At least Li Yi won't touch a movie like "Joker" again in a short time.
Because this kind of movie is fun to shoot, but to be honest, Li Yi doesn't praise "Joker" that much.
Moreover, this kind of topic and this kind of movie are too heavy.
In Li Yi's mind, movies have always been for the purpose of better entertaining the public. Of course, some movies can indeed reflect reality and bring some reflection to the world, but it is not necessary for all of them to be this type of movie.
So, he thought about making a more fun and interesting movie.
In fact, he actually has a film, which can be said to be a film that he remembered very early on. It is a typical comedy film.
And it's very interesting.
That movie is called "Crazy Stone". In the world in my memory, the nodes in this movie can be said to be very interesting.
"Crazy Stone" is a purely entertainment and commercial film. It does not want to express any too profound themes, it is just to entertain the audience. In contrast, at that time, Chinese films had long been lacking in
When it comes to fun, most filmmakers are stuck in their ways, and most believe that artistic quality is the only criterion for a film, while greatly ignoring the industrial characteristics of the film.
At that time, there were only one or two directors in the country who could release movies that suited the audience's taste in a timely manner and exchanged low costs for big profits. Facts have proved that China no longer lacks talents who can shoot high-level art films, but what it lacks is precisely that.
Talents who can grasp the context of the market and make successful commercial films. Don't think that commercial films are easier to make than artistic films. It is naturally easy to make a junk commercial film, but it is not that simple to make a commercial film that the audience will like.
At that time, domestic films had not yet emerged from the cage of art films, and many directors who took the literary route often looked down on those who made commercial films.
Especially for new directors, most of their first films will consider artistry rather than commerciality.
So "Crazy Stone" appeared at that time.
Although the movie "Crazy Stone" uses exaggerated techniques to create jokes, you must not ignore the strict logic of this film. The success of many of the laughs in the film lies in the foreshadowing laid in advance. For example, there is a scene in the film.
The international thief imitated the Hollywood movie where he dropped the treasure to steal but found that the rope was not long enough. The thief was so angry that he cursed "profiteer". If the audience watches carefully, they will think of the scene in the first half of the film where the businessman sells a 10-meter rope to the thief.
There is also a scene where Director Xie received calls from his son asking for help but ignored them several times. The reason for this humor is that at the beginning of the film, Director Xie found Xie Xiaomeng in the toilet and tricked someone into kidnapping his father.
This joke can be described as a double hit. There are so many clever layouts and connections, which are exaggerated but very convincing, enough for the audience to use their brains to make associations. Because there are too many dramatic coincidences and too many preset humor baggage in the film
, and the characters have too many connections with each other, so the story is prone to errors under such a huge amount of information. However, in the end, the director of the original play, Ning Hao, and his screenwriting team did a very good job, and the whole story was told quite tightly.
, so that there are no obvious loopholes in the film from beginning to end.
Such a commercial film definitely requires careful and careful consideration, and it cannot be done by just being clever.
Li Yi likes this film very much, but due to various reasons, he has never filmed it before.
However, now I can bring my old friends together to have some fun.
"Crazy Stone" is quite interesting, but it's actually not that superficial.
Although this is a group drama, the characters in it are still very distinctive and targeted.
For example, the male protagonist Bao Shihong in the film, we can now imagine that a man about 35 years old was born in a special era. His mother had no milk for him to eat, and no rice or pork for him to eat. He could only eat some.
I drank some rice soup and cold water with wild vegetables and sweet potatoes. I once had a dream of becoming a police officer, but it backfired. After graduating from the police academy, I could only work as a security section chief at a city handicraft factory.
Although he felt aggrieved, he still tried his best to fulfill his duties, earning a dead salary of 600 yuan a month and raising a family with his wife, who was also not rich. Entering the new century, the aftermath of the reform of state-owned enterprises caused the company to face bankruptcy. Eight months later,
Unable to pay wages, creditors came to ask for money every day.
Suddenly, the company unexpectedly discovered a precious jadeite while dismantling the factory building. The factory director planned a handicraft exhibition centered on jadeite. Since the company had no money to insure, he was asked to be responsible for the entire security of the exhibition. So, this good man
The anxious look on his face became more solemn.
