There are still some unpublished novels, documentary literature and essays in "Forget My Memory-Selected Works of Liang Zuo" extracted from TV comedies. From this, we can see Liang Zuo's thoughts on art and life.
Most people know that he is used to joking, from crosstalk in previous years to sitcoms in recent years. You can say that he doesn't always do well, but it's worse without him. Crosstalk, because of his intervention, once showed signs of revival; Sitcom, saying that he is the first person is a bit disgusting, but it is basically true. Later, Liang Zuo went out to look for a collection of humorous stories, which is also natural. This novel is a collection of sporadic works by Liang Zuo in recent 20 years. It sounds old enough for a person to write for 20 years, but you can also say "Rome was not built in a day". Only in this way can we see the development process of a new language, from rough to mature. Even if I put a top hat on Liang Zuo, I think Lao Liang's language is independent among passers-by in the writing of New North Beijing Dialect (it can be said to be the pinnacle in the TV sitcom I Love My Family). Wang Shuo, whose language has always been sharp and naughty, can only write sadly on the elegiac couplet: write cross talk and do TV for the rest of his life, leave laughter on earth, love his family and warm his friends for life, and carefully bring his dreams to heaven. Father Fan Rongkang (formerly known as Liang Da) was the deputy editor-in-chief of People's Daily.
Mother Chen Rong (formerly known as Vivian) is a famous writer, and Man to Middle Age is her masterpiece.
My younger brother Tian Liang is a famous actor and is deeply loved by the audience.
My sister Liang Huan is also a screenwriter. She is very famous in the film and television industry.
Liang Zuo, his younger brother Tian Liang and his younger sister Liang Huan are known as the "Three Musketeers" in China film and television circles. Liang Zuo died young at the age of 43. I left a deep shock and endless regret to my relatives, friends and audience. People were shocked when they cleaned up Liang Zuo's relics. In a humble room of less than 50 square meters, the study also doubles as a bedroom, and there is almost nothing except my notes, works and books. Liang Zuo, who is loved as a comedian, actually brings happiness and laughter to others in this environment! Liang Zuo has a passion for novels. Between words, it seems that novels are the first room, and cross talk and sitcom are only temporary concubines and foster families. He said: I will write a novel sooner or later. From these four works, readers have been able to see Liang Zuo's special imagination of novels.
Liang Zuo once thought that he would win the Nobel Prize. Wang Shuo advised him: "You are also the scourge of cross talk and the first sitcom. It's time to stir it up in our novels. " He said cheerfully, "Really, it's all up to me?" Sometimes he used a particularly proud plot in the script. He would say to Ying Da, "Old Ying Da, what do you think of this plot? I'm leaving my novel ―― I won the Nobel Prize directly! If you hadn't all begged me desperately, would you be able to use it so casually in this stupid play? "
In Tian Liang's memory, Liang Zuo began to publish articles, poems, lyrics, drums and allegro when he was in primary school, and there was no subject he didn't write. 1977, he was admitted to the Chinese Department of Peking University, and Tian Liang became a worker after changing jobs from the army. They hardly exchanged spiritual content. "He is here and I am there." Tian Liang's hand ratio is far from perfect. My mother, Chen Rong, is a writer. She has never taught Liang Zuo to write. If you have to help, it was one day in the 1980s. After taking such a photo, Jiang Kun was facing the bottleneck of his career. He came to Chen Rong for advice, got to know Liang Zuo and his new novel Wandering in the Tiger's Mouth. Jiang Kun suggested to him, "How many stories do you write to get to know you? Write a cross talk on the Spring Festival Evening, and it will become popular overnight. " Liang Zuo, the most vulnerable person, agreed to change the novel into crosstalk.
Jiang Kun once muttered that Liang Zuo's long sentences, which are full of bookishness and pure written language, generally do not conform to the rules of crosstalk creation. However, "Dream of a Tiger Head" was one of the most popular programs at that time, and it was also the best cross talk of Liang Zuo, which was related to his cross talk selection. Although he was born in a scholarly family, Liang Zuo never left the grassroots. He once jumped the queue in Pinggu, Beijing, and wrote the novel Old Events in Taiping Village these days. In I Love My Family, you can also see peace and Jia Zhiguo's memories of the life of educated youth. After returning to the city, Liang Zuoxian worked in the Ministry of Education and was very familiar with office life. Later, he was transferred to China Academy of Fine Arts. Before his death, he was a teacher at Beijing Language Institute. He lived in Daju Hutong in Dongzhimen for many years, and lived with his aunt on the street every day. The most classic passage in his comedy is "An old lady in her seventies and eighties caught a bad guy. How old is that bad guy!" Is living in a complicated.
