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I believe that you have all been swept away by a three-minute program before, "Spy Wars".
Simply put, it uses various background boards and live-action props in three minutes to recreate for us almost all the classic scenes of Mission Impossible.
Like chasing —
There are all kinds of scene changes -
The three-cent special effect is just an explosion that makes you think it's funny—
Drag Racing ————
Pickpocket airplanes ————
Our point of view is achieved by placing a larger background board with a hole in the middle and simulating it into a TV screen.
From an overhead view, you probably understand how they operate.
It's really too good.
When you see that after they finish performing, the column-shaped score lamp next to them rises all the way to full marks, does it feel a little familiar?
In the summer vacation when you were bored as a child, you must have watched this show, "Super Change".
It is one of japan's hottest and longest-lived variety shows, celebrating its 40th anniversary since its inception in 1979.
"Super Change" is a translation of the name when it was introduced in Taiwan, and when we were children, we should have watched the dubbed version of Chinese.
At a time when entertainment activities are scarce, most Chinese people do not know what variety shows are, and the Internet generation has not yet come, the brain hole of this show is wide open, which should be the childhood memories of many people.
Anyone can participate in this show, as long as they are creative.
The format is to perform a creative program within three minutes, with the help of homemade props and performers' limbs.
Any show will do, as long as you make the judges laugh, feel creative novelty, and are willing to give you points, it's OK.
The winner will also receive a prize of one million yen.
The status and popularity of this show in the minds of Japanese people is even comparable to the Japanese "Spring Festival Gala" - nhk Red and White Song Club, in fact, this show was created at the beginning, that is, to compete with the red and white song club.
After so many years, although you don't remember the specific program content, you will definitely remember the classic elements in it.
For example, in that era, the sister of the bunny girl emcee who was wearing a one-piece high-footed swimsuit -
Young and lively host Achin -
The judges sitting in the audience will also disguise themselves, such as dressing as French princesses or something.
Those championship works, even now, look both sand sculptures and funny.
The winning work in the first issue is a big brother who disguises himself as a steam train, and even the steam is made by smoking himself.
Purely man-made, billiards -
This is too sand sculpture, should it be called oboe gymnastics champion?
Others paint themselves green and clip clips to make cacti, doesn't it hurt?
This champion work about drying clothes is very good, very everyday moments -
Many celebrities have served as judges for "Super Change".
For example, our dear director Nagisa Oshima has been the chief judge for several years and has dressed up in various ways.
Noriko Sakai also served as a judge.
Many people's "enlightenment teacher" Ai Iijima was also one of the judges, and the cross-dressing costumes were cute.
There are always a lot of interesting stories among the contestants.
In this program called "Incense Fireworks", the father tied his daughter to a flashing note and kept spinning to simulate fireworks and turn the living.
The judges asked him how he came up with the idea, and he said that because he was a pig, he had to stir more than twenty pounds of feed at a time, and his daughter just weighed about the same.
The scene was full of laughter, but it was also very sad.
The winner of one episode was called "Unicorn Vs. Spade Beetle," and the winner said his dream was to work under Director Spielberg.
According to the host Archchin later in an interview, the winner actually went to the United States with a prize of 1 million yen and is now working as a prop in Spielberg's crew.
There is also the famous show maniac, Katsuhiko Mitsui, who has been participating in the show since he was 16 years old, and has participated in dozens of shows so far, until he is 46 years old this year, still participating, and even found his wife in the show.
This time, "Spy Wars" should be regarded as a particularly representative category in "Super Change", because it very directly reveals the potential connection between the show and the movie. In the era when film special effects were not so developed, this show actually created "special effects" through the imagination of the contestants, and replaced the "true" of reality with the "fake" on the props.
Sometimes, when you see those well-made props, you will feel that they really should do the work of the artist of the movie, the props artist and so on.
In a way, the props made by these performers to show the various funny scenes are actually an extension of Méliès's kind of background panel special effects films.
Journey to the Moon
Why is it that such a variety show that is purely funny and all-vegetarian can persist for 40 years and flourish for a long time?
On the other hand, the domestic ace funny variety show "Kangxi Lai", all stars, but only insisted on 11 years.
The success of a show is never only related to the success of the show, but is closely related to the culture behind it.
The literal translation of the original Japanese name of the show is "Achin's Japan Drag Awards". From here, we can see that the core of the show is actually "cross-dressing".
The basic form of this show, so that real people play into a variety of things, the idea of scenes, in essence, in fact, born out of Japan's two-dimensional culture of cosplay, although on the surface, it looks completely different from the kind of cos that we usually recognize as anime characters, but on the inside, it is connected.
In fact, at the beginning, the idea proposed by the program planner was to let ordinary people play cosplay without themes and then decide each other to create a comedic effect.
This points to two fundamental points of the show's success: it is rooted in the two-dimensional cosplay culture, and their funny comedy tradition in the cultural world of art.
The fact that the hilarious route is a non-themed cos is basically a comedy that can only be done in Japan, which is determined by Japanese culture.
Although the two-dimensional culture is no longer unique to Japan, China holds comic exhibitions every year, and the second dimension has gathered its own huge group, in addition to the classic animation characters, there are also large groups that love the ancient style; the United States has the tradition of American comics, but that is a completely different system, based on the superheroes and super villains of American comics.
American comic cos
Only Japan, there is this old nonsense funny cos form, and enjoy it.
This not only reminds people of the news that Aoi Yu married a funny artist Ryota Yamazato not long ago, but also once pushed the question of why female stars marry funny artists on the hot search.
Yu Aoi marries funny entertainer Ryota Yamazato
In Japan, the cultural status of funny artists is actually very good, and the funny group "Sandwich Man" can even rank first among the most influential artists, which is unlikely to be placed in China or the West.
This is related to the fact that Japan is a country with a strong comedy tradition, and in the early years, it was listed as one of the four traditional dramas alongside Noh drama, and it was also a comedy that relied on body language to create funny effects.
Kyogen
In the current television era and the Internet era, funny artists have become the biggest inheritors of this comedy culture, they are humble, nonsensical, a mouth is a paragraph, and all kinds of tricks, spoofs, ridicule, and irony can be laughed and resolved.
In Japanese society, which is known for its rigor, self-denial, and self-control in work and daily life, it is still easy to understand that such comedies are popular. This can be seen in a way as a channel for their self-relief and release after such a tense daily life, and it is also the downward penetration of this comedic tradition.
Sandwich man
This is also why the sand sculpture nonsense comedy variety show "Super Change" can still have so many audiences in Japan when it can no longer continue in other regions, and everyone is still enthusiastic.
Comedy has never existed on its own.