"The only way to save the Spring Festival Gala is to invite Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao back. ”
Every year when the Spring Festival Gala is broadcast, there are always people who look forward to seeing a familiar figure on it: Chen Peisi.
40 years ago, the first Spring Festival Gala kicked off, and the first sketch was "Eating Noodles" by Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao.
Chen Peisi clearly just held an empty porcelain bowl and ate noodles around the empty bucket, but the lively noodle action made everyone laugh and cry, and by the way, he still wanted to have a bowl of noodles.
A few classic lines in "The Protagonist and the Supporting Role" are still being played by netizens in various hot comments:
I didn't expect it, I didn't expect that you, Zhu Shimao, a guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, also betrayed the revolution? ”
Did you bring the enemy here? ”
The host Yi Lijing once commented on Chen Peisi: "In China, there are very few such stars, and the longer they leave, the more the audience misses them." ”
After so many years, why can't people still forget Chen Peisi?
The first person in the Spring Festival Gala sketch.
On Chinese New Year's Eve in 1984, Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao hid behind the curtain on the second floor, not knowing if they had the opportunity to stand in front of the stage.
It turned out that the sketch "Eating Noodles" prepared by the two made the judges laugh when they were reviewed, and the judges were worried that it was "too funny" and lacked educational significance.
As early as the rehearsal, the two young people were not taken seriously, no one gave them meal tickets, they had to be cheeky to ask for it, there was no special rehearsal room, they could only find a room with few people to rehearse.
On the night of the Spring Festival Gala, the bus did not arrange the position of the two people at all, and Zhu Shimao dragged Chen Peisi to find a car, so he appeared at the scene on time.
Ten minutes before the performance, director Huang Yihe spoke:
There was no leader nodding, but no leader shaking his head, but I decided that the two of you will be responsible for what happened, but you remember, don't say the wrong thing, you can't make a mistake, and if you say a wrong word, it's a major political accident. ”
No one expected that this adventure would be a precedent, and "Eating Noodles" became the first sketch on the stage.
Chen Peisi held the empty bowl and sucked the noodles, his exaggerated expression and realistic demeanor made the audience lean forward and lean back with laughter
Halfway through the performance, I found that the stools under the stage were scattered everywhere, and many people were sitting cross-legged on the ground, but later I learned that the sketch was too funny, and the audience couldn't stand up straight with laughter, so they could only sit on the ground. ”
Since then, audiences across the country have known Chen Peisi, and people have one more reason to laugh out loud when they stare at the TV every year to watch the Spring Festival Gala.
The sketch "Pepper Noodles", with only a few lines, Chen Peisi's gobbling expression makes people laugh.
In "The Protagonist and Supporting Role", Chen Peisi plays the traitor, in order to be the protagonist, he steals the scene at every turn, and plays the small role of a scoundrel to the fullest.
Many years later, a netizen met Chen Peisi in a restaurant in Beijing, and he hurriedly shouted: "Captain, don't shoot, it's me!" ”
Chen Peisi turned around happily and blurted out the lines in the sketch: "It's you kid!" The audience burst into laughter.
Every year at the Spring Festival Gala, men, women and children stay in front of the TV, waiting for Chen Peisi to appear, causing the same frequency laughter from people across the country.
However, in 1998, after cooperating with his old partner Zhu Shimao in "The King and the Postman", Chen Peisi broke down and cried offstage.
At the beginning of the performance, the staff casually hung the wheat on Zhu Shimao's clothes, which caused problems with the radio.
Chen Peisi had no choice but to get close to Zhu Shimao, and the two used the same microphone, so that a lot of physical work and the rhythm of the performance were all messed up.
During the performance, sound effects such as the starting pistol also failed, and the performance effect was greatly reduced.
Chen Peisi's last appearance at the Spring Festival Gala ended regrettably.
The fuse of the bad relationship with the Spring Festival Gala was ** humiliated.
Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao found out that the company under CCTV did not ask, and made the sketches of the Spring Festival Gala of the two into CDs and sold them.
The two were indignant and found the staff, but they were scolded: We are the ones who are popular, and you will suffer if you are angry.
