Entertainment 1998

Chapter 448 Chapter 447, Three Spring Festival Galas, Beijing Welcomes You

Jiang Feng had a fulfilling New Year's Eve in 2001!
Two servings of mutton noodles were made using the freshest mutton. The hand-pulled noodles were chewy and smooth, the mutton soup was rich and fragrant, and the mutton was tender and soft. Fan Jiuyi, who came to deliver the mutton, was pleasantly surprised after just one bite.

Keep giving Jiang Feng a thumbs up, Brother Feng, you are awesome!

At 10:30 in the morning, after eating mutton noodles, Jiang Feng wanted to see her off. It was difficult to get a taxi during Chinese New Year, so he could only drive her. But who would have thought that before he could say anything, Fan Jiuyi, who had secretly used the bathroom at home to take a shower, untied her bath towel and asked Jiang Feng, "Brother Feng, do you think I have gained weight recently?"
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If you live a fulfilling life, you will be happy.

Jiang Feng brought this joyful mood to the 2001 Spring Festival Gala.

The opening song and dance of this year's Spring Festival Gala was still performed by Sun Yue and another male singer. The song was titled "Today is So Good" and was lively and cheerful, and it did a good job in warming up the audience.

The second person to appear was a female singer who started out as a folk singer. She sang the classic song "Getting Better and Better", which was one of the most popular songs in 01.

The third program is a skit, "The Matchmaker" starring Guo Da and Cai Ming.

Seeing that it was a skit, Jiang Feng, who was waiting in the circular corridor of Studio No. 1 of the National Television Station, walked in front of the TV and watched the live broadcast of the Spring Festival Gala with a group of waiting actors.

Of course, Jiang Feng, who is now a master's student in the Performance Department of Beijing Film Academy, watched and interpreted this sketch from the perspective of an industry insider.

Structurally, the skit "The Matchmaker" is a work in which the director directs the play, the actors add to the mix, and the gags are created using all sorts of contrasts and surprises.

In a sense, this creative structure is also a representative model and genre in the Spring Festival Gala of national television. At the beginning, the Spring Festival Gala sketch "Eating Noodles" basically followed this model.

Later, comedy master Chen Peisi took a different approach and used this model to create a sketch called "The Protagonist and the Supporting Actor."

Later, Feng Gong and Huang Hong also used this model to varying degrees on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala. Of course, sketch teams outside the Spring Festival Gala have also had similar works, such as the more famous comedy team Happy Twist in the past.

Watching the skit, Jiang Feng suddenly had an epiphany. Compared with Chen Peisi and Zhao Laonian, he actually underestimated Guo Da's comedy ability. As a frequent guest of the Spring Festival Gala, his comedy ability is outstanding.

It’s just that Guo Da’s performance style is not intense, which leads to the audience’s shallow impression of him. But in fact, all the audiences who watch his works always have a smile on their faces.

The collaboration between Guo Da and Cai Ming is also considered a golden partnership on the Spring Festival Gala stage, second only to Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao, Zhao Laonian and Song Dandan, Zhao Lirong and Gong Hanlin, and Feng Gong and Niu Qun.

During the peak period of their collaboration, Zhao Laonian was basically number one, and they competed with Huang Hong and Feng Gong for second place.

After Jason Statham withdrew from the Spring Festival Gala stage, Cai Ming was basically useless.

Of course, for now, the combination of Guo and Cai, which has been working together for many years, has long become one of the signature features of language programs. They are very funny and made the waiting extras in the circular corridor laugh out loud.

After the performance of "The Matchmaker", there were two songs and dances, and then the crosstalk "Inch by Inch" by Feng Gong and Guo Donglin.

Just like the skit performed by Feng and Guo last year, it is called crosstalk, but in fact it is almost the same as a skit. However, this year this form of performance has an academic name [makeup crosstalk]!
If we analyze it carefully, the structure of this crosstalk is similar to that of the sketch "The Matchmaker", with the same structure of a director testing out a play and two actors trying to sabotage each other.

I just don't know how the Spring Festival Gala director team reviewed it, and they let two language programs have the same subject matter. But fortunately, the humor was pretty good.

In particular, Feng and Guo's "Inch by Inch" was also very famous in the past life and was considered a highlight of this year's Spring Festival Gala.

