In 2017, Yang Jie, the director of the 86th edition of "Journey to the West", died of illness.
The former "Monkey King" six-year-old child hyped up his new drama at this memorial service, without showing the slightest sense of grief and condolence.
As soon as this matter came out, the six-year-old child was instantly pushed to the cusp of public opinion, and netizens criticized him and questioned him why he sold films in the spirit hall.
Yang Jie, who directed this classic work, also said that "Journey to the West" has become an eternal pain in her heart.
In fact, this is not the first time that a six-year-old child has done this, for so many years, he will take the opportunity to rub a wave of heat and all kinds of behaviors to make him fall off the altar.
From a highly respected and respected old artist to a "lack of virtue", a morally demoratose artist who will only be hyped up commercially, and finally assimilated by business under the temptation of interests, what did the six-year-old experience?
In 1959, the six-year-old child was born in Shanghai into the Zhang family of monkey opera.
His father, Zhang Zongyi, enjoyed the reputation of "Southern Monkey King" at that time, and under the influence of the family, six young children began to study monkey science from an early age.
However, due to physical reasons, the burden of inheriting the family monkey learning skills did not fall on his shoulders.
What's more, he also has a second brother who is more brilliant than him, the little six-year-old child, and Zhang Zongyi has always looked up to the little six-year-old child more and cultivated him as his number one inheritor.
However, the weather was unpredictable, in 1966, the little six-year-old child died of leukemia, and Zhang Jinlai naturally took over the burden of "a new generation of monkey kings".
Zhang Zongyi took "Six-Year-Old Child" as his stage name, began to cultivate him carefully, never missed any opportunity to exercise six-year-old children, as long as he had free time, he would teach him to dance stick by hand.
In order to be able to stand on a bigger stage, the six-year-old child never dared to slacken off, he often used the wooden strip as a golden hoop stick, and seriously learned one move and one style with his father, but the hard work day after day did not make the six-year-old child famous.
From the age of 12, he began to learn art, until 1982, he was just a nameless Kunqu opera actor, even if he was in the name of his father and brother, no one looked up to him.
Moreover, because he overused his eyes when learning art, he had to wear thick lenses, you know, how important a pair of glowing eyes is to the "Monkey King".
But perhaps even he himself did not know that he would one day stand up to 600-degree myopia and 260-degree astigmatism, and become the famous "Monkey King".
In 1982, when director Yang Jie was preparing to shoot "Journey to the West", he could not find a suitable candidate for Sun Wukong. After being recommended, she found Zhang Zongyi, the "Monkey King of the Southern Sect", but Zhang Zongyi was old at that time and could not play such a difficult role. Therefore, Zhang Zongyi recommended his son Six-Year-Old To Director Yang Jie, and since then, six-year-old children have entered the crew of "Journey to the West" and began a 6-year-long group shooting.
The 86 version of "Journey to the West" also lived up to expectations, once it was released, it won the love of the national audience, and even once swept overseas, and the actors who played the four masters and apprentices in the play also left a deep impression on the audience with their distinctive interpretations.
However, during the filming of this drama, there were some unpleasant vignettes.
At that time, the four masters and apprentices in the play took advantage of the heat of this drama to hide that director Yang Jie was out in private and postponed the shooting process, which made director Yang Jie very angry and severely criticized the four people.
However, the four people represented by the six-year-old child reported Yang Jie to the leadership office, and later director Yang Jie was also driven out of the crew, and soon after the people who did not have the main heart realized her importance, and finally, it was the four leading actors who knelt down to Yang Jie in public, and then asked her to come back to continue shooting.
After the "Journey to the West" fire, Singapore invited several actors to perform in their country, and director Yang Jie agreed to this as a good opportunity to inherit Chinese culture. But the four leading actors, except for Chi Chongrui, all excused themselves from illness, and it turned out that the six-year-old child and several other actors secretly took over the commercial performance in Singapore.
Chi Chongrui felt that it was inappropriate to do so, so he did not go with the six-year-old children, and then accompanied the crew, but Yang Jie was the only one who went abroad.
Several actors are eating the "dividends" brought to them by "Journey to the West", especially the six-year-old children, who are flying higher and higher by the name of "Sun Wukong", under the temptation of fame and fortune, frequent advertising endorsements, the former actors have transformed into business celebrities, but several people have gradually broken contact with director Yang Jie, who achieved them at that time.
Their behavior made Jiang Dawei, the singer of "Dare to Ask where the road is", dissatisfied with the teacher, who publicly accused several actors of not being righteous and not being grateful for the achievement of their Bole.
In addition, what is even more surprising is that the six-year-old child has also turned the former residence of Wu Cheng'en, the author of "Journey to the West", into his own photo exhibition, placing his own portraits and banners in all corners, and standing in the middle of the square, creating a sign that the two have become one, as if he is the embodiment of Sun Wukong.
