It was a serious funeral. The father died, and the memorial visitors became more bizarre than the other, from the old boy to the scientist, from the centaur to Saturn, the brain hole is absurd to outer space, but the core is the relationship between father and son. This comedy made the whole network laugh crazy. Tudou (Guo Hongze) and Lu Yan, this pair of comedy CPs, also entered the public eye.
Father's Funeral
Later, they once again made the whole network laugh with "Big Ben" and "Theory of Evolution", and triggered in-depth interpretation. The position of a pair of comedic geniuses was thus confirmed.
The public waited for the third season of the comedy contest but couldn't, and the era of skits suddenly came.
Young Master and I", another pair of comedy CPs with the same name as Tudou and Lu Yan, launched the short series "Young Master and Me"; "Hao Shi Cheng Pair" broke into the film and television industry, and Jiang Long took the lead in the comedy TV "Dog Leftovers Run"; Tudou and Lu Yan brought an extended version of the "Father's Funeral" with the flavor of Journey to the West in the expectation of everyone - Don't panic, the king.
One. Don't panic, the king, has a total of 14 episodes, and tomorrow is the finale. Each episode is approximately 20 minutes long. Since its launch on February 24, it doesn't seem to be out of the circle, at least not like it dominated the hot search list when it was in the comedy competition. Aren't potatoes and Lu Yan funny?
In Ma Dong's narration, we might as well enter this story first.
Lu Yan plays a panda spirit who has practiced for hundreds of years and is only one step away from ascending to immortal. However, Xingjun, who inspected everyone's qualifications to become immortals, suddenly assigned a task, asking them to go undercover in various monster mountains and walled cities in the mortal world, so as to interfere with the plans of the demons and demons to eat Tang monk's meat, and achieve the righteousness of "protecting the scriptures".
Panda Spirit, codenamed Linglong Tower, nicknamed Lingling, took the cloud to the designated monster cottage - Flower Neck Mountain. Because of the error in Xiangyun's recognition of the voice, he fell halfway, had no choice but to walk, stole the ox cart of a certain monster halfway, and rushed to Huaneck Mountain, but it was a funeral.
The title of the first episode is "Father's Funeral". It turned out that it was the cottage king who died, Lingling (played by Lu Yan) because she came from afar and an ox cart, and was "thought too much", the mole military division (played by Tudou), referred to as the mole master, who was mistaken for the king's son, and praised him as the new king in one fell swoop.
The undercover demon inexplicably became the king of the copycat. The new king took office, but it was internal and external troubles. "Internal worries" are because Lingling feels that the situation is out of control and wants to suspend the undercover plan; The "external trouble" is that the cottage has a serious deficit and is heavily indebted, and there is a risk of being seized by Tiandi Bank. At the same time, the hearts of the cottage people are fluctuating, and if the king cannot convince the public, it may also invite disaster.
At this time, the clever mole master and the confused king, in the midst of ridicule and misfortune, lit three fires, which are bound to transform and upgrade the cottage and develop it into a well-known tourist resort. First, it is convenient to camouflage and ambush Tang Seng; Second, the economy should be the most important thing to improve survival.
Then, the whole cottage was built and recruited talents, so outrageous that even Kepler aliens came to apply. As a result, everything was in place, but no tourists came.
Lingling thought that the cottage was declining, Tang Seng meat would definitely not be able to eat, and the latent task was about to be completed, so she got carried away for a while, revealed the true body of the giant panda, rolled down the cliff, and was seen by the villagers passing by. The blockbuster news of "there are giant pandas in Huaneck Mountain" has spread far and wide, which has become an "east wind" of the transformation of the cottage economy. The down-and-out cottage has been transformed into a famous scenic spot full of tourists.
The main line of the quest is still to eat Tang monk meat. If you want to eat meat, you must first build a road - if you want to attract Tang monks and apprentices to pass by Huaneck Mountain, you must dig a mountain and build a road. The night before Lu Cheng, Lingling was captured by other monsters, and was rescued after some grinding by the mole master.
A wave has not settled, and a wave has risen, the undercover plan of the heavenly court**, the mole master is also aware of it, and believes that the panda spirit hidden in the cottage is an undercover agent. He began to track down the undercover agent and secretly asked the person wearing the Sanxingdui bronze mask to identify him.
The undercover agent didn't find out, but the real son of the first king, the unfortunate monster who had stolen the ox cart, returned to the cottage. True and false kings, forcing the palace to rebel, mole masters quelling the rebellion, the real crisis of the cottage has just begun: Tang monks and apprentices are coming. Sun Wukong is the evil god who slays demons and destroys demons, how can this group of monsters who eat and drink all day long be opponents? How will Lingling, who is practicing the Fence Technique (a spell similar to the Golden Bell Jar) to protect people, deal with herself in the cottage?
