Sketches are an entertainment program with a plot, and it has been nearly forty years since the first Spring Festival Gala to the present. Every year, there is no shortage of fine sketches at the Spring Festival Gala, and there is no shortage of newcomers.
But there is a person who left the Spring Festival Gala, and even left the public's attention for almost twenty years, and the audience still can't forget him. In recent years, in the voting of "the person who most hopes to appear at the Spring Festival Gala", he has been pushing everyone to occupy the first place.
He is Chen Peisi, after 1998, he has not been on TV again, since then, most people have only the impression of him is the libai laundry detergent advertisement.
(Chen Peisi starred in the Libai laundry detergent advertising film)
I followed Chen Peisi's personal account on Zhihu and found that his Q&A and exchanges above were all about comedy theory and stage performance. He focused on art theory and didn't talk about anything other than that, and such people didn't do much in the media, so naturally they couldn't catch fire.
But none of this affected his becoming a master of comedy, a people's artist.
Many people like to compare him with Zhao Benshan: both are people's actors, both have left classic works on spring evenings, have also acted in movies, have their own companies, and have gradually faded out of the public eye. The two have a lot of similarities, but they are very different, and I want to say that Uncle Benshan's artistic research is far from his.
Zhao Benshan's work is derived from his own life, more popular, and it is enough to amuse the audience (although this is something that most comedians cannot do now). But Chen Peisi's work pursues the expression of problems through some dramatic techniques, whether social or personal.
Chen Peisi is not just a sketch actor.
In the 1980s, at the suggestion of his father Chen Qiang, Chen Peisi began to study Western comedy, and he starred with his father in "Look at this family". It was also the first comedy after a decade of catastrophe, and in that era, the art field was popular for "scar literature", recalling the pain of the past, "Look at this family" is an outlier and a milestone.
The story focuses on a small family after the Cultural Revolution.
The workshop director Lao Hu (played by Chen Qiang) has two children, daughter Jiaying and son Jiaqi (played by Chen Peisi). Jiaying falls in love with the repairman Yulin and carries out technological innovation in the factory, but it is not understood by Lao Hu. His son Jiaqi (played by Chen Peisi) is a drama actor in the literary troupe, who is not well educated and has some good and bad work, and has nothing to do all day, and hangs out with friends.
(A family in "Look at This Family")
One day, Jiaqi and his friend Da Ruan and Da Ruan's girlfriend Zhang Lan (played by Liu Xiaoqing) went to the park to row a boat, Jiaqi mistakenly thought that a girl fell into the water, jumped into the lake to save (in fact, the girl did not fall into the water), but this left a good impression on the girl's aunt Xiaohong, coincidentally Xiaohong and Zhang Lan both worked in the state-run bookstore.
(Lao Hu, played by Chen Qiang)
As soon as the camera turned, Lao Hu also liked the new technology at the instigation of everyone, went to the bookstore to buy science and technology books, but quarreled with the salesman Zhang Lan, Xiaohong found out and came to persuade, gentle and patient Xiaohong left a particularly good impression on Lao Hu.
Later, Jiaqi was invited by Zhang Lan to the bookstore to help rehearse the show because of his status as a drama actor, typos were numerous and jokes were made, but Xiaohong was willing to encourage and help Jiaqi, in which case Jiaqi fell in love with Xiaohong. At the same time, the "photoelectric theodolite theodolite" carried out by Lao Hu's daughter Jiaying failed, and Lao Hu ordered to stop the test, but under the voice of everyone, Lao Hu decided to help his daughter and threw himself into technological innovation.
(Liu Xiaoqing, who plays Zhang Lan, is really a red lip and white teeth)
On the eve of the National Day, Yulin and Jiaying were happily married. Lao Hu invited Zhang Lan, Jia Qi invited his girlfriend Xiao Hong, Zhang Lan and Xiao Hong came to Lao Hu's house together, and Lao Hu and Aunt Hu mistakenly regarded Zhang Lan as their future daughter-in-law. Just at this time, Da Ruan rushed to pick up Zhang Lan. Everyone knew that a joke had been made. Xiaohong and Jiaqi snuggled happily together, and the story ended in harmony.
