Remember the Iron Fan Princess of the CCTV version of "Journey to the West"?
Living in the Basho Cave on Cuiyun Mountain, he has the magic treasure Banana Fan, known as the Iron Fan Immortal, also known as the Luocha Girl.
Tang monks and apprentices passed by the Flame Mountain, and Sun Wukong suffered a lot to borrow a banana fan from her.
Wang Fengxia, who played the Princess of the Iron Fan, was a Peking Opera actress who was only in her early 30s at the time, but she successfully portrayed this noble earth immortal, which won the praise of the audience.
Pi Ge only recently discovered that wang Fengxia had successfully portrayed the role of Princess Tiefan in the Journey to the West opera film "Flame Mountain" produced by Changchun Film Studio as early as 1983.
And the CCTV version director Yang Jie took a fancy to her precisely because of this movie, and insisted on finding her to star again in the TV series.
Written by Sun Zhizheng and directed by Jing Jie and Huang Yan'en, "Flame Mountain" plays not Sun Wukong by Liu Ye, but by Wang Fengxia's husband and another famous monkey opera performance artist, Liu Xiliang.
The story of the movie is basically the same as that of the "Journey to the West" novel and the CCTV version of the TV series, but the scene arrangement has been slightly changed.
The story tells that the Tang monks and apprentices blocked the Flame Mountain, and there was a local old man who supported the trick, saying that luocha, the wife of the cow devil king in the Basho Cave of Cuiyun Mountain, known as the Princess of the Iron Fan, had a banana fan that could be used to extinguish the fire.
Sun Wukong knew that the Bull Demon King would definitely hate himself for accepting the red child, and he was helplessly blocked by the Flame Mountain, and he could only borrow a fan with his scalp.
At this time, the Bull Demon King was enjoying his concubine Princess Jade Face in the Moyun Cave of Jilei Mountain, and the Luocha woman was alone in the air, and when she saