Nandu News Reporter Cai Liyi TVB's recent works of word-of-mouth ups and downs, the highly anticipated sequel to the classic drama "Top Gun Master Sister 2021" at the beginning of the year lost word of mouth, recently Ouyang Zhenhua, Ma Dezhong and other veteran generals starred in the "Guy Remember to Do Big Things" scored high and low, but there are still some amazing works to brush the audience's eyeballs, including the news reality show "Looking for People" that recently won the Douban 9.4 points of super high reputation; in terms of dramas, TVB began to launch a lot of high-quality short dramas last year, douban 8.6 points of 12 episodes of the short drama "". "Hong Kong Love Story" and the 8-episode short drama "Absurd Theater Troupe" with 8 points of Douban in the just finale are all alternative Hong Kong dramas that use cutting-edge directors and bold and innovative creative techniques.
The high-energy short drama "Absurd Theater Troupe" is supervised by Pan Jiade and starring Zheng Danrui, Ao Jianian, Jiang Jiamin and others, combining drama and cinematic shooting methods, adopting a new narrative method of "drama within a play", combining the imaginative "absurd" bridge section, with reflections on the film industry, telling the story of film and television people, which is highly metaphorical. The drama reached the first place in the number of broadcasts on the buried pile platform, with a Douban score of 8.0, which won the praise of many film critics.
The surface is exaggerated and funny, and the core is thought-provoking
The shorter the number of episodes, the more carefully polished the content, and "boutique short dramas" have increasingly become a new trend in global dramas. Last year, TVB launched the 12-episode short drama "Hong Kong Love Story", which deeply reflects social reality, which received a high score of 9.0 from Douban and won the "Best Short Series" award at the TVB Awards Ceremony.
Stills from The Absurd Theatre Company.
In this year's 8 episodes of "Absurd Theater Troupe", TVB is more bold, jumping out of the love drama code, using "suspense + funny" layout to produce a high-quality black humor short drama, and finally achieving a double harvest of word-of-mouth and ratings, becoming a breakthrough in TVB's exploration of new dramas, and also reflecting the continuous innovation of Hong Kong dramas and catering to the tastes of modern audiences.
"The Absurd Theater Company" tells the story of a group of desperate filmmakers.
"The Absurd Theater Company" tells the story of a group of desperate filmmakers. Frustrated producer, frustrated director, frustrated screenwriter, unemployed martial finger, lost beauty finger, not red female artist, ignorant assistant director... These seven filmmakers of different types of work gathered because of the script of "Golden Dream", and the fire of their dreams for the film and television industry was rekindled, so that they were willing to go down the path of being a liar. Wrapping the core of tragedy with a funny plot is a common expression of black comedy. "Absurd Theater Troupe" treats "joy" more "absurd", and when it comes to the "sad" part, it is extremely ironic.
Playing a mysterious diner to eat a bully meal, fighting with a god stick, fighting bully investors, helping the underworld boss find his first love... "Absurd Theater Troupe" is a unit story in one episode, the rhythm is very clear and fast, which can make the audience laugh, and reflect the filmmaker's madness in laughter and anger.
Each episode begins with a delicate monologue of characters and thought-provoking lines, which makes people feel sad in their hearts. Behind the funny and funny, there is a deep sadness.
"Actually, the movie is a 90-minute hoax"
"My life has long been handed over to Hong Kong movies"
"A good audience is to know how to appreciate"
"Now is not to shoot, but to shoot well"...
The frequent golden sentences in "Absurd Theater Troupe" express the filmmakers' sincere love for the industry, and also the helplessness of the current situation of the industry in the cold winter of film and television.
The ending is a golden dream, and the monologue of Zheng Dan provokes tears
One of the main actors of "Absurd Theater Troupe" is Zheng Danrui, a senior senior in the show business circle and known as "Brother Dan".
One of the main actors of "Absurd Theater Troupe" is Zheng Danrui, a senior senior in the showbiz circle and known as "Brother Dan", who plays the supervising producer responsible for pulling investment for the crew, and is the soul of the entire "Absurd Theater Troupe". In the finale, he left a video self-description for the team in front of the camera, Dan Ge's acting skills are exquisite and delicate, and he tells the voice of the characters in the play with red eyes and tears, which is extremely infectious and makes people moved.
The male protagonist Ao Jianian reversed the image of the past and played the role of "Absurd Theater Company" for the first time, playing the director Chen Zhiyang and Playing With Zheng Danrui, and the two powerful actors played the intimate and contradictory partnership between the producer and the director very brilliantly. The heroine Jiang Jiamin is also the first time to take charge, she plays the screenwriter Sasha in the play, one person plays two personalities, funny performance of the role's "inner small theater", the rapid switching of emotions is very in place.
The 86-year-old Roland made a cameo appearance.
There is also an 86-year-old Roland cameo in the play. In the play, Roland explained the young juniors, sincerely told his experience in shooting ghost films, and contributed to the sobering golden sentences such as "being a person is being a person, acting is acting", "having problems is not necessarily solved, the most important thing is to learn how to coexist with problems". Famous movie star Pan Zhiwen, TVB children's program originator Tan Yuying sister also made cameos, although the play is short, the lineup is shining.
"Absurd Theater Company" tells that every filmmaker has a "golden dream" hidden in his heart, which represents the ultimate dream of filmmakers, and the dream form is different, but the dream process is always tortuous and arduous. At the end of the story, the souls of the seven people reunited, and finally began to shoot "Golden Dream". Although until the finale, the lushan face of the "golden dream" was not specifically unveiled, but from the mouth of the male protagonist Chen Zhiyang, the audience learned that "the golden dream is a set of science, love, plot, philosophy in one of the tomes", and "plus the action elements that Hong Kong movies are proud of", leaving the audience with unlimited reverie, and the end of "Absurd Theater Troupe" also left a small Easter egg that made the audience full of question marks.
When it comes to TVB, there are always people who criticize its demise and the golden age is no more. However, small surprises such as "Absurd Theater Troupe" and "Looking for Someone" surface from time to time, and when these works with differentiated creations, excellent themes and quality still emerge, TVB is not blindly backward and beaten, it is also exploring new ways to start again.