The answer is about to be revealed.
This short drama is not a unit drama of "The Young Master and Me", but more like a miniature TV series with two movie lengths, with the shell of "Journey to the West", the comedy, games and common jokes and hot stalks on the Internet, even if they are homophonic stalks, tongue twisters, "you draw and I guess" and other rotten means, are cleverly stitched into the main story line, so that each episode has highlights, such as applying for a group of demons are all wonderful, like Stephen Chow's only able to train the bridge, and like the cottage construction economy and the demons' complaints about the rest and overtime, It makes the workers feel related.
Overall, it's a top-notch comedy, and it's a good remedy for those who don't laugh.
Two. The director and screenwriter of "Don't Panic King" is Kim Cheol-yong. His last directing work was the fantasy urban comedy "Animal Management" starring Chen He and Wang Ziwen, which is also brain-opening, outrageous and funny, and affectionate and bloody. Although Tudou and Lu Yan are not screenwriters, the audience can see that this is a drama that cannot be established without Tudou and Lu Yan.
The screenwriter of comedy does not mean to write a book for the actor to hold and act, this is not the creative process of comedy. Lu Yan once said, "The screenwriter of comedy is more about laying the foundation, as for how to sprout, it is necessary to find good comedians and let them sprout on their own on the stage." ”
Wang Tianfang, the actor of the rabbit master in this play, also mentioned in the tidbits that Kim Zheyong trusts the actors and will delegate power in creation, in addition to promoting the plot and the prescribed lines, other lines and performances will be handed over to the actors to play freely, and the script will be "second created" out of their own style.
Therefore, we can understand "Don't Panic King" as a comedy work by Tudou and Lu Yan, and it is a competition that the two of them contributed to the audience and fans in the third season of their lives.
When it comes to the two, I have to mention Chengdu.
Tudou is a native of Harbin and studied broadcasting and hosting in Chengdu. After graduating, he became a radio DJ. In 2018, after watching Zhou Qimo's show, he established a comedy idol and a life goal to get closer to him, so he tried stand-up comedy, and later joined the Chengdu Overload Talk Show Club. Offstage is social terror, and onstage is chatter. He is limited to his activity, working during the day and acting at night, and is fascinated by the "right to free expression".
One day he went to see an improvisational comedy performance and met Lu Yan. Lu Yan is the same as a potato, he is not from Chengdu, but he enjoys the comfort of Chengdu. After graduating from university in Chengdu, he first returned to his hometown of Shandong to work as a TV host. But not happy. Because he didn't want to "see his life clearly", he returned to Chengdu and began to work as a bar singer, screenwriter, dubbing, producer, etc., and later came to an improv comedy company, standing in front of the stage from a behind-the-scenes marketing position.
In 2021, when the news of the recruitment of the comedy contest came, the two teamed up as a team, passed the interview, and became popular with a comic work "The Strange Neighbor on the Bus", which also made the art form of comics get attention.
Mancai, similar to counterpart comedy, is often performed by two people, one is relatively serious, the thinking paradigm is in line with the daily context, and is responsible for finding and complaining; The other is comical, with a bias towards being funny, playing silly, and all sorts of anti-logical behaviors. It stands to reason that the potato who likes reading and art and is more deep and sensitive should be a complainer, while Lu Yan, who prefers anime and games, and is quite a "middle two", is suitable for being funny. But they turned it around and made the potatoes weird.
The Strange Neighbor Seat on the Bus
This kind of interesting tone casts a layer of "the weight of knowledge" as the axis of comedy in their popular works, which is also their style. In other words, Tudou's perspective is more elitist, and he is the creator of the lines that are equal to the MC side and Shakespeare's accent as humorous material. He needs Lu Yan's "middle two" and logic close to the current state of young people to destroy the elite atmosphere and use knowledge to create a gap, so as to create laughter.
Just like "Father's Funeral", my father's friend before his death had *** The director of the coal mine is the daily context, but when scientists, centaur astrologers, and even the entire Saturn appear, that strong intellectual absurd effect comes out. This is a brain hole that only potatoes can have, and Lu Yan understands him, doesn't ask anything, doesn't presuppose the expression in the work, and does his best to cooperate with the performance.
The second season of the comedy contest "Theory of Evolution" is even more so, through the difference in the speed of evolution, the two orangutans show completely different appearances, one is primitive and instinctive, and cannot be separated from low-level fun; The other is burdened by knowledge, becoming lonely, miserable, and even longing to escape.
