In their previous lives, Chen Xiaoer and Zhao Lirong starred in a very classic comedy movie together.

was released in 1993, and the results at that time have long been impossible to verify, but even in the past 20 years, looking back and watching this movie, it naturally does not feel outdated.

Although not many people have seen this movie because of its age, this is really a veritable masterpiece, and it is definitely the best work in a comedy.

The film lineup is said to be a little less luxurious, and it may be more appropriate to describe it as luxurious.

The actor Chen Xiaoer, although some people criticize his comedy style for being too exaggerated. However, in Yi Qing's heart, Chen Xiaoer is definitely worthy of the title of comedy master.

The heroine Zhao Lirong, the audience's initial impression of Teacher Zhao Lirong is her performance on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala sketch. The demeanor, the accent, and every move are all natural.

When Yi Qing watched this movie for the first time, when she saw Teacher Zhao Lirongrong, the first feeling was that it was very wonderful, as if she was watching a sketch, and as if she was a real person around her.

She hadn't studied acting, but when she started acting, no one could feel the slightest ingenuity in her performance, so natural.

Ding Jiali, there may be some people who are not familiar with her name, but there will definitely be no one who does not know this face, and there is no shortage of her in many classic film and television dramas. And she is acting diligently, making people remember her classic role, not her personal name.

Wei Zongwan, known as the pinnacle of black humor in modern Chinese films, who doesn't know?

In addition, this drama also has Ni Dahong when he was young. Pretending to be a ghost, the teacher Li Mingqi, who only showed one side. Teacher Liu Jiang who plays the role of Hades in the middle.

A movie gathers so many old actors, and watching them compete with each other is already a great enjoyment in itself.

What's even more rare is that the story is also very exciting, the plot is compact, one laugh after another, and the whole process makes people laugh from ear to ear.

And after laughing, the content of the film's irony, looking at it decades later, is still very emotional.

The story takes place in the early days of reform and opening up, and the location is in the countryside in the north.

In order to conserve land resources, the state began to implement a cremation policy, but for native Chinese, burial is a deep-rooted concept.

Chen Erxiao, a staff member of the Red and White Council of the local Civil Affairs Bureau, still supports cremation.

The second young uncle resolutely defends the burial, and the customs of the burial are clear, as long as there are people buried in the local area, the uncle can profit from it.

At the beginning of the story, the two nephews and uncles had a fight, and the second uncle had a slight upper hand, and the uncle was naturally unwilling to admit defeat, because once he admitted defeat, his ability to eat was useless.

The flashpoint of the contradiction is concentrated on the old mother of the second child.

The old mother is close to old age, and she believes in "entering the earth for peace", for fear that she will be cremated after her death. Regarding burial or cremation, there is also friction between the mother and son.

At this time, the old man set up a plan again and invited a liar fortune teller, saying that the old lady would have a bloody disaster this year.

He also said that the old lady's husband, who died at an early age, had reached the age of marriage in the underworld, and the old lady did not go to the underworld to register, and the old man was taken away by the fox spirit.

The only way to crack it is to fake your death before Chung Yeung Festival.

The Chung Yeung Festival is the day when Lord Yama checks the household registration, and at this time, he can catch up with the registration by faking his death.

If you miss the Chung Yeung Festival, the old man who dies will not only marry a fox spirit, but the old lady will also become a lonely ghost.

When the old lady heard this, she immediately decided to fake her death.

It sounds ridiculous, but for an old man with an old mind, it kills three birds with one stone.

1. Avoid becoming a lonely ghost.

2. Avoid the wife from becoming a concubine.

3. Test the child's filial piety by the way to see if he will go against the grain and cremate himself.

As the initiator, the uncle also has his own wishful thinking, and uses the "dead" old sister to exert pressure and force the second child to be buried.

The old uncle understood that as a public official, if he started to bury him, as soon as the policy was opened, the white things would be easier to handle in the future, and his financial route would not be cut off by cremation.

An absurd oolong is staged like this.

In this process, every character has a play, and every detail is worth chewing on, which makes people can't help but laugh.

For example, when the fortune teller tells the fortune of the old lady, he holds a game console in his hand, and the game console ticks, which is the result of the computer's fortune telling, and the old lady can't understand it anyway.

This thing has now appeared in the south, and occasionally in the north, so there is no need to change this stalk.

There is also the eldest daughter of the old lady, who has a reckless personality and is particularly tough.

The younger brother does not practice burial?

Beat!

What did the husband say?

Beat!

Even when she encounters a cadre from the Civil Affairs Bureau, she has a way to torture others into white-faced evil stars.

