Dong Chengpeng, formerly known as Dong Liang, is an actor, director, host and singer in Chinese mainland. He is Zhao Benshan's 53rd **, and he began to emerge in the Sohu** talk show "Dapeng Bang Bang" in 2004. The mini comedy "Dick Silk Man", which he wrote, directed and acted in, was warmly welcomed by the audience as soon as it was launched and became an Internet celebrity.
Dong Chengpeng is not only talented in ** and dance, but also once formed a band and served as a host. His choreographed and directed works include the films "Keep You Safe", "Auspicious Ruyi" and "Warm", all of which have received unanimous praise from audiences and critics.
As a versatile artist, Dong Chengpeng continues to explore and innovate in the entertainment industry, showing his unique artistic style and talent. His works not only bring joy to the audience, but also convey positive values and inject positive energy into society.
Luo Hongming, formerly known as Bai Ke, quickly became popular in 2013 for playing the role of Wang Dazhui in the funny web drama "Never Expected" directed by Yi Xiaoxing. His talent is not limited to acting, but also reflected in his ingenious line creation, which has contributed many hot words that are loved by netizens to the online world.
Over the years, his acting career has flourished, and he has participated in more than 70 film and television works, fully demonstrating the diversity and professionalism of his acting skills. Together with another representative of the post-80s Internet stars, they are respected as the originators of the new generation of online comedy. The first cooperation between these two Internet superstars has undoubtedly aroused great attention and expectations from the majority of netizens. Their collaboration has been hailed as a new milestone in internet comedy and will bring audiences a feast of laughter like never before.
The annual meeting can't be stopped!This comedy film, which brings together the first screen collaboration between "Dick Silk Man" Dapeng and "Wang Da Hammer" Bai Ke, was originally planned to meet the audience on December 29. However, the filmmaker recently decided to conduct a nationwide early screening, limited to one per day, and I was fortunate to seize the opportunity to have a glimpse of it in advance. Before watching the movie, I was full of anticipation;After watching the movie, my mood was mixed. The comedic elements of this movie don't seem to quite meet my expectations, but some of the plot makes people wonder and think about the problems behind it. 
The movie begins with a comical incident about personnel transfers.
Hu Jianlin, a fitter played by Dapeng, is very keen to participate in the company's annual meeting, actively registers every year, and performs his own program at the annual meeting.
The so-called "annual meeting", everyone should be familiar with it, it is a gathering organized by the company at the end of each year. Such internal gatherings, if properly organized, can not only boost morale and enhance team cohesion, but also improve the relationship between the management and employees of the enterprise, which plays a very positive role in the development of the enterprise.
Hu Jianlin has worked in a screw factory for 20 years, so he is interested in the performance at the annual conference. However, when he submitted his application for acting, he unexpectedly received an order to transfer him to the head office.
It turned out that Zhuang Zhengzhi spent 300,000 yuan to find a relationship and wanted to be transferred to the head office, but because the leader in charge of personnel got the wrong application form, Hu Jianlin was transferred away.
The head office of Zhonghe Group has encountered financial problems in the current economic situation, so the management has decided to lay off 40% of the workforce, a total of more than 6,000 people, which they call the "Guangjin Plan".
Against this backdrop, the company actually recruited a new employee in his 40s, a front-line blue-collar worker who knew nothing about the company's operations, and also arranged for him to manage the employee's human resources department, which made people start to speculate. Soon, the company was filled with rumors about the special relationship between Hu Jianlin and the chairman. People thought he must have something unusual about him.
Ma Jie (played by Bai Ke), the deputy leader of the third group of the human resources department, discovered that Hu Jianlin was "misadjusted". He didn't want to take the blame for this mistake, so he chose to make a mistake, take over the job completely, and found the company's temporary worker Pan Yiran (played by Zhuang Dafei) to help him.
As a result, Hu Jianlin became more mysterious in the head office, and was even suspected of being the illegitimate son of Chairman Hu, who was believed to have been sent by the chairman to supervise the daily work of the company's employees. In order to keep his job in the "Guangjin Plan", the grassroots employees tried every means to please him and staged a farce like "The Minister of the Imperial Mission".
The twist of the story appears on another line. Zhuang Zhengzhi, who spent 300,000 yuan but couldn't enter the head office, ran around in order to get back his position, and unveiled the inside story behind the company's "Guangjin Plan".
