Text: Little White Sandalwood
Editor|Little Sandalwood
Preface
Strange things happen everywhere, but in the 86 version of "Journey to the West", there are a lot of strange things. As a TV series with fantasy colors, even the actors who participated in it have more or less "strange things", and the actor who plays the Jade Emperor is one of them.
After playing this role, actor Wang Weiguo was even printed on the underworld coin! Those colorful and huge denomination banknotes, how can it be said that it would be better to use the portrait of the king of Hades, but why was Wang Weiguo printed?
The portrait on the stygian coin is actually himself!
Speaking of this coin, this is something that many people have seen, and during the New Year's Festival, the dead will be burned with paper when worshipping ancestors.
Wang Weiguo originally worshiped his ancestors well, but when he was about to burn the underworld coin, he took a cursory look, why was the character printed on this underworld coin so familiar?
When Wang Weiguo took a closer look, he suddenly found that the shape printed on the underworld coin was not his appearance in "Journey to the West"!
Before Wang Weiguo played this role, he would never have dreamed that his photos would still have this "wonderful use".
said that Han Xin was successful and Xiao He, and defeated Xiao He. If you use this sentence as "become the Jade Emperor, defeat is also the Jade Emperor." And then use it on Wang Weiguo's body, it seems to make sense.
Chengya Jade Emperor
Wu Chengen's "Journey to the West" has undergone countless adaptations and recreations, and a large number of TV series and movies have been derived, but if you want to say that the most classic and closest to the characters in the book, you have to count the 1986 drama version of "Journey to the West".
In this version of "Journey to the West", the casting is very strict, and the role of the Jade Emperor has also experienced the turmoil of changing actors halfway.
Obviously, the role of the Jade Emperor shown by Wang Weiguo is more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. After starring in the image of the Jade Emperor in "Journey to the West", Wang Weiguo has become synonymous with the Jade Emperor. In various film and television dramas, as long as the image of the Jade Emperor is involved, Wang Weiguo will be invited to act.
For example, the TV series "Baolian Lantern", which tells the story of agarwood splitting the mountain to save his mother, the Jade Emperor in it also invited Wang Weiguo to act. With this role, it can be regarded as having an "iron rice bowl". But probably, the actor himself doesn't think so.
Emperor Ya Yu
While enjoying the dividends brought by the role, you must always be mentally prepared to be eaten by the role. The underworld coin, which is burned for the dead, is used in the underworld, and it has to use the head of Hades. But what is printed on it is a still of Wang Weiguo.
In the dark coins used by people in their daily lives, the head of the seal is the Jade Emperor, not the king of Yama who is in charge of the underworld, and the reason why this is so is because the king of Yama is only the god in charge of the underworld, while the Jade Emperor is the tripartite master of people, gods, and ghosts.
Even if it is out of recognition of this role and Wang Weiguo's performance, it is an extremely offensive act to print him on the underworld coin without his consent.
Journey to the West is a fantasy story, in which the gods and Buddhas in the sky and the demons in the nether world have introduced people to a world that is contrary to modern science, and the actors in it often encounter strange things. For example, Zuo Dajue, who plays the role of Guanyin Bodhisattva, has the deeds of "chanting mantras to stop the rain".
So the actors in the crew all believe in this unnatural force more or less. Under this premise, if the portrait on the dark coin is replaced with a photo of Wang Weiguo, you can imagine how responsive Wang Weiguo is.
What's even more annoying is that Wang Weiguo has not been able to find the initiator so far.
Even if you want to use legal means to protect your rights and interests, you can't do it, because you can't find the culprit at all. In addition, the manufacture of the underworld coin is not traceable to the origin like the manufacture of the real coin, so the search for the "defendant" adds a little difficulty.
Accidentally embarked on the road of acting
Wang Weiguo, who played such a popular role, actually stepped into the showbiz by accident. Wang Weiguo grew up in Beijing, and as a native of Beijing, his personality has always been very optimistic.
When faced with the problem of employment, he did not have any baggage at all, and directly chose to sell food at the entrance of some shopping malls with high foot traffic. Good image, enthusiastic, and honest in doing a small business...... These good qualities made him favored by fate.
With his own stall business, Wang Weiguo has also accumulated some "contacts". Teng Yan is a teacher at a film school, and at the same time, he is also Wang Weiguo's old customer. In this back-and-forth business, he discovered the shining points in Wang Weiguo and recommended him to learn acting. However, Wang Weiguo, who had already experienced in society, categorically rejected this suggestion.
Maxima is often there, but Bole is not. Teng Yanhui knew people with his eyes, followed by good persuasion, and finally said that he moved Wang Weiguo's thousand-mile horse. Sure enough, Wang Weiguo successfully passed the interview of the Chinese opera. Wang Weiguo is well aware of his cultural shortcomings, so he has worked hard to improve his cultural level in the past four years of Chinese opera.
People who have tasted the hardships of life always cherish every hard-won opportunity, and Wang Weiguo is like this. Reading is not a task for him, but an activity that interests him very much. Even when I usually communicate with others, I have to contact the Chinese and foreign classics I have read, and then quote the classics to talk to others.
The hard work paid off, and after graduating from university, Wang Weiguo made a lot of achievements in drama. However, in his heart, he actually hopes to appear in a costume drama of China's own. So he recommended himself to the crew of "Dream of Red Mansions". But in the end, I gave up because the image did not match.
But immediately he starred in Zhang Liao in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and Lu Junyi in "Water Margin". He acted in two of the four famous novels, and when it was time to shoot "Journey to the West", director Yang Jie immediately found him. And he did not live up to the expectations of director Yang Jie and brought the role of the Jade Emperor to life.
He and this role have achieved each other, and whenever people mention Wang Weiguo in the future, the first thing that comes to mind is his role.
epilogue
The shaping of one classic image after another is inseparable from the spirit of continuous learning of Mr. Wang Weiguo from the university to the present. Now, he has also given up pursuing the maker of the "Underworld Coin Incident", which is enough to see his broad-mindedness.
Even if he doesn't pursue it, some small workshops that produce dark coins can't let themselves consume the image of this old artist. I hope that Mr. Wang Weiguo will continue to maintain his serious attitude towards film and television dramas, and maybe in the next film that needs to appear Jade Emperor, he can still see his old man.