Chapter 1,758: The soul is kind, and good people are rewarded.
"Crazy Stone" is actually considered a low-budget film.
Even though the star cast is strong, in fact, other characters such as Black Skin are really not big names.
Because these characters need that kind of grassroots feeling.
But the result was very good.
Especially during the Spring Festival, a good comedy, no, even a qualified comedy, is enough to create a whirlwind.
Not to mention, this is Li Yi's movie.
"It's rare that this movie is not the kind of movie that yells at the audience: "Laugh! You laugh!", but it is actually funny!"
"The plot of the story is intricate and nonsensical, and the bitterness of the little characters can be seen in the nonsensical comedy. As always, the style of director Li Yi!"
"No matter how funny it is, there is still a lingering darkness. I don't know why I see despair?"
"It's really good, a humorous yet profound work! Each character has his own characteristics!"
"It's so down-to-earth and interesting, the little people are funny, the laughs are dense and close to life, and there are no peeing spots throughout the whole process!"
"A comedy movie full of Chinese flavor, down-to-earth, with all kinds of jokes coming one after another, making you laugh from beginning to end, haha!"
"It's a movie that makes me laugh so hard! The leading actors really put their heart into their performances!"
"I wasn't used to it at first, and it felt a bit confusing, but gradually I started to understand it. Once I understood it, it was fun!"
"Yes, yes, I felt a bit incomprehensible at the beginning, but in the end everyone tried their best to get me into the plot for the stone. The Sichuan dialect is really down-to-earth, and the funnyness of this film is not that
There are very few domestic comedies like this that make the audience look like fools. I don’t know why the 50,000-yuan Coke bottle cap stayed in my mind after watching it. Hahaha!”
"Small signal and small mobile phone can give you more lungs, and finally save two lives!"
What surprised Li Yi was that he really didn't think much about "Crazy Stone", let alone the content and depth of the film.
But the results sometimes really prove that sentence. When a movie is made and released, it is no longer based on the director's personal will, because everyone has their own interpretation and feelings.
For example, when it comes to film critics' interpretations, Li Yi himself was a little confused when it came to his interpretation of "Crazy Stone".
""Crazy Stone" is a truly positive black humor comedy. Why do you say that? Because the theme of the film is: In a chaotic world, the heart is kind and good people are rewarded.
Although there are many things in the film that are not logical and some are exaggerated, we cannot deny that it is the premise of a comedy.
The film uses exaggerated techniques and is full of black humor. What is it trying to tell us?
The answer is that in a chaotic world, the soul is kind and good people are rewarded.
Below we use the whereabouts of the stone in the film and the characters who appear around the stone as clues to analyze the film in the order of the original film.
First of all, the role of the director of the jade factory is very unique. Many people who came from that era believe that they have a familiar feeling about this old factory director.
He can be said to represent the many older generation factory directors who faced difficulties in that era.
He was probably the first person who appeared next to the stone, and it was his carefulness that led to the discovery of the stone.
It was precisely in order to save the factory that he came up with the idea of exhibiting stones to boost the economy.
Of course, it would be pointless if someone here expressed doubts about the factory director’s actions.
Many people will say that since the factory director wants to actively save the factory, why not sell stones instead of holding an exhibition? In fact, it is not difficult to see a characteristic when watching the films directed by Li Yi. He likes to let marginalized characters do things with a serious face.
A funny thing to achieve a comedic effect.
This is reflected in many details. For example, the elder brother who steals things will talk about quality and other words every day, and he must do bad things well.
This is just a rule and a technique, but it is in line with the taste of the Chinese people.
In the later story, the thief's woman was slept with by the factory director's son, and he actually called the lawyer and said that the lawyer was unqualified. This seems reasonable and funny. It seems ridiculous, but it can win the audience's attention.
Agreed, this is the clever use of skills.
Some film critics questioned: The director's inaction and the jade exhibition, according to the rules, cannot constitute the driving force of the narrative.
