Life is like "drama": the gaming tendency of new comedy

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In iQiyi's "Annual Comedy Comedy", Sketch, as a new comedy form, is very short, so basically only focuses on "playing". In the aspects of teasing the audience and spreading Sketch, Man Cai and other foreign comedy forms, the "annual comedy contest" can be said to be successful. But at the same time as success, we should also see that the "new" of this comedy is not so much to strengthen the connection between people, it is better to make laughter more lonely. The new comedy has become a symptom of the time of the individual and the grand historical narrative.

Life is like "drama": the gaming tendency of new comedy

Text 丨 Wu Ke

It is often said that "life is like drama, drama is like life". The "drama" here is often understood as drama, highlighting its undulating and unexpected characteristics. Following this dramatic nature is the actor and acting skills, just as the Internet ridicule, "life is like drama, all depends on acting skills." But today's understanding of "drama" may also add the dimension of "game", especially "video games". This is the inspiration that the "New Comedy" of the "Annual Comedy Comedy" launched by iQiyi.

The English name of the "Once a Comedy Comedy" is Super Sketch Show. The word Sketch is a little strange. In the Chinese context, Sketch has become a sketch comedy. This fast -popular new comedy form seems to be very different from traditional comedy forms such as cross talks, sketches. Where is the difference? According to a popular science tip circulating on the Internet, we learned that Sketch "Different from our so -called traditional sketches is that it is very short. Therefore, it basically only focuses on playing one thing, that is, the" game point '' , 'Game point' basically originated from the emotions of life. Once you capture this fun game point, how to play? It is through continuous upgrade. " Here, "game" has become a comedy, or synonymous fingers of new comedies, and "upgrade" and "emotions" are two important dimensions that support "games".

"It's a bad scene"

Whether it is "A bad drama", "Father's Funeral", or "Liu Guan Zhang "'s" Trap Comedy "series, there is only one center point in the drama structure. It is not the contradictory conflict in the central point, but the continuous "upgrade". For example, "One Play" rose from the initial "蹭 IP" to "CP", from "Sweet Sex sweet pets" to "same -sex delay", from domestic industrialization "sugar essence" to international models and artistic "treasures The "Little Red Riding Hood Movie" as the center of "Little Red Riding Hood" is in the cycle of the magic and being killed in the script again and again. Obviously, "the plot is not enough, the song and dance come together." Interestingly, what constitutes a clear reverse exercise with this "upgrade" is the brainstorm that was initially transformed into a brainstorming of brainpower. And this is the basic logic of the current video game -to achieve "upgrade" through physical labor. And "physical strength" is exactly the scarce resources and gold objects in many online mobile games. In this sense, we may be able to understand the Internet ridicule of "liver" and "playing games than to check in cards". Indeed, in electronic games, "people become physical workers, computers have become brain workers, and they cooperate to create a world of computer games."

"One Play" and "Trap Comedy" are the position of the player in advance. Not only do the audience substituted into the drama plot, but also let them participate and experience, and become specific players- The magic dance steps are imitated on the short video platform to make a certificate. This is one of the important reasons for their heated discussions and attention. In comparison, the "upgrade" process of "Three Dog Live Room" has no rules. The imagination is not as good as the border like "Father's Funeral". Played by player-audience, but the actor is playing by himself.

As a result, you can come to "emotion". There is no clear in the science science tips about Sketch that there are important differences in "emotion" and "emotion" in life. "Emotion" can be conceptual, subject to a language cage, such as love, affection, filial piety, etc., which is emotion. "Emotion" is based on cognition, so it is often used as a meaningful "bottom" to support and sublimate traditional cross talks and sketches. This is also the "sensational" mocked in "One Journal of the Trouble". As a player in video games, what they need is not "emotion", not a cognitive education, but a new, unsatisfactory, unknown, pure intensity that can not be content and meaning, that is, "Emotion" or "Affect", or "pleasure" and "cool". Many works in the "Once of the annual comedy contest" ended in a state of collapse and chaos. From the perspective of the traditional drama structure, this ending often cannot be the ending. But pleasure and intensity suggest a resonance and internal explosion of "Affect".

"Father's Funeral"

The traditional comedy theory believes that the reason why comedy laughs at the audience is because it imitates the characters and events of the audience. But the new comedy performed in a large number of people's own life as a player. Although the irony is still there, it has turned into a self -ridicule, just like the ridicule of "playing games is more tired than going to work" as mentioned earlier. The importance of self -ridicule is that it retains the illusion of "game" and separates the body in front of the screen from the digital body in the game, which is also riding the anxiety from real life. Therefore, the new comedy is a happy text, and it is blocked by the ironic chain of the external reality. Under the support and structural support of "upgrade", under the intensity and resonance of "AFFECT", the new comedy has achieved homogeneity with video games in form. In the aspects of teasing the audience and spreading Sketch, Man Cai and other foreign comedy forms, the "annual comedy contest" can be said to be successful. But at the same time as success, we should also see that this kind of "new" of this comedy is not so much to strengthen the connection of people, it is better to make laughter more lonely, and make the mechanism of laughter as a special function of human beings into a variety show. In the "eternal current" moment of "eternal current", work (physical labor). The new comedy has become a symptom of the time of the individual and the grand historical narrative.

(This article is the research results of the 93rd Youth Literature and Art Forum of the Institute of Marxist Literature and Art Theory of the Chinese Academy of Arts of China

WeChat editor: Lu Yimeng

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