#Chen Peisi ##Comedy ##春晚 #
The 1980s and 1990s were the era when sketch actors competed for the opening of the Spring Festival Gala stage. Chen Peisi, Zhao Benshan, Zhao Lirong, Huang Hong, Song Dandan, Cai Ming, so many actors have appeared one after another, offering one classic work after another for the audience, bringing so much laughter to the times.
Since there are many actors and competing for glory, it is inevitable that the audience will have to make some comparisons with them. This time, we will talk about the difference between Chen Peisi and other sketch actors.
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First of all, let's talk about Chen Peisi's comedic style.
It is easy to find that looking for Zhao Benshan and Zhao Lirong their classic lines are easy to find, and in those years, people usually like to quote their lines, especially Zhao Benshan. But finding Chen Peisi's lines is not so easy to find.
This is because Chen Peisi is different from the comedy style of many sketch actors, he relies more on the plot conflict of the sketch to create jokes, and then there is the exaggeration of physical action, and the lines are not so prominent.
For example, Chen Peisi rarely said four or six or eight sentences like Zhao Benshan Huang Hong, and rarely directly came to a paragraph of flower arrangement. If many sketch actors' works are more line-heavy, Chen Peisi's pays more attention to performance, and of course, there is a comedic structure that he has always been willing to emphasize.
"Protagonist and Supporting Role" and "Policeman and Thief" are all classics, but to the next few Spring Festival Gala sketches such as "The Great Change of Life" and "Wang Ye and the Postman", it is obvious that there is also a problem with the structure. So years later, Chen Peisi didn't think those sketches were so good.
To say like, I like two parts, the part where Chen Peisi "made a good fuss" in his work in the eighties, and the part that structured the plot in the early nineties. I also like Chen Peisi's just right way to make Xiang'er, that is, expression control, and later, it seems to be a bit squeezed eyebrows.
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After talking about the comedic style, let's talk about Chen Peisi in general.
At the earliest, Chen Peisi gave people the feeling of performing in the true color on the stage, otherwise how could he act so well? Later, I slowly learned that in fact, he was not the kind of actor who was crazy offstage, and he was actually very serious in private, especially when he treated comedy. Later, he learned some of his paranoia, including a lawsuit with CCTV over the copyright of the Spring Festival Gala sketch.
CCTV has produced so many actors' Spring Festival Gala works, only Chen Peisi dares to do so, indicating that he is very serious about the things he cares about, even if he does not cooperate in the future, he will fight to the end. Of course, later, as he grew older, he looked at some things, and after more than 20 years, he reconciled with CCTV and was invited to participate in the program of "Gold Medal Comedy Class".
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However, Chen Peisi's more true to comedy may have gone on like this for a lifetime. He should be unaccustomed to today's short and fast comedy techniques, such as all kinds of pure funny short videos now, and he can't move "Oh I drop mom". Many of them also look noisy, and you will feel that this kind of noise is still different from the kind of trouble that Chen Peisi used to make, or there is a difference between high and low level.
However, some of Chen Peisi's theories about structural comedy are now a bit lonely. We have also seen some scenes of him lecturing on TV, Chen Peisi said so seriously and responsibly, but the young people in the audience heard the nap, and some of them directly went to sleep.
That scene is very much like a metaphor, Chen Peisi's comedy is not well understood by people now, but this kind of incomprehension is nothing for Chen Peisi, he is not angry, even ignores, and continues to preach to everyone, he thinks that is something valuable.
Just like him, his personal choices are not very accepted, but he still follows me and takes a different path.
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In 2018, I watched the stage play "Drama Stage" starring Chen Peisi and Yang Lixin. I remember that the last scene of this play was after a noisy scene, Chen Peisi, the head of the acting class, stayed on the stage alone, and the surrounding darkness fell, and a beam of light hit Chen Peisi.
At that moment, it was the protagonist on the stage, more like the lonely teacher Chen Peisi himself. Pay tribute to Teacher Chen, who is now a little out of place.