Speaking of Taiwan's "godfather of variety shows" Wang Weizhong, the first variety show that comes to mind should be " Kangxi is Coming ", but what Miss Bird wants to recommend today is not "Kangxi is Coming Linux", but another variety show produced by Wang Weizhong - " Chinese TV History ".
Although not many people have watched it, this variety show has always maintained a high score of 9.5 on Douban, but if you think this variety show is as serious as its name, you are very wrong! What a magical variety show this is? Let me tell you.
One day a few years ago, Miss Bird accidentally opened a video program on B station. As soon as it opened, barrage of the screen came up: "Congratulations on discovering the treasure of the station."
With curiosity and joy of discovering treasure, Miss Bird continued to watch with the lively barrage of the screen. A strong sense of the times came to my face, but the narration of "serious nonsense" immediately attracted me and I watched dozens of episodes in the joy.
The first episode is the "slap chapter". On how to slap in film and television dramas:
"Since the birth of the TV program, slap has been very popular among producers.
Because there is a slap in the face, there will be conflicts in the face, and only conflicts can bring ratings.
Therefore, slap has become a very important page in the history of Chinese TV ."
Wang Weizhong's narration is told in a leisurely manner, while the actors are working hard to perform how to slap others in the face under the narration.
I saw the actor slapping the air in the face with his right hand, and slapping his left hand at his thigh to dubbing . He also had to hold back the pain of sucking himself, cooperate with the narration and put on an angry expression, which made people laugh.
perfectly restores and satirizes the exaggerated plot and performances in film and television dramas. Wang Weizhong's narration also adds a sentence "I don't know who stipulates it" to complain about the solidified creative thinking of the film and television industry , which is simply fun!
program form creative innovation
was born in 1988 "History of Chinese Television". It was born at the moment of Taiwan's variety shows transformation. Early traditional variety shows could not escape the stereotype of teaching and entertainment.
As the concept is open, show variety shows emerged, and the forms of singing, dancing and short dramas are different, but they often copy and imitate Japanese programs. Taiwanese variety shows have not yet figured out their own path.
In 1986, Wang Weizhong launched Huashi " serial bubble ", and "History of Chinese TV" is one of the units.
Therefore, since Wang Weizhong's generation, Taiwan variety shows have changed its appearance. satirized social phenomena in the form of variety shows, established a style of satirizing current affairs, and also led to the trend of later variety shows short dramas.
According to Wang Weizhong, the inspiration for the production of "History of Chinese Television" was the heavy tone he used to see a documentary and thought it was very fun, so he made this unit.
Therefore, when we hear Wang Weizhong's narration, the formal and serious tone is in a strong contrast with the sharp tongue of the content and the actor's spoof performance. The feeling of "serious nonsense" comes to our face. This innovative program format at that time is still out of date and the comedy effect is not inferior.
In that new forms of variety shows are endless, all the shackles of order are broken in progress. For Wang Weizhong's generation of variety shows, it may be a period of Genesis from 0 to 1.
The actor's performance is remarkable and interesting.
The excellent comedy effect of "History of Chinese TV" is not only from the screenwriter and narrator, but also from the actors' hard performances. The male protagonist of the "Slap" mentioned above was squeezing his thighs to dubbing, and we could clearly see his thighs being flushed by himself.
As we all know, acting in comedy is more difficult than tragedy. If acting in comedy cannot make people laugh, then you will be a tragedy.
The actors in this show were not famous actors at that time, or even professional actors. Praise was not their main job, because they also had to take into account behind-the-scenes production.
But these actors who look ordinary, without the face of a celebrity, you can't even find them even if you throw them into the crowd, are very contagious when performing. As long as you watch their performances, you will never forget them.
especially mentions Yang Liyin . This beautiful girl is also a first-class professional actor in drama performance, but she completely ignores her image when performing, is funny and ugly, and has no burden at all, contributing to us a wonderful performance.
Pengchacha , Xu Xiaoshun, Guo Ziqian , Tai Zhiyuan , Chen Weimin , kong , Honguras ,
includes Yang Liyin, Ami ,
, who have now faded out of the entertainment industry, Ami ,
, I believe that those who have watched it will remember their names, and later more than half of the big names in Taiwan variety shows were born here.
reflects on film and television production, sharp but not mean
Although it was a variety show thirty years ago, the satirical strange phenomena in the film and television industry in the program are still out of date now. This is why we will not have a generation gap at all when watching this program, and we can still resonate.
I don’t know if I should be happy for Wang Weizhong or sad for the film and television industry.
"History of Chinese TV" has a total of 35 episodes, covering the clothing, Taoism, chemistry, scenery and sound aspects of China's TV industry production;
summarizes and teases typical routines of TV production in different genres (advertising, movies, variety shows, etc.), and types (family, martial arts, spy wars, etc.);
also mentions the film and television ecosystem derived from the star system introduced by Hollywood as the core, and is a strange phenomenon after localization.
covers a wide range of content and is humorous in style. When joking about these funny phenomena, it is not exaggerated. It is humorous but not mean at all.
After laughing, we can reflect on the shortcomings caused by the production of film and television industry.
is ridiculous but not mean, and has a deep humor. The scale of the program is just right.
Power out of nothing
In 2016, "Kangxi is Coming", which has been broadcast for more than ten years, was suspended. This incident was regarded by many people as a symbol of the end of the golden age of Taiwan variety shows. Taiwan variety shows are no longer glorious as the past. The pillars of Taiwan variety shows that year also came to the mainland to develop, and the soil for variety shows is brewing again in the mainland.
However, in Hedong for thirty years, Hexi for thirty years, when Taiwan variety shows were the most glorious, even Korean variety shows came to learn from the truth, but now no one mentioned the decline. Even the popular variety shows in mainland China have bought the copyright from South Korea in most cases.
From the 1980s to the present, Wang Weizhong, as the creator and witness of the glory of Taiwan variety shows, faced with the problem of "the decline of Taiwan variety shows", he frankly said that this was a stage and an inevitable period of weakness. The only regret of is that "Kangxi is Coming" is suspended, and the mainland and Taiwan lack a bridge of entertainment and cultural communication.
Mainland variety shows rose from the beginning of the 21st century, mostly by buying overseas copyrights. Unlike Taiwan in the past, there was a process of slowly forming its own path, and some viewers were very resisting this kind of "plagiarism" of mainland variety shows.
But Wang Weizhong shook his head: "Actually, it doesn't matter when plagiarism starts. I don't think that is the biggest focus. It's a process that will slowly become your own thing." "After that process, you have to find your own spirit, I think that is more important."
For Wang Weizhong, "History of Chinese Television" is such a variety show that "creates something out of nothing" when exploring his own spirit, and is a breakthrough from 0 to 1.
With an optimistic mood, Miss Bird also looks forward to mainland variety shows discovering their spirit as soon as possible and opening up a new atmosphere of mainland variety shows with the spirit of creative innovation.
