Wang Yang, a former cross-talk celebrity who retired from the stage for more than ten years, reappeared in the jianghu, and almost at the same time as him, there was also the TV series "Ma Sanli", starring Wang Yang, which had been sealed for 24 years, and also reappeared on the online platform.
When I saw this 18-episode TV series that condensed Ma Sanli's 60-year acting career, I could hardly believe my eyes, because the show had been shelved since it was broadcast in 1997, and there were various rumors that it would definitely not be broadcast again, almost equivalent to "sealing".
In the past twenty-four years, the drama "Ma Sanli" has been repeatedly mentioned by countless industry insiders and audiences, because the drama can be regarded as the highest quality TV series in the cross-talk genre.
First, the beginning and end of the shooting
"Ma Sanli" was first filmed by Tianjin Television in 1993, and was originally called "Ma Sanli Biography", which was determined to be directed by Zhang Guoli, who was good at imitating Ma Sanli's Wang Yang as the protagonist.
However, due to the lack of funds, the project soon became yellow, and Wang Yang, who was unwilling to go around pulling sponsorship everywhere to try to restart, was "swaggering and cheating" by some artificial rumors under the banner of Ma Sanli, and was so angry that Ma Sanli issued a statement and drew a line with Wang Yang.
In the end, Wang Yang had to spend his own money of 80,000 yuan to buy authorization from the Ma family and then cast his own "Ma Sanli", and the drama was finally filmed. When it was time to broadcast, someone in the middle made it bad, causing the drama to only be broadcast once on Tianjin Television and never to be seen again.
As a result, "Ma Sanli" has also been remembered by cross-talk enthusiasts for more than twenty years.
2. Synopsis of the episode
Although "Ma Sanli" is based on Ma Sanli's 60-year acting career, after artistic processing, there are still many differences between the TV series and Ma Sanli's personal experience.
In order to condense the plot and reduce the actors, Ma Sanli's brothers only left Ma Guiyuan alone, Ma Sanli's son only had One Ma Wanbao (Ma Zhiming), only one daughter, and only two apprentices.
Ma Sanli's partners have had more than a dozen, in the TV series only the original zhao Peiru alone, the rest of the partners Jiang Baolin, Zhang Qingsen, Hou Yichen and other people combined to become the master and disciple Jiang Mingyuan in the play.
At the same time, in order to increase the drama, "Ma Sanli" also added an emotional entanglement to him, and the rich lady (Played by Liu Jia) and Ma Sanli failed to become dependents due to the view of the portal, and finally became a lifelong confidant. How to say this adaptation, the characteristics of the film and television drama of that year, anyway, the author has not heard that Ma Sanli had such a romantic relationship when he was young.
Of course, although a lot of adaptations have been made, the description of Ma Sanli's own experience in "Ma Sanli" basically follows history.
When he was a teenager, he was so tormented by his inability to buy a school uniform that he had to drop out of school and go to the sea in order to support his family.
In his youth, he swept the ground, ran the docks, entered the tea garden and even went to the Kuguo kiln to say cross-talk, trying to survive and being bullied at the same time.
In middle age, he was deeply involved in the rape troupe and was oppressed, and although he had become famous, he had no dignity.
After liberation, he rushed to the Korean front to risk his life to comfort the volunteer soldiers. A section of "Buy Monkeys" is famous throughout the country, and because of this cross-talk, it has been unlucky for twenty years.
In his later years, he returned to the stage to continue to shine and become a titan in the cross-talk industry.
On the whole, the TV series "Ma Sanli" has no problem in the main plot, without avoidance or exaggeration.
3. Main actors
"Ma Sanli" is a big male protagonist TV series, and the protagonist is naturally Wang Yang, who plays Ma Sanli, which is also his masterpiece.
Realistically speaking, Wang Yang's performance in "Ma Sanli" is still quite amazing, first of all, he began to act from Ma Sanli when he was a teenager and has been acting until he was seventy years old, such a large span is very challenging for Wang Yang, who is not a film and television major and only in his twenties, and he has done quite well.
Secondly, Wang Yang gave full play to his characteristics of imitating Ma Sanli in the play, especially on the cross-talk stage, almost even small actions are wonderful with Ma Sanli, and the sound is also very realistic, plus Wang Yang himself is a cross-talk actor, many cross-talk strips are completely stress-free, naturally more suitable than ordinary film and television actors.
The male number two of "Ma Sanli" surprised many viewers, but it was actually Li Delong, played by the famous actor Gao Ming, who had a separate line parallel to Ma Sanli in the play.
The character of Li Delong should be a merger of two historical figures of xiangsheng, one is Yu Delong, one of the eight virtues of xiangsheng and also the head of the Dezi generation, and the other should be Zhang Shouchen, the head of the Shouzi generation.
In the play, Lidelong basically has no cross-talk performance section, which perfectly avoids the shortcomings of Gao Ming who is not a cross-talk actor, and Gao Ming uses his superb acting skills to interpret Lidelong's lecture spirit and responsible door chief style very wonderfully, especially his single-bucket mixed medicine king Li A section, which makes people moved.
The master of "Ma Sanli", Zhou Toad Zhou Deshan, has more scenes in the play than Ma Delu, played by Zhao Shoukai, a famous actor of Bayi Factory, who is not a cross-talk actor, but he should be able to speak cross-talk, so he has two cross-talk performances in the play, which are for Ma Guiyuan and Ma Sanli.
"Ma Sanli" makes some adaptations of Zhou Deshan's experience, in which he died of hunger and malnutrition on the eve of Japan's surrender, but in reality Zhou Deshan lived until after liberation, and was supported by Ma Sanli in his later years, and also brought Ma Zhiming to enlighten.