It turned out that Chairman Hu was the director of the screw factory, and the screw factory was the starting point of his business. But with the continuous expansion of the company's business in the past 20 years, the screw factory and its 300 workers are gradually regarded as a burden to the company by Vice President Xu Yunfeng (played by Li Naiwen). In order to prompt the company to close down the screw factory, Xu Yunfeng came up with a poisonous plan: he instructed Zhuang Zhengzhi to buy a batch of inferior screws from the small OEM workshop and mix them into the screws produced by the factory to reduce the pass rate of finished products. Then, under the pretext that the production equipment of the screw factory was old and the product qualification rate was low, the screw factory was closed.
After Hu Jianlin heard about the situation, in order to keep the factory, he collected evidence with Ma Jie and Pan Yiran. Finally, at the company's annual meeting, they sang a rap adapted from Zhang Yusheng's "My Future Is Not a Dream", revealing Xu Yunfeng's conspiracy to Chairman Hu who participated in the annual meeting.
The story begins with the "annual meeting" and eventually returns to the theme of the "annual meeting", and the ending of the film seems to be a happy one: Xu Yunfeng, the company's corrupt vice president, is fired, and the screw factory is retained. Ma Jie got a promotion and a salary increase, Pan Yiran received a notice of regularization, and Hu Jianlin also returned to the screw factory he was most familiar with and was promoted to deputy director.
However, the logic behind the story is still flawed. For example, how can a CEO like Chairman Hu, who knows nothing about the company's operation and doesn't care about anything, develop a screw factory into a company as large as Zhonghe Group?
According to the setting of the movie, Zhonghe Group and the screw factory are the relationship between the head office and the branch. However, the screw-producing factory, which is mainly engaged in the production of screws, is a stark contrast to the Zhonghe Group, which is located in the bustling heart of the metropolis and has tens of thousands of employees.
In particular, the 300 workers in the screw factory are in stark contrast to Hu Jianlin's image. They usually wear coarse cloth overalls, and even if they change into suits and ties, they look rustic, as if they have traveled back in time from the 80s. The image of Hu Jianlin designed in the film is to create a sense of disobedience, and to use the dislocation of identity to create jokes, which Brother Pi also deeply understands.
However, this actually exacerbated the sense of ** between the screw factory and Zhonghe Group, as if the two companies in different time and space were forcibly shoehorned together.
Since the screw factory gives people a sense of "backwardness" and "out of touch with the times", it is debatable whether it is still necessary to exist, and whether Vice President Xu Yunfeng should make the right decision to close the factory. But the movie doesn't give the answer.
When the movie was promoted, under the guise of "watching Dapeng white customers join hands to rectify the workplace", the purpose was very clear, that is, for the workers who suffered from "996" and worked hard for their lives, hoping to attract white-collar workers who occupy the mainstream of film consumption to enter the cinema.
And in the film, we also saw old fritters in the workplace like Ma Jie.
He is good at flattery, knows how to speculate on the intentions of the leader, and is cautious and submissive in the company.
When he is drunk, he will say, "Look up to the sky and laugh and go out, how can I be a Penghao person", but in order to keep my job and family, I can only live in fear.
There are also female employees like Pan Yiran who have strong business ability, work actively and hard, but are at the lowest level of the workplace, have not been regularized, have a tough personality, and are called "rebellious" in the workplace, but have to bow down for life.
The movie also spares no effort to ridicule those middle-level leaders who are in high positions and can only talk about cars, shake pots, and kick balls.
For example, the so-called "leadership secret" is thrown out in the film:
First of all, we should give subordinates a certain amount of space and freedom when dealing with problems, and do not give direct instructions or give clear solutions, but guide them to think and solve them on their own. For example: "The key to solving this problem is to get to the core of the ......."”
Second, show that you are relatable, so that employees feel willing to work for you, rather than forcing them to do something.
Another way is to encourage constructive criticism among employees, create minor contradictions, break down their relationships, and prevent them from coming together.
These tactics, which are very common in the workplace, may seem like an unfathomable management art, but in fact they are only means to destroy the unity within the company, and do not benefit the company in any way, but rather harm and do not help.
If the management of a company is full of these conspiratorial villains, then the company is destined to be difficult to grow.
There are also many high-end corporate terms in the movie, such as "structural optimization", "alignment granularity", "sinking", "closed loop", "gripper" and so onThere are also some workplace phenomena, such as forming gangs, climbing relationships, going through the back door, etc., which are presented in front of the audience in a comedic way.
In general, the movie contains a lot of workplace phenomena, and it looks like it is exposing various problems in the workplace for us, and even seems to rectify the workplace for us.
