In 1990, Zhou Libo injured the father of his girlfriend Zhang Jie in a verbal altercation and was convicted of intentional injury and imprisoned. After his release from prison, he changed his career to business, was deceived by his friends, and carried tens of millions of debts.
His old friend Guan Dongtian reached out to him and helped him create a new comedy called "Haipai Qingkou".
Zhou Libo returned to the stage, and he said to Guan Dongtian: "The second spring of my art was given to me by you, so I gave you a reason to hurt me, a reason to hurt me in my life." ”
As a result, it was Zhou Libo who hurt Guan Dongtian first.
acquaintance
Zhou Libo was very naughty when he was a child.
Once, zhou's family asked the carpenter to work, and the carpenter took the child with him. The mother asked Zhou Libo to play with the child for a while, but Zhou Libo was reluctant. He poured the sawdust into the bowl, poured hot water on it, and tricked the child into lotus flour.
The child cried after eating and complained to Zhou Libo's mother. Zhou Libo was repaired by his mother and was unconvinced. The next day he put pepper in a bottle and tricked the kid into cooling oil. The child took a sip and choked out tears.
The neighbor's grandmother saw it and told Zhou Libo's mother that Zhou Libo was beaten again. He was determined to take revenge on Grandma. Grandma had a three-yellow chicken in her yard, and she had been reluctant to slaughter it. Zhou Libo took advantage of her absence to feed the three yellow chickens to eat rubber bands.
When Grandma came home, she saw that the three yellow chickens were dead, and thought that it had some disease. When the chicken was slaughtered to clean the internal organs, 29 rubber bands were dug out. This time, the mother beat Zhou Libo even harder, and his hands were blue.
Zhou Libo stole five bags of rice cakes from his family and called another naughty king at work: "If we walk along the North Star, we will be able to walk to Beijing." ”
Late at night, they walked from the city to the suburbs, couldn't walk, and decided to go home. Zhou Libo hid in the alley, secretly observing the movement in front of his home. Someone spotted him and quickly told his parents.
Zhou Libo thought that he would be beaten very badly this time, but he did not expect his mother to hold him and cry bitterly, and his father was silent, repeatedly checking whether he was injured. Zhou Libo ate, took a bath, and slept soundly that day.
He continued to make a fuss, and once he smeared ink and ketchup on his face, pretending to be bleeding. When his mother came home from work and saw him, she almost fainted.
At that time, the Shanghai Burlesque Troupe recruited people, and his parents sent his sister to the exam, thinking that Zhou Libo usually had a lot of ghost ideas, and also brought him with him. One of the test questions is to describe the color TV set, Zhou Libo said "black and white", the teacher asked how to distinguish black and white color TV? He said, "I'm playing black and white." “
The teacher praised him for his impatience. At that time, Zhou Libo was only 15 years old and did not meet the admission requirements, but the teacher still accepted him out of the box. Of the 2,800 candidates, only 16 were selected, and Zhou Libo was one of them.
When he arrived at the regiment, Zhou Libo still couldn't change his bad habits. At that time, students had to go through a yongdao to fetch water, there were no street lights at night, it was dark all around, and students sang to each other to be bold.
Zhou Libo was ambushed in the dark, and suddenly jumped out, frightening his classmates to squeak and scream, chasing Zhou Libo. He also lurked in the girls' dormitory, hanging the carcass of a chicken on a drying rack, causing complaints from female classmates.
Every few days, my parents were called to the training office, and they said, "Forget the teacher, if you can't do it, you can expel him." Zhou Libo wrote a review: "I am really not human. "Write it or continue to do bad things."
The teacher who had recruited him in said, "You can do whatever you want, you don't control your own power, sooner or later you will be caught." ”
< Zhou Libo >
After graduation, Zhou Libo performed with the troupe and became famous in Shanghai.
One day, during his performance, he met Guan Dongtian, a famous actor in Peking Opera. He felt that Zhou Libo's performance had a spirit, which was different from traditional burlesque. False voices are especially good, and imitating Teresa Teng singing is a must.
When Zhou Libo stepped down, Guan Dongtian gave him a thumbs up and said: "You are a very talented actor, you can turn your views into a very natural comedic element, you will be able to succeed in the future." ”
Soon after, Zhou Libo and Guan Dongtian's gang of Peking Opera circles played together. Zhou Libo was eleven years younger than Guan Dongtian, and he called Guan Dongtian the eldest brother.
< Guan Dongtian >
eldest brother
In 1990, Guan Dongtian injured his cervical spine during a performance and withdrew from the Peking Opera stage.
