On this stage in Starlight Glimmer, people will never just look forward to familiar faces-everyone always wants to have a better life beyond the present and maybe stand on tiptoe.
It's like turning to the last page of a book Everyone is the owner and reader of the book. No matter what kind of role, I always want to see a different ending.
If there is a miracle in life, it must be at the end of this year.
"Next, it is the moment to witness the miracle", and the person who makes this "miracle" happen in front of people is magician Liu Qian.
In 2009, this magician from Taiwan Province Province of China first appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala. Until 20 19, he stepped on the biggest stage five times and invited more than one billion people to "witness the miracle" together.
When the miracle was magnified dozens of times and looked back countless times, everyone saw the other side of the miracle, including Liu Qian.
Last year's Spring Festival Gala was a torture.
This year, Liu Qian boarded the Spring Festival Evening of Jiangsu Satellite TV. After a long absence, he once again stepped onto the stage of the Spring Festival Evening. His partner is no longer CCTV host Dong Qing, but a boy of six or seven years old.
He squatted beside the sitting child, "hatched" a chicken from the egg in the bag and gave it to the child. When the camera zooms in and focuses on the magician's hand, his palm looks dry and soft.
This is very different from when he was on CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
Recalling his performance in CCTV Spring Festival Evening, I can clearly see his bright palm almost every time I give a close-up of his hand.
In an interview with Art Life, Dong Qing once said that every time he approached a performance, Liu Qian was always so nervous that his palms sweated and was considered "oiled" by the sharp-eyed audience.
During the performance of 20 10, he still couldn't help wiping his hands many times with a towel.
Although he had won numerous prizes in many magic competitions at home and abroad when he boarded the stage of the Spring Festival Evening, he still "often dreamed that his magic performance failed" before the performance.
In 2009, Liu Qian first appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Evening, and performed a close-up magic "Magic Hand" on CCTV Spring Festival Evening.
For the audience, this is a new kind of magic: "rubber band", "coin into glass" and "ring into egg".
This is called "close-up magic". Live props and close-up viewing are enough to subvert the audience's inherent impression of magic.
Before him, magicians Qin, Qin and Qin all participated in CCTV Spring Festival Gala, especially good at large-scale magic.
On June 5438+ 10, 2008, Liu Qian received an invitation from CCTV, and he will perform on stage on June 5438+ 10.
In order to cooperate with the big stage of the Spring Festival Evening, he followed the previous magician's ideas and prepared many large-scale magic schemes, such as conjuring up two planes and cars on the stage.
But these are not Liu Qian. He is destined to be a "different magician" because "different is very important".
Liu Qian was born in 1976. At the age of seven, he happened to see a magic show in a department store and began to teach himself magic.
When he was only 8 years old, he performed magic tricks for his classmates. "The first performance is to eat the pencil out of your mouth and take it out from behind your head."
According to Liu Qian's script, he should be a white-collar worker with a luxury car and exquisite clothes. Magic is just a hobby. But in the three months after graduating from college, he failed to find a suitable job and finally decided to become a professional magician.
At that time, magic was not a high-ranking industry. "I don't want to feel like a juggler like other magicians."
He makes a personal website for himself; Customize expensive suits; Go abroad to participate in competitions to increase experience and aura; The performance price is more than 10 times that of any magician in the market; Only the most advanced customers ...
The appearance of Liu Qian successfully inspired other magicians to imitate. When the magicians were all well dressed, he wore shorts and slippers to meet the clients. "It's just different." .
Compared with large-scale magic, Liu Qian's close-range magic is more suitable for TV programs. In 2009, it was after watching the close-up magic he did in Japan that the director group of the Spring Festival Evening really decided his performance project.
After that, 20 10 performed "Variety" in CCTV Spring Festival Evening and performed close-up magic on a 360-degree round table. 20 12 performing the magic mirror. In 20 13, I boarded the Spring Festival Evening for the fourth time.
Liu Qian has become the name that people will think of when they hear "magician".
In an interview with Pan Shiyi, he said that attending so many CCTV Spring Festival Galas is "a kind of torture" for himself, because "there can be no mistakes or omissions. As long as there is a little mistake, it is failure. Spring Festival Evening, the last time is enough. "
Almost zero income in three or four years
In an interview with CCTV's Face to Face, Liu Qian said, "An important stage of life begins with the stage of Spring Festival Evening". His magic, which started in department stores and achieved street performances, really became popular in CCTV Spring Festival Evening.
In the Spring Festival Evening of 2009, except for Xiao Shenyang, Liu Qian completely changed.
He Zeng, Liu Qian's former agent, said: "Before the Spring Festival Gala, he rarely received invitations from TV stations, that is, those programs recorded by fixed cooperative TV stations.
Of course, there are many such invitations now. I can get twenty or thirty phone calls a day, some for interviews and some for recording special topics. "
More than 200 books written by Liu Qian were sold within ten days after the Spring Festival Evening. This quantity is the sales volume in the first seven months.
"In this world, there is no magic show to watch the replay. Magic can only be seen once,
Liu Qian said.
However, boarding the CCTV Spring Festival Gala means that his magic may be seen by many people dozens of times, hundreds of times, and may even be magnified to dozens of times.
There are thousands of "Liu Qian declassified" messages on the Internet. For many viewers, finding the flaw of Liu Qian's magic has almost become the most interesting egg in the Spring Festival Evening.
In retrospect, he felt that he might be partly responsible. "I want to prove myself. Look, I'm fine. I can do it.
