Tango is zou...
It's so uncomfortable to package like this, I can't open my mouth, I can't keep up...
Palace Yuye wine, one hundred and eighty cups...
When these lines appear, I believe that many viewers will have sketches such as "Packaging Like This", "Working Adventures" and "Veteran's Attack" in their minds, which were collaborations between Zhao Lirong and Gong Hanlin. With the death of Zhao Lirong, Gong Hanlin, who lost his gold medal partner, has also left the Spring Festival Gala stage for more than ten years.
As the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon approaches, Gong Hanlin has met the audience in a different way. His first comedy TV series "My Family Married a Hua Mulan" (hereinafter referred to as "Mulan"), written and directed by him, is launched this week. , "It can be regarded as an appetizer for everyone before the Spring Festival. It brings a piece of joy to everyone."
Recently, Gong Hanlin accepted an exclusive interview with a reporter from Red Star News. He said that he was very nostalgic for the CCTV Spring Festival Gala stage, but there was no good Don't force yourself to create a work. "would rather be lacking than overdone, and not just publish everything." In Gong Hanlin's view, if you force yourself to do it, you will destroy yourself and hurt the audience.
Stills from "My Family Married a Mulan"
"Mulan" is the TV series for which Gong Hanlin served as screenwriter and chief director for the first time. The story revolves around a female "worker" Jin Yingjie (played by Xi Wang) who proves step by step that women's working ability is no worse than men through her unremitting efforts and talents. She also helps Hao Xin (played by Gong Tiankuo), who is on the verge of bankruptcy, to revive the company. In the process, the two unfolded a series of ridiculous stories.
The starring cast of the play includes not only Gong Hanlin, his wife Jin Zhu, and son Gong Tiankuo, but also Pan Changjiang, Fang Qingping, Li Jianwei, He Yunwei, Li Jing and other friends from the folk art industry, who also played important roles in the play. .
It is understood that as early as 2008, Gong Hanlin filmed a stage comedy "A Play Within a Play, Outside a Play, a Play Within a Play" as a director. The actors selected were all cross talk actors, which achieved good results. Therefore, Gong Hanlin came up with the idea. The idea of looking for sketch and cross talk actors to make a TV series, "I just want to give it a try and see if our cross talk actors can seriously act in a TV series."
Pan Changjiang guest starred
The choice of cross talk actors lies in Gong Hanlin's Cross talk complex. In the 1980s, he studied under the famous cross talk master Tang Jiezhong. After working in the Shenyang Folk Art Troupe for many years, he began to perform in sketches. He is well-known to audiences across the country through his collaboration with Zhao Lirong in the Spring Festival Gala sketches such as "Packaging Like This" and "Adventures at Work".
"When I was filming this comedy, I really didn't pursue hilariousness. What I pursued was a light comedy of normal life. It was just set within the framework of comedy and let these crosstalk actors and sketch actors play a I think it has achieved the state of normal life." Gong Hanlin said that the overall style of the drama "Mulan" is fresh and humorous, hoping to use a relaxed and pleasant comedy structure to present normal life and present humorous stories in real life, rather than Laughing for the sake of laughter, "I don't want to do that, so there is no prank here."
Stills from "My Family Married a Mulan"
In the interview, Gong Hanlin repeatedly mentioned Zhao Lirong's advice back then - to do art, Be particular, don't settle. The sketches that
collaborated with Zhao Lirong in the past were all respectful of life and presented the comedy state in normal life. They would never engage in exaggerated or impetuous comedies. "You can't do things that are off-putting. I want everyone to laugh healthily. Smiling less makes people feel tasteless."
Right now, the CCTV Spring Festival Gala is being prepared. What can be seen is that regular guests of the Spring Festival Gala such as Gong Hanlin, Feng Gong, Huang Hong, Zhao Benshan and Pan Changjiang have not appeared on this stage for many years. The actors who have accompanied several generations are slowly leaving the place that made them famous overnight. stage.
Gong Hanlin has appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala stage more than ten times. As early as 1990, he appeared on the Spring Festival Gala stage for the first time and performed the sketch "Playing Mahjong" with Yue Hong.After that, the programs such as "Packaged Like This", "Working Adventures" and "Kung Fu Order" performed with Zhao Lirong were loved by many audiences, such as "Palace Yuye Wine, 180 cups", "Spicy Shredded Chicken", "This Is Not "Let's talk well, then how about we TV" and other lines are still talked about today.
Since performing the sketch "Beautiful Embarrassment" in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 2010, Gong Hanlin has not appeared on this stage again in more than ten years. When many viewers called on him to appear on the Spring Festival Gala again, Gong Hanlin's answer was "I would rather lack than waste." Gong Hanlin is nostalgic for the Spring Festival Gala stage, but he will never be greedy, because a word "greedy" may destroy himself and hurt the audience. If you can't do something and it doesn't meet the standard in your heart, whether it's a sketch or other artistic work, then you won't do it. "This is a principle, and this is what Teacher Zhao Lirong often says. In our industry, we must pay attention to it and cannot make do with it. ”
Recalling the process of preparing for the Spring Festival Gala, Gong Hanlin felt that he “had to shed a layer or two of his skin.” Maybe comedians gave people the impression of being lively and outgoing, but when preparing for the show, everyone was in a more serious state, even It's a bit depressing, and I have to work hard to study the setting of the burden, the control of the structure, and the communication between the characters.
It took at least five or six months for Gong Hanlin and Zhao Lirong to prepare the CCTV Spring Festival Gala program. What everyone pursued was originality, creating a baggage that would become popular in life after it was performed and become a commonly used saying.
Times are changing, but in Gong Hanlin’s view, the creative attitude of creators should not change. “The vitality of a work depends entirely on our creative impulse and down-to-earth craftsmanship, otherwise there will be no perfect work. Presented in front of the audience."
Red Star News reporter Qiu Junfeng intern Xiao Senyang
