There has been no shortage of parody films in theaters. The most classic foreign films of this kind are of course the "Scream" series. Every two years, one episode is released, and those recent blockbusters are specially selected for parody and even spoofing. If I remember correctly, this series has already appeared this year. The fourth episode. As for the domestically similar style, Hu Ge's "Murder Case Caused by a Steamed Bread", which made Director Chen quite angry, can barely belong to this category. But after watching "Crazy Stone", I still feel that this film is different from the above-mentioned so-called parody films. It seems that behind the seemingly parody, a shot that started in the name of parody eventually surpassed the parody. itself, into a real world. The seemingly ridiculous plot finally reflects the bizarre reality.
Crazy Stone is full of parodies. What needs to be explained here is that parody is different from parody. From my own understanding, spoofing means that after deconstruction, after the heavy weight is turned into the lightness of lightness, the debris on the ground cannot be completed into a complete mirror, and the process of spoofing is the greatest fun; while parody , although there are imitation and spoof plots, but his entire process is complete, that is, it is also deconstruction, but after deconstruction, a new meaning is given. In this sense, I define "Crazy Stone" as a parody, not a parody. There are countless parody plots in "Crazy Stone". For example, the "attention quality" of the stupid thief Lao Dao reminds people of Uncle Li's tone in "There Are No Thieves"; "Just smash it! If you can't run, you have to!" The tone is like a fool; the international thief Mike's posture when he steals the jade can be seen as Tom Cruise's classic spy image; Mike and Feng Dong's confrontation with flying knives is of course in slow motion. It was "House of Flying Daggers"; even in the end, when the bakery owner rode a bicycle to chase the stupid thief's third child, he smugly said "You run, why don't you run?" This is a classic scene in "Looking for a Gun". In addition to these, even the atmospheric symphony when the third thief stole the bread and ran away is reminiscent of the emotional scene of the train station playing the violin at the end of "Can't Live Without You". What's more, some netizens can even think of the scene of Dao Ge flying a motorcycle robbing jadeite to the popular robbery method on the streets of Guangzhou in recent years. It's a combination of brilliant shots that you can understand, and it's a parody cut that's absolutely jaw-dropping. What is rare is that these seemingly borrowed shots are perfectly connected in the film around the incident of "stealing jadeite". The transition of the shots and the transitions between shots are very reasonable, and the connection is very ingenious. . Moreover, it can be seen that as a director who often shoots MTV, the promotion of some of the shots is completely borrowed from him. This shooting method has only been seen in Lu Chuan's "Looking for a Gun" before. However, I am inclined that this is not the imitation of Lu Chuan, but the experience of Ning Hao who often shoots MTV.
After the parody is said, let's talk about the story. Because a piece of jade dug out of the toilet attracted the attention of three parties: first, the factory elder of the factory that was about to close down, Xie wanted to use this jade to turn over his factory, so Bao Shihong of the security department was responsible for protecting the jade. Responsibility; three stupid thieves coveted jadeite after getting the news in the "previous stage of the career" and wanted to steal the jadeite; finally, the real estate owner Feng Dongtuo, the international thief Mike, who had been interested in the factory land for a long time, stole the jadeite and wanted to steal the jadeite. Close the factory. Contradiction is born from this, and comedy is born from this. This is indeed a very good "laughing fruit" movie. All sorts of mishaps often occur. Originally, the real emerald was stolen, but the stupid thief changed it back. Originally, Mike was almost able to touch the emerald, but I didn’t expect that the profiteer would not give a piece of rope; very Mike, the thief of business reputation, finally stole the jade and found that he had killed his employer. In fact, the seemingly most ridiculous and foolhardy third child is the one who grasps the truth the most. According to his thinking, he went straight to smash the glass, took the jade and ran away, and they couldn't catch up. This is the truth. Although Bao Shihong talked about his background in reconnaissance all day, his protective measures were really poor. When the stupid thief was inquiring, he asked the old Daoist brother why he couldn't see the infrared rays. Brother Dao scolded him for watching too many movies, "How can there be so much high technology?" Although there is no high technology at all, the international thieves still have to follow the international high standard theft method. The high-tech theft method takes a lot of effort Finally got the emerald, and let the stupid thief black skin grab it, swaying around and almost fell. It's an absurd plot, and it's easy to see that some things aren't as complicated as we think.
Behind the parody and the absurd is a real existence, a statement of facts. Although this way of talking through the camera is not easy to understand, but in the interval between the seemingly familiar and funny shots shaking back and forth, part of the truth is missed, it is about the little people, about their living conditions, about them How to survive is about their constant struggle. During the funny interval, we can see the extremely simple buildings in Chongqing from the cable car; we can see the laid-off female workers imitating the thousand-handed Avalokitesvara for life from the monastery; As well as the sick wife and the working old man in the house; we can see Bao Shihong's painful appearance because he couldn't urinate because of prostatitis. These seemingly meaningless, soulful scenes account for a small proportion. I think, in addition to relieving our aesthetic fatigue of laughing every three minutes, more importantly, they constitute the transcendence behind the name of parody. Ning Hao told us with silent footage that this is not just a comedy, not just to make you look funny, he also wants you to think about something other than laughter, such as reality, such as life.
Siyu
2006-7-17 Book in the Broken Void
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