White things need to be bought with paper, and everything in the yang world must be taken to the underworld.

Buildings, cars, household appliances, even Xiaomi has been taken into account, and the service is really intimate.

There is also the speech of the uncle when he presided over the ceremony, and it is the Buddha who came to the Buddha, the Jade Emperor, and Jesus Christ, no matter where the god can pull it over, and even the couplets posted are "get a green card early".

Bai Shi also needs to ask the monks to recite the scriptures, and this group of monks is a fake monk.

Usually dancing disco, when encountering white things, men and women wear hair covers and pretend to be monks.

If you don't know how to chant the scriptures, then you will drag your voice and shout "eat grapes without spitting out grape skins".

Needless to say, it's really like that.

There was a lot of commotion outside, and the old lady was not at peace hiding in the coffin.

People eat and drink Lazar, and when she is hungry, she eats secretly while people are not paying attention.

In a hurry to go to the toilet, she was holding back her legs in the coffin.

In fact, the farce has developed so farce, and many things have become clear at a glance.

In many places, the countryside pays attention to burials, and whoever does the scenery of white things will be filial to their children and grandchildren.

But in fact, the people buried in the ground have long been unconscious, and the scenery has no meaning to the people who leave.

As for the people who live in the world, they blow and blow, hold feasts, and contribute money and efforts.

In the end, it's all about saving face.

The old lady faked her death, and the concept of her lifelong persistence gradually collapsed.

The son-in-law has already complained because he has contributed too much money.

The second little tiger was difficult to ride, so he had to borrow loan sharks to handle the funeral.

Neighbors watched the chickens and dogs jump at home, and they also complained.

The old lady has been kind to people all her life, begging for the safety of her children and grandchildren, and seeing her children and grandchildren toss like this, her heart is really uneasy.

The customs she embraced turned out to be all sorts of deceptions.

Her brother persuaded her to fake her death and took the opportunity to cheat her children out of money.

The invited false monks, men and women, wore hair covers, just to earn money.

Relatives and friends cried, but as soon as the braised pork was served, they immediately stopped their tears.

Isn't it a joke that your own children suffer and others enrich their own pockets?

Rather than saying that this movie is satirizing the old idea of burial, Yi Qing prefers to think that it is satirizing the behavior of big deals.

For red and white ceremonies, there are always some people who want to save face and scenery, and for this reason, regardless of personal strength, at any cost.

But really, what is the need?

The red thing focuses on the newcomer's heart, and the white thing focuses on giving the living people a thought, and it is enough to do it within their own ability.

Although the whole movie is a realistic satirical comedy, after watching it, it is not difficult to experience the strong family affection behind the spicy irony in this absurdity.

Filial sons and grandsons are waiting.

This sentence was originally a sentence when the uncle presided over the white affairs.

However, the old lady is indeed being served by her filial sons and grandsons at home.

The daughter knew that she wanted a good coffin, so she bought her a good coffin.

The second child knew that her mother's legs and feet were sick, and often rubbed her legs.

In many things, they have different concepts, but everyone is honoring the old lady in their own way.

Filial piety to parents is not about how much money you give, nor is it about obeying your parents, but only about your heart.

It's a pity that because of the age, not many people have seen it, and the influence of this movie is a little smaller, but this does not affect the movie itself to become a classic.

Whether a movie is qualified to become a classic or not, there is another criterion for judging, that is, whether it can find its own shadow in the body of the latecomer.

For example, Feng pants in his previous life undoubtedly referred to this one.

However, it is not good to learn not like it, Feng pants changed the story of this fake funeral, but it greatly destroyed the strength of the irony of the original story, thus making the film scattered, although it is still very coke by various bridges, but the strength of the theme has been weakened, and the root cause is that the resonance of the audience has been destroyed.

, close to life, not only reflects the sensitive social issues at the time, but also allows the audience to feel the strong family affection in addition to irony, as for the neurotic thoughts of a foreign old man, the whimsical nonsense of two little people, who cares?

is a very typical ironic story, the audience knows that the second child's mother is faked to death, but except for the parties and uncles who know the truth, the characters in the film don't know this fact.

So the director can show his skills in this very classic ironic structure, allowing all kinds of characters to appear on stage to show the absurdity of the times.

As an audience who knows everything, watching the two small families struggle under the double burden of filial piety and national civil servants, and at the same time, the economic pressure also makes the family on the verge of collapse, loyalty and filial piety cannot be both, and the living let the dead suffocate to death, which is vividly reflected.

As a son of man, it is very easy for the audience to understand Xiao Er's feelings, and the process of empathy is very natural.

