On creativity: Can we play the art of "offense"?

On the new season of Stand-Up Comedy,

the woman at the center of it all

, Janet, is back.

The woman who became a nightmare for the male population because she was accused of creating a gender dichotomy,

seems to have softened up a bit.

When it comes to relationships, she's no longer so sharp,

but has softened her "Qiong Yao style" by talking about Qiong Yao.

Yang is no longer talking about the inferiority of men,

but is changing the subject,

using her own relationship as a starting point,

talking about self-movement in relationships,

and satirizing the girl's relationship brain.

If stand-up comedy is the art of taking offense,

every stand-up comedian will

have to think about who they're offending before they perform.

It's better to play with a region far away from your own country,

It's better to play with a group far away from the modern life of the people of your country,

or just focus on an acquaintance, Yu Qian, like Guo Degang did.

Because these are the safest and least offensive way.

But it's all about the art of "offending",

and it's a bit pointless to be afraid of that, isn't it?

Do we not have the soil to tolerate this culture?

In our daily lives, I don't know if we've all encountered a kind of people,

who feel free to diss other people's personal affairs, appearance and character,

but also feel that they are just a "harmless" "joke",

and that they are just a "harmless" "joke",

and that they have no idea what they are talking about. "

Most of the time, it's embarrassing and annoying,

and some people who love to tell colorful jokes are even more annoying.

But stand-up comedy is an advanced form of humor,

and the actors sometimes tear themselves apart,

and sometimes satirize others,

and each "line" is the result of a long process of thought,

as if they were just borrowing from the "art of offense" that is stand-up comedy.

It's as if they're just using the "art of offense" of stand-up comedy

to express the humor of trolling in subtle, witty language.

Watching Yang perform now,

the object of the "offense" is herself,

her own community of women.

Perhaps suffering from the threat to her personal safety outside of online violence,

she chose a relatively safe target.

It makes you wonder,

why did it end up becoming life-threatening when it was just a segment?

Can we play the art of "offense"?

02

Thinking about this question, let's go back to last year,

in the third season of "Talk Show",

Yang Kasa sparked a controversy with the line "Why does a guy look so ordinary,

but he can be so confident".

In the opinion of most girls, this sentence is a brilliant,

true reaction to the side of the majority of men,

They are very confident, always do not listen to not see other people's advice in the world,

do not you think, all listen to me!

They like to be with men who are also confident,

There are fraternities and other absolute male organizations abroad,

The way Puxin men usually persuade others is,

I want to be like this, I think it's good,

You don't understand, I'm the absolute justice.

They are also very good at teaching others what to do,

and they are very good at telling others what to do and what not to do,

and they are very good at talking about theories and life lessons.

The world has been suffering from "inexplicable confidence men" for a long time,

but no one has been able to summarize this phenomenon well,

and there is no term to describe this group of people.

So the emergence of the Yangasa trolls bridged the gap,

making it funny and relevant,

and accurately representing the group in just one sentence and one word.

But it just so happens to be the same men who were slagged off by Yangasa

who felt y "offended"

and whose self-confidence wouldn't allow them to take a joke like that.

But the facts speak for themselves,

and there was no stopping the public from recognizing the word "Pushkin Man",

which has even been summed up as the word of the hour.

Nowadays, people can't seem to take a bit of offense anymore,

and some say, "I feel offended, but I like it."

The "offense" that strikes a chord,

is actually a reaction to a real problem.

It's not scary to have a problem, it's scary to avoid it and be afraid of it.

The problem of Puxin men does exist,

it makes people reflect on the far-reaching influence of China's patriarchal society,

it makes people see that in today's society, women are still experiencing some visible and invisible discrimination and injustice,

it makes people reflect on the fact that the standard of men's treatment of their own requirements is often much lower than women's.

But these are not the only things that we need to know about women's rights.

But these real problems have been labeled as "punching bags".

Nowadays, it seems like every problem can be avoided by labeling it,

in a nutshell.

In real life,

there is no "offense" that involves insulting, slandering, denigrating, or name-calling,

and it seems that if you poke a part of the population that has this problem,

you're out, but what about in history and culture?

03

What was supposed to be a game selling the ancient style of Jiangnan Baijingtu,

was not what it appeared to be, cloaked in the skin of traditional culture,

doing things that insulted historical figures.

The anti-Jin dynasty hero Yue Fei is portrayed as an idle man who has nothing to do,

styled as a surrendered person who is "holding a goat by the hand"

while those historical traitors such as Qin Hui and Wei Zhongxian

are made into SSR characters (the highest level of cards in the game of card drawing)

In this regard, CCTV's "White View of Jiangnan"

is not the same as the traditional culture,

but insults historical figures. p>

The CCTV network also criticized the game.

Then the game company responded by taking down a few cards.

But it was more than that.

