At noon on January 30, the TV series "Happy Scroll Changle City" was launched on Tencent**4 episodes, officially opening the premiere mode. This costume light comedy starring Ma Tianyu and Bu Guanjin is the third comedy work of Tencent's ** bench unit. The first two films are "The Legend of Magpie Knife Gate" and "The Happy Affair of Lan Boudoir". The quality of these two parts is relatively good, but this time "Happy Roll Changle City" has few laughs and the main line is chaotic, which may make the bench unit stumble.
The first criterion for evaluating the quality of a light comedy work is whether it can make the audience laugh. From my personal experience of chasing dramas in 4 episodes, it is like sitting on pins and needles, not only is there no place to laugh, but I also feel that many of the episodes seem embarrassing, and even if the creator himself is not embarrassed, only the audience will be embarrassed.
I don't know if it's the reason why I have a high laugh, but I can't see any laughing baggage in this "Happy Scroll Changle City". A lot of the baggage at the level of the script also seems to be untenable. Because of a comedy baggage, it is important to turn over and shake, and to pay attention to the burden and shake the burden. In the creation of this TV series, there seems to be no awareness of this burden and shaking the burden. Not sure why. The play gives people the feeling that the screenwriter doesn't understand comedy creation.
Jokes and baggage can be determined directly by numbers. Another problem with the current 4 episodes of "Happy Scroll Changle City" is that the main line is chaotic and there is no clear narrative purpose. For example, the main narrative line of "The Legend of Magpie Knife Gate" is that the head of the house has gone to fight the Japanese invaders, and the fake head has come to take charge of the Magpie Knife Gate to ensure daily stability. For another example, "The Happy Affair of the Lan Boudoir" is even more straightforward, and the four little ladies in the boudoir want to find Ruyi Langjun.
Whether it is a comedy TV series or other types of TV dramas, it needs to have a relatively reasonable and clear story line. In the first 4 episodes of "Happy Scroll Changle City", this main line is not clear enough, and it does not let the characters move around this main line.
For example, in episodes 3 and 4, the main narrative line seems to be that the male protagonist wants to sell the female protagonist's school district house, and the female protagonist and others do not let the male protagonist sell it. On this line, the most interesting thing should be that there is such a thing as a school district house in ancient Chang'an City. If you can grasp the concept of this school district house and derive some story content, it will definitely be very interesting. However, this TV series only caught the matter of stealing the house deed, which is too boring.
If this story is a different way of thinking, let the male protagonist steal the female owner's house deed, and then, the male protagonist and another businessman together, began to operate this school district house, and really began to have buyers come to the door, in the end, the concept of the school district house fell through, and the male protagonists beat the chickens and eggs, then, a story around the school district house, it produced a satirical effect, and comedy came head-on.
Speaking of this, in fact, we can make a common sense clear: a comedy work can be the comedy of the story itself, or it can be the comedy of the specific bridge baggage. This "Happy Scroll Changle City" is not satisfactory whether it is a comedy in terms of story trend or a comedy in specific baggage. The main line, the main line, for the screenwriters, the main line must be understood first.
The role design of actors such as Ma Tianyu and Bu Guanjin is also not very reasonable. In particular, the purpose of the drama that the male and female protagonists should be paralleled and develop in the direction of love is actually clear to the audience who watches costume light comedy. However, in the play, this plot that develops in the direction of love does not find rationality. In the play, the hero and heroine fall in love because the male protagonist is drugged. This is a very bad way of designing.
Including in this TV series, giving Bu Guanjin a dialect accent is also not considered. The dialect content brought by Bu Guanjin in the play did not produce a laughing effect. Perhaps, letting a young actress use dialects to achieve laughter is difficult in itself. The dialect thing, if used well, can help the drama, but if it is not used well, it will hurt the entire TV series.
Ma Tianyu has matured a lot in performance. Especially when he played the disabled person, for a while, I really didn't see that it was Ma Tianyu. However, this "Happy Scroll Changle City" is a comedy work, and Ma Tianyu did not contribute comedy content to the play. It's not funny, which has become the biggest problem in Ma Tianyu's performance. Comedy TV series really pick actors, and not every actor can master comedy.
In terms of other characters, there is a problem of similarity. For example, the princess of the Western Regions and her entourage, these two female characters, belong to the similarity too high. Comedy TV series, especially this kind of courtyard-style, sitcom-like works, the characters are all comprehensible, and there can be no similarity in the personality of this kind of character. "Happy Roll Changle City" lacks regularity in the design of supporting roles, and it should really be trimmed.
As above, I think that this "Happy Scroll Changle City" is relatively poor in terms of comedy. This TV series cannot be compared with the first two works of the bench unit. (Wen Ma Qingyun).