The Year of the Dragon is approaching, and the topic of "Spring Festival Gala" has once again become the focus of heated discussions among netizens.
It's just that we can vaguely feel that the direction of the wind has changed a lot now.
Since the first Spring Festival Gala in 1983, this special "Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner" accompanied by us Chinese has gone through ups and downs for 40 years.
Forty years ago, Chinese gathered in front of the TV to watch the Spring Festival Gala.
The TV screen is black and white, but the programs inside are colorful.
20 years ago, the Spring Festival Gala reached its peak and completely conquered the hearts of the Chinese people.
Watching the Spring Festival Gala neatly and chatting while watching it has also become a new ceremony for the family to reunite for the New Year.
10 years ago, with the retirement of the older generation of comedians, the Spring Festival Gala began to face a crisis of "not looking good".
At that time, most people still regarded it as a BGM on Chinese New Year's Eve, focusing on an atmosphere to accompany them.
However, in the past few years, many people are not only too lazy to watch the Spring Festival Gala, but they are not even interested in complaining about the Spring Festival Gala.
A few dance highlights of the Spring Festival Gala in the short ** seem to be the greatest support for the Spring Festival Gala.
Even, in some small circles, there is also a buzzword of "you are still watching the Spring Festival Gala".
Everyone is asking, what happened to the Spring Festival Gala that once looked down on the world?
Today, Brother Pi might as well take advantage of the topic of "Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Dragon" to talk to you about the Spring Festival Gala, and then see how this year's Spring Festival Gala is arranged, so it looks good.
The good-looking nature of the "Spring Festival Gala" in the past.
You may have complained about the Spring Festival Gala countless times, but as long as you close your eyes, countless classic pictures will still emerge in your mind.
Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao's sketch "Eating Noodles", Feng Gong and Niu Qun's "Point Company".
Zhao Lirong's voice and smile, the "Iron Triangle" composed of Zhao Benshan, Fan Wei and Gao Xiumin, and the ...... of "Meet 98" sung by Faye Wong and Na Ying
The memories of the Spring Festival Gala are rushing like a tide, and these classics are timeless.
But putting aside the filter of memory, we revisit that era, and we will find a clue.
The Spring Festival Gala was born in 1983, which happened to be the early stage of reform and opening up.
China has always been in a state of cultural confinement and urgently needs an all-round release.
In the Spring Festival Gala in 1994, director Huang Yihe took the risk of letting Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao perform "Eating Noodles".
This show, in the canteen of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China, was auditioned first, and the audience laughed back and forth.
As a result, the people in the Spring Festival Gala preparation team made a difficulty.
At the Spring Festival Gala, is it appropriate to make everyone so happy?
It's hard for the audience to understand the concerns of the time, but after more than a decade of tension, relaxing and laughing has become a luxury.
Until Chinese New Year's Eve "News Network" was broadcast, everyone still hesitated to let Chen Peisi Zhu Shimao go to the Spring Festival Gala.
In the end, director Huang Yihe made a decision: You guys, I'll take care of something happening!
That night, "Eating Noodles" caused a sensation across the country when it was broadcast, and this program is also considered to be the opening program of the sketch.
Behind Chen Peisi's laughter to the audience, it is a relief that people in this country have been nervous for more than ten years.
In 1985, when preparing for the third Spring Festival Gala, director Huang Yihe thought that the first two Spring Festival Galas were all in small indoor studios, and this time he would make a big one.
He directly moved the Spring Festival Gala to the Workers' Stadium, but at that time, the whole country had no experience in holding a large-scale party outdoors.
The Spring Festival Gala in 1985 was held in the cold winter breeze of Beijing.
The actors were shivering from the cold, and the audience was terrified, but it was conceivable that the broadcast effect was a mess.
Afterwards, CCTV apologized to the audience through "News Network", and director Huang Yihe also bluntly said that he "doesn't want to live anymore".
Huang Yihe's testimonial also tells us that in that era, it was a hard task to run the Spring Festival Gala well, and under such high pressure, the Spring Festival Gala must be good-looking.
From these two aspects, it is not difficult for us to find.
