In the blink of an eye, the old version of "Journey to the West" has been released for 40 years, and the actors who are shining in the play are no longer fanghua, and the people who watch the drama have grown up and grown old from generation to generation. In the past forty years, film and television have shifted from the small screen to the big screen and then to the Internet, and all kinds of dramas have been repeated and vast, but they have all turned the page in an instant, but this old drama is always undefeated.
Every year during the winter and summer vacation re-screenings, many viewers who have already turned their backs on the plot will still sit in front of the TV and watch two paragraphs, and the nitpicking of cheap special effects and makeup on weekdays is all retracted in front of this drama, reliving the wonderful plot, and also reuniting with themselves who have passed by it in various periods.
Repeated carousels have made "Journey to the West", which has only twenty episodes, have a sense of reincarnation in the audience's psychology, but no matter how the reincarnation is extended, the most popular thing in this fantasy drama is always the most unspoilable plot - the most mortal fruitless marriage between the queen of the daughter country and the Tang monk.
Before leaving her daughter's country, the queen reluctantly sent Tang Monk to Guanwai, and called out the "Royal Brother" for a lifetime of infinite affection, and wanted to say and stopped hiding the tearing heart and lungs of this life. Tang Monk stopped his horse for a moment, but in the end he did not turn back, and the emperor rushed away with his horse.
When I was young, whenever I saw this paragraph, I lamented the queen's national color Tianxiang and the deep love of the past, and despised the cramped swaying and hypocrisy of the Tang monks.
After slowly growing up and personally experiencing love, I realized that Tang Monk's swaying was precisely because of emotion, and despair was because of affection, and also began to realize how much courage Tang Monk, who had promised "if the next life" in the Queen's Bedchamber the night before, had shown great courage at that moment.
In the play, the queen's dream love, Tang Monk's red dust robbery
Tang Monk, as an extraordinary-looking man and an elixir of immortality, has been coveted by various demons throughout the process of learning the scriptures, and the women he meets either want to eat him or want to blaspheme him, and the king of the daughter country is a mortal who has no secret intentions, can let him let down his guard, and is also the only beauty who puts him in a more important position than himself, no matter how gentle and affectionate.
The men in the world are diligently seeking for the country and the beauty, and their heads are broken and bleeding, but the queen is enthusiastic to stuff the jiangshan and herself into the hands of the Tang monks, and there is no greater test in the world. Although Tang Monk was the reincarnation of the god and Buddha, he was a mortal with flesh and blood and feelings, and he finally stumbled on the queen's amorous feelings.
From ruthlessness and desirelessness to emotion, to painful separation, the seemingly indifferent Tang Monk actually experienced a period of emotional process of step by step and painful entanglement.
The queen gave the country with all her heart, and the Tang monks wanted to go west with all their hearts
After the Tang monks and apprentices entered the city, the Tang monks entered the palace alone to meet the king of the daughter country, all the way to the yuxuan, heroic, the queen of the hall looked foolish at a glance, the Tang monks did not respond to the door three times in a row, and only after the reminder of the master did they come back to god and invite him to sit down. This queen's love at first sight has been revealed, and all kinds of careful thoughts have followed.
Tang Monk asked the queen to reverse the Guan Wen, but the queen carefully read it, and after understanding the cause and effect of the sealing, she called out the title that was numb and numb to the bone--brother of the royal brother. Tang Monk hurried to take Guan Wen away, and the queen delayed saying that Guan Wen would send him after that, taking the opportunity to leave the person in the inn.
The haunted queen quietly painted a portrait for the Tang monk, portrayed a piece of love, and dreamed with good expectations that she would carry her brother and sister hand in hand, ride a horse in the garden, live the life of a fairy lover, step by step greed into a disease, willing to recruit him as king with the wealth of a country, and take him as the queen.
However, at this time, Tang Monk was waiting for Guan Wen at the inn, and he only wanted to resign and go west as soon as possible. The taishi who was a matchmaker at this time was bound to open his mouth abruptly, and he might have to eat a big closed-door soup, but coincidentally, the Tang monks had abdominal pain due to the accidental drinking of the Zimu River water, and this small episode gave the queen another chance.
