is approaching the end of each year, and there are always several so-called "Spring Festival Gala Programs" circulating on the Internet, and Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao are regular visitors in these "Spring Festival Gala Programs", and this year is no exception.
Photo of Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao
Since 1998's "The Lord and the Postman", Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao, the well-deserved "protagonists" on the Spring Festival Gala, have been away from the Spring Festival Gala stage for more than 20 years. However, the longer they leave, the more the audience treats them. miss. For many years, Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao have always been in the forefront in the online voting of "Who most hope to appear on the Spring Festival Gala stage".
Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao were the well-deserved protagonists on the Spring Festival Gala. However, seeing these old partners on the Spring Festival Gala again can only be a good wish for us that is difficult to realize.
"This thing came out in thousands of years."
Chen Peisi was born in Changchun, Jilin Province in 1954. His father Chen Qiang is a well-known "villain professional family". The images of Huang Shiren and Nan Batian are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. In 1969, his father Chen Qiang was assigned to Inner Mongolia to jump in the team, and Chen Peisi, who was only 15 years old, followed him for 4 years.
Chen Qiang played Huang Shiren
in "The White Haired Girl". What impressed Chen Peisi the most during that time was the blood-red mark left on his white shirt after his father was beaten back every time he was criticized. It was also that experience that made young Chen Peisi understand early that honor, fame and fortune is like a passing fame, just like his father who was once surrounded by applause and cheers, and he became a "cross-street rat" everyone shouted and beat.
Chen Qiang played Nanbatian in "Red Detachment of Women"
"So you think, what is the value of this honor, this reputation? I hate it from the bottom of my heart."
When Chen Peisi was young,
wanted to let his son be able to. When he returned to the city, Chen Qiang decided to teach Chen Peisi to perform, hoping that he could be admitted to the art troupe in the future and transfer his hukou back. So Chen Peisi followed his father, step by step, learning how to lift his voice and walk the stage. However, whether Chen Peisi applied for the Beijing Military Region Arts Troupe or the General Political Arts Troupe, he was rejected because he had such a "gangster" father.
Chen Qiang, who feels guilty for his son, cheeked and begged for help, and finally got help from "Xi'er" Tian Hua. At that time, Bayi Film Studio was preparing to recruit new students. There were still vacancies for actors who played villains, gangsters, and gangsters. Chen Peisi was just such a "thief, illegal trader". , Hooligans, don’t have to act, just poke there and it’s okay. "One thing only comes out for thousands of years."
That year, 19-year-old Chen Peisi finally left the desert and started his career as an actor.
When Chen Peisi was young
In 1979, Chen Qiang came back and starred in "Look at This Family" with Chen Peisi, leading Chen Peisi on the road of comedy. Since then, the father and son have collaborated in a series of comedy films, and Chen Peisi finally entered the public eye.
movie "Look at this family" stills
Zhu Shimao's experience seems to be much simpler.
was born in 1954, Zhu Shimao, who was more than a month younger than Chen Peisi. In 1970, the 16-year-old Zhu Shimao joined the army and served as an actor in the Fuzhou Military Region Repertory Troupe. Unlike Chen Peisi, who has been running for many years and can only play small characters, in early 1976, this handsome boy with thick eyebrows and big eyes was selected by director Shuihua to play in the film "Children of Xisha" when he was playing basketball. Although the filming plan failed to come true, but Zhu Shimao still left a deep impression on the directors of the film industry.
Zhu Shimao was handsome and handsome when he was young.
In 1981, Bayi Film Studio seconded Zhu Shimao to shoot the film "Flight Symphony". Here, Zhu Shimao met two people who later influenced his entire artistic career-Xie Jin and Chen Peisi.
Zhu Shimao played Sun Jianhua in the "Flight Symphony"
In 1982, the film "The Wrangler" directed by Xie Jin was released. Zhu Shimao, who played the lead character Xu Lingjun, became the "popular lover" in the hearts of women of that era. His deep eyes and long eyelashes , With black and thick eyebrows, a piercing nose, and a beard, like a beautiful mixed-race man, even the heroine Cong Shan feelsSigh that Zhu Shimao is so handsome. Since then, Zhu Shimao has made a name for himself in the film industry.
