01.
In 1992, Wang Shuo threw " Animal Ferocious " to Jiang Wen who lived across the street from his house.
Jiang Wen wanted to be a director for a long time. After reading the novel, he immediately asked Teacher Wang to write the script. At that time, Wang Shuo wrote TV dramas for several years, and he was already on the verge of collapse. Although he has become a wrist, he is physically and mentally exhausted. In particular, I hate writing for directors who have pursuits. Fortunately, Jiang Wen is talented, and Wang Shuo doesn't write, so he goes back to the house to hold the manuscript. After holding it for a month, I wrote a 60,000-word novel into a 90,000-word script, and then I came up with "Sunny Days".
Another guy named Yingda was not so lucky.
In 1992, "Love You No Negotiation" starring Wang Shuo, Yingda and Song Dandan received a bad reputation. Yingda was depressed for a while because of this, and felt that things couldn't be left like this.
Yingda was born in a cultural family with roots of Miaohong. Great-grandfather Ying Lianzhi founded " Ta Kung Pao ", and grandfather Ying Qianli taught Yu Guangzhong a lesson. My father, Ying Ruocheng, translated "Tea House" into English and served as the Deputy Minister of Culture. In 1990, the Music Association and the Ministry of Culture held a national youth favorite song selection. Many veteran cadres boycotted Cui Jian , and finally Ying Ruocheng made a speech, and "Nothing" was selected.
has great military exploits, and he can't be idle. After "Love You, No Negotiation" overturned, Yingda remembered that when he was studying in the United States, he went to the filming site to watch the comedy "The Cosby Show", and went home to ask Mr. Ying's opinion: "This kind of drama is very interesting, and it is played live to the audience. , even the laughter was recorded."
Ying Ruocheng nodded: "Things are good things, but they must be localized." After thinking about it, Yingda could only find Teacher Wang. When Wang Shuo heard it, he thought it was reliable. "Love You Not Negotiable" was broken, and he couldn't hold it on his face. After all, I still have to eat this bowl of rice, so I can't smash the sign. So the two named this kind of indoor drama with one episode and one independent story "situation comedy", trying to fight a turnaround. After negotiating a few hundred-word outline of the story, the two went straight to the northeast, and after some rhetoric, they got their first investment.
However, just when the script was about to be published, Teacher Wang went to hide in Hainan.
Judging from the preface of "Looking Beautiful" in the future, Wang Shuo was not only faced with a writing crisis, but also a huge life crisis, and he began to doubt the life in front of him. Yingda turned around and couldn't understand Wang's pain. In desperation, he could only go to Peking University Drama Club to find his cousin Yingzhuang and let him be a screenwriter.
Yingda took his cousin to a guest house in Xishan behind closed doors. The brothers ate cabbage noodles for a month, racked their brains to write, and wrote very slowly. Just when he was almost desperate, Wang Shuo called and said to Yingda, "I'll introduce you to someone."
Mr. Wang did not expect that one of his phone calls would turn the quality of China's first sitcom into a An Everest that eventually became a landmark of 90s TV culture. In the nearly 30 years since then, when it comes to Chinese sitcoms, no one can escape " I love my family ".
The curtain of the Chinese sitcom was opened with the sound of Mr. Wang running away.
02.
In 1986, Jiang Kun, who had finished "Taking This Picture", couldn't come up with a good joke for a long time.
Jiang Kun went to the writer Chen Rong for advice, and happened to see her son Liang Zuo's novel "Tiger's Mouth Daydream"". Jiang Kun knew that Liang Zuo, who graduated from Peking University, had high spirits, and he kept holding back his desire to win the "Nobel Prize for Literature", so he said, "You should change it to comic dialogue first, and once it becomes popular on the Spring Festival Evening, the people of the whole country will know you from now on. "
Then you can rush out of Asia to the world, right?
In the Spring Festival Gala of 87, "Tiger's Mouth Reverie" really became popular. Liang Zuo struck while the iron was hot and wrote "Elevator Adventures", "The Thief Company" and "Extraordinary News". He has a younger brother, who is a comedian, named Liang Tian, who plays with Ge You in the movie based on Wang Shuo's novel "The Difficult Master". Teacher Wang met Liang Zuo through him. When
met Yingda, Liang Zuo was already a cross talk writer. However, it only cost 50 yuan to write a cross talk on the wrist, and the review of the Spring Festival Gala became more and more strict. Liang Zuo heard that he was writing a comedy and readily agreed. Before writing, Yingda set up an eldest daughter, a younger brother, a younger daughter, and a son-in-law who plugged the door for the Jia family. Liang Zuo was determined to change his eldest daughter to his eldest daughter-in-law, so that he could easily shake his burdens. When the cast of
cast actors, they were all related households. It was Yingda's then-wife Song Dandan who played the daughter-in-law Peace, Song Dandan's colleague in Beijing who played the eldest son Jia Zhiguo, Yang Lixin who dubbed Zhang Guorong in "Farewell My Concubine", and the idle younger brother Jia Zhixin was Liang Zuo and his younger brother Liang Tian. , the younger sister Jia Xiaofan is Zhao Mingming, the wife of Yingda's cousin Yingning , and Yingning is the production director of . Later, even the old man Ying Ruocheng also came to make a cameo appearance.
