From the audience's point of view, comedy is definitely more comfortable to watch than tragedy.
But the fact is that comedies often do not receive as high a rating as tragedies, probably because tragedies are easier to remember.
"Crazy Stone" was quickly released in various dialect versions according to different regions. In fact, dialects are a naturally very joyful culture in China.
The same sentence, placed in different contexts and on different occasions, has completely different results.
The same goes for "Crazy Stone".
For another example, the car in the movie has been divided into several versions. Maybe the one you saw in Beijing was the BMW Don't Touch Me, but the one you saw in Shu was another version.
As the box office of "Crazy Stone" exploded, the multi-line narrative was also touted by many people.
"The beauty of "Crazy Stone" is that the director used a non-linear narrative structure to present a simple story in a complex and clever way. For example, when Lao Bao discovered that the stone had been dropped, he gave Lao Bao a close-up shot, and then the background
The crowd turned into slow motion, and then there was a close-up of Lao Bao's eyes. The picture began to blur, and the sound
With the sound of Peking Opera, the background suddenly freezes, and then begins to change rapidly, and then changes the background and transitions. In the next shot, Lao Bao is lying on the bed. This shot seems to be disorganized, but it expresses Lao Bao in a clever way.
Including the inner chaos at the time, this method of processing can more easily highlight the character's psychological state.
The film is a cross-narrative with multiple clues. The director has a good grasp of the rhythm. When it is about to explode, it suddenly stops. For example, during the fierce chase in Luohan Temple, there was a sudden power outage. The tense atmosphere was relaxed and people took a breath; when it was as calm as water,
Suddenly nervous, for example, Lao Bao and others went to see a fire. They were laughing and joking and suddenly realized the danger. As the alarm bell rang, Lao Bao shouted and rushed. The calm suddenly turned violent, once again arousing the nervousness of the audience, and there was relaxation.
The rhythm is definitely a highlight of the film.”
The use of montage techniques in the same movie is also talked about.
"The montage technique used in "Crazy Stone" is quite interesting.
The entire film uses cross-montage to tell the story. The three clues are sometimes connected and sometimes disconnected, dividing a period of time and space into three angles, which greatly increases the capacity of the film and enriches the details, especially in the second half of the film, where the three clues are
Clues are constantly colliding, and the camera quickly cuts between three perspectives, making people dare not miss any detail. This kind of tension cannot be achieved by continuous montage.
Contrast montage is more interesting. At the beginning of the film, on one side are the white-collar workers in BMW suits, and on the other side is the bankrupt factory director who is demolishing the toilet. One shot from above, the other from above. The strong contrast is used to show the status of the two, which further embeds the subsequent dramatic conflict.
Seed; let’s talk about the ending, Lao Bao peed heartily in the toilet, and his back
But Jing was calling him to come to the stage to receive the award. He used sound and picture counterpoint to express Lao Bao's joy at his prostate recovery. He regarded the honor of catching the thief as a trivial matter. The final urination was also a contrast with the previous inability to urinate.
, said that through this incident, Lao Bao unexpectedly solved his mid-life crisis and turned from depression to relaxation.
As for the recurrence montage, the recurring stones reinforce the theme over and over again, constantly reminding the audience of the importance of the stones to the story, and allowing the clue of the stones to run throughout.”
Of course there are dialects.
"Dialect is an excellent catalyst for the dramatic color of this film. Brother Dao's Hebei dialect, Mike's Cantonese, Heipi's Qingdao dialect, plus the local Sichuan dialect, all kinds of dialects are stewed in a pot, cross-fertilizing the audience.
The auditory nerve also has the effect of strengthening the character's personality, such as Mike's "I'll beat your lungs" and the black-skinned "Ni Niang". If they are changed to "unlucky" in Mandarin, the characters will obviously not be three-dimensional enough."
""Crazy Stone" is indeed crazy. What's crazy is that almost everyone, in an era of change, a factory facing closure is coveted by developers because of its favorable geographical location.
And this stone is nothing more than a chess piece in their game, true and false, false and true, coming and going in the booth, over and over again. It has played with almost everyone, but it doesn't seem so abrupt. Maybe this is the point of the joke.
, making fun of people. What I see more is ridicule, mocking this group of people, just like Huang Bo was chased and beaten by the cake shop owner in the end, mocking his way of making a living. At the same time, it is also society making fun of people, going back and forth.