He and his wife went to Hong Kong to join relatives, got a voice job, and translated Cantonese TV dramas into Chinese. In order to save money, the two rented a small broken house, and it rained heavily outside and lightly rained inside.
Guan Dongtian was not smooth, and Zhou Libo was also in trouble. He and Zhang Jie are in love, and the two want to get married. The woman's parents objected, and Zhou Libo quarreled with them, blinding his girlfriend's father on impulse.
If the leader of the unit comes forward to adjust and make a release on guarantee pending further investigation, Zhou Libo may soon be released from prison. But he had bad relationships, and neither his leaders nor his colleagues were willing to speak for him.
Zhou Libo was convicted of intentional injury. On the first night of prison, he did not feel frightened and fell asleep in half an hour. More than two hundred days later, he was released from prison. Someone asked him if he regretted it? He said: "For a man, you can't not make mistakes, make a mistake and say you regret it, then you are not a man." ”
Few stages dare to invite him. Zhou Libo was forced to change his business and opened a "Tianchen Decoration Company" with friends. He didn't have the talent to run the company and never made a lot of money.
At this time, Guan Dongtian also returned to Shanghai to do some small business. The two played together again, and Zhou Libo often went to Guan Dongtian's house to chat and play cards, and when he was hungry, he would make up a meal with butter, eggs and tomatoes.
Zhou Libo ran business outside in the morning, and at noon he went to Guan Dongtian's house and pressed the button, and the sofa became a bed. Guan Dongtian watched him fall asleep and took a blanket to cover him. Zhou Libo said: "I have a lot of friends outside, but I am the most relaxed in Guan Dongtian's home. "At night, Zhou Libo likes to go to the night club to play, and Guan Dongtian feels that it is too noisy and does not go together.
Some people said that Zhou Libo and Guan Dongtian had broken backs, and Guan Dongtian said, "I don't care what others say, but he wants to come up with evidence." ”
In 1999, Manchester United held the Asian Tour. Guan Dongtian seized the opportunity to contact Shenhua Football Club and move the venue to Shanghai. That ball game grossed 7.9 million yuan, and Guan Dongtian made a lot of money from it.
Guan Dongtian came to run, but Zhou Libo planted his head. He borrowed money from the bank as a guarantee for his friend, and the friend ran away. The bank looked for Zhou Libo to collect debts, with a total of nearly 40 million yuan, but Zhou Libo only had more than 100,000 yuan in his hands.
Zhou Libo asked Guan Dongtian for help, and Guan Dongtian could not come up with so much money. After thinking about it for half a day, Guan Dongtian let Zhou Libo escape to his hometown in Wuhan to hide his debts.
He let his wife accompany Zhou Libo on the road, found Fa Xiao to the train station to meet him, rented a two-bedroom house, bought all the living utensils, and also paid attention to introducing some Wuhan friends to him. Guan Dongtian said: "I know Bobo, he is a person who is not communicative and is going to die." ”
Zhou Libo did real estate sales in Wuhan and made money with commissions. Zhou Libo felt that there was no future in this way, and wanted to do a big vote.
There is a large company that wants to give him the right to act as an agent for the real estate and negotiate the design of the room type, but the boss suddenly changes people and terminates the cooperation. There is also a project in Causeway Bay Plaza, entrusted to him to do the total sales, which requires him to advance 1 million yuan in the early stage, and he can't get it out.
At this time, the friend who ran away before had made money elsewhere and had returned to Shanghai, and Zhou Libo did not need to lose money to the bank. Guan Dongtian said: "You go back to Shanghai, with your skills, although the stage cannot make you rich and expensive, it will certainly ensure that you have no worries about food and clothing." ”
Guan Dongtian had previously met a comedy performance called "Dong Du Laugh" in Hong Kong, which was a bit like an American talk show. He sent the performance video to Zhou Libo, who felt good after watching it and decided to listen to Guan Dongtian's words and return to Shanghai.
They intend to imitate "Dong Du Laugh" and do a new type of comedy called "Haipai Qingkou". A large number of local dialects are used, focusing on the Shanghai market.
