Representative figures of Hong Kong comedy, such as Hui Guanwen, Stephen Chow, Shi Tian, Mak Ka, Wu Yaohan, Chen Baixiang, Feng Quanfan, Hui Guanying, Huang Zihua, etc.;
On the mainland, there are: Chen Qiang, Chen Peisi, Zhao Benshan, Fan Wei, Ge You, Fu Biao, Zhu Shimao, as well as Shen Teng, Xu Zheng, Huang Bo, and so on.
Hong Kong's first promotion of Hui Guanwen and Zhou Xingchi, the first in the mainland, must be Chen Qiang Chen Peisi father and son, they created the "second son" series, leading the mainland small people comedy trend.
1986's "Father and Son" is the first work in the "Second Son" series, but in fact, the two of them acted in a comedy "Look at this Family Son" as early as 1979, and this film is also known as the pioneering work of mainland comedy films.
The film is produced by Beijing Film Studio, directed by Wang Haowei, written by Lin Li, co-starring Chen Qiang, Chen Peisi, Huang Ling, Liu Xiaoqing, Fang Shu and Zhang Jinling, and joined by "Tang Monk" Wang Yue and cross-talk master Ma Ji (cameo photographer) (died in 2006).
After the release of the film, it achieved unprecedented repercussions and brought laughter to the long-suppressed Chinese people.
01. Behind-the-scenes story
After a special period, the North Film Studio has not made comedy for a long time, and newcomer director Wang Haowei wanted to try it, and just happened to meet the screenwriter Lin Li.
He used to be a worker in the power workshop of the North Film Factory, and wrote a script "Daddy, Mom and Me", Wang Haowei felt very interesting after reading it, and the two of them adapted the script together and changed the name to "Look at this family".
The script is determined, the next is the actor, and about the candidate of "Lao Hu", the director has long had a decision in her heart, when she was 17 years old, she had seen Chen Qiang's stage play, and she was deeply impressed, she felt that Chen Qiang was the only and the best candidate for Lao Hu.
Chen Qiang, an old artist, the only one in the "Twenty-Two Movie Stars" selected as a villain, Huang Shiren of "White Haired Girl", Nan Batian, of "Red Girl Scout Army", put into the current proper Rong Mama, walking on the street will be beaten.
Chen Qiang also felt that it was too bitter at that time, and should make some comedies to make the people laugh, decided to take "Look at this family", and recommended his son Chen Peisi to the director.
Because the film is a father-son partnership, Chen Qiang Chen Peisi does not need to run in, plus the director has also seen Chen Peisi's drama, although at that time he still played some roles of bandit A and bandit B, but the director was deeply impressed by him.
"Look at This Family" is the first time that director Wang Haowei has independently directed a film, and it is also the first time that Chen Qiang's father and son have cooperated, and they may not have thought that this film would become the originator of mainland comedy films.
Later, Wang Haowei and Chen's father and son cooperated in "Xizhao Street", and this film Chen Peisi officially became the "second son", to some extent, which gave birth to the later "second son" series, through their grounded comedy films, it was very interesting to see the entire era at that time.
02. The originator of mainland comedy
The story of the film is relatively simple, that is, the daily life of the family, there is noise, there is blandness, it is a small citizen comedy full of life atmosphere and close to the pulse of the times.
There was a problem with the quality of the clothes in the factory, Lao Hu personally went to the customer's home to make amends, and asked which product after-sales can be like this now?
The waiter of Xinhua Bookstore, because he found a book for Lao Hu, put the boyfriend's pigeon, such a caring waiter, too rare.
At that time, cadres had to "do" the word, grasp production by example, and learn advanced science and technology; the director's daughter also had to work on the production line; the actors were not so tall; and their parents were not in a hurry to urge marriage.
The people of that era were simple, simple, frank, kind, positive, and the society was also thriving, and everyone had hope and passion, and their faces were full of happiness and bright smiles.
Most of the laughs in the movie are generated by dislocation, which takes the misplaced plot to the extreme, interesting and not vulgar, such as saving children who fall into the water, teaching dance to read typos, the theater admitting mistakes to sons and girlfriends, the repair shop mishearing rumors, and finally misidentifying daughters-in-law.
One of the most brilliant shots in the film is the scene where Jiaqi, played by Chen Peisi, helps people to dance in the bookstore, making full use of the cross-cutting technique of montage, on the one hand, Chen Peisi, who is hot and sweating, and the dancers, on the other hand, is tired of dancing, withdrawing the people who eat watermelon and drink cold drinks.
