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In 2017, the movie "Fast and Furious 8" was released.
During the promotion of the lead actor Jason Statham, someone took out a photo of Guo Da and jokingly said: "Do you know that you have a brother in China?" ”
Jason laughed and said, "Wouldn't it be a comedian?" ”
After the actress on the side took the photo in her hand, she directly exclaimed: "He really looks like you, Jason!" But more attractive and sexy than you! ”
This matter immediately became a hot search, and Guo Daxi mentioned the name of "GuoDa Statham".
It was also at this time that some netizens found that Guo Da, who was once a "Spring Festival Gala nail household", seemed to have not appeared in everyone's field of vision for a long time.
Once upon a time, the classic partner with Cai Ming was not Pan Changjiang, who was "condensed is the essence", but Guo Da, who was tall and powerful.
Compared with Pan Changjiang, who "degenerated" to sell wine, Guo Da is much more low-key, low-key to the point of "finding no one".
So, where did Guo Da, the former "Spring Festival Gala Nail Household", go?
Why did he "break up" with Cai Ming?
Today, I would like to come up with the story of the old artist Guo Da.
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In Guo Da's sketches, he often speaks an authentic Shaanxi dialect, which makes the audience feel more intimate.
In real life, Guo Da is also such a simple and kind person.
In 1955, Guo Da was born into an ordinary family in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province.
Unlike other children, Guo Da was a "widow" whose father died before he was born.
Later, when Guo Da was born, he left a large green bag on his head, which the doctor analyzed was caused by the mother's excessive grief and malnutrition during pregnancy.
Guo Da grew up under the tugging of his mother and sister.
Without the father as the pillar, the Guo family lived a very hard life.
Fortunately, Guo Da inherited his father's tall and burly figure, and was recruited to work as a worker on the railway at the age of 15.
The people on the railway saw that Guo Da was young and could not bear to let him do heavy work, so they let him go to the logistics to raise pigs.
Raising pigs is not easy, the summer pigsty is smelly and dirty, Guo Da also has to go to the pigsty, feed the pigs picky feces, often make a stinky smell.
Fortunately, he still has some rest time.
Using this time, Guo Da often listened to cross-talk and storytelling on the radio, and became deeply interested in it.
In fact, being a worker is not Guo Da's dream. In the cupboard of Guo Da's house, there is a gray octagonal hat and violin, which his father left behind.
Looking at the violin with smooth lines, Guo Da's heart planted an artistic dream.
He went to work during the day, read at night, and got up early and dark, hoping that this artistic dream would one day come true.
In 1974, at the age of 19, Guo Da finally received an acceptance letter from the Shanghai Theater Academy.
He cheered and packed his bags and began a three-year training in professional drama acting.
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In fact, Guo Da did not start acting in sketches as soon as he graduated, at the beginning, he was assigned to the Shaanxi Provincial Drama Theatre and became a drama actor.
In the end, it is the class background, coupled with Guo Da's own good at research, so his acting skills have been recognized by the drama theater and began to emerge.
One of the directors of the theater liked Guo Da very much, and felt that he was tall and superb in acting, so he hand-picked him to star in the drama "In the Silent Place".
Unexpectedly, this decision caused dissatisfaction among the other actors in the theater, who felt that Guo Da had been entrusted with a heavy responsibility when he first arrived, which showed that they were incompetent.
In the midst of a wave of opposition, the director had to replace Guo Da.
Guo Da felt both aggrieved and angry, but he still endured, and secretly resolved that he must rely on his own strength to make some achievements.
In the next 10 years, Guo Da immersed himself in improving his acting skills and made a qualitative leap in his ability.
He starred in more than 30 stage plays of all sizes, and gradually became the "pillar" of the theater, convincing other actors and leaving them speechless.
So when did Guo Da start acting in sketches?
This also starts with the wonderful programs brought by Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao to the audience.
Since 1984, Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao have staged a wonderful sketch at the Spring Festival Gala.
"Eat noodles", "Make a movie", "Lamb kebabs"... These skits left a deep impression on the audience's hearts, and at the same time inspired Guo Da.
Why can't I move on to comedy?
So in the next period of time, Guo Da focused his main energy on the sketch.
Hard-working and good people are easy to succeed in whatever they do. A few years later, Guo Da was recognized by the sketch circle, and a perfect opportunity also came to him.
In 1987, an actor in the Spring Festival Gala sketch "In Front of the Birth Room Door" was temporarily absent, and the director finally selected Guo Da among many actors.
Originally, the director was also worried that Guo Da's performance effect would be unsatisfactory. Unexpectedly, Guo Da fell generously after playing, and every smile was just right, and the comedic image of waiting for his wife to give birth and preferring sons to the fullest.
This performance made Guo Da start to explode in the sketch world.
At the Spring Festival Gala of the following year, he partnered Yang Lei again and performed the skit "QingGuan Is Difficult to Break The Family Affair", which greatly enhanced the fame of the two.
