During the Chinese New Year, the audience likes to watch comedies, which is also what people expect from the Spring Festival Gala sketches. However, the Spring Festival Gala sketches in recent years have always been disappointing. "Hello, Li Huanying" makes people laugh and cry. It is a rare good comedy this year.
Let’s start with laughter and tears. Director Jia Ling skillfully uses many comedy techniques to make people laugh until they cry. For example, in a time-travel scene, Jia Xiaoling pinned Li Huanying firmly under her body, and the factory safety officer went to rescue her. The movie cleverly used Jia Xiaoling's weight to shake off the first baggage.
Use flips skillfully. Leng Te took his younger brother to stand in for others and besieged Li Huanying and others. The atmosphere was tense for a while. Leng Te's younger brother lit a cigarette and handed the cigarette butt towards Leng Te. When the audience just waited for the cigarette butt to burn Leng Te When he was talking, Leng Te turned the cigarette butt over and held it in his mouth. This flip gave up a cliché baggage. Just when the audience turned their attention away from Leng Te, another flip occurred. Leng Te threw the burning cigarette butt onto the horse's butt. The frightened horse ran away with Leng Te. go. This double flipping of baggage gives laughter layers and depth.
Appropriate exaggeration. Shen Guanglin and Li Huanying were boating on the lake. Shen Guanglin ate bad edamame and became anxious for a while. Leng Te's two younger brothers fought on the lake, capsized the boat and fell into the water, blocking the boat's path. Shen Guanglin had no choice but to solve the problem in his pants, but in a hurry, he turned over and fell into the water, letting a pool of lake water wash away the dirt in his pants. As the saying goes, jumping into the Yellow River can't wash away the embarrassment, but I don't know if this lake water can wash away the embarrassment in Shen Guanglin's pants. This scene made people laugh with tears in their eyes. The exaggeration was used appropriately and logically.
Cunningly travel through the plot to create burdens. Jia Xiaoling created an opportunity for Li Huanying and Shen Guanglin to get in touch and bought two movie tickets with seat numbers next to each other. Jia Xiaoling, who traveled back in time to the 1980s, didn't know that odd and even numbers were separated in movie theaters in the 1980s, so her instigation was self-defeating, and Shen Guanglin could only see through the autumn water, but not love. During the art performance, Jia Xiaoling arranged a duet for Shen Guanglin. Little did he know that in 1981, Uncle Benshan had not made the duet popular, so Shen Guanglin could not attract any laughter no matter how he jumped on the stage. He was a temporary rescuer. Jia Xiaoling came up in a hurry and accidentally pulled off Shen Guanglin's pants, revealing the most popular red velvet pants in the 1980s. This is a collision between eras, but it has a comedic effect.
Cry a lot of tears. As the plot of the movie progresses, laughter gradually turns to tears. When the daughter who traveled back in time and her mother in the 1980s drank and expressed their feelings over a glass of wine, Jia Xiaoling kept smiling, but tears hung on her face. When the petite mother was struggling to walk with the fat Jia Xiaoling on her back, the audience could not see the comedy effect, but saw the heavy burden on the shoulders of a mother. This is the same as the scene at the beginning where the security guard was carrying Jia Xiaoling on his back, but the meaning is completely different.
There is a famous saying in China: A tree wants to be quiet but the wind does not stop; a child wants to be nourished but cannot be loved. "Hello, Li Huanying" is Jia Ling's semi-autobiographical film. The entire film is filled with a deep longing for her mother. In the dual situation of film and reality, the audience is moved and infected by a strong family affection - —Jia Xiaoling from God’s perspective wants to tear up Li Huanying’s marriage certificate and hopes her mother can live a better life; she talks to her parents in the 1980s and knows that their expectations for her are joy and happiness; she sees herself growing up The torn clothes and pants in the movie were mended one by one, and I saw the back of the mother walking home in the wind and snow... This is not exactly the mother of director Jia Ling, but the love of countless ordinary mothers in the world for their children. Love is ordinary and great.
When Jia Xiaoling traveled back to reality, she ran desperately and cried. This running also brought tears from the audience. When Jia Xiaoling took her mother for a drive in a convertible, the audience jumped out of the movie and thought of director Jia Ling's late mother. They did not see Jia Ling's current achievements, so her mother was no longer in the convertible. Sometimes it was fantasy and sometimes it was reality, but the audience never felt like jumping out of the drama. Instead, they were moved by a great and ordinary mother's love, and they shed tears for it.
There are also tears in laughter, and there is sadness in joy.
After laughing, deep feelings have settled down. This is the high state of comedy, and this is the real comedy!