The core of the heart is covered with the shell of “kidney”

Shana 2021-10-20 17:39:07

After watching this film, I systematically studied the "Apatu Comedy". There is a very well-written article, "Male Comics, Male Characters and the Progressive Evolution of Romantic Comedies", which talked about the development of the genre of romantic comedies. By the time the male protagonists are perfect like Beckham, handsome and stylish, female fans have gone from being so in love to seeing aesthetic fatigue, male fans have to watch with their girlfriends, looking bored and self-doubt: women We all like this? So a bad guy like me, who is ordinary, sloppy, sloppy, and doesn't understand romance, is still mixed with wool? Then the Apato comedy appeared, and the male characters in it aroused great resonance among male audiences, and because it contained a lot of plot dialogues that satirize the relationship between men and women, the humor was pungent and self-defeating, and it also gained the favor of female audiences. , Has become a new genre of comedy that kills men and women.

"Forget Salad Marshall" also takes men as the protagonist, while discussing the relationship between men and women taking into account women's feelings. The screenwriter put the male lead in a very uncomfortable situation, let him be dumped by the star girlfriend, take a vacation, and unfortunately stayed in a hotel with her and his new love. In this predicament, let him forget about his ex-girlfriend, ah, the impossible task! Ah, what a great beginning of the script! The later plot progress was a standard predictable routine, allowing him to meet another girl in the hotel, healed the pain of broken love, walked out of the shadow of his ex-girlfriend, and opened a new chapter in his life.

If we propose this topic at the script planning meeting, the probability of passing it is estimated to be only half, because on the whole, this story is really clichéd.

There is nothing new under the sun. There are no cliché stories, only cliché scripts. It depends on whether you can speak.

First of all, just like other "Apatu comedies", the type of sex comedy and the character setting of the bad guys can at least guarantee that it is not so boring.

Secondly, on the basis of sex comedy, the film has made some new ideas, which makes it different from other "Apatu comedies", it is not so noisy and superficial, and even has a calm and simple tone.

One is the lazy way of storytelling, which is different from the intertwined and meticulously crafted scripts. This kind of slightly glitched way of speaking shines with many lovely, irrelevant, narrative functions, but The talented little plot is very interesting.

The second is the biggest highlight of the film, the male second rock star, quoted from the Los Angeles Times: The movie's big revelation, though, is Brand's Aldous, whose idiot-Lothario exterior masks a frank, accidentally wise and Yoda-like interior, and whom we grow to like more and more despite getting to better know him and his faults. the same can be said about the movie.

the third is that the last Dracula musical, with "to the Greek" at the end song "song Mao wall 》It's a wonderful fight, the finishing touch!


In addition, the "Notting Hill" I just watched two days ago is also a matter of ordinary men and female stars, and "Going to the Greek Theater" is a matter of ordinary people and rock stars. The celebrity complex is really suitable for movies. Performance, not only has a sense of dream-making, is convenient for obscenity, but also can do a lot of satirical things with the celebrity theme.

The Hawaiian scenery also played a big role in this film, and I particularly liked the two seascape scenes.

In one scene, the male protagonist and the female protagonist went to climb a mountain, and the female protagonist invited the male protagonist to jump down together, but the female protagonist jumped, but the male protagonist was horrified. She was afraid to move. Instead, she stumbled and slipped onto the tree between the rocks. He yelled in the sea and encouraged him to kick his legs and jump into the sea, but the guy still screamed, struggling for a long time, and the branches were about to break, so he had to pluck up the courage to act according to the word, splash into the water and emerge from the water. The two of them looked at each other. At that moment, it was funny and touching.

In another seascape scene, the male lead learns to surf. After trying many times, he fell into the sea. By chance, his rival (rock star) was also soaking in the sea. Every time the Lord finishes talking with rock stars, he has to be stimulated. This time he was stimulated to get resuscitated. Taking advantage of a surge, he jumped up and stood firmly on the windsurfing board. He was about to ride the wind and waves. I bumped into a man, the poor rock star, was knocked into the sea and frightened the male protagonist. He immediately went into the water to save his life, and dragged his love rival to the shore for artificial respiration.

The above two scenes are simply textbook templates that use environmental factors to make plays. The conflicts are designed to be natural and not artificial, in line with the characters' personalities, and also promote the plot, both comical and comical physical movements, and the emotional core is positive.

Many cutscenes in the middle are also quite clever. I want to watch it a few more times when I have time. It's really rare that sex comedies can be so evocative.

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Forgetting Sarah Marshall quotes

  • Sarah Marshall: [to Peter] I took love seminars, sex seminars, so don't you dare sit here and tell me I didn't try because I tried really hard, you were just too stupid to notice.

  • Sarah Marshall: [to the criminal] Life's a bitch.

    Animal Instincts Detective: [to the criminal] And where you're going, that's what you'll be.