Chapter 81: Sitcom

The next day, still in Li Hong's office, Yi Qing handed in the script of the three episodes that he had written all night, probably because there was Zhuyu from "Desire" and "Breaking through the Guandong" in front of him, Li Hong immediately threw aside the work at hand, and read Yi Qing's new work with great interest, looking forward to new surprises.

But~~~~~~~~

"Xiao Yi, you wrote this script~~~~~ wrote ~~~~~~ it"

Rao is Li Hong, a high-achieving student who graduated from the Department of Chinese at Beijing University, and he can't think of a word to use for a while, which is more suitable to summarize this script.

"It's a bit of a bad thing!"

In the end, Yi Qing came up with a very eye-catching adjective, which was appropriate.

Li Hong put down the script and said angrily: "You're embarrassed to say it, what are you writing here, the drama is not like the drama, the comedy is not like the comedy, it looks a bit like a sketch." ”

This year's Spring Festival Gala, Chen Xiaoer and Zhu Laomao put the performance method of sketches on the stage for the first time, and since then, this form of comedy has broken into the audience's field of vision, gradually overwhelming the relatively single form of cross talk, and began to dominate language programs on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.

"You're right, it's really the way of sketches, these three episodes of scripts, although they all take place in a family, but each episode has a story, and there is only a connection between the characters, and it is not wrong to say that it is a long sketch. ”

Yi Qing said the script that she seemed to be very unorthodox seriously, and she really couldn't say anything: "But this kind of TV series, do you think the audience will like it." ”

In Li Hong's view, Yi Qing's script is not only improper, it is simply deviant, the story unfolds in a family, but this family can't find a real positive character with a tall image at all.

The common character structure of today's film and television dramas is good and bad, at best, it is full of ignorant and blind people, good is good, bad is bad, and the boundaries are clear.

And a group of main characters in Yi Qing's story say that they are good people, but everyone has a bunch of small problems, saying that they are bad people, but they really haven't done anything bad, but they are full of flashes of human nature, but they are not obvious.

Such a TV series, what will the audience like?

Yi Qing asked rhetorically: "Comedy TV series can make people happy, why don't the audience like it, Director Li, in fact, this type of TV series has long existed abroad, such as "I Love Lucy" broadcast on CBS TV in the United States in 1951, that's it, absurd, humorous, a small story per episode, since in the United States, this type of TV series can be very popular, why can't it be in China?"

In fact, in the memory of Yi Qing's previous life, sitcoms not only have the soil for survival in China, but also are very popular, starting from "The Story of the Editorial Department", "I Love My Family", "A Family in the Northeast", "The Story of the Cooking Class", and the popular "Wulin Gaiden", each sitcom has had a great impact on society.

Those classic characters and classic lines are even more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people than many dramas, and some even watch it more than ten years later, and they can still giggle with "hehe".

Li Hong really didn't know how to refute when asked by Yi Qing, so she could only correct the characters in the characters: "But these characters you wrote, the audience can like them, being the father-in-law of the eldest family is rigid and dogmatic, and talking about the old man behind the back of the daughter-in-law, when the son not only does not stop but also echoes it, and this little daughter, what does she say, 'Learn English all day long, and have a headache when you see Chinese characters', this is not a foreign flattery, by the way, this granddaughter, for pocket money and grandpa, I really can't find a positive character here." ”

That's right, the current film and television dramas are full of tall and complete, Wei Guangzheng, Yi Qing is not opposed to creating heroic characters, and also agrees with the educational significance brought by those heroic characters, but film and television dramas can't all be such characters, no matter how others feel sorry for him, he has no complaints, forgives for a lifetime, helps the poor for a lifetime, and at the last moment of his life, he has to think about the people around him who need help.

There are indeed such people, such as those who left 8 years ago, decades, even after hundreds of years, people still miss them, but how many such great people can there be?

What people see in their lives is more ordinary people, who do not do great good, do not do great evil, live a down-to-earth life, live their own lives, have some small problems on their bodies, and also have flashes of human nature, such characters are real.

What Yi Qing wants to write is such a story, the story of an ordinary family in Beijing, not so much magnificent and proud, but the parents are short.

"Director, this story I wrote is for the common people to see, the audience watched this play, bringing laughter, as long as there is a little bit of start, I don't even dare to say the educational significance, I am also an ordinary person, why should I educate others. ”

Li Hong listened to it and felt that Yi Qing was deviant, but he had to admit that what Yi Qing said made sense, the Chinese people have been educated a lot, they were educated by teachers in school, they were educated by their parents at home, and they were educated by leaders in the unit.

"Then let's give it a try. ”

Li Hong finally made up her mind, although she felt that this story was different from the structure of popular film and television dramas, it could not be denied that she really thought it was interesting to watch this story.

"By the way, why doesn't this play have a name?"

"Yes!"

Yi Qing got up as he spoke, walked to Li Hong's desk and picked up the pen, and wrote four big words above the first page of the script: I love my family!

That's right, Yi Qing wants to shoot this drama, although in his previous life, this drama was not the first sitcom in China, but in terms of influence, "I Love My Family" is definitely more than "The Story of the Editorial Department".

Both dramas also reflect current social phenomena, but "The Story of the Editorial Department" is limited by the background of the shooting environment, and there is no way for the characters to conflict with each other, and the audience will definitely feel uncomfortable when watching it, but "I Love My Home" is different.

In human social activities, the most conflicting thing is not the workplace, but the family, the conflict of ideas between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, the conflict between sisters-in-law, the conflict of interests between brothers, and the little thing between neighbors, blended together, is there anything more lively than this?

This drama was actually in Yi Qing's plan for a long time, but he didn't want to take it out so quickly, because when this drama was broadcast in the previous life, it was already the mid-nineties, and the background of many stories was not suitable to play it now.

But in order to transfer Fu Yiwei's work as soon as possible, Yi Qing can't care so much, take out what can be filmed, and release what can't be filmed first, anyway, Yi Qing doesn't plan to make this drama like the original, it will end before 200 episodes, he wants to make this theme into a series, shoot one season a year, thirty episodes per season, and it is best to make it the longest-lived sitcom in China.

"I love my family, this name is good, no matter what kind of problems exist in this family, no matter what shortcomings there are in the family, the family is the most worthy of a person's love, this name is good, just use this. ”

"Director Li, this script is here, our fund is ~~~~~~~"

Li Hong smiled: "500,000, I have borrowed it, and the station also agreed to my proposal, in the future, our production center will be self-reliant and develop independently." ”

"And my girlfriend's job?"

This is what Yi Qing is most concerned about, and everything else has to be leaned to the side.

Li Hong said with a smile: "Our unit has begun to operate independently, can we still talk about two people?"