"Where do the monkeys go?" "Are you a rescuer invited by the monkeys?"
A few days ago, along with the relevant hot search, many netizens opened the "Leeuwenhoek-style chase", looking for the classic lines and plots of the old version of "Journey to the West", and opened a round of "memory killing".
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In the blink of an eye, nearly 40 years have passed since the 82nd edition of "Journey to the West" began filming the trial episode. Some people also say that when the opening "Yungong Xunyin" sounds, it is like returning to the childhood when watching TV dramas together.
From the performance to the adaptation, to the entire shooting process, it is the polishing of the details that has made a classic.
Whether the play is good or not is one of the elements of whether a work can be successful.
In the 82nd edition of "Journey to the West", an action and an expression of the actors may have been repeatedly pondered in order to fit the character's personality.
For example, the master brother's eyes turn, count the heart, and always be alert; the second master brother is wide and fat, walking and swinging, occasionally running with a bump, like a tumbler; Sha Shi brother is thick and talks little, and concentrates on taking care of the luggage all the way.
The Four Saints Tried the Zen Heart, the Eight Precepts were a bit moved by the mind of the son-in-law of the door, and the actor Ma Dehua used a detail to express: When he saw the truth, love, and pity, his hand rested here: Yo, so beautiful. Don't know what to do well, eat hands.
Image source: Screenshot of the video of "Journey to the West"
Many little monsters also come alive. Ben Bo Er Ba and Ba Bo Er Ben are the two living treasures of Bi Bo Tan; the henchmen of the small school come and go, and it seems that it is not so bad; the delicate ghosts who cut the door and the clever worms who are clever are fooled by the monkey brother.
The various fairy monsters have different identities, and the color of the smoke when they appear is also different. When the red child appeared, he used red smoke, and the yellow robe monster appeared accompanied by yellow smoke...
The conditions are rudimentary, and the acting skills are made up. In the crew, there are often "one person playing multiple roles", saving money and saving trouble, and Wang Yue, who plays a Tang monk, has guest starred as a monkey in Huaguo Mountain. Xu Shaohua also played the Tiangong Wenchen and the Dragon King, and the plot is still vivid and there is no sense of violation.
Without the subsequent revelations, perhaps few people can see through the mystery.
The actors acted carefully, and the crew also took care of the adaptation of the original work.
Some people think that "Journey to the West" is a mythological novel, and the word "human touch" has nothing to do with it. But director Yang Jie does not see it this way, "No matter what the play, if you lose the 'love', there is no soul." ”
Whether it is a person, a demon or a god, it seems that there is a little more warm fireworks. When Grandmaster Bodhi wanted to drive Goku away, he seemed desperate, and when he parted, he instructed, "After that, do more good deeds, and do not do evil." Otherwise, I won't spare you. ”
The simplest dialogue, the lines can be rough and refined, some have become the current hot stem, "Say what the grace of retribution, in the future you will cause trouble, do not say the master, just do it." ”
In addition, in the daughter country, in the face of the queen, the Tang monk, who was originally bent on seeking the true scriptures, said a word, "In the next life, if there is a fate..."
Remember the song "Why the West Heavens Are Far Away" when the apricot fairy danced? "How is it better than my rain run red posture", compared to the original "rain run red posture delicate and tender", the difference between the two words, the demon immortal is also less tacky, more aura.
From the front of the stage to the backstage, the creators have spent a lot of time on cutting details, seeking truth and being more realistic. In the real scene part, the audience is taken to appreciate the famous mountains and rivers, and the scenery is in full view.
In terms of obedience, this is still the case. Pig Eight Commandments and Sun Wukong have to wear makeup all over their bodies, wear "molds" on their faces for a long time, eat hard, hot in summer and cold in winter, but they all persist.
At that time, the crew did not quite understand the principle of hanging Weia. Because the wire was too thin, the six-year-old boy, Ma Dehua, and Yan Huaili had all fallen from the air. Once, Ma Dehua fell right between the buffers, and for a month or two he even inhaled painfully.
Some supporting roles have become classic images that have been passed down to this day, such as "Zhenyuan Daxian", "Taishang Laojun", "Rulai Buddha"... The artists who play these roles have actually been famous for a long time, but they still take seemingly inconspicuous roles seriously.
When the immortals appear, they often need to use dry ice to create a scene of auspicious clouds, dry ice is very cold, and standing in it for a while, the legs will be numb. Zheng Rong played Taishang Laojun, afraid of delaying the filming time, basically standing there without moving.
Why did the old version of "Journey to the West" catch fire for so long? "Because we're doing art, we're not for money, we're not for fame, we're not for profit." A passage from Yang Jie many years ago may be the most appropriate answer.
In a show that aired last year, the creators of the 82nd edition of "Journey to the West" ushered in a reunion. As far as the camera can see, some of them are already full of gray hair, some are in wheelchairs, and many of the audience under the stage are no longer young.
From the beginning of the trial episode in 1982 to today, a TV series has frozen the memory of generations.
By today's standards, the 82nd edition of Journey to the West is not without flaws: when Sun Wukong vacates, he can clearly see a trampoline under his feet; the eagle is worried about the battle, and the little white dragon that shows its real body is fake enough to make people see through the wood carving at a glance.
Some of the stunts don't pass. Due to the lack of key software, the special effects characters created by the stunt mechanism look like a thin piece of paper, and the traces of synthesis are very obvious when Tang Monk is framed by a monster and turns into a tiger.
Therefore, there was such a view: "Journey to the West" was able to spread throughout the country with the factors of the times, there were few entertainment methods, and there were not many dramas that could be watched, and people would be surprised to see a hanging Wea. Today, it is nothing more than nostalgia.
Years are like a natural filter, it is indeed possible to add points to a work, when people mention a classic old drama, they are often accompanied by sighs about the passage of time, sighs and nostalgia for past years.
But relying on "nostalgia" alone is not enough to make a drama a classic. The audience's eyes are shiny, and after the big waves, all that is left is gold. The quality of the work itself is too good to withstand scrutiny. All the classics, nothing more.
What details do you remember from Journey to the West?
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On September 14, 1938, a meeting of the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee was held, and Wang Jiaxiang conveyed the decision of the Comintern and Dimitrov's opinion. They hold that the CPC has established an anti-Japanese national united front over the past year, that the political line is correct, that the CPC has truly applied Marxism-Leninism under complicated circumstances and difficult conditions, and that the leading organs of the CPC Central Committee should take Mao Zedong as the head to solve the issue of unified leadership, and that the central leading organs should have an air of close unity.
Edited | Liu Yantong Proofreader | Liu Qing
Source | China News Network (id: cns2012), author Shangguan Yun