Chapter 29 The Family of Quyi
Today's actors have no acting skills when they should act seriously on stage, but when they should be sincere and honest off stage, they can act better than anyone else...
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Yang Mi was a little surprised when she saw Lu Yuchi and Han Shiqi suddenly walked in. Lu Yuchi pointed to the stage downstairs, indicating to continue listening to the cross talk, and then sat down with Han Shiqi.
The cross talk on the stage downstairs was still going on, and the funny actor said: "It's okay to be like you. To live a good life, you have to save money. A few days ago, my girlfriend bought me a pair of leather shoes. How much do you know?
Money?”
"How much?" Wang Mao Mao asked.
"More than two thousand yuan!"
"Ouch?!"
"Oh, this is going to kill me. It's more than two thousand yuan! This is my food money for a year!" the funny actor said through gritted teeth.
"If you just eat rice, maybe it will be enough." Wang Mao Mao said with a slightly sarcastic smile on his face.
"When I put on these shoes, I can't even walk down the aisle."
"Where is that? What should I do when I go out?"
"Call it 'Didi'."
Wang Maomao took over the funny actor's words and said to the audience: "Listen, it's just to save on shoes. I have the same point of view as him, and I also save on clothes."
"Really?" the funny actor asked.
Wang Xiaomao vowed: "Of course it is! Buying clothes in China is expensive. Walk a few more steps and work hard to get rich. I shop like crazy every time I go abroad, just to save some money..."
After Yang Mi laughed, she said to Lu Yuchi: "The cross talk Brother Cat talked about is different from what I usually hear."
"That's right, wherever there are serious cross talk nowadays, they are just a bunch of 'talk shows' put together to make up the duration. It was so fun to listen to, I forgot about it as soon as I went out, and I don't want to listen to it again next time, I can't get addicted
." Lu Yuchi lit a cigarette and said,
"The passage Xiao Mao'er mentioned is a joke written by Young Ma Ye, and it follows the path of Ma style writing. The writing is straightforward and eloquent, but there are no vulgar jokes to catch the audience's ears.
, only then can you see your skills the most.
It's really enjoyable to listen to Ma Lao talk about literature. Why is he a master of cross talk? Apart from his seniority, his skill lies there. The audience memorized the words of his cross talk, and he just chatted with them on the stage.
They are all commonplace words, but the audience is willing to wait for him to say that sentence and wait to have fun there. This is his ability! Can a talk show have such an effect?
Look at the funny actor below. He said a bunch of titles in front of him, actually just for the "Uncle Cow" at the end, but what he said in front of him was meaningful. The boss is hypocritical, the lady is ambiguous, the little brother is disgusting, he doesn't matter
It's not slow and makes the audience feel it's natural.
But literary works have higher requirements for actors who praise them. Three points are funny and seven points are praise. This is not nonsense. If you think about it carefully, this funny story is straightforward, steady and powerful, but is this power all contributed by Mao Mao Er?
What did he say? Every time you laugh, is it after the little cat has finished speaking?
Especially in this section, in the second half, the text turns to Zi Mu Kui, oh, what you said sounds different. Because of the cross talk between Zi Mu Kui, the two of them are teasing each other, so Xiao Mao Er also has to take responsibility.
'Funny'. This guy is a bit interesting."
Yang Mi nodded and said, "It's true. Eh? You seem to understand it very well."
"Haha, in Tianjin, a breakfast vendor in Tianjin always talks with jokes. He can't even be said to understand. He should understand everything. Take Xiaomao'er as an example. After talking for a long time, what does he do? A cigarette and alcohol seller.
'Smelly hawker'." Lu Yuchi said, imitating Yang Mi's accent.
"Go, I casually said that day, you are not allowed to tell me Brother Cat."
"I don't dare. I may not dare to talk to him for a while. Your brother Cat is different from the past. He owns such a big teahouse. We two brothers don't know." Lu Yuchi pointed at Han Shiqi and said to Yang Mi
.
Yang Mi added: "Brother Cat usually doesn't talk much, but it feels so shuai when he's on stage... it's different anyway."
"It's okay if you explain the word 'handsome' clearly. You only have this level of appreciation. He is not familiar with you, and he has been irritated with me in the past few days, so he seems to be less talkative. In fact, Xiaomao
He usually talks a lot and is quite humorous, but this is completely different from the humor he brings on stage. He is sultry off the stage, but he is bright and coquettish on stage, haha!
When it comes to being an actor, this is how it should be. If you are the same on and off the stage, is it still called acting? Look at the few words Mao Maoer chatted with the audience when he first came on stage, it was like a joke between buddies.
, but in fact he is already 'acting'.
His so-called small talk was, firstly, not to embarrass the audience, and secondly, to attract the audience's attention. Furthermore, starting from his words, 'I can't bear to see you like this,' he was already preparing for the future.
This is a foreshadowing of the story I’m about to say.
So when it comes to being an actor, you have to be different on stage and off stage. You have to act when you should act, and be real when you should be real, but you can't reverse the scene. Today's actors should act seriously on stage.
I have no acting skills at all times, but when I need to be sincere in the audience, I can act better than anyone else..."
They chatted for a while. Wang Mao Mao walked into the box and saw Lu Yuchi and Han Shiqi here. He hesitated for only a second and sat down calmly. He is a smart man and he understood that no matter when Lu Yuchi and Han Shiqi came in
, did you hear the audience in the audience say that this is his teahouse, but now that you are here and see yourself performing here, you probably know it.
