The following is the 128th comedy movie recommended by [Comedy Cinema].
If there is no good foundation for the previous work "Happy Death Day" 1 and 2, director Christopher Langdon's new work "Happy Killing" will be buried in the many new films released. It is no exaggeration to say that as a horror comedy, this film demonstrates the various paradigms that this comedy genre should have, including the rhythm of comedy, the standard of casting, the ratio of "horror" to "comedy", the setting of the main characters, the secondary Character settings, etc.
If this is a pure horror film, or a story about a girl and a butcher's body swapping, the whole film will be tightly wrapped in a thrilling atmosphere. The bloody scenes escalated, and the audience was forced to see more brutal deaths and the means by which they were created.
If this were a pure comedy, or a story of the same body swapping, then the butcher's setting would have become a classic "stupid thief" image, every time he tried to kill someone, it was always because of the improper use of the weapon While accidentally hurting himself, the other party was unscathed.
The basis of comedy, adding horror elements, fortunately, this is a successful combination, achieving the effect of 1+1>2. "Happy Killing" is indeed more suitable to be handled as a horror comedy, because handling it as a simple horror film will look empty and boring, and handling it as a simple comedy film will be too low-minded.
The rhythm of this film is also just right. Tension, fright, nausea, and excitement are classified into horror scenes, and funny, relaxed, humorous, and loving are classified into comedy scenes . Two distinct scenes can always appear alternately with the development of the plot and the relationship between the characters. The last one left the audience scared to death, the next one gave the audience a relaxed and happy time to calm down, and then they continued to hold their breath, their heart beat faster, and then they ushered in an interesting relaxation, and so on and so forth to the end. .
One of the very loving scenes was so impressive that people couldn't help sighing that "two-way secret love is so beautiful". First of all, let's start with the casting of the male lead butcher. The actor who plays the main character is named Vince Vaughn , who is a comedy star through and through. I have seen many of his masterpieces, including "Wedding Prodigy", "Break Up Men and Women", "Uncle Intern" and "New Neighborhood Defense". Only he can achieve this character.
Before the girl Millie exchanged bodies with the butcher, she had a secret crush on Burke, a male classmate, and once secretly stuffed an anonymous love letter into Burke's locker. That night, Burke sat side by side in the back seat of the car with Millie, who had turned into a butcher. When Burke said, "In fact, I kind of hoped that you wrote it to me," as the audience saw, a big middle-aged man and a small middle-aged boy began to express their sincerity and confession to each other.
The interesting thing is that although I saw the image of a big man with a face full of flesh and beards, he didn't feel disobedient or disgusting . The demeanor and expression are no less than a real girl.
And the funniest scene award is still to be awarded to the heroine's "Kimi" Joshua, which also benefits from the original setting of this secondary character, and the effect presented by the actors is very cute. Joshua was assigned to stay in his home to guard the butcher who had switched bodies. Yes, he looked like Millie now, but Joshua's mother didn't know it.
So the mother who went home early asked Joshua why she was tying Millie. Joshua could only make up an excuse, saying that they were playing "role-playing", but her mother didn't believe a word of it, because in the Western context, this It's an "adult game". So, Joshua continued to edit and said sincerely, " Mom, I didn't want to tell you before I was ready, but... I'm a straight man ."
The butcher, who was randomly gagged, glanced at Joshua and laughed contemptuously, and then his mother looked at him with very firm eyes and said, " Joshua, you can't be straight ."
The above is the 128th comedy movie recommended by [Comedy Cinema], follow us = follow comedy movies, see you in the next issue.
Author: Ling Xifeng
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