In 2008, Zhao Benshan promoted his new drama "Mr. Kanto", and a remark at the press conference set off a wave of discussion among netizens.
Speaking of his old partner Fan Wei, Zhao Benshan's tone was full of dissatisfaction.
"How old are people's wrists now, and being able to perform is equivalent to borrowing people's light!"
At this time, it has been three years since Zhao Benshan and Fan Wei, the "sketch double male" pair, dismantled the gang.
There are many rumors about the reasons for their demolition, and to sum up, there are mainly 3 kinds.
The first: uneven sharing of interests. As an absolute male protagonist, Zhao Benshan takes a big head every time he performs, and Fan Wei, as a "green leaf", takes less than one-twentieth of Zhao Benshan's remuneration.
The second: In order to give children a better educational environment, Fan Wei had to settle down in Beijing before leaving Zhao Benshan and decided to fly alone.
The third kind: for the sake of fame, Fan Wei is not willing to live under people for a long time and be the second oldest for ten thousand years.
Either way, it all points to the same result: the old pair, who were once brothers and sisters, have completely parted ways.
Looking closely at Zhao Benshan and Fan Wei's "entanglement of grievances" over the years, the truth may not be as simple as most people think.
One
In 1993, a phone call from Zhao Benshan surprised Fan Wei.
At that time, Zhao Benshan was looking for an actor for his sketch "Walking the Road", and just lacked a supporting role, so he remembered his hometown Fan Wei, which called Fan Wei.
At this time, Zhao Benshan and Fan Wei's position in the sketch world was definitely one in the sky and one in the underground.
Zhao Benshan is "heavenly" and Fan Wei is "on earth".
Zhao Benshan became famous much earlier than Fan Wei, and became famous in the northeast early with "Three Strings". By 1987, after being promoted by Jiang Kun and recommended to the Spring Festival Gala, he was even more successful, and after starring in the sketch "Blind Date", he had become a well-known sketch actor.
On the other hand, Fan Wei, who has been talking about crosstalk for several years, has gradually become famous with "The Diary of a Factory Director", but compared with Zhao Benshan, he is still a small witch and a big witch, and the gap is far away.
When he received Zhao Benshan's call, he was naturally overjoyed, just like Li Yunlong in "Bright Sword" who hand-picked the monk as his bodyguard.
"Since the regimental commander takes me as a brother, his life is that of the regimental commander."
After cooperating in "Walking the Road", in 1995, Zhao Benshan and Fan Wei made their debut at the Spring Festival Gala, bringing the audience the skit "Uncle Niu Tigan", which was Fan Wei's dream and Fan Wei's mother's dream, at that time, Fan Wei's mother was already in the middle of lung cancer, and her biggest wish was to be able to watch her son board the Spring Festival Gala.
Therefore, this time on the Spring Festival Gala, for Fan Wei, it is of great significance. Not only to complete their own ideals, but also to fulfill their mother's "last wishes".
Seeing her son on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, the mother was relieved, and soon after, she left this world with a smile. However, Fan Wei did not become popular because of this, and the audience's eyes were still firmly locked on Zhao Benshan's body.
Fan Wei's fame is like Daolang's song: the snow in 2002 is later than in previous years.
In the following years, Fan Wei and Zhao Benshan partnered in the sketch "Three Whips", "Classmates Association", and TV series "Late At Night", and the audience still feels strange to Fan Wei, only remembering that he is Zhao Benshan's partner. And Fan Wei, originally had a wooden personality, was not good at words, failed to become popular, and only blamed himself for not learning well, bent on improving his performance style and acting skills.
His fame will be postponed until after the millennium.
Two
In 2001, Zhao Benshan and Fan Wei once again joined hands to appear on the Spring Festival Gala, bringing the audience the sketch "Selling Abductions", partnered with Gao Xiumin, in the sketch, Zhao Benshan and Gao Xiumin played a couple, and Fan Wei, who shaved his flat head, played a chef, and Zhao Benshan, who was sold and abducted, was stunned.
That year, many "golden sentences" were born in the Sketch of the Spring Festival Gala, including Fan Wei's lines.
"Big brother, fate!"
"How can the gap between people and people be so large? The same two mouths under one roof! ”
"As far as my condition is concerned, I basically say goodbye to the bicycle!"
This year, Fan Wei finally really had his own name, no longer a passerby around Zhao Benshan. After that, Zhao Benshan and Fan Wei launched the follow-up "Selling Cars" and "Kung Fu" together, and Fan Wei was completely red and became a hot sketch actor in the circle.
After becoming popular, Fan Wei continued to have resources, not only starring in the medicine box in "Liu Laogen" invested by Zhao Benshan, but also being invited to star in "July of the Car Watcher" and "Aromatic Journey", the former, which made Fan Wei get the Golden Rooster Award, and the latter, let Fan Wei win back the Cairo Film Festival Special Award.
When he went abroad to receive the award, Fan Wei asked Zhao Benshan for leave, and Zhao Benshan approved it. Some media quipped Zhao Benshan: Aren't you worried that Fan Wei will not listen to the command when he returns from receiving the award?
Zhao Benshan smiled and said, Fan Wei will not, I believe in him as a person! Even if he wins the Oscar, Fan Wei is still the same Fan Wei, and he will never play a big card.
However, with the arrival of the Spring Festival Gala in 2005, the result still surprised Zhao Benshan.
