Entertainment 1998

Chapter 129 128, bottom line

Overall, Chen Peisi's words were not just for fun, but he deeply agreed with the situation.

Let’s not talk about anything else, just take the skit “The Prince and the Postman” they performed on last year’s Spring Festival Gala. It was originally written in 91, but it was not performed until 98.

why?
Because of the constant revisions during this period...

This skit tells the story of a prince who, under the instruction of Empress Dowager Cixi, took part in a sports meeting held by foreigners with a postman. The prince originally wanted the postman to serve as a foil for the foreigners, but unexpectedly the postman won first place in the running competition and won the applause of the foreigners. This skit satirizes the trend of worshipping foreigners and fawning on foreigners at that time.

However, a leader in the station saw the rehearsal of this skit and said that satirizing foreigners was not in line with the current atmosphere. What we want is openness and we want to invite foreigners in... Therefore, this point must be changed.

In order to achieve better results, Chen Peisi also proposed to use high technology in the skit. In fact, this requirement was proposed by Chen Peisi in 1991, when the technology of TV wall was already available. Chen Peisi hopes to use the film montage technique and use single-camera shooting to create atmosphere, so that the transition and transition of the skit will have atmosphere.

However, the Spring Festival Gala program team believes that no matter how big a star you are, you must comply with our live broadcast requirements, rather than us cooperating with you, so this must be changed.

So, they made some changes here and there, and so on and so forth, until the Spring Festival Gala was about to be broadcast live, the sketch "The Prince and the Postman" still had not been finalized.

As a result, all sorts of problems occurred during the official performance. First, Lao Mao's microphone fell off, then the fan broke apart, and then Chen Peisi's headgear almost fell off...

Standing on the 8th floor of Media Center Hotel, looking at Chen Peisi's back as he left with applause, and thinking about the experiences of these two people, Jiang Feng became more determined in his thoughts.

For the skit "Flashback", the only thing I could modify was the shorts. As for the rest, no modifications were made.

If you think you can do it, then go for it!
If you think it's not possible, I won't do it!
As for the song "Dragon Scales of Heaven and Earth", Jiang Feng was not worried at all that it would be implicated, because this song was so appropriate to be put on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.

Perhaps the matter was too big for Xu Bin to make the decision alone, so after arranging Jiang Feng in room 8011, he left in a hurry.

...

"Jiang Feng, can't you think of a compromise?"

Wang Jinghua asked as soon as Xu Bin left.

"You know, this is the Spring Festival Gala, an opportunity that many people beg for but can't get. Now that they let us perform a skit, it means they think highly of us."

"Well..., Sister Hua, let me put it this way."

In Room 8011, Jiang Feng chatted with Wang Jinghua while visiting the facilities in the room.

"It's like I picked a few melons from my own field and took them to the market to sell, and a few idle old ladies took a fancy to my melons and wanted to come and buy them.

But just when they paid for the melons and wanted to take them away, they made a seemingly unreasonable request: "Young man, please dance on the pole again. As long as you dance on the pole again, we will pay you 200 yuan more."

I can earn an extra 200 yuan by pole dancing, so of course I want to earn this money. But if they ask me to take off my clothes, I can't do that because clothes are my bottom line.

Well, even if I have to take off my clothes, I have to leave me with shorts. Now the Spring Festival Gala program team means that I can’t even leave my shorts on…”

"Pfft..."

Jiang Feng's words were witty and his metaphors were very vivid. As soon as he finished speaking, both Wang Jinghua and Li Xing laughed out loud.

After laughing for a while and taking a tour around the room, Wang Jinghua raised her hand.

"It's up to you. Like you said, we are here to sing and have never thought about performing a skit on the Spring Festival Gala stage.

Since you haven't thought about it, it's no pity to throw away this skit. "After saying that, Wang Jinghua was about to leave. The Black Sea Red Sun Agency currently has many artists signed. Although Jiang Feng is considered the top star in the company and the one who creates the most benefits for the company, the business of other artists must also be carried out simultaneously.

