They are responsible for making happiness, but they are ＂unhappy＂

Special feature of 1905 film network As of press time, the box office of the four-day release was more than 60 million, and the score of Douban was several ups and downs, which still failed to break through the passing line.

As the leading actor in the film, Yun-peng Yue has revealed his heart on different occasions many times before, saying that "Hero with Rat Gallbladder" is the most serious and thoughtful film he has ever made. Today, the result may not be completely beyond his expectation, but it is obviously lower than expected.

At the premiere of "Courage Hero", Yun-peng Yue knelt down to sign autographs for fans.

Coincidentally, another comedy genre film, which started a week earlier than "Hero of Rat Gallbladder" and was led by Allen, a member of Mahua FunAge, also bid farewell to the fiery summer file with a box office achievement of 40 million yuan.

Like George W. PINKRAY , Allen had been expecting that this time, his role as "normal Pibosh" could replace "stupid Da Chun" and be remembered by the audience again.

"Dance! The Elephant, Peabody (Allen)

Looking back at the conversations with Shen Teng and Qiao Shan during the Spring Festival, it is also not difficult to feel the creative state of comedians who are "painful and happy" in the face of renewed iteration and high-pressure competition from their words.

Many comedians have always seemed to have such a common "sense of dislocation" — —They love comedy and are bound by the label of comedian. They are responsible for creating happiness for the audience, but they are not happy.. Under the background of the film market with upward content, the dislocation of this contradiction is becoming more and more obvious.

"I haven’t had a non-comedy role yet,

Is this a pity? "

　

Perhaps it is too many times to be asked. Whenever the question "How to treat your comedian’s identity" is thrown in an interview, everyone will subconsciously give a standard official answer like a "stress reaction":This label is given by the outside world and represents a kind of recognition from the audience. I don’t mind..

But if you continue to talk, you will find that no one wants to limit themselves to this identity. Perhaps in the performance stage, film and television works and variety shows, comedians all play the role of creating happiness for the audience. But returning to life as an independent individual, everyone has their own other side — —

Before studying crosstalk, Yun-peng Yue was taciturn. Until now, he is still inarticulate after he got off the stage. George W. PINKRAY  said that he is a person with great contrast between the stage and the stage — — In life, he is "not funny" or even "sad" because "there are many audiences sitting under the stage, but there are not so many people in life";

Yun-peng Yue

Qiao Shan, who is also familiar to the audience as a comedian, bluntly saidLeaving work is "particularly boring"Eat and wear, as long as it is comfortable and passable. "I have very low requirements for life, and these things don’t seem to give me pleasure," he thought for a moment. "Maybe I have finished all the fun things (at work) and I feel very bored when I get to myself."

Qiao Shan

After graduating from the Beijing Film Academy and joining the Mahua FunAge team, Allen often asks himself in his creation, what is an advanced comedy? "Some people say that the core of advanced comedy is tragedy, and I agree."Allen feels that he is a particularly pessimistic person.Although he usually likes to smile at everyone, "but I always think a lot of things are particularly pessimistic, including when creating."

Allen mentioned his work when he participated in the second season of variety show. "All my sketches at that time were comedies based on the sad core, not superficial, not to make people cry, just to shake the burden again. I think this role is more tense."

Allen on the stage in the second season of "Happy Comedian"

He has always dreamed of getting a tense role, just like Yin Tianchou in the movie. At the same time, Allen is also looking forward to acting in literary films and "drama" one day, even if it is a tragic work. As an actor, he doesn’t want to label himself: "I used to have misgivings. Everyone thought I was a comedian, and I was afraid that all my works would be comedies."

Allen appreciates Yin Tianchou played by Stephen Chow very much.

Qiao Shan is clearly aware of this concern. Many comedians are worried about being "framed" by this type, but he has never considered the so-called "transformation": "(Because) I feel that we (comedians) have never acted as comedies. We just play a character, and in comedies, he has also grown a lot."

After acting for so many years, Qiao Shan never felt that he was repeating himself. "Everyone has everyone’s life, and every role also has every role’s life. He can be of different ages, different occupations, or different personalities." In his view,Comedy will not, and should not, be a creation that imprisons actors’ other possibilities..

Qiao Shan in "Phonetic Fantasy"

In the second season of Happy Comedian, Allen finally won the runner-up in the finals, and it happened that Yun-peng Yue won the championship.

As mentioned above, many times when the audience sees Yun-peng Yue, even if he doesn’t do anything, they will involuntarily want to laugh. As a comedian, this is undoubtedly the greatest advantage of George W. PINKRAY , but in other creative situations, will this state affect him?

"No. If there is a (non-comedy) script, the role is a very serious person, and I really want to play it, then I will try my best to play it well. This is not a conflict. " Yun-peng Yue answered simply,He said that he didn’t want to limit himself as a comedian, but hoped that one day he would be recognized by the audience as a movie actor with his role..

"But I haven’t been approached by such a role so far. Is it a pity?"

"In order to be remembered,

I must express my joy in an exaggerated way. "

　

Yun-peng Yue ran from afternoon till late at night in more than ten halls of the cinema at the Beijing premiere of "Hero with Rat Gallbladder". After each screening, he will stay a little longer, ask everyone whether the film is good or not, and satisfy the audience’s desire for interaction as much as possible in his own way: if you want to listen to the song of the five rings, then sing it together; All the hands that were thrown on the stage were signed on the ground.

At the premiere, PINKRAY  Jr. sang "Song of the Five Rings".