For the audience, yes, you are very powerful, but I am the most unconvinced person, and I must crack you. "
He doesn't exclude the audience from cracking his magic. Although this will inevitably disappoint the miracle, he does not accept people's contempt for magic.
The round table performance of 20 10 is his "proudest work in his life"-this is the first time someone has performed such magic. He practiced like this for nearly 1 month, "like a machine".
When Kloc-0/2 performed Phantom, he said that he was "shaking all over" because the performance would be ruined if there were a little deviation in walking, standing and camera angle.
What is even more frightening is that this program is his alternative, and the time has been rushed to only two weeks.
During that most anxious time, he practiced at two or three in the morning after other actors rehearsed every day, adjusting the angle of LED screen and mirror. "As long as it is half a centimeter, all the images will not be right."
People try to crack Liu Qian's magic, just as they try to see through Liu Qian, and there are more and more criticisms around him.
There are rumors on the Internet that Liu Qian is a plastic face and a sissy, copying foreign magicians.
20 13 was called "right and wrong" and "looking for trouble" by netizens because of the phrase "looking for Leehom" when he performed on the same stage with pianist Di Yun, and his reputation was not good for a while. Even more infuriating, screenshots of him bowing to the "Emperor" while recording a program in Japan were circulated on the Internet. ...
For a time, Liu Qian was banned. It seems that in order to confirm this speculation, in the next four or five years, Liu Qian, like that fleeting "miracle", was seen and quickly disappeared.
If you can choose to correct a certain period in your life, Liu Qian did not hesitate to choose "my most popular period", that is, from 2009 to 20 1 1 year.
At that time, he was starting his own tour because of the popularity of the Spring Festival Evening, and his fame and benefits were accelerating.
This is just the tip of the iceberg, and below sea level is a greater degree of internal friction.
The controversy about him is only part of it, and there are his own entanglements.
He has always been a man who pursues perfection and detail. He will be angry because the staff didn't clean the work area before shooting, and will decide the shape of the performance by himself.
Before boarding the CCTV Spring Festival Evening stage, he was a magician who had to make himself comfortable. After he left the Spring Festival Gala, more and more professionals began to arrange his life, telling him what kind of clothes to wear and what kind of programs to perform.
For a time, the company even asked him to "play one on the Spring Festival Evening every year".
"You don't know what you are doing, and you are tired, but everyone still wants you to do the same thing. Later, you couldn't take it anymore, but you went back to your normal life, "Liu Qian told Lu Yu in an interview.
He got married, had a son and moved to Beijing. At the beginning, there were only three employees in the huge studio. "I can finally catch my breath and don't have to do what I don't want to do."
For these years, he paid the price of "three or four years, almost no income, no job."
Magic shouldn't just make people "wow"
Liu Qian, who appeared on the stage of Jiangsu Satellite TV's Spring Festival Evening, obviously relaxed.
He is like the father and friend of the little boy around him, but he is not like a magician who can turn decay into magic in minutes. This may benefit from "normal life".
20 15 He had a son and found that there were more important things in life than magic. And magic should not just "wow" people, there should be other things. " Love, the love of nature, can make magic become something more meaningful.
In Liu Qian's studio in Beijing, there are props high heels for his performance, high-priced customized shoes that have not been worn, and mysterious clocks collected from French magicians on the bookshelf. ...
During his short performance time, he stayed here all day and conceived new performances, just like going to work normally.
He is not in a hurry to perform on stage, and he prefers to throw his time here.
Develop new props with the employees in the work area, although many of them have not been completed;
Find fun in magic props collected around the world;
He also specially prepared a small theater for himself, which is just suitable for close-up magic.
In this small theater, he will perform those experimental programs, many of which may not be suitable for performing on stage or on TV at all, but they are better than what he likes.
For a long time, he has been looking for a "balance": to find a balance between what he wants to perform and what the audience may like.
Maybe once he focused on finding magic that caught his eye, but in a small theater, he might just be himself. "If people want to have this time, they will develop aimlessly and enrich themselves."
If the money is enough and the desire to perform is not strong enough, he doesn't mind developing aimlessly all the time.
Stop and start over.
In the precipitation of those years, he regained his enthusiasm for performing magic and accumulated more and more ideas for the audience to see new ideas.
20 19, after six years, Liu Qian returned to the stage of CCTV Spring Festival Evening. This is a performance lasting 1 1 minute. In the performance, he used an "empty pot" to make red wine, beer, bean juice and sugar. ...
Just two days after the end of the Spring Festival Gala, a video of Liu Qian changing pots at the scene appeared on the Internet. Magic was once ridiculed as "cheating" by the regiment.
After a silence of 1 1, Liu Qian responded in the Weibo: His performance was not attended by children, nor did he collude with the audience. He also clarified the news that he bowed down to the Japanese emperor a few years ago.
In this regard, he said that although all units told him not to respond, he decided to say what he should say.
From the popularity explosion in 2009 to the precipitation of 20 19, he is no longer the magician who just wants to show his edge.
No one can tell him what to say or do. Liu Qian and Liu Qian's magic are performances in the eyes of others, but they are his life.
When Liu Qian turned an egg into a chicken at the Spring Festival Evening of Jiangsu Satellite TV, some netizens said it was not magic, but magic.
Still a simple prop, still a magician, but let people witness that life is the greatest miracle.
References:
1. CCTV, face to face
2. "Luyu has about ten years: the story behind Liu Qian's Spring Festival Evening"
3. "Lu Yu has an appointment with Liu Yue Qian", Phoenix Satellite TV.
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Author | Dong Yun