However, when Wang Jinghua opened the door, she saw two handsome young men standing outside.

"Uh…"

The handsome young man who was about to knock on the door was stunned when he saw the door suddenly open.

"Su Youpeng, Gu Juji..., welcome, welcome." Wang Jinghua reacted quickly. Seeing Jiang Feng's partner in the Spring Festival Gala standing outside the door, she immediately greeted them with a smile.

"Jiang Feng..."

"Jiang Feng, your friend is here."

"Hello, Brother Su, hello, Brother Gu." Compared to Wang Jinghua, Jiang Feng seemed more polite and friendly.

After coming out of the room, Jiang Feng shook hands and greeted them. After all, in a sense, these two were his predecessors in the entertainment industry.

"Jiang Feng, we heard that you were here, so we came over to invite you to the rehearsal room to rehearse songs." I don't know if it was because of the influence of the rumor that "Jiang Feng was going to pin a group of Hong Kong and Taiwan singers to the ground", whether it was Su Youpeng or Gu Juji, their attitude towards Jiang Feng was indifferent.

Well, there is a slight sense of alienation!
However, this is nothing to Jiang Feng.

After all, nowadays, whether it is Hong Kong and Taiwan singers or actors, or ordinary staff in Hong Kong and Taiwan crews, they all have a sense of superiority and arrogance in front of their mainland counterparts.

.........

In the past, when Jiang Feng was writing entertainment novels, he had looked up information. The singers' singing on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala can be roughly divided into several stages: the era of full lip-syncing, the era of trial singing, the era of returning to lip-syncing, and the era of advanced lip-syncing and a mixture of real and fake.

The full lip-syncing era refers to the period from 1983 to 1993. In order to ensure the quality of the performance, singers would record the evening party in the recording studio in advance, and then lip-sync at the party.

In 1994, director Lang Kun took over the Spring Festival Gala. He proposed the concept of "real singing", saying that "real singing must replace lip-syncing to restore art to its original state." Not only was the 1994 Spring Festival Gala real singing, but even the accompaniment tape was discarded in favor of live band accompaniment. It has to be said that director Lang Kun is indeed very artistic.

However, since it was live singing, the selection of singers must have been very strict. But the one who was screened out that year was not a tone-deaf singer, but the queen Wang Fei.

You have to know that Wang Fei was already very famous in 1994. In her previous life, the interview GIF on the Internet showing her confidently and shyly saying that "her biggest worry is that I'm too famous" was taken in 1994.

As for why she was eliminated, Wang Fei herself said while drinking together that night that it was because her live singing during rehearsal was not ideal and her musical sense was not good.

In the early morning of the next day, she received a notice from the Spring Festival Gala program team that the program was cancelled.

Jiang Feng came out of the room and went to the rehearsal room with Su Youpeng and Gu Juji. The reason he thought of these things was because he felt rather miserable. This year is 1999, the last year of the live singing era of the Spring Festival Gala.

Not only that, but Zhou Xiaodong, the sound director of the Spring Festival Gala, publicly stated during the preparation stage that this year's performance would be live singing, and also made a solemn vow that "lip-synching is ugly, we must dare to take risks and let talented singers perform on stage!"

Of course, Jiang Feng is not the only one who is worried about this situation. Just imagine, if there was no requirement for live singing this year, Su Youpeng and Gu Juji probably wouldn't have taken the initiative to ask him to practice singing.

You have to know that he is an artist from Hong Kong and Taiwan!
Just as he was thinking about it, they arrived at Rehearsal Room No. 4 on the th floor. Jiang Feng, who was walking in front, was about to push the door in, but at this moment, the door opened and a middle-aged woman in casual clothes walked out.

"Hey, Jiang Feng, are you the Jiang Feng from Cao County?"

(End of this chapter)