Stephen Chow's nonsensical comedy is considered a work of deconstructionism. Song Shijie in "The Judge of the Dead", Supreme Treasure in "Journey to the West", Tang Bohu in "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance", and Bao Qingtian in "Jiupin Sesame Official", they all have an established image in the minds of the audience, but in Stephen Chow's films, in addition to justice, kindness, and sincerity, they all have crazy language, funny actions, free and bold, without exception; Adding modern popular words or fashionable actions to the lines of costume dramas, and adding vulgar terms such as ", pee, fart" to modern lines, creates a comedic effect in a relaxed and comfortable way.

Ge You and Feng Xiaogang's works are more and more Wang Shuo's "Beijing ruffian" style. The work has a unique sense of humor of the Beiliang people, who are poor, intelligent, and have nothing to do with nihilistic values, laughing and scolding in ordinary city life. The stories are often unexpected, and the dry humor contains irony and reflection on society and life, not spilling jokes, but more like a comedy for the urban middle class.

Huang Xiaobo described the film "Thai Embarrassment" starring him, "You will see a person doing a particularly stupid thing very seriously in the play" - Huang Xiaobo's grassroots comedy of small people, the characters are mostly embarrassed and embarrassing people at the bottom of society, they are reckless, ridiculously funny, clumsy and stubborn in order to survive, but they never lack seriousness and courage.

Some industry insiders use the scarecrow, tin skin and lion in "The Wizard of Oz" to describe the three types of traditional comedy characters. Among them, the scarecrow has no brain, so his behavior, behavior, and speech are not logical; Tin people have no heart, and their bodies are rusty and often stuck in key links; The lion has the title of the king of all beasts, but has no courage - Huang Xiaobo's early comedy works such as "Crazy Stone" and "Crazy Racing". The comedic effect mostly relies on flawed character settings; "Bullfighting" and "Killing" are full of black absurdity, showing the irreversible tragic fate of ordinary people in cultural and historical changes; In "Militia Ge Erdan", Huang Xiaobo shows a brand-new comedy that excavates the power of goodness from the national character.

In Huang Xiaobo's advanced history of comedy. What remains unchanged is the focus on the "Chinese survival, struggle, personality and struggle" of the grassroots, with a strong sense of nationality and compassion.

Huang Xiaobo relied on "Crazy Stone" to become famous in one fell swoop. In "Crazy Stone", Huang Xiaobo plays the black skin as a "scarecrow" type comedy character. In the play, he speaks Qingdao dialect, full of joy, low emotional intelligence, clumsy, and a tendon in his head. It is full of embarrassment and embarrassment of life at the bottom. In "Crazy Racing", Huang Xiaobo played the male protagonist Geng Hao, who is a "tin skin" type comedy role. He had a bad fate. Not only playing racing, but also getting involved in intricate cases, being chased and killed by many people, and being very arrogant on the surface. Have the courage to laugh at yourself. without losing oneself.

Starting from "Crazy Stone" and "Crazy Racing", the Qingdao dialect, dirty and messy shapes, and the embarrassment and embarrassment of the little people have become the background color of Huang Xiaobo's comedy.

The two films with Ning Hao are comedies with funny colors, while in the two films with Guan Hu "Bullfighting" and "Killing", Huang Xiaobo plays not comedy roles, but characters with comedy elements. In "Bullfighting", Huang Xiaobo played the silly farmer "Niu Er", in order to save his life and the cow, he tried his best to deal with the Japanese army, bandits, Jianghu Langzhong, etc. Live humbly and tenaciously. Huang Xiaobo endowed Niu Er with exaggerated stupidity, kindness and simplicity through performance, and the story gave Niu Er an irresistible tragic fate. The comedic characters and irreversible fate push the theme of the whole film to the extreme.

Compared with "Bullfighting", "Killing" is more absurd. Huang Xiaobo plays the role of Niu Jian, a gangster in the film, who has been doing evil since he was a child and is incompatible with the villagers, and in the end, he is chased and killed by the whole town and falls into a desperate situation. The comedy in this film comes from the absurd plot - premeditated killing; also comes from Huang Xiaobo's seemingly "stupid" and unsparing behavior.