He is Bao Shihong, the protagonist of the film. It can be said that he is a special representative of middle-aged men in modern society.
Bao Shihong is a good worker. He abides by discipline and fulfills his duties in the unit. He has never had any idea about the expensive jadeite. It can be said that he is the only person trusted by the factory director. He sticks to the current situation and the hope that his life may get better.
Although "you can't pick up a cigarette butt from Hongta Mountain", and although the exhibition hall is set up in the incense hall of a temple, "you can't even close the door", and there are gaps everywhere for thieves to enter and exit.
But he still accepted the important task of taking care of the jade. When he and Sanbao were placing the jade, Sanbao said: (The jade is worth) 8 million. After tax, I won two big prizes! But he said: It is worth 4800 to me.
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Sanbao said: I will give you 8,400, you give it to me! Bao patted Sanbao on the head: Your kid is obsessed with things. He is simply the security door and safe of the unit.
During the care process, he tried his best to prevent thieves from stealing. When he found out that the jade had been stolen, he was shocked and had trouble sleeping and eating. He beat up the suspect, his right-hand man Sambo; when the jade was lost and recovered, he was overjoyed.
Crazy. He is the only one in the unit who regards jade as life.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Later, factory boss Xie sold Jade and the company to real estate agent Feng Dong. Everyone in the factory welcomed the new life with smiles, but he angrily rebuked Lao Xie for "selling out his conscience"
"Betrayed the entire factory, old and young" (Sanbao helped him out of loyalty); he was the only one who guarded the last bastion of professionalism among state-owned enterprise employees, conservatively and paranoidly safeguarding the final dignity of state-owned enterprises, but with the decline of the times, his guardianship was destined to be
Isolated and helpless.
Bao Shihong is a good old man. When he reaches middle age, it is hard to see that he has any great ideals. Except for the police belt he wears, which shows that he still has a police complex in his heart, his former dreams have long since become empty. He treats his lover with true love.
He also attaches great importance to his friends. He suspected that Sanbao had slipped the jade but refused to call the police. He was thinking about the future of his friends and their families. He did not make trouble externally. When he crashed Siyan's BMW, Siyan
He didn't even fight back when he was scolded or beaten, and he didn't bargain with the 8,000 yuan claim. He needed cupping with a glass cup, and he could only swallow the scolding of two hotel attendants who were eating melon seeds and sending text messages all day long.
He was very confident. At first he looked down on all thieves. From the beginning to the end, almost all his judgments were wrong: the "high voltage and electricity" designed by him "not tired of deceit" could not stop Xiaojun's black skin.
He leapt over the insulated shoes; he "brightened under the high light" but lived next to the thieves; he thought it was the "stick and stick army" who looked out for the thieves and mistakenly carried out "knocking on the mountain to shake the tiger";
Xie Xiaomeng, the son of the factory director, praised him, saying "I can't even take it away with you, Brother Bao," so he opened the showcase and asked Xie to easily drop the bag; when Sambo went to Beijing to "redeem the prize", he thought Sambo had dropped the jade bag, and later he did it indiscriminately.
Sanbao beat him up; he always mistakenly thought that Mike was sent by Four Eyes to keep him from escaping because he owed 5,000 yuan;... Although he made many mistakes, he was still very confident in his IQ and often used the criminal investigation knowledge he had learned to make judgments.
Situation. He looked down on the police's so-called "civilized law enforcement" and said, "Pack a bag of white ash and smear it on your face." Later, he used this trick against Mike in the elevator, and it was also his only successful move. It can be said that,
Bao Shihong's victory over the thieves was not a victory of IQ or "professionalism", but a victory of professionalism and persistence.
All the difficulties Bao Shihong faced, Bai Chuangui focused on his prostate inflammation. It is caused by everything, and everything exists because of it.
Not only Bao Shihong, but other characters are also very representative.
The more Li Yi thought about it, the more he felt that he could make this film and have some fun and relax.
Of course, "Crazy Stone" may not actually be that easy to shoot. First of all, this movie is a multi-line narrative.
