, laughter is grounded and not vulgar.
The basic qualities of good comedy, "Underground Traffic Station" did it.
What is rare is that as an anti-Japanese drama, it is also praised.
When talking about comedy, Chen Peisi mentioned that "comedy has a tragic core."
The people of "Underground Traffic Station" laugh and scold a bunch of harmony on their faces, but if you look closely, you can detect the sad background underneath.
Cai Shuigen's liaison officer Xiao Shi, 14 years old, has been involved in the revolution for 5 years, and always loves to pretend to be old in front of Shui gen.
It was a pleasure to learn the appearance of an adult, but at such a beautiful age, he should have sat in a bright classroom to receive an education, rather than risking his life to pass on information.
Empty ear tianhou Qi old lady, where there is her there is laughter.
As the plot progresses, she becomes more confused, always thinking that her husband is still alive, and making a lot of jokes.
The reason for this was that the Japanese army dug a blockade ditch and planed the grave of the old treasurer, which made her extremely sad.
The happiness we see is nothing more than the pleasure of those of that era in order to live better.
Because of this, he empathizes with the characters and hates the invaders and traitors in laughter.
It is not surprising that some people would worship it as an infinite cycle of "God's work".
Of course, if you ask the dean which "divine work" is in his heart, I will only say-
I love it all!
"Underground Traffic Station" is a lost pearl, but also a dividing line.
In the past, it is the golden age of domestic sitcoms, and each work may have a wall of popularity, but no matter which one is taken out, there are loyal fans who have been playing in a cycle for more than ten years.
Backwards, but it was full of desolation, and there was no longer a fierce general, and he even called a certain four-character plagiarism as the king.
I am proud of the excellent works of the past, and I also regret the decline of sitcoms.
Will domestic sitcoms rise again?
Excellent original screenwriter, courage to pinpoint current events, tolerant censorship scale... With many passes in front of us, revival is not an easy task.
Therefore, I don't want you to miss the last afterglow before the sunset.
Look, and cherish.