The following is the 95th comedy movie recommended by 【Comedy Cinema】.
"Game Night" is a movie that combines "suspense" and "comedy" very well. There is a natural relationship between family, love, action and other elements and comedy, and the combination is always so logical and natural.
But suspense is not the case. In the eyes of audiences and creators, the laughter of comedy can easily make the suspenseful atmosphere "breaking". Putting this suspenseful atmosphere into a real-life game that is indistinguishable from the real and the fake, things become very reasonable. The nature of the game itself dilutes the seriousness of "suspense" , and is connected with the playful connotation of comedy.
From the overall point of view of the film, the most exciting thing is the triple reversal of the game. At the end (the director) did not forget to make a joke to make the audience mistakenly believe that there is a fourth reversal. If viewed as a suspense film, the triple subtle reversal has exceeded the audience's expectations. And if viewed as a pure comedy movie, the triple reversal is far beyond the audience's expectations.
When you think that A is the player behind the scenes, you realize that A has become the victim. When you think that B is the player behind the scenes again, you find again that B does not control the overall situation.
The alternation of reality and fiction makes it difficult for the characters in the play to distinguish which are the game links and which are the real scenes. It also allows the audience to always be in the perspective of the player in the game. Without the perspective of God, it is more convenient for the audience and the characters to share the surprise and joy. So the whole film is always in a stimulating and funny atmosphere until the last shot.
As far as the details of the film are concerned, the layout of the various jokes is also in place and precise. Take the scene of "you make gestures, I guess" on the airstrip as an example to illustrate the film's excellence in the setting of laugh points.
In order to rescue Max’s brother, Max and Annie drove to the scene and stopped the plane about to take off in time. At this time, Max and Annie were separated by a distance, and Annie and the bad guy were separated by a conveyor belt. Max called to Annie and asked her to turn on the switch of the conveyor belt so that the goods in the air could fall and hit the bad guys.
Unfortunately, due to the distance, Annie couldn't hear Max's call, but she could see his movements. So at such a critical juncture, Max gestured, just as they usually did when they played "You stroke I guess".
Both fencing and boxing are based on scoring to determine victory or defeat at critical moments, and comedy creation also has its own scoring points. The above scene hit at least 5 points in the comedy .
One is the title . The title of the film is "Game Night", and the whole film also revolves around the game. Because it is a "game night", the appearance of such a plot will only surprise the audience, but will not feel particularly abrupt. At critical moments, games are also used to resolve the crisis, which is really in line with the personality of the two protagonists, and it is also a good deduction.
The second is to respond to the previous situation . If Max and Anna are not good at playing the game, or if the two lack a tacit understanding of the game, Anna will not be able to guess so as to resolve the crisis and advance the plot. In the previous plot, the two just showed the audience their high degree of understanding in this game. So this plot is both convincing and not blunt.
The third is the expected contrast . The audience did not expect to play such a naive game at this critical moment. Even the character Annie in the play was surprised, but since Max has already entered the state and started making gestures, she will enter habitually. State to guess.
The fourth is that the rhythm is slack . It was a tense rhythm when the two were chased down. However, when Annie guessed what Max wanted to express, she turned on the switch. As a result, the conveyor belt moved very slowly, so slowly that the bad guys noticed it. After he deviated from the original position, the box on it passed slowly and fell slowly.
Fifth, the laughs are dense and progressive . This scene can be clearly divided into two laughs. You can guess the first one, and the very slow conveyor belt is the latter. These two jokes are seamlessly docked in time, smoothly in the plot, and the latter joke is progressive in plot and degree.
The above is the 95th comedy movie recommended by [Comedy Cinema], which is exciting and funny "Game Night".
Author: Ling Xifeng
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