Chapter 377: Cultural inferiority

"She's only a sophomore. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Wang Yao touched his nose.

"You don't know what her achievements are?" Mao Weitao smiled, "Just you are a genius?"

Wang Yao smiled: "When is it set?"

"I haven't seen the days yet. Mao Weitao said, "When the time comes, I will inform you, what are you doing here?"

"No, I'm not here to see you. Wang Yao said.

"What's the point? He Saifei pursed his lips.

"Didn't I do well in that movie? I wrote a musical. Wang Yao said with a smile.

"Yo, uncle, you are so modest, I heard that you can buy half of the West Lake with the money you earn. He Saifei squeezed.

"Low-key, low-key. Wang Yao smiled: "Senior sister, do you have any ideas?"

"I don't know anything about Western musicals, if you want to integrate opera and change the style to make a musical opera, it's not impossible, but there is a problem, language. Mao Weitao said.

"Subtitles, Broadway's subtitle system is quite perfect. Wang Yao said with a smile.

"The quietness of the opera, compared with the understanding and exaggerated effect that Westerners like, it is too much of a loss, and the audience will definitely not be able to accept it, if you change it to look like the West, then we actors can't accept it. Mao Weitao threw out the second question.

"I've thought about it, literary drama is too difficult, so I go to martial arts. Wang Yao said.

"Isn't that a stage play?" He Saifei got up and yawned on Wang Yao's shoulder.

"Modern opera has to be innovative, isn't it?" said Wang Yao.

"Well, that makes sense, but our group is about to have another big show, when are you going to rehearse?" Mao Weitao thought for a while, nodded and asked.

"I'm going to have a hodgepodge, not just opera, but also multiple genres on the same stage. Wang Yao said.

"Are you going crazy? You're going to be scolded to death by those old-timers. After hearing this, He Saifei twisted Wang Yao's ear and said angrily.

"Reform has to go through ups and downs. Wang Yao shrugged.

"Do you want to get rid of everything from the singing voice to the tune?" Mao Weitao frowned.

"Rhyme, I want to use burlesque as the main body. Wang Yao said.

In the early days of Chinese opera, there were three main parts, folk songs and dances, folk rap, and burlesque.

Burlesque appeared relatively late, and in the late Qing Dynasty, a folk art form called 'talking news' appeared in the Jiangnan area, which was to use some comedy processing to tell the people the news in the newspapers at that time.

It can be said that he was the earliest 'joker'.

Among them, there is a famous joker named Du Baolin in Hangzhou.

Jiang Xiaoxiao, a master of civilized opera, processed Du Baolin's jokes artistically and changed them into long dramas with songs and purposes, which were performed in the Pearl Jiangnan area, which became popular for a while, and created burlesque in the era when Peking Opera and Yue Opera were dominant.

At the same time, burlesque is also the teacher of sketches, and early burlesque not only has drama and opera performances, but also acrobatics and opera content, but the sketches later only take the part of the stage play.

After the prosperity of sketches, burlesque has completely withdrawn from the stage of history, and the only similarity is the two-person transformation form in the Northeast.

Wang Yao's idea of adapting the hodgepodge of burlesque to modern opera is theoretically valid.

Because of the elasticity of burlesque, the relaxed stage style, the strong comedy effect, the high degree of audience acceptance, and the inclusiveness, burlesque is known as the nine-tone eighteen tones of those who come do not refuse, even if the Yue Opera and Peking Opera compete on the same stage, it will not seem too abrupt, but it is a little unserious.

Why should comedy be serious, though?

"You've got to think about it. He Saifei twisted Wang Yao's ears, "You discuss it with Elder Xu." ”

"Master should be unified. Wang Yao said with a smile.

"If you really want to do this, it's a big thing for Liyuan Xing. Mao Weitao said with a smile: "Of course, we support you unconditionally." ”

"Anyway, there aren't many people who use it, so let's talk about it when the time comes, let's eat together in the evening." Wang Yao said with a smile.

"It's not easy to have a meal with you now, and I don't want to be a foodie back then. He Saifei chuckled.

Wang Yao narrowed his eyes and grinned.

In the form of stage culture in the East and the West, it is not opera that is similar to opera, but musicals that only appeared in the 20th century.

The musical combines a variety of stage art forms such as song and dance, drama, etc., and uses a lot of modern technology, and the scene set off by the lighting is no worse than the movie effect.

After watching the airport musical on Broadway, Wang Yao felt that if he wanted to truly advance the opera to the modern era, it was very scientific to learn from the structural model of the musical.

Opera is a large integrator of Chinese art, and it is an art form that covers the most fields in traditional culture, and it can have unique cultural characteristics of China.