But in fact, what the movie exposes is only a superficial phenomenon, and it does not touch on the deep-seated problems in the workplace, but only points to the point, and does not reveal the essence of the problem.
It's like Bai Ke wanted to expand more about the movie during the interview, but finally chose to shut up, leaving only one sentence: "Forget it, it doesn't matter, if you say it, it will be deleted ......."”
In the movie, the amazing hope for the solution of all the problems was placed on Chairman Hu alone.
As he suddenly woke up, the problems were solved.
What's even more ridiculous is that Hu Jianlin's plan to solve the company's financial problems is to let all employees voluntarily reduce their salaries to tide over the difficulties on the premise of keeping employees' jobs.
Leaving aside whether this option is feasible, the filmmakers clearly don't know anything about corporate culture.
As the saying goes, "if you are not afraid of less, you are afraid of unfairness", people who work are not afraid of unemployment as depicted in the movie, they are afraid of unfair layoffs.
For example, people with strong business skills are laid off, while people who are not good at work but are good at sycophants are left behind, which is really resentful.
Therefore, the movie tried to please the majority of white-collar workers under the banner of "speaking" for migrant workers, but it did not go deep into the theme of **, but only stayed on the surface.
Such a work can only be regarded as a "collection of jokes" at best, and cannot become a satirical comedy that exposes the ecology of the workplace.
We all know that in addition to a few self-directed and self-starred movies, Dapeng's most outstanding work is "Dick Silk Man", which has been broadcast for four consecutive seasons;
And what impressed the audience the most was the "Wang Sledgehammer" he played in "Never Expected".
Both are big names in the internet comedy world, and their first collaboration in the film will naturally arouse the expectations of the audience.
But often the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment, and the performance of Dapeng and Bai Ke in this movie is not satisfactory.
This movie mainly revolves around the role of Hu Jianlin, although Ma Jie played by Bai Ke has a lot of scenes, the story is not tailored specifically for him, and the rivalry between the two lacks resonance.
Although they used to get drunk together and call each other brothers in the film, they are not close in their daily work, and they each plan for themselves, unlike Stephen Chow and Wu Mengda.
The reason for this phenomenon may be the limitations of the script design, and the role arrangement of Hu Jianlin and Ma Jie is not very close;Moreover, Dapeng and Baike are both known for their humorous styles, which makes it difficult for them to complement each other in the film, and they cannot have a good chemistry.
Tease"with"Whoa"It is a core role in the art of cross talk. "Tease"is the leader of the story, leading the audience with his unique sense of humor and acting skills;While"Whoa"then plays a supporting role, for"Tease"Provide support and supplements.
Wang Jing once highly praised Wu Mengda, calling him the best in the Hong Kong film industry"Whoa"。No matter what kind of movie he is in, Wu Mengda can make the role more distinct and add color to the movie with his unique acting style and superb acting skills. Stephen Chow is known for his excellence"Tease"Known for his talent, his sense of humor and acting skills have always created a wonderful chemistry with his partners, creating countless classic comedy works.
Dapeng and Bai Ke, as the new generation of comedians, also have extraordinary acting talents. They are not only amusing characters in comedy, but also important characters who bring laughter to the audience. With their unique performance style and sense of humor, they have become a new force in the world of comedy.
Zhuang Dafei, the new movie star of the post-00s, has gained a certain popularity for his outstanding performance in TV series. However, despite participating in more than a dozen TV series, this is the first time she has been electrocuted on the big screen, starring in the movie "The Annual Meeting Can't Stop!".The supporting actress Pan Yiran.
It is worth mentioning that she was photographed by director Tsui Hark and played the heroine Huang Rong in the classic martial arts ** "The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Great Hero". This news has aroused my great concern. Zhuang Dafei's beauty is not the type of dazzling and stunning, but her unique charm and intellectual beauty are hard to ignore. I firmly believe that she will perfectly interpret the rebellious personality of the character of Pan Yiran in the film.
I deeply agree with director Tsui Hark's decision to choose her to play Huang Rong. I foresaw that her stellar performance in "Shooting the Condor" would make her quickly popular.
The annual meeting can't be stopped!As the first cooperation between Dapeng and Baike, it undoubtedly brought laughter to the audience. It reveals some of the absurdities of the workplace in a witty and humorous way. Still, I think this work is more like a "collection of jokes" and fails to get to the heart of the chaos in the workplace, which makes me feel a little regretful.
Based on the above factors, I ** "The annual meeting can't be stopped!".will be a popular work, but it may struggle to break the 1 billion mark at the box office.