Who are the four major comedy bearers in today's Chinese film and television circle?
They are Shen Teng, Huang Bo, Xu Zheng and Wang Baoqiang, each with representative works and acting skills.
Among the Chinese 10 billion box office gentlemen, in addition to Wu Jing's bug and Xu Zheng's 10 billion box office comparison water, the remaining three comedy bearers are all worthy of the name Mr. 10 billion.
Shen Teng, "Hello, Li Huanying" 5.41 billion, "Crazy Alien" 2.21 billion, "The Richest Man in Xihong" 2.54 billion, "Flying Life" 1.72 billion, four movies broke 10 billion.
Wang Baoqiang, "Detective Chinatown 3" 4.52 billion, "Detective Chinatown 2" 3.39 billion, "Tai 囧" 1.27 billion, "A Good Drama" 1.35 billion, four movies broke 10 billion.
Huang Bo, "Crazy Alien" 2.21 billion, "A Good Drama" 1.35 billion, "Win the Championship" 830 million, "Dragon Hunt" 1.68 billion;
"Heart Flower Road Release" 1.16 billion, "Memory Master" 290 million, "Chef Drama Leper" 270 million, "Tai 囧" 1.27 billion, "Journey to the West , Descending Demons" 1.24 billion, 9 movies broke 10 billion.
In addition, most of the top 30 films in the history of Chinese film box office are starring the four of them, and the film genre is mainly home, country and laughter, and laughter occupies the main position.
The box office directly reflects the people's love and recognition, and the box office list appears many times to reflect the industry's recognition of their appeal.
At the same time, it also shows that in the past decade, domestic comedy has reached a peak, and now it is funny to reach an era of the highest dividend, which can be described as fame and fortune.
So here's the problem.
Shen Teng, Huang Bo, Xu Zheng, Wang Baoqiang, who will become the next king of comedy?
To figure this out, you have to figure out the difference between the comedies of the four of them.
Shen Teng belongs to the connotation comedy.
His performance is a comedy on the surface, but it is actually realism, and the things hidden in the depths of things need to be explored and excavated to be seen.
For example, in "Charlotte Troubles", Charlotte's yellow sorghum dream looks funny, but also in order to escape the unbearable reality, choose to live again.
However, after he became famous, he found that his most precious things were lost, so he put all the glory and wealth to pursue the former indifference and dislike.
Shen Teng's performance contrasts greatly.
From the opening chant Loading Chicken Feathers to the second half of the chant Dressing, Shen Teng's performance is pure funny.
However, from this moment on, Shen Teng was no longer funny, there was more sadness in his eyes, he could not see the shadow of the pretentious posture, and some of them were a serious performance.
It can be seen that Shen Teng is not only a comedian, but his personal characteristics are too obvious to cover his diversity and comprehensiveness, or he uses comedy to deceive the audience.
Shen Teng's comedy sees compassion in laughter, wrapping the desolate spiritual core under dense laughter, making people cry and laugh, sad and happy.
His comedic performances are not nonsensical tricks but as soft as a stream, always touching the most fragile emotions in his heart after laughing.
His performance is ultimately to make the audience laugh, this kind of laughter can be pleasant and kind, but Shen Teng's favorite is connotative.
Because he himself has said: "Everyone seems to be more accepting of your comedy form, but it will really bring you some pressure." I'm afraid that people will buckle their hats, and the more they approve of you, the harder it will be for you to get it. ”
Xu Zheng belongs to the form of comedy.
Xu Zheng's comedy is not a comedy in the pure sense, but a cloak called comedy.
Before 2006, Xu Zheng was simply funny, "Eight Precepts of the Brilliant Pig in Spring", "Li Wei became an official", and "Love Through Time and Space" were all what others gave him to play.
Until his performance encountered a bottleneck, he saw the script that Ning Hao invited Tao Hong, and he loved it, and he had the black heart boss in "Crazy Stone" and his transformation.
In 2012, the emergence of "Tai 囧" allowed Xu Zheng to gain a firm foothold in the film circle, and only then did he usher in the form comedy that truly belonged to him.
"Modern Times" is fatherly love, "Heart Flower Road Release" is a fake Wenqing, "Hong Kong 囧" is a midlife crisis, "I am not a medicine god" is a midlife crisis and realism, and "囧Mom" is a midlife crisis.
These movies are all comedies on the outside, but the core is not comedy, this is the real Xu Zheng, but also Xu Zheng's real comedy form.
Huang Bo belongs to black humor.
In all the comedies in which Huang Bo participated, he played small people.
Such as the black skin in "Crazy Racing", Geng Hao in "Crazy Racing", Niu Er in "Bullfighting", Geng Hao in "Heart Flower Road Release", and Geng Hao in "Crazy Alien".
These little people, in the face of reality, their experience is almost absurd, but they all have the same sad ending, that is, their efforts have finally compromised their lives.
They seem to be happy on the surface, but in fact they are extremely uneasy in their hearts, so they wantonly fill every moment of time with various activities, and once they stop, they are overwhelmed and do not know how to continue the next life.
This is Huang Bo's comedy, closest to Zhou Xingchi at the core.
His performance is like a "ghost hand tailor", stitching together the scattered reality in the movie, and after watching it, he will have a sense of sadness.
His films include the progress of the times, the struggles of the characters, the alienation of morality, the fall of faith, and the loss of humanity, as if it were a joke in the world.
This kind of "earthly joke" is even more manifested in his self-written and self-directed "A Good Play", using laughter and anger to do human experiments.
Wang Baoqiang belongs to nonsense.
Wang Baoqiang's comedic performance is natural, and his performance style is closest to Chow Sing Chi.
It's just that his funny way is not as comprehensive as Zhou Xingchi,Contrasting funny, action-style funny, language-style funny, ethical funny,ironic funny,Wang Baoqiang only accounts for contrasting funny and language-style funny.
For example, the contrast between the silly root in "No Thief in the World" and the experienced group of thieves, the contrast between him and Xu Zheng in the 囧 series, and the contrast between him and other famous detectives in the "Detective Chinatown" series.
Wang Baoqiang's performance did the advice Feng Xiaogang gave him.
"Wang Baoqiang, you are a grassroots, even if you become famous, it is a temporary, big waves and sand, you have to stand firm."
You don't think that you are an acting school can play any role, only by constantly strengthening the role of Silly Root, once you have this kind of role, you are the only one in China, and you can stand. ”
To sum up, none of them can become the king of comedy, and they do not want to become the king of comedy.
Their comedy performances are all branches of Stephen Chow's comedy performances, and Stephen Chow is a synthesis, so he is a master, they are actors.
After all, the connotation comedy Zhou Xingchi has "Shaolin Football", the formal comedy Zhou Xingchi has "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qi'er", the black humor Zhou Xingchi has "The King of Comedy", and the nonsense is innumerable.
It is also important to note that it is different now from previous times.
In Stephen Chow's time, movies could also be used as works of art, not only to make money, but now movies are pure commodities, and some artistic elements are mixed in the goods to sell better.
And in addition to Zhou Xingchi's early non-fame starring in four main dramas such as "Wind Catcher", "Thunderbolt Pioneer", "Dragon in the End of the World", "Wind and Rain On the Same Road" and so on, the rest are comedies.
The four of them began to transform at their peak, not just confining themselves to the category of comedians.
Because comedy is not recognized by mainstream awards, acting in comedy is ten times more tired than any drama, and now comedy is mostly a farce full of and.
They know very well that they can't become Zhou Xingchi, so they only want to be Shen Teng, Huang Bo, Xu Zheng and Wang Baoqiang.