Some people "canonize the gods" by constantly performing various good roles, but some people can become popular all over the land of Shenzhou with one role, and even eat a lifetime of welfare because of this. Six-year-old children are typical examples of the latter.
The "Journey to the West" that he participated in was broadcast all over the country as soon as it was broadcast, and this "golden hoop stick heat wave" swept through Southeast Asia.
The six-year-old also rose to fame for this role and successfully became an artist of the older generation.
The sixth-year-old child, formerly known as Zhang Jinlai, was born in Shanghai's Zhang family of monkey opera, and his ancestral home was Shaoxing, Zhejiang.
Starting from his great-grandfather, to his father's six-year-old child generation, he carried forward the monkey play and was revered as the Monkey King of the Southern Sect.
Since childhood, under the mellow cultural infection of the family, Zhang Jinlai has performed the monkey show exquisitely at a young age.
When he took the stage name, his father pondered and thought hard, reversed the first two words of Zhang Jinlai's second brother's stage name Xiao Liu Ling Tong, and decided to name it Liu Xiao Tong.
At the recommendation of his father, in 1982, six young children entered the crew of "Journey to the West".
The six-year-old also lived up to expectations and played this role extremely brilliantly, and when everyone mentioned Sun Wukong, the first thing that came to mind was him.
However, unlike the artists of the older generation, such as You Benchang and Li Xuejian, who were praised by everyone, everyone seemed to have a lot of criticism of the old artist of the six-year-old child.
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Mention the six-year-old child, you can't get around his and Bole Yang Jie's grievances.
Yang Jie is the director of the filming of Journey to the West and the achiever of this drama.
But in one interview, she made it clear:
Journey to the West was an eternal pain in her heart, she had never seen her work in ten years, and every time she turned on the TV and saw it, she changed it.
It turned out that during the filming process, director Yang Jie "had words of suffering".
In her memoirs, she wrote in detail that when the six-year-old child was just a little hot, she "hugged the group" the crew to marginalize Yang Jie in an attempt to squeeze her out.
In order to make money from commercial performances, he and several other leading actors ran to Jinan to perform, delaying the filming progress.
Yang Jie was very angry and criticized the three people, but unexpectedly he was beaten upside down and beaten upside down, and was first sued by six-year-old children and others in front of the director.
Yang Jie was also scolded fiercely by the director, not only kicked out of the crew, but even lost the opportunity to go to Singapore.
Six years of painstaking works have become the eternal pain of director Yang Jie, and the taste is probably only her alone.
Even the singer of the theme song "Dare to Ask Where the Road Is" at that time, Teacher Jiang Dawei, was indignant, and he accused several leading actors of saying that you can't be so unrighteous as a person, Yang Jie's director is Bole, if there is no her, where are some of you now famous.
These contradictions continued until the filming of the sequel to "Journey to the West", and everyone found that it could not be achieved without Yang Jie's director's Journey to the West, so Director Yang Jie was invited back.
After experiencing many events, director Yang Jie, as the core character, plans to use new actors, and several "masters and apprentices" are very anxious, and they have come to Yang Jie's house to apologize and ask for forgiveness for the role.
However, the biggest thing that caused netizens to have opinions about the six-year-old children was that when the six-year-old children went to attend the funeral of director Yang Jie, they simply said a few words and then took advantage of this opportunity to spare no effort to promote their new films in front of reporters.
Although the feud between the two also ended with the death of director Yang Jie, this incident is also a place where everyone blames the six-year-old child.
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Over the years, the six-year-old child has not only taken over the endorsement by relying on the title of "Monkey King", but also privatized and monopolized this label.
At the beginning of the filming of "Journey to the West", due to the difficulty of shooting, coupled with the shortage of actors and other issues, a lot of stand-ins were used during the filming process.
For example, the birth of the Monkey King, rowing for a teacher, the real and false Sun Wukong, etc., all use different doubles, and these stuntmen have contributed many classic scenes to journey to the West, the most famous of which is Xu Tinglei.
Xu Tinglei was only eighteen years old when he entered the group at that time, and when other actors playing monkeys were filming, he was next to him as soon as he had time, which was the most diligent among the people, and the most imitated except for the six-year-old children.
Therefore, when the foot injury of the six-year-old child affected the shooting progress, director Yang Jie used Xu Tinglei to shoot some scenes, and even suffered multiple injuries due to filming and playing Xu Tinglei.
However, the six-year-old child not only firmly denied the existence of the stand-ins in such a public place afterwards, indicating that the entire shooting process was completed independently.
He even relayed Xu Tinglei through the media that if he continued in this way, he would take legal measures to solve the problem.
