Do you know? Director Yang Jie's first look at Sun Wukong is not a six-year-old child!
Journey to the West is mainly about the four masters and apprentices, the story of seeking the true scriptures, and the most important of the four is Sun Wukong, Yang Jie began to look for a suitable starring role after taking over the shooting task of Journey to the West, she felt that Sun Wukong is a monkey qi, popularity, and divine qi, when she first started casting, she wanted to go to the martial arts academy to see, but although the students can perform monkey fist, monkey stick and many other martial arts, but will not act in vain, so Yang Jie began to consider playing monkey opera actors, Because opera has been played by some people, there are mature monkey opera performances, if you can combine martial arts actions with opera martial arts actions, in the direction of humanized performance, this is the Sun Wukong in your mind, according to these points, Yang Jie believes that Sun Wukong's casting must have three conditions
(First, be young, because young people are more likely to accept new things, second, to be able to endure hardships, can not give up halfway, third, to be single-minded, it is best not to fall in love)
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Yang Jie soon visited the famous Peking Opera actor, Li Wanchun, who is known as the Northern Monkey King, and asked him to give some advice, the difference is that Li Wanchun repeatedly insisted that Sun Wukong must use the Peking Opera face mask that hooks the face, otherwise it will not work, Yang Jie does not agree with this point of view, if the face is hooked, is it not opera? Li Wanchun recommended his son Li Xiaochun to Yang Jie, but Li Xiaochun was a pillar of the Inner Mongolia Peking Opera Troupe, there was no way to lend it out, the two were not happy and dispersed, so they visited the famous Peking Opera actor Li Shaochun and Ye Shaolan, but they said that now the Peking Opera actors left the gong and drum and could not walk, they could not act in the TV series, they all declined, Yang Jie, who visited the famous Peking Opera artists without results, felt that there was no hope for Sun Wukong in peking opera, Yang Jie suddenly remembered that the TV station had broadcast three dozen white bone essences before the Shao opera, The sixth-year-old boy of the Southern Monkey King, who played Sun Wukong in it, left a deep impression on her, so she quickly called to understand the situation.
Six-year-old boy said that he has a monkey play class, which has a lot of actors to choose from, Yang Jie decided to visit to see, the six-year-old old man warmly received her, Yang Jie also talked to him a lot of his own ideas about Sun Wukong, Mr. Six-year-old boy agreed, thinking that the shape presented on the screen should be different from the opera, and personally performed the actions and states of Sun Wukong in different periods, Yang Jie after watching, patted the thigh, it is a pity, if you are 30 years younger, this role must be yours, The old man heard this and laughed, Yang Jie continued to ask, are you such a good actor among your students? The six-year-old said, yes, Yang Jie can't wait to say that she wants to see, at this time Yang Jie saw a picture of Premier Zhou holding a small monkey on the wall, according to the time calculation, this little monkey should now be more than 20 years old, just right, so Yang Jie asked where this child is? The six-year-old boy said a little darkly, this is my son, who has been seriously ill, has passed away, Yang Jie did not know how to comfort for a while, had to sigh pity, then the old man pointed to a young man next to him and said, this is my son, also learn monkey play, Yang Jie understands that this is to recommend his son to her, but Yang Jie also wants to see the monkey play class, but it is not early to see the sky, he agreed to go to the monkey play class tomorrow to meet and choose, that night, the six-year-old child gave Yang Jie a copy of the information of the monkey play class members, one of whom was a talent, Having been on the stage and won honors, Yang Jie fell in love with it at a glance.
The next day Yang Jie let the six-year-old child take himself to the Shao Opera Troupe, who knew that the other party said that he was not in a hurry, he could see, Yang Jie proposed that he wanted to see the talent who had been on the stage first, and won the honor, who knew that the old man deliberately diverted the topic, a strong introduction to Yang Jie his son Zhang Jinlai, who played monkey play for seven years, Yang Jie thought in his heart, it is really a virtuous person who does not shy away from relatives, even if his son is good, he should let me choose it, Yang Jie began to look at this young man,
(This young man is quiet and handsome like a student, not like a monkey show, he seems to be tall, he has studied for seven years on stage, or his father personally taught)
After performing a bit, Yang Jie felt that imitating the monkey action was still in place, that is, it lacked the spirit of the spirit he needed, and the six-year-old child recommended the son of the seven-year-old child to play the eight precepts of the pig, Yang Jie thought that this is a family, and finally did not go to the troupe, always felt that something was missing in his heart.
(I know that this is because I have not been to the Shao Opera Troupe and have not met with the selected young people, I wondered, is it that I have missed a more suitable candidate, such a major play, there is not even a choice, then the young people around me, I really do not have much certainty).
In order to catch up with the Spring Festival program, Yang Jie did not have time to stay much, but this side could not directly admit it, or had to stand the meaning, so she immediately rushed back to Beijing, and reported the situation to the leader, and then told the six-year-old child's father and son and the little seven-year-old child to come to Beijing for an interview, Yang Jie took the time to visit them at the guest house, just saw the six-year-old child giving Zhang Jinlai a bath, Yang Jie giggled in his heart, how can the 20-year-old and the 60-year-old fetch water? Hurriedly asked, is he so delicate? Can't bear hardships, the old man heard Yang Jie's meaning, explained, it doesn't matter, with his brother to take care of, he will not add trouble to the crew, Yang Jie was momentarily gagged, stunned in place. Later, after the deputy director and Yang Jie watched their performances, they felt that the actors who played the monkeys were quite satisfied, but they were not satisfied with the role of the Eight Precepts of the Pig, the image was not fat enough, and the performance was not brilliant enough, so they were eliminated, at this time Zhang Jinlai also began to use the stage name of six-year-old children.
Three months later, Yang Jie came back from the scene, the play was officially established, six years of time, six children in order to play Sun Wukong also suffered a lot, and constantly grew up to finally become the classic monkey king in everyone's mind, but there is a point that violates the requirements of Yang Jie's casting, that is, in the crew to fall in love, when Director Yang Jie said this past, it can be said that there is no recommendation of six-year-old children, and there is no six-year-old child today, I have to say that the father's love for his son is praised, and he also has real confidence in his son , only later after the end of the 86th edition of Journey to the West, the six young children and the other three starring actors went out to perform, and told the leader of the stage that Yang Jie's is not, regardless of the overall situation and Yang Jie's feelings, fortunately, later they apologized to Yang Jie, and co-produced the sequel to Journey to the West, whether it is right or wrong, thanks to the director and actors for presenting this epic masterpiece for us, looking back, if Yang Jie chose the talent that Shao Opera Troupe saw from the data to play Sun Wukong, is it a different look now?
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