Back, teasing everyone.
And that piece of jadeite and stone were also fake. I remember when the security captain gave it to him in the end, he said, "It's fake, just a counterfeit thing worth 200 yuan."
Behind this madness are cover-ups, power-money deals, and deals between factory directors and developers. The madness also ends with their deals.
When I watched this movie, I really didn’t laugh. I felt that the director’s skills were too profound. Being teased by society and power and money, on the surface, isn’t it just a joke?”
Of course, there are thousands of people, and different people have different perceptions.
Some people think it's funny, some people think the crazy stone is really crazy, but some people think it's not crazy at all.
""Crazy Stone" gives people a refreshing feeling.
On the surface, this film seems to have a very different approach, just like the attributive of the film's title, it is very crazy. In fact, it is very traditional, very realistic, not crazy. At first glance, it seems to have the feel of Hong Kong police and gangster films, and it does have a bit of a Western feel.
It has a post-modern flavor. But in the final analysis it is still very documentary, even very documentary.
The reason, in my humble opinion, is probably as follows: because the content of the story is relatively dramatic and legendary, in order to achieve a sense of reality, the main creative staff did their best to record it realistically, otherwise, it might
It will lack credibility and therefore lack of viewing value, because the story does not take place in a mythical scene after all. The most typical ones are probably those shots in the toilet. But this may also be a kind of failure. The real reality is that this type of
Toilets are very rare these days.
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The purpose of postmodern techniques is to create a certain prescribed ideal atmosphere. To this end, the creators use all possible means. From this perspective, the film’s crazy and disgusting but helpless status quo has been created, and the atmosphere has also been created.
It is highlighted and the director's purpose is achieved. The reason why it is said to be "slightly postmodern" is based on this perspective.
In the film, there are three parties who want to get the gems: a three-person gang, real estate developers/Hong Kong robbers and Xie Xiaomeng. The reason is that the thieves gang wants to make a fortune relying on the treasures; the real estate developers hope to pull out the last straw of the old handicraft factory.
As a result, the location of the factory was turned into a modern building with huge profits; and Xie Xiaomeng, the son of the factory director, wanted to use gems to win the hearts of beauties.
Xie Xiaomeng succeeded. He successfully exchanged a counterfeit for the gem. Unexpectedly, he fell into the hands of a gang of thieves. Bao Shihong, the security section chief of the factory, battled wits with three thieves, and the gem changed several times.
Finally it was in the hands of Bao Shihong - although he thought he got just a copy.
The whole movie uses a lot of auxiliary content to pave the way for the development of the story. The metaphors are quite interesting. Here are two examples.
Shortly after the opening of the film, a shot of the toilet appears. We can see that the entire toilet is in a mess and the toilet is full of filth. Then the camera extends from top to bottom through the toilet to the face of the black man sitting in the train.
The toilets that appear many times in the film represent the dilapidated and ugly side of the city. The three thieves in the speeding train (they were still swindlers who relied on fake Coke cans at the time) are products of the filth in the mean streets.
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Regarding the dilapidated toilets, another manifestation in the film is the dripping water pipes.
The appearance of water pipes (or faucets) has always been associated with Bao Shihong. The dripping water pipes (or faucets) are the external manifestation of Bao Shihong's difficulty in urinating. Whenever the case encounters difficulties, the dripping water pipes (or faucets) will appear.
The sound of running water further highlights the degree of difficulty and the anxious psychology of the characters.
After the water pipe dripped repeatedly, Bao Shihong couldn't bear it anymore and finally smashed the pipe, mirror and wall. The gushing water at this time can be seen as a manifestation of Bao Shihong's inner desire for change. Firstly, he hoped to solve his physical problems.
question, and secondly, I hope that clues about the stone can
There was a breakthrough. At the end of the story, when Bao Shihong stood in the bright and transparent toilet of the awards hall and urinated happily because he solved the theft case, each of us can feel the joy of solving an important matter.
, whether it is the ownership of gems or the smoothness of urination.
Everyone in the movie had the opportunity to come into direct contact with gems. Most of them were eager to make money, but missed the opportunity and failed to escape the punishment they deserved. Only the upright and dedicated security chief unexpectedly received the highest award.
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Bao Shihong's wife is also a typical image of a traditional Chinese virtuous wife. In the end, she got gems and her own happiness.
