"The Annual Comedy Contest" recently ended. Shortly after the launch of the variety show, the reporter interviewed Ma Dong, the founder of the program producer Fangmiwei Media, and threw out a question, how to make this group of comedy newcomers get a broader stage after contributing wonderful creations to the show? At that time, Ma Dong's response was: "First do a good job of the program, everything else is a natural and follow the trend." ”
Everyone understands the truth. However, under the atmosphere of pursuing marketing and focusing on traffic, there are very few variety shows that can really push excellent new people and create high-quality content as a set of interdependent fulcrums. "The Annual Comedy Contest" did it—
As the broadcast response continues to rise, the staff proudly said that "we still have more good works" has become a reality: from the first issue of "Internet Physical Examination" and "Sanmao Defense War", to the middle of the schedule of "Idol Waiter", "The Last Lesson", "Ten Years of Work Under the Stage", and then to the end of the show", "Miss You with the Stars and Moons", "Wukong", "The Annual Comedy Competition" almost has a hit in the period. The combination of outstanding actors such as Jiang Long and Zhang Chi, the "runner-up in pursuing dreams", "Daewoo Zhishui" Dasuo and Sun Tianyu, and "Hao Shi Chengshuang" Shi Ce and Wang Hao, who created and interpreted these works, have also appeared on the Internet hot search again and again. In the finals program, the heads of major platforms and film and television production companies were invited to come. It is not so much an award as it is a "fast track" for this group of comedy newcomers who stand out. Chen Fei, CEO of Lemon Meng Pictures, simply brought a film and television drama contract to compete for actors. All this shows that there is no so-called "waist" and "ankle" actor, as long as the actor who continues to burn for his dream and pays with his heart will be seen.
Looking back at Ma Dong's original response, how precious and important it is for creators and industries.
They use seamless cooperation and sincere creation to interpret the meaning of CP
CP, the abbreviation of the English "Coupling (couple file/character pairing)", has now become a tried-and-true "traffic password" in the domestic film and television entertainment industry. The meaning of CP has long been expanded from the male and female protagonists in the sweet pet drama to all the partners who have tacit understanding on the screen, "everything can be CP". However, the more groups of CP, the more they are, often eager to realize CP dividends and accumulate fans, and there are fewer and fewer high-quality content creations that match CP. The several groups of CPs born in the "Annual Comedy Competition" not only let the audience feel that comedy creation is a comic art that comes and goes between partners, but also nurtures tacit understanding with seamless cooperation, and sincerely creates and interprets the mission of CP with different styles.
Among them, the "Hao Shi Chengshuang" composed of Shi Ce and Wang Hao may be the closest to the traditional meaning of a CP couple file. Compared with other comedians' attempts in various genres, they focus on the proposition of "love" and interpret the different stages of love in this comedy show with the "Love Six Parts". Compared with the CP in the sweet pet drama, Shi Ce and Wang Hao rely on not only the high-value appearance and the high-density so-called xiu en love "sugar" plot. What really touches people's hearts is their keen capture of the words and deeds of contemporary young men and women in marriage and love, which is transformed into a "baggage" that makes people smile, and is presented to the audience through natural and sincere interpretation. In the "Thinking of You" starring the two, the girl changes her various identities to "pursue" the boy, telling the lines of the youth idol drama that the younger generation is familiar with, which makes the boy stunned and laughs at the audience. Near the end of the work, the mystery of the boy's amnesia is revealed, and all the absurd acts of the original girl are only to make the other party fall in love with herself again and again. The final hug did not need to be deliberately sensational, but it earned countless tears. To borrow cinematic terms, some define their work as a "comedy of the flow of life." Their works may not make people laugh, but they will constantly turn out new comedic effects in the girl's delicate twisting, the boy's pretentious posture, and the tug-of-war in the emotional relationship, touching the softness of the human heart, and smiling with tears.
Dasuo and Sun Tianyu, the CP pair, faithfully practice satirical comedy. They satirize the industry and are good at replacing the context of the scene to achieve comedic effects. "Idol Waiter" puts the concept of "trainee" in the entertainment industry on the catering "waiter", thus satirizing the various phenomena of the traffic idol deformity industry and the bad rice circle culture. In "Where Has the Time Gone", seeing that the deadline for submitting work reports is approaching, the various apps in the mobile phone continue to tempt the protagonist to indulge in the carnival of "playing for a while". In this way, the realistic scene of most young people makes netizens directly call out "I suspect that you installed surveillance in my house."
