Li Chengru is a very interesting person.
In the entertainment industry, his "dare to say" has become one of its "labels", and his first video program "Juru Life" recently launched by him is very popular with the audience.
In the first program, he chatted about love movies, and even more sharply pointed out the shortcomings of the current young actors, so that netizens called out: Still that taste!
In a recent show, Li Chengru talked about the comedy works that the majority of the audience liked in recent years.
1. The development of film history also needs a new perspective
In Li Chengru's view, comedy can be traced back to the silent film era as early as possible, and the most outstanding of which is the comedy master Mr. Chaplin.
As a product of the times, Chaplin completed the expression of comedy in his own way, and his achievements are difficult to be surpassed, and the classic works such as "Modern Times" dedicated to him have become one of the monuments of film history.
However, since the advent of sound films in 1931, many silent film actors have lost the market, and the original exaggerated body performances have gradually been unacceptable to the audience.
The reason is nothing more than the technological revolution that makes the original film elements not have enough stimulation to the audience, and secondly, the single form also makes the audience hope for new breakthroughs in the subconscious.
Although Li Chengru did not use a lot of language to express this point, from the silent film, to the audio film, the spring festival gala works, it can also be understood that the development of film and television is bound to need a new perspective to interpret.
2. Sketches are the basis of comedians
On the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, the field of sketches shines brightly.
In 1983, on the first Spring Evening, Yan Shunkai performed "A Q's Monologue", which for the first time put the comedy performance form of "sketch" on the silver screen.
The following year, Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao collaborated on "Eating Noodles", which made the sketch officially become an independent form of art performance.
Among them, the promotion of Zhao Benshan, Guo Da, Huang Hong, Song Dandan and others has also made the sketch a fixed column of the Spring Festival Gala.
However, for film and television actors, the ability of sketches is the foundation.
Of course, since the development of the film, the sketch also has 40 years of development time.
Li Chengru also said that he has also starred in two or three works, such as ""Chicken" Guan Shu exhausted.
But for actors, there should still be a series or movie with a large set of costs.
This is not to say that "some sketch actors" can't do it.
In today's Chinese film and television circles, many people are from sketches, such as Shen Teng, who brought "Charlotte Troubles", "The Richest Man in Xihong", "Crazy Aliens" and so on, all of which have been loved by the audience.
There is also Jia Ling, who has made such a phenomenon-level comedy movie as "Hello, Li Huanying".
Therefore, Li Chengru still stressed that "the laughter brought by the sketch has limitations."
And the truth is also the case, take Jia Ling's "Hello, Li Huanying" as an example, there was once a version of the sketch, but it was far less shocking than the movie.
3, comedy is the most difficult, playing a good high-level high is even more difficult
Among the genres of drama, tragedy, comedy and many other dramas, Li Chengru believes that comedy is the most difficult.
Because laughter is not prepared, and crying can brew emotions, so in the performance, crying is easier than laughing.
He took Sheng Yilun's comment in the show as an example, "Crying has a memory, remember the state at that time, you can play a good crying scene."
Comedy, by comparison, is not that simple.
It takes effort to make people laugh, especially in the casual state of stimulation.
At this point, Li Chengru believes that "The Story of the Editorial Department" and "I Love My Home" are doing a good job, although they are indoor sitcoms, but these two dramas can catch the audience's "laughter" in details.
As for "The Legend of Wulin", which is also a sitcom, it is less "textured" and is rated by him as "a nonsense version of Hong Kong".
In recent years, there have been fewer and fewer Chinese comedy films that can make Li Chengru look forward to.
One of the reasons is the experience and energy of the main creators, for example: Feng Xiaogang after bringing "Party A and Party B", "Big Name", "Private Customization", the work has gradually shown some similarities, after all, people can not continue to surpass themselves forever.
This situation also exists among the older generation of artists, and even many actors or directors eat this play for a lifetime.
The second is that the creative form of comedy films needs to borrow traditional comedy works.
In the program, he took Zhang Yimou's "Have Something to Say" as an example, in which the actor in the play shouted "An Hong, I miss you" scene, which is to borrow from the three-turn and four-shaking in the cross-talk work, and then dragonfly a little water to inform the audience.
In this paragraph, we can see Li Chengru's cognition in the direction of comedy development, among which he commented on Xu Zheng's points, And Xu Zheng also said in an interview that there are creative limitations, which is a "common disease" in many directors.
At the end of the show, he also talked about Hong Kong comedies, which are nothing more than amplification of physical performances and less humorous high-level.
Of course, like the first issue, in the Easter egg of this issue, Li Chengru recommended the movie "Big Shot".
As a classic representative of comedy, this movie has interesting lines and is worth watching.
Continuing the sharp "style", the excitement of "Drama Confucian Life" will always be in the next issue, continue to look forward to!
(Rotten Tomatoes Movie Editorial Department: Liangchen)