At present, there are two obvious trends in domestic film and television that have not yet been incorporated into the mainstream. First, variety show comedians formed a group to enter the film and drama industry. The most prominent example is the comedy "The Annual Meeting Can't Stop!" with a box office of nearly 1.3 billion! The supporting roles in the film, such as Tong Monan, Da Mu, Li Dong, etc., are almost all from variety shows such as "Talk Show Conference" and "Annual Comedy Competition". Employing comedians instead of full-time film actors can save a lot of effort when it comes to comedy shooting. Because today's comedies focus on throwing stalks and picking up stalks, they do not have high requirements for acting skills and character understandingUnlike Stephen Chow's comedies, which mostly used full-time film actors, the comedy effect is mostly based on the understanding of the character's personality and fate, requiring a kind of "comedy acting". 
The annual meeting can't be stopped" stillsSecond, short dramas and short dramas have risen at the speed of light, and even influenced the trend of folk film and television in Europe and the United States. It is reported that at present, there are more than 1,000 micro-short drama crews gathered in Hengdian, and some film and television studios can earn two or three million dollars in half a year. There is a difference between a short ** drama and a short drama. Short** dramas are mostly vertical screens, and the duration of a single episode is generally within 10 minutes (or even as short as about 5 minutes), and the script, shooting, etc. are mostly exciting and refreshing"Want to make money".Three words are unabashedly typed on each frame. 
I was a stepmother in the 80s" is a popular short drama during the Spring Festival, which was originally mostly a popular ** propaganda drama, and has now developed an independent system and is launched on Douyin, Kuaishou and other platforms. Short dramas are mostly horizontal, with a single episode ranging from about 15-25 minutes, and most of the scripts, shooting, etc. have a sense of subject creation, and short dramas are generally released. Recently, there is a short drama that is more popular, directed by Kim Cheol-yong and co-starred by many comedians in the "Annual Comedy Contest"."Don't Panic, King".
Recently, on the Douban real-time popular book and audio list,Score 79's "Don't Panic King" remained in third place, second only to the movie "Eliminate the Three Evils Everywhere" and the web series "Detective Chinatown 2". Superficial comedyNowadays, movies, regardless of genre, love to be mixedComedyElement. For example, the protagonist of "Removing the Three Evils in the Week" went to the police station to surrender, and he was tall and conspicuous with the temperament of a bandit, and he also had to queue up and verify his identity among the people who picked up money and "surrendered", which is definitely not like the gangsters in ordinary crime films who have a "special reception". In the past Spring Festival, there were no industrial productions and multi-genre films, almost all of them were comedies, which showed that comedy was easy to make money, and it was the audience's just need, and even the short ** was pushed: laughing is a special way to prevent cancer. The plot of "Don't Panic King" is a new compilation of the story of "Journey to the West", which is a bit of ""The Annual Meeting Can't Be Stopped!" >> + Summer of Little Monsters(The first episode of the animation "Chinese Strange Tan")."The taste. 
The Summer of Little Monsters (2023) A panda Linglong Pagoda (nicknamed Lingling), who wants to ascend to immortality, was assigned by the Heavenly Court to the Nether to the Flower Neck Mountain, lurking under the banner of the Pink Wind Monster on the mountain, destroying the cottage and clearing the way for the Tang monks and apprentices passing through here. When he arrived at Flower Neck Mountain, he caught up with the funeral of the Pink Wind Monster, and by mistake, Linglong Pagoda was recognized as the son of the Pink Wind Monster, so he inherited the throne. The original intention of lurking is getting farther and farther away, and Linglong Pagoda has begun to lead Huaneck Mountain, which cannot make ends meet, to engage in economic development. 
The comedy of this drama is mostly adoptedGenius Technique, that is, choking and teasing, which is also the most common technique used by all kinds of comedy teams in major cities. The use of this technique makes the existence of a single comedy section of the series more absurd than the absurdity of the overall plot, and the stalks are quite dense, making the whole show more like a collection of sketches, unable to form the consistent original temperament of "Wulin Gaiden", or the tragic atmosphere that is gradually hidden, advanced, and finally erupted in the Korean comedy "Funny Family". 
Stills from Wulin Gaiden" But for the small volume and sense of relaxation of "Don't Panic King", the above lack is harmless, the important thing is thatThe comedy in the play is not only effective, but also rarely almost all meaningful。For example, Linglong Pagoda takes somersault clouds, needs to be navigated, Linglong Pagoda says the place name "Huaneck Mountain", and the navigation insists on hearing it as "Huaguo Mountain". After several fruitless times, Linglong Tower became angry and asked somersault cloud, "(You) don't know Sun Wukong", and when he heard it, he immediately reacted: The driving mode has been changed for you to - dive. 