Zhu Shimao played Xu Lingjun
in "The Wrangler" and his acquaintance with Chen Peisi was more like fate. At that time, Zhu Shimao lived in the guest house of Bayi Film Studio because of filming, and Chen Peisi was an actor in Bayi Film Theater Troupe. No one made any special arrangements. The two got to know each other in a silly way. They met each other late, always thinking that one day they could cooperate once. The originator of
sketches, the absolute protagonists of the Spring Festival Gala stage
During the 1983 Spring Festival, Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao "walked" in Harbin, and staged a small short play that was usually amused when the Bayi film studio interacted with the audience. It attracted the audience. laugh. At that time, director Huang Yihe accidentally learned of this work, and found it very novel, so he invited them to participate in the 1984 CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
1984 Spring Festival Gala "Eating Noodles"
Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao, as movie actors, were a little bit dissatisfied with the Spring Festival Gala, but they couldn't help Huang Yihe's warm invitation and agreed. Hearing that the 25-minute work was to be reduced to 13 minutes, Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao were very reluctant. They couldn't say anything in the middle, but because Huang Yihe said that they wanted to invite them to dinner, they silently returned to the program group. Finally, with the help of Ma Ji, Jiang Kun, Wang Jingyu and others, the sketch "Eating Noodles" came out.
In 1984 Spring Festival Gala "Eating Noodles"
Spring Festival Gala rehearsal, Huang Yihe brought some audience members to sit in the audience. "Eating Noodles" was just halfway through, and the audience in the audience laughed a lot. The singer Zhu Mingying even fell to the ground. This is not a good thing. In that era, the meaning of the work was far more important than the audience’s laughter. Even if you laughed, it had to be a "healthy laugh." Once a work like "Eating Noodles" with "no high pursuit" On the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, the entire program group and the two actors have to bear certain risks. It was not until the afternoon of the New Year’s Eve that director Huang Yihe made the final decision: "The party will begin immediately, and I decided to let you go. However, you have to follow the approved manuscript, and you can’t make a single mistake. Once you make a political mistake, you have to do it yourself. Responsible.”
After the 1985 Spring Festival Gala "Making a Movie"
program was broadcast, all the audience remembered this one-on-one combination. Zhu Shimao was handsome, upright, in suits and leather shoes. Chen Peisi was so exasperated that he looked amused, coupled with his antics and those small talking eyes, it made people hilarious. "Eating Noodles" became the first skit in the true sense of our national party, and Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao also became the originators of the comedy skits for the party.
1986 Spring Festival Gala "Lamb Skewers"
Later, because of the temptation of director Huang Yihe to "please eat", Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao appeared on the Spring Festival Gala stage for several years, bringing the audience "Filming", "Lamb Skewers", "Pepper Noodles", etc. Classic works have become a well-deserved protagonist on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
1989 Spring Festival Gala "Pepper Noodle"
1990 Spring Festival Gala "Protagonist and Supporting Actor" can be described as the pinnacle of their collaboration. Some people say that this is a sketch that was born out of the classic cross talk "Lun Peng Dou". In order to become the protagonist, Chen Peisi used all his cleverness to become the "Traitor" and eventually became the "Eighth Route Army" with the support of the audience, but finally returned to the image of "traitor" due to habit.
1990 Spring Festival Gala "Protagonist and Supporting Actor"
The lines of this skit are also very good, until now, just say one sentence, the audience can pick up the following lines. "Captain, don’t shoot, it’s me." "The imperial army asked me to give you a message." "Daydreaming, you traitor." "You control me, and you control who the audience loves to watch." "I used to think It’s only me who can rebel. I didn’t expect that you, Zhu Shimao, with big eyebrows and eyes, also rebelled against the revolution.” “The devil asked me to bring you something. What did the imperial army say?” “It’s been a long time, yes. You took a kickback for all the benefits the Imperial Army gave me." "Don't pretend to be confused, the Imperial Army told me when I came." It still makes people smile.
supporting role standing still to grab the show
and domesticCompared with other comedians, Chen Peisi has excellent control over body language, and his sense of proportion and precision is almost unmatched. The works of Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao have no satire, no praise, no insinuations, and basically lack the elements of today's mainstream and non-mainstream comedies. The two people have reached the top comedy by purely relying on the appearance, expression, manners, lines and costumes of the characters. effect.
"Daydreaming, you traitor!"
What is even more rare is that when contemporary comedy leaves dialects and Internet trendy words, leaving the so-called jokes, it is almost impossible to continue their lives, Zhu Shimao and Chen Peisi can speak standard Mandarin. , Hardly use any slang for performance. Their works focus on small people and interpret the trivial things in the lives of ordinary people. They don't make fun of the disabled, don't use women as stalkers, and don't discriminate or vilify. Their choice of topics is not lofty at all, but they have completed a pungent irony of social injustice.
