If Zhao Benshan and his sketches use language and physical funny performances to stir up the laughter nerves of the times and usher in a large-scale era of laughter, then Yan Shunkai's performance should be regarded as an alternative on the Chinese comedy stage, this erudite old artist has always regarded comedy as a serious and lifelong thing to do, and the comedy performance he presents reaches the heart of the audience, is thought-provoking and makes the audience laugh and cry.
Mr. Yan Shunkai, who combines local burlesque with academic performances, upholds the performance attitude of in-depth life, strict training and serious creation, and has fought on the stage of comedy performance for more than 50 years, bringing everyone many classic works, countless hilarious and touching moments.
In 1959, Yan Shunkai was admitted to the Acting Department of the Central Academy of Drama, but due to the limitations of appearance conditions, he played more small roles.
But Yan Shunkai is also a very strong person, he stubbornly works hard, and he will not give up on himself.
On the contrary, I work harder to learn professional knowledge and figure out acting skills, and carefully observe the strengths of other actors.
His efforts also paid off, and he gradually began to perform on stage in small roles.
Even the small role of Yan Shunkai is very serious, and his excellent acting skills are dedicated to his attitude.
He scored perfect marks in acting in the first semester, and his talent for comedy allowed him to gain a foothold in the industry, although it was a small role, Yan Shunkai's acting was very exciting, and his comedic talent was also discovered.
Unlike most of his classmates, after graduating in 1963, Yan Shunkai entered the Shanghai Burlesque Troupe, performing burlesque "across the line" and "grafting" the kung fu he learned in the acting department of the Drama Academy into comedy performances.
In 1964, Yan Shunkai "skipped" Yao Mushuang, Zhou Baichun, Yuan Yiling's "Three Mountains" and Wu Shuangyi, Weng Shuangjie, Tong Shuangchun, and Wang Shuangqing's "Four Hills", starring in his first play in his life, "One Thousand and One Days".
This performance made Yan Shunkai "fire" in Shanghai Beach, and since then he has become the "baby son" of the burlesque troupe.
However, the real highlight of his life was when he was acting in "The Legend of Ah Q".
At that time, Yan Shunkai was favored by the director Cen Fan, and even said that he would not shoot without him. As a result, it turns out that the director's vision is correct, and Yan Shunkai is really the most suitable actor to play Ah Q.
That year Yan Shunkai was 44 years old, this was his first time to make a movie, and his debut was the peak.
For this film, Yan Shunkai won the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actor and the Best Actor Award at the Second Comedy Film Festival in Switzerland.
Growing up, I never knew where Lu Xun was good and why he was good.
All I know is that it was a famous writer in the textbook. No one told me lu xun's height.
After reading Lu Xun in the past two years, I learned the profound meaning of Lu Xun's sentence of abandoning medicine and following the text: Studying medicine cannot save Chinese.
Yan's acting skills are really too powerful, the mental outlook of the low-level people of Ah Q is played to the fullest, yes, I see myself from him, this is the depressed look in my heart, afraid of things, tied hands and feet, can not speak, love greed, spiritual victory (self-deception and self-consolation) method. How ridiculous, how ironic.
The final narrator said"In fact, Ah Q did not cut off his children and grandchildren as the little nun said, and his descendants have been continuing..." Haha, this is also too realistic. Such people will never become extinct.
The most obvious father-son relationship in "A Q Zheng Biography" is old mrs. Zhao and his xiucai son, old mrs. Zhao has obtained a high social status because of the rich family property, and he has given his son a good education to make it a xiucai, which is also an important reason why his son can finally become an official in the "revolutionary army", so Qian Mu believes that in the capital era, "although there is no hereditary name, but there is a hereditary reality", the social status of the father has an important impact on the formation of the habits of the children and the inheritance of social status.
Ah Q has the traditional Chinese idea of passing on the generations, so when he touched the face of the little nun, he realized that he should have a child to retire for himself, so he said to Mama Wu, "I want to sleep with you", which became a stain on him, and finally made him unable to survive in Weizhuang, which also made him finally break the "dream" of marrying a wife and having children.
The role of Ah Q is not easy to deal with, he is a small person, no home and no land to live by short-term work. The tone of his speech is oily and slippery, and I can't touch it when the monk touches it, which is the classic line of Ah Q. If you simply deal with the appearance of the small character, A Q speaks vulgarly and low three or four times, such an image is extremely annoying.
After understanding the original work over and over again, he ate through the character of Ah Q;
Wang Suya, who played the role of Wu Ma, recalled:
"He did pay the price, the effort he paid was very big, and he usually lived in Ah Q."
Usually there is always a person silently thinking about the role, the director is ready to shout to start, or say something,
He just kept going into the scene there, the director stopped, and he couldn't slow down for half a day! ”
But the value of Ah Q is not in his boredom, his value lies in writing the sadness of human nature, the law of spiritual victory.
Therefore, Yan Shunkai's teacher's A Q is by no means a superficial pimp, he has something to sympathize with.
While Mr. Lu was working, Ah Q took off his coat and sharpened his hands and feet. Such a Q, like countless peasants at that time, just bowed his head and worked, just a person who worked and ate. Admiring Teacher Yan's performance, he not only grasped the performance of body language, but also grasped the expression, and the meaning of being humble and a little flattering. Such a Q is not disgusting.
Ah Q's life was ridiculous and pitiful, he was born at the bottom of society, at that time, he was squeezed by landlords and bureaucrats, and everyone came to bully and bully him.
At the same time, there must be something hateful about the poor man, who did not rise up again and again, nor did he strengthen himself, but again and again comforted himself with the so-called method of spiritual victory, which had most of the shortcomings of the people of that era.
The hearts of the people of that era were indifferent, Ah Q saw the revolutionary party killed in the city, and when he came back, he laughed and talked to the villagers, there was no sympathy, and at the end of the movie, when Ah Q was wronged as a thief and was punished on the spot, those who once knew Ah Q and did not know, all came to see the hilarity, for them, a human life is just the seasoning of a dull and numb life, and the last two gunshots, in exchange for a burst of applause and cheers, are also ironic!
Let's talk about Teacher Yan Shunkai.
He performed skits at the Spring Festival Gala.
At that time, he was 70 years old, rehearsing until three or four o'clock in the morning every day, and the young actors could not shout and eat, and he did not say a word.
During rehearsal, I fell out of my wheelchair, my ribs hurt so much that I couldn't sleep all night, and I put on the plaster and continued.
Filming "My Ugly Daddy", there were many crying scenes, and he did not use eye drops once. Sometimes, just to give people a role, he also cooperates in place - with others in tears. At that time, he was almost 80 years old, and his health was not as good as before.
But when he encountered the scene of going into the water, he did not listen to the advice and went into the cold water.
It was this time, after the shooting was over, as soon as Yan Lao returned to Shanghai, he suddenly suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, paralyzed on his left side, and never got out of a hospital bed.
Mrs. Yan once sighed in an interview: We are on our own. Now he rarely comes to visit his unit or anything, once or twice a year, and I have not asked them, I am willing to come, not forced.
Now that Teacher Yan Shunkai has left, these controversies have no meaning to him.
Still, we see that in front of the camera, he keeps trying to bring us joy.
On his 80th birthday, he shook his hands and left us with a warm smile.