She took the opportunity to invite the fallen master and apprentice to the palace on the pretext of cultivating her body, and visited the garden with the Tang monks nearby to discuss the Tao and cultivate feelings. At this time, although Tang Monk still wanted to return to Wen Mu, he was no longer so urgent, and he gradually became familiar with the queen.
Seeing that the time was ripe, Taishi formally proposed to Tang Monk on behalf of the queen, expressing his willingness to exchange Jiangshan for Tang Monk to stay, Tang Monk was stunned, ten thousand did not agree, Goku took out the reason of not wanting to hurt the daughter of the country woman to persuade him to pretend to agree to the big wedding.
In this plot, the queen can be described as deliberate and step-by-step in order to keep Tang Monk, and took out the first bait - Jiangshan. However, the concubine was intentional, Lang was ruthless, and Jiang Shan failed to impress Tang Monk, so the queen took out a second trump card.
The night treasure was given to himself, and the iron heart was also emotional
When the disciples went to eat a feast, the Taishi led the Tang monks to the Queen's Bedchamber on the grounds of appreciating national treasures. Light gauze, candlelight feminine, a thin-shirted queen tenderly as water called the royal brother, wrapped around him whispered.
Tang Monk did not dare to look directly, did not dare to listen, sat in peace, sweat like rain, constantly dodging, the queen asked "Do you really like me", he did not dare to return, the queen let him look up, he was hollowed out by a gaze, under the pressure of deep affection, he spat out a sentence "If there is a fate in the next life..."
"If there is a fate in the next life", the queen said lustfully, not to come to the next life and only to seek this life, but she did not know that this sentence for the Tang monks had broken the Dharma practice, and it was the greatest and most rebellious affection.
His iron-like psychological defenses collapsed, and as long as the queen continued to dwell, he probably had only one option left to surrender. However, the sky was not complete, and the scorpion spirit suddenly appeared at this time, interrupting the ambiguous pull between the two and abducting Tang Monk.
In this plot, the queen put away her thoughts, played the fiercest straight ball, and took out the second bait, and the final hole card - herself, her beauty and sincerity. When the Tang monk dodged in front of her and recited "Amitabha Buddha", the Buddha in his heart had already lost to love.
Love is like a weed, cut off to come
The scorpion spirit who abducted Tang Monk back to the cave house learned to pestered Tang Monk in every way with the queen's posture, but any promise she promised to be a beautiful person tang monk was cold, and behind the sentence "How can a demon be compared" is his tenderness for the queen. No matter how restrained he was in front of the Queen, his feelings for her were like weeds in her invisible places, difficult to hide.
Under the control of the pipa song of the scorpion spirit, the aura of Tang Monk's "royal brother and brother" dissipated, and he returned to a state of crisis and turmoil all the way, and the short-lived warmth created by the queen was thus destroyed, he was awakened by the goblin, regained the Buddha nature and mission, and when he returned to his daughter's country, he was already faced with the trick of saying goodbye to the queen.
Tang Monk's mandate was to serve the Buddha, and the queen experienced the scorpion essence and knew that no one could stay, and finally stamped the treasure seal on the customs clearance disc, and hesitantly sent Tang Monk to the forest, tearful eyes, and reluctantly handed Wen Di to Tang Monk.
At this time, Tang Monk's heart was also turned a thousand times, and Shi Broke the Earth and gave up the Ten Rituals of the Buddhist Family and performed a secular family ceremony to the Queen, and thousands of undeclared friendships were all in this fist.
Tang Monk stepped on the horse, and the queen hurriedly chased a few steps and called out to him, and all the sorrows and tears of the heart and lungs only turned into this sentence "Royal Brother Brother". Tang Monk's heart was touched, and he couldn't help but stop at the horse and return to the half of his body, but in the end he did not answer, and decided to go away on horseback.
At this moment, their frontiers have been exhausted, all their affection has been buried, and at that moment, the beauty of the country and the countryside are gentle, and all kinds of mortal happiness have nothing to do with him.
In this episode, the queen fulfilled the dream love of the mirror flower and water moon, and the Tang monks survived the most difficult red dust robbery, they had small calculations, there was no need, there was parting pain, there was the vividness of mortals, there was moving tenderness and honey, there was you and me, and his shadow. But this story is not like this in the original work, it is a cold and hard bridge where real needs and scams are intertwined.
