In the history of the Spring Festival Gala for more than thirty years, the name Zhu Shimao has to be mentioned.
He and Chen Peisi, a golden pair, shined on the Spring Festival Gala stage in the 1980s and 1990s, which is a classic.
As the pioneers of this form of sketches, Zhu Shimao and Chen Peisi presented many unforgettable classic sketches.
From "EatIng Noodles" to "Lamb Kebabs", from "Protagonists and Supporting Characters" to "Police and Thieves", each one is enjoyable and amazing.
And now, due to various reasons, Zhu Shimao has changed from a participant in the Spring Festival Gala to a bystander of the Spring Festival Gala, and he and his old partner Chen Peisi have also gathered less and left more.
What has he experienced over the years, and what has happened to him after he left his old partner Chen Peisi?
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In 1954, Zhu Shimao was born in Yantai, Shandong Province, with many brothers and sisters in his family, and lived a hard life.
At the age of 16, he responded to the call of the state to enlist in the army, and because of his handsome appearance, he was selected by the leader and assigned to the Fuzhou Military Region as a drama actor.
At that time, the rehearsal conditions were difficult, because the cultural troupe did not have the funds to buy sponge mats, everyone rehearsed the program, and could only use marijuana bags wrapped with straw to replace.
During the rehearsal of "Wise Tiger Mountain", Zhu Shimao played the mountain eagle in it.
Originally, the flip board was not his business, but he saw that others always couldn't turn over, so he volunteered to say that he also wanted to practice the flip board.
But the flip board is skill-oriented, and Zhu Shimao, who has never experienced training, has not grasped the strength and the angle of the fall.
He injured his cervical spine and wore a neckband for a long time afterwards.
Attentive viewers may find that Zhu Shimao always has a crooked neck, which is the root of the previous training injury.
Now the younger generation, mentioning Zhu Shimao, the memory may stay in the sketch works on the Spring Festival Gala stage.
But in fact, Zhu Shimao was first known to people for playing the role of Xu Lingjun in the movie "Wrangler".
That is, the deep and handsome character image made him the dream lover in the hearts of many people in that era.
It's just that the network was not developed at that time, and the admiration for a star could only be expressed by writing letters, and it was written very subtly, and it could not be as crazy as now.
The biggest yardstick is just expression: I appreciate you, I like you.
At that time, Zhu Shimao often received such letters, but he also did not eat the dividends of "die-hard fans".
He saw very clearly that what everyone liked was that he was not in life on stage.
In 1983, Zhu Shimao, who had a certain degree of popularity, was officially transferred to the Bayi Film Studio and was arranged to live in the guest house of the Bayi Film Studio.
Chen Peisi was transferred to the Bayi Factory a few years earlier than Zhu Shimao, living in a small bungalow, very close,
After the two met, they always visited each other's doors to discuss performance skills, and sometimes secretly walked the cave together to earn extra money.
At that time, the two of them summed up that a program could not only rely on language to shake the baggage, but also integrate body language and image setting.
Zhu Shimao is handsome in appearance, and can appear in the program with a rigid and somewhat dull image, and Chen Peisi appears as a small person with a very clever "skull eyebrow mouse eye".
In this way, Zhu Shimao's front and Chen Peisi's witty form a pair of contradictions, and their roles in the work are always opposites.
The contrast of the images adds to the drama, which gives their performance a different flavor, and each performance can make the people in the audience happy to lean forward and backward.
Huang Yihe, the director of the Spring Festival Gala, heard about their performances and invited them to the Spring Festival Gala.
At that time, the Spring Festival Gala program team arranged for Zhu Shimao and Chen Peisi to live in the hotel for creation, and the two held back for a week, and the content was not approved.
Zhu Shimao and Chen Peisi summed up, eating and living in the hotel was embarrassed, and they did not have a good idea for a while, and simply slipped away.
But if you can run the monk, you can't run the temple.
Both of them are from the Bayi Studio, and the program team directly contacted the factory leaders and called people back to continue writing.
So back and forth, Zhu Shimao and Chen Peisi slipped away a few times, and finally the work took shape.
The two were first arranged in the Temple of Heaven Sports Hotel, did an audition, and the result was that the people present were leaned forward and backward.
Nevertheless, there were objections at the time.
They think that the Spring Festival Gala is a large-scale celebration program held by the Central Station, and such a hip-hop and laugh-out program is not "serious" enough?
At this time, thanks to director Huang Yihe's efforts to overcome public opinion, he was responsible for the problem, and the works of Zhu Shimao and Chen Peisi were able to meet the audience.
And this work that has been difficult to give birth to several times is "Eating Noodles", which was later regarded as a comedy classic.
It was also this show that officially created the performance form of sketches and became an indispensable part of the Spring Festival Gala.
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At that time, CCTV consulted with Zhu Shimao and them, and every year they lined up a new one to perform, and it was for many years.
Zhu Shimao and Chen Peisi have since become close partners, jointly creating and polishing works,
Don't look at the stage Zhu Shimao is relatively introverted and stable, Chen Peisi is lively and warm, in fact, life is just the opposite.
When there is a difference in ideas, there will inevitably be quarrels, Zhu Shimao is stubborn, Chen Peisi is more stubborn than him, and from time to time he quarrels until no one wants to see anyone.
This pair of golden partners has cooperated in many classic works such as "Making Movies", "Lamb Kebabs", "So Standing Guard", "Pepper Noodles", "Wang Ye and the Postman" and so on.
Among them, "The Prince and the Postman" also integrates opera elements, which is difficult to create.