FGO, a hit game that used the names of historical figures, also suffered,

but unlike Jiangnan Baijingtu,

the game only borrowed the names of historical figures,

the card storylines were generic otaku gaming style,

and most gamers were unhappy about being implicated in the sweeping sweep.

Honor of Kings, which started out on historical figures, was unaffected.

Honor of Kings has built in features like "Historical Him" into the game,

allowing more players to learn about the real historical figures,

so they don't misinterpret history.

Although the image of each character's skin is still strong secondary wind.

But under the skin is still orthodox history.

Insulting history is not excusable,

and it's absolutely right to respect history,

but some light-hearted "imaginary creations" can be fun,

and make more people want to learn about the real history.

The story of the Three Kingdoms is also very popular in Japan,

and last year there was a comedy film about the Three Kingdoms called "Newly Interpreted Three Kingdoms", made by a director who is famous for making funny movies.

The movie is a great example of this.

The most impressive thing about it is that

the actor of Sable cicada got a fat funny man to play the role,

Liu Bei's side to look at her with a modern vision,

thinking that this woman is absolutely no good,

how can it be tempted by Dong Zhuo Lu Bu?

While Dong Zhuo Lu Bu was looking at her with an ancient vision of fat as beauty,

she was indeed mesmerized by the fat Diaochan and "turned against her".

And the most subtle place is that the last Diaochan off disguise shell,

appeared to be a modern aesthetic of pure and lovely thin woman,

but was Lu Bu dislike too "ugly" and a sword chopped down,

Pro "death" before,

the "death", and the "death", the "death", the "death", the "death", the "death", the "death", the "death", the "death", the "death", the "death", the "death", the "death". "

Before she died,

she exclaimed, "I wish I could have been born in a time when I was beautiful!"

Utilizing the hypothesis that "fat is beautiful in ancient times," and using a modern visualization to cut through it,

the contrast is created in a way that doesn't insult history, but achieves the goal of being hilarious.

If someone were to argue, they would say that the ancients were also aesthetically pleasing,

how could they possibly think that fat people were good looking,

this episode is disrespectful of history,

where in ancient times there was that kind of full body disfigurement!

Some people have seen and laughed at the past,

and because of these funny moments to remember the characters, the plot

will be because of these new understandings want to go to understand the real history,

sometimes than the serious science,

such a little bit lighter way more easy to let people accept.

We're trying to find the details, find the mistakes, criticize and resist,

but in that case, wouldn't it be better to watch a historical drama?

In real life, talk shows are like that,

as the spice of daily life,

we watch and laugh and go on with our lives.

And a lot of people are deliberately trying to mobilize and threaten a stand-up comedian,

even to the extent that their personal safety cannot be guaranteed,

How can you be happy when you're so serious?

The people who really deserve to be "mobbed"

aren't the ones who are maliciously trying to get attention,

labeling a segment as "gender-bending"

and creating a war of opinion?

04

Although comedy contains "offenses" against some taboos,

sometimes the more the taboos are offended, the more effective the comedy is.

Literary works for the general public need to have a moral and ethical bottom line,

so some balance should be found in the performance.

So some balance should be found in the performance,

so that inadvertent offense doesn't turn into transgression.

But too much avoidance of "offense" makes comedy tasteless.

In recent years, the Spring Festival comedy sketches have been in the doldrums,

and the traditional comedy variety shows have been getting worse and worse.

Originally, they were supposed to make people laugh,

but in the end, they always had to go down the path of sensationalism and education.

Traditional comedy lacked the vitality to be creative because it was afraid to take offense.

Young stand-ups made up for this.

It was the early days of the comedy that made the comedy more interesting and more entertaining than the early days of the comedy.

This is the first time that we've seen the comedians take offense.

It's the early days of the Spitfire and stand-up comedy conferences that

dared to speak out and take offense

laid the foundation for today's thriving stand-up comedy scene.

And in the last two years, the increasingly safe spitting contests

have been countered with whitewashing,

not to mention film and TV comedies,

which haven't had a word-of-mouth hit in a long time.

05

Can we play the art of "offense"?

Yes, we used to be good at it, which means we have the foundation for it,

but it's been a long time since we've had a spoof that's as funny as Tung Shing Sai Tzu

.

And perhaps the reason such a production is safe from nitpicking

is also because it's long past becoming a classic.

Nowadays, there are too many people who can't think straight,

who can criticize the world from their keyboards without thinking,

and those who are so meticulous about their work,

because they can't read it, so they need to be cheesy,

and they need to be "safe", because they can read it "too much", so they need to be "safe". "

It's a little bit safer.

But works that cross into the safe zone are just like those that enter the comfort zone,

and will eventually lose their original creativity and vitality.

The bottom line of artistic creation should be maintained, but

less taboo, less prickly,

less labeling, less war-inducing,

more tolerance, more ideas

more freedom, more openness.

There will be a lot more good work.