The Legend of Comedy Master Peisi Chen

Because my brother's name is Chen Buda and my name is Peisi Chen.

Budapest, where my father was performing when my brother was born.

1954 February 1 Changchun, Peisi Chen was born in an art house.

Father Chen Qiang is a famous film performance artist in China. Because Huang Shiren, the vicious and ugly bully landlord in White-haired Girl, became famous in one fell swoop. Later, he won the best supporting actor in Hundred Flowers Award, the first film, because of the landlord Nan Ba Tian in Red women soldiers.

My father has been filming all the year round, and his relationship with Peisi Chen is estranged, but Peisi Chen worships his father very much. But since childhood, Peisi Chen has been naughty, disliked studying and often rebelled against his teachers. Therefore, I am often criticized and educated by my father.

All this changed when he 15 years old.

"If you are a good person, how can you play the bad guy so seriously?"

It seems funny, but it is for this reason that Chen Qiang was dragged onto the critical platform. Be labeled as a "gangster". As a result, Peisi Chen jumped the queue in Inner Mongolia and worked in the construction corps in the desert area for four years. The lack of food and clothing for four years made him miserable.

In order to get him back to the city, his father asked him to take action. Later, he applied for the Beijing Military Region Art Troupe and the General Political Department Drama Troupe, but because Peisi Chen was ordinary-looking, Chen Qiang was still considered a gangster at that time, and neither group accepted him.

Fortunately, in 1973, due to the recommendation of film actor Tian Hua, it happened that Bayi Factory wanted to recruit students, and Peisi Chen was finally admitted to the actor troupe of Bayi Film Studio.

From then on, he began his career as an actor.

Because of his appearance, Peisi Chen, who just entered the business, can only move on. But he is very interested in acting and always tries his best to "add drama" to himself. Because he played a lot and played well, he also got many opportunities.

1980, Peisi Chen first appeared in the comedy Seeing the Family with his father Chen Qiang. In order to play this film well, his bedside was covered with character analysis, but he was often criticized by his father on the set, and his father taught him to finish the trick with his hands.

As one of the few comedies of that era, the film became an instant hit as soon as it was broadcast, and it also won the excellent film award of the Ministry of Culture.

"When Peisi Chen tells jokes, no matter the language or the action, he is always more cola than others and has the talent to make people laugh."

In this way, comedy movies changed Peisi Chen from an ordinary person to a comedian. Since then, Peisi Chen's life has been full of ups and downs, and he can no longer live without comedy.

Speaking of Peisi Chen, I think the first thing that comes to mind is his old partner: Zhu Shimao.

Peisi Chen and Zhu Shimao met in Bayi Factory. When they were in Bayi Factory, in order to bring something "different" to the audience, they arranged a comedy short play "Eating Noodles" according to their usual training.

There are so many jokes in this program that no matter where you go to perform, you can make everyone laugh and have a high evaluation. Therefore, it caught the attention of Huang Yihe, the director of the Spring Festival Evening, and invited them to bring this program to the Spring Festival Evening.

In this way, "eating noodles" became an instant hit, while Peisi Chen and Zhu Shimao became famous overnight.

1986, because the traditional film studios were unwilling to make comedies, in order to make more comedies, Peisi Chen left Bayi and started his own company to make comedies.

In the following year 10, Peisi Chen and Zhu Shimao attended the Spring Festival Gala in 10.

He spends half his time making movies and half his time preparing sketches for the Spring Festival Evening. He conquered the audience with his works, rich facial expressions and vivid performances.

When eating noodles, it is obviously an empty bowl, but the "fragrance" he eats makes people want to eat a bowl. The transition from "leisure" to "eating support" is only explained by action expressions.

In "Pepper Noodles", in just two lines, he faced an empty bowl and vividly interpreted "blowing wonton" purely by body language. Full of jokes

Peak work "leading role and supporting role", that sentence:

"Captain, don't shoot, it's me!"

"The Imperial Army asked me to take a message for you."

Still a classic.

You will find that his works are little people, and most of them are "one evil and one positive" with Zhu Shimao. His sketches are always grounded, not so straightforward "educational significance" and not so "main theme".