First, it is not so much that the Spring Festival Gala in the past was good-looking, but that in the early days of reform and opening up, the literary and artistic circle had accumulated nearly 20 years of inventory and needed a window to release.
At that time, not only the Spring Festival Gala, but also movies, literature, TV dramas and other art forms were all blooming.
This is the Renaissance brought about by years of imprisonment, which cannot be replicated.
The literary and artistic circle uses 20 years of inventory to give blood transfusions to the Spring Festival Gala once a year.
The final work presented in front of the audience must be the best of the best, and it is difficult to think about it.
Second, before, Chinese lived in a long-term repressive atmosphere, and laughing out loud became a rigid need of the times.
However, it is impossible to come out of a document to tell everyone, happy and innocent, laugh out loud.
Then, the Spring Festival Gala has played the role of a weather vane, telling everyone that a new era has arrived.
Therefore, in the past, it was not the Spring Festival Gala that was good-looking, so everyone laughed, it was everyone who needed to laugh to have a good-looking Spring Festival Gala.
"Phase II".
The turning point of the Spring Festival Gala was earlier than what we actually saw.
Jiang Kun left classics such as "Reverie in the Tiger's Mouth" on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, and behind it was the screenwriter Liang Zuo, such a great god participated in the creation together.
Later, Liang Zuo died, and the quality of Jiang Kun's works gradually declined.
Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao, the pioneers of the Spring Festival Gala sketches, are real masters of comedy.
Later, they tried all kinds of new comedies, such as the fusion of magic and sketches, but the laughter was not good.
"The King and the Postman" in 98 is their last glory.
Feng Gong and Niu Qun are also the best partners of the Spring Festival Gala, and they have collaborated on many classic satirical sketches.
But after 2000, Niu Qun went to become a county magistrate.
Feng Gong and Guo Donglin later cooperated for a short time, and later began to bring newcomers.
Although the quality of the work has declined, the sentence "I miss you to death" still sounds very kind.
Zhao Lirong died in 2000, and a generation of sketch queens has fallen since then, and Zhao Benshan has taken over this burden.
Zhao Benshan is recognized as the king of sketches, 21 times on the Spring Festival Gala, won the first prize 15 times, is the highest mountain, but also the longest river.
It is no exaggeration to say that at the peak of Zhao Benshan, the people of the whole country watched the Spring Festival Gala and were waiting for him to appear.
But even in Lao Zhao's peak, there was fatigue.
The most typical example is the trafficking trilogy.
This series made everyone laugh so hard that their stomachs hurt back then.
However, this kind of sketch takes ** as the protagonist, and it also makes ** succeed, and now it is being labeled by netizens as having three wrong views.
Of course, the biggest drawback is the setting of laughter.
Zhao Benshan used a lot of rhyming tongue twisters and some brain teasers, such as "riding a monkey on a tree" as a joke.
This kind of joke is outside the plot, in Chen Peisi's words, it is "extraneous branches".
When the main plot can't provide jokes, the easiest way is to "make extraneous branches".
In stark contrast, it is Chen Peisi's "The Protagonist and the Supporting Role".
All the jokes in it are for the main plot, and the jokes generated by the structural design are the high-level jokes.
You see, even Zhao Benshan, the first person of the Spring Festival Gala, frequently uses ingenious methods to tease the audience, and the decline of the Spring Festival Gala actually began 20 years ago.
2009's "Not Bad Money" is considered Zhao Benshan's last pinnacle work, but there are also many opportunistic parts in this sketch.
"This can be there. "Not really!”
This joke is generated through the plot conflict, and it is a high-level joke.
"As soon as my eyes opened and closed, this life passed. ”
This joke is the joke produced by "extraneous branches".
The plot structure of "Not Bad Money" is loose, and it relies more on patchwork to amuse the audience, and the laughter is excellent, but it is already the end of the strong crossbow.
After that, Zhao Benshan's sketches presented two contradictory routes.
While he went to the local Spring Festival Gala, the sketches were still very funny, and Uncle Benshan could also let go completely, sometimes when he performed, he laughed, and the audience watched it more cola.
On the other hand, he is still on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, but the quality of the sketches has been greatly reduced, and he has become more and more cramped.