It is said that they have been preparing this show for four or five years.
It is also on this show that two old partners who have created many classics have won the bottleneck in creation.
After the performance of this sketch, the audience reacted generally, and they themselves felt that it was difficult for them to surpass themselves in the line of sketches.
Coupled with people's expectations getting higher and higher, more and more people are restricted in performance,
In the face of countless revisions and denials, Zhu Shimao and Chen Peisi felt very disappointed.
And at this juncture, they suddenly found that their works were made into VCD by CCTV International for sale without permission.
No royalties were paid, not even told.
This matter was like the last straw that overwhelmed them, and Zhu Shimao and Chen Peisi took it to court in one breath.
Although in the end they won the lawsuit and received 330,000 yuan in copyright damages,
But the price to pay for it is that it is almost "banned" by CCTV, and the invitations of other TV stations have also decreased suddenly.
In this way, the two have joined hands to reach the peak and bid farewell to glory together.
Now whenever I mention whose name I most want to see at the Spring Festival Gala, the names of Zhu Shimao and Chen Peisi are always high in the front.
In fact, in recent years, many Directors of the Spring Festival Gala have also extended an olive branch to them.
In 2014, Feng Xiaogang was appointed as the general director of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and he immediately issued an invitation to his good friend Zhu Shimao.
However, due to various reasons, Zhu Shimao did not return to the Spring Festival Gala.
When director Ha Wen directed the Spring Festival Gala, he also went to Zhu Shimao's home specifically, wanting to invite him out of the mountain, saying that even if he did not go on stage, he could sit on the scene, and Zhu Shimao decided to refuse after repeated weighing.
In his opinion, sitting and not acting is afraid that he will be scolded by the audience, as if he is posing his own score, which is really inappropriate.
Now Zhu Shimao is more interested in movies.
He began to transform into a film and television production-related job, opened a company and became a director.
03
In 2011, Zhu Shimao's directorial debut "Quit Smoking and Not Quit Drinking" was released, and the evaluation was not high, and even once came under fire.
Even in the film publicity work, it is all about running into walls.
At that time, "Quit Smoking and Not Drinking" was originally going to be publicized on Hunan Satellite TV's hottest variety show "Happy Base Camp".
Zhu Shimao also announced that he wanted to appear on the program, but after four days, the painting style suddenly changed, and the original harmonious warm-up became Zhu Shimao's "four consecutive accountability" for the program.
Zhu Shimao said that the other party who originally said that the result of the good show was reversed, and the actor who came to record the program was not enough to prevaricate and refuse, which made Zhu Shimao very dissatisfied.
Because the actors who originally planned to participate in the recording program were: Wu Junmei, Yang Gongru, Sun Nan, Ardor, Mo Xiaoqi, Zhao Yingjun, as well as Chen Peisi and Yingda can connect to the off-site interview.
But at that time, Long Mei, the producer of "Happy Base Camp", responded that she did not want to talk too much about details.
In the end, this matter can only be solved, after all, the movie still has to be on, and more things have to be dealt with.
After the release of the movie, the response was flat, and many people felt that Zhu Shimao's transformation was a failure.
But Zhu Shimao was not discouraged, and in 2013, "Love Is Not NG", which he directed again, was released in the New Year file.
As a result, after all, the response was average, and "Journey to the West" and "101 Marriage Proposals" ate up more than half of the box office.
Zhu Shimao, who did not stir up any splash in the film and failed to establish a new image, was exposed again and again to the lace news with young actresses, and there was little left to consume the decent image created when acting in the sketch.
In 2012, Zhu Shimao was photographed performing on the same stage with Du Minglei, who was more than 20 years away from him, and then staged a "passion drama" in the underground garage, but Zhu Shimao clarified on the grounds that he was just hugging and sending off.
As a result, after 5 years, he was once again photographed intimate with a young woman in the car, and as soon as the incident came out, netizens joked that Zhu Shimao, who had thick eyebrows and big eyes, had "betrayed the revolution".
Although he once again strenuously denied it, he could not resist the plummeting reputation of this former sketch master.
Not long ago, Zhu Shimao tried to contact the path of TV dramas.
For example, in the TV series "In the Name of the Father" produced by Wang Baoqiang, Zhu Shimao's performance is remarkable.
But the script was not rigorous, and other actors also dropped the chain, which eventually led to the show not catching fire.
This year, in Feng Xiaogang's "North and South", Zhu Shimao and Liu Xiaoqing had a twilight love, and netizens commented on them: More wonderful than the protagonist's emotional drama.
It is enough to see Zhu Shimao's strength in acting.
But today, when Zhu Shimao is mentioned, people are more willing to stay in the Spring Festival Gala many years ago, fixed on his partner with Chen Peisi.
Time has passed, no matter what has happened in the middle, as long as there is an occasion when Zhu Shimao appears, everyone will finally ask: Is it still possible to see you and Chen Peisi at the Spring Festival Gala?
In fact, after falling out with CCTV, Zhu Shimao and Chen Peisi also performed several sketches and produced many new works.
For example, "Net", "Threading needles", "Chen Xiao'er multiplied by two", "New Police and Thieves", "Examination" and so on.
When it comes to returning to the Spring Festival Gala, Zhu Shimao is more willing to regard this matter as a wish that is not so easy to achieve, but he is very eager to complete.
For a long time before, he and Chen Peisi felt that they should always have a finale, but they were not ready.
The two joked that they would come back when both of them were in their seventies and eighties.
I hope that this joke will eventually come true, and I hope that Zhu Shimao can blossom on the things he likes.