In his early cross talk, traces of hutong life can be seen everywhere. Prices, employment and street work are the themes of hooligans. Liang Zuo's good friend Liu Zhenyun's analysis of him is very accurate: "First of all, he stands in the position of a civilian, which is manifested in, for example, his daily chat with friends. The stories he tells are basically stories of ordinary people or street stories of the old society, and he is particularly interested in this part of the world. However, if we just tell these stories intact, we can go out and watch the scenes casually, so we don't need to watch Liang Zuo's sitcoms any more. When he wrote about the lives of ordinary people, he added a lot of intellectual culture. It is this cultural content that sublimates the lives of these ordinary people, which is the fundamental reason why Liang Zuo's works are loved by everyone. "
Wang Shuo often teased Liang Zuo for writing "popular vulgar comedies" because Liang Zuo called his career "popular popular comedies". Tian Liang said that Liang Zuo never thought writing comedies was inferior. He thought crosstalk was humorous, so he wrote it. At that time, he only earned 50 yuan writing cross talk. Judging from the living conditions, Liang Zuo is really not a person who loves material life. When the sitcom writer was short of money, he was short of money at that time, and Ying Da begged him. He felt that he had a face and a lining, so he naturally wanted to.
I love my family has never been broadcast on Beijing TV. In the first year, there were different opinions, and many veteran cadres were unhappy. They think that the old fu played by Wen Xingyu is detrimental to the image of veteran cadres. The first episode of "Exerting Waste Heat" is ironic and accurately grasps the mentality of "doing something for the elderly". Although this satire is warm and well-intentioned, it was rated as the worst TV series of the year by some media in that year, but it has become an insurmountable classic. In fact, the figure "Lao Fu" has the shadow of Ying Ruocheng and Fan Rongkang. In the play, Lao Fu's son's surname is Jia, which is the same as his father's. The two old people usually like to joke. They didn't find it ironic after reading it, but they liked it very much. Ying Da once told reporters that the environment at that time was impossible. "I Love My Family" basically does not use dialects, and is called "New North Beijing Dialect" by Wang Shuo, which is also rare in today's comedy creation. Some insiders believe that although it is Mandarin, the drama uses a lot of improved "Cultural Revolution" language. For example, the mother of peace said, "Ask the boundless earth, who is in charge of ups and downs?" We! We! We! " Not only the old lady, but also JIA YUAN YUAN was full of such words, which was very fresh at that time. In one episode, I was ill in peace, and my memory returned to the early days of the Cultural Revolution. In order to speed up the process of time, Lao Fu smashed the Gang of Four with a wave of his hand and held the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee. In today's comedy, this technique is used repeatedly.
Liang Zuo spoke highly of Ma Lisan. He gave an example: "I am better than Ba Jin, worse than Liu Qing, and better than Tolstoy. I won't let Balzac. There are Mayakovski abroad and Ma Lisan at home! Gorky wrote "Mother" and I wrote "Second Aunt"! Short stories, novellas and novels are endlessly paid. The post office remits:' Ma Lisan, take the stamps! Mom, Li San, take the stamp! "What should I do if I have money? I'll buy a cotton hat and put it on first ... "Liang Zuo called it a great stream of consciousness. Immediately in high school, he is indeed the most educated crosstalk performer among the older generation.
Liang Zuo never used his literary background sparingly in cross talk. The teenager in A Wandering in the Tiger's Mouth falls into the tiger mountain, and thinks of the girl's nepotism from everyone, and then thinks of his lifelong events, which is a description of stream of consciousness.
Liang Zuo once wrote a cross talk drama "Song of Next Spring" for Jiang Kun, and before his death, he was still writing "Sister Ma, a Idle Person". The last book he wrote to Tian Liang, Some people love and no one hurts, has not been aired yet. Tian Liang once wanted to adapt Liang Zuo's novel "Exploring Love" and "Studio Hostel" into a TV series, which described all kinds of young men and women in the Beijing Film Factory and the hostel in Sacido, and it was not a comedy. In Liu Zhenyun's view, Liang Zuo's smile hides sadness and tears. He always tells heavy things in a joking tone. Tian Liang also said: "Only when you are sad to the limit can you be happy." Just like what he wrote "What will happen after we die" before his death, it seems to have some prophetic nature. Five years after his death, Jiang Kun will hold a special party of Liang Zuo's works to commemorate his contribution; His daughter Qinger Liang, 20 years old, studied English literature in the United States and started writing novels, ready to follow in her father's footsteps.