(Issue 64)
Cross-talk is a folk art, but the cross-talk he performs sees the elegance in the great customs, and sees the great customs in the great customs, and the elegant customs are appreciated together. Just because what he pursues is high style and high taste.
He is a cross-talk actor from the old society, but he has no nostalgia for the old artistic taste, which is determined by his moral concepts, cultural accomplishment, aesthetic views, and life interests, and it is also his specific cross-talk actor in these aspects that should be unconventional and stay away from low-level interests. However, it is not an easy task for some actors. Because if some actors really get out of the ordinary and leave some low-level things, it can be said that they will almost not perform. Wei Wenliang is not the case, he does not rely on tacky, not low-level things, because he knows that cross-talk actors make the audience laugh, they must laugh freely, easily, witty, but also subtle, and to let the audience get these kinds of laughs, the actors must have the ability. Seeing Daya in the great customs, and seeing the great customs in the great customs, and appreciating the elegant customs together, this is an important aspect of his artistic style and characteristics.
Eclectic, but not stuck to a certain "genre" (the author believes that there is no genre in cross-talk art), a certain person, a certain predecessor, and integrated into their own unique performance methods, which is another major feature of Wei Wenliang's cross-talk art. He will have a lot of crosstalk, a traditional new, let alone a hundred paragraphs (at his age, there are very few actors who can live so much). Listening to his cross-talk, you can't hear who this paragraph looks like, and who says that this paragraph is like, Wei Wenliang is Wei Wenliang. For example, his Liu'er, an old student who studied Peking Opera, a flower face with a round cavity, and a full charm seems to have the characteristics of Hou Baolin. But it is different, there is baggage in learning to sing, and it is very brittle, and it has the crisp and explosive style of his master Wu Kuihai. Learning from his predecessors, but also learning from his peers (for example, he "stole" Xiao Liben's "Xue Ping Drama"), not to use it after learning, but to digest it first, make necessary adjustments according to his own conditions in some places, and then put it on the stage on this basis. There is no doubt that this is his own. Although it is only a small paragraph, such as the traditional small segment of "Beauty Praise", many actors have made him different. Ma Sanli, the master of cross-talk, said to him, "Listening to your "Beauty Praise", it is interesting, like me, like Yan Xiaoru, like your master Wu Kuihai... Who the hell is it like? In the final analysis, it is still like your own ------ Wei Wenliang. You make it good, it's really good. ”
(Wei Wenliang and his wife and Master Ma Sanli)
"Everyone in the world is a teacher.". Wu Kuihai said this to him many times before he died. The broad harvest will improve, of course, this is one of the main reasons why he can develop his own characteristics and style.
Xiangsheng pays attention to "speaking, learning, teasing, and singing", which is well known to everyone. In these four aspects, Wei Wenliang is very outstanding. However, when it comes to his style and characteristics, there should be one more word: acting. Acting" is acting. A few years later, once he and Li Fa once performed on the same stage, Li Fa once said: "Wen Liang, after listening to a few of your cross-talks, I came to a conclusion: You are not talking about cross-talk, but performing cross-talk." Li Fa was not an expert in cross-talk art, but a famous film performance artist, and his evaluation of Wei Wenliang may not be all correct, because "language" is a tool for performing cross-talk, language is said, or should it be said "cross-talk", but Li Fa once thought that "Wei Wenliang is performing cross-talk". This is also correct, and it is not only correct, but also very accurate.
Because Wei Wenliang pays attention to "speaking, learning, teasing, and singing" at the same time, he also pays great attention to performance. Xiangsheng is a kind of music in the art of quyi, and a fundamental difference between quyi art and opera art is that one is "appearing in the saying" and the other is "appearing in the statement". In other words, opera performance is to fix the role of the actor, this actor, if he plays Zhuge Liang in "The Empty City Plan", then he is Zhuge Liang from beginning to end. Unlike crosstalk, actors have to come in and out of time. Performing the cross-talk "Empty City Plan", this actor is Zhuge Liang for a while, Sima Yi for a while, Lao Jun, and the actor himself for a while. Li Fa once thought that Wei Wenliang was a "performance cross-talk", no matter which cross-talk he said, as long as he entered the role, he would never see "Wei Wenliang" again. Although it is still "Wei Wenliang" standing on the stage, and it is also "Wei Wenliang" who speaks or sings, there is no trace of "Wei Wenliang", he is the role he plays. For example, he said "Li Ling Stele", performing a play of "touching the stele", learning to sing "Li Ling Stele is originally stone, I don't touch it and it doesn't depend." When these three sentences are sung, whether it is action or expression, he is Yang Jiye, who is facing a desperate situation and wants to repay the country and the king with death. His singing, his movements, his expression have made the audience think that they are not listening to crosstalk, but watching a play. When he sang the fourth sentence, "Afraid of breaking the skin of the brain melon", he quickly withdrew from the role and restored the cross-talk actor himself. It is in the midst of this instantaneous change that the baggage trembles and completes the "laughter" function that crosstalk should have, saying that traditional crosstalk is so, and so is new crosstalk. In a very short period of time, the actors and characters are changed again and again, time and space are changed again and again, and in the transformation, it is natural that he is "performing crosstalk". Of course, this is also a characteristic of him.
