Chapter 19 I'm talking about cross talk

"The moonlight is bright in front of the bed, it is suspected to be frost on the ground, raise your head to look at the bright moon, my name is Guo Degang!" For a cross talk actor, what is my job?I'm talking about cross talk.Well, my profession is cross talk.I have said this to my apprentices and students, if you have other crafts, if you have other ways to get rich, I will never block the way of making money.If it says that you can dig a gold mine by yourself tomorrow, and the oil will be drilled in your backyard the day after tomorrow, that is all your business and has nothing to do with me, and I will never stop it.But if you tell me that you want to talk about cross talk, I mean relying on cross talk for a living and doing cross talk as a craft, then you must be responsible for it.While you are responsible for cross talk, you are also responsible for you.

Why do you say that? If talking about cross talk is regarded as a kind of bullshit, it is very wrong.Nowadays, some people say that the cross talk world is very prosperous, but it is not the case.Cross talk is not doing well, and I dare to say a responsible truth-many of our cross talk actors are basically not very good at cross talk.Crosstalk is the same as Peking Opera, it needs a foundation.It takes six to seven years for this kind of basic boy's work, and it is best to cultivate it in that atmosphere for more than ten years.I remember an old man said that a good actor should be mature, successful, famous, and famous. Forty is not too late. Unfortunately, many of our current actors don’t think so.

Affected by the Cultural Revolution, our industry was basically shut down, the old gentlemen fled, and the young people did not learn the basics in the normal way.In the late period of the Cultural Revolution, when people needed to laugh, many actors speculatively jumped into this industry, feeling that this industry was easy to mess with, as long as they could make people laugh with a few words.Perhaps most of the audience are very kind!That's why it's easy for these people to become so-called comedians. But if you are a Beijing opera actor, no matter if you are playing the flag or playing a role, you have to study for at least seven or eight years before you can say that he is an actor. Martial arts cannot be practiced in three days or two. Dancing, diving, swimming, etc. It is by no means a one-day effort.Only talking about cross talk is a bit weird. A person who can't speak Mandarin suddenly announces that he is a cross talk actor.These are actually very unreasonable things.

Nowadays, before the age of 20 or 30, a large number of cross talk actors are engaged in other industries, and have never learned cross talk at all. Various reasons make them jump into this industry.I am afraid that there are many fakes in everything. If eighty out of a hundred people are fake, then the fake will become real, and the real will be abnormal.This is the very real situation at present, which is very embarrassing.No one is willing to stand up and tell the truth about this deception that has been maintained by everyone for many years. Our appearance may also be an impact on these illusions or "suspected cross talk". It is no wonder that some people will attack us and spread rumors and slander everywhere. This is also a normal phenomenon.Some actors themselves talk about cross talk, but hate cross talk. They feel that cross talk cannot be realized for him to support his family, let alone make a fortune.In fact, this is a wrong idea. In the history of more than two hundred years, how many generations have been nurtured by our cross talk.Our predecessors and relatives all know that cross talk actors lived well back then, including cross talk artists in the old society, not all were as miserable as everyone thought, and some were rich, so some people said that cross talk actors were old and decayed No more, can't ask for these things anymore, this is a very stupid idea.

Our traditional cross talk comes from the accumulation of traditional art and culture for more than two hundred years. Countless cross talk predecessors have carried forward this art with their own efforts, and have refined the witty and funny skills in the Chinese language until today. The same is true, no matter what new cross talk, the techniques used are actually used in traditional cross talk.If you insist on saying no, it's just that you don't admit it.In fact, there are still some actors who do know that traditional cross talk is good, but they know that they have been cooking until they were thirty, and if they go back to learn this traditional cross talk, they must be forty, and he can't wait.then what should we do?He has to destroy this thing first, and ruin the prescription.What is it called?This is called retreating when faced with difficulties, and detachment when faced with difficulties.This is irresponsible.Many words and deeds of these people have dealt a devastating blow to cross talk.

