The 86 version of "Journey to the West" is a classic in many people's hearts, it has created many miracles in the domestic film and television industry, and has become popular with many powerful actors, but not everyone wants to have anything to do with "Journey to the West".
For example, Yang Chunxia, the actor of "White Bone Spirit" in the play, dislikes this drama very much, and even threatens to never "forgive" Director Yang Jie. What's going on here?
The actor takes over the play, nothing more than looking at these situations, one is the script, and the other is the crew configuration. "Journey to the West", as a classic masterpiece, is very top in both aspects, and many actors are scrambling for a role.
At that time, Director Yang Jie was looking for actors for the role of "White Bone Spirit". After watching many actresses, Yang Jie chose Yang Chunxia.
At that time, Yang Chunxia was already a very well-known actor in the entertainment industry. She was very happy that she could get this opportunity, and happily ran to audition, only to be instantly collapsed when she learned that she was going to play "White Bone Spirit".
Yang Chunxia thinks that the white bone spirit has no role, and he is still a vicious villain, which is really unpleasant. But Director Yang Jie felt that Yang Chunxia was very suitable for the role of "White Bone Spirit", and repeatedly advised her.
So Yang Chunxia proposed that if the king of the daughter country behind her could also let her play, then she agreed to play the role of "White Bone Spirit".
Yang Jie thought to herself, the "King of the Daughter Country" has not yet been decided, and it is okay to let Yang Chunxia play it. As a result, after Yang Chunxia finished playing "White Bone Spirit", the filmmaker chose Zhu Lin to play the "King of the Daughter Country".
Yang Chunxia was very angry and thought that Director Yang Jie had deceived her. Since then, the two have become "enemies". After that, no matter how popular the TV series "Journey to the West" was, Yang Chunxia did not mention it in public, which shows that she is indeed angry.
As a pampered daughter, Yang Chunxia's temper is notoriously stubborn. Her father is a factory worker and her mother is an accountant, living in such a family, she naturally has no worries about food and clothing, and her life is smooth.
And Yang Chunxia herself is excellent, she was admitted to the Shanghai Theater Academy at the age of 12, and later successfully joined the Peking Opera Troupe.
For acting, Yang Chunxia has a certain pursuit, she has never played a villain, and asked Director Yang Jie to let her play the "King of the Daughter Country", not to play a big name, but to make up for the image.
But director Yang Jie also has his own difficulties.
The conditions during the filming of "Journey to the West" were extremely difficult, and under such difficult conditions, Yang Jie still kept improving, not only visiting the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, insisting on live shooting, but also having strict requirements for actors.
Yang Jie verbally agreed to let Yang Chunxia play the "King of the Daughter Country", on the one hand, because she didn't want to let go of the "White Bone Spirit" who played so well, and on the other hand, so as not to delay the filming progress and affect everyone.
So in the end, she could only take the risk of being scolded by Yang Chunxia and bear everything alone. Director Yang Jie created for us the "King of the Daughter Country", the beautiful and cunning "White Bone Spirit", but he was burdened with the title of dishonesty.
In 2017, director Yang Jie passed away, and Yang Chunxia did not show up at the funeral. No matter what the outside world said, Yang Chunxia never made any response, only silently preaching Peking Opera.
Although the two artists failed to reconcile, they have always adhered to their own artistic path and worked hard to inherit and carry forward traditional Chinese culture.
I hope we can all remember the charm of these two great female artists.