The happy ending of the story brings all the viewers the results they want to see: good people are rewarded and bad people are punished. The simple and clear ending is in line with the saying "good will be rewarded with good and evil will be punished with evil", and this
One point is a profound reflection of Chinese traditional thought.
Because of this, I think that in addition to the humor throughout the film, what is more interesting is another theme of the film: good deeds are rewarded.
The director's ingenious arrangement of the development and twists of the plot of the protagonists' fight for the jade made me refreshed. Xiaojun and Heipi tried to snatch it away several times, but Xie Xiaomeng gave her the real jade in order to win her favor.
After the jadeite was kidnapped, the real jadeite was mistaken for a fake and put back in the display cabinet.
This is a critical turning point.
Then everyone thought that the real jadeite was fake. Finally, the real jadeite came into the hands of the honest security guard Bao Shihong, who still thought it was fake and gave it to his girlfriend.
This couldn't be a more perfect ending.
And we can see that those "evil" people finally got their retribution: Siyan and Feng Dong died together, Brother Dao was also hit by a car, Heipi was trapped in the sewer for three days, and Mike was stuck in the vent and couldn't get out.
Come.
For this reason, perhaps I personally prefer this kind of film with a theme of "goodness" than a film like "Joker"."
Although Li Yi's name and the appearance of big-name stars in the movie have made everyone overlook that "Crazy Stone" is actually not a big-budget movie.
But someone soon discovered this.
"'Crazy Stone' is a true example of the success of a small-budget comedy!"
"What is a low-cost comedy? It means low cost, small characters, and small stories. It is not the absurd structure of Hong Kong Island, nor is it an exaggerated action comedy, nor is it a polite and cold humor, but a crude and infinite accumulation of daily life.
Amplify, the black humor derived from it.
I believe anyone who has watched the movie will find that the key point of this movie is the ubiquitous coincidences!
The film is interlocking from beginning to end, with intense character conflicts and ups and downs of the plot, coupled with the director's control of the plot and various jokes unique to comedy films - such as the use of dialects, mockery of reality, etc.
The film's narrative technique uses multiple clues to unfold quickly.
From the beginning of the film, the director used parallel montage to develop three clues at the same time to explain the relationship between the characters. They are Bao Shihong, the captain of the factory security team who does a physical examination, Xie Xiaomeng, the son of the factory director who molested women on the cable car, and
A criminal gang that pretends to be a moving company and actually breaks into a house and robs it.
A car crash incident cleverly connected three clues: the three stupid thieves who broke into a house happened to be checked by the police because a car crash not far away diverted the police's attention and escaped.
The owners of the two cars that collided happened to be Mr. Feng, the person in charge of the contracted construction factory, and Bao Shihong, the captain of the factory security team. The cause of the collision was that Bao Shihong's car was hit by a Coke bottle falling from the sky.
When I got out of the car to check, the car lost control and slid forward and collided with the car in front.
This Coke bottle happens to come from Xie Xiaomeng. The audience likes to be a detective, and the director's arrangement is undoubtedly in the right plan, so that the audience's attention is quickly captured. The director uses quick switching between the threesome in the shot.
Narrative makes the audience's thinking come alive all of a sudden.
In fact, this car crash can be regarded as the prelude to the whole story. It implies that these three groups of people, who were originally unrelated, will meet because of a conflict of interest, which is the following gem-stealing incident.
What does it mean to be a real "trickster"?
The real conflict is actually between the contractor who suffered the car crash and the party being demolished. As for the three stupid thieves and Xie Xiaomeng, they played a role in fueling the flames. The plot line of the entire movie is like three people who are constantly approaching each other.
The two poles of the magnets unfold at the same time, gradually approach, and immediately separate once they meet.
The movie revolves around a stone, and this stone is undoubtedly a contradiction set up by the director. Three groups of people started a intellectual and emotional competition around this contradiction. The crazy thing about this competition is that none of them can identify it.
The authenticity of the stone.
In terms of presentation techniques, the beauty of the film lies in its coincidences.
The director exaggerated some coincidences. For example, the international thief's car happened to hit the manhole cover, causing Heipi to be trapped in the well, and the international thief was also trapped in the vent due to his body shape... This seemingly nonsensical coincidence not only increased the comedy effect of the film
, and also reduced the number of characters involved in the climax scene, which made the contradictions presented to the audience more acute."