This also shows that the creative scale of the Spring Festival Gala is constantly tightening, and even Zhao Benshan is becoming more and more unable to control such a stage.
In the 2021 Spring Festival Gala sketch "You at the Same Table", he teased himself:
Pull it down, don't mention him, I don't like to see him the most, he comes out every year, and he has a big face. ”
The result is a prophecy.
In 2012, Zhao Benshan suffered a difficult birth of his work.
First of all, "The First Snow" was killed, and "Blind Date 2", which was urgently replaced, also had a poor response in several rehearsals.
Subsequently, Benshan Media announced that Zhao Benshan would withdraw from this CCTV Spring Festival Gala on the grounds that his body could not support it.
In 2013, Zhao Benshan once again missed the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
All the audience tacitly -
Zhao Benshan's CCTV Spring Festival Gala era has completely become a thing of the past.
In 2014, Shen Teng and Ma Li's "Help or Not" is considered to be the last glory of the sketch era, in fact, this sketch was also directed by Zhao Benshan, and many people lamented that Lao Zhao has a successor.
It's a pity that the movie "Charlotte's Troubles" was a box office hit that year, and Shen Teng was unwilling to be the next Zhao Benshan, but wanted to be the next Stephen Chow, and his career focus was also on movies.
The decline of the Spring Festival Gala is certainly embarrassing.
But after rational analysis, we can find that it is just a product of a special period and returns to the essence of a large-scale party.
It's not as pretty, but it's still a bright spot.
The Spring Festival Gala really sparked a large area of public discussion since 2016.
There are two landmark events.
First things first.
It was the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Monkey, and everyone unanimously called on the six-year-old children to go to the Spring Festival Gala and play the Monkey King again.
In the end, the six-year-old child appeared in the Liaoning Spring Festival Gala, and a "Golden Monkey in Spring" evoked the feelings of a generation.
The second thing.
In February 2016, Yan Su passed away, and he was the old man who wrote "Dare to Ask Where the Road Is".
Although the old man is old and has a high position, he is very down-to-earth, has a young mentality, and has a very light writing style.
We can often see him talking and laughing in the judges' seat on "Avenue of Stars", and he can know a rough idea of the trends that young people like.
Every year for the Spring Festival Gala and other important galas, Yan Su is the chief planner and chief reviewer.
With these people, the Spring Festival Gala can often find a balance between the main theme and the family carnival, although the overall style will be mediocre, but there is no lack of highlights.
With the departure of a group of old artists such as Yan Su, the Spring Festival Gala has also completed the renewal.
The newcomers try their best to win over the younger generation and integrate new things, but in terms of program content, they mostly adopt conservative strategies.
So, after 2016, the Spring Festival Gala began to become familiar and unfamiliar.
The sketch performance in the past few years is the epitome of this transformation.
For example: A husband and wife quarreled because of a hot search ** and finally reconciled.
Another example: a husband and wife meet to divorce, but they reminisce about old things in the photo studio and finally reconcile.
When Zhang Kaili said nakedly that "being single is a dog", when Jia Ling staged a brawl between her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law year after year, when different people couldn't rush home to eat dumplings for some strange reasons.
What the audience feels is not a moment of relaxation, but a buzzing noise like a fly.
The opening slip + playing the Internet in the middle + forcibly creating misunderstandings + no accidents and reconciliation + output values + making dumplings together, this set of formulas has become a template for sketch creation.
Back then, the Spring Festival Gala was a buzzword maker, but now, the Spring Festival Gala has become a meme jukebox.
This huge gap is astonishing.
Brother Pi is bold ** wave, there will be a stalk like "Zun Du Fake Du" in this year's Spring Festival Gala, I can even make up my brain, what Cai Ming looked like when he said this stalk.
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After briefly sorting out the development of the Spring Festival Gala, it is not difficult to prescribe medicine for today's Spring Festival Gala.
The first thing we have to do is not to think about how to make the Spring Festival Gala look good, but to loosen the restrictions on the Spring Festival Gala.
In the past, everyone's entertainment activities were scarce, and all the pursuit of spiritual culture was pinned on the annual Spring Festival Gala, and the more exciting the Spring Festival Gala, the more it reflected the poverty of spiritual life.
