《One Night in Supermarket》
If domestic low-budget movies want to achieve market success, "black" and "comedy" are two gold-lettered signboards, which Ning Hao’s crazy series seems to have set an example for domestic counterparts. Even if there are no big-name stars and big scenes, the distinctive and slightly absurd characters, cool MV-style clips and multi-line narrative techniques are enough to make the story in a monotonous scene rich in layers, vivid and interesting.
Xú Zhēng
Open "Chamber of Secrets" suspense comedy crazy tribute classic hodgepodge
All the stories of Night Shop took place in a convenience store that opened 24 hours a day. A friend who came to the supermarket to practice robbery for filming, a color fan named debt collection and robbery, and a real robber, three groups of fake "robbers" jointly staged a ridiculous and funny drama, during which endless accidents and surprises made the whole process full of variables and banter.
Although the whole film has never been filmed outside the supermarket, due to the open nature of the supermarket itself, this closed small space is full of possibilities. Different from indoor suspense and reasoning films such as Eight Beautiful Pictures and Like the Moon, which rely on the interaction of a fixed number of characters to promote the development of the plot, Night Shop constantly adds fresh condiments to the main characters to make the plot more full and rich. The former does subtraction, peeling off layers of shells like bamboo shoots to reveal the final true image, and the latter does addition, cooking a pot of lively hodgepodge by constantly adding materials. In the director’s own words, "I am like a crazy movie fan, and I can’t wait to pay tribute to my favorite movies one by one within 90 minutes." Therefore, it is not difficult for you to see the influence of Buying Murder, Breaking Dawn, Burning Gas Station, and even Haruki Murakami’s novel Attack on the Bakery, not to mention the ubiquitous parody of lines. However, as the director said, such a movie with other people’s shadows everywhere is not a large collection of plagiarism classics, and it is not out of control because of the over-full elements. Strict thinking makes the whole film look complete and self-contained.
Kimi
Comedy old face and idol new face mix and match to create a different spark.
As a typical black humor comedy, Night Shop not only gathers a large number of familiar faces of domestic comedies, but also adds fresh elements such as draft singer Kimi and popular idol Li XiaoLu. The collision of new and old faces not only makes the cast more diverse, but also gives full play to the respective market appeal of the stars, which not only attracts fixed fans who love black comedies, but also attracts a large number of fans. This shows that Qing Yang, a director born in 1980s, has a careful insight into the film market.
Jacqueline Lulu Li; Li XiaoLu
Xú Zhēng has performed brilliantly in supporting roles in two "Crazy" movies in Ning Hao, and some of them even stole the lead and left a deep impression on the audience. This time, in Night Shop, Xú Zhēng provoked a big beam, and appropriately interpreted the image of He Sanshui, an off-line color fan, as an absurd, stubborn, kind and honest little guy, while Kimi, who "got an electric shock" for the first time on the big screen, also put down his idol tone, and showed the small clerk with a wooden appearance and a warm heart in place.
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