Speaking of which, Feng Gong and Guo Gong are also quite awesome. After just a few collaborations, they became a famous golden pair on the Spring Festival Gala. It even made the audience in front of the TV forget one thing: in fact, Feng Gong’s original wife was Niu Qun!

Standing in front of the TV, Jiang Feng was watching the skit and deconstructing it in his mind when suddenly he felt his arm being twisted.

Turning around, he saw it was Zhao Laonian, so Jiang Feng shook his hand with a smile on his face.

"Happy New Year, Mr. Zhao!" "Happy New Year, Fengzi!"

Zhao Laonian was also very happy. Although Jiang Feng was becoming more and more famous, he was still the same in front of him, humble and polite.

"Jiang Feng, when are you going to the United States?"

"The day after tomorrow, that is, the early morning flight ticket on the second day of the Chinese New Year." Jiang Feng replied with a smile.

"Has Saw 2 been screened at the St. Denis Film Festival?"

"Well... the staff of China Film Group has arrived in the United States in advance, because the St. Denis Film Festival opens on the 18th." Although he has been preparing for the Spring Festival Gala recently, Jiang Feng has actually been paying attention to the third movie he shot.

"Has President Han gone?" Zhao Laonian asked again.

"He did, but he returned home yesterday." Jiang Feng replied with a smile.

"How is it? What's the response to this movie?" This is what Zhao Laonian cares about most. After all, he is also one of the leading actors in this movie.

"Well, let's put it this way. Mr. Han went there on the 17th and returned from the United States on the 19th. In just three days, he signed 17 distribution rights buyout contracts for the movie Saw 2 on behalf of China Film Group, and the amount involved has reached 1500 million US dollars."

"Damn... that's awesome!"

As soon as Jiang Feng finished speaking, Zhao Laonian gave him a thumbs up.

This veteran artist is not afraid at all of affecting his image by swearing in front of everyone.

Just as Jiang Feng hinted at his admiration for his natural and unrestrained attitude, there was a commotion in the circular corridor of the National Television Station.

Cai Yiling, Jay Chou, Li Wen, Richie Jen, Zhang Yu, Zhou Huajian from Formosa Province, Sun Yanzi from Singapore, Tanya Chua and Fish Leong from Malaysia, Xie Tingfeng, Cheng Xiyi, Asa, Gillian Chung, Eason Chan, Ronald Cheng, Andy Lau and Li Ming from Hong Kong Island, Huang Zheng, Yehenara.Yakura Yuquan group, Liu Huan and others from mainland China all appeared at the entrance of Studio No. 1.

Seeing these singers preparing to enter, Jiang Feng also prepared to enter, but at this time, Zhao Laonian reached out and grabbed his sleeve, lowering his voice and saying: "Fengzi, I always feel that you are a bit at a disadvantage this time. It was supposed to be your solo program, but you made it so that 50 singers came, and you are only 1/50 of them."

Ok…

Hearing Zhao Laonian's words of regret, Jiang Feng simply smiled and said nothing.

In fact, Wang Jinghua also said this, and Jiang Feng's answer to her at that time was:

"Sister Hua, when you first met me, I gave you a master tape of a music album. There were 10 songs in the album. When I released the music album "Dusk", I used the song "Dusk";
When I released the English album Natural, I used the song New Divide. Now there are eight songs left in the music master tape, so I will add two more songs, and when there are 10 songs, I will give it to Universal Music to release an album. The name of this new album is Beijing Welcomes You. "

At that time, Wang Jinghua's eyes widened...

Jiang Feng, you are still the best!
Not only did you take advantage of the popularity of the Spring Festival Gala and the power of relevant state departments, because they had decided to use this song as the theme song for the Olympic bid promotional video they wanted to create, but you also let 50 of the most influential domestic singers help promote your new album without them knowing.

Of course, you will please the fans more. According to the unwritten rules in the industry, if a singer holds several sensational concerts in a row, the record company will generally release the live recordings of the concerts as music albums. As the saying goes, this trick can make more money from fans.

If you release a new album at this time, you can basically prevent the record company from taking advantage of your fans!

Jiang Feng was thinking, when suddenly, he heard a hearty laugh that was quite familiar to all Chinese people.

"Jiang Feng, let's go, it's our turn to go on stage."

(End of this chapter)