No matter from the partner actors’ revelations or Yun-peng Yue’s own state, it’s not hard to see that he really values and is really nervous about Courage Hero.

On the day of the premiere, George W. PINKRAY  repeatedly said, "We really need everyone to help us recommend it, because Nezha is very popular on the market now, and the film arrangement is also very high … …” Although it is a serious tone, with his trademark "wronged face", it always attracts the audience to laugh.

If put in the situation of other actors, this laugh can be said to be "inappropriate." But because it is Yun-peng Yue, or because it is "Little PINKRAY ", this reaction becomes "excusable".

From the comic dialogue stage in the small garden to the film and television works on the big screen, PINKRAY  Jr. can be the first one to "go out of the circle", which is largely due to his "cheap and cute" image different from everyone else.

Gestures, eyes and expressions are all designed by Yun-peng Yue, and they complement each other with the baggage he wants to shake. Others may learn to move, but they can’t copy the teasing of "Little PINKRAY ".

Singing "Song of the Five Rings" and "The Lover" as their own "title songs", the highly interactive live performance has gradually become Yun-peng Yue’s iconic comedy style. He once wondered what his "fun" was, and tried to put the exaggerated movements on hold, but the effect weakened instantly.

Can’t accept, this has become a rigid requirement in Yun-peng Yue’s comedy creation, and it has also become an invisible ceiling on the actor’s road. Take his most painstaking work "The Hero of Rat Gallbladder" as an example. People who like "Little PINKRAY " will like it very much. Here, you can not only see his appearance on the stage, but even design a "lip-synching" in Henan dialect for him.

At the same time, it is not difficult for people who don’t like this work to understand. I’m afraid these audiences will ask again in their hearts: When will Yun-peng Yue use this exaggerated performance?

Yun-peng Yue is not the only comedian facing this tangle. Allen bluntly said, at first, in order to make the audience remember themselves quickly, "I have to express my joy in that exaggerated way."

So "Da Chun" is to Allen, just like "Little PINKRAY " is to Yun-peng Yue. "The character Da Chun gave me a kind of’ character’, which led to all the plays that I followed."

In this regard, Allen accepted, "This may be a process that every actor will experience." However, after he made several plays and was remembered by the audience, he was also eager to "sink down" and play some roles that didn’t need to be deliberately shaken, so that the audience could know that Allen could play a "normal person" as well as a "fool".

Goodbye mr. loser Da Chun (Allen)

The supreme treasure created by Stephen Chow in his novels is an eternal classic in Allen’s heart. He said,My original dream was to create a classic image on the comedy stage..

"Dance! Before the release of Elephant, Allen had expected Peabody to be the role that could make him further away from his goal. "I wonder if I should have another role that can be remembered by the audience to replace the position (of Da Chun). I believe there will be." But he then said, "It’s just a matter of time."

"No movie"

Or "upstream"

　

Yun-peng Yue gave his performance in "Hero of Rat Gallbladder" a score of 890, but once he turned to the market and audience, he immediately became nervous.

This can’t help but remind people of his situation when he first appeared on the stage of cross talk. He forgot his lyrics when he first appeared on the stage, and he was blown off the stage in a public performance of ten thousand people. Yun-peng Yue suppressed for several months and didn’t recover. Master Degang Guo simply hid him in the snow for two years.

Before filming "Courage Hero", PINKRAY  Jr. also left himself empty for two years. He knows very well and admits that he has made several works that make everyone dissatisfied before. After all, movies are not like cross talk, so how can the public’s reputation be as easy to recover as a theater?

More than a dozen roadshows have been completed. Someone asked Yun-peng Yue if his confidence had changed enough. Although he was full of expectations, he said that he didn’t know and didn’t dare to think: "Actually, I’m struggling. If this movie doesn’t work again, maybe I’ll miss it."

At present, comedy genre films are undergoing great changes in the overall Chinese film market. As the authorities, comedians undoubtedly have the best understanding. Once upon a time, the "Jiong" series of pure entertainment could create the first 1 billion box office miracle in the mainland film market. Now, the audience with higher aesthetics is no longer satisfied with this.

Even Stephen Chow, who has left countless classics, will inevitably encounter the embarrassment of aimlessness in the Spring Festival in 2019.

"New king of comedy" encounters Waterloo.

As the first-line creators of Mahua FunAge, both Shen Teng and Allen deeply felt the accelerating "aesthetic fatigue" of fans. On the stage, Allen witnessed the rapid elimination and change of story structure and comedy routines in the market again and again: "The same type of baggage can be eaten (accepted) once or twice, and it will never be eaten again for the third time."

Shen Teng admits that the creative process of comedy is very difficult and even painful. "Don’t update is impossible, a terrier, everyone just stopped laughing after reading it. No matter what you use yourself or what others use, you can’t repeat it. " He said,A drama can tell a scene for millions of times, but a comedy has no other tricks except constant updating..

Performance fell short of expectations

No wonder Qiao Shan described the comedian’s mind as an engine that can’t stop.

It is more difficult to break through, which is not only the sequela of the "overdraft" market of similar films in the past, but also the greater challenge brought to comedians by the upward film content and the aesthetic improvement of the audience. The simplicity and rudeness of "laughing from beginning to end" doesn’t work. Instead, it is the audience’s empathy and appreciation for the little people who are close to life.

For comedy creators, change will inevitably bring pain, but for comedians who have been unwilling to be limited by their identity and eager to take off their labels, it is not known whether this can become an opportunity for them to "go upstream".