The "囧" series is also a comedy sign of success in the mainland, and the pioneering work "People in 囧途" has earned 37.3 million at the box office with a small and large cost of 7 million.
"Tai 囧" opened the 1 billion box office club of Chinese films, which is of great significance, as for the later "Hong Kong 囧" and "囧Mom" are like chicken ribs, it is also okay to give up.
Among the four works, the highest rated is 2010's "Man on the Road", Douban is as high as 7.7 points, which is a classic comedy that can still make people laugh today.
01, the combination of boss + small three + milkman
As a classic comedy movie, "Man on the Road" is enough to attract people's attention in terms of plot setting. The film is set against the backdrop of the Spring Festival, which mainly involves three core characters.
One is Li Chenggong, the boss of xiaocheng in his career, some small money in his hand began to flutter a little, and he couldn't hold back the passion in his heart, let go of the original wife of the family, and raised Xiao San outside.
As a little third, according to the public's imagination, she should have been a person with her tail between her legs, trembling for fear of being discovered by the original match. But Manny is different, she believes that she is the indelible cinnabar mole in Li Chenggong's heart, and sooner or later she will be able to succeed in the position.
So at this important point in time during the Spring Festival, Manny asked Li to successfully take him home and let him divorce the original wife as soon as possible, which showed Xiao San's arrogant attitude.
The last key character is arguably the most unpretentious in the film, silly and silly, milker. When Wang Baoqiang appeared in a dialect, the image of Niu Geng instantly came alive.
He is an ordinary person living at the bottom of society, a bit of a crow's mouth, and unfortunate things always seem to happen to him.
Niu Geng was separated from his parents when he was young, and when he grew up, he wandered around and ran all over the country. The dairy farm where he worked also went out of business, the boss still ran away with money, and Niu Geng took on the instructions of all the workers, and it was necessary to find the boss to recover the arrears of wages before the Spring Festival came.
I have to say that the character setting in the film is quite representative, behind Li Chenggong is what we call the elite class today, some of them seem to have wealth and status, but there is no direction in the heart, selfish and indifferent.
On the contrary, the ordinary workers represented by Niu Geng, although their lives are tight, are full of human fireworks, warm and pure. These two very contrasting people met on the way home from the Spring Festival, and they were destined to be thunderous and bursting with laughter.
02, homecoming is more to return to the heart
"People on the Road" is ostensibly about the story of a group of people returning home during the Spring Festival, but if it only stays on the simple theme of returning home, this film cannot be called a classic.
As a road comedy, the reason why it has been taken out by the audience for ten years and watched repeatedly is because of the deeper meaning behind it.
The road is not only a way home, but also the road for Li to successfully return to his original intention, and the process of each of us breaking free from the outside world of flowers and flowers and rediscovering ourselves.
In the film, Li Chenggong looks like a successful career, sitting on the company, lover in his arms, bright and beautiful, so unhappy. A middle-aged man can do this to him, and in the eyes of outsiders, he is already an absolute winner in life. But as you can see, he doesn't seem to be having a very happy time.
In fact, it is. As a boss, he did not get the respect of his employees, but was called a gray wolf. As a son, the last side of his father before his death, Li Chenggong failed to catch up.
As a husband, he secretly raised Xiao San behind his back and was unfaithful to the marriage. As a father, his daughter's teacher did not know him.
In addition to the two words success in the name, career, family, marriage, Li Success does not seem to have succeeded.
Such a failed Li Chenggong met a stupid boy on the Spring Festival Road, Niu Geng. Although he didn't have much money, he used his true feelings to impress Li Chenggong's indifferent heart little by little.
On the side of the road, Niu Geng saw a female beggar begging along the street, claiming that her daughter was ill and in urgent need of money. Li Chenggong saw this scene and hurriedly pulled away Niu Geng, these people are all liars, and he warned Niu Geng not to be deceived.
Although Niu Geng didn't have any money, he felt that at least this female beggar was better off in his life, so he took out the small amount of money in his pocket and handed it to the beggar.
Li Chenggong was surprised by Niu Geng's naivety, and he insisted that the female beggar was a habitual criminal who deceived people. But the next development soon made him punch in the face.
It turned out that the female beggar herself had adopted many orphans, and in order to take care of these orphans, she had to go out to beg and make up many reasons.
Seeing this scene, the iceberg in Li Chenggong's heart seemed to begin to melt little by little, and he left all the cash on his body and then quietly left.
He had never met such a person, and the selfless dedication of the female beggars slowly pushed him to re-understand the truth, goodness and beauty of the world.
This journey is about the annual migration, and it is more about the self-redemption of a middle-aged man. The appearance of Niu Geng is a great blessing for Li Chenggong. He used his kindness and warmth to lead Li to successfully find the purest piece of pure land in his heart.
At the end of the film, Li Chenggong finally returned home, wife, daughter, and family. This is the true meaning of life, simple and ordinary happiness.
03. In front of and behind the scenes
Director Ye Weimin was very strict about the details during the filming process. Xu Zheng played by the boss Li Chenggong, a thick black hair, polished tiles, this is the crew spent more than 200,000 specially customized from Switzerland hood, for Xu Zheng's boss image, the crew is also bloody.
The train scene that appears in the movie is not an ordinary indoor scene. In order to strive to be close to reality, the crew directly transferred the set to the Wuhan Railway Station, and assembled the green-skinned carriages on the tracks, completely restoring the real train scene.
There is also a classic scene of Wang Baoqiang drinking milk in the play, a large bucket full of milk, Wang Baoqiang was stunned at the scene to drink two-thirds of the milk.
After drinking milk, I was about to shoot the picture of the plane, originally the director did not arrange the plot of the airsickness, but because Wang Baoqiang really drank too much milk, he directly threw up on the plane. After the director saw it, he felt that this paragraph was very real, so there was a scene of cows spitting up milk.
It is precisely because of the joint efforts of the director and the actors that "Man on the Road" can still stand 11 years later.
Standing on this day in 2021, looking back at this movie, the situation of some of the actors has already undergone earth-shaking changes, Xu Zheng has been promoted to film emperor, Wang Baoqiang cooperated with Zhou Xingchi, and the "Tang Detective" series is still working.
In the film, Li Chenggong and Niu Geng encounter a big-eyed melancholy handsome man Dawei on the train, although the scene is small, but it still leaves a deep impression on us.
The actor zhang chao of this big handsome guy was just a small transparent who was about to sign a record company, and "People on the Road" was only his first movie, and it was basically a dragon runner role.
Who would have thought that 11 years later, the former teenager has grown into a qualified actor, and in 2020, "Chess Soul" turned out to be a star, as the main actor, Zhang Chao once again refreshed the audience's understanding of him with the role of Chu Wei, the first person in Nanliang Go, and the cute image of the millennium has gained a large number of fans.
Coincidentally, Zuo Xiaoqing, the actor of Li Chenggong's wife in the film, also played the role of Princess Xie Wanru in the recent hit TV series "Shangyang Fu". However, compared with Zhang Chao's current praise, what is left for Zuo Xiaoqing is more bad reviews.
The whole staff is young can be said to be the inextricable stem of "Shangyang Fu", Zuo Xiaoqing more than ten years ago is the oxygen goddess full of vitality in everyone's heart, but this year, she is more than 40 years old, and it is inevitable that she will be a little reluctant to play a girl, and this scene cannot help but make people feel a little sad.
Now that 11 years have passed, and now that it is close to the Spring Festival, some classic pictures and lines of "People on the Road" have appeared in front of our eyes, "Boss, you see how yellow the Yellow River is." "Big brother, this is the Yangtze River." (Written by: Miki)