In the 86th edition of "Journey to the West", the closer the four Tang monks and apprentices are to the Lingshan Mountain, the less danger they encounter, in the words of netizens, even the monsters are becoming more and more gentle, what mouse essence, rabbit essence, one race is beautiful, and the most important point is that they do not plan to eat Tang monk meat, that is, they want to get married and say goodbye to singleness.
Of course, there were also two fierce-looking youkai in the middle, the Nine Spirit Yuansheng and the Yellow Lion Essence, but people did not plan to eat Tang Monk meat, and they were not even willing to provoke Sun Wukong, especially the Yellow Lion Essence, who was still a very reasonable and righteous goblin.
This episode is "Chuanyi Yuhuazhou".
1. The time and place of filming of "Chuanyi Yuhuazhou"
After the 1987 "Journey to the West Qi Tianle" gala, the first filming of the crew was "Chuanyi Yuhuazhou", but due to the problem of the scene, the episode first filmed most of the plot in February, mainly in Quanzhou and Xiamen, Fujian, and Zhaoqing and Foshan in Guangdong.
Among them, the mosque in Quanzhou is a key filming location, and the scenes of the four Tang monks wearing makeup and staying in the hotel are filmed here, which is quite exotic.
The Seven Star Rock in Zhaoqing is not the Seven Star Rock that filmed "Three Tones Basho Fan", the two places are just the same name, and the crew filmed the scenes of the Yellow Lion Essence and the Nine Spirits YuanSheng Cave House here.
The palace in Yuhua prefecture and several other scenes did not find suitable filming locations in Guangdong and Fuzhou, until a few months later, the crew found a suitable scene in the Dujiangyan Erwang Temple, so they found the actors of this episode and finally completed the filming of the episode.
At the beginning of the episode, the scene where the king of Yuhuazhou dreams of seeing four Buddha statues is filmed at the Ancestral Temple in Foshan, and when director Yang Jie led the team to come here in 1982 to take pictures, it was still free to shoot here. When the crew came to shoot five years later, on the one hand, the market economy was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, on the other hand, "Journey to the West" was already famous, so the person in charge of the ancestral temple asked for a venue fee of 300 yuan an hour, whether it was day or night. In 1987, the price was basically sky-high.
At this time, the crew's funds were not very abundant, and director Yang Jie was fierce, asking all the crew to prepare, prepare the materials and equipment, and strive to finish the film within an hour.
When the door of the ancestral temple was opened at the agreed time in the evening, the crew rushed in like a war and quickly set the equipment to start shooting, and finally it took only half an hour to shoot the scene. The steward also told that half an hour is also an hour, and no money will be refunded (the same as some parking lots now).
Second, the entire cast of the team went to battle
As mentioned above, the 86 version of "Journey to the West" was not well funded at the end of the shooting, so many roles were all played by the cast of the crew, to say that the largest scale of the cast is the episode of "Chuanyi Yuhuazhou", in addition to the cast, even the crew can basically be on it.
At the beginning, this unfortunate bald merchant was played by the fireworks master of the crew, Liu Li from bayi Factory.
The second prince of Yuhua Prefecture, played by Ye Yimeng, the team and the stunt actor, has played supporting roles such as Puxian Bodhisattva and Ling Kongzi, and has also served as a martial arts stand-in for roles such as the multi-eyed monster, and the role of the dragon set is innumerable.
The third prince of Yuhua Prefecture, played by Yang Bin, the actor of Hui'an Walker Muzha, also played half of Nezha, and Ye Yimeng, repeatedly starred in the dragon set.
Tricky and weird, two little goblins are played by the crew, one is Sha Jie, the other is He Yi, and the two of them have also starred in various dragon sets many times.
Huang Shijing, played by Xiang Han, is the oldest qualified actor in "Journey to the West", and a large number of supporting roles and dragon sets such as black bear monsters, high talents, robbers and dragon sets are all played by him.
Jiuling Yuansheng, played by Li Jiancheng, he is another multi-change dragon set, the eunuch of the Black Chicken Kingdom, the Lingli Worm and even the Eight Precepts of the Pig, he has also played more than a dozen supporting roles.