(Film performance artist Ge Cunzhuang)
I was very strange, as soon as the curtain was lifted, as soon as you got on the stage, you caught the eyes of thousands of spectators. I have to study you. ”
This sentence comes from the mouth of Ge Cunzhuang, a film performance artist of the older generation. From this evaluation, we can see how much he loves Wei Wenliang, and it can be seen that Wei Wenliang is very "taiwanese" and "charming", and it is not easy for him to catch the eyes of the audience when he gets on stage. Why? There is only one answer: that is, he is not tacky, and the style of the station is foreign and kind. Whether it is wearing a Zhongshan suit or a suit later, even if you perform a traditional passage and wear a coat on stage, it still gives the audience a fresh feeling. As soon as he stepped on the stage, his two eyes shot out a kind gaze and a kind smile, from the heart. His first impression to the audience was that "this actor is good, very new, and so popular on stage." Without opening his mouth, the audience will be "mobilized" by him, and then, with his "baton". It is also because as soon as he got on stage, he threw away all distractions and concentrated on performing. Once he entered the performance, he began to communicate with the audience, and in the process of cordial communication, he completed a performance of a paragraph, which cannot but be considered a characteristic of him.
In a word: Wei Wenliang said crosstalk with his mouth, and even more so with "heart". Yin Shoushan once knocked him on stage because he yawned on stage. Why? Yin Shoushan is right: if you go on stage, you must be worthy of the audience. He remembered this sentence for a lifetime. Therefore, he must be worthy of every audience, he is using "heart" to say cross-talk, so that he can be properly distinguished from any cross-talk artist, with his own unique style and characteristics on the stage, Wei Wenliang is Wei Wenliang.
The more performances there were, the happier Wei Wenliang became. Everything is complementary, and the performance can give people a laugh, but also can train the actors to improve their acting skills. It has been more than thirty years since he began to teach himself crosstalk, and he has not yet refused to perform, but today he has refused, and it is a very important performance. So he wasn't in a good mood. I have entered the house, but I still can't get my spirits up. Seeing that his look was not right, Liu Wanhua of course had to ask: "What's wrong?" Is there something uncomfortable about it? ”
"Nothing." Wei Wenliang picked up Wei Yi and kissed him. He came back almost every day.
"Something must be going on." Liu Wanhua said with certainty.
"Let me join the condolence mission. I said I had difficulties at home and couldn't go. ”
(Mr. and Mrs. Wei Wenliang)
It turned out that what he was asked to participate in was the Tianjin Municipal Condolence Mission, which wanted to comfort the employees of several large coal mines in Shanxi Province. At that time, it was still difficult for Tianjin to use coal, and the purpose of the city was to improve the relations between the two provinces and cities through condolences, win the support of Shanxi Province, and solve the problem of coal shortage in Tianjin. Wei Wenliang should have participated, but he did not participate, of course, there was a reason, that is, there were too many difficulties at home. Parents need to be taken care of in old age, Wei Wei and Wei Yi are still young, and Wei Wei is also eye-harming, suffering from an eye disease called allergic conjunctivitis, and has to go to the hospital every other day. Liu Wanhua still has to go to work, so many things are left to her alone? Wei Wenliang was not at ease, afraid that she would not be able to cope with these heavy housework alone.
Wei Wenliang said the reason, he did not expect Liu Wanhua to resolutely decide: "This is not a trivial matter. This condolence mission, you should participate. ”
"I wanted to participate, but..."
"When are you going?"
"Ming'er will leave early in the morning."
"There you go!"
"Can you do it yourself?"
"Okay! No problem, I alone will take good care of them. ”
Wei Wenliang no longer said anything, but looked at his wife silently. He suddenly remembered the mysterious "going to the countryside to settle down" of the work propaganda team, and his wife was very unhappy in her heart, but her face was smiling. For the wife, she is proud that she has a husband who has a successful career, and for the sake of her husband's career, she can eat any pain and suffer any tiredness.
(To be continued)