There is Wu Cheng'en's "Journey to the West", which became a household name through the CCTV version of the TV series of the same name in 1986, and Tang Monk, Sun Wukong, Pig Eight Precepts and Sha Monk became the four most well-known characters in the country. The actors who played these four roles, Wang Yue, Xu Shaohua, Chi Chongrui, the six-year-old children, Ma Dehua and Yan Huaili, have also become national first-class actors.
More than ten years later, the original team of the CCTV version of "Journey to the West" in 1986 filmed the "Journey to the West Sequel" under the leadership of director Yang Jie. In the "Journey to the West Sequel", the actor of Sha Monk was replaced by Liu Dagang, and the actor of Pig Eight Commandments was replaced by Cui Jingfu, both of whom were also national first-class actors.
Now from the 86-year CCTV version of "Journey to the West" and the later "Journey to the West Sequel", it has been several decades, these two TV drama works have long become classics in the minds of the audience, and the protagonists in the play will arouse the audience's memories every time they get together.
On July 5, 2020, several protagonists in "Journey to the West" met again and co-starred in a web comedy movie "My Rich Daddy".
"My Rich Daddy" gathers six young children (Sun Wukong), Ma Dehua (Pig Eight Precepts), Liu Dagang (Sha Monk) and Wang Yue (Tang Monk), each of whom plays a role in the film as "Journey to the West Fan", and the names of the characters are more or less related to "Journey to the West".
With the influence of "Journey to the West", "My Rich Daddy" successfully attracted the attention of the audience, but when the audience watched the film on the online platform, it was greatly disappointed.
The plot is illogical and there are too many loopholes, and the six-year-old child and Ma Dehua in the film are all starring in their own colors, as if they saw Sun Wukong and the Eight Precepts of the Pig. This can't help but make the audience wonder that "My Rich Daddy" is a film that consumes the audience's feelings.
As an online movie, "My Rich Daddy", starring the original team of "Journey to the West", is a bad film. The film's Douban score is only 2.3, which is almost the lowest score of Douban, and there is a difference of 0.6 points between Lu Han's "Shanghai Fortress".
Last year, I just watched the bad film "My Rich Daddy" created by the original team of "Journey to the West", and this year we ushered in their new bad film "Mistaken youth".
"Mistakenly Into Youth" is a theatrical film that replaced the six-year-old boy with his voice actor Li Shihong, who played Sun Wukong in the movie "Wukong". Other members of journey to the West, including Xu Shaohua (Tang monk), Ma Dehua (Pig Eight Precepts), Liu Dagang (Sha Monk), and Wang Bozhao (White Dragon Horse), all starred in the film.
Looking at the cast and plot setting, "Mistakenly Entering Youth" is also a film that consumes the audience's feelings, like "My Rich Daddy". The film tells the story of four elderly people in a nursing home (the four masters and apprentices in "Journey to the West") who help a little girl participate in the children's talent selection competition and realize her dream of traveling to the west.
"Mistakenly Entering Youth" was released in Chinese theaters on August 27, and according to the Maoyan platform, the film received a total box office of 567 yuan on the first day, and the cumulative total box office is still 567 yuan.
At the box office of a few hundred yuan, the total number of moviegoers is only 19 people, which can be called the lowest in the history of Chinese films, and "Mistakenly Entering Youth" has become a very failed movie.
On the Douban website, a total of two viewers gave the film a one-star evaluation. If no audience scores it, "Mistakenly Entering Youth" may set a record for the least number of comments and the lowest ratings in the history of Chinese films.
Decades ago, "Journey to the West" is indeed an eternal classic, and it is also a TV series that audiences across the country are very fond of. But the actors in the play always use its influence to "sell feelings", and this "feeling" will sell out sooner or later.