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preface
"Look, the Monkey King is here!" , the famous actor six-year-old child appeared in a campus cultural activity of Hebei University of Technology, as a childhood explosion of the national "big Internet celebrity", the arrival of the six-year-old child made the playground full of students.
However, when it was the turn of the six-year-old to perform, there was an embarrassing side.
When the six-year-old child played his golden hoop stick, some people began to joke on the spot, saying that the six-year-old child would only use this trick for the rest of his life. As the video spread to the Internet, it triggered a fierce discussion, can the six-year-old children really only rely on eating the old book?
The fire spread all over the country, and the Monkey King was born
The six-year-old child's real name is Zhang Jinlai, his ancestral home is in Shaoxing City, and he is the fourth generation of the famous Zhang monkey opera. It seems that there is an indissoluble relationship with monkeys.
As the youngest son of the six-year-old child of the master of qu art and the fourth generation of Zhang's monkey opera, Zhang Jinlai was placed in high hopes by his father. Rigorous training began at an early age. Taking the door out of the tiger, Zhang Jinlai also showed great talent.
Due to his solid foundation and hard training on weekdays, Zhang Jinlai was easily admitted to the Zhejiang Kunqu Opera Troupe Art School majoring in martial arts.
Since 1980, Zhang Jinlai, who has excellent results, has been very popular and began to rush to major crews.
Until one day in 1982, Yang Jie, the chief director of "Journey to the West", let Zhang Jinlai, who was only in his early 20s, audition under the strong recommendation of Zhang Jinlai's father.
At first, Yang Jie didn't have much expectations for this impetuous young man, but after watching Zhang Jinlai's monkey opera performance, she thought that Zhang Jinlai's skills were still very solid, plus he was originally a monkey opera heir, and he had his own unique views on the role of the Monkey King, so she still clapped the board to let Zhang Jinlai officially play the role of the Monkey King.
It was at this moment that the gears of Zhang Jinlai's fate began to spin, and the performance of the six-year-old child in "Journey to the West" was hailed as one of the biggest highlights of the play.
In the play, the performance of the six-year-old child is very delicate, and he can vividly show different aspects such as Monkey King's joy, anger and sorrow, wit and bravery, and naughty and naughty. In addition, Wusheng's debut Zhang Jinlai's performance style is very unique, which not only integrates the techniques of traditional opera, but also loses the expression techniques of modern film and television, making the image of the Monkey King vivid and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
At that time, in the streets and alleys, almost all children could see children claiming to be the Monkey King on the old street corners to lower demons and remove demons.
Young fame and inner expansion
At the beginning, Zhang Jinlai was still very attentive to the script, not only often found Yang Jie to study monkey plays together in his spare time to better imitate the monkey movements, but also because he was too deep in the play, he was injured many times without noticing.
With the explosion of "Journey to the West", Zhang Jinlai became a popular actor, and his acting career also flourished.
However, the huge success made Zhang Jinlai, who was only in his early 20s, feel unprecedented satisfaction and expansion, according to Yang Jie's interview, we can know that after becoming famous, Zhang Jinlai began to play a big name, often arriving late for no reason, causing the entire crew to wait for him alone, which also made the chief director Yang Jie very angry.
At that time, the filming funds for the entire "Journey to the West" were not sufficient, and even if it had spread all over the streets, the salary that actors could get was very low.
Therefore, the "four masters and apprentices" began to continue to receive commercial performances from all over the world to earn extra money, resulting in the crew often postponing filming because of their private affairs. What made Yang Jie most angry was that at that time, the reputation of "Journey to the West" had already spread abroad, and the crew received a commercial performance in Singapore.
For Yang Jie, this is a good opportunity to promote traditional culture, so he immediately invited Zhang Jinlai, Chi Chongrui, Yan Huaili and Ma Dehua as four masters and apprentices.
But except for the Tang monk Chi Chongrui, who ran with Yang Jie the whole time, the three apprentices all said that they were ill and did not come. At that time, director Yang Jie still believed it.
Later, a friend told him that the three apprentices had secretly accepted commercial performances in China, so they took leave like Yang Jie. This can make Yang Jie angry. A big quarrel with them, and the contradictions of the past are also stimulated.
With his great reputation, Zhang Jinlai actually directly found the leader of CCTV and expressed his dissatisfaction with Yang Jie, which directly led to Yang Jie being invited out of the crew.
In the face of his own Bo Le, Zhang Jinlai did not think of gratitude, but used his fame to be pampered and proud and drove Yang Jie out of the crew. This behavior caused many people to be dissatisfied.
After this forced palace, both sides almost broke off contact. Until 1998, in order to be able to smoothly shoot the sequel to "Journey to the West", the three apprentices wanted to ask Yang Jie to continue to be the chief director, so the three of them found Yang Jie together to apologize.