Speaking of Ma Zhiming, what may disappoint many viewers is that there is no such character in "Ma Sanli", replaced by Ma Wanbao, who should be a combination of Ma Zhiming, Ma Zhiliang and Ma Zhen, just a small supporting role, and there is not much individual role.
Ma Zhiming's mother, Zhen Huimin, is an important figure in the play, after all, this simple daughter-in-law from Zaozhuang, Shandong Province, has accompanied Ma Sanli for half a century, and her virtuousness and ability are important factors for the old Ma family to survive the old society.
I have to say that the crew selection is still very level, when Ma Sanli opened Zhen Huimin's hijab in the play, the author found that this actor named Gao Qian is very similar to Shandong Zaozhuang people in terms of image and accent, even in temperament, and is well chosen.
Sha Yuhua, an old actor who played Grandma Liu in "Dream of the Red Chamber", starred in the play as Ma Sanli's ganniang, a dry sister of Ma Sanli's mother Encuiqing, and also a big drum actor, who took care of the old Ma family for more than fifty years from the first episode to the seventeenth episode.
There is a big villain Lang XIV in "Ma Sanli", who not only lends usury, but also controls and squeezes artists through underworld means, the prototype of this character should be the famous drama overlord XII before the liberation of Tianjin, who is played by the famous Tianjin actor Jin Shugui, who has played the big villain in many TV series such as "Blood Splash Jinmen", and also played a version of Pang Tong (Luo Fengpo) in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
Finally, let's talk about the five well-known cross-talk actors who appear in the play.
Playing Ma Sanli's eldest brother Ma Guiyuan is Anning, his appearance is thin and handsome acting skills are also quite good, in the play Ma Guiyuan played very much with that dashing energy, the play retained his strict training of Ma Sanli shot, beat Ma Sanli to vomit blood.
The TV series does not avoid Ma Guiyuan's black history of family irresponsibility and drug use, and the biggest adaptation is that he and Madulu switched the time of death, allowing him to die in front of Ma Delu.
Playing Ma Sanli's partner Jiang Mingyuan is the famous Li Jianhua, who himself is quite good, plus the contrast between his and Ma Sanli's image is obvious, so the combination of Wang Yang and Li Jianhua is still quite good.
Of course, as mentioned above, the number of people who have integrated this role is too large, which may not be too addictive for audiences who understand the history of crosstalk.
Playing Ma Sanli's other partner Zhao Peiru is Yu Qian, who is now very popular, and Brother Qian was a frequent guest in various TV dramas at that time, not only that, first of all, Yu Qian's praise level can not catch up with Zhao Peiru, but at least it can be worthy of Wang Yang. Secondly, Yu Qian and Zhao Peiru do have a lot of similarities in appearance.
Although the role is not much, Brother Qian's acting skills, especially the performance when he is praised, are still very good, and the current style is not much different.
There is Zhao Peiru there is a small mushroom Chang Baokun, in the play Chang Baokun's role is less than Zhao Peiru, after all, he sacrificed early. Playing the little mushroom is Li Boxiang's apprentice Wang Ping.
As for why he did not find Chang Guitian to play his father, it is estimated that it is because of his age, after all, guitian is more than fifty years old when filming the play, and the young Wang Ping is just able to perform the dashing and heroic performance of the little mushroom that year, as for the cross-talk skill Wang Ping is not to say, his style and style on the stage are indeed a bit like small mushrooms.
Cross-talk actor Li Jiacun played another obvious villain in the play, a forked master, although he did a lot of bad things for Ma Sanli, but Li Jiacun's own joy made this villain's role add a lot of fun.
By the way, there is actually Wang Tong in the play, that is, the apprentice of Feng Gong who partnered with Jia Ling to win Guo Degang Yuqian, and he played Ma Sanli's "traitor" apprentice Gao Lianqi in the play, but at that time, he was still called Wang Tong, who had just graduated from the Henan Academy of Arts.
Fourth, the shortcomings are difficult to hide the classic
Due to the times, funds and man-made reasons, "Ma Sanli" still has many flaws, such as the dubbing of the play, especially ma Sanli's dubbing has inconsistencies, the reason is that Wang Yang once said that someone in the middle has moved his hands and feet.
Moreover, the editing of the play also seems to have problems, some of the classic cross-talk performed by Ma Sanli is often cut when there is no baggage, and the corresponding audience response is very enthusiastic, which produces an embarrassing feeling.
However, even so, "Ma Sanli" can still be regarded as the leader in the cross-talk theme TV series on the whole, and it is worth mentioning that the opening song and the ending song are also rare good products.
The opening song "Who Redeems the Youth in the Pawnshop" was sung by Li Na, who was popular at that time, and the theme should be Ma Sanli's bumpy life, excerpted as follows:
There is no road in the world
The wind and waves are high and the waves are the rivers and lakes
Say what about the belly of the grocery store
Yang Tian laughs and cries
The ending song "A and B Song" is sung by Han Lei, which should be a song for cross-talk artists, and the excerpt is as follows:
You are A and I am B, and people live in one breath
There is me in you, and I have you in me
There is no gentleman who does not perform art, and sings a play
No one is happy to scold anyone, so they have to scold themselves
After 24 years, "Ma Sanli" has finally reappeared in the jianghu, which is gratifying.
Now, the author can't help but start to expect another thing, who can make a more dramatic life of Master Hou Baolin, "Hou Baolin" or "One Household Hou", it can be done.