However, what is motivation and what kind of motivation is needed? Just like Hitchcock said, a bomb placed there is motivation in itself, and combined with the audience's perception, it is motivation. In real life, when it is on the verge of bankruptcy, a piece of it is suddenly dug out
Jade, what will the factory director do, what people will do, this in itself is motivation. And it is around this that the basis of drama is generated: conflict and contradiction. The advancement of the story changes the relationship between the characters, which makes everything consistent.
The laws of drama.
Then several groups of thieves appeared one by one.
The director cleverly used the technique of cross-montage to make the overall seemingly chaotic ideas suddenly clear. The main line of the entire story also became clear. In the cross-overlapping pictures, the dialogue between the activities of various thieves and the
The action dialogue of the security section chief actually creates some kind of connection in language or action between the opposites. It forms a strong contrasting effect, and the black humor is fully displayed.
The beginning is very life-like, and the DV-like picture looks more close to life. The first shot of Secretary Feng Dong’s appearance is a foot, and then he is shot from above, as if to highlight his great image. In fact,
I want to use contrast to further highlight his insignificance.
Next, the director cleverly arranged for the security section chief and the thief to live as neighbors, and the irony was obvious. Of course, this dramatic arrangement also achieved a comedic effect. The director put the audience on the side of sober bystanders, neither
Some big productions underestimate the audience's IQ, but they don't often jump out like those literary films that prevent the audience from investing their emotions.
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Because they can have the atmosphere of onlookers looking down from a height, and also have the mentality of investing their own emotions, which is really rare.
The even more ironic arrangement in the film is that the stone was not stolen by thieves who fought openly and secretly, but by Xie Xiaomeng, the son of the factory director. In the end, several groups of thieves worked together to forge the jade and both sides suffered losses.
The chief of the security department and his girlfriend. Because the real stone was finally hung around the neck of the girlfriend of the chief of the security department. This is in line with the Chinese mentality of good people being rewarded and happy reunions.
Some movies ultimately promote truth, goodness and beauty, which can evoke the window in people's hearts.
The movie "Crazy Stone" also achieved this. After all, it gave the audience a happy ending, which can be regarded as a satisfactory explanation.
Although the film still has many imperfections.
For example, we arranged a scene in the front where the international thief Mike adjusts a wire to steal a stone and is finally snatched away by Brother Dao and his gang. At the end of the film, Heipi emerges from the sewer and meets Mike unexpectedly. At this time, something should happen.
Yes, this is a very good show scene.
The director set up the stage, but just let the two of them look at each other and then left.
There is no intensity in this. Even if Mike pushes Heipi and locks him into the sewer again, it will become a highlight of the new conflict.
But the director's wisdom is still reflected everywhere in the movie.
Of course, the ruthlessness of this film is obvious. The story begins on the cable car of the mountain city, which is one of the most famous attractions in the mountain city. It represents the perspective of tourists and is a kind of spectacle-like beauty.
The brief impression of the mountain city, what happened here is the story of a boring and self-righteous literary young man picking up girls. This half-hearted artist skillfully and unoriginally uses pretentious words such as "uterus" to interpret the city, or
Talk about this reality.
The real story happened in the mean streets under the cable car. When the Coke in his hand in the cloud accidentally fell into the real world under the cable car, the whole story truly began.
The pretentiousness of the clouds and the bleakness of reality; the rhetoric of the elite or the artistic class that falls short of meaning, and the unspeakable triviality and absurdity in real life are visualized and structured in this way.
This sense of observation is present throughout this film.
For example, the real estate developers represent the extremely wealthy class with no moral bottom line, while the thieves in the movie and the temporary security guards in the factory are vivid representatives of the grassroots class, and the international thief played by Chen Weijie is
It is a symbol of the so-called advanced overseas productivity. The struggle between these three forms the main tension of the film. And the interaction between these three seems to be the source of the psychological pain felt by every Chinese in that era.