In contrast, on the surface, it is a satire on Jiaqi who does not learn and has no skills, but in fact, it is an accusation against the previous one, a high school student has learned nothing, idioms are full of errors, English letters are not recognized, J is pronounced into a hook, A is called a sharp child.
The form of expression of that line of dance is full of comedy, which was unimaginable before, but now it is completely liberated, and the actors dare to let go and perform.
03. Actor performance
The success of the film is also inseparable from the wonderful performance of the actors, Chen Peisi still had hair at that time, slightly immature, Chen Qiang and Huang Ling were like two sons, and later continued to the "second son" series, once thought that Huang Ling was Chen Peisi's mother.
Chen Yude, the actor of the old sick number, steals and slips, grabs credit, no one can compare, when encountering something bad, first pretend to be sick, give yourself a pulse, this cleverness has to be obeyed.
There is also "Our Cow Hundred Years Old", the lazy Man Tian Fu played by him is as brilliant, he can't work by himself, and he also smashed the pot of the captain Niu Hundred Years Old's family. Regrettably, the good actor Chen Yude left us in 1996.
Liu Xiaoqing is a maverick in the film, is a spicy, flamboyant role, can not forget her loud voice and silver bell-like laughter, she used a slightly exaggerated expression and language, played this role, and won the 3rd Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award for Best Supporting Actress.
In fact, Liu Xiaoqing only had 9 scenes in the movie, but she left a deep impression on us, and later she recalled that in order to play this role well, she took great pains to design several sets of performance plans for each scene.
At that time, the country also made thirty or forty movies a year, so sometimes a movie was well acted and could achieve an actor, and if a movie was broken, maybe the film career would be gone, and it was necessary to work hard.
"Look at this family" is also one of Liu Xiaoqing's famous works, and later acted in "The Mysterious Buddha", "Burning Yuanmingyuan", "Furong Town", "Wilderness", "Spring Peach" and other films, becoming the most popular female star in the 80s.
Another actress corresponding to Liu Xiaoqing is Fang Shu, the actor of Xiaohong, and the two move and stand still, forming a sharp contrast, Fang Shu is really too beautiful.
Fang Shu is actually still a child star, the little radish head in the movie "Eternal Life in the Fire" is her, when she was a child, she really did not see that it was a girl's anti-string.
Fang Shu's performance is pure and sincere, and he has a good performance in "Red Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and Purple" and "Leisurely Old People's Feelings";
The most breakthrough is the role of Chen Bailu in "Sunrise", who starred as a senior social flower, and won the best actress at the 9th Popular Film Hundred Flowers Awards.
In addition, she is also an excellent host, hosting the Spring Festival Gala, and also hosted "Zhengda Variety" with her sister Fang Hui.
There is a saying that the more beautiful you look, the more unsmooth your feelings are, this sentence is more appropriate here in Fang Shu, she has had two failed marriages, her ex-husband Chen Guoxing is a director, directed "Out of the Sky", the other is Tu Honggang.
There is also an actress who plays Jiaying, Zhang Jinling, who has a dignified and atmospheric beauty, and Li Xiuming and Liu Xiaoqing are called "three golden flowers of the North Shadow".
She became famous earlier, starring in works such as "Reconnaissance of Crossing the River", "From Slave to General", "Big River Rush" and other works in the 1970s, and in the 80s, she also had a good performance in "Xu Mao and His Daughters" and "Clearwater Bay, Freshwater Bay".
Originally, she could have been as popular as Liu Xiaoqing, but she gave up Li Hanxiang's "Burning Yuanmingyuan" for the sake of her family.
Although she faded out of the show business circle, when she appeared in front of everyone again, she had transformed into a calligrapher and painter, and even held calligraphy and painting exhibitions in different countries, which could not help but sigh that excellent people can succeed in anything.
"Look at this family", the most memorable is two lines, quick, beat him up! If we are cadres, we must take the word "dry" as the head, and we cannot let people turn around and tell us to "not do it"!
As a pioneering work, the starting point of the film is too high, and the younger generations still cannot reach this height.
Thirty or forty films a year, but pay attention to excellence, film creators, actors are very dedicated, so can become classics, in contrast to now, hundreds of works a year, classics but very few, people infinitely sigh. (Author: 11)