Liang Zuo: Born on September 3, 1957, a native of Beijing, is a writer and screenwriter. Graduated from the Department of Chinese of Peking University, in the 1980s, he and Jiang Kun and others created cross-talk "Tiger Mouth Reverie", "Extra Big News", "Thief Company", etc., and in the 1990s, he began to create sitcoms with Yingda, representing works such as "I Love My Home" and "Idle Centaur Big Sister". On May 19, 2001, Liang Zuo died at home due to a sudden myocardial infarction at the age of 44.
The "Rat Exterminating Record" in the upper and lower episodes of "I Love My Home" was born from Liang Zuo's novel of the same name. Due to his preference for these two episodes, Liang Zuo had reserved a role for himself early on- Comrade Liang of the District Rat Eradication Office, and this surname was also written as early as the time of the screenwriter. So at the end of these two episodes, the audience sees Liang Zuo, who is wearing a white shirt, glasses, and a chubby smile. In addition to nodding to the whole family, Comrade Liang's lines are only two or three sentences. The second time he appeared in the camera was in the last two episodes of I Love My Home, and he played himself.
During the writing of the script of "I Love My Home", Liang Zuo told Liang Tian that director Yingda wanted to make a comedy, but this form had never been seen in China, and it was a new form he brought back from the United States. The reason why Liang Zuo is full of trust in Liang Tian is mainly because he has basically seen Liang Tian's films over the years and knows his drama path better.
Liang Zuo told him that this play combines the characteristics of a lot of cross-talk creation, combined with film and television performances, which is more suitable for you. Liang Tian took a look at the script and said in his heart, which is suitable for me, basically according to my writing, the character talks and the state of my previous character talking is similar. Liang Tian has also seen many of his brother's works, and he is more familiar with the cross-talk he writes, so he is also familiar with his writing style. Later, after entering the group, Liang Tian got the script back and memorized the fastest, basically watching it once or twice to perform.
When he first returned from demobilization from the army, Liang Tian was not admitted to the literary and art group, and he was in the crew all day long, running dragon sets everywhere. Liang Zuo once seriously told Liang Tian that if you want to do this, if you really want to be an actor, you must watch "Dream of the Red Chamber". Because the relationship between the characters in the book is too complicated, Liang Tian did not understand it after reading it once, and he could not understand it after reading it a second time, and he was ready to watch it again for the third time. Liang Zuo said don't look at it first, do you see if there is a character image in your mind? Liang Tian replied that there is, Liang Zuo said, "Dream of the Red Chamber" there are very few character descriptions, scene descriptions, psychological descriptions, most of them are dialogue, why do you still have character images in your mind after reading it? It is the charm of this language, who says what, everyone speaks differently. Liang Zuo said that in the future, when you play the role again, the lines should be repeatedly considered, and the expression does not matter first, the words are right, and the others are right. Liang Tian benefited a lot after listening to this, and he often remembered what his brother said when he acted.
When I was a child, Liang Zuo and Liang Tian never quarreled, and when they grew up, they never had a red face, but Liang Tian, who met or talked on the phone when his brother was a brother, always called Liang Zuo's name directly, or called him "Old Liang Zuo", and only said "This is my brother" when he was introduced to others. Although he rarely called him brother, Liang Tian respected this brother from the bottom of his heart and was willing to listen to his advice in all aspects. Because his parents are usually very busy, Liang Tian can feel the feeling of "the eldest brother is like a father".
Probably because he rarely calls his brother in ordinary times, in "I Love My Home" Zhixin rarely calls Zhiguo his brother, basically he calls Zhiguo, and it is very smooth to call Peace as his sister-in-law.
The "Close Relatives" in the upper and lower episodes are the exploratory episodes of "I Love My Home".
According to the plot of this episode, zhixin is not Lao Fu's biological son. However, in the previous episode of "Questions of Principle", Wen Yi said that Zhixin looked most like the old Fu when he was young, which seemed to indicate that there was no such thing.
In fact, don't say the audience, even Liang Tian himself did not understand the relationship during the shooting. When "Close Relatives" was filmed, Liang Tian's father was seriously ill and was taken to the hospital, his heart stopped beating for four minutes, and the notice of critical illness was sent to the family. In the six days of shooting these two episodes, Liang Tian rehearsed during the day and rushed to the Xiehe Hospital at night to accompany the bed, reading the script while accompanying the nurse, people were a little confused, always felt that the state was not right, and did not figure out the origin of the things in the script.
Liang Tian ran at both ends of the hospital on the set in those days, and his heart was extremely anxious. When he was in the hospital, Liang Zuo told him a story. The art master Hou Baolin once received a task to immediately travel for the performance of the poor and lower-middle peasants, but at that time, his daughter was critically ill, and Hou Baolin boarded the train in order not to delay the performance. When the train arrived in the countryside, Hou Baolin's daughter was gone. But when it came to the performance, he still had to say crosstalk to the audience and send them laughter. After listening to this story, Liang Tian felt that it was too difficult to be an actor.
When Liang Zuo wrote the two episodes of "Close Relatives", he specially put in a romantic but somewhat inexplicable poem. "I'm not yet of sensible age, but I've already fallen in love; as long as you leave half a step, you'll always find me in tears." Day after day my love is growing, it is a combination of nature, an image of innocence, like Affili and Asdadette. ”
Written in the diary of Zhixin's mother, this poem played a key role in promoting the development of the entire plot. According to Xiao Fan, a college student at home, Afiri and Asdadai are characters in the Persian Letters, and the author of the book is Montesquieu.
Writing here, Liang Zuo had some impressions in his mind, but he was afraid of making a mistake and wanted to find a book to confirm. One of the phone calls to Dai Yannian, the artist of the whole play, asked him if he had a Persian Letter. Dai Yannian happened to have this book in his bookcase, but he had never read it, so he gave it to Liang Zuo.
On July 7, 1993, the first forty episodes of "I Love My Home" began filming at the China Institute of Labor Movement, and it was filmed in a few months. In early 1994, it was first broadcast on Hong Kong Satellite TV Chinese (now Phoenix Satellite TV) and received some response. It was then broadcast on the Hebei Economic Channel, through which many Beijingers received comedies that reflected the lives of Beijingers.
In early 1994, the investor decided to shoot the sequel to "I Love My Home", and the start of filming was imminent, which was a challenge for the screenwriting work. According to Yingda's arrangement, Yingzhuang no longer serves as a screenwriter in the last eighty episodes, but performs the duties of production director, and only Liang Zuo is left in the screenwriter, and new forces need to be added. Under the introduction of Liang Zuo, his sister Liang Huan entered the screenwriting group and became an assistant literary teacher.
Liang Huan had already graduated from the department of Chinese peking university at that time. In the years when Liang Huan was studying at Peking University, Liang Zuo was already famous for creating cross-talk for Jiang Kun. Once, in class, a professor made a big fuss about the phenomenon of literati dabbling in art: Didn't peking university also produce a graduate, it seems that the surname Liang... What is the name of the beam? I don't write crosstalk in a proper way, and I actually write very well. There was a lot of laughter from the audience. The professor asked alertly: What are you laughing at? Do you know him? Isn't it any of your boyfriends? Laughter immediately turned into laughter.
Liang Zuo was regarded by Liang Huan as the elder brother of his mentor and friend, and under the recommendation and guidance of his brother, Liang Huan quickly entered the role and made great contributions to the neutrality of the script writing of the last eighty episodes.
Unfinished, to be continued