They had their extraordinary self-confidence or pride from a culturally strong area, but when they faced the magical reality of China at that time, they had to lower their noble heads.
In this film, the sophistication and rigor of the international thief Mike appear stupid and even naive in the face of the calculations readily available to small traders and fellow thieves in the mainland. In the film, the rope that was missing a little by the profiteers makes his stealing behavior so high-level.
It became a joke.
Under the director's lens, the arrogance of all classes or people is so riddled with holes that it seems ridiculous, and also makes it pitiful because of this ridiculousness. This is actually a story about self-esteem.
In this film, the self-esteem of the stupid thieves comes from their over-recognition of their profession. They lack self-knowledge and think that they are professional robbers who do not rely on brute force. But in the end, the stupid thieves leader who suffered many setbacks
He also gave up the pursuit of IQ and chose to use force to win the gem.
The violent person among the stupid thieves, that is, the most prominent character: Heipi, is suppressed everywhere. The simple principle of grab and run that he believes in is always criticized by his only leader and ridiculed by his only colleagues.
In the end, when he finally liberated his nature and displayed his talents, it was when he was robbing a bakery in a hurry. His almost crazy running and shouting on the viaduct was his roar against the fate that had been teasing him, and it was also his
The remaining eccentric pride that was recovered.
The protagonist of the film, Bao Shihong, is even more bitter. His major is criminal investigation, but now he is reduced to a grassroots security guard. His source of livelihood is wages, but the company is on the verge of bankruptcy and wages have been owed for several months. As a
For a man, his prostatitis, which is unknown to everyone, indicates that his most essential identity as a man is in danger. By protecting that gem, he is actually protecting his most basic dignity as a socialized person.
In the face of fate, everyone's efforts are ridiculous, regardless of their status, IQ and ability. Therefore, in the film, the international thief, who is a high-level representative, and Hei Pi, who is the most simple-minded and low-level representative, are the same.
They were stuck and couldn't move. The only difference was that the noble one was stuck in the ventilation duct in the air, while the lowly one was stuck in the sewer below the ground. They were in conflict with each other but reached a consensus in completely different ways.
Wherever you look, you see weird things that are split yet harmoniously combined. They are as commonplace as the air. For example, the priceless jade used to be the smelly brick wall of the toilet.
The temple has become a display venue for the most precious gems. For example, by the river in the early morning, two old men pushed each other on a rope in a serious but useless manner.
In this crazy comedy, in addition to the ruthless nature of fate that takes pleasure in misfortune, the loss of moral sense is another key factor that makes everything absurd. The two are inextricably linked, and one is indispensable. Because without
The reputation of the international thief was ruined for a small sum of money, but because he did not believe that anyone would really give such an expensive gift to a strange woman, he returned the hard-earned gems to Zhao, which was worse than buying a coffin for a pearl.
Want ridiculous drama.
It was also because I didn't believe in my son that the ransom plan of the stupid thieves was on the verge of bankruptcy. This made the leader of the stupid thieves suffer a mental breakdown when his career and emotions were both insulted.
From this perspective, this film is actually about the loss of morality. It makes everyone crazy and destroys everyone. It is like a black boss hiring a thief to steal gems, but in the end he was killed by the thief.
Just like the hand, this is a perfect closed loop, a causal chain that makes people happy.
It is precisely for this reason that Bao Shihong, an unlucky man who insisted on principles, finally tried his best but to no avail, but fate rewarded him selflessly in the end.
This is the really heartwarming part of this movie!
There are quite a lot of characters in the film, and their relationships are intertwined.
They are often the mantis stalking the cicada and the oriole behind them, and they are linked together, making the plot always change incredibly. The movie also intentionally uses the special sense of humor in the dialect. What is truly down-to-earth about "Crazy Stone" is that it tells
They are all comedies of small characters in a turbulent metropolis, all with dense and vivid shining details.