The successful portrayal of the role of "Sun Wukong" has given the six-year-old children a large number of fans. But the audience's love and praise also made the six-year-old child begin to inflate with pride, and he always self-righteously expressed his opinion on the role of "Monkey King" in some public places.
Relying on this title to receive business performances, endorsements, and private work, the monopoly of this label will go deep into the bone marrow.
In his eyes, he represents journey to the west; he even uses a "genuine" vision to "crack down on counterfeiting" other works of journey to the west.
Because he was not accustomed to the role of Sun Wukong played by Zhou Xingchi in "Journey to the West", he criticized the film in public.
Not only on the show, but also imitating the action in the film. He also said that Sun Wukong, played by Stephen Chow, was a blasphemy against art, and that falling in love with a demon was "an insult to the essence of the country." Sun Wukong, played by Zhou Xingchi, has also become a demon monkey in his mouth that is upside down and does not distinguish between demons and demons.
However, on a variety show, Chen Daoming, a national first-class actor, put forward his own different views on the role of Sun Wukong. He believes that Sun Wukong's original image should be a monkey, a color monkey, and even the Guanyin Bodhisattva should avoid him.
These words also made the six-year-old children dumbfounded.
The six-year-old also tried to "deify" sun wukong played by himself, saying in the show that there were monkeys who would salute him after seeing him, and saying that "there is only one monkey king in the hearts of a thousand viewers", and these behaviors are undoubtedly he wanting to prove his status as an "orthodox" monkey king.
But this kind of unreachable publicity has gradually disintegrated his childhood idol image in the eyes of the audience.
As we all know, once the human design collapses, it is difficult to repair, and since then, his black material has increased, and the criticism of him on the Internet has even overshadowed the praise he once had.
The scandalizing Zhou Xingchi incident has not yet subsided, and the six-year-old child has been exposed to using a stand-in when filming "Journey to the West", and for a while, his professional attitude has also been questioned by everyone.
The six-year-old boy once said in the show that he would never use a stuntman, and under the difficult conditions at that time, he always insisted on shooting each clip independently.
But in fact, in the clip of the true and false Monkey King in the play, because some of the action difficulty coefficients are too large, many of the actions of the six-eared macaque are completed by the stand-in, but in order to maintain their professional design, the six-year-old child uses legal means to conceal this matter.
In fact, in the face of some difficult actions that some actors cannot complete, it is natural to choose a substitute appropriately, after all, once the safety of the actor is threatened, it will affect the shooting process of the entire crew. But choosing to deceive the audience to reflect their level of dedication is really biased.
This incident also caused the six-year-old child whose reputation was damaged to be questioned by netizens again, and his reputation also fell again and again.
In the eyes of the public, the reason why "Journey to the West" has become a classic is not only due to the wonderful interpretation of the actors in the play, but also the silent efforts of the actors behind the scenes are also commendable, and the six-year-old children try to take the credit for this drama on themselves, which is inevitably disgusting.
Perhaps what he does stems from his cherishing of the role, but his behavior of receiving advertisements and hanging up netizens has once again refreshed people's understanding of him. In the face of netizens' doubts, the six-year-old child not only did not reflect the style of an old artist, but directly hung the other party on the Internet.
This move has undoubtedly triggered public anger, and the majority of netizens have pulled out his previous commercial performances and endorsements, and even in the advertisement of anti-itch films, the shadow of "Sun Wukong" can be seen on web games.
There was once a game company that wanted to find six-year-old children to endorse when developing the Westward Journey type of game, but the six-year-old children quoted 1 million yuan a year's salary, and also asked the other party to sign for three consecutive years, but the other party could not afford it, and could only refuse his endorsement.
Perhaps in the eyes of the six-year-old child, the image of Sun Wukong can only be used by himself, otherwise it is "infringement".
Therefore, after this game became popular, the six-year-old child sued the other party for infringing on his portrait rights, but because the image of Sun Wukong created by the other party did not constitute a violation of his portrait rights, the lawsuit finally ended with the loss of the six-year-old child.
Since then, he has aimed at more business opportunities, not only taking over a bunch of game endorsements, but also making Sun Wukong's handicrafts, selling them at high prices, and making a lot of money, and now he is obviously farther and farther away from the old artist who was both virtuous and artistic.
But is the behavior of a six-year-old child really sinful and unforgivable? That's certainly not, although he is an artist, but the artist also has to pay for the chai rice oil and salt.
In the final analysis, he is just an ordinary person who is tired of life.
The reason why the six-year-old child fell from the altar to hell was that he was too dedicated, blamed him for activating the image of "Sun Wukong", and activating the divine Buddha who only blindly paid without asking for returns.
Unfortunately, it is only a fictional character, and the living cannot survive by fantasy alone.
Moreover, he is not the only celebrity who has been famous in business, performance, and advertising, so why should we be so grumpy?
After all, so far, the portrayal of the role of Sun Wukong, after all, not many people can match the six-year-old child, he has only lived for the audience's favorite role in his life, such a persistent spirit and artistic feelings, but also worthy of our tribute to him.