At the just-concluded Shanghai International Film Festival, the film "Northeast Tiger" directed by Geng Jun and starring Zhang Yu and Ma Li won the Golden Jubilee Award for Best Film
Geng Jun defines the film as "a comedy with a sense of absurdity in the main drama"; Ma Li said that "every character is comedic and also has black humor".
Speaking of black humor, I have to mention the following two movies
Both are also closely related to "Happy Twist"
Both films are masterpieces of "black humor"
"Half a Comedy" is composed of the team of Happy Twist Film Donkey Got Water
It took three years to polish
The lead actor Wu Yuhan is also a writer and director signed by Happy Twist
He was also nominated for Best Actor at the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Awards
Compete on the same stage with Huang Xiaoming, Xiao Yang, Yi Qianxi and Dapeng
Although he did not win the award, he also won the "Best Emerging Actor Award" of the Huading Awards of Chinese Film and the "Best Actor Award" of the Golden Deer Award of the China Changchun Film Festival
You may want to ask, "Happy Twist" is not a sketch staged at the Spring Festival Gala?
No, it's a stage play? emmm... These are all right~
But "Happy Twist" surprises are more than you might think
Happy Twist: Stage Drama + Movie + Musical...
Multi-field development, stars often make guests
In 2003, Zhang Chen and 3 other people were "idle and idle", and a stage play was named "Want to Eat Twist Flowers now screw you", and then used this play as a starting point to create "Happy Twist" and pioneered the concept of "New Year Stage Drama".
Over the years, Happy Twist has formed a model with stage drama as the core and multiple businesses developing together, and its representative works are:
Movies: "Charlotte Troubles", "Li Cha's Aunt", "Shy Iron Fist", etc. (adapted from the stage play of the same name)
Musicals: "Grandpa", "Daydream", "Fall in Love!" Humanity" and so on
Web dramas: "Happy Twist Theater", "Jianghu Academy", etc
The star lineup accumulated by happy twist is even stronger! The pioneering work "Want to Eat Twist Flowers Now Screw You" starred He Jiong and Xie Na; Shen Teng, Ma Li, etc. developed into sketches, variety shows, movies and other fields; as well as Shang Wenjie, Bao Bell, Liu Yan, Qiao Shan and other artists in various fields have appeared in their works.
Wu Yuhan led the original team of "Li Cha's Aunt"
Super lineup teamed up to create "Shakespeare Don't Get Angry"
Wu Yuhan, in addition to being handsome and superb in acting, is often referred to as "the most powerful director and actor of the new generation of happy twist". The third edition of the aforementioned musical "Grandpa" is the highest-grossing musical of Happy Twist, ranking in the top 10 of the national musical theater box office for many years, and the first round of Douban score is as high as 9.5~
Written and directed by him, the stage play "Li Cha's Aunt" is a hilarious New Year's work of Happy Twist in 2016, which has been performed in more than 700 consecutive performances in the offline theater, which is very popular and loved by drama fans across the country; in 2018, it was directed by Wu Yuhan and put on the silver screen, starring Huang Cailun, Allen, Lu Jingshan, Song Yang and so on.
Huang Cailun is also the star of many twist dramas such as "Charlotte Troubles" and the champion of the 2014 "Chinese Comedy Star", in which he single-handedly plays a mixed role of men and women. He plays the "fake aunt", golden fluffy wig, elegant couture women's clothing, orchid little finger upturned, exaggerated and feminine, this temperament contrast is "absolutely amazing"!
In addition, Zhang Yiming, director of the happy twist stage drama "Li Cha's Aunt", screenwriter of the hit TV series "Joyful Secret Agent", and a group of twist meritorious actors gathered together to ensure that you will not stop laughing~
Imaginative directorial ideas
Complex "play within a play" deconstructs the classic
In addition to the baggage of laughter, the most special thing about the play is the "play within a play" form, which restores a real and complete drama crew to the audience, and all the conditions of the behind-the-scenes staff such as actors, directors, sound engineers, lighting engineers, stage supervisors, and field workers are presented on the stage.
The stage directly extends the viewing field from 180° to 270°
The play tells the story of the day of the performance of the play "Romeo and Juliet", when the director received a threatening phone call saying that his granddaughter had been kidnapped and asked for a complete adaptation of the performance that night. Directors who have been practicing serious art have to ask for "magic reform". The scene is full of conditions, props are broken, actors strike... The stage supervisor hurriedly persuaded and adjusted, and the sound engineer "crazy stepping point" became a "rescue DJ"!
The crazy director in the play
In the works of Happy Twist, there are often deconstructed classic expressions, Wu Yuhan said that the drama structure of this play has two layers, the first layer from the set, costumes, soundtrack to maximize the restoration of Shakespeare's original drama color, twist actors will perform in the most traditional way.
Costumes, props, and sets strive to restore 100% of the European Middle Ages, and Twist has been refining the choreography for many years, and the effect presented is surprising every time
On the basis of restoration, this layer of structure will be destroyed through external dramatic conflicts, retaining the rigorous dramatic structure and moving artistic feelings of the original work, coupled with the creator's understanding of current Chinese culture, and paying tribute to the classics with wisdom and humor.
In addition, this play invites the audience to watch a performance from the perspective of a dramatist, to understand more real situations in front of and behind the scenes, which is also a different interpretation.
Wu Yuhan also admitted frankly: "The coercion of the director in the play can be understood as a kind of kidnapping from the outside world, in addition to paying tribute to the master, I also want to explore some of the dilemmas and choices faced by the current drama creators through such conflicts." ”
Tragedy turns into comedy alternative homage
"One Quest, Two Styles"
The main creative team of the super lineup
An unmissable masterpiece of innovation
Shakespeare Don't Get Angry, commemorating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death
On June 26th, it will be staged in Nine Trees!
Follow such an anti-heavenly team to get close to Shakespeare in black humor!
Happy twist hilarious comedy
Shakespeare Don't Get Angry
Venue: Nine Trees Future Art Center, Coliseum
Ticket price: 680/580/480/380/280/80 yuan
Duration: 90 minutes (subject to availability)
*The lineup is subject to actual conditions
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