This year, Zhao Benshan and Fan Wei decided to draw a satisfactory end to the "Flickering" series and launched the final version of the "Flickering" series "Kung Fu", but what they did not expect was that after taking the stage, Fan Wei said the wrong line and spent a lot of effort to come back.
There were mistakes on the Spring Festival Gala stage, Fan Wei was not the first, nor would he be the last. The Spring Festival Gala is an opportunity, but it also means great pressure, rehearsing day and night, and there is no room for error. Many of the final works presented to the audience are the work of the actors. After a Spring Festival Gala, I don't know how much hair to lose the actors.
Under the huge pressure, not every actor can withstand it, and many actors almost collapse in the end, Zhao Benshan, Song Dandan, and later Shen Teng, Ma Li, etc. all have a deep understanding.
Fan Wei's mood, Zhao Benshan probably a few years later, after starring in "Torchbearer", can also be understood.
After this mistake, Fan Wei had the idea of quitting the Spring Festival Gala.
But in the eyes of the outside world, Fan Wei's withdrawal is another interpretation. Without Fan Wei, Zhao Benshan lost his partner and lost his left arm and right arm, which means that the pair really have to go their separate ways.
Rumors keep coming. Fan Wei, who settled in Beijing for his son's education, has a different interpretation. Although he had already gone to Beijing, he still thanked Zhao Benshan.
Thank god, thank you, thank you.
And "people" refers to two people, one is Fan Wei's wife, and the other is Zhao Benshan. Clarified the rumors of disagreement with Zhao Benshan.
Despite this, with Fan Wei's withdrawal, Zhao Benshan was still somewhat uncomfortable, so there was the scene of Zhao Benshan in 2008 when he faced the media.
In 2009, Zhao Benshan originally partnered with Song Dandan to go to the Spring Festival Gala, temporarily Song Dandan appeared in a situation, Zhao Benshan was helpless, wanted to find Fan Wei to save the emergency, did not expect to be rejected by Fan Wei, who was busy filming, and was even more unhappy in his heart.
Under the lens of the media, Zhao Benshan's bitter water did not stop, and Fan Wei on the other side buried his head in filming, lazily ignoring the rumors and doubts of the outside world.
Three
Many years later, at the invitation of director Wong Kar-wai, Zhao Benshan made a cameo appearance in the movie "A Generation of Grandmasters", in which Ding Lianshan, the "old ghost" played by Zhao Benshan, has a very classic line:
"What river to cross, what shoes to take off, how big ass to wear, how big pants to wear."
This line, used on Fan Wei's body, is also suitable.
After leaving Zhao Benshan, Fan Wei positioned himself very accurately, most of the actors were small characters in the movie, but with the superb acting skills accumulated over the years, each character was vivid and vivid, and he scored three points.
You can say that some films are very bad, but you will definitely not say that Fan Wei's acting skills are very bad.
Whether it is the funny robber in "No Thief in the World",
Or Mr. Fan, an investor in "Do Not Disturb", or a small person in "Private Order" who wants to challenge his "soft underbelly".
If Fan Wei is likened to a pen, then this pen can really "make a wonderful pen and make flowers".
Fan Wei, who constantly "challenged" himself, finally also relied on his superb acting skills to win many awards such as the Golden Horse Award film emperor and the Golden Rooster Award.
At that time, looking at Fan Wei again, the audience was surprised to find that Fan Wei's acting skills were so malleable. The role is no size, the key is how the actor interprets.
After leaving Fan Wei, Zhao Benshan also began to transform, accepting a group of apprentices and grandchildren, such as Xiao Shenyang, Song Xiaobao, Liu Xiaoguang, etc., to set up a media company on his own, forming his own business empire, and making a lot of money.
However, over the years, the apprentices have not made Old Zhao worry much, and they have also made Old Zhao worry about things continuously. Zhao Benshan and Fan Wei, who have been rumored to be discordant for many years, more viewers are concerned about: Can they still be reconciled?
The answer is: Yes!
After 15 years of dismantling the gang, in 2020, Zhao Benshan and Fan Wei finally shared the same stage again, starring in "Liu Laogen 3" and "Liu Laogen 4", a sentence of "Brother, the medicine box woke up" made countless viewers cry.
This also means the "ice-breaking" of the golden partnership relationship that once set up a stage for each other.
Perhaps, after experiencing too many vicissitudes of the world and betraying his apprentice, Old Zhao gradually understood a lot. Just like Ding Lianshan, who he starred in, the year of Hua Jia, he finally understood: there are only four things that are most difficult to see through in life, life and death, right and wrong, success or failure, and honor and disgrace.
Her former partner, Gao Xiumin, has long gone, and her voice is like a memory. Yes and no, who really says it clearly? Is Fan Wei wrong, or is he wrong, and now, does it still matter?
As for success or failure, old Zhao has personally tasted it for many years. The glorious time of the court is like a city, and the people who are questioned and slandered go cold, cold and warm, but it is only a moment.
Disciples and grandchildren who once regarded them as children will one day turn against each other, and the relationship is not as unbreakable as imagined. Old Zhao, who talked in front of Guo Degang and proudly said that "no apprentice has yet left", will also face the disintegration of the apprentices many years later, and for the sake of profit, people will sigh and sigh.
It is precisely because of this, perhaps, after many years, Zhao Benshan and Fan Wei will choose to meet each other and smile and have a vendetta.
There is a saying in my hometown: the loess soil is half buried, why are you still entangled in the little things of that year?
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