In this comedy, the knowledge points touched include but are not limited to: "2001: A Space Odyssey", "Journey to the West", Darwin, Newton, Qu Yuan, Su Shi, Schrödinger, Pavlov, "War and Peace", "One Hundred Years of Solitude", Hawking, Einstein, "The Three-Body Problem", and "Infernal Affairs" in popular culture, Jay Chou and so on. Tudou uses knowledge to create laughter, rare with humanistic care, and once the humanities overflow, it is immediately pulled down by Lu Yan and enters the popular context. That's the duo's style.
Evolution" but only knowledge and daily complaining are not enough to make the work out of the circle. Under the surface of laughter, there is also a hidden core, in "Father's Funeral", it is the ** of the father-son relationship, do we really understand our father? In "The Theory of Evolution", the meaning is more complex, from genius and ordinary people, human nature and animal nature, loneliness and shame can be interpreted in depth.
Now, when they come to "Don't Panic King", what do they want to express?
Three. The worldview needs to be matched. Before talking about Tudou and Lu Yan's views, let's take a look at one of the most direct methods they adopted in "Don't Panic King" - the story of Journey to the West.
A generation of comedians has a generation of "Journey to the West".
Stephen Chow's "Journey to the West", with a nonsensical style, aims at the thorn of Sun Wukong, telling a story of love but can't, and deep love. Later, his "Journey to the West" continued this theme, making Tang Seng the protagonist of a love that was like morning dew but unswerving to death.
Above: "Journey to the West", below: "Journey to the West".
In the period of mini web comedy, the Wanhe Tianyi team launched "Never Expected: Journey to the West", and the perspective has shifted from Tang monks and apprentices to unnamed demons; and then to the first episode of last year's "Chinese Strange Tan" "The Summer of Little Monsters", Tang monks and apprentices were completely reduced to background boards, and the story became a part-time job journey of an unknown little monster.
The Summer of Little Monsters
This year's seventh episode of "The Young Master and Me" "Eighty-one Difficulties" continues the theme of "Little Monsters" and continues to tell the story of the workers - in this play are two humble immortals - who work hard to complete the task of designing the "Eighty-one Difficulties".
Until now, "Don't Panic King", such as the long remake of "The Summer of Little Monsters" and "Eighty-one Difficulties", has also won the interest and metaphor of Ma Boyong's ** "Too Platinum Star is a Little Annoying" to write "It's not easy to work as a worker", creating two flesh-and-blood little characters with "learning from experience" as the background board.
From the Tang monk Monkey King to the unknown monster, this is the concept of contemporary comedians.
As Gu Cheng said, when he was a child, he read the Three Kingdoms and loved it to fight and kill; Later, I reread it, but "kept killing, killing hundreds of people, and killing them all." Heaven is ruthless. "We are all sentient beings under the domination of the Heavenly Dao, not the protagonists like "Liu Guanzhang", and we can't stand in the center of the stage. Hulan, a comedian with a similar temperament to potatoes, also expressed a similar meaning in a talk show.
When comedians realize the position and emotional expectations of ordinary people, they will naturally turn their eyes to their side, so there are stories of the little monster wild boar spirit, Jing Mu Qian ("The Young Master and Me"), Lingling, and the mole master.
Lingling is dedicated to cultivating immortals, just to see her former teacher again. For this reason, I had to obey the undercover plan and walk on thin ice in the cottage. The mole master was originally excellent in character and learning, but he was driven out of the scientific research site because of his identity as a monster, and since then he has not been allowed to be in the local world, and has come to Huaneck Mountain to become a military advisor, just wanting to protect this cottage and give the demons a home. The finale has not yet arrived, but it can be expected that after getting along for a long time, Lingling agrees with the demons and everything in the cottage, and is determined to protect them to the death.
This is the expression of Tudou and Lu Yan. In a world of paradox, panic and deceit, people should have something to turn to, a place to settle in, a talent to use, and a place to live, young and old, widows and lonely people can enjoy themselves. Flower Neck Mountain is not only a monster cottage, but also a peach blossom source that allows ordinary monsters to settle down.
uses "Journey to the West" as a method, and then borrows the traces of dramas such as "Latent" to construct a ridiculous monster working world, which is not new; However, when we peel off the outer layers of nesting dolls layer by layer and see the innermost core expression, we will definitely be moved by the sympathy between the two and this beautiful peach blossom source.
Red Star News Film and Television Commentator Li Ruifeng Editor Zeng Qi.
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