The 86th edition of "Journey to the West" can be described as beautiful as clouds, unfortunately, the vast majority of beautiful women are either single or unhappy in marriage, and people like the jade-faced fox spirit can only give the Bull Devil King as a lover.
In other words, in the 86th edition of "Journey to the West", there are two pairs of beautiful people that everyone expects, one is naturally the king of the daughter country and the Tang monk, and the other is the little white dragon and the princess of All Saints who are quite beautiful and can even be called the most beautiful couple in "Journey to the West".
However, unfortunately, these two pairs of beauties are actually not in the original work, but director Yang Jie hard to "match", especially Xiao Bailong and the Princess of All Saints, Tang Monk and the King of the Daughter Kingdom have met, but the Little White Dragon and the Princess of All Saints do not seem to have even seen each other, and as a result, they not only became husband and wife in the 86 version of "Journey to the West", but also Xiao Bailong even had a grassland on his head.
Director Yang Jie's bold "matchmaking" first occurred in the fifth episode of "Monkey King Bao Tang Monk", and the climax and end point of this scene is the eighteenth episode "Sweeping the Tower to Distinguish Strange Grievances".
First, the shooting time and place of "Sweeping the Tower to Identify Strange Wrongs"
After the "Journey to the West" crew received a loan of three million from the Eleventh Bureau of China Railway, their shooting progress was greatly accelerated, and many episodes could complete most of the filming work within a month, while the shooting cycle of "Sweeping Towers and Identifying Strange Wrongs" was as long as one and a half years, because the episode had many scenes.
From February to April 1986, the crew of "Journey to the West" filmed part of the Dragon Palace scene in "Sweeping the Tower and Identifying Strange Wrongs" in the auditorium of the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts.
In June 1986, the crew filmed the main part of the plot of "Sweeping the Tower to Identify Strange Grievances" in Datong Yungang Grottoes, Hongdong County, Guangsheng Temple and Jinci Temple in Shanxi Province, among which the crew was forced to give up filming due to tens of thousands of people around the filming in Yungang, which was also the only time during the filming of "Journey to the West" because of the cancellation of the shooting plan by the crowd, and the reason was because of the boom caused by the first 11 episodes.
In July 1986, the crew filmed the interior scene of the Tang monk sweeping the pagoda at the Beijing Seven Kings Tomb Marine Bureau.
In August 1987, the crew filmed the scene of Sun Wukong, Pig Eight Commandments, Erlang Shen and meishan six brothers besieging the Nine-Headed Worm on the seashore in Weihai, Shandong Province.
Second, the plot adaptation of "Sweeping the Tower to Distinguish the Strange Wrong"
The crew led by director Yang Jie has two impressive adaptations in this episode:
First of all, a not-so-good adaptation is to weaken the ability of the Nine-Headed Worm, in fact, this product is quite powerful, facing the siege of Sun Wukong, Pig Eight Commandments, Erlang God, Meishan Six Brothers and Wheezing Heavenly Dogs is actually only injured, and can also escape, which shows its high combat strength.
Unfortunately, in the TV series, the nine-headed worm will only inexplicably conjure up a few heads to target people, and the other kung fu is a mess, and the understatement makes the Erlang God shoot to death. This makes the young author watch the episode and have two big questions, one is what the nine heads of the nine-headed worm do? It doesn't seem to be useful. The other is such a rookie nine-headed worm Sun Wukong Pig Eight Commandments can not be cleaned up, but also need erlang god to help?
Therefore, the author believes that the crew's weakening of the Hydra, although it simplifies the plot, makes people look confused, and it is not a successful adaptation.
Let's talk about a good adaptation, that is, the love triangle of The Little White Dragon, the Nine-Headed Worm and the Princess of All Saints, in fact, this is not in the original work, it is completely adapted by director Yang Jie to lead the crew, and from the fifth episode of the Little White Dragon's wedding night, the grass on the head began to lay the groundwork, and then finally in the episode of "Sweeping the Tower to Distinguish the Strange Wrongs" came to a general account.
This adaptation is as classic as the adaptation of "Fun Classics Daughter Country", not only the plot is richer, the watchability is strong, and there is no problem in logic and rationality, in the author's opinion, the more critical is to directly "match" a pair of high-value couples, XiaoBailong and The Princess of All Saints. This made many viewers can't help but sigh, is the Princess of All Saints blind? How can I not look at the little white dragon.