Through "Killing" and "Bullfighting", Huang Xiaobo's stupid comedy image of being handsome, unstinting, seemingly honest but clever, has gradually taken shape. The sadness of the little people's powerlessness to resist fate, the dignity of ordinary people and their adherence to ideals, have gradually become the themes of their expression.

In 2012, the movie "Thai Embarrassment" became a dark horse for the Chinese New Year, and the TV series "Militia Ge Erdan" was a hit. Shu Huan, the same screenwriter of the two works, said that he prefers "Militia Ge Erdan". In more than 30 episodes of "Militia Ge Erdan", Huang Xiaobo can create more calmly, which leads to a more comprehensive and rich display of Huang Xiaobo's unique comedy style.

In the play, Ge Erdan is a country gangster, who attaches importance to righteousness, comes and goes directly, has a flamboyant tongue and is addicted to gambling, has a basic view of right and wrong, and faces the dual pursuit of survival and development. He has the profound small-scale peasant consciousness of the Chinese peasants, strong vanity, good face, kindness and tenacity, and the courage and wisdom of struggle come from the excavation of folk character; The story and plot all come from the triviality and miscellaneousness of rural life, not deliberate, not exaggerated, not extreme, and full of real rural slang, so that many people think that this drama is not so much an anti-Japanese war drama as a rural era drama. Different from the pessimism and despair in "Killing" and "Bullfighting", Ge Erdan in this drama is endowed with an optimistic attitude and tenacious vitality, full of kindness and warmth.

A more complete Huang Xiaobo-style comedy can be seen in "Militia Ge Erdan": there is no formal and ruffian character image, sloppy, loose and dirty character shapes, and a Qingdao accent full of joy; Pay attention to the national character and personality, and tap the power of beauty and goodness from the little people. Focus on the struggle and development of the little people at the bottom.

Speaking of Huang Xiaobo, we have to mention the comedy "Crazy Stone" that made Huang Xiaobo really show up - this film can be regarded as a movie that has created a small-budget miracle.

Fu Hao and Yu Chenglong have talked many times, hoping to create such a movie and stir up thousands of waves in the film industry.

But this kind of movie is not so easy to make.

Before talking about Ning Hao's "Crazy Stone", one person must be mentioned, that is, Madonna's director husband Guy Ritchie, a former cinema projectionist who became famous for his film debut "Two Old Smoking Guns", his cult classic film is sought after all over the world. In the film, Guy Ritchie seems to have created a new cinematic language, and his second work of the same style, "Steal and Kidnap", was also a huge success, attracting countless young audiences with its simple and pure entertainment.

However after a few years. He took a sharp turn for the worse, first smashing the film "Stepping on the Line", and then returning to the old way to launch the gangster movie "Revolver", which is still full of bad reviews. Guy Ritchie's failure was largely due to the fact that he began to care about the thinking of his work, and when he introduced philosophy into the original complex structure of the film, the original fun film began to become jerky and difficult to understand, thus losing the simplicity and purity of his original work.

If Guy Ritchie was losing what he had relied on to succeed, Ning Hao, a young Chinese director, picked up what he had lost. It has been transformed into the local Chinese culture, which is the so-called foreign for Chinese use, and it is used extremely well.

The story of the film "Crazy Stone" was placed in the mountain city of Chongqing by director Ning Hao. Combined with a large number of local Chongqing dialect slang, the whole movie is not only full of local flavor, but also full of fun. The use of some familiar music as a background also achieved unexpected results, and the film exerted a very creative thrill in the rapid cutting and scene transitions. There are quite a lot of settings for the characters in the film. The relationship is intertwined. They tend to be followed by praying mantises, catching cicadas, and yellow finches. The interlocking plot is always changing in an incredible way, allowing the audience to pay attention to the film for a long time, accompanied by non-stop laughter.

