Xiang Han is one of the few all-round actors in China who integrates acting, martial arts design, choreography and solo singing.
When filming the 86th edition of "Journey to the West", among the two opera actors invited by director Yang Jie from the Hunan Xiang Theater, one was "Guanyin" Zuo Dayue and the other was Xiang Han.
As an all-round actor, Xiang Han not only instructed the actors in how to design the action in the crew, but also made more than twenty cameo roles, the most well-known of which was the "Black Bear Spirit".
Although the filming process was painful, there were also many funny things that made people cry and laugh.
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In the spring of 1953, Xiang Han, who was still a young child, was admitted to the hunan provincial cultural bureau's small student training class, where he studied under the famous Xiang opera actors Luo Yuande and Huang Yuan.
Children have unlimited possibilities for the future and vitality, and Xiang Han was the same in his year.
The role of Liu Chengyou, the young general he played in "Hunting Back", was very eye-catching, so at the age of 13, he was selected to perform at Huai Ren Tang for Zhou Enlai and other national leaders.
When he became an adult, he smoothly entered the Hunan Xiang Theater, became an opera and drama actor, and became a colleague with Zuo Dayue.
The number of actors back then was far less than now, and most of them had units, in other words, it was like having a "compilation".
In addition to filming, various theaters often have opportunities to communicate and meet, so when filming "Journey to the West", Xiang Han knew all the opera actors in the crew.
When opera actors act, there will be a common disease, that is, it is easy to "hold", and every move will have the shadow of opera performance.
But this is a big taboo for TV series, and what TV dramas need most is to perform naturally and without traces.
In this regard, Xiang Han is the leader among opera actors, and he has almost no trace of performance.
In order to eliminate the performance traces of the actors, Yang Jie let them come one by one to "learn the scriptures" from Xiang Han.
At that time, Wang Zhongxin, the actor of "Taibai Venus", was born in the Peking Opera House in China, and his opera experience was deeper than the water, although he had tried hard to avoid "holding", but his every move still carried the shadow of opera.
There is a play, Sun Wukong is in the middle of nowhere in Huaguo Mountain, taibai Venus comes to report to the Emperor of Heaven, and the first sentence after arching his hand is "Long live the Qi".
However, director Yang Jie was not satisfied after seeing it, thinking that his performance was too rigid and deliberate, and asked Xiang Han to help him dissolve the performance traces.
Xiang Han gave him a trick:
Don't be too steady when saying "Long live qi", after all, the monkey's head is already about to turn over, the emotions can be excited, and when the hand is handed, the hand can be slightly trembling.
Since then, Xiang Han has often surrounded a group of actors around him, which has some meaning of "pointing out the country".
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In addition to directing acting, he also disguised himself as a choreographer and taught Li Lingyu to dance Indian dance.
In the episode "Tianzhu Harvesting Jade Rabbit" in "Journey to the West", there is a scene that requires "Jade Rabbit Essence" Li Lingyu to dance Indian dance.
Li Lingyu is singing, and dancing is completely not good.
Not only do everyone in the crew not dance Indian dance, but even the Yunnan locals on the shooting scene do not.
It can be said that only Xiang Han alone can shoulder the heavy responsibility of choreography.
Xiang Han was sad because he wouldn't either.
Xiang Han can only learn now, in order to design good dance moves, he watched all the Indian movies he could find, and repeatedly looked through the dance fragments inside.
Therefore, the crew appeared a "beautiful" landscape:
I saw Xiang Han wearing the costume of an Indian dancer, hiding in a corner and practicing the charming Indian dance alone.
After the choreography was completed, he led Li Lingyu to dance with him, and taught her how to show a seductive style like a silky eye while dancing.
During that time, the laughter around Xiang Han was almost continuous.
"Women's clothing", as long as there is a first time, there is a second time.
There is an episode in "Journey to the West" called "Wrong Falling Disc Silk Cave", which tells the story of Tang Monk being trapped by seven spider spirits with silk spit out of their stomachs.
In order to show the identity of the goblin, the costume of the spider goblin was more exposed in that conservative era.
If you show your arms and legs and bare your waist, the seven "spider spirit" actors can barely accept it, but the scenery in front of your chest will also appear in the camera under half cover, and they will collectively "strike".
Under the persuasion of director Yang Jie, they opened up and agreed to star.
But you can't always take care of the actor's personal emotions, and let the shooting shot be incomplete.
Yang Jie discussed with them whether she could take some close-ups of her stomach "spitting silk".
The discussion was broken, and an actress ran back to the house crying:
"I just don't act, I'm really fateful, I have to show so much when I shoot a scene, what can I do after this..."
When Yang Jie was worried about losing a handful of hair, he suddenly had a clever move:
"Xiang Han's belly is good, tell him to put it on, let his stomach spit silk."
Therefore, Xiang Han "dedicated" his belly.
Afterwards, Xiang Han also quipped to himself:
How can there be a male spider here?
If he didn't say that he had taken the shot, that would be fine.
After saying that, the "childhood filter" of many viewers shattered.
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Not only that, but he also said an even more shameful shooting insider:
There is a scene like this, after the Eight Commandments of the Pig become a big fish, they swim after the thighs of the spider elves bathing in the river.
Those thigh shots are "contributed" by many male comrades in Journey to the West, and Xiang Han is also among them.
The thighs and belly are fake, so Tang Monk's white horse should always be real, right?
Thinking too much, the white horse is also fake.
At that time, the crew was filming in Hainan, not only was the time very tight, but there was no white horse in the local area.
Xiang Han was sad, how good it would be if Tang Monk rode a black horse in the original work.
Forget it, the dark horse is the dark horse, borrow the dark horse back, and I will find a way for the rest!
Xiang Han said on the phone to the staff who borrowed horses from the front line.
The horse led back, only to see Xiang Han and the artist holding a brush in their hands, and a large bucket of white paint under their feet.
As the two brushes flew up and down, the horse also changed from a black horse to a white horse.
On the show, the host was curious:
"That actor can't fade when he rides?"
Xiang Han smiled:
No one dared to ride that horse, it was all carried behind, and Tang Monk had to ride it only if he needed the scene.
There are many interesting things when filming, but the dangers follow close behind.
Xiang Han is not only responsible for acting and choreographing, but also the martial arts movements designed in the play are also from his hands.
During the filming of the episode "Guanfeng Bow Ma Wen", there is a scene where Sun Wukong goes to heaven to "make a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace" and needs six young children to hang Wei ya "to heaven".
However, there was an accident during the "heavens", the wire fell off the pulley, losing the fixed role of the pulley, and the six-year-old child fell from the sky in an instant.
It is also said that there is a large stone with sharp edges on the direction of his fall, although it does not move away nor hinders the shooting, but the camera Wang Chongqiu still moved away.
If the six-year-old child really fell on that rock, there was a chance of survival.
After the stone is removed, if it falls to the ground, it will become crippled without dying.
At that time, the six-year-old children's "woolly monkey" men were standing at the place where he fell, but they were instantly frightened and scattered like birds and beasts.
Fortunately, at that time, Xiang Han was standing there, saw the figure of the six-year-old child falling, and without thinking about it, he ran over and raised his arm to catch the six-year-old child.
The six-year-old child was unharmed, but Xiang Han's hand was also smashed into a blur of flesh and blood, and several openings were cut by the six-year-old child's metal costume.
So many years later, when the two met, the six-year-old repeatedly called Xiang Han a savior.
Today, Xiang Han is 81 years old, eating three meals a day of tea and light rice, writing brush writing hands are still flat and stable, and learning fragments of Journey to the West is still wonderful.
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