There has always been a rumor in the jianghu: after passing through the mountain customs, there is something to find benshan.
Zhao Benshan single-handedly created his own business kingdom - Liu Laogen Grand Stage and Benshan Media. At the most popular time, buy a luxury private jet worth about 200 million yuan, shoot film and television dramas, land on the Spring Festival Gala, and make a lot of money.
Of course, these are also inseparable from the "merits" of his many apprentices, and the crowd collects firewood and the flame is high.
According to incomplete statistics, as of 2020, Zhao Benshan has received as many as 66 apprentices.
Among these apprentices, some have become star celebrities in the circle, and the limelight even "covers" master Zhao Benshan for a while.
However, there are also some apprentices who are like a flash in the pan and gradually disappear into the audience's field of vision, adding a lot of "blockage" to Zhao Benshan.
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When it comes to Zhao Benshan's apprentice, we have to mention Xiao Shenyang.
He was once the most popular of Zhao Benshan's apprentices.
Xiao Shenyang, whose real name is Shen He, was born in 1981, and like most children born in poor families, his life as a child was very hard. No new clothes, no toys, and even a few meals of meat all year round, only in the Spring Festival, there is a chance to relieve hunger.
At the age of 13, he entered a martial arts school to learn martial arts, and because he could not afford to pay the tuition, he soon dropped out of school and sang two people everywhere with his mother.
At that time, Xiao Shenyang's mother was a well-known two-person actor in ten miles and eight townships, and when the farm work was not busy, she took Xiao Shenyang to walk the streets and sing the two-person turn.
With the teaching of his mother, coupled with Xiao Shenyang's own high understanding of the two people's transfer, he soon got the guidance of the "high person".
"This child has a good understanding, why don't you send it to the Tieling Folk Art Troupe, Pan Changjiang, Zhao Benshan, they all came out of there." After singing, you can still stay in the group, and you can also have a stable job. ”
Being able to cope with food and clothing, and a stable job, the mother can't ask for it.
Therefore, Xiao Shenyang was sent to the art troupe.
But when you get to the art troupe, it doesn't mean that you have ascended to the sky one step at a time. What awaits Xiao Shenyang is still the tempering of the dark.
For the first time on stage, what was received was not applause and flowers, but merciless ridicule. Sometimes there are even people who throw wine bottles at the stage and shout for him to step down.
Xiao Shenyang endured.
A month to go down the cave, because of the unpopularity, can not exchange for how much money, 4 months, only to save 200 yuan, not to mention dreams, even the basic food and clothing problems are difficult to solve.
Fortunately, during that period, Xiao Shenyang was guided by Yan Xuejing, and his performance skills became more and more skilled.
At the age of 19, he also met and fell in love with his wife Shen Chunyang, and they went through the most difficult period.
It was also under the advice of his wife Shen Chunyang that Xiao Shenyang began the road of "anti-string", putting on lipstick and wearing skirts, this kind of performance method of "practicing yourself and pleasing others" gradually made Xiao Shenyang have a certain reputation.
There are more performances and more income, but Xiao Shenyang is always unhappy.
Blindly pandering to others and abusing himself made him physically and mentally exhausted, but he still had to "win eyeballs" again and again.
Once on stage to perform, was asked by the audience to drink beer, when drinking the seventh bottle, really can't drink, so I thought of a "magic plan", shouted to the stage: who wants to let you drink again, every time you drink a bottle, you will pay a hundred yuan Ha.
Originally thought that the audience would not pay money, they would not have to drink, but someone really pulled out a wad of money.
The money is definitely not dare to take, at this time xiao Shenyang is difficult to ride the tiger.
After drinking hard and running to the backstage, Xiao Shenyang threw up.
Fast forward to 2006, when an unexpected phone call changed Xiao Shenyang's life.
On the other end of the phone, Zhao Benshan said: "After watching your performance, you are quite talented, welcome to Shenyang for development." “
In this way, Xiao Shenyang became the fourth batch of apprentices of Zhao Benshan, and was recruited into Zhao Benshan's command together with Liu Xiaoguang.
On the day of successfully visiting Zhao Benshan, Xiao Shenyang was overjoyed and called his old father at home.
"Dad, Teacher Zhao Benshan took me as an apprentice!"
As a result, on the other end of the phone, the old father threw a basin of cold water on him with a split head and covered his face: Net nonsense, you are a rural baby, how can people want you?
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Song Xiaobao entered Zhao Benshan's door a year later than Xiao Shenyang.
Looking at Song Xiaobao's experience in the first half of his life, it is somewhat similar to Xiao Shenyang.
The same born in a rural family, the same poverty, the same junior high school dropout, the same first performance of the duo turn was thrown into the bottle, taste the world's sour, sweet and bitter.
After dropping out of school, due to the lack of culture and the fact that he was not tall, he was black and thin, and he could not find a decent job.
I can only go to work as a dishwasher and earn 320 yuan a month. However, at the end of the month, the boss was only willing to pay 200 yuan, and Song Xiaobao could only swallow his anger and accept it.
Song Xiaobao's embarkation on the road of the two people turning is also a coincidence.
Once the two of them went to Song Xiaobao's hometown to hold a performance, and Song Xiaobao, who liked to join in the fun, mixed in with them, and couldn't help but twist up.
Perhaps twisted too much, this scene was just looked at by the two-person actor Jiao Xiaolong, who felt that he was a malleable talent, so he took Song Xiaobao as an apprentice and began to learn the two-person rotation.
Compared with Xiao Shenyang, who learned to transfer two people at a young age, Song Xiaobao's starting point was more than ten years later.
The starting point is not as high as Xiao Shenyang, one step late, step late, so it is also doomed to the time when Song Xiaobao became famous, later than Xiao Shenyang.