The production company was not optimistic about the project. In order to attract investment, Guan Dongtian grinds one by one. Originally, he rarely drank alcohol, but he drank three drinks in a row during socializing and came back to vomit. Guan Dongtian thought, "Since I pulled him back, I will be responsible for him." "
After finally pulling the investment, Guan Dongtian actively publicized in the industry, and many people bought tickets for Guan Dongtian's face to support. Zhou Libo said: "The first thing I did when I returned to the stage was to be accepted by this mainstream society. Guan Dongtian used his reputation to vouch for me. ”
Near the performance, Zhou Libo still lacked a partner on the stage. After trying several people, Zhou Libo let Guan Dong go to heaven. In addition to being a warm-up partner, Guan Dongtian is also the host of the lottery stage. He is also the one who designs the stage, positions the packaging and the marketing operations.
Before the first performance of "Haipai Qingkou", they verbally said that each show was about 170,000 yuan at the box office, and Guan Dongtian took 10,000 yuan. No written agreement is signed. Guan Dongtian said: "I have told Bobo N times, I don't rely on you to be famous, and I don't rely on you to make money, I just help you." ”
On the day of the performance, the teacher of the Shanghai Burlesque Troupe also came, and he said to Zhou Libo: "The prodigal son will not change his gold." ”
The first performance was successful, and then every time a new performance was made, Guan Dongtian accompanied Zhou Libo to grind the details.
They subscribed to more than twenty newspapers to find inspiration from current affairs material. Zhou Libo made up a paragraph, Guan Dongtian said "passed", Zhou Libo used it. Guan Dongtian did not say "over", Zhou Libo himself felt that no matter how funny that joke was, he would delete it immediately.
Before going on stage, Guan Dongtian would check whether Zhou Libo's headset was worn well, the shirt was not neat, and the shoelaces were not tied well. When Zhou Libo performed, Guan Dongtian took notes on the side. At halftime, tell him where there was a problem with the rhythm and where the audience reacted well.
Zhou Libo said: "In art, I am very dependent on Guan Dongtian, and I feel safe when he is present. ”
Haipai Qingkou was on fire in Shanghai, and more than 300 tickets were fried to 3,000, and at the peak of the fire, it was performed fifteen times a week. Someone asked why they didn't raise the ticket price? They said, "We're going to fight a protracted war, not a sparrow war." Every time the ticket price is raised, it will block a group of spectators out of the theater. ”
Guan Dongtian laid down several rules for Zhou Libo: not to go to TV performance programs, to maintain the mystery and vitality of Haipai's clear mouth; to be a TV guest only to do weekly programs and not to do daily programs; to control the number of performances; performances are never reserved, do not send tickets, and do not easily accept commercial advertising endorsements.
Zhou Libo agreed. He said: "Without Guan Dongtian, there would be no Zhou Libo. Everyone can still see me now, and it is also the credit of my eldest brother. In life and career, Guan Dongtian is my eldest brother, and I will always be his little brother. ”
treachery
"Haipai Qingkou" became popular, and Zhou Libo and Guo Degang had the title of "Male Zhou Beiguo". When are they asked when they are on the same stage? Zhou Libo said: "This is not appropriate, how can a garlic eater and a coffee drinker be together?" ”
Guan Dongtian believes that Zhou Libo should concentrate on live performances. Someone asked Zhou Libo to go to the cave for 10,000 yuan, but Guan Dongtian did not agree. Someone asked Zhou Libo to endorse the beer, the price was 250,000 yuan, Guan Dongtian said: "Add a zero, 2.5 million yuan will not be auctioned." ”
Someone also donated 2 million yuan to sponsor Zhou Libo to engage in dramas, and the scripts were ready. Zhou Libo wanted to go. Guan Dongtian felt that although Zhou Libo had strong stage imitation ability, the drama was not imitation. In the play, one person plays five corners, and he has no confidence in Zhou Libo. Guan Dongtian's wife said: "If you have money to earn and you don't let him earn, he will hate you." ”
Soon after, Oriental Satellite TV asked Zhou Libo to do "Mystery Case", and the film remuneration was twice as high as that of the former host Yu Entai, but it had to be recorded five days a week. Zhou Libo wanted to go, but Guan Dongtian couldn't help him.
After the program was broadcast, the ratings were not as high as Yu Entai. Zhou Libo couldn't hang on to his face and asked Guan Dongtian what to do? Guan Dongtian said: "You don't take a penny, and you quit with dignity." In this way, people also have face, and you also have face. ”
Originally, they envisioned doing 60 Haipai clearances a year, but now Zhou Libo wants to do more, increasing to 125. The venue was moved from the 700-seat Lyceum Theatre to the Maggie Theater, which has more than 1,300 seats. The box office was about 370,000 yuan when each show was full, and Guan Dongtian took 20,000 yuan.
