Crosstalk to educate people? That's a crime.
This sentence was said by a cross-talk star in an interview, and has been circulating in the cross-talk industry since 2007, which has a great impact, and many similar remarks have been derived from it.
For example: crosstalk is not funny is too funny, crosstalk is a funny thing, listening to crosstalk is a picture of music and so on.
Under the influence of the phrase "cross-talk education is a crime", the cross-talk industry has undergone considerable changes in the past ten years.
First, more and more cross-talk works have embarked on the route of excessive entertainment, for the sake of simple "laughing fruit", the taste of the works and the style of performance are getting lower and lower, and even there are embarrassing incidents of young cross-talk actors rubbing the side ball too much in the performance and being ousted from the stage by cultural law enforcement personnel.
Second, many cross-talk audiences are also influenced by it to adhere to the one-sided view of "cross-talk is a picture of music", and many young cross-talk actors also regard cross-talk as a pure funny thing, which has deflected the atmosphere of the cross-talk market.
These two changes seem to be a big problem, but also to a certain extent, let the cross-talk market surface prosperity, cross-talk actors creative pressure is not much, but also can make money, why not enjoy it.
However, the cross-talk audience is the soil for the survival of the cross-talk industry, young cross-talk actors are the future of the cross-talk industry, if the soil "deteriorates" and the seedlings "grow crooked", then in the near future, we may watch the national intangible cultural heritage of cross-talk becoming more and more shallow and more biased, and eventually disappear into the ranks of traditional arts.
Some people may be confused: Can't crosstalk still be entertaining? Is it only the crosstalk that educates people to be called crosstalk?
Of course, cross-talk is a language art that can make people laugh, but in the final analysis, this "laughter" is why laughter, whether it is laughter from low-level fun, or laughter infected by language art, there is a huge difference in the middle, in cross-talk, the difference lies in four words: language art.
In the final analysis, from the birth of the cross-talk industry, and even back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period of Youmengqi, the core purpose of its pursuit is also four words: edutainment and education.
In this regard, the famous cross-talk artist Guo Degang once had a wonderful exposition in an interview, which can basically be regarded as the standard answer to the direction of cross-talk creation and performance.
Guo Degang's views can be roughly divided into four parts:
1, cross-talk can educate people, art works can educate people.
Guo Degang's words are very correct, cross-talk practitioners insist that cross-talk is a language art, the so-called language art is to use language as a medium, through language works to trigger the audience's thinking, the audience in the process of thinking to experience the charm of art and construct aesthetic imagery.
Simply put, language art should make the audience produce a sense of beauty, which is brought about by the charm of language art, and the purpose of art should be aesthetic rather than ugly.
Therefore, any work called art can educate people, and if there is no such role, it cannot be called art.
Acknowledging that "crosstalk can educate people" is equivalent to acknowledging that crosstalk is a language art, and denying the educational significance of crosstalk is tantamount to denying that crosstalk is a language art. As a senior practitioner in the cross-talk industry and a beneficiary of the development of the industry, Guo Degang naturally supports "cross-talk is a language art".
2, cross-talk should be "edutainment"
Guo Degang said that cross-talk is to allow the audience to understand something from it, to be able to reflect after the music, and to use the professional perspective of cross-talk is edutainment.
Guo Degang's point of view solves the prejudice of many people, of course, cross-talk should be entertaining, but can not be pure entertainment and excessive entertainment, cross-talk is to let the audience understand some things of the entertainment method.
There have been some old cross-talk viewers who commented on the popular cross-talk now: haha a music, can't remember anything after it's over. This is the drawback of pure entertainment crosstalk, which may not even be considered entertainment fast food, especially some low-level funny content, which can even be called entertainment garbage.
Since "edutainment" is the purpose of cross-talk creation and performance, why are there fewer and fewer cross-talk that can achieve this effect today?
This is the biggest problem in the cross-talk industry at present, the lack of people, especially the lack of high-level creative and performing talents. Many actors engaged in this industry are not only not highly educated or highly educated, the key is not to seek progress, like to amuse the audience on stage with spilling dog blood, and can only circle at a low level. Over time, it will form the effect of "bad money expelling good money", so that those practitioners who are really qualified are far away from the industry.
3, popular, can make people contact art and accept art.
Popular, the general understanding is to be grounded, reflect life in cross-talk works, the content of the work is closely related to the people, and the performance method makes the people like to hear. Popular is an important way for cross-talk to achieve the purpose of "edutainment and education".
Things that are too elegant often produce the phenomenon of high and low, cross-talk as a language art that directly contacts the audience, the best way to create and perform is "elegant and customary appreciation", elegant and customary in the cross-talk industry is not in conflict, but should be organically combined with each other as an auxiliary.
In addition, popularity cannot be equated with the three customs, that is, vulgarity, kitsch and vulgarity, which are two concepts. This view of Guo Degang is a powerful refutation of the three customs and a powerful counterattack to the opposing views of the three customs.
4, the scene of 2000 people, 20 people can harvest
Some viewers may raise a lever: no matter how well you talk about crosstalk, you appreciate and teach together, but I just remember the part of "music", I don't remember the part of "teaching", I don't reflect, and I don't understand anything, can't I?
Of course, Guo Degang gave an example here, there are 2,000 people at the performance site, if there are 20 people who understand some things from crosstalk and understand some things, this is enough.
The original meaning of this sentence is that the creation and performance of cross-talk actors must be worked hard in the direction of "edutainment and education", but whether the audience can understand it is a problem of the audience, the crowd is difficult to reconcile, and it is not possible to force all the audience to be on a horizontal line, but also can not change the direction of cross-talk creation because some audiences only like low-level fun.
Crosstalk is a language art, so it is forward-looking and instructive, but it cannot be done so that all audiences can follow, which is a reality.
5. Oppose forced preaching
Guo Degang made it clear that what he was opposing was the kind of cross-talk that forcibly preached on stage, in other words, cross-talk with only "teaching" and no "music".
Of course, this view is also very correct, if crosstalk becomes only teaching no music, then it is not called crosstalk.
Therefore, from a comprehensive point of view, Guo Degang's views are summarized as follows:
Cross-talk is a language art, can educate people, cross-talk to achieve education of people is the way to "edutainment", the direction of cross-talk creation is "elegant and common appreciation", cross-talk works should abandon simple preaching and simple entertainment, play the charm of language art, and guide the audience to understand and aesthetic.
The author believes that Guo Degang's remarks are a strong refutation of one-sided views such as "cross-talk education is a crime" and "cross-talk is a music of figures", and can be used as a standard answer to the direction of cross-talk creation.