This contemptuous tone instantly ignited Chen Peisi's anger, and he pulled Zhu Shimao and sued the infringing company in court.
The lawsuit was won, and Chen Peisi's breath in his heart was finally smoothed.
In fact, his anger has been around for a long time, and in his previous Spring Festival Gala works, he put forward his ideas many times, but he never got agreed.
Year after year, our opinions are always rejected, so the contradiction becomes-for-tat. ”
In the 2002 Spring Festival Gala, he and Zhu Shimao spent a lot of effort to prepare a sketch of "Jianghu Doctor", but when they counted down to three days, they were notified that they needed to be replaced.
After that, no matter how hard the director of the Spring Festival Gala persuaded Chen Peisi to come out, he decisively refused:
They say no to me casually, and I'm going to say no to them too. ”
The vanished Chen Peisi.
After leaving the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, Chen Peisi went to **?
No one thought that Chen Peisi's initiative to withdraw from the Spring Festival Gala was rumored to be "CCTV**" by some **, and the performance units did not dare to invite him to perform again.
Immediately afterwards, Chen Peisi's film and television company also ushered in a crisis, when the industry was still informal, and the "concealment" behavior was particularly serious.
He launched "China's first Chinese New Year film" "The Queen Mother's Auspicious", which was clearly popular, but the box office was dismal and he couldn't make ends meet.
A copy of a movie is sold for 1,000 yuan, and after it is handed over to the cinema, the money cannot be recovered. I went down to monitor the tickets, and when there were 100 spectators, I was told that there were only 10 spectators.
Three movies in a row did not achieve the expected results, and Chen Peisi's career fell to a low point.
After the film and television company went bankrupt and collapsed, he lost a lot of money and went into debt.
At that time, his daughter, who was in primary school, had to pay 280 yuan in tuition, but he only had 147 yuan in his body.
Chen Peisi aged overnight and was depressed all day long.
Until one day, his wife, Wang Yanling, took him to a wasteland.
She comforted her husband: "I took the money I usually saved and bought a piece of land. Let's go farming, we have hands and brains, and there will definitely be no shortage of food and drink. ”
On the desolate hills, the couple built two wooden houses, one for the kitchen and one for the bedroom.
Dig a pit from the outside of the house, bury the water tank, and surround the reed strips, and you will have an open-air toilet. ”
The two of them were wearing galoss and straw hats, planting arborvitae, apple and pomegranate trees on the mountain, picking up dead leaves and dry branches to make fires, as if the glitz and glitz of Vanity Fair had nothing to do with them.
In the past two years, Chen Peisi and his wife have earned 300,000 yuan by selling timber and fruits.
The wife handed over the money to Chen Peisi, and she knew that her husband still had a fire in his heart and wanted to bring happiness and warmth to more people on the stage.
This time, Chen Peisi, who is over 45 years old, decided to enter the drama industry.
The start was still difficult, and in the middle of summer, Chen Peisi looked for investors everywhere, but hit a wall everywhere.
Someone kindly persuaded him: Drama is too unpopular, and most of the famous drama actors at that time have changed careers to film and television dramas, so spending a lot of effort on drama is likely to lose money.
Chen Peisi, who recognized it, shielded the industry's disfavor, he took out all his savings and smashed into the drama "Nursery".
Due to the bad situation of the drama, most of the theaters were dilapidated at that time, even the provincial theaters, the water valves of the toilets were full of rust, "standing on the stage, you could smell the smell of urine in the backstage toilets." ”
Chen Peisi is full of enthusiasm in the play, and he can cut 6 hours of 20-minute performance.
After a performance, he was like running a marathon, and he could drink a large bottle of saline.
Chen Peisi's hard work was not in vain, and his carefully polished "Nursery" was applauded and popular as soon as it was launched, almost full of seats, and it was hard to find a ticket.