At a party, Zhou Libo met the businesswoman Hu Jie. He empathized and divorced his wife Zhang Jie. Zhang Jie was angry, and externally said that Zhou Libo was cheating in marriage, a rich woman, and a history of drug abuse.
Zhou Libo hurried to clarify that the "drug abuse" video was fake, it was a video of himself drunk. Guan Dongtian saw that things had made a big fuss and advised Zhou Libo not to divorce too quickly, which would have a negative impact on his acting career. Zhou Libo did not listen, divorced Zhang Jie, and married Hu Jie.
< Zhou Libo and Hu Jie >
Hu Jie gave up the enterprise after marriage, became a full-time wife, wholeheartedly assisted Zhou Libo, and made performance suggestions from time to time. She was dissatisfied with Guan Dongtian and felt that he was taking too much 20,000 per game.
One night, after Zhou Libo's performance, Guan Dongtian was backstage, holding a notebook as usual to do a review. Zhou Libo took off his makeup, as if he didn't see Guan Dongtian, got up and finished getting dressed, and said to his assistant, "Let's go." ”
Guan Dongtian froze at that time, he didn't know what he had done to anger Zhou Libo. He sat backstage for a long time before he got up and drove home. Along the way, he kept thinking that his cooperation with Zhou Libo, when it was time to end, there was no feast in the world.
The news of Zhou Libo's quarrel with Guan Dongtian came out, and the voice of zhou Libo was set off on the Internet. Zhou Libo sent several Weibo responses in a row:
"There are many ways to get a friend to accept the reward decently, such as asking him to be a newspaperman, asking him to be an art director, even if it is a cross-line. I can teach big brother how to talk on stage and how to shake baggage, but that doesn't mean I'm qualified to teach big brother how to be a big brother offstage! ”
"The grace of dripping water gushes out to repay each other, which is my consistent disposition and the consensus of the industry for me as a person." Ten years ago, a bowl of bubble rice, can not always serve abalone shark fin every day, right? ”
The wife saw Guan Dongtian looking at the mobile phone with a bitter face and asked him what was wrong. Guan Dongtian said: "Bobo released a lot of news today. ”
After leaving Guan Dong, Zhou Libo moved the Haipai Qingkou Stage to the 3,700-seat Changning Gymnastics Center. Before the maximum ticket price of Maggie's performance was 380 yuan, now the maximum ticket price is 1280 yuan.
There was no figure of Guan Dongtian on the stage, and 12 hot dancing beauties warmed up the scene.
Someone asked where Guan Dongtian had gone?
Zhou Libo said, "I don't want to mention this person again. From the first day, the art form of Haipai Qingkou was completed by me alone. What did he teach me and how did he teach me? ”
afterward
After leaving Guan Dongtian, Zhou Libo made a big splash in "One Zhou Libo Show".
Unlike Haipai Qingkou, who speaks Shanghainese, Oriental Satellite TV requires him to speak Mandarin. Many of the themes that can be played on the scene are not allowed to be told by tv stations. Zhou Libo's performance is much less wonderful, and the negative evaluation is more, saying that he is talking about a large collection of network paragraphs, and there is no connotation to speak of.
Zhou Libo wanted to increase the appearance fee, and the program team simply fired him and replaced the newcomer Wang Zijian. He transferred to Zhejiang Satellite TV and did several programs such as "China Dream Show", "Dance Out of My Life" and "Brilliant Chinese", but there was not much splash and gradually faded out of the television industry.
One day Zhou Libo was stopped by the police on the U.S. highway, and a Colt Mustang 380 caliber pistol and two bags of quick cocaine were found on the car, and he and his friends were arrested on the spot.
The two were charged with illegal possession of controlled drugs, illegal possession of weapons, and illegal possession of firearms, and Zhou Libo was also charged with using a mobile phone while driving.
Zhou Libo said on the Internet: "Huang gambling and drugs, I will not be interested." This is why I put special emphasis on clearing my mouth, this is my art, but also my character, please rest assured, the facts and the law will return my innocence. Also, Mr. Trump, I'm sorry to steal your headlines these days. "
As a result, he was fined $150 for driving a mobile phone and was charged with four other counts. Some people question the truth behind it is not so simple.
In order to prove his innocence, Zhou Libo took the initiative to test for poison, and the results confirmed that Zhou Libo's hair contained methamphetamine, commonly known as methamphetamine. Some people say that the reason why Zhou Libo "self-detonated" the drug test is to wash himself.
