The white dragon horse in the 86 version of "Journey to the West" is in good shape and bright, but in his later years, he encountered misfortune and stayed in the corner with a thin and skinny body.
Director Yang Jie has visited Bailongma twice, and she couldn't stop crying when she saw Bailongma's tragic condition.
Finally, one day in 1997, the white dragon horse died in the dark and damp stable, and Yang Jie cried and wrote a "White Horse Tragedy" after hearing it.
What caused the White Dragon Horse to fall to such a point in the end, and why didn't Yang Jie rescue it?
Look for the White Dragon Horse
One day in 1997, the white horse who played the white dragon horse in the TV series "Journey to the West" passed away, and after a miserable old age, he finally died in a filming base in Wuxi.
Yang Jie finally tearfully wrote a song "The Tragedy of the White Horse": It must have been a white dragon before, and the Mercedes-Benz was about to take off. The east has been troubled by the sea, and the holy monks in the west have made hard work. Since then, he has gone thousands of miles, and he is the most psychic without words. How chic it is to fight and raise its tail, it is difficult to beat the years. In the play, the third prince of the Dragon King of the West Sea is extremely brave, but he ended up unfortunate in his later years outside the play.
The 86 version of "Journey to the West" is a classic TV series in people's hearts, and the interpretation of many characters is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and it is very restored to the original work, which is inseparable from the hard work of the chief director Yang Jie.
Yang Jie made a great difficulty when choosing Tang Seng, the character of Tang Seng needs to have a Buddha face, and there must be a sense of compassion, just the role of Tang Seng has been changed twice, and finally found the most famous Tang Seng actor on the screen today, Chi Chongrui, and won unanimous praise from the audience.
In the original novel, the white dragon horse is one foot three feet long, with two horns on its head, a red gold bead hanging on its neck, and a wolf skin scarf around its neck, and its body is shiny. The book also wrote: The white dragon horse, born majestic, with long ears, flying colorful wings, vigorous and majestic, jumping up and down, running like electricity.
This can make Yang Jie difficult, the choice of the white dragon horse must be snow-white, white without a trace of variegation, and it needs to be strong and vigorous to meet the vigor and strength in the original work, at that time, China's film and television industry has not yet developed, there are basically no horses specifically for filming, and the crew's funds are also very limited, so I have not found a suitable white horse.
Yang Jie had no choice but to find a horse to shoot first, but the horse was too thin, and then changed several horses were unsatisfactory, and found a strong horse when shooting in Hainan, but it was brown, and had to paint white paint on the brown horse before each shooting, but the climate in Hainan is humid and easy to rain, so many times the paint is washed away by the rain.
This made the filming of the crew suffer great trouble, with the filming of the plot The crew came to the beautiful Inner Mongolia prairie, where the scene of thousands of horses galloping, on the endless prairie, all kinds of horses were running wantonly, and suddenly Yang Jie saw a white horse with white snow and silver light in the horses, and immediately asked about the horse with the crew.
Who knows that this horse is still a military horse, and it is the mount of Sanjie Zabu, the head of the cavalry regiment of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and also the comrade-in-arms of the regiment commander.
After listening to it, the head of the regiment reluctantly agreed to be a mythical white dragon horse, it seems to be a good choice for his comrades-in-arms, the white dragon horse has a military status, and if he wants to sell it to the crew, he can only expel the white dragon horse from the army, so the white dragon horse was sold to the crew at a price of 800 yuan, which is lucky and sad, and the head of the regiment does not know how miserable the white dragon horse's later life is.
After leaving the army, the people who came to the crew treated it as a baby, which was very precious, 800 yuan was not a small amount at that time, and it cost a lot of funds to the crew at that time, Yang Jie only had a salary of 90 yuan a month, but Bailongma was also extremely humane, very docile, and very likable.