The author has counted that 20% of the characters with names and surnames in "Journey to the West" are played by Xiang Han and Li Jiancheng.
Playing the king of Yuhua prefecture is Negmutu, who later played a version of Xu Huang in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Zhang Tinglu in the Yongzheng Dynasty.
Playing the queen of Yuhuazhou is Yang Yumin, a critic actress who is said to be the sister of Xin Fengxia.
Playing the grand prince of Yuhuazhou is Zhang Yang, the eldest prince worshiped Sun Wukong as a teacher in this episode, and later director Yang Jie was invited to the United States to do the "Journey to the West" tour, because it is a form of charity performance, the big stars are reluctant to go, so Zhang Yang starred in the Tang monk, and in turn became Sun Wukong's master.
In addition, Gong Ming, who played King Zhu Ziguo in the episode of "Sun Monkey Qiao's Practice of Medicine", "fell" in this episode and starred as the innkeeper Wang Xiao'er.
3. Tidbits from the episode "Passing on the Art of Yuhuazhou"
Many viewers said that when they were young, they loved to watch this episode, and some viewers said that they simply did not understand this episode.
I think it is funny, probably because this episode has children's favorite "Hidden Cat" game.
The author and the neighbor children imitated the scene of the four Tang monks and apprentices hiding cats and cats in the guest house, and the cabinets, mats, and water tanks at home were all requisitioned as props, and readers who had similar experiences may wish to sign up.
Some viewers said that they could not understand it, which may be related to the adaptation of this episode, some plots are slightly messy, and some plots are not explained enough.
People want to eat meat, not to catch or to grab, but to let the goblins take silver to buy, not enough silver is not bad to go back to the cave to get, would rather tell others to keep secrets than think of killing people. What kind of monster is this, this is a good man of Liangshan.
The goblins in the cave were destroyed by Sun Wukong Pig Eight Precepts Sand Monk, and he thought not to run away but to avenge his brothers even knowing that he was not an opponent, and this righteousness was awe-inspiring.
Therefore, the yellow lion is unlucky because he likes weapons too much, which is very similar to the black bear monster that likes robes, coincidentally, both of them are played by Xiang Han, but one is absorbed and one is killed.
The "Journey to the West" crew estimated that they wanted to retain some of the characteristics of the Yellow Lion Essence when adapting this episode, but it seems inappropriate to create a fair-trade and moralistic monster, after all, stealing weapons is not a crime to death, so there may be some compromises in the adaptation, and finally cause the plot of this episode to appear a bit chaotic.
To say more, the yellow lion is paired with his two spinning hammers, how does it feel a little funny, playing with a big cat is like a cat stick, after all, they are all felines.
Four, two interesting wear gangs
In the episode "Chuanyi Yuhuazhou", there are two famous and interesting wear gangs.
One is that Sun Wukong went to find Taiyi Tianzun, and the two of them walked in the clouds and the fog in the fairyland, and the legs of the two looked motionless, really like they were flying.
But I don't know how, the crew spewed out less dry ice, sun wukong foot skateboard exposed, everyone knows that the original so-called "cloud driving fog" is to play skateboarding ah, Sun Wukong is really an extreme teenager.
The other is that Chi Chongrui played a sand monk on behalf of Ban Yan Huaili.
In the section where the sand monk chases the duck, it is Yan Huaili who plays the sand monk, but then there are some problems with his body, some people say that it is glaucoma, some people say that it is appendicitis, Wang Chongqiu said that he had broken his feet, in short, Yan Huaili's body was not happy and could not shoot.
At this time, Master Chi Chongrui stepped forward to perform a scene for the apprentice, that is, the part where Sun Wukong Pig Eight Precepts and Sha Monk returned to the hole of the Yellow Lion Essence to retrieve their weapons.
The sand monk in this scene has no lines, but it is obvious that this sand monk has very white skin and a relatively thin body, and it is not Yan Huaili who is tall and strong at first glance.
To be honest, Chi Chongrui's shape is indeed not like a sand monk, but a bit like Pavarotti.
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