"Crazy Stone" is a purely entertainment commercial film, it does not want to express any overly profound themes, just to simply entertain the audience. In contrast, Chinese cinema has long been rather uninteresting, and filmmakers have mostly rested on their laurels. Most believe that artistic quality is the only criterion for films, and greatly ignore the industrial characteristics of films. For many years, only Feng Xiaogang has been able to launch a film that meets the audience's taste at the right time. In exchange for high returns at low cost, it has been proved that there is no shortage of talents who can shoot high-level art films in China, but what is lacking is talent who can grasp the market context and make successful commercial films. Don't think that commercial films are easier to shoot than literary films, it is naturally easy to make a garbage commercial film, but it is not so simple to make a commercial film that can be liked by the audience.

Although the film "Crazy Stone" uses exaggerated techniques to create jokes, you must not ignore the strict logic of this film, and the success of many of the jokes in the film lies in the foreshadowing laid in advance, for example, there is a bridge in the film in which the international thief imitates the falling treasure in "Spy of the Spy" but the rope is not long enough, and the thief is so angry that he scolds the "profiteer", and the audience will think of the scene in the first half of the film in which the merchant sells 10 meters of rope to the thief. In addition, there is another scene, Director Xie received his son's call for help but ignored it several times, the reason for this humor is that at the beginning of the film, Xie Xiaomeng was found by Director Xie to teach people to kidnap his father in the toilet, this joke can be described as a double hit. There are a lot of connections in this ingenious layout, although exaggerated, but very convincing, enough for the audience to use their brains to associate. Because there are too many dramatic coincidences in the film, too much preset humorous baggage, and too many connections between the characters, it is very easy for the story to slip through the cracks with such a huge amount of information. However, in the end, Ning Hao and his screenwriting team did a very good job, and the whole story was told quite tightly, so that there were no obvious loopholes in the film from beginning to end. Such a commercial film definitely needs to be carefully scrutinized, not something that can be done by playing smart.

Judging from the return of the film "Crazy Stone" on the market, the film really shows the potential of a dark horse, in fact, judging from the schedule and screening time of many theaters, this movie is actually squeezed into the corner by blockbusters, and its success depends on the audience's word of mouth and media praise. Because it is a low-budget film, there is not much action in publicity, and the cast of the film also lacks big names, and the director Ning Hao is even more unknown, all of which determines that the film has no other selling points, only the film itself. This film reminds people of an earlier film "Waiting Alone", but compared with that low-budget film, director Ning Hao is not as famous as Wu Renxian, and starring Guo Tao is not as famous as Xia Yu. Although many people think that the performances of Chinese mainland actors are too positive, the actors of "Crazy Stone" did surprise me, and the key to the malleability of the actors' performances depends on how the play is choreographed. Ning Hao has also directed two art films before, but judging from his current achievements, he does not seem to specialize in entertainment films, and there is no shortage of art film directors in Chinese films, but entertainment film directors like Ning Hao and Wu Renxian.

Some people think that Ning Hao is imitating Guy Ritchie's "Two Old Smoking Guns", in fact, this film is by no means a simple imitation, because the story concept of the film "Crazy Stone" is completely new, and the design of the jokes and plot is based on its own culture, which can only be said to be a reference. This kind of borrowing has always been the best thing for Korean filmmakers, who pursue the doctrine of taking and digesting the essence of foreign films to develop their own films, so the Korean films we see now are not only exquisite but also diverse. In the director Ning Hao, we see the learning spirit of Korean filmmakers, who knows how to absorb foreign culture for our own use and make entertainment movies with their own characteristics. Low-budget entertainment films such as "Crazy Stone" are exactly the direction that Chinese films can currently strive to develop.

To say that Chinese comedy movies have always been the best-selling movies, Fu Hao and Yu Chenglong have chatted, and Yu Jackie Chan also likes to make movies and TV series of this genre very much. His "Rebirth 2006" can be regarded as a TV series in the comedy category.

It's not easy to make a comedy well.

Yu Chenglong likes Xingye's comedy very much, maybe it has something to do with his own personality, he likes nonsensical style things.

But it's never easy to make a good nonsensical comedy.

Yu Jackie Chan has studied Stephen Chow's comedy style in depth, which can definitely be studied as a discipline, Yu Jackie Chan once talked to Fu Hao about this matter, so Fu Hao also knows a little about it.

Stephen Chow is an actor we are familiar with, and he is no longer as simple as the "dead runner" in "The King of Comedy". (To be continued.) )