In the text, the need for reproduction, a scam
In the original "Journey to the West", the theme of the chapter on the daughter country is "the french nature of the westward journey to the female country, the heart ape is determined to get rid of fireworks", a story that is not about love and is driven by the need for reproduction.
The previous chapter described the plot of the master and apprentice drinking the water of the Zimu River by mistake, borrowing the mouth of an old woman to explain that the daughter country is full of women, relying on the way of the Zi River water transmission, which in turn leads to the daughter country's desire for men, and it has become an objective need to retain the Tang monks.
After the four masters and apprentices entered the daughter's country, they were watched all the way, and the women along the way shouted an impolite but realistic sentence - "The human race is coming."
The master and apprentice settled in Yingyang Yi, and Yi Cheng took the customs clearance to the palace to report to the queen. When the queen heard that a man had visited, she did not see him, so she wanted to recruit him with the wealth of a country and make him king, in order to "match the yin and yang, and have children and grandchildren."
It can be seen from the description in the first half that the entire daughter country, from the common people to the queen, is permeated with a kind of male desire driven by reproduction, and the queen's motivation to retain the Tang monks is all in this, not the love struggle shown in the play.
After that, the master went to ask for affection, and the queen personally greeted him. Sun Wukong made a suggestion, Tang Monk pretended to agree to the big wedding after the four of them went to the palace to enjoy a rich feast, after the meal Tang Monk and the queen sent their apprentices out of the customs, and when they arrived outside the Guanwai, Tang Monk resigned to the queen according to the plan.
The whole process does not have a bridge section for the queen and Tang Monk to cultivate feelings, nor is there a description of Tang Monk's feelings, nor is there any mutual affection between the two, but like an old-fashioned arranged marriage held for succession, Tang Monk, as a "little daughter-in-law" without autonomy, completed a mission of "tool man", and the four masters and apprentices played a pure goodwill deception.
At the end of the story, the deceived queen was horrified, and just about to question the scorpion spirit, she appeared and took advantage of the chaos to abduct Tang Monk. The guoshi who did not know the reason mistakenly thought that the Tang monk had soared in the daytime, and lamented that he was "a high-ranking monk with a way, I have no eyes and no pearls, and I recognize the wrong person", and the queen returned to the palace with the shame of making a wrong calculation, and there was no affectionate farewell in the TV series.
Peeling off the essence, this is a collision between the actual needs of one party and the deception of the other party, with the prosperity and refinement of the daughter country described in detail and the wisdom of Sun Wukong as lace, which can be called blunt and cold.
The queen is not tender, and Tang Monk is still the image of the puppet listening to drink, without any vividness or cuteness. The tender bridges and moving places seen by the audience are the gifts of the main creators of the drama to the audience and this classic work.
The origin of love, the meaning of mortals
"Journey to the West" director Yang Jie is delicate and eclectic, she wants to add a little color to this fantasy classic that fights monsters all the way to the psychological fatigue of everyone, and takes advantage of the only human love robbery in the whole book to make the role of Tang Monk, a numb and lonely god, vivid.
So let the screenwriter insert three progressive emotional scenes in the "Daughter Country" episode, which is as thick as ink but finally mirrors and water, and the tragedy ends.
In this scene, the director's requirements for the actors are only two words - "emotional".
The queen's fervent initiative, the eagerness to look forward to it, yin Yin's affection, the Tang monk's evasion and avoidance, the heartbeat, and the absolute cutting... The smiles of the two actors and the look in each eye interpret the "emotion" to the extreme, like a ball of fire burning into the audience's heart across the screen, making people feel especially moved for decades.
The wonderful plot and vivid interpretation of this episode are not inferior to a separate love drama, and successfully fill in the most missing stroke of interaction and empathy with the audience for "Journey to the West" - human flavor.
The classics of the original "Journey to the West" are achieved by wonderful and strange achievements, the classics of the "Journey to the West" episodes rely on the analysis, enrichment and inkiness of the directors, screenwriters and actors, and the viewers see a different world from each version and in each period.
The cold and warm of the story, separated by thousands of years of time, separated by different generations, separated by male authors and female directors, and man and God, but separated by a turn, a little selfishness, a choice, Tang monks for a woman to give birth, for parting pain, gods and Buddhas are invisible to everyone, Tang monks put down the beauty of the country, when they crossed the horse, mortals became Buddhas.