Zhou Jintang's Artistic Experience

When Zhou Jintang was in high school, it was the time when the role of war movies was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. I don't know who found out that the music teacher is somewhat similar to Commander Tang in the play. Since then, Mr. Zhang has become the imitation object of the students.

In class, Mr. Zhang spoke with relish, and the students happily "studied" under the podium. Especially active, those "gestures" often cause students to burst into laughter, but teacher Zhang on the podium is puzzled.

Once, during a performance, Mr. Zhang suddenly appeared in front of him. After a short freeze, Zhou Jintang realized that he had made a mistake and started running. Teacher Zhang chased after him and ran around the classroom several times, and both teachers and students stopped. Looking at being "confronted" with himself across the table, Teacher Zhang burst out laughing. Since then, Mr. Zhang has been drawn into the school literature and art propaganda team.

Looking back on his artistic path, Zhou Jintang will never forget this teacher Zhang Yanlin from Wuhan No.6 Middle School. He explored and guided my interest. 1975, Zhou Jintang is a young actor in the army art troupe. That year, he watched the performance "Teahouse" by Beijing People's Art in Beijing, and after watching it, his heart surged. He buried his belief that he would be an excellent dramatic actor in the future in his heart.

1978, Zhou Jintang declined the invitation of the Beijing Second Artillery Art Troupe, transferred from the army to Wuhan, and became a drama actor in the Municipal Theatre. When I first arrived at the theater, the yard was in a remote place. Zhou Jintang's handsome appearance and solid performance skills make theater leaders "shine at the moment". In the second year of Wuhan Theatre, the drama In Silence was arranged in the courtyard, with Zhou Jintang playing Ouyang Ping, the son of Merlin.

With his handsome appearance and profound literary and artistic skills, Zhou Jintang soon became the first actor on the stage of Wuhan drama. 1995 won the Peony Award for his outstanding performance in the drama "A Heartwarming Heart". Hubei local opera in the 1990s has lost its former glory, and the audience is constantly losing. Although the drama Mother and Soul of the Three Gorges arranged by Wuhan Theatre won grand prizes all over the country, no one invited the tickets sent by the theatre to see them.

For Zhou Jintang, the audience no longer walks into the theater, which is a loss that no reward can make up. It was not until 2003 that Zhou Jintang, Liu Fu, Li Bing, Li Tie and others put out the Chinese-style sketch Counting Whites, which changed this phenomenon, and the box office was particularly hot, with a performance of 120 and a profit of more than 2 million yuan.

White dots have injected new vitality into Wuhan Theatre, but at the same time, they have brought great pressure: because the starting point of white dots is too high, you and I are required to be at least as good as white dots.

You and me was first named a big man and a little husband, and the character design and story were completely divorced from Forget it for nothing. It was very bad that Zhou Jintang invited some audiences to watch the play when it was nearly four months old. Zhou Jintang decided to "break the wrist of a strong man", overturn the original script and start a new stove.

The rearranged sketch is called "You scared me", which is the most commonly used sentence of Wuhan people and makes the citizens feel more cordial. "You and Me" continues the humor of "White Clothes Beats Numbers" in style, and the characters are also in the same strain. Little shanghai, Dayu and Zhou Pingping, these familiar figures have returned to Li Jinde: after the demolition and transformation of the Li Jinde community, the residents happily moved into their new homes. A "Li Jinde Good Man" community selection activity attracted new and old owners to appear one after another, and staged a gripping, fresh and interesting story. "You and I", like "White Clothes Beats Numbers", shows the living conditions of ordinary men in modern society with humorous and exaggerated performance techniques, and at the same time takes into account the strong regional color of Wuhan, so that the audience can feel life while laughing.

Zhou Jintang is not satisfied with the brilliant achievements you and I have made in Wuhan. "I want to promote it to the whole country, re-integrate it on the basis of you and me, and turn it into a drama accepted and liked by the national audience." 1979, Zhou Jintang was selected by the cast of the film Love and Inheritance produced by Xi 'an Film Studio. The film became popular all over the country, and Zhou Jintang became a minor actor on par with Tang Guoqiang and others.

After "The First Electric Shock", Zhou Jintang's film contract continued, but a film was filmed for half a year, but the cinema leaders did not agree. Moreover, Zhou Jintang's interest was mainly in the stage, so he turned off many film and television crews. At present, the film and television drama market in China is very popular. Making a TV series can earn 8000-65438+ 10,000 yuan, and all the income of the drama theater adds up to 50,000 yuan, but Zhou Jintang is still quietly sticking to it on the lonely drama stage.

From the stage of drama to the screen, from the screen to the stage of drama, Zhou Jintang often has to face choices, but when they conflict, Zhou Jintang always insists on drama.

In May, 2002, Wuhan held a party to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the publication of the Speech on Extending Seats, and arranged for Zhou Jintang to play Chairman Mao, and he agreed. The stylist proposed to shave off part of his hair, when he had just received a contract for a TV series. You can only choose one contract for a 5-minute series and dozens of episodes of TV dramas. Zhou Jintang sat in the dressing room without hesitation: "Shave!" Shaving your head means hundreds of thousands of dollars in economic losses. This choice is not the first time for him. For more than ten years, he has rejected countless plays for his beloved stage. In recent years, he declined the invitation of more than 20 pieces of four TV dramas and two movies, with a loss of nearly 800,000 yuan.

Because of the busy rehearsal performance, he had to send his 80-year-old mother to the welfare home for care. "No one wants to do this, but I am an actor in a play and the party secretary in the courtyard. I really can't control it." Is really helping, Zhou Jintang helping, and himself. Over 50 years old, kidney calculi and hyperlipidemia have been tormenting him, but he is still struggling for the prosperity of our city's cultural undertakings. "My heart is always on the stage", which is his monologue. Tianyi comedy club

The drama stage has been more and more strongly impacted by film and television, and the audience has gradually decreased. However, Zhou Jintang still persists in cultivating the stage, trying to make the dramatic art of Chun Xue close to people's lives. In the mid-1990s, Zhou Jintang founded Wuhan Tianyi Comedy Club, and gathered a group of powerful directors in Wuhan, Hubei Province to explore the integration of Wuhan folk customs and even "Chinese dialects" into drama art. He has created 200 works successively, among which the series of Carelessness and Thoughtfulness was invited to CCTV's Qu Yuan Miscellaneous Altar. In 2006, the sketch "Conscription" broke into CCTV Spring Festival Evening for the first time as a language program representing Hubei.

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In 2003, under his initiative, he gave full play to the advantages of the theater in comedy sketches and created a brand-new drama-sketch drama. The performance of the sketch drama "Bai Shu" made the drama regain its prosperity in that year, with more than 120 performances and more than 3 million box office. "Expecting to be white" is a Wuhan dialect, and the meaning of "keeping your word" is just that there is a bold personality of Wuhan people between the lines. Taking this dialect as the origin, Zhou Jintang and his colleagues polished out a Chinese sketch "Counting White". Famous actors such as Xiao, Ma Qihou, Li Tie, etc. explained Wuhan people's thinking on moral construction by telling stories that happened in the "Li Jinde" community, and introduced Wuhan audience who rarely bought tickets to the theater before. People remember all the flavors of China accent and "Zhou Pingping" dancing on the stage.