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In the past ten years, the praise rate of the Spring Festival Gala has taken a sharp turn, and some people say that it is because the Spring Festival Gala lost Zhao Benshan.
The era of the "king of sketches" has come to an end for a long time, and people have gradually forgotten the brilliance he has created, and gradually have the question of "Is Zhao Benshan really so important, can it affect the effect of a Spring Festival Gala".
The road to fame of the king of sketches
In the 50s of the last century, Zhao Benshan was born at the "end of the universe" - Tieling. He lost his mother at a young age, and his father also abandoned him, so Zhao Benshan could only rely on the blind second uncle who helped others play erhu and boast.
Zhao Benshan grew up and barely made ends meet with the ability to play, play and sing with his second uncle, but with the rise of the two in the northeast region, their life became more difficult. So the uncle and nephew began to ponder changing careers, often going to the troupe to watch the two turn, and stealing teachers to learn art by the way. Finally, with this talent, he entered the propaganda team in the township.
In 1982, Li Zhongtang's "Falling Three Strings" was adapted into a sketch, but the male protagonist could not find a suitable candidate, Li Zhongtang thought about it for a long time and remembered Zhao Benshan of the township propaganda team.
Zhao Benshan did not disappoint him, the performance once it was released attracted the love of the local audience, Zhao Ben with his deep understanding of the blind, the interpretation of this role is truly conveyed, and was also named "the world's first blind".
Zhao Benshan became a hit, and then was transferred to the Tieling Literary and Art Propaganda Team, and cooperated with Pan Changjiang in a play "Daguan Lantern", successfully interpreting "the world's first lame".
The show was even more popular with the audience, with more than 500 performances in the northeast region.
Since then, Zhao Benshan has become synonymous with "comedy" in the minds of the people of Northeast China.
In 1987, comedy master Jiang Kun went to the northeast to perform, but the response was mediocre. Jiang Kun was very puzzled, and when he inquired, he knew that it turned out that the Northeast audience watched comedy and only recognized Zhao Benshan.
So Jiang Kun went to see the special performance prepared by Zhao Benshan and Pan Changjiang for the radio rap group at that time, and the audience of more than 20 people all laughed crookedly. Jiang Kun also spoke highly of Zhao Benshan's performance: "You are amazing, if you don't go on CCTV, then I will write Jiang backwards." ”
Subsequently, the era of Zhao Benshan's sketches began.
From "Blind Date" to "Red Sorghum Model Team", from "Selling Abduction" to "Tell the Truth" to "Not Bad Money", Zhao Benshan has left countless classics on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala. Participated in the Spring Festival Gala 21 times in a row, and won the first prize of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala fifteen times, directly achieving Zhao Benshan's status as the "king of sketches".
However, since "You at the Same Table" in 2011, Zhao Benshan has not appeared on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and even Zhao Benshan's apprentices have disappeared from the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
Since then, the stage of sketches has been invaded by film and television actors and traffic stars, and professional sketch actors seem to have become their "thighs", but "one king" can not bring "several pits", not to mention that after Zhao Benshan, no one can take over the title of "king of sketches".
In recent years, the rhythm of the script has been poor, and the sketches that only care about sensationalism and have no stage effect have repeatedly appeared on the Spring Festival Gala, making netizens shout: "Embarrassed".
Shen Teng is the second Zhao Benshan?
Shen Teng became the most typical representative of the comedy industry after Zhao Benshan.
In 2012, Shen Teng and Ma Li performed the sketch "Today's Happiness" at the Spring Festival Gala, and Hao Jian's appearance was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, making Shen Teng the actor who aroused heated discussions among the audience at the Spring Festival Gala that year.
The launch of sketches such as "Today's Happiness 2" in 2013 and "Helpless" in 2014 made Shen Teng's reputation even more famous, and some even said that he was "the second Zhao Benshan".
But personally, I don't think it's true.
Zhao Benshan's sketches are closer to life, the language is simple, and the laughter generated by relying on the change of body movements in the performance is rich and more detailed, just looking at Zhao Benshan's "Liu Laogen", "Ma Dashuai" and other dramas can see his understanding and closeness to the life of working people.
Shen Teng's sketches are more inclined to the modern academic performance system, mainly relying on language to lead to reverse shaking baggage, the content is imaginative, the creativity is very good, but the audience resonance is insufficient, it is difficult to produce an evocative feeling.
Take the 2014 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, which was known as Shen Teng and Ma Li's best CCTV Spring Festival Gala sketch "Fu Fu Fu", which revealed Zhao Benshan's style throughout the process.
A search on the Internet turned out to be really modified by Zhao Benshan.
After seeing the script, Zhao Benshan first changed the baggage of the second half of the reversal from Spider-Man to Shen Teng touching the porcelain old lady, which can be described as the finishing touch, both grounded and creative.
This change not only reflects the difference in the creative styles of the two, but also shows that Zhao Benshan is very experienced in creation, and the design baggage always has a stroke of God.
In addition, a lot of physical laughs are also designed in the script, such as Ma Li and Shen Teng suddenly falling down and "walking according to the table" and other plot design actions. It is unexpected and adds to the plot tension.
It can be seen that Shen Teng and Zhao Benshan have a grade gap in performance design, so it is difficult for Shen Teng to become the second Zhao Benshan.
Nowadays, the Spring Festival Gala has been reduced to the background sound of the festival, and the sketches only care about sublimating the theme, always producing some serious works, but not interesting works.
Every time I see those "not funny" sketches, I can't help but wonder: if the Spring Festival Gala at that time adopted Zhao Benshan's idea of "don't try to educate others, happiness is the most important theme", can the ceiling of Chinese sketches now be raised to a higher level.