But one thing is missing: modernization.

Opera seems to have stagnated since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and it has not integrated the modern culture of China into it, partly because the development of modern culture in China at that time was immature and there was nothing to integrate, and the other is that some conservatives believe that traditional things should remain in the tradition.

This in itself is a mistake, tradition is tradition, development is development, there is no contradiction between the two, just like the relationship between the old school of the new school, such as the literary and philosophical schools, Confucianism at first had Confucius based on benevolence, but also Mencius respected righteousness, and then continued to grow and develop the entire Confucian school, so that there was a prosperous Confucian flourishing for thousands of years.

When it comes to Confucianism, we must mention Confucius and Mencius, Xun Yan will also be mentioned, Zhu Xi who will improve Confucianism, and Wang Yangming, who will reshape the mind, must be sustained in any culture.

Because the universe is changing, the earth is changing, nature is changing, so culture is also changing, nothing can be set in stone, tradition must be inherited and protected, but development still needs to accommodate some new voices.

Performance is just a form, and opera is a kind of cultural core, not opera on the screen, it is not called opera, as long as the performers and script culture conform to the inheritance of opera, then it is opera.

The same performance on the stage, some are called sketches, some are called cross talk, and some are called dramas are similar, but they will not be the same.

In addition to the singing and playing in the form of performance, the core of opera is more important than the beauty of blank space, saying that seven points, three points depend on the quality, and the same is true for opera, opera will not be as subjective as storytelling to construct a new value, and the expression of opera in addition to the characteristics of the characters should be, the rest must be reminiscent of the audience themselves.

That's why there is another old saying, you are familiar with books and plays, and you can't get tired of listening to opera.

A play, not a TV series that tells a story or a truth, drama like life refers to the joys and sorrows hidden in a play, and it not only refers to the characters on the stage, but also the resonance of the audience, which is the wonderful place of opera.

Western opera is similar, but the expression of opera is more straightforward, leaving not much room for the audience, and opera pays too much attention to the rigor of the performance, and is very deliberate in the control of tone.

Opera is more casual, and sometimes the actors will change their words and tunes by virtue of the state of entering the play, and then it becomes a good story, and opera is not an immutable programmed performance, but a natural expression of the unity of nature and man.

In addition to being the pastime of dignitaries and nobles in the early years, local opera was more of the entertainment of the people in the fields, so some folk operas were adapted from local stories, such as "Journey to the West", before the Ming Dynasty, the story of Tang monks learning scriptures was different in every part of the country.

The "Journey to the West" written by Wu Chengen was just a branch of this huge IP at that time, but because of the literary and artistic elevation of this book, it became a version that was widely sung, and over time it became an 'authority in the industry'.

If scholars who really study mythology or folklore novels do not regard "Journey to the West" as the only information, this kind of mythological story is widely said in the Taoist system, but it cannot be denied that the IP of the four Tang monks learning scriptures has been a folk story since a long time ago, because the common people have heard it since childhood, so they moved to the stage to have an audience.

If you sang "Dream of Red Mansions" during the Tang and Song dynasties, there is no doubt that no one listened to it, because there was no cultural atmosphere and audience base.

Therefore, the development of opera is closely related to the cultural atmosphere and audience base.

Modern people have good educational resources, so they have early contact with words, and they also have the assistance of TV dramas, which have a certain foundation for many stories, which is a good thing for opera.

But at the same time, there is another problem, that is, the dialect and rhyme in the opera are somewhat different from Mandarin, so it is easy to play when listening, and the current audience is accustomed to the rhythm of the pop music mode, and there are some obstacles to the acceptance of the traditional music rhythm of opera.

And what Wang Yao wants to do is to start from the entry level, change the aesthetic standards of the people of the Dragon Kingdom back to the aesthetics of China, and don't blindly follow the aesthetics of the West.

Although the admiration of foreign countries has always been spurned, basically all Longguo people will look up to it from the inside out when they mention foreign countries, which is shaped by the environment and is also an objective fact.

It is true that developed countries have a better environment than developing countries and are indeed advanced, but there is one issue involved here, that is, national self-confidence.

In the long run, the subtle influence of this general environment will make the next generation lose their national self-confidence, even if they know that the Chinese civilization was very glorious, but they will still choose to live in the present and continue to look up to foreign civilizations.

Because they have been taught since childhood that foreign things are good and the moon is round, he will take this influence for granted.

Turning the previous objective facts into subjective facts, losing national independence and self-confidence, and turning them into dependence, is the biggest conspiracy of cultural invasion.

Let the national culture have an inferiority complex.