Speaking of guest appearances, "I Love My Home" almost accounted for half of the entertainment industry at that time, and each episode had a familiar face, Cai Ming, full stop, Li Mingqi , Pu Cunxin , Wang Zhiwen , Jiang Wen, Xia Yu , He Bing , Li Xuejian ... Of course, there is no shortage of Uncle Ge who has become an internet celebrity after lying on the sofa many years later.
Due to the frustration of "Love You No Negotiation", Yingda has been holding back her energy and her ambitions are very big, hoping that after the broadcast, it will be empty. Before every filming, he took the initiative to warm up the audience and told everyone to laugh more. Yingda was fortunate to have met some of the best actors of that era, especially a very talented screenwriter like Liang Zuo. This makes "I Love My Home" an insurmountable classic.
Because of Liang Zuo, market stories and daily passages have become a shining burden, and beneath the burden lies a deep insight into society. All the trivialities and short stories of parents are carried along with the irony of reality in the humor. In the 1990s, various economic and cultural topics have become conflicting jokes in the Jia family's life. From intellectuals to dealers and pawns, basically everyone can find resonance in this drama.
It's no wonder that someone later said: "If you want to understand the 1990s in China, just watch "I Love My Home"." Liang Zuo died at home, and the high standard he set in "I Love My Home" can no longer be achieved. What Liang Zuo wanted to write most during his lifetime was neither comic dialogue nor comedy, but novels, but he was unintentional.
In 1994, when "I Love My Home" was broadcast, some veteran cadres were not very happy, they felt vulgar and boring, and the ratings could not hold up. Jia's family has become a model of life that no one knows and no one knows, and Yingda is also proud. In any case, this is the first, popularizing a new form of comedy for the Chinese people. Although it is not as good as the three generations of the ancestors, it is also a merit.
Since then, Yingda has become more and more brave, set up a comedy company, brought a group of people, blossomed everywhere, and opened up new ground for Chinese sitcoms, which can be said to be fruitful. In the nearly 30 years since then, China's top sitcoms have been related to him to some extent. say he isPioneer, not at all.
Unfortunately, there is one thing that the pioneers could not guess:
The Chinese people who have experienced the baptism of the Internet are laughing more and more. After the success of
03.
"I Love My Home", Yingda has made several sitcoms. First, " Waiting Hall " and then " Psychological Clinic ", did not set off any major storms. In 1998, based on his experience of studying in the United States, he made a " Chinese restaurant ", claiming to invest 300,000 in 21 minutes in a single episode. .
Not long after the result, the US bombed the Chinese embassy, and "Chinese Restaurant" had to be taken off the shelves. A year later, the episode reappeared, and it had been cut beyond recognition. Although Yingda is worried about the laughter of the Chinese people, the company is not for public welfare after all. Seeing that "Chinese Restaurant" lost a lot, I had to go to Liang Zuo again. This time, another good drama came out, " Idleman Ma ".
In 1999, Beijing TV launched the 630 Theater during the period from 6:30 to 7:00, specializing in showing sitcoms. "Sister Idleman Horse", which took the civilian route, raised the ratings to 10 points in a short time. The more the audience watched, the more they liked it, so Yingda had to lead the team while writing and filming, writing the script the first day, filming the next day, and broadcasting it within a week. When I really couldn't write it, I bought a newspaper to read the news, and slipped all the things that could be talked about in the society in front of Cai Ming's eyes. Accidentally, nearly 300 episodes of "Sister Idle Man" were filmed.
Indah's ambition not only delights the masses, but also trains the team. When filming "Sister Idle Man", there was a child named Lu Xiaopin in the crew to coordinate the script. When filming "I Love My Family", Lu Xiaopin ran through the tricks, and Yingda saw that he was talented and smart, and he took him with him all the time. When filming "Sister Ma", whenever something happened, Yingda asked Lu Xiaopin to replace the class.
Lu Xiaopin did not disappoint him. A year later, "The Northeast Family" set off the last wave of British comedy.
