Although the film sets that the rich children suddenly lose their memory and live on the streets, and the capital crushes the grassroots, the rich second generation finds that their self-worth comes from real labor, and finally relies on the true feelings to counterattack. These bridges are very conventional.
Moreover, the whole movie has been deliberately reminding the audience that "it's going to be funny here" and "it's going to be sensational here" are clearly written everywhere, and the editing and transition of each bridge section are a bit stiff.
However, the dense laughter in the film and the feeling of action movies coming out of the dull "rubbing bath" are enough to stimulate emotional and visual impact, and it is a qualified New Year comedy.
0 1 The writer met the expectations.
The scriptwriting structure of Bathing Friends is a typical three-act structure, and the beginning, middle and end are clearly explained, which meets the audience's expectations.
At the beginning of the film, the plot explains the dilemma that Zhou Donghai, the owner of the small bathhouse played by Qiao Shan, encounters, that is, the big consortium wants to purchase the bathrooms in the town in a unified way.
At the same time, another man in the film, Xiao Xiang, has his own troubles. His mercenary cousin has only business and no feelings, and is going to secretly frame the mascot of the Xiao family.
The beginning of the three-act structure has four functions:
1. Presents the story world, telling readers the scene setting, time and related background of the story;
2. Lay the tonality of the story so that readers can have a basis;
3. Persuade the reader to continue reading the middle paragraph. Why should the reader care about your story and continue reading?
4. Introduce the appearance of the opponent, who and what should stop the protagonist;
By mapping these four functions to Bathing Friends, the audience can quickly get the development direction of the story. In the end, diaosi will definitely fight back, and the plot of the villain cousin will definitely be defeated.
The audience is curious about what kind of middle story the screenwriter will bring the protagonist to this happy ending.
There is also a core in the middle of the story, which is conflict.
In the middle story, the hero and the villain have to confront each other and win each other. The main function of the middle section is to deepen the relationship between characters and pave the way for the final decisive battle.
There are actually two clues in the middle paragraph of Bathing Friends. One is that Xiaoxiang and Zhou Donghai are fighting against the capital forces that are about to buy bathhouses. In this clue, Xiao Xiang and Zhou Donghai have a victory, that is, they transformed the bathhouse into a bridge of happiness in Celebrity on the Internet.
This scene can be regarded as a small climax of the whole movie.
At the same time, the villains in this line also won, that is, the town was responsible for buying spies and deliberately exposing online celebrity bathhouses, which led to the efforts of Xiaoxiang and Zhou Donghai brothers being wasted.
The middle part of the buddy Bass also plays a very important role, which is to deepen the brotherhood between the two, which is also the premise of the whole movie.
After reading the middle part, the audience naturally expects the story to end, the protagonist to win, the villain to fail, and the protagonist to defeat the villain.
The screenwriter's handling of the ending was also in line with expectations, and directly designed a bathing contest. The protagonist in the middle who has experienced tests and trials needs a turning point to end this fictional journey.
The audience's expectation of the story is very simple, and it is nothing more than hoping to see the change through the story. The story with three-act structure will be designed as the Ollie model of "meeting difficulties, facing difficulties and overcoming difficulties".
Because this model best meets the audience's expectation of overcoming difficulties.
Type 02 meets expectations.
Comedy is a very old story type.
As early as the Poetics written by Aristotle, the originator of drama theory, there was a judgment on the characteristics of comedy: "Comedy tends to show people who are worse than today."
Under this judgment, it was later extended that the core of comedy is tragedy and so on.
For example, when we discuss the comedies of Chaplin and Stephen Chow, we will find that their works are humorous because the setting of the leading role will be miserable from the beginning, that is, the so-called "people worse than today".
Therefore, "Bathing Friends" takes Zhou Donghai, who hides in a small town to open a bathhouse to pay off debts, and the rich second generation who is framed for amnesia as the main characters, which also meets the audience's expectations for comedy.
The so-called transcendence here means that people face all kinds of social anxiety and fear, and they should transcend these contradictions with laughter and comfort themselves mentally.
Laughing in the cinema may not solve any practical problems, but it can at least relax yourself for two hours.
In this way, the purpose of the New Year comedy has been achieved.
03 Audio-visual meets expectations
In the process of watching Bathing Friends, the biggest surprise came from the director's excavation of "bathing".
In my impression, the last film with the bathhouse as the core scene was Bathing directed by JASON ZHANG, but that bathing was a typical scene in which Beijing citizens' culture emphasized family ties and the times, while Bathing Friends was more about excavating the bathing culture itself and enhancing the film's appreciation in the form of action drama, especially the battle between Xiao Xiang and foreign bath masters at the end of the film, which made people think of China superfine product and food.
Bath friends add action design and fast-paced martial arts film clips to seemingly dull behaviors such as rubbing bath and massage, and invite Zhu Shimao to seriously talk about a lot of massage health knowledge, which is refreshing.
In the film's crew list, it is found that Bathbuddy's action director is Mr. Liu Mingzhe. He was nominated for the Golden Horse Award for Best Action Design because of the action director of Assassin Nie Yinniang, and participated in the action directors of films such as Ip Man, Never Imagine, Shame Iron Fist, so the action scenes in the film still look cool. ?
In addition, some songs that enhance the atmosphere are played from time to time in the movie. Although it sometimes appears suddenly, the song itself can be lit.
Generally speaking, Bathing Friends is a cool film that can make you laugh, and there is a great contrast between Peng Yuchang and Qiao Shan. Finally, the bathing contest has a feeling of "rubbing bath version" and "China little master".