Text/Sherlock
In the Spring Festival of 1986, the broadcast of "Journey to the West" caused a national sensation and received high praise.
This divine drama, which has been replayed more than three thousand times, not only brings joy to generations of people, but also becomes the collective memory of Chinese.
Under the restrictions of funds, technology, environment and other conditions, the shooting process is comparable to the eighty-one difficulties of learning from the experience, and director Yang Jie took six years to shoot this painstaking work.
Some episodes of the filming process have become people's talk after tea and dinner, among which Yang Jie and Yang Chunxia, who played the role of Bai Bonejing, are "enmity" and "grievances", which is a topic that the public is talking about.
Yang Chunxia, who walked on the TV screen with the role of Bai Bonejing, why not thank Director Yang Jie for the grace of his acquaintance, but did not talk about "Journey to the West" all his life, "remembering and hating" Yang Jie for more than thirty years?
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Yang Chunxia, born in Shanghai in 1943, at the age of 12, was admitted to the Shanghai Opera School, studied Kunqu opera for 4 years, and then studied Peking Opera with yan Huizhu.
After graduation, she began to perform, and was widely loved by the public with her brilliant performances in the Peking Opera "The Legend of the White Snake" and "The Female General of Yangmen", and went abroad for artistic exchanges many times.
In 1973, she was transferred to the Beijing Peking Opera Troupe's "Cuckoo Mountain" crew, playing the role of Ke Xiang, a communist party member.
When receiving such a heavy responsibility, Yang Chunxia was excited and worried, and did not expect that the heroine of the Beijing Opera Troupe's big drama was actually herself.
At the same time, she was also very uneasy in her heart, and this role gave her too much test,
Because she has always played the image of a shy and beautiful woman, and Ke Xiang is a representative hero who grew up in the revolutionary movement, and the appearance and body language of the two are very different.
In order to play this role well, Yang Chunxia pondered the lines word by word, walked and ate to read two sentences, and sometimes unconsciously posed as a party representative.
At that time, many people in the building thought that she was "nervously abnormal."
After more than a year of hard study and practice, Yang Chunxia's Ke Xiang finally moved to the stage, because of her excellent singing skills, beautiful appearance, and good acting skills, Yang Chunxia became popular overnight.
Her clean and neat short hair also became a popular hairstyle for a while, and was called "Ke Xiangtou" by the audience.
For a time, her posters were plastered all over the streets, setting off a frenzied wave of star chasing, and it can be said that her popularity is no less than that of the current traffic stars.
It is also because of this role that Yang Chunxia was favored by director Yang Jie and starred in her only TV series "Journey to the West".
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Yang Jie "coaxed and deceived" to bring Yang Chunxia into the crew?
In "Journey to the West", the three dozen white bone essences are undoubtedly one of the most classic fragments, but the scheming, cunning and murderous image of the white bone essence makes many actors do not want to take this role.
After all, in that era, it was easy for the audience to project the character image onto the actor himself.
For example, Teacher Li Mingqi, the actor of Grandma Rong in "Huan Zhu Ge Ge", was once thrown an egg by the audience who "went too deep into the play".
Therefore, at that time, not many people came to audition for the role of Bai Bonejing, and they never found an actor who fit the image of the character.
At this time, Liu Xiaoqing, who had just debuted, agreed to play the white bone essence, but she had a condition, that is, the woman who was refined into the white bone and her mother should also be played by herself.
However, director Yang Jie believes that if these roles all use the same person, they cannot highlight the effect of white bone essence, so she did not choose Liu Xiaoqing in the end.
Seeing that filming is about to start, the casting has not been decided for a long time, and the crew is very anxious.
One day, Yang Jie suddenly remembered Yang Chunxia, who played Ke Xiang, and immediately ran directly to her house with the assistant director, when Yang Chunxia just went out, the two waited at the door for three or four hours, hot and sweaty,
After seeing Yang Chunxia, the two expressed their intentions to her, at that time, she was a very popular "Shanghai first", when she heard that she wanted to star in "Journey to the West", she was very happy, but when she learned that the role she was looking for was a white bone essence, she was anxious: "Look at me like a white bone essence?" ”
The assistant director "Wang Tiezui" said to her, our white bone essence is not only a beauty but also a queen...
After he explained the role, he also praised Yang Chunxia to the sky, and in the end, Yang Chunxia reluctantly agreed, but she also put forward a condition - the king of the daughter country also wanted her to play.
Due to the tight time, everyone was waiting for the white bone essence to start, and director Yang Jie had to agree to come down and "coax and deceive" to bring Yang Chunxia to the crew.
But people who have watched "Journey to the West" know that in the end, the king of the daughter country is played by Zhu Lin.
Yang Jie also explained that Yang Chunxia portrayed the white bone essence into three points, and if she played the king of the daughter country again, the audience would definitely not accept it in their hearts, and would think that the king of the daughter country was transformed from the white bone essence.
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Yang Jie's renegade of his word caused the two to die and not interact with each other?
In "Journey to the West", the image of each character has very distinct characteristics,
The white bone essence created by Yang Chunxia is very successful, and her every move shows the image of the white bone essence to the fullest, and has also become a classic that cannot be surpassed in the hearts of the audience.
However, after playing "White Bone Essence", ErYang never shared the stage again, and every time the crew reunited, Yang Chunxia did not participate, and avoided talking about any questions about "Journey to the West".
Yang Jie felt very guilty about this, and later she publicly apologized to Yang Chunxia on the show, but she never got any response.
In 2017, Yang Jie passed away, except for Yang Chunxia, the crew of "Journey to the West" were all present.
For a time, the media interpreted the relationship between the two people in various ways, and the topic of the two "old and dead do not interact with each other" and "Yang Chunxia resented Yang Jie for thirty years" was very popular.
Two years ago, Yang Chunxia responded to this matter for the first time in the show, because she did not like the role of Bai Bonejing, so she proposed that she wanted to play another positive character and reshape the image.
At that time, after half a month of shooting the white bone essence, she returned to Beijing and began to work on her own, after that, the director did not contact her, and she naturally did not take the initiative to call and ask.
And never participated in the crew reunion, because she did not want to be fixed by the image of Bai Bonejing, because she still had the road to go in traditional opera.
The success of "Journey to the West" is inseparable from the efforts of everyone in the crew, in that era, playing such a villain as Bai Bonejing, Yang Chunxia did make a great sacrifice.
And Director Yang Jie also suffered a lot of criticism because of his words and untrustworthiness,
It can only be said that those who bow for art and classics deserve to be respected.
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