Originally, Yang Jie was already frustrated and did not plan to continue filming, but the three apprentices tearfully asked her to come out of the mountain, watching the three actors she brought out have been so humble pleading, she still relented, plus she did have feelings for this dedicated work, so she agreed to rejoin the filming of the sequel to "Journey to the West".
Yang Jie has talked about this past in her memoirs, in fact, she also knows that their apology is more or less false.
Even after many years, Yang Jie has said many times in interviews that what she regrets the most is the filming of "Journey to the West". Even now, every time I see "Journey to the West" on TV, I skip it. Every time I see "Journey to the West", I think of those bad things.
It can be seen how deeply the behavior of the "apprentices" hurt her back then.
If you enter the play too deeply, the evening festival is not guaranteed
After the drama "Forced Palace", Zhang Jinlai's reputation in the circle has been greatly affected, and unlike Ma Dehua and Yan Huali, Zhang Jinlai is more enthusiastic about going abroad after "Journey to the West", frequently receiving various commercial performances and advertisements.
After Yang Jie's 2017 "Journey to the West" chief director Yang Jie died, the three masters and apprentices came to mourn (the sand monk actor Yan Huali has passed away).
At first, everyone was just talking about the past for a while, and later Zhang Jinlai began to hype his new film "Journey to the West" at this funeral, which almost turned the entire funeral into a venue for his own promotion of his new film.
It should have been a place where he missed his mentor, so he immediately had a different atmosphere. Therefore, Zhang Jinlai has been criticized by many people.
This is only one of the corners of his defeated reputation, due to the success of "Journey to the West", Zhang Jinlai was almost bound to the role of the Monkey King, although he received many movies and film and television dramas in the follow-up, but the response was poor.
Zhang Jinlai, who is bound to the role of the Monkey King, also limits the actor's drama path and performance space, and we often see that because the image of a certain character is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, it is difficult for the actor to get rid of the shackles of this image in other works, and it is difficult for the audience to accept them playing other types of roles.
In addition, if this character becomes the representative and iconic image of the actor, then in future works, the audience may associate the actor too closely with this role, thus limiting and affecting the performance of other characters.
Zhang Jinlai is such a tied character. Perhaps because of this, he understands that his success must be firmly tied to "Journey to the West".
For this reason, Zhang Jinlai has constantly criticized various adaptations of "Journey to the West", and even proposed that he hopes that the government can ban the adaptation of traditional masterpieces in order to protect traditional culture.
In turn, he himself continues to receive relevant dramas, including some magic works, which is embarrassing to watch. And the most incredible thing is.
Zhang Jinlai didn't know whether he was too deep into the play or too attached to the role of the Monkey King, and almost regarded this role as his own. To this end, he also wants to forcibly bind himself to Wu Chengen, the author of "Journey to the West".
Not only posted a photo of himself in Wu Chengen's former residence, but also deepened his connection with the Monkey King by playing Wu Chengen.
This series of actions caused Zhang Jinlai to suffer a lot of criticism in his later years.
The value of art cannot be denied in one word
Returning to the theme, Zhang Jinlai recently made a signature move in Hebei University of Technology and was ridiculed and eaten all over the world, so is Zhang Jinlai really inactive as an actor?
We cannot completely deny his performance, although the aesthetic concept is changing all the time, it is undeniable that traditional art performance still has a unique charm.
For example, the golden hoop rod is a classic prop in "Journey to the West" and has deep cultural connotations. The use of golden hoops in performances by six-year-old children is itself the inheritance and promotion of traditional culture. His performance skills and skills fully demonstrate the essence of traditional opera art, which is still of great value in today's entertainment industry.
In order to meet the needs of modern audiences, actors need to constantly explore new performance styles. On the basis of maintaining the characteristics of traditional performances, children aged six can try to incorporate more modern elements to enhance the innovation and personalization of performances.
For example, he can learn from the methods of modern film and television performance to strengthen the portrayal of the character's heart, making the image of the Monkey King more three-dimensional and vivid. This is enough to prove his strength, ten years of hard work on and off stage, years of hard training to present the role of the Monkey King to everyone so vividly.
epilogue
Objectively speaking, the six-year-old child is an actor with profound artistic achievements, and his performance reflects the charm of traditional Chinese culture. However, we should also acknowledge the change in modern aesthetic concepts, and it may be that for the post-00s, the traditional version of "Journey to the West" can no longer meet their aesthetics.
In addition, his reputation and reputation on the Internet in recent years are not very good, and he may have prejudiced Zhang Jinlai in his impression.
Even if Zhang Jinlai does play the Monkey King alive, but no matter how good an actor's acting skills are, if the artwork cannot keep up, it will be difficult to get people's respect, if it is not for his series of failed behaviors in recent years, I believe that even if he really only makes one move, it is enough to attract people to cheer for him.