1991 Spring Festival Gala "Police and Thieves"
From 1984 to 1998, Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao appeared on the Spring Festival Gala 11 times, and each time they appeared before 12 o'clock in the finale and almost contracted the most laughs of those Spring Festival Gala. It is no exaggeration to say that the entire 90s belonged to the era of sketches, the era of Chen Peisi, Zhu Shimao, and even the era of Chen Peisi. "Chen Peisi made people laugh as soon as he stood on stage, and after he laughed, it was thought-provoking."
disagrees with the concept, angrily quit the Spring Festival Gala
When the 1999 Spring Festival Gala was broadcast live, the audience looked forward to the performances of Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao as always, but they never appeared. In fact, Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao's decision to withdraw from the CCTV Spring Festival Gala was not out of impulse. They had a long history of conflicts with the Spring Festival Gala crew.
In 1984, the experience of Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao on the Spring Festival Gala for the first time was quite bumpy, but the success of the show still concealed the small friction and unhappiness between them and the Spring Festival Gala crew. Later, these contradictions gradually emerged. Chen Peisi wanted to do more innovation and experimentation, but the Spring Festival Gala crew became more conservative.
In the 1988 Spring Festival Gala, Chen Peisi and Xiao Xiangyu "Dog and Black Girl"
When performing "Dog and Black Girl" in 1988, Chen Peisi expressed the hope that it could be filmed on a stand-alone camera, using film montage techniques to break the time and space constraints of skit performance, and was rejected by the crew. negative. When performing "Police and Thieves" in 1991, Chen Peisi made a similar request again. The Spring Festival Gala crew rejected it again and deleted the most exciting scene in the work. Zhu Shimao once said helplessly: "He is too stubborn, too confessed to death."
1991 Spring Festival Gala "Police and Thieves"
In 1998, Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao partnered to perform the skit "The Lord and the Postman". This was a very failed performance, even There has been a very serious performance accident. When preparing to go on stage, the staff randomly hung the microphone outside the actor's costume. As soon as Zhu Shimao came on stage, the microphone dropped. He had to approach Chen Peisi while acting, rubbing his microphone to speak. When Chen Peisi ran up at the end of the sketch, Zhu Shimao almost yelled out the lines.
1998 Spring Festival Gala "The Prince and the Postman"
Since then, Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao have decided to withdraw from the CCTV Spring Festival Gala: "It's not a creative atmosphere. Every department is holding each other's hands." There is one more thing for
, let Chen Peisi. , Zhu Shimao and the Spring Festival Gala crew completely tore their skins.
In 1994, CCTV's wholly-owned China International Television Corporation published their short album video without the consent of Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao. Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao planned to sue CCTV, but CCTV asked someone to come forward to coordinate, and they withdrew the lawsuit. As a result, in 1999, the company published a CD of their sketches.
China International Television Corporation published Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao's sketch album video tape
This time, Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao took them to the court with a petition, and the court sentenced China International Television Corporation to stop the infringement, apologize, and compensate the two for the economy. The loss was more than 330,000 yuan. Since then, Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao have never appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao litigated with the infringing party
Many years later, a reporter interviewed Chen Peisi and asked them whetherHave you ever considered the consequences when using weak personal power against such a large media organization? Chen Peisi’s answer is a bit sad: "I have considered the consequences, I can bear very huge economic losses, but I just can’t stand their deception by the government. I must speak up, otherwise 50 years and 100 years. Later, our offspring will see that they will be angry at what we are doing now, because in the face of violations, we chose to ignore and silence. I don’t like fighting, but I’m a bit sick and like to be more real.”
Chen Peisi, After Zhu Shimao withdrew from the Spring Festival Gala, he did not appear in variety shows and TV interviews for many years. Chen Peisi spent two years meditating in the mountains, and Zhu Shimao also became a director.
Zhu Shimao's work "Quit Smoking and Alcohol"
In 2001, Chen Peisi brought a new work-the drama "Child Care", a comedy that satirizes the popular marriage and nursery phenomenon in society, touring in nearly 50 cities across the country. There were 120 games, and the games were full, creating a box office of 50 million. In 2003, his second stage comedy "Relatives and Friends Are Settling Accounts" went on stage, with nearly 60 performances in one year, with an audience of 80,000 people. The third work "The Balcony" is still very successful. The Sichuan dialect version, Mandarin version and Yunnan dialect version have been released successively. The three language versions have a total of 137 performances, and it was selected as a teaching case by the Shanghai Theatre Academy. In 2016, he directed and starred in the drama "The Stage", which was also selected as the opening ceremony of the Beijing Comedy Theatre of the National Centre for the Performing Arts.
Chen Peisi's drama "Daycare" stills
's drama "Balcony"
Chen Peisi only went to school for five years, but brought us the best and most profound comedy performance. In his whole life, he has played all the rogues in the sketches, as timid as a mouse, playing tricks, in reality he is neither humble nor arrogant, nor compromised, the former is acting and the latter is ethics.