But he did not expect that China's drug test standards are more stringent than those of the United States, which can detect whether it is involved in drugs within three months, and China's standard is six months.
Everyone said that Zhou Libo sent a head thousands of miles, which was the biggest burlesque scene in his acting career. After becoming a tainted entertainer, he seems to be further away from the stage.
Guan Dongtian, who left Zhou Libo, continued to develop his Peking Opera career.
He starred in the newly compiled Peking Opera "Golden Wisp Song", was selected as the representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage project, and is a national first-class actor.
He said: "I have always loved the stage, and I think the concept of drama is the most important. ”
End
Someone once asked Zhou Libo what is his future career plan?
Zhou Libo said: "I set a goal for myself, to leave the stage at the age of fifty, but I will definitely come back at the age of sixty and show you six-pack abs." Before the age of fifty, I brought you the wisdom of a Shanghai man, and after the age of sixty, I showed you the health and open-mindedness of Shanghai men. ”
Guan Dongtian did not approve of his interruption of his acting career: "My plan for Zhou Libo is a long stream, and by the age of 80 he can still attract people on the stage, relying on language rather than body. ”
Today, Zhou Libo has long faded from the stage and is saddled with infamy in society. Many people feel that if Guan Dongtian was still by Zhou Libo's side to guide him, he would not deviate so much from the right track.
Someone asked Guan Dongtian: "If you go back in time, will you still choose to help Zhou Libo?" Guan Dongtian thought for a moment and said, "He is a very talented and talented actor, if he can help, he will still try his best to help." ”
Others conveyed these words to Zhou Libo, who said: "Guan Dongtian is my eternal big brother... It's just that we won't work together anymore. ”
Guan yu
Guan Yu is the most moralistic in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
When he was a child, Guan Dongtian worked as an apprentice in the Wuhan Peking Opera Troupe. He likes to watch "The Ancient City Society" most of Guan Gong, the predecessor who played Guan Gong passed five levels on the stage, beheaded six generals, walked into the backstage after the curtain, took off his hair, took off his head, and that face was still Guan Gong's face.
He thought, "I'm going to play Guan Yu like this when I grow up." ”
Later, he played Li Shengtian, the owner of the pear garden class, in the TV series "The Bridge of Life and Death" adapted from Li Bihua's novel. There is a scene where Li Shengtian plays Guan Yu and teaches his son to learn "Guan Lao Ye Goes Alone to the Single Knife Society", which makes Guan Dongtian have an addiction.
In this play, Guan Dongtian let Zhou Libo make a cameo role in a comedy role - the leader of the Lili Song and Dance Troupe.
After filming "The Bridge of Life and Death", Guan Dongtian officially prepared a new Peking Opera "Guan Sheng". In order to perform Guan Gong well, Guan Dongtian underwent facial microplastic surgery. Zhou Libo accompanied Guan Dongtian to the hospital, and after the operation, he carried Guan Dongtian all the way home. Zhou Libo said: "I am an absolutely dedicated guide dog"
Later, Zhou Libo went to see the rehearsal of "Guan Sheng" and was impressed by Guan Dongtian's acting skills. He said: "In life, I saw what a real 'big brother' is from Guan Dongtian, and in Guan Yu, who he played, I understood how to become a perfect 'little brother'. Compared to Guan Yu, I was still too willful to my eldest brother. Zhou Libo proposed that he wanted to play a role in "Guan Sheng".
Who knows soon after, they officially broke up. Someone asked Guan Dongtian: "Are you and Zhou Libo like in the play, good brothers of Yi Bo Yuntian?" Guan Dongtian said, "That's just what everyone sees." He was grateful, but the people around him didn't think so, and they felt that I was going to take advantage of him."
When the play was officially performed, an audience member looked around the scene for Zhou Libo, who wanted to play a role in "Guan Sheng". The fans next to him told him: "Zhou Libo can't come, he and Big Brother Guan broke up!" ”
The director watched Guan Dongtian's performance and said: "Compared with the rehearsal, the sense of tragedy and vicissitudes in Guan Laoye's body is stronger. "
Partial references
[1], "Zhou Libo Interview", Lu Yu has an appointment
[2], "Zhou Libo Hu Jie Interview", Lu Yu has a husband and wife story
[3] "Zhou Libo and the "Benefactor" Guan Dongtian Break", Youth Daily
[4], "Interview with Zhou Libo", Xiao Cui said things
[5] "New on the Beach: The Things Of Guan Dongtian and Zhou Libo", Southern Weekend
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Author | Few forks