Psychic White Dragon Horse
The crew is also specially equipped with two people to take care of the white dragon horse, the road to learn from the experience is difficult, but also extremely tortuous, the white dragon horse is running around with the crew in this way, many times the white dragon horse needs to stay in the handy tank truck to transport to the filming location, the white dragon horse is very docile, there is no irritable situation in a small range.
This made the crew sigh that it was really spiritual, worthy of being a horse that could play the role of the white dragon horse, and the crew also encountered danger many times during the filming, in the filming of the Tongtian River, it was abnormally slippery on the ice, and the white dragon horse couldn't stand up after falling several times in a row, and finally the staff helped it stand up.
Another time the filming location was in the mountain stream, the road was very narrow, the master and apprentice led the horse to the waterfall and walked up, the white dragon horse accidentally fell into the ravine, everyone hurriedly rescued it, almost rolled off the cliff, this is the most dangerous one, almost died, in the 6 years of shooting, the white dragon horse also has feelings for everyone.
In the plot of Tang Seng being turned into a tiger by the yellow-robed monster and locked in an iron cage, the scene of Bai Longma biting Bajie's sleeve and begging him not to go touched countless people at the time, but who knew that this was not arranged in advance, this was played by Bailongma on the spot, in the eyes of Bai Longma, it didn't know what acting was, it saw Tang Seng being locked in an iron cage, and Bajie also wanted to lead it away.
Perhaps in Bailongma's heart, the bald monk has become its master, and he can't bear to watch the master being locked in an iron cage and being taken away by Bajie, so the director kept this precious shot, Bajie was also stunned at the time, and the crew had to praise Bailongma again for his spirituality.
Time always flies quickly, after six years of filming, the four masters and apprentices finally got the true scriptures, the filming is over, the crew is disbanded, and all the props and items after the crew is disbanded must be returned to the Wuxi Film and Television Shooting Base, and the white dragon horse is also among them, Yang Jie is helpless, so before leaving, the person in charge of the base told him many times to take care of this white horse, it is a great hero on the westward road.
The death of the white dragon horse
The base staff repeatedly promised to take care of it, but this was not the case, after the broadcast of "Journey to the West", there was a big fire, and the four masters and apprentices all received flowers and applause, and their careers were also booming, and this is the boss of the base who thought that Bailongma was also one of the leading actors in Journey to the West, so he used Bailongma as a tool to collect money.
In order to attract tourists, they put the white dragon horse in a small stable, and posted a sticker on the white dragon horse in Journey to the West, but the living environment of the white dragon horse is very poor, the stable is dark and damp, and often can't eat, and has to be pulled out for a long time to exhibit, as long as you pay for it, you can ride it around twice, the environment is poor, you can't eat, and there is a lot of work every day.
Soon the white dragon horse became a sick appearance, slowly rotting in the small stable, it may also miss the time when it went to heaven and earth with everyone in the crew, and may also be thinking about its former master, but Tang Seng's actor Chi Chongrui did not visit the white dragon horse, but unfortunately the white dragon horse is still in the yellow robe monster and prays for Bajie not to leave the master.
Yang Jie later went to see White Horse twice, the first time, White Horse lost a lot of weight, and his eyes lost the former look, Yang Jie was too tough after filming, unwilling to chase fame and fortune with everyone, and cut off contact with the crew, Yang Jie did not continue to work after filming but received a meager pension, so it was more difficult to take Ryoma away.
The second time I came to see the white dragon horse, the white dragon horse was already skinny, old and aging, and the hair had turned pale yellow, Yang Jie negotiated many times, but the base personnel said that the white dragon horse needed to bring economic effects, and the base did not raise idle horses, and in the end there was no solution, and the white dragon horse died two years later, so he died in the damp and dark stable.
If you don't experience nine hundred and eighty-one difficulties, how can you get the scriptures, the four masters and apprentices achieved the fruit position after obtaining the scriptures, the white dragon horse became the eight Tianlong Guangli Bodhisattvas after obtaining the scriptures, and the four masters and apprentices outside the play became popular and made the scriptures as in the play.
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