Lu Yuchi sighed and said, "I don't even know what to call you. Should I call you Writer Wang or Teacher Wang? You haven't been on stage for so many years, why are you performing here today?"
Han Shiqi also said with a smile: "You can't go to such a large teahouse just if you want to, right? I saw that the TV actor Huang Hetao was performing sketches here."
"Are you two tired? What are you pretending to be? If you really don't understand, you can throw away your brains." Wang Mao Mao took the teapot, poured himself a drink and said, "Yes, this teahouse belongs to my family...
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When Wang Xiaomao talked about it, it was indeed as Lu Yuchi expected. He was not a child of a wealthy family, but his family background was in the entertainment industry, and many people would still give him face.
After crosstalk had a serious ranking, it is still ranked among the five generations of "virtue, longevity, treasure, culture and Ming" today.
The masters of the German generation are too far away from us, and it is basically impossible to find their images and audio materials. The most famous among them is probably the cross talk "Eight Virtues". People are more familiar with Ma Sanli's master Zhou Hao and Zhou Deshan.
Ma Sanli’s father and Ma Delu, Guo Rongqi’s master, are among the “Eight Virtues”.
Below is the longevity generation, such as longevity master Zhang Shouchen, cross talk master Ma Sanli, and Guo Lao Guo Rongqi, etc. They are closer to us, so we can have the honor to appreciate the performances of this generation of old artists. Unfortunately, this generation
All the old artists have passed away now.
The Bao generation can be said to be the highest peak in the development of cross talk. This generation has produced many masters, such as Master Hou Baolin, the famous cross talk master Mr. Zhao Peiru, and the young master Ma Zhiming.
And Wang Xiaomao's grandfather is a cross talk actor of the Bao generation. Although he is not as famous as some masters, he still has a certain status in the cross talk circle where seniority and mentorship are important.
Cross talk and folk art are inseparable from teahouses. Wang Maomao’s great ancestor has been running teahouses since his generation. His great-grandfather was a storytelling artist, and he performed in his own teahouse. As for this worry-free teahouse, it belongs to Wang Maoomao.
Grandpa drove it.
Of course, times have changed, and now crosstalk as a whole is in decline, and teahouse crosstalk is not so prosperous. And as Lu Yuchi and Han Shiqi analyzed before coming in, the cost of opening a teahouse in this place is too high, and naturally it cannot make much money.
So Wang Mao Mao’s family really doesn’t have much money, and the teahouse is still struggling to support it. Even if it is an art such as folk art and a kind of teahouse business, it is a kind of business. In the words of Grandpa Wang Mao Mao, there are still some old audiences and customers who are accustomed
Watch a show and drink tea here, just leave it open.
And Wang Xiaomao is not deliberately hiding anything. He really doesn’t want to talk about cross talk anymore. He is a literati. Learning cross talk at the beginning was just a request from his elders, but people always have their own pursuits.
"You are still from a folk art family." Lu Yuchi said.
"That's right, but it's over when you come to me. I'm not hiding it from you, but you may not believe it. In the past thirty years, I didn't enter this teahouse more than five times. I only came here in the past two years, but
It’s more about finding inspiration for writing novels.
Even my grandfather himself was quite conflicted. On the one hand, he wanted me to learn cross talk, but on the other hand, people of that generation knew that it was not easy to perform as an entertainer. In the early years, after all, he was a member of the lower class. Five shaved his head, six played a hand, seven acted, eight called the street, and nine sold.
Sugar, my grandfather told me this, so the old man also hopes that I can have some knowledge and stop doing this business."
Lu Yuchi said with a smile: "You're an 'old man'. I mean, in addition to being bookish, you have also always adhered to some old etiquette, which is not bad."
"Brother Cat." Yang Mi suddenly called Wang Xiaomao, but she seemed to have no idea what to say, "Hey, it's okay."
"I have something to do." Lu Yuchi took Yang Mi's words and said to Wang Xiaomao, "Guo Xiaotie said it was your grandfather who asked him to come, so Huang Dajin was also arranged by you?"
"That's not the case. People in the folk art circle may try to sell my grandpa a favor, but there will be no chance in the entertainment industry. I have no contact with them."
"You said, I believe it, but this is strange. I thought it was Xiao Zhong's uncle Yang Guangzhao or you, but it turned out that it was neither of you." Lu Yuchi took a sip of tea and said, "Hey, who cares. That's right.
, then Huang Hetao is performing in your teahouse, why don’t you invite him to participate in our variety show?"
"It's not appropriate." Wang Mao Mao said meaningfully.
Han Shiqi was relatively slick, and he obviously understood what Wang Xiaomao meant, and said, "It is true that it is not convenient for him to come back now, and it would be difficult to broadcast if he really invites him."
"This is unfair." Lu Yuchi also understood what they meant.
"Fair, unfair, no matter how rich you are, if you are not sitting in that position, you can't control this matter." Han Shiqi said with a smile.
"Okay, I'm just asking casually." Lu Yuchi said to Wang Maomao again, "Today is not in vain. I heard what you said last time and you will be the host to record the show. I feel more confident.
"
"You really want me to host? You have invited so many people and you don't have a host?"
Chapter completed!