Now everyone's spiritual life is rich, they can wear new clothes and go to the restaurant every day, and they can watch movies and performances that are a hundred times funnier than the Spring Festival Gala at any time.
Therefore, the Spring Festival Gala is not good-looking, but it is actually a sign of the progress of the times.
Knowing this, we also understand what we are watching the Spring Festival Gala.
In this era, watching the "Spring Festival Gala" is to choose a kind of companionship.
You have been tired for a year, dragging your tired body back to your hometown, and the Spring Festival Gala is on TV, and you have instantly found the full meaning of going home;
On Chinese New Year's Eve, your family of four rubbed mahjong for one night, and did not look up to see the Spring Festival Gala the whole time, but laughter was heard from time to time on the TV, and for a moment, you would feel that it was good to have the Spring Festival Gala;
During the Chinese New Year, you go to a relative's house, and after a while of greetings, the two sides become speechless, at this time the TV station is rebroadcasting the Spring Festival Gala, and you suddenly find a common topic, and you have spent this embarrassing time with gags;
Many years later, you occasionally open the clip of the Spring Festival Gala, the sketch that was not funny back then, and suddenly makes you recall the old times in the past.
That's all there is to the Spring Festival Gala, that's all.
After loosening the tie for the Spring Festival Gala, we have the possibility of making the Spring Festival Gala look good.
Maybe, how should the Spring Festival Gala be done?Pico has three pieces of advice:
One, you can stop laughing, but don't make us cry.
Xiao Shenyang said that the reason why he no longer acts in sketches is that he can't stand the kind of "happy and sad ends".
The creators of the Spring Festival Gala sketches seem to regard "the core of comedy is tragedy" as a golden rule, and they don't study the laughter well, so they have to make the audience cry.
Only when the audience cries, this is a high-class comedy.
This is actually the opposite of the joyful atmosphere of the New Year, everyone has worked hard for a year, and finally got together, and the joy is over, who wants to cry and mourn?
Second, you can be bored, but don't preach.
The so-called text carries the Tao, the Spring Festival Gala program team especially likes to educate people, and often carries private goods in the sketches, and everyone is tired of watching it.
In fact, Zhao Benshan has already told the truth:
Your work can't educate people, we have been in the process of education for 365 days, is it useful for you to educate him on this night?Just let him be happy, happiness is the theme, nothing else. ”
Now that Zhao Benshan has retired, it is too difficult for you to make the latecomers laugh at everyone, then play the role of your own BGM, honestly create a lively atmosphere, and don't teach everyone in the Chinese New Year's Eve.
Third, you can mix and match, but don't take the lead.
The current Spring Festival Gala sketches especially like to use some stars, the purpose is to shorten the distance between the young audience, the starting point is good, but it is a bit noisy.
For example, Ma Dong used to be the chief director of the Spring Festival Gala sketches, and later came out to work alone and created the "Annual Comedy Competition", the sketch in the show is a new type of sketch form, and many waist actors were also seen by the audience because of this show.
However, these actors are busy with their work, and few can finally appear on the Spring Festival Gala, and it is difficult for the form of sketch to appear on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
On the contrary, some big-name stars can easily make cameos in the Spring Festival Gala sketches.
Those who should not come can't come, and those who shouldn't come occupy a position and refuse to go, such a Spring Festival Gala, the difficulty of excitement will inevitably increase sharply.
In the past, because of Ma Ji, Chen Peisi, Zhao Benshan and other performing arts giants, we were used to using "laughter" to define the success of the Spring Festival Gala;
Now, when the older generation of artists is gone, we can let go of our obsessions and give the Spring Festival Gala new vitality with a hundred flowers blooming and pleasing to the eye.
There is just over 1 month left for the Spring Festival Gala in 2024, and the current audience has already disenchanted the Spring Festival Gala.
As long as the Spring Festival Gala can grasp the different forms of program performances, create a festive atmosphere, and tell the stories of the people in a down-to-earth manner, the final presentation will definitely win a full house.
That is, the whole process lasted more than 4 hours, and I would rather stand than watch it throughout.
This year's Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Dragon, is it changing?We'll see ......