This movie has no complicated storyline, and unlike the current blockbusters with fancy special effects, the movies are some trivial details of life, noisy and bland to outline the life of a small person who is as calm as water.
The whole movie has a very measured grasp of laughter, appropriately exaggerating the character's personality, and the plot is cheerful and jumpy. Fang Shu, Chen Peisi, Chen Qiang, Huang Ling, Liu Xiaoqing and other most active filmmakers in China in the 80s and 90s, and their superb performances are endlessly evocative.
The film adopts real-life and on-site shooting, and the film is full of rich life atmosphere and a strong sense of the times. Although simple, such a film appeared in 1979, immediately following that special era, and is already a landmark event.
This movie allowed the public in the decade of turmoil to finally experience a taste of happiness, and from this movie, the lives of Chinese people are about to enter the eighties with flowers and laughter. Chen Peisi, who became more and more skilled in comedy, began to appear frequently on the big screen, and the "second son" series of films since then profoundly reflects the conflict between the individual and the times.
This was the golden age that belonged to Chen Peisi, and in the same period, he acted in "The Second Son Opens a Shop", which tells the story of the second son of an unemployed young man who was not admitted to college at that time and his friend Ma Rod opened a shop.
After the reform and opening up, the market economy recovered, and a wave of entrepreneurial ups came. But these young people have no funds, no experience, and are anxious in the face of huge market demand. In the end, the passbook of the second son's father, Lao Kui, solved the problem, which caused a big reaction when people did not have any savings at that time.
In the same period, a large number of new cultures and the ideas of the older generation clashed, and there was "Look at this Family".
It was in the 1980s that Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao collaborated on "Eating Noodles" and "Protagonist and Supporting Role".
Among them, "Protagonist and Supporting Role" is recognized as a spring festival gala sketch mvp with good body, language, baggage, and connotation.
What many viewers don't know is that Chen Peisi's comedic tentacles are far away, and he also plays a role that subverts his own image. Rock 'n' roll was a hit in the 90s, but since dou had reached the pinnacle of their 94 hung hom, rock 'n' roll had become a mix of fish and dragons.
Chen Peisi made "96 Rock Guide" that satirized this fact, and this very evil short film is Chen Peisi's weirdest but also most explicit work. He plays a rock agent in the film, not only looking very murderous to Matt, but also calling Michael Jackson's songs garbage...
(Chen Peisi's style in "96 Rock Guide")
This "alternative" rock man struggled to find a "good" musician, but found inspiration in three migrant workers who scratched lice, formed a bug band, and quickly disbanded the band after earning money, and the three migrant workers not only lost their jobs and families, but also lost their so-called rock dreams.
Chen Peisi starred in more than one film that reflects the life of the new era and satirizes the bad phenomena in society, and there is also a short film "People and the Telephone", which profoundly depicts the scene after people are kidnapped by tools, which is similar to Chaplin's "Modern Times". It still has great social relevance today.
At the end of the 20th century, after experiencing a conflict with a certain station, Chen Peisi founded his own avenue company and began to focus more on stage plays. Avenue's first drama "Childcare" earned 40 million at the box office, and the subsequent "Balcony" was selected as a teaching case by the Shanghai Theater Academy.
Not only do they have these excellent works, Chen Peisi's artistic attitude is also admirable. At that time, he broke up with a certain station, one reason was because the vCD issued by a certain station was not agreed to by him and Zhu Shimao, and then sued the station, although he won the lawsuit, but since then he has no connection with the big screen of the station, and many years later, Chen Peisi talked about this is still unconscious and what mistakes, which is a kind of backbone.
Up to now, in addition to personally performing dramas and guiding newcomer comedy performances, Chen Peisi has spent the rest of his time studying the art of drama performance, refining and summarizing the theory of artistic performance, and asking which actor's performance attitude can now be compared with Chen Peisi.
(Chen Peisi answers performance-related questions on Zhihu)
Virtue and art are both xinxin, proud of the wind and bones, such a person is worthy of the three words of the artist.
In his own words: "Your own good things should be left for the audience to enjoy, someone inherits, as for the awards or whatever, too fake has nothing to do with themselves", this is enough.
Fortunately, in our impetuous era, there are still people's artists like Chen Peisi.
"96 Rock Guide" is available online and is well worth a look