"When I took this step, I thought I would come back one day"
"Mr. Ye, all the encounters in the world are reunions after a long absence"
- Wong Kar-wai, "A Generation of Grandmasters"
Speaking of sketches, Zhao Benshan is definitely a mountain that is insurmountable in the sketch world, his unique grounded performance style has influenced a generation, all kinds of baggage are fresh and unique and seem to be handy, let people have fun and chew the rest of the taste, he alone is a way of expression.
The comedy CP of Zhao Benshan and Fan Wei has presented countless classic jokes for people and left countless happy memories for people, but since playing the 2005 Spring Festival Gala sketch "Kung Fu", it is rare to see the two perform on the same stage, and many people can't help but wonder what kind of story happened between the two.
In 1990, the sketch "Blind Date" appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, which opened the "Benshan Era" for Zhao Benshan to open the Spring Festival Gala for 20 years, and also found a way to change the fate of countless Northeast comedians.
In 1994, Fan Wei and Zhao Benshan began their first cooperation, and it was also Fan Wei's first attack on the Spring Festival Gala stage, but unfortunately he could not be selected, and finally the two performed this show on the Spring Festival Evening in the three eastern provinces - "Son Is Big".
In 1995, the two took the new sketch "Red Sorghum Model Team" to Beijing to take the exam, and finally changed it to "Uncle Niu Tigan" for various reasons, which was a dish called "nonsense", but it was very impressive, but Fan Wei's performance in it was not outstanding.
Until 1996, the classic "Red Sorghum Model Team" was on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, but such a fire sketch, Fan Wei did not turn up many waves, he is still the unknown little foil around Zhao Benshan, not only because Zhao Benshan's brilliance is too dazzling, when Zhao Benshan opened his mouth, the people around him look so bleak, but also because Fan Wei's strength at this time is indeed insufficient, and he still has a lot to learn.
It is not difficult to see that Zhao Benshan is really sparing no effort to praise Fan Wei, and many times the Spring Festival Gala has been tepid but still takes him with him, giving him the opportunity to learn and grow.
Behind this is a small story, Fan Wei is a cross-talk actor, and the performance is sound and colorful, many awards, Zhao Benshan, who has a heart of love and talent, threw an olive branch to his fellow countrymen and invited Fan Wei to play a supporting role in his sketch.
And Fan Wei originally had the idea of changing careers, at that time the cross-talk has gradually declined, unlike now there are people like Guo Degang who carry a big flag, so Fan Wei was invited to come and rehearsed hard for a month, but the director felt that Fan Wei's performance was not good at the final trial, so Zhao Benshan was replaced.
In order not to embarrass Zhao Benshan, Fan Wei took the initiative to leave, and the small prescription saw the character, which was exactly what impressed Zhao Benshan, and later Zhao Benshan commented on him: "At that time, Fan Wei did not have a word of complaint, which showed that he was a person with a kind nature and did not insult. ”
Kung Fu pays off, in 2001, based on the true story of the adaptation of "Selling Abductions" on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, people found that this "head big neck thick" and humble Fan Wei was also so funny, Fan Weihuo's mess, "Come, take two steps, no illness to take two steps" This classic line spread throughout the streets.
While the iron was hot, the two cooperated in "Selling Cars", "Heart Disease" and "Kung Fu" on the Spring Festival Gala stage, and Fan Wei, who had appeared on the Spring Festival Gala stage 5 times, was finally a fire, and his status also rose to the height of "Zhao Benshan's Golden Partner".
In line with the principle of multi-faceted blossoming, in 2001, Zhao Benshan invested in the filming of the comedy TV series "Liu Laogen", in which Fan Wei, who performed the "medicine box", once again attracted people's attention, but also laid the groundwork for the future two to fall apart and turn around.
Following "Liu Laogen 2", Benshan Media filmed "Ma Dashuai", in this drama, the light of "Fan Debiao, the first fierce man in northern Liaoning", directly approached the protagonist "Ma Dashuai" played by Zhao Benshan, and to this day, the residual heat of "Fan Debiao" can still have high traffic in major websites, even "Asian dance king" Nicholas Zhao Si can not reach.
After this, the path of Zhao and Fan changed, and it cannot be said that Fan Wei's defection can only be said, but only that people have their own aspirations and cannot cross the fence.
Zhao Benshan chose to take root in the folk from the beginning, to do the customs to the extreme, he with that kind of love for the land, from the bottom of the small people to observe the world, that kind of simplicity is the most precious, after all, he is determined to spread the "two people turn" throughout the world.
Founding the "Liu Laogen Big Stage", opening the "Benshan Art College" to send talents for the "Zhao Family Class", to the later "Benshan Media", one TV series after another was screened in the golden file of CCTV, it is not difficult to see that Zhao Benshan's future business empire in every corner of the three eastern provinces has taken shape.
As early as 2001, Fan Wei played a small supporting role in the movie "The Subway to Spring", which is a test of the water.
He has an elite mentality, from crosstalk to sketches, from sketches to movies, he has been chasing a better direction, looking for the soil that really belongs to him, and it is obvious that for him it is a movie and not a sketch.
Fan Wei, who was hooked up with Feng Xiaogang in 2003, successively made cameo roles in "Mobile Phone" and "No Thief in the World", and his humble image in it caused a good response, and then won the Monterit Film Emperor in 2004 with "July of the Car Watcher".
This strengthened Fan Wei's heart to take the road of film and television, so that he did not have any thoughts about acting in sketches, which was also the key to the breakup of the relationship between the two - busy.
Fan Weiwei used to circle around Zhao Benshan, a phone call can be rushed over immediately, but in order to better shoot movies and children's education, he moved to Beijing to settle down, Zhao Benshan also said in an interview: "Before I looked for him, he would push everything away, now it is different, because he is also busy." ”
Frozen three feet is not a day's cold, the rift in the relationship between the two expanded little by little, until 2009 Zhao Benshan publicly said: "Little sample, you still don't answer my phone", people know that the two have broken up.
Can't help but make people sigh, Zhao Benshan is not a jealous person, Fan Wei is not that ungrateful person, but they have different paths to take each other, and the gap between them is accumulating more and more, and a straw will crush the camel.
After that, the two once filmed "The Great Cause of Party Building" at the same time, one played Li Yuanhong and the other played Duan Qirui, but they were also in harmony and had little intersection in private.
In fact, the love between the two is still there, but after all, it is difficult to reunite with the broken mirror, Fan Wei has never forgotten Zhao Benshan's kindness, and has always respected Zhao Benshan in the outside world, which has the last short cooperation between the two - "Liu Laogen 3"
In the "Liu Laogen 3" broadcast in 2020, in order to give the "medicine box" an ending, Fan Wei only made a cameo for a few minutes, but the dialogue made people tearful.
Liu Laogen cried and asked, "It's a box, why did you come back?" ”
The box could not hide his excitement and said, "This is not your word, I will come back." Maybe this is also what Fan Wei has wanted to say to Zhao Benshan, who is also a teacher and friend for so many years.
In the play, the love of outsiders, by whom to say; the Tao is ruthless and sentient, and it takes a lot of thought.
Now Zhao Benshan has gradually come out of the public's sight, Fan Wei's shadow path after winning the Golden Horse Film Emperor is getting farther and farther, and it is more difficult to see the two cooperate in the future.
A generation of legends finally came to an end, and in the midst of the rivers and lakes, the king did not see the king.