In August 2023, Yue Yunpeng revealed in a variety show that it takes a year to prepare for each Spring Festival Gala.
In other words, after getting off the stage, I began to write manuscripts for next year's crosstalk.
It took a year to prepare for a short performance of about ten minutes, which shocked not only the guest Xu Mengtao, but also the audience.
Of course, such a long time of preparation, but also let many netizens to its sarcasm.
"having been prepared for so long, it is not as funny as Deng Chao who jumps about."
"come up with such a stupid thing in a year?"
"where on earth is the strength? Why is he always in the Spring Festival Gala? "
"who gave Yue Yunpeng the courage?"
Including at the end of the Spring Festival Gala performance in the Year of the Dragon, there are also audience complaints about its content.
When "a year" meets "ten minutes", it is indeed quite puzzling and surprising, so where on earth is Yue Yunpeng's kung fu?
After a careful understanding of the causes and consequences, maybe we will understand.
First of all, the tone of the Spring Festival Gala is different.
The Spring Festival Gala is a big project that audiences all over the country look forward to.
Therefore, this is doomed to the tone of the Spring Festival Gala-rigor.
Different from the performance of the small theater, but also different from the performance of other stages, standing on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala must be in line with the most basic tone, no matter the subject matter, or the way of performance, as big as every sentence, as small as every expression needs to be carefully considered.
After meeting these conditions, we have to consider how to amuse the audience, whether the burden will sound, whether the audience will laugh, whether the response will be good, whether the performance will make mistakes, and so on.
On the one hand, we should get rid of the performance habits in the small theater, on the one hand, we should cater to the preferences of the audience, and on the other hand, we should be able to withstand the polishing of the director group of the Spring Festival Gala.
After the work has been written, can you pass the hurdle of the director group after passing your own hurdle? Can it stand the test of dozens of directors?
That's the difficulty!
A professional crosstalk actor wants to listen to a group of non-professional directors to "pick on" his work, how to balance the mentality to balance the quality of the work, the joy of the audience, the satisfaction of the director to complete a work that may deviate from the original appearance?
The examination is rigorous and the public is difficult to tune, which is why Guo Degang always feels "too hard" when he talks about his first Spring Festival Gala in 2013.
Works need to be written, baggage needs to be loud, everything should be in line with the tone, this is not a small project.
Secondly, the uncertainty of the Spring Festival Gala.
However, the preparation in advance is not the most difficult, the most difficult, but also the most test of the mentality is the eve of the stage.
Because it is full of uncertainty.
For example, when Yue Yunpeng and Sun Yue first stood on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala to talk about crosstalk, they were scared into a cold sweat because of a temporary change of venue.
Before the performance, the studio where they have been staying can watch other actors perform in real time, and when the actors step down, they go on to perform.
But who would have thought, before playing, he was suddenly assigned to another studio, and when he would play can only be judged by the live display screen. As a result, he made a mistake in judgment and said "Happy New year" in advance, and then stopped talking.
Seeing this, the director team hurriedly reminded him to open his mouth to speak, so he added "Happy New year", and then began the formal performance.
Because he temporarily changed the studio and said "Happy New year", Yue Yunpeng, who upset the rhythm, broke out in a cold sweat. Fortunately, the rich experience and strong adaptability of the stage did not let the audience see the flaws, and the following performance was able to perform smoothly.
However, this is only the first hurdle, and the second hurdle is the temporary adjustment of time.
The duration of the Spring Festival Gala is limited, and there can be no mistakes in each program, otherwise it will affect the performance and zero time of each later program.
In order not to make mistakes, the director team needs to keep raising countdown signs under the stage to remind them, and actors on the stage need strong hearts and deep skills to respond quickly.
Yue Yunpeng and Sun Yue were reminded that there was only one minute left in the middle of the program, so while overcoming their psychological tension, they kept cutting lines in their minds to make the ending, while at the same time making sure that they could not be discovered by the audience.
Not only they, but also Guo Degang has been reminded.
More than ten minutes is not enough time for the show to clog your teeth. When you get to the stage, you have to be reminded to cut it again. When you cut it, you have to think about how to let nature take its course. It's really difficult!
Time is uncontrollable, actors can rely on their own experience and strength to adjust randomly, and props uncontrollable is even more difficult.
In 2023, when Yue Yunpeng performed "my change, change, change", he needed to make a roast chicken for the audience, which had been hidden in the office table. Before it was changed, he needed to keep an eye on the machine table and step on the machine underfoot. If anything goes wrong, he will waste all his previous efforts to make a fool of himself in front of the national audience, and even ruin his entire career.
The mistakes of the props are irreparable, and everything is uncontrollable, which really tests the mentality of the actors.
Similarly, there are many uncertainties in the 2024 Spring Festival Gala.
In the next Spring Festival Gala, Yue Yunpeng revealed that he had to perform for 17 or 18 minutes every time he was in a grand platoon. When everything was ready to wait for the official performance, he received a temporary notice from the director's team: the Spring Festival Gala is running out of time. I need your program to cut off the singing section.
Yue Yunpeng, who received the notice, can only temporarily remove the song part, the performance time is randomly waiting to be deployed, and the final formal performance has only about 10 minutes left, so as to dynamically adjust the overall length of the Spring Festival Gala.
Judging from various factors, there is really not much time to prepare for the Spring Festival Gala.
Finally, the Spring Festival Gala director group has high hopes.
The song was cut, the length of time was blocked, the Spring Festival Gala director's appointment in the face of danger also reflected a point: Yue Yunpeng is strong and has high hopes.
Crosstalk seems simple, but in fact it is very difficult, one sentence less or more will affect the final presentation effect, but the director team temporarily adjusted Yue Yunpeng's "I want to be different" rather than Jin Fei Chen Xi's "director's" mind. It is enough to prove the director's trust in Yue Yunpeng.
In fact, this trust began as early as 2019.
Since 2019, the crosstalk of Yue Yunpeng and Sun Yue has been arranged at the first of language programs, with a simple purpose: hot spots.
The Spring Festival Gala began, and the singing and dancing began. The mood of the audience across the country was surging. After the singing and dancing ended, how could this heated venue not cool down? Who had the ability to steadily catch the enthusiasm of the audience? How could the following programs continue smoothly on this basis? It was crucial.
The fact that the director team of the Spring Festival Gala can arrange Yue Yunpeng after singing and dancing is full trust in it, which is also impossible for ordinary actors to do.
To a certain extent, Yue Yunpeng's performance was not a simple performance, but a performance with a hot spot task, a performance that the Spring Festival Gala director had high hopes for.
From "Wonderful Words" in 2019,"Fun Talk of Life" in 2020, to "Song of the Year 30" in 2021 and "My Change, Change, Change" in 2023, to "I want to be different" in 2024, the arrangement of the Spring Festival Gala director group to Yue Yunpeng is enough to prove his strength, so many years can live up to expectations is his background!
The theme of the Spring Festival Gala is happiness, companionship, as the audience should not complain with the eyes of examination, different occasions, different tasks, the effect is naturally different, this is not the embodiment of real strength.
However, it is certain that the director team of the Spring Festival Gala can put Yue Yunpeng's program in the first place many times and can be ordered to change the content in the face of danger, which is Yue Yunpeng's strength and strength.