He just confronted the "mainstream" and "authority" represented by Zhu Shimao with one annoying little person after another, made a joke with this conflict and contradiction, and played out the tricks, speculation and cunning of the little people, as well as the sadness and helplessness in their lives.

But strangely, after reading it, people have doubts: "Who is the hypocritical and ridiculous of these two characters?"

It seems that there is really no absolute conclusion in the end.

The Spring Festival Evening of Peisi Chen 1 1 came to an abrupt end after the performance of "The Prince and the Postman" on 1998.

Originally just resigned, in the second year, it became a rest.

It rained all night, at the same time, the film and television company in Peisi Chen closed down.

Every movie is profitable, only enough to start the next one. In this way, if you shoot one and lose another, you have to be in debt.

There are "gray areas" everywhere, "hidden rules" everywhere, and the surrounding is full of depression. Helpless, he can only choose to close the company.

But no matter how difficult it was, he didn't bow his head. What if I go back to the countryside to live and plant fruit trees? You can't make a movie without going on stage. So what?

Compared with material things, at that time he was more concerned about how to come out when he was full of boredom, rage, sadness and anger, to calm himself down and adjust his emotions.

So in those years, he studied books and comedies. Finally, he found something he liked and wanted to do, and that was drama.

200 1 at the lowest point of the drama, he adapted his friend's experience of being cheated by a child care provider into a drama child care provider. Started a national tour. Performance 120, attendance rate 95%, audience170,000 people. ......

But there is a cruel reality behind the scenery.

Insufficient funds, poor performance venue, narrow backstage and adjacent toilets. ......

Even Zhu Shimao, an old partner, couldn't stand it after attending 33 performances, and said frankly, "I just can't stand his pain, so tired! Too lonely. "

Many people are persuading Peisi Chen to make a TV play and a movie. Short time and high income, with his skill, investment is not a problem, why wronged him?

However, Peisi Chen refused, and insisted on "paying more and getting less" in drama. There are 500 plays such as Balcony, Thunder Dinner and Stage, with an audience of over 700,000. Created a box office miracle in the theater industry many times.

He said that he knew how deep the water was in the TV and film industries, and he didn't want to take the risk and "hurt" investors.

Behind this sentence, I see not only the disappointment of a former film and television person to this industry, but also a sense of pride and responsibility. Disdain to go with the flow, disdain to cling to power and attach importance to power.

And this is exactly what is lacking now.

Peisi Chen was asked about money when he participated in An Interview with Yang Lan. This is what he said:

Chen: I don't have that high demand for material things. What am I going to do after I earn it?

Yang Lan: Buy a house.

Chen: What are you doing after buying it?

Yang Lan: Buy a car.

Chen: What are you doing after buying it?

This time, Yang Lan was silent.

"Many expensive cars are still four-wheeled."

"How many houses can only sleep in one bed?"

"If you spend a lot of money to buy a house, but your back aches after sleeping, and even the doctor suggests that you can't sleep in this bed, is it worth spending so much money?"

Maybe you can feel the difference between him and many people when you hear this.

Everyone has something to pay attention to. Some people are rich, but others care more about other things.

Money is very important, but if you only have money in your mind all your life, is it still meaningful?

Unfortunately, in this circle, how many people only have money in their minds.

I have tens of millions in my hand, but I never thought that my acting skills are worth the money.

In order to make more money and maximize profits, you can do any dirty business.

Full of hierarchy, flattery, hidden rules and two-faced. ......

But I think, not only the film and television circle, but all walks of life are the same.

I often hear a saying: "This is what we do. If we accept it, we will stay. If we can't accept it, we will change careers as soon as possible. We are not short of people, and there are many people crowded in. "

Because of this sentence, more and more people choose to compromise in order to survive.

No matter which circle, people in the circle are very aware of the hidden rules. If you want to survive in this industry, you have to accept, ignore and tolerate some hidden rules more or less. If you can't accept it, then run away. But if you want to fight against the big environment and correct this bad style, it may be more difficult than going to heaven.

But I think this may also be the reason why people like Peisi Chen are admired.

Because most of us have no courage to fight.

That's why I worship that desperate and lonely hero.