As we all know, if the multi-line narrative is not shot well, it will really be a disaster, because the multi-line narrative itself will test the skills of the screenwriter and director. You must make the story very smooth, and then you have to
In the multi-line narrative style, there will be no confusion.
You have to make the audience suddenly realize when these lines come together.
Of course, it is indeed not a big problem for Li Yi now.
Although "Crazy Stone" was released relatively early, Li Yi believes that even in this era, it is still not outdated, including the laughs.
It can only be said that when this movie appeared, it was not a perfect combination of the right time, right place, and right people, because at that time, the domestic market was not that big. Therefore, although the final movie also achieved a good rate of return,
In fact, the film's potential is much more than that.
This can be seen from the later popularity of various dialect versions. In this era, it is definitely a killer.
Moreover, "Crazy Stone" can definitely be said to be extremely dense with laughs, but these laughs are not vulgar, but very interesting. There are many lines and scenes, and they can even become popular on the Internet.
"Crazy Stone" does require a lot of actors. After all, it is a group drama.
But this movie was definitely much easier to shoot than a movie like "Joker".
The narrative of "Crazy Stone" is very interesting.
It can be said that he has his own cleverness in telling stories. Take a look at the first part of the movie to see how he strings together these groups of characters.
The first scene: A coward pretending to be an artist flirted with a beautiful girl on a cable car. The pretty girl stepped on him and he threw the Coke can out of the cable car. Later we found out that this coward was the director of the factory who later dug out the gems.
The boss's son, and this beautiful girl is the lover of the bandit boss. Let's pay attention to the Coke can thrown by the factory director's son.
Scene 2: Toilet demolition site. Explain a conflict: because the factory cannot repay the money it owes, the real estate developer wants the land, and the factory director wants to keep the factory. This conflict is the background. Later, the factory director dug out the stones and wanted to sell them.
Save the factory.
Scene 3: Three people from the moving company were troubled by the police for parking illegally. Because their documents were incomplete, they were about to give the police a hammer, which showed that what they were doing was not serious business. At this time, a car collision occurred not far away.
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Scene 4: Car crash. The direct cause of the car crash was the Coke can thrown by the factory director’s son in the first scene. It hit the car of Baotou, who had not been paid for eight months. They got off the car and yelled at the cable car.
On this occasion, the car actually went down the slope and crashed into the car of a real estate developer who was solemnly describing the word "demolish". This collision also attracted the attention of the police who were looking for trouble for the three thieves (who later became)
This first part seems to have many threads, but they are already struggling together in form. The factory director's son, who inadvertently plays an important role, plays an even more important role in the subsequent narrative. It is his subcontracting and fighting with the bandits.
The relationship between the boss and his lover makes the story more interesting.
Of course, movies are first made for the audience, and commercial movies are made for the public.
Therefore, for comedy, you must make the audience laugh; for tragedy, you must make the audience sad or cry.
"Crazy Stone" is certainly a very good comedy.
Some movie fans said: When I was young, I loved watching comedies. I loved the feeling of laughing until my stomach hurts the most. But the older I get, the more I stay away from such noisy comedies. I always feel that today’s comedies have gone into a misunderstanding.
, the more noisy the better, but I think good comedy is never about pretending to be crazy and making silly gags to create jokes. It is good comedy when there is something left after the laughter is over.
There are no Internet slangs that are common in today's comedies, and there is no pretending to be crazy or being silly that is common in today's comedies. The jokes here are natural but necessary. There are many coincidences in the arrangement of many scenes. All kinds of coincidences lead to a laughter point that is so reasonable. This is the essence of comedy.
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"Crazy Stone" has done this, such as the car crash scene where the three groups of people intersect for the first time, the scene where the leader of the gang of thieves is killed in the end, and the encounter between the security section chief and one of the thieves in the bathhouse.
The clips all have a strange sense of irony. You have to admire the ingenuity of the original director and screenwriter in designing this situation.
In this comedy, you can see many scenes and things that you were familiar with at that time, such as a three-person partnership to commit fraud, the collapse of an old company and layoffs, etc. The director used a joking and relaxed way to show these very popular events at the time.
Some of the hot social issues with special characteristics will touch your emotions little by little, leaving you with something worth thinking about after you laugh.