On the other hand, the clue of the second youngest son is used very cleverly.

This line seems to me to serve two purposes, one of which is to constantly reinforce the fact that "the mother is still alive" through the interaction between the grandson and the grandmother.

These interactions make it impossible for the audience to forget the existence of the mother, which not only reinforces the strength of the irony, but also explains the mother's feelings as an insider.

In other words, as a mother who enjoys the same information as the audience, her personal feelings are also conveyed to the audience through these interactions, but she is also trapped in the game and does not dare to quit, which makes the audience feel more struggles, thus further strengthening the audience's resonance.

The communication between the "dead" grandmother and the ignorant grandson seems so natural, on the one hand, the warmth of the family is displayed, and on the other hand, the sense of absurdity is also reflected.

Here in Feng Pants, this ironic story is ruined.

On the one hand, it comes from the story setting itself, and on the other hand, it comes from the creator's own cleverness.

In the first story, there is no relationship between Geyu and Taylor, family and friendship cannot be discussed, and the lack of motivation leads to the difficulty of resonance.

This pair of Feng pants was reluctantly solved in the film for economic reasons, and the money drove Ge You to the shelves, for this statement, as an audience, it is barely acceptable, but the resonance is no longer natural and not strong enough, at the end of the story, the same is true for the audience's feelings, absurdity, funny, but there is no more empathetic touch.

Secondly, Feng's use of irony in the middle is very blunt.

At first he throws out the message that Taylor is dead, and then in the middle it turns into surprise that Taylor is brought back to life, after which the film takes a turn to irony.

I already knew that in a story, the advantage of irony is that the audience knows more information than the characters, and the audience watches the people in the bureau struggle in danger or absurdity without knowing it, and at the same time, because of the resonance, the empathetic audience involuntarily has a sense of urgency and anxiety.

But in the middle, the surprise in the middle of the film seems very cheap, since it is absurd, it is naturally more appropriate to use irony rather than mystery, Feng Pants is obviously aware of this, so he hurriedly explained the fact that Taylor was rescued after less than twenty minutes, and the audience did not know this fact before, therefore, Ge You's previous behavior has no ironic meaning for the audience, and the absurdity of the nearly twenty-minute scene is weakened.

In fact, this surprise is completely meaningless, it is better to tell the story that it is fake death at the beginning, so that the irony can be smoothly unfolded.

There is no distinction between high and low stories, and there is a difference between good and bad storytelling.

The comparison between the two films is undoubtedly a big step higher, the simple and moving family affection ensures the resonance with the audience, the honest and direct story unfolds without pretending to be smart, and the ironic story can go smoothly, which is the relative reason for success.

In terms of the final effect, the political propaganda effect has undoubtedly been achieved, and it is difficult for the audience not to say "cremation, no more burial" like Zhao Lirong after watching it.

In addition to the political effect, it is not easy to be a son of people, and it is not easy to be a parent, and the deep emotions of being a parent are also shown, and a mourning dialogue between Er Xiao and his mother, although it is a policy propaganda discourse, the creator obviously makes this straightforward political mobilization have a trace of embarrassment, and the audience will never forget it and empathize with it after watching it.

On the other hand, Feng pants seems to want to embody the mercenary beings under the commodity economy, but such a modern and ambiguous theme obviously does not let the audience experience what he imagined.

Although all kinds of subtle and playful lines, they are still buzzwords many years later.

But as far as the film is concerned, after watching it, the audience seems to have only left various jokes, especially Li Chengru's image of a real estate madman, which is even more impressive than the hero and heroine.

Especially the setting of the ending of the story is simply disgusting, Uncle Ge and the big-eyed beauty are together inexplicably.

What a fuss!

Is there foreshadowing ahead?

How did this magical relationship happen?

Is it because Uncle Ge designed Taylor's funeral well, Guan Da Beauty thinks that maybe there will be a place to meet Uncle Ge in the future, such as her fart, let Uncle Ge also help with it?

Inexplicable!

Maybe others can see the wonderful places in this story, Yi Qing's appreciation level is not enough, in short, after watching this play in his previous life, he felt that his IQ was insulted, so he quickly turned out Chen Xiaoer and Zhao Lirong's teachers and watched it again.

It's also absurd and ironic, the whole story is completely out of life, out of bounds, many places are completely for the sake of being funny and then forced to create jokes, and the suspense is not set up properly, I don't know what to do, and in the end it is a failure of storytelling.

In the middle of the big name, Feng pants borrowed the producer's mouth to say "What happens later, only God and Hitchcock know", maybe he remembered Hitchcock, the same mystery turned irony, and the process of turning was also a surprise.