It also adds bricks to the wonderful presentation of Journey to the West, but it takes credit for the "nine-nine-eighty-one difficulties" experienced during the filming process on its own, and the behavior of six-year-old children is inevitably too biased.
In addition to rejecting his stand-in, the six-year-old also publicly expressed dissatisfaction with the actors who played the role of Sun Wukong, believing that the Monkey King they played did not follow the art and was not rigorous.
For example, Zhang Weijian, Chen Haomin, etc. have been criticized by six-year-old children, and the biggest splash is Zhou Xingchi.
Zhou Xingchi's "Journey to the West" made the role of supreme treasure deeply in the public's vision, and the classic confession was even more familiar, becoming a buzzword of the Internet generation and enduring.
"My crush is a hero. Since Heaven arranged for him to pull out my Purple And Green Sword, he must be an extraordinary person, and he can't be wrong! I knew that one day he would appear in a situation of great anticipation, dressed in gold armor and with his feet on the colorful clouds, to marry me."
However, the six-year-old child feels that Sun Wukong, played by Stephen Chow, is a kind of tampering and slander of art, how can Sun Wukong fall in love with a goblin.
He not only imitated the supreme treasure's arm carrying the golden hoop stick on many occasions to express his dissatisfied attitude, and felt that Zhou Xingchi was "not divided into demons".
It was even more direct: "How can Sun Wukong fall in love with a goblin, and go back to spoof your grandparents!" ”
Later, Chen Daoming also said in the program interview that if you want to trace history, at the beginning, the creative image of Sun Wukong was a "color monkey", a "splash monkey", and even "Guanyin Bodhisattva" guarded against it.
It was only in the Qing Dynasty that this artistic image became what people remember now, so it is still possible for Sun Wukong and Zixia Fairy to fall in love.
Artistic creation should embrace new ideas and elements.
But when asked in an interview whether he had watched the work in its entirety, the six-year-old made it clear that he had not seen the work.
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In addition, today's Wu Cheng'en former residence has become a "photo exhibition" for six-year-old children.
Not only were portraits and banners of six-year-old children placed everywhere, but even a statue of Wu Cheng'en was placed in the center of the square of Wu Cheng'en's former residence, showing signs that Wu Cheng'en and the six-year-old children were integrated.
In addition to moving closer to Wu Cheng'en in terms of image, he even modified the original "Journey to the West" according to his own understanding and experience, and also set the cover as his own photo for publication.
I don't know if Mr. Wu Cheng'en will feel that this is an act of blasphemy against art.
As a result, the six-year-old children held propaganda meetings everywhere to sell their books, and because they were late and asked to reopen the channel, they were exposed by the venue staff on the Internet to question the big name.
When participating in Sabine's "Lecture Begins", in the face of many questions about the original work raised by the students in the audience, the six-year-old child did not answer the students' questions very clearly.
In addition to selling books, six-year-old children have also received a lot of commercial performances and advertisements, and leather shoes, solar water heaters, web games, etc. have the shadow of "Sun Wukong".
One of the game companies wanted to ask six-year-old children to endorse them when developing games on Journey to the West, but they gave up because the offer was too high and demanding.
But I didn't expect the game to be very popular, so the six-year-old child sued the other party for violating his portrait rights.
However, the other party created a portrait of Sun Wukong, which does not constitute a violation of the right to portraiture, and the six-year-old child lost the case.
Since then, the six-year-old children have discovered new "business opportunities", in addition to receiving a bunch of game endorsements about the journey to the west, there have also been a number of Sun Wukong handmade offices worth thousands of yuan for sales.
This is very different from the statement that he swore in public that he would not commercialize the artistic role of "Sun Wukong".
But in any case, the rigorous attitude of six-year-old children to art is still worthy of recognition.
He has been practicing hard since he was a child, meticulously cutting movements, and even using table tennis practice to stare at an object for several hours, which has trained his flexible posture and agile eyes.
In short, the success of the image of Sun Wukong is inseparable from his own efforts.
A hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend.
Art is a culture of tolerance and openness, and at the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Monkey, everyone asked six-year-old children to come to the stage, which also showed everyone's affirmation and support for the old artist.
However, the six-year-old child's insistence on Sun Wukong's solipsism and the incompatibility between words and deeds have also been opposed by many people.
There is nothing wrong with frankly taking over commercial performances, even if you are an artist, you have to run for the chai rice oil and salt of life.
And art develops in innovation, the "Monkey King" of six-year-old children is an artistic innovation, and next, there will also be more "six-year-old children" working hard for art.