In 1999, the people's artist Zhao Lirong made her last appearance on the Spring Festival Gala. Zhao Benshan successfully took over the baton with the song "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow", and has since dominated the Spring Festival Gala sketches. Under the promotion of Uncle Benshan, Northeast dialect and once became the first choice for comedy. Coincidentally, Ying Ning, the production director of "I Love My Family" had an uncle from the Northeast. In 2001, he copied the model of "I Love My Family" and wrote several episodes of "Northeast Family". Unexpectedly, the response was extremely enthusiastic, and the 40 episodes were expanded to 120 episodes.
At that time, Dong Chengpeng, who was obsessed with the band, just won the second prize in the "Jilin Province Original College Student Song Contest", and he was not the Dapeng in "Diaosi Men" in the future. On the contrary, Lu Xiaopin, wrapped in a military coat in the hot studio, shaped the first generation of Mu Diaosi, Niu Xiaowei.
Niu Xiaowei's natural low-level temperament and the daily teasing of the Northeast family once again sent food condiments to the people of the whole country, but the predicament of the Chinese sitcom mode is lurking behind. The British brothers moved the scene to the waiting room, clinic, and restaurant, but they failed to create a hit again, and finally had to compromise with the family drama. This dilemma also extended to Lu Xiaopin. The following year, together with Lin Cong , the executive director of "I Love My Home", he planned a " Net Bug Diary ", and the response was still mediocre.
Its biggest contribution is the screenwriter Yu Baimei brought in a network writer. Although the writer didn't write a few episodes, he still got a signature in the end, and he has since embarked on his career as a screenwriter. The person
is Ning Caishen .
It must have been very gratifying to see that someone in the team could go out on his own. So at the 2003 China Sitcom Symposium, he said very optimistically:
"Our goal is to let each station have its own sitcom, so that every audience can find a TV station at any time of the day. A sitcom." The
Heralds couldn't guess the ending of the story.
04.
In 1993, "Farewell My Concubine" was released. Yingda played the role of the boss of the theater and played opposite Leslie Cheung. Yingda specially designed an action for herself to lift her sleeves and wipe her hair, which she wiped as soon as she appeared on the camera. Brother
laughed at him: "Don't wipe it all the time, it won't look good if you wipe it all the time."
Yingda certainly didn't know about it. At that time, a female student went to the crew to play a group show for Gong Li and , her name was Yan Ni . Gong Li must have never imagined that Yan Ni would play against her in "Return" many years later. Also that year, 14-year-old Yao Chen became the last batch of dancers trained by the state at public expense, and went to Beijing alone to study folk dance. As for Ning Caishen, he has already started his business in East China University of Science and Technology .
Later, a director named Shang Jing twisted these people together and composed the swan song of the new century sitcom. When Yingda was filming "I Love My Home", Beipiao Shangjing held a "Chinese Music Classics" concert in the capital, and even edited a sketch for Huang Hong. Unfortunately, after becoming a producer, his career line plummeted. When Yingda was filming "Sister Ma", Lu Xiaopin received a call from a friend, and the other party said, "I have a buddy who is too poor, and he even made a Spring Festival Gala sketch, can you let him join the crew to earn some money? "
said that Qiao, after participating in Yingda's drama, Shang Jing seemed to have opened up the second line of 's second line, , and handed over a " Xiangyang Barber Shop " a year later, and lived in the army for another year. "The Story of the Cooking Class" as the background. The breakthrough that British comedy failed to achieve turned into a turning point in Shang Jing's hands. After the broadcast of "Cooking", Shang Jing became famous, and he was soft on winning the award. Subsequently, he transformed into a fashionable life and started filming " Urban Men and Women ".
"Urban Men and Women" is nothing to talk about. The key is to have a pair of leading actors, one named Yao Chen and one named Yu Entai . In "The Story of the Cooking Class", Bai Zhantang Sha Yi , Tong Xiangyu Yan Ni, Li Dazui Jiang Tao , Xing Caitou Fan Ming all got together. Shang Jing looked around and saw that there was only one person who could write a script.
Coincidentally, Ning Caishen, who worked as futures in his early years and lost all his underwear, and later became prosperous under the banyan tree, happened to be one of the screenwriters of "Urban Men and Women". This gentleman was deeply influenced by Teacher Wang's deconstruction and rebellion in his early years. After tasting the sweetness of being a screenwriter, he suddenly expanded and bought a house in Beijing. I originally planned to write a 40-episode nonsensical comedy, but due to mortgage pressure, I managed to write 80 episodes.
The rise in house prices is forcing to renaissance , and it seems not impossible.
In 2005, Lin Cong, the executive director of "I Love My Family", made " with children in the family of ", adding another brick to the family sitcom. But soon, "Family with Children" was overshadowed by "Wulin Biography".
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got the sample, CCTV originally planned to broadcast 30 episodes first, but if the effect was not good, the show would be changed. As a result, after 10 days of broadcast, the ratings soared from 1.95% to 9.5%, almost topping the drama " Liangjian ", and even advertising had to find a relationship. As for the people of " Tongfu Inn ", the seasons of their lives all jumped to spring.
