successful comedies have similar patterns. The first is comedy characters. The four protagonists in The Hangover, one is the handsome Phil who is extremely unreliable, one is the handsome Phil, the other is the fat Alan with a lack of brains, and the other is Stu, who is timid and timid. There was another normal person, Doug the bridegroom, but disappeared within a few minutes of his appearance. The 3 abnormal guys went to find a normal guy everywhere, and met a group of abnormal guys (tigers, roosters and babies who got into trouble, the underworld Zhou who was cheap, Tyson who likes music, and the male chauvinists. The owner of the wedding shop (that's it), the fat guy in the police station...everything), it's strange if you don't make a joke. Among these characters, the most successful is Ellen, the fat man. First of all, he is definitely not stupid, but the nerves in his brain are twisted. That's why he came up with the doctrine of "blood brothers", so he let the little baby beat him. Airplane, so when he was about to knock him with a stick during the naked week, "I hate Godzilla too" appeared. Later, the image of this guy in "Expected Date" was exactly the same, and he tossed Robert Downey Jr. into an upgraded version of Wang Baoqiang.
In fact, it is a comedy situation. It is not enough to put these people together. It has to be together because of something special enough. This is the so-called dramatic hook. This hook must be strong enough to hook the audience. In "The Hangover", this hook is composed of two aspects, one is "What happened that night?" and the other is "The wedding is about to come, where is the bridegroom Doug?". Both things are very powerful, the curiosity of the audience is thus firmly grasped, and the approach of the wedding adds a sense of urgency.
The last is a comedic event, that is, there must be enough bizarre bridges. The tiger is strange enough to find in the bathroom, the inexplicable car has become a police car, and a naked Chinese popped out of the back box. It's amazing that the damn, respectable guy actually took a stripper overnight! It is these comic passages that support the development of the story step by step and increase the audience's appetite. In fact, this part is relatively easy to do, but also the most difficult. The easy thing is that anyone who wants to make funny jokes can do it, brainstorming and compiling it together. And precisely because it is easy to open up the brain, this part is also easy to go wrong. Many people may think that as long as it is fun, it doesn't matter if it is not. In fact, this is precisely the important difference between awesome comedy and mediocre comedy. A great comedy is not to make you laugh for a minute or two, but to keep laughing. So if the content is off track and there are some sections that are funny but have nothing to do with the main story, the audience laughed at the time, but they will soon feel that something is wrong, and the big emotions will be affected. The most serious result is "Although there is Pleasure, but no orgasm", and pleasure is numb, dear! "The Hangover" is quite successful in this regard. Basically all the funny sections are centered on the two cores of "what happened that night" and "find Doug". And because it was a hangover, I forgot the next day, so although many things were not reasonable, there were logical flaws (such as how could a tiger become so behaved, how could a drunk person steal a police car), But because it was a comedy, the audience laughed and took it away, and something new happened immediately afterwards. The audience was always silent in joy, and there was no time to recall the unreasonable things before.
But I still only give "The Hangover" 7.8 points, mainly because of its ending. It's not only plain but not clean enough. In the 10 minutes from the time Doug was found to the end of the film, basically no surprises happened. (The quarrel between Stu and his fiancee at the final wedding was not a surprise) The story went too smoothly. It can be said that there is no hindrance. The stripper forgave Stu and gave him the ring; a few people arrived at the wedding scene smoothly, and the bride didn’t lose her temper; the car was delivered by the old man as a gift without compensation; everything went well, so I asked an inexplicable singer to come out and mix it up to create a comedy atmosphere, but this is obviously not satisfactory to the audience. If the ending is only 3 minutes, we can see it as a time for the audience to release their emotions so that everyone can leave the scene happily. But 10 minutes is still so flat, I can't stand it anymore.
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