The top players who won the best partner list were Jiang Long and Zhang Chi, who set the group name as "the runner-up of pursuing dreams". Their works are equally obsessed with expressing the same proposition, just as the combined names present the attitude - bravely chasing dreams, but not about ranking and aura. In the debut of "This Killer Is Not Cold", the "killer" is repeatedly provoked by the hostage "wandering singer" to perform the original dream of performance. In "The Last Lesson", a high-achieving student who graduated from a drama school plays "Zombie 26" in the escape room game to make a living, and under the encouragement of the idiot teacher, he sings one and reproduces the performance motto "There are no small roles, only small actors." As long as you come with your heart, everywhere is the stage." In "Ten Years of Work Under the Stage", the opera actor who was forced to change his profession accidentally crossed over, met his young self, and wanted to dissuade him from giving up the dream of Pear Garden, but was persuaded to sing the phrase "Standing at the Palace Gate called Xiaofan" that had been practiced thousands of times. In these stories, some are frustrated little people, struggling on the road to chasing their dreams, and contributing countless embarrassing moments to the audience because of Don Quixote's obsession. After the audience laughed, they burst into tears for the creator's self-deprecation and persistence, and played the sentence "broken defense" of the screen brushing barrage. Such comedy, beyond the meaningless pieces of piecework and vulgar selling ugly, shines with the high texture of idealism.
To be able to create such a large number of high-quality works, it is not only the "CP sense" of facial temperament, but the careful polishing of "staying up all night" and "working all night" again and again. Their success confirms that the vitality of CP should come from continuous high-quality content output, rather than the seemingly mysterious "business", relying on the imagination of "CP fans" to continue.
The counterattack path of "dragon set" and "ankle son" stems from the persistence of dreams
Before forming CP, creating a series of explosive comedy works, and becoming the "head", this group of young actors laughed at themselves and did not even count as "waist" actors, shuttling through various crew programs "running dragon sets", can only be counted as "ankle" actors, career and life are not smooth. Wang Hao said: "I have been acting in comedy for five years, and the highest point of my life was to act as an assistant in a variety show." Shi Ce seems to be stronger than him, in the more than 5 billion yuan box office "Hello, Li Huanying", she is a female volleyball player with several close-up shots. Before da locked into the comedy industry, he worked diligently as a bank clerk for several years. Jiang Long, an "honor student" of the Beijing Film Academy, had the opportunity to participate in cinema movies after his debut, but this film is "Dream Showbiz" with a Douban score of only 2.2 points.
The world loves such a "counterattack" story, but in the end, they can't feel the taste of it.
Chasing dreams, it is inevitable to face the narrowness of life. "North Drift" Sun Tianyu entered the program group, and the biggest joy was that food and clothing were guaranteed. In mi wei media's canteen, he returned to pile the rice "as high as a hill." And when some players laughed at themselves for dragging suitcases in a friend's house every day to "rub up", Ma Dong mentioned that the company has a sleeping pod for temporary rest, and the players are helpless: "I have been there, and I have slept full."
Chasing dreams also requires efforts beyond ordinary people. Zhang Chi was originally an opera actor, and after his voice collapsed, he had to change his career to become a stage actor. "Ten Years of Work Under the Stage" is a true portrayal of himself. During the production of the program, a large number of offline workshops were held to polish the works. Zhang Chi said that he was the one with the most participations. There is a temporary shortage of people in the work, he takes the handle; there are actors who take leave, he comes to the top. No matter how absurd the setting of the work is at the beginning, his performance always makes the audience sigh "one second into the play". If there is any secret in this, there is only one answer, that is, with that original intention, in one work after another, minute by minute.
And the distance from the dream, sometimes only the difference is the sentence "Hold on again!" In "Wukong", when the director played by Zhang Chi almost compromised in the face of the producer's outrageous casting, the "real body" of Sun Wukong, played by Jiang Long, fell from the sky, leaving a sentence of "insist on insisting on it, in case it is right", stepping on the clouds and leaving.
As a show creator, why not? Running back to the comedy track, the show's success was seen as a handy result. But Ma Dong said: "Comedy and Mi Wei do have a deep relationship, but it is useless to have a source, the program is made minute by minute, no matter how strong the ability, we also need to be trembling all the time." In his view, the best state is not full of confidence and confidence, but "always with trepidation and the unknown to create."
In the unknown corner, there may be countless people who work hard to pursue their dreams, they may not have such luck in their lives, ushering in the "highlight moment" of ideal realization. The meaning of comedy, the significance of comedians, may lie in the fact that the tired heart that has been beaten by reality is healed, so that the audience once again bravely sets out in the self-deprecation of laughter and tears.
Author: Huang Qizhe
Editor: Wang Xiaoli