There is a "Venus Village" in Beijing, and I don't know where it is, maybe it really is, it seems that a certain textbook mentioned it, maybe there was, maybe it didn't exist at all. It doesn't matter, there is a cross-talk called "Venus's Regret", which exists in this cross-talk.
The author Wang Minglu, one of the most remarkable cross-talk writers, has achieved the highlight works of many famous artists. The book was handed over to Su Wenmao and Yu Shiyou to play, one is a famous artist, the other is the most deplorable prodigal son in the cross-talk industry, who has partnered with many high-ranking people, such as Ma Ji, Ma Zhiming, Hou Changxi, Hou Yuewen, and many excellent works, but when he died, he was extremely lonely. I always felt that in the late stages, he was like a firefighter, who temporarily lacked a partner to find him, and after one or two cooperations, there was no follow-up; the harder he acted, the stronger the sense of loneliness.
Knowing the program list in advance, I was curious about "Venus's Regret". Even newly created cross-talk, there are very few such high-end, metaphorical names. After watching the performance, I realized that the original "regret" is still just littering, neighborhood discord, and the garlic skin small things that xiangsheng is best at handling. Su Yu's performance of the two is also quite kung fu. Yu Shiyou has always been square, exhorting people to speak long and weakly; Su Wenmao, he is quiet, slow and rational, and elongates his voice, revealing the stubbornness of the people in the play, the typical "bad guys grow old", and the small evil is not shy.
He is actually a person with a very wide range of plays, but unfortunately, the name of "Wen Wei" is not a reward for him, but a implication. How can a person who is polite and polite can play a low-level citizen who litters? Wrong, it is precisely because of his Sven, the contrast with his behavior is strong, and the taste of rogues is even more sufficient. "Venus's Regrets" came a little late, and I regret for Mr. Sue.
In fact, at least in the public appearance, Su Wenmao himself could not say what Wen Wei was, and vaguely remembered that he only emphasized the "beauty of language", which made people very surprised. To speak of language, he is not so beautiful. So far, the "literary work" that is often mentioned, turning over and over is just four or five masterpieces, even if these four or five, the performance is also very restrictive, like "On Teasing" is very conservative, warm several baggage, to the end, Su to Ma Lai first praise and then fall, praise his various achievements, and finally boil down to "it won't be long before you catch up with me", originally here is an opportunity to make a big fuss, even a short paragraph through the mouth, but Mr. Su softly laid a few words: "Now your achievements are so high, If you have a good affirmation of the advantages and overcome the shortcomings, it will not take three years..."
His fatal wound lies in this tedious cliché. The great corruption of the Chinese Chinese Wen and the impact on the famous cross-talk artists seem to be most obvious in Mr. Su. "Drama and Science" can be described as a tiger's head and tail, singing and talking about the loss of space, talking, dialectical materialism," Ma Mo "has serious liberal ideas", Zhuge Liang is "good at analyzing contradictions and using contradictions", which sounds disgusting. As for "Three Kingdoms" and "Red Chamber Encyclopedia", in fact, they have also suffered a lot,
"Wen Wei" can only be style, not interference with content. Su Wenmao obviously has the temperament of books, and there is a bright voice, as long as he does not deliberately care about people, as long as he does not take the tone, he can produce good works, because on the one hand, people with books are easy to show people to be high, on the other hand, it is easy to give people a sense of honesty and deception, and gu lai loves to laugh at Xiucai, because they are weak and stale, and the reaction after being bullied is more ridiculous. As Chang Baokun, Su Wenmao is a member of the Chang family, who served as the B in the Chang family's Qunkou "Liquor Order", and was deceived by a cadre of people one by one, and there was no sense of violation at all, because most of the Chang family members were also elegant and upright, and the language was tasteful. When he was high, such masterpieces as "Choosing the Captain" and "God of Wealth" came out, these two stories, Su Wenmao's role is not a cultural person, but in fact, he has made various comments with the high posture of a cultural person, on the high standard and elegant style, he is really worthy of being a regular disciple.
It was also after listening to "Choosing the Captain" and "God of Wealth" and the like, that I had a new understanding of Su Wenmao. He found a path of his own, but it was a perilous one, and it was likely that both ends would not be flattered: he was too tall for the audience and seemed to disdain the old scrubber, and for those who were a little cultured, he was vulgar again, and the language was too mediocre. "Batch of Three Kingdoms" such a vulgar "Wen Wei", performed in the countryside, the audience can not understand; and "Red Chamber Encyclopedia" is a red science research conference to help, even said five or six minutes without a decent baggage, ordinary audiences do not have the patience to listen, and red studies researchers, will buy his account?
Without a witty actor, it is difficult to survive for a long time. Su Wenmao is not only not witty, but when he was in his sixties, he always relied on Wang Peiyuan to remedy his performances. Su Wenmao and Ma Zhiming, Wang Peiyuan co-starred in "Pickpocketing Horse Coat", the two old gentlemen probably have something behind them, that one, the horse's expression is particularly cold, and Su is also unable to do it, forgetting words again and again, all in the middle of Wang Peiyuan's tandem, a moment to find a horse, a moment to find Su, busy and happy. In a performance, if the people on the stage are not united, they will not only torment the audience, but also consume themselves.
There is a line in "Venus's Regret" that "Uncle Hou" said to the protagonist: "How will you educate your children in the future?" "When I listened, I ignored the past, and then I calculated, that year Su Wenmao was in his early sixties, I didn't feel awkward, I wanted to come, it was really because the book saved him." It is this temperament that helps him to reach the peak when interpreting the traditional cross-talk of "Article Society" and "Quande Bao", and also helps him stumble into the late world: his slowness, his forgetting words, so there are explanations; the old master, the old master, the old master.
Although cross-talk people, at least those who have been in the past, are often in their forties and fifties, people, after all, are still young and good! After "The Regret of Venus", Mr. Su seems to have suddenly relaxed, particularly tired, particularly slow, no longer the purity and pride of his earlier years. His skill was passed on to Cui Jinquan, Zhao Weizhou, and Liu Junjie, the three senior disciples, and among the three, the most Sumen-like typhoon was Cui Jinquan. The dashing and passion of Master's prime years, the typhoon of the pursuit of elegance brought by "Wen Wei", left most of it on Cui, but he had long since faded out of the line and became a leader. Being a leader is definitely a punishment for a talented actor.
In my eyes, Su Wenmao has always been a bit awkward, he has seven points of ability, but he has been elevated to do a very good job: to stand for a kind of "cultured cross-talk". It was really hard for him. Not only him, but also the people who are in this line of work with his peers or juniors, more or less, have to endure similar awkwardness. They speak a language that does not belong to them, they bear responsibilities that they should not bear, and when they are old, the young people of acute children look at them with the eyes of visiting the museum exhibits: Hey, these cross-talks, how come they are not funny at all?