In 2007, when Song Xiaobao visited Zhao Benshan, Xiao Shenyang had become the object of Zhao Benshan's praise.
Zhao Benshan took Xiao Shenyang to the Spring Festival Gala of Tianjin Television Station and went on the "Avenue of Stars" and achieved good results. After that, he appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala and starred in the TV series "Endless Love", which began to emerge.
And Song Xiaobao also played an insignificant small role in "Mr. Kanto" filmed by Zhao Benshan's production team, with no sense of existence.
In 2009, when Song Xiaobao boarded heilongjiang satellite TV's "Benshan Happy Camp" and its exposure began to increase, Xiao Shenyang had already ushered in a "highlight moment" in his life.
This year, Zhao Benshan took him to the stage of the Spring Festival Gala again, and due to physical discomfort, he handed over all the "important plays" to Xiao Shenyang in the sketch "Not Bad Money".
Wearing small flowers on his head and wearing a "Scottish style" of small Shenyang baggage, the audience laughed and remembered his "golden sentence" that was popular for several years.
"People's life can be short, sometimes it is the same as sleeping, the eyes are closed and the day has passed, Ha ~ eyes are closed, this life will pass, Ha ~ "
The day after the Spring Festival Gala, Xiao Shenyang rushed back to Shenyang to perform, and when he heard the fans frantically calling his name, Xiao Shenyang realized that he was really on fire.
Xiao Shenyang really changed from "not bad money" to "not bad money".
After becoming famous, followed by commercial performances, at the beginning, Xiao Shenyang's appearance fee was only a few hundred yuan, but after the Spring Festival Gala, in just a few months, the value has soared to 6 figures.
The daily work schedule is fully arranged, touring, concerts... It's as busy as a gyroscope.
The sudden explosion of popularity attracted the hidden worries of Master Zhao Benshan.
More than once reminded Xiao Shenyang: "Must land, must land, the mentality must be correct, do not panic."
In order to make Xiao Shenyang not lose himself because of the explosion, Zhao Benshan also pressed the "pause button".
However, once a person is surrounded by fame and fortune, who says stop and stop? The outside world wants to see Xiao Shenyang, and the capital of the film and television drama circle is also unwilling to put down this piece of traffic "fragrant food", and has thrown an "olive branch" to Xiao Shenyang.
The first person to invite Xiao Shenyang was Zhang Yimou, who filmed "The Surprise of the Three Guns Shooting Case".
The actors almost all use the "Zhao Family Class" duo to actors. It is conceivable that Zhang Yimou and his partner zhang Weiping at the time made a mistake in their calculations, and their reputation was a mess.
In the same year, the film "Laughing Jianghu", invested by Benshan Media and directed by Director Zhu Yanping, was released, with Xiao Shenyang as the male lead, and the female number one was Lin Xilei, and the same reputation was a mess.
After that, all the movies in which Xiao Shenyang participated were almost labeled as "bad films": "Strange Hero Ouyang De", "Journey to the West of Sun Wukong Three Dozen White Bone Essences", and in 2018, the self-directed and self-acting "Raptor Across the River" did not escape the bad luck.
Xiao Shenyang, who never returned on the road of bad films, later concluded: still failed to precipitate himself well, fame came too quickly, and lost himself.
In contrast, Song Xiaobao during this period quietly rose and gradually replaced the position of Xiao Shenyang.
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In 2011, Zhao Benshan took Song Xiaobao to the Liaoning Spring Festival Gala and performed the skit "Blind Date".
A improvised line , "Haiyan, you can grow a snack" became popular on the Internet after the show's live broadcast.
In the same year, he starred in the tragic drama "Cherry" as Ge Wang, and also won the Best Actor Award at the 8th Huading Awards. The partner is Shen Chunyang, Xiao Shenyang's wife.
In 2013, Zhao Benshan took Song Xiaobao to the Spring Festival Gala of Jiangsu Satellite TV and starred in the sketch "There Is Money", at the same time, his partner Wang Xiaoli boarded the Spring Festival Gala of Liaoning Satellite TV and starred in the sketch "The First Snow". This year, Song Xiaobao's "Men Forty To Get Married" also ushered in the "harvest season".
With the Saturday Fu who starred in the play, when participating in the 10th Huading Awards, he won the most popular actor award in the Chinese media.
By 2015, Song Xiaobao and Xiao Shenyang appeared on the stage of "Happy Comedians" together, and it can be seen that Zhao Benshan also wants to break the rumors of discord between the masters in the past few years. However, Xiao Shenyang withdrew from the stage because of "conflicting schedules" and recorded a few episodes.
Song Xiaobao has almost become the "top pillar" of the Zhao family class. Just like Yue Yunpeng in the Deyun Society. If there is really a "brother" to say, Song Xiaobao at this time seems to have replaced Xiao Shenyang.
By 2021, when Xiao Shenyang stepped on the stage of "I Am an Actor", he had already confessed: I have given up on the sketch.
Without new "baggage", it is impossible to surpass the glory of the "Not Bad Money" period, and it is difficult to bring freshness to the audience.
More than that, it is difficult to face their current situation.
This year, Song Xiaobao also began to transform into a director, and when Jia Ling launched "Hello, Li Huanying" to win applause and flowers, as well as box office miracles, Song Xiaobao also brought his debut work "Fortune Diary" to the online platform.
Enough sincere story, touching countless audiences, the box office is not bad, although not counted, but from the data of the broadcast, the box office should exceed 400 million, a small cost of the film, the box office has been very good.
At this point, the gap between Song Xiaobao and Xiao Shenyang was clear at a glance.
But in life, "thirty years of Hedong, thirty years of Hexi", who can clearly distinguish between winning and losing? Only by firmly grasping life in your hands is the final winner.
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