But the first and second halves are extremely subtle to show Scoti's complex humanity, and the final ending has a very strong impact on the audience.

Feng Pants wanted to pay tribute to the master, but he chose to imitate it with a strong local flavor, and finally made a four-like one.

Fortunately, the Columbia company was behind the filming of this film at that time, otherwise maybe the Huayi brothers would have been yellow.

In fact, in Yi Qing's view, it doesn't matter what the story is when making a movie, how to choose the right method, this is the key.

Honestly choosing the classic method, without paying homage to the alternative masterpiece of self-inflicted wisdom, is undoubtedly a better choice at that time, just as Yi Qing wanted to tell Chen Xiaoer and Zhao Lirong the story.

The story is actually not long, the key lies in the design of the bridge, which connects many comedy points together, and they must be closely related to each other.

Yi Qing just told Chen Xiaoer and Teacher Zhao Lirong a general plot, and the two of them couldn't help laughing along with Yi Qing's description.

Chen Xiaoer himself is a joke king, listening to Yi Qing, he quickly thought of a lot of jokes that can be kneaded in, in fact, comedy is very simple, the key is to have a good idea, which can also be said to be a good platform, and then add condiments to this platform.

As for Teacher Zhao Lirong, the old lady just thought it was quite interesting.

Pretend to be dead and let her children do the funeral, what kind of old lady can be so heartless.

Wait a minute, tell me that you don't plan to let me play that old lady who lacks heart, right?

"Xiao Yi, are you going to let me play along?"

Teacher Zhao Lirong is so old, except for acting in one episode, he has never done anything unrelated to drama commentary.

I've also made movies about drama reviews before, but it's not the same thing!

Yi Qing was stunned for a moment, then smiled, and dared to say that he had been talking for a long time, and the old lady had just reacted.

"Yes, I think it's appropriate for you to act. ”

The old lady inside, except for Teacher Zhao Lirong, Yi Qing really can't think of anyone else who can play it.

"But I can't act, it's still a comedy, how do I know how to act. ”

Yi Qing hurriedly said: "You don't have to think about how to act, just follow what you do in your usual life." ”

Teacher Zhao Lirong still has no bottom in his heart: "I don't know how to read, don't wait for the time to delay your business." ”

"When you were filming Journey to the West and Dream of Red Mansions, didn't you ask someone to read your lines to you, you can memorize it, just follow this when the time comes. ”

Teacher Zhao Lirong memorized the lines, and he really should let those digital ladies know about it well.

Yi Qing's words have all come to this, and Teacher Zhao Lirong is embarrassed to refuse.

Besides, when she heard Yi Qing tell this story just now, she also thought it was quite interesting, so she might as well try it.

"That's okay, but we have to say it, if you don't think it's okay, you can change people early, don't delay the business. ”

Teacher Zhao Lirong has made up her mind, and the next thing is up to Chen Xiaoer.

"Little second brother, what do you say?"

When Chen Xiaoer listened to it just now, he actually already had an idea in his heart, this is a good story, if the script is done well, it will definitely be welcomed.

"I'm sure I don't have anything to say, but how long will it take for us to get this script out?"

Yi Qing was stunned, what does this mean?

The outline of the script has been given, and Chen Xiaoer himself is not without creative ability, he has participated in the creation of several sketches and scripts performed in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala before.

"I've said everything I can say, how to write it, you can do it yourself, can this still be difficult for you?"

When Chen Xiaoer heard this, he shook his head again and again: "I? I can't do it, my sketch, it's okay to pinch a few jokes, let me write a movie script, I can't come, or you come, you can rest assured that Mr. Meng of Beijing Film Studio can write it." ”

it!

Yi Qing now felt that he was digging a pit and jumping into it by himself.

It really didn't take long to write this script, but he already has a lot of work to do in the coming year, and this is not counting what Yi Qing is planning and hasn't said to Li Hong yet, co-producing a TV series with Xiangjiang ATV.

"You stop this idea as soon as possible, I don't have time now, so let's go back and improve the outline of the script, the line creation, and how to add condiments to it, I don't care, you come by yourself." ”

Chen Xiaoer listened, he also knew that Yi Qing was now a celebrity in the unit and was responsible for many things, otherwise the leaders of Beijing and Taiwan could rest assured that they would hand over all of his such a party to Yi Qing?

"Okay, I'll try, but when it's finalized, you'll have to help you see it. ”

There is no problem with this, of course.

"The sketch is ready, and it's time for rehearsal. ”