Beijing**Client|Reporter Li Xiazhi.
The urban inspirational comedy "My Family Married Mulan" is being broadcast on LeTV. As a TV series written, directed and acted by comedian Gong Hanlin, the play condenses Gong Hanlin's observation of social phenomena in recent years with a light comedy style that is close to life and fresh and humorous.
From sketches to TV series "live to learn from old age".
Gong Hanlin, who has served as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) for three consecutive terms, revealed that his creativity originated when he heard a speech by a female member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) about gender discrimination against women in the workplace. This kind of social injustice of "I would rather have Wu Dalang than Mu Guiying" worries him, and he hopes to use the broadcast of the show to attract widespread attention from the society and speak for female job seekers.
My Family Married to Mulan" tells an atypical workplace job search story, in which the heroine Jin Yingjie (played by Xi Wang) encounters various setbacks in the job search process, and the reason for the frustration is simply because she is a woman. In the face of the gender discrimination of some companies that "only recruit boys, not girls", she did not bow to fate, and joined Hao Xin (Gong Tiankuo) as a "male secretary" in Hao Xin's (Gong Tiankuo) Good Luck Clothing Company, and staged a part-time job version of "Mulan" The dislocation story.
This kind of creative idea of paying attention to reality and refracting and reflecting reality with the help of comedy works has always run through Gong Hanlin's comedy works. Although it has been a long time since the Spring Festival Gala, he and Zhao Lirong, Jin Zhu and others collaborated on classic Spring Festival Gala sketches such as "So Packaged", "Adventures of Part-time Job", "Veteran Out", etc., which were deeply loved by the audience with strong comedy effects and irony, and Gong Hanlin became a well-known comedian. In line with the principle of preferring lack to abundance, Gong Hanlin has not appeared on the stage of CCTV Spring Festival Gala for a long time over the years, but he has not stopped exploring the art of comedy.
I always remember the saying, 'Live and learn'. After so many years in the performance industry, I have set some small goals for myself, try not to be eliminated by the times, to seize the pace of the times, follow the times, and run with the times. Although he faced many difficulties in the process, Gong Hanlin said that he was able to successfully broadcast it in the end, and he had already achieved his stage expectations, and the next work will be a movie, which has been prepared for many years, and it needs the right time and place to meet the audience.
A large number of traditional comedians are invited to participate.
After leaving the Spring Festival Gala stage for many years, Gong Hanlin has not completely stopped creating comedy, and this is not the first time he has turned from an actor to creating behind the scenes. As early as 2008, Gong Hanlin directed the stage comedy "Drama in and Out of Play", and the stage effect and audience response were very good.
In this filming of "My Family Married Mulan", Gong Hanlin continued the experience of the last stage play, and used a large number of traditional comedians in the performance lineup. According to incomplete statistics, Gong Hanlin invited 21 cross talk actors and a number of comedians to star and participate in the new play, including Gong Hanlin and his wife and cross talk actor You Xianchao, and the cameos and comedians who made cameos and participated in the play are similar to Fang Qingping, Li Weijian, Bai Kainan, Miao Fu, Pan Changjiang, Li Jing, Mao Wei, He Yunwei, Chen Yinquan and other comedy familiar faces that the audience loves, as well as a large number of young comedians who play big or small roles in the play.
In Gong Hanlin's view, the creative logic of film and television dramas is completely different from sketches, it does not just rely on the number of lines and rivalry of two or three people on the stage, but needs to have a complete drama structure, and the specific characters in the structure need to be supported by vivid characters. Regarding the comedy style of the new drama, he said that what he pursues is not hilarious, but "light comedy of normal life", "We limited a large structure to the framework of comedy, and then we just wanted comedians to present a normal state of life, and the performance of the comedians surprised me, the roles they completed were very good, very in line with the characters set in my screenwriting process, and some actors also added a lot of brilliance to the characters." ”
Nostalgic but not greedy for the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
has not been on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala for many years, and now the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Dragon is approaching, and every year there are audiences calling for the return of the "old man" of the Spring Festival Gala.
The audience does want to see us, but at this node of the Spring Festival Gala, the audience must not only look forward to this face, the audience still hopes to see us come up with decent works in the Spring Festival Gala. For Gong Hanlin, this is very important, he believes that if comedians can't even figure this out, and rashly bring their works to the Spring Festival Gala, they will disappoint the audience, "Out of love for the audience and respect for the art of comedy, I have to learn to take it and put it down, and I must be willing to give it up." He sincerely said that he is also very nostalgic for the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, but "you must not be greedy", "A greedy word will destroy yourself and hurt the audience, you can't do such a thing." The scale in my heart has set the standard of the Spring Festival Gala, whether it is a sketch or other works of art, if it does not meet the standard, it cannot be touched or performed, this is a principle. ”
Over the years, many Internet hot words and hot stalks will become the creativity of the Spring Festival Gala comedy works**, as for whether this year's popular "Subject 3" dance will appear in the Spring Festival Gala, Gong Hanlin's opinion quoted a sentence from his best partner Zhao Lirong, "Be particular, don't settle". "From the perspective of mass entertainment, Internet hot words and phenomena are harmless, but whether they can stand the test as a work of art on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala is another matter. ”
In the face of comedy creation, Gong Hanlin insists that good works must have originality, "I often study why Zhao Lirong's works can be passed down across time, and a key factor is the originality of the works and the personality charm of the artists." He revealed that the art world is currently generally learning the "spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation", "that is, to learn how to carry out creative transformation and innovative development, if it is just 'melting', that is, taking it, these 'two creations' do not exist, and your artwork will be difficult to be like an evergreen." ”