Chen Peisi led the team to start a national tour, and he also invited his old partner Zhu Shimao to participate, but after more than 30 performances, Zhu Shimao waved his hand and withdrew:
Pace is a man of aspirations, and I really admire him. I can't bear his suffering, I'm too tired, I'm too lonely. ”
Chen Peisi is deeply involved in comedy dramas, and his subsequent works such as "Balcony", "Stage" and "Dream" have received enthusiastic responses, creating a miracle in the drama industry.
And he did exactly that: "Earn money while standing." ”
Boulevard. Chen Peisi's house has always kept a blood-stained white sweatshirt.
It was a few decades ago, when his father Chen Qiang was criticized and beaten, he was beaten by everyone.
When rehearsing "The White-Haired Girl", the leader saw that he had a hooked nose, so he asked him to play the bully landlord Huang Shiren.
After becoming famous, Chen Qiang became a villain professional, playing the role of Nan Batian in "Red Detachment of Women", and also won him the crown of Best Supporting Actor at the 1st Film Hundred Flowers Awards.
However, during the special period, everyone was in danger, and Chen Qiang was besieged by everyone, the reason being: "If you are a good person, how can you play the bad guy so seriously?" ”
The accident happened, and 15-year-old Chen Peisi followed his father to the desert area of Inner Mongolia to cut the queue.
In those four years, he barely ate meat, and he was always hungry.
In the spring ploughing, there were not enough livestock, so a few young people could only pull the hemp rope desperately, so that their hands and shoulders were bruised with blood.
Because of his father's stigmatized "gangster" identity, Chen Peisi applied for many literary and artistic groups, but there was no follow-up.
It wasn't until Bayi Film Studio began to recruit new students that Chen Peisi was admitted and started his career.
Seeing his father fall from an artist at the award ceremony to a situation where everyone shouted and beaten, Chen Peisi was completely disenchanted by fame and fortune, he didn't want to become famous, and he didn't disdain to be inflammatory, he just wanted to "do things innocently and be a clean man." ”
Chen Peisi named the film and television company: "Avenue".
Because he hopes that "this is a road that can be walked, explained clearly, and clearly, and can be walked on openly."
On the stage, people were amused by Chen Peisi's body language, but in reality, more people were impressed by his backbone and purity.
From his youthful debut to his gray beard, Chen Peisi has always been full of that fearless youth-like uprightness and bravery.
Talking about the shady nature of some award systems, he said without hesitation
I'm a very clean person, I didn't win these awards, and I hated it from the bottom of my heart! ”
He is not afraid of offending his peers, and evaluates several mentors in a talent show:
It's beautiful that several judges are competing with each other for a trainee. ”
The judges' performances were really good, and the performances were really realistic. ”
When there was a conflict with CCTV because of infringing works, someone persuaded him to invite someone to a meal and give some gifts, so that he could simply "get things done".
But he chose to be tough, and he has never regretted it over the years:
Otherwise, fifty or one hundred years from now, our descendants will see it and be angry at what we are doing now.
They are angry not at power, but at everyone who accepts it. ”
After entering the drama industry, it was popular in the industry to give tickets to celebrities and big names, but he disdained it:
I sell tickets, selling one is the money of one, you can buy tickets if you want to watch my play, don't tell me what official you are, it has nothing to do with me, if you want to watch the play, you will pay for it. ”
Chen Peisi wore cloth shoes and coarse cloth pants, was arrogant, straightened his back, and walked out of a "big road" in Vanity Fair.
As he said: "I don't have such high material requirements, why do I earn so much money?" No matter how expensive the car is, it's not still four wheels. How many houses do not and can only sleep one bed. ”
Talking about the reason why the audience loves Chen Peisi, a screenwriter concluded:
He has always played the real Chinese, and those are the faces of our hearts. ”
Once upon a time, many people were not accustomed to flattery, nodding their heads, and dark industry practices and false methods, but they had to be smoothed out, catered to, adapted, and became unrecognizable.
But no matter what kind of situation he faces, Chen Peisi says "no" to things that violate conscience and rules.
He has lost and been down, but he has never bowed his head.
He has suffered losses and paid a price, but he has never changed.
Click "watching" to pay tribute to Chen Peisi, and I hope that we can pay tribute to more than Chen Peisi.