However, just when Guo Da was ready to show his skills in the field of sketches, he encountered "Waterloo".
It turned out that Zhao Benshan, the "king of sketches", rose up at this time, carrying his northeast comedy style to bring a new atmosphere to the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
However, Guo Da's works were frequently killed and fell into the trough of his career.
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This trough lasted for many years, until the emergence of a woman, and this person was Cai Ming.
I think back then, Cai Ming was not yet an "old woman with a poisonous tongue". With a handsome face and a lively personality, she met Guo Da through the introduction of friends.
Two people, one "earth" and one "foreign", are in stark contrast, making the audience feel very fresh.
In 1993, the two boarded the Spring Festival Gala cooperation sketch "Loess Slope", taking advantage of the cultural differences between China and foreign countries and language differences to frequently shake the baggage, which caused the audience to laugh and left a deep impression on everyone.
This success opened the cooperation between Cai Ming and Guo Da for more than ten years, in which Guo Da and Cai Ming sometimes became husband and wife, sometimes became father and daughter, and sometimes they were sales ladies and customers.
They also brought many wonderful works to the audience, such as "Transoceanic Telephone", "Robot Funny Story", "Ma Dajie's Biography", "Dream Home" and so on.
Due to the close cooperation between the two and the fact that they always appear on camera, some viewers mistakenly believe that they are husband and wife.
In fact, the two are just a cooperative relationship, each with its own family in reality.
In addition to acting in sketches, Guo Da has not given up his acting career in other fields.
In 2005, he also participated in the movie "Raise Your Hand", playing the simple and intelligent donkey farmer Uncle Guo.
Uncle Guo, who spoke an authentic Shaanxi dialect, cleverly deceived the traitors and the Search of the Japanese Army, helped the Eighth Route Army annihilate the Devil Squad, and successfully protected the national cultural relics.
This small-budget comedy film, with suspense and frequent laughter, coupled with the co-starring of Guo Da and Pan Changjiang, made the audience laugh.
Until now, the CCTV movie channel still plays this movie frequently, no matter how many times it is watched, it can always make the audience remember it endlessly.
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According to this development trend, Guo Da should now be another "king of comedy" in the sketch industry, but why has it disappeared?
Messages from the outside world. Some people say that Guo Da has offended people and been banned, while others say that Guo Da and Cai Ming have different ideas and parted ways.
So what is the truth?
It turned out that Guo Da was a serious personality and cared very much about the evaluation of the outside world.
After the end of the Spring Festival Gala every year, Guo Da will read the evaluation of netizens on the Internet, and if there is no change, he will be encouraged.
However, with the sudden rise of the "network keyboard man", they began to degrade Guo Da to uselessness, and even carried out personal attacks, saying that Guo Da was old, Duan Zi was old, and when he saw Guo Da, he was disgusted and bored, and did not hurry to retire to give way to young people.
Guo Da is also an ordinary person, and after reading such comments, he was very unhappy in his heart, and his spirit was also hit a lot.
In addition, as he grew older, his body was also a bit overwhelmed.
You know, every Spring Festival Gala has to be repeatedly reviewed and rehearsed, and the risk of the show being killed at any time, the actors are under great pressure.
Sometimes when Cai Ming and Guo Da rehearsed, they felt that Guo Da's face was red and simple, at first Cai Ming thought that Guo Da was shy, but later learned that he had high blood pressure.
After a long period of thinking, Guo Da decided to withdraw from the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
The first person to know Guo Da's idea was his partner Cai Ming.
He told Cai Ming: "My body is bigger, and my body can't eat it. When he said it, there were still tears in his eyes, which made Cai Ming feel very sad for this old brother.
So after the Spring Festival Gala in 2010, everyone never saw the "vegetable pot" group performing skits on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
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Quitting the stage of the Spring Festival Gala does not mean quitting the show business circle.
Today, Teacher Guo Da is still engaged in the acting career he loves, and he has started his own old business - drama.
His drama "White Deer Plain" with Pu Cunxi and Song Dandan has been recognized by the industry and has aroused great repercussions.
In 2020, in the thousands of calls from the audience, Guo Da also appeared on the variety show "Ace to Ace" with Teacher Cai Ming.
In the program, Wang Zulan, who played against him, "ridiculed" Guo Da on the stage with a "small note", which caught Guo Da a little off guard when he first appeared on the variety show and stood in the same place awkwardly.
Cai Ming intimately broke the siege for him, saying that "small note" is Guo Da's serious attitude to work.
Cai Ming's words attracted a burst of applause from the audience, and also made the audience more admiring of Guo Da, an old artist.
Indeed, there are fewer and fewer old artists like Guo Da, who have a serious attitude and are modest and down-to-earth.
Although he left the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, Guo Da's classic sketches are enough for us to revisit them repeatedly.
Today, in his sixties, he still shines in the field of art.
Finally, I also wish Mr. Guo Da good health and a happy family in his future life, and I hope that we will have the opportunity to see more excellent comedy works of Mr. Guo Da!