Also, such an adaptation can directly abandon the appearance of Sun Wukong becoming a nine-headed worm to trick the Princess of All Saints into taking out the bridge section of the Buddha Treasure, after all, Sun Wukong became a husband who cheated on the baby This kind of thing just happened in the last episode, and Director Yang Jie especially does not like to repeat the bridge section, so the author thinks that the adaptation of this paragraph is still quite good.
3. The actor of "Sweeping the Tower to Distinguish the Wrongdoers"
There are many actors in the episode of "Sweeping The Tower to Discern The Strange Wrongs", in addition to the old acquaintances such as the four masters and apprentices, the White Dragon Horse and the Erlang God, it is worth mentioning the following.
King Kong, who plays the king of the sacrificial country, although his detailed information cannot be found on the Internet, the acting skills of this old actor are excellent, not only the temperament looks like the king, but also the unreasonable strength of the king of the sacrificial country is very good, I think this old actor is likely to be a drama actor.
Although the abbot has few shots, it is impressive, and if you have seen the classic version of "Yang Jiajun" in Shanxi, you will be even more impressed, because this actor is Li Zhiyi, who plays Yang Jiye, the old Linggong of the Golden Knife, and he is also a representative of the actor policy of using wherever the "Journey to the West" crew goes.
Among these foreign envoys, everyone must know the Second Master Brother, who made his dimples so obvious. However, as the "monkey sister-in-law" of the daughter country envoy, Yu Hong may not recognize many people.
There are also two supporting characters in the episode who are quite famous, one is the running Erba who has a very charming walking posture, and the catfish essence is played by Li Jiancheng, the universal dragon set of the "Journey to the West" crew.
The actor Who plays Bapol Ben, Gao Baozhong, is special or unlucky in this episode because his Bapor Ben is tied to a pillar, and the other character he plays is a monk hanging in the air.
The actor who plays the Hydra is Yu Weijie in this episode, and his length is more elegant than that of Li Longbin in the fifth episode. In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Yu Weijie also played Hu Che'er who sneaked up on Dianwei.
Of course, the most eye-catching role in this episode is undoubtedly the Princess of All Saints, and Zhang Qing, who plays her, is undoubtedly much more beautiful than the actor in the fifth episode, because in the original book, the Princess of All Saints is described as "twenty talents", and it must be a big beauty.
The Princess of All Saints played by Zhang Qing is impeccable in both appearance and figure, especially that pair of electric eyes is simply soul-sucking, no matter how to select the most beautiful actress in "Journey to the West", she can always rank in the top five and there is no dispute.
Fourth, "clear sky" or "sunny day" moon is bright
There is a classic bridge section in "Sweeping the Tower to Distinguish the Strange Wrongs", that is, the Tang monk sweeps the tower, and in the process of sweeping the tower, Chi Chongrui also sang a very charming song "Clear Sky Moon Erming".
This scene is very classic, and Chi Chongrui's singing also shows the strength of his five generations of Peking Opera family, but there are two things that are very strange.
A strange thing is that the 86th edition of "Journey to the West" replayed in recent years has deleted the section of Chi Chongrui singing, and the sweep tower has only a few shots to rush through, this editing choice is quite puzzling, one is that the singing degree of this song is quite good, and the other is to delete a large part of the sweep tower scene, how to match the title of the episode "Sweep the Tower To Distinguish The Strange Wrong".
Another strange thing is that there are two versions of the last sentence of the song "Clear Sky Moon Erming", one is naturally "Clear Sky Moon Erming", and the other is "Sunny Moon Erming", what is going on?
Originally, Yan Su wrote "Sunny Day Moon Erming" when he first wrote lyrics, but director Yang Jie believed that "Clear Sky" was more catchy on the one hand, and "Empty" was also an important concept of Buddhism, so she changed "Sunny Day" to "Clear Sky".
Unexpectedly, the singer of this song, Chi Chongrui, did not sing wrong in the play, but in various performances later, he often sang the wrong singing as "Sunny Day", although director Yang Jie corrected him, he still often sang two versions in various performances in recent years.
For example, in the CCTV column, he sang "Clear Sky Moon Erming", but in Xu Jingqing's "Journey to the West" theme concert he sang "Sunny Day Moon Erming", so it is not surprising that two versions appear.
Finally, there are two questions in this episode, one is how many poisonous hairpins are on the head of the Princess of All Saints? The other is mentioned by netizens, since the poison hairpin has such a big toxicity, a light dip in the water can poison the Dragon King, she is not under the water is not everyone is very dangerous, even if there is no water in the Dragon Palace, but if she goes out one day and forgets to take it off, run to the Blue Wave Pool for a stroll, then... It's spectacular!