I like to read books, and read all kinds of books. Whether I have been poor or poor in Beijing for so many years, no matter when, the books on that wall follow me.I moved houses more than a dozen times and these books moved north and south with me. When I had no money, I bought books with a little money.If there are still some strong traditional flavors in my works, it is more or less related to my love of reading. I also read more miscellaneous books, such as classical literature, poetry, poetry, stories, novels, prose and biographies. . There are four homework for cross talk talk, learning to sing while speaking, nearly twelve subjects for speaking, ventriloquist, white sand writing, asking for money, Taiping lyrics, opening song, counting treasures, being able to hold a joke, being able to make a joke... these are There is a lot of knowledge in it, and a good actor should be a psychologist.Unlike other art forms, cross talk performers need to pay attention to the audience's laughter. It may be easier to ask people to applaud, but it is not easy to ask them to laugh.In some evening performances, crosstalk actors are the most embarrassing. If the audience likes to listen to their singing, you can get off the stage by applauding at the end. How can you step off stage if the audience doesn’t laugh?

It can be seen that cross talk is difficult, and the success rate of cross talk actors is very low. We always think that cross talk is more about talent.Some people are born to talk about cross talk, and some people are born without humor.For cross talk, genius accounts for 80%, and acquired hard work accounts for 20%. You must first have this condition and quality, and you have your own understanding of humor. To have that kind of humor Expressiveness and desire to express, these things are born.It is not taught by the teacher. No matter how hard the teacher is or how great an artist he is, he cannot teach this kind of thing.This humorous temperament is something in the bones, which may be related to genetics.This is also the reason why the success rate in our line is very low.There are a thousand children learning cross talk, if there are four or five of them who can make a difference, it will be very good.On the contrary, a large number of actors nowadays are not humorous, and cross talk is not funny, it is not the kind that makes everyone feel ridiculous when they go on stage and fall a big somersault, it is not such superficial slickness and low-level spoofs, but something deeply rooted in the bones, This kind of thing can only be understood but not expressed in words, it is more of a comic spirit.

Many people are not willing to work hard according to the rules of cross talk. In order to learn cross talk, children in the old society followed the teacher and endured beatings and scolding.Today's kids and actors don't want to be like this, everyone is very smart, people are opportunistic.He may only need to know a certain cross talk and get to know a few more directors.I usually clean the director’s house, sweep the floor, clean the bedrolls, do odd jobs, raise dogs, and walk birds. When he has a party director, he can use him. After three or five times, the audience and friends will know him, and then find a suitable opportunity. Really make a very funny work, eat it for a lifetime.This is a very sad speculative mentality and behavior, and what is even more sad is that most cross talk actors now have this mentality.So a few years ago, everyone felt that cross talk was not funny, and it was impossible to listen to it. This is the reason.Those who are not doing cross talk, and those who don't know how to talk about cross talk, have ruined cross talk alive.This is really a very sad thing.Watching some people's cross talk, I feel like weeping—that's destroying our cross talk.I have a temper, I usually have no temper, and I am more easy-going when people are playing around, but only when I am involved in cross talk, I am more angry.Because this is the only thing I love, I am more serious about cross talk, and maybe this is where I don't get along with the group.

So, as long as cross talk actors work hard, really learn his essence, and throw away the idea of ​​quick success, this art can make you on the road to a well-off life.Many of our actors have earned money, bought cars, houses, and villas by relying on the craft of cross talk.This principle is the same as doing business. In business, there are Li Ka-shing and those who jumped to their deaths. Everything is artificial.A beggar on the street may have two or three cars at home.It is unreasonable to say that traditional cross talk is at the bottom.I often tell the audience on the stage that we should listen to cross talk more. Five thousand years of traditional culture are reflected in cross talk.There is everything in cross talk, including the world and human conditions, folk customs, astronomy and geography, and all kinds of knowledge.Look at the vast land of our ancient civilization of 5,000 years. Now the words "Hello, goodbye, sorry, thank you" are pasted on the wall. These basic polite expressions still need to be written on paper to teach everyone that this is not an ancient civilization. sad?It's not that I'm being rude, it's really good to listen to cross talk more.I really hope everyone respects cross talk and traditional art.