Neck, fruit, Monkey King, swooping, this is both a mancai fixed technique"Homophonic Terrier".At the same time, it also reminds people of the reality of the drivers with strong accents fighting wits and courage with the car navigation, and it also sets the whole dramaTime and space are chaotic, borrowing from the past to satirize the presenttone. The show's satire on the current society has reached a very straightforward level. Some immortal cultivators questioned the normal process of sending latent non-immortal ascension and refused to dispatch, and as a result, they were directly deprived of their immortal ascension qualificationsSatirizing companies or units for squeezing intern labor, and even stealing intern programs through interviews；After the Linglong Pagoda arrived at Huaneck Mountain, it annoyed the land lord, and the land lord's sentence "A trainee commands our grassroots every day" is thereMapping the power relationship between higher-level and lower-level organs within the system；On the grounds of borrowing, Tiandi Bank asked the demons of Huaneck Mountain to mortgage the mountain and vacate the mountain within a time limit, which is obviously inRefers to a mortgage
Inner desiresIn addition to this obvious superficial comedy, there are some plots in the play that need to be touched, restrained and full of twists and turns. For example:The king (Linglong Tower) pretends to sleep。The demon mole master said, I have a way to detect pretending to be asleep, lift his arm up, if it is still hanging in the air, it means that he is asleep, if it lands, it means that he is pretending to be asleep. The implication is actually the opposite, hanging in the air is actually pretending to be asleep, and landing is falling asleep. The king raised his hand in the air and hovered for two seconds, but suddenly stretched his waist and looked like he had just woken up. 
It's really wonderful here - hidden under a series of actions, first the mole master lied, and the king pretended to be asleep or not; Later, the king suddenly woke up, his mind turned, he pushed the boat down the river, and woke up directly, not pretending. This bit of cleverness is just in line with his clever personality of answering the difficult math problems of the Mole Master before.
The humor here, the lines are supplemented, and the behavior is the main one, which conforms to the law that behavior is more essential than lines in film and television creation. This also leads to the biggest failure of this play, that is, the narration of Ma Dong's reading, which is really too much and tiresome. A plot is telling. After the Linglong Pagoda unexpectedly appeared the real panda, the Flower Neck Mountain suddenly became a tourist hotspot, and there was an endless stream of people who came to see the panda, but the Linglong Pagoda could never reproduce the real body, which formed a virtual and real tourism dead knot. The demons excitedly discussed the future of Huaneck Mountain, but the Linglong Pagoda walked outside the cottage, and Ma Dong's narration sounded, revealing the state of mind of the Linglong Pagoda - Is it fate? Or is it a test from heaven? Shangfeng couldn't be contacted for a long time, and the task had twists and turns again......
The narration here is nonsense without any specific meaning at all, and can be deleted in its entirety. The movement of Linglong Tower from the table to the outside of the cottage, as well as his depressed state, can clearly convey his state of mind in a silent way, without the need for additional explanations from the narrator. This kind of wrapping the action with lines, thereby depriving the action itself of the expressive power, is really insulting to the audience's IQ, and has a kind of low childish feeling of a nighttime children's book. Since the script has reached the level of satirizing society, it should come up with an adult's creative method to let the inner desires of the story be presented naturally.
This desire is reflected in the performances of the two leading actors. The mole master played by Tudou (real name Guo Hongze) tends to shape an overall image, which is also achieved through behavior. The more prominent performance is the plot of the Mole Master rescuing the Linglong Tower from the hands of Butterfly Valley. Within half an episode, the mole master turned around in Qingfeng Village (where the green cow essence is), Furong Cave (where the scorpion essence is), Hump Ridge and other places, and used customs clearance documents, banana fans and other things to dot around, and finally rescued the Linglong Pagoda from Butterfly Valley. The performance of the potato is not carved, the clouds are light and the wind is light, and it just shows the mole master's strategic skills.
The Linglong Tower played by Lu Yan is interesting in the details. I don't know whether intentionally or not, Lu Yan's performance is very much Zhang Yi - not that he has reached Zhang Yi's level, but is it possible for him to observe and learn from the performances of film actors? For example, at the oath meeting of "vowing to eat Tang monk meat", Linglong Pagoda asked the mole master what he thought of "the real is virtual, and the virtual is real", and the lip movements are very similar to the lip movements of Zhang Yi's performance.
Of course, it could also be that I'm overspeculating. But from these details, combined with the social satire that the whole drama is present all the time, it can be seen that "Don't Panic King" has at least done itSatirical comedy, deep comedy's intention, due to objective elements such as cost and team, is timidity in character modeling, scene construction, etc. Creation is a thing that requires both sincerity and ambition, and must follow one's own desires and feelings, and from this point of view, "Don't Panic King" still does it. It is reported that famous comedy directors such as Stephen Chow and Wang Jing will shoot short dramas in response to the trend of the times, so what about their short dramas?