The French version of "Thai 囧" suitable for all ages

Johnnie 2022-03-04 08:01:36



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"Tracking Matthew the Long-tailed Leopard" was a hit in the French film market in 2012, with nonsensical comedy plots, an exotic travel full of jokes, and this fictional and bizarre creature, the long-tailed leopard Matthew. , all aroused great interest from the audience. The film successfully reached the top of the annual box office, and the producer also made a lot of money. And a year later, the film was belatedly landed on the Chinese mainland screen, and attentive audiences were surprised to find that this is a French version of "People are on the road"?

The same type, similar structure, and similar plot finally achieved big sales. In fact, it is precisely because of the preparation for the market and the precise control of the type that such two box-office comedy works can be born. If the success of "Thai 囧" is "mistakenly hit and hit" as Xu Zheng himself said, then the box office hit of "Tracking the Long-tailed Leopard Matthew" is due to the early design.

The pattern of the story is very simple. The city is forcing the young white-collar workers and their clumsy partners to form a team to explore. The collision and friction between the two are the biggest source of jokes. Plus a villain who will eventually be tricked to the end, the standard "OK" "Bad and Ugly" characters are set as a solid scaffolding for the story's narrative. Compared with the more "serious" combination of Xu Zheng, Wang Baoqiang and Huang Bo in "Thailand", the combination of down-and-out journalists, sly town villagers, and mad scientists has added more exaggeration, and the film The fantasy color itself pushes this nonsensical comedy style to the extreme, and the story of the film takes place in a tropical jungle, and the exotic customs and beauty have become a landscape that cannot be ignored, plus the whole body fluff, Two cute animals with big eyes, "Tracking the Long-Tailed Leopard Matthew" has comedy, beautiful women, visual effects, and cute animals. The fun also makes the film have a variety of viewing pleasures. As a comedy, "all ages" is undoubtedly the best standard.

But all kinds of external gags and visual enjoyment are not all. Like "Thailand", after the film's playfulness, the value orientation behind the story is still to return to family and tradition. The return of family affection in "Thailand" has become the value expression of the film. In "Tracking the Long-tailed Leopard Matthew", the two people's efforts to re-establish their own images also run through the whole film, as reporters reporting fake news, and to children The "liar" who claimed to have seen a long-tailed leopard, both of them in the film fell into the predicament of being unbelievable, and found the long-tailed leopard and became their final salvation. Under this kind of effort, all the comedy and the last warmth finally came together and became the happy ending of the film.

"Tracking the Long-tailed Leopard Matthew" doesn't have much novelty in terms of story and techniques, and the design of the jokes is just normal, but it is precisely the details that give the film a smart and light posture, which is extremely exaggerated and After the innocuous comedy plot is settled, we still see the most simple and simple humanistic emotions in it. That's exactly what comedies like "Thailand" and "Matthew Tracking the Long-Tailed Leopard" can bring us the most.

Originally published in "Yangcheng Evening News" July 19, 2013, A27 edition, with deletions

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