Back then, Yao Chen, who was positioned as " Da Qingyi " by the acting teacher, didn't get a show for a year. When I heard that she was acting in "Wulin Biography", the teachers all sighed: "Life is really not easy, Lao Yao has to go this way. The road." Yan Ni has been running tricks for almost ten years, and she has been playing tricks everywhere. Overnight, the world changed colors.
personally won, but unfortunately, grandmother has long said:
era is hasty, and it is already under destruction.
There's more damage to come.
05.
When "Wulin Gaiden" was broadcast for ten years, Yao Chen said on Weibo: "Ten years to wake up to a martial arts dream." Shopkeeper Tong then wrote: "I'm still a dreamer."
This is the first one A story about ten years. The second story about ten years is that the last movie " love apartment " that caused a fever was broadcast in 2009.
There is not much to talk about about Love Apartment. From becoming popular to falling from the altar, it only used the strength of one platoon of the subtitle group, and it took the eyesight of a netizen to peel off a sticker, and finally showed the lackluster imagination of the original sitcom. In the early years, Chen Peisi engaged in comedy, and the old man Chen Qiang supported and said, let's do it, the Chinese people are living too hard, and their life is too lack of laughter.
I didn't expect, ah, I didn't expect that day by day, the day was getting better, and some people with big eyebrows and big eyes turned to the revolution. They just turned a big sitcom movie into a tomb robbery movie.
Looking from the back to the front, "Wulin Biography" did not become a new starting point for domestic sitcoms, it was just a flashback before death. Ning Caishen broke out in a moment with his pen power that has been immersed in the Internet for many years, and Shang Jing has trained a group of good actors, which set off a viewing carnival. Since the birth of "I Love My Home", sitcoms have not been the favorite of the army of all fronts, after all, the rate of return is too low.
sitcoms have always been out of prime time, often appearing at mealtimes, and their prices are not high. It made sense in the 1990s, but now investors don't want to talk about it.
"Wulin Biography" claims to have invested 20 million yuan. At that time, there was no ready-made video studio in Beijing. The investor said: "I have a piece of land in Pinggu , take it out and you can build a Tongfu Inn." The mountain was closed for a year, and all the food and clothing could be saved, and only 80 episodes came out.
The screenwriters are not stupid. Other dramas are written hundreds of thousands more, and sitcoms are tens of thousands per episode. In that year, Song Dandan paid 1,000 yuan for an episode of "I Love My Home", and Liang Zuo was three times her. Don't expect another Liang Zuo to come out. They are all people who have to pay for housing loans. If it wasn't for living, Sun Tzu would only want to write 80 episodes.
shot the back, the actors are also a disaster. Song Dandan is an old artist by himself, and is always regarded as a sketch. After Lu Xiaopin's performance as Niu Xiaowei, he withdrew, and wherever he went, he had stickers on his body. Yao Chen and Yan Ni even tried every means to get rid of the comedy color on their bodies. They mainly wanted to improve their lives when they took on the show.
takes a long time, has low returns, and has a high probability of becoming cannon fodder. I have never met anyone who is keen to do this kind of business.This kind of person is basically more suitable for serious literature, especially the kind that wants to be famous in history.
Screenwriter Wang Hailin said it well, "I especially miss coal bosses and real estate developers investing in film and television dramas. They only ask you to add a few actresses. Now it's different. Big data, big traffic, and big IP are all hard indicators. ." To engage in this new art, in addition to reimbursement of invoices to fresh meat and cutout masters, the rest of the money mainly has to buy ratings.
People have been asking pioneer Yingda, when will a drama surpass "I Love My Home", and Yingda will look forward to it at first. Later, in the face of " New Weekly ", he was very calm:
"It will only appear in the 1990s, and it can only appear in the 1990s." On the Spring Festival Evening, the actors of "I Love My Home" reunited, and everyone sighed and sighed. Song Dandan and Yingda's son Batu sang the song "You Are My Home", and one can't help but think of what the shopkeeper Tong said to Guo Furong when he was about to work during the "Wulin Biography":
"Twenty years Very quickly, with a flick of a finger." At the beginning of the
movie "A Sigh", Mr. Wang, who was on his way to Hainan, wrote a monologue, and I still have a deep memory:
"Some things were grandly opened, but it turned out to be a farce. ;Some things started as a comedy, but turned into a tragedy."
"The full text is over, see you next time" [2] "2003-2004 China Sitcom Symposium Record", Yingda
People", Meng Jing
[5] "I Love My Home": a play that plays a generation of Chinese people, Zhao Luting, Zheng Meng, included in "Me and My 90s"
