The fates of unfortunate employees are similar, and evil bosses have their own evils. Nick’s boss is a shameless villain, insidious and greedy, and torturing employees is his specialty. Nick wants to get ahead under his hands is idiotic. This situation is universal at the social level, and the audience will have a strong sense of reality substitution. However, the boss's crimes add exaggeration and intuitive effects, but the essence of squeezing employees remains unchanged. Cook’s fate can be said to be from heaven to earth. The kind old boss died, but the new boss is a playboy, a revolutionary attitude that the company will not let go. This sudden change is in sharp contrast, and gradually enters the scene. The audience hates the new boss even more, and the tension of the story unfolds from this. Neal’s female boss is a personality harassment, adding color to boring work by amusing employees. The usual contrast technique in comedy is used here, and two contrasts are used together. One is a sexual harassment maniac played by a woman, and the other is a harassed man who is loyal to love and is loyal to love. The ingenious combination of these two contrasts produces an extremely Strong comedy effect.
The three staff members tried to change the fate of hardship, so they took the risk and planned to kill their bosses. The plot of the film has been wandering between reality, absurdity and black humor. On the one hand, it uses multi-plot cross changes to attract the audience's curiosity; on the other hand, it uses foul language and spoof to stimulate the audience's sensory nerves. The film does not flatter art at all, on the contrary, it is extremely vulgar. It is because it is so vulgar and so vulgar that it is fun to make people feel real, and reality is the highest meaning of life. Comedy can not be deep, but comedy must make people feel pleasantly surprised. This film obviously did it. The choreographer has spent a lot of effort in plot design, mixing multiple characters and multiple relationships in the plot branch, using the most common anti-plot settings, constantly disrupting the audience’s psychological expectations, making the audience always in guesswork, and How does the film finally justify itself and hold a sense of expectation. The anti-plot setting breaks the established plot rules, but makes all kinds of coincidences appear natural, and finally achieves a twist in the ending in an unexpected way, venting the audience's long-suppressed worry, and giving the audience the most desired ending.
The film's structure fully embodies the Hollywood-style ingenious conception, using simple character dispositions to contain complex dynamic plots. The sudden occurrence of many branch plots closely fits the character's personality, so that the audience will not feel the slightest awkwardness. For example, Nick's cautiousness, Cook's romanticism, and Neil's clumsiness, setting up surprises and jokes based on their different personalities will do more with less. In addition, the commonality of the three characters is highlighted in the word "little". They are ordinary little people, and honest company employees are ordinary people around us, and even they represent most of our audience, so their misfortune Can easily win our sympathy, and their funny can easily make us laugh. Compared with domestic movies, most Hollywood scripts strive for perfection in plot settings, while most domestic movies have very blunt plots, like taking a body temperature, one is to put a thermometer under the armpit, and the other is to insert a thermometer in a chrysanthemum. inside.
Although this film is only a light-hearted American comedy, it has a large collection of big names, and the performances have their own characteristics, adding a lot to the outstanding plot. In my opinion, stories that do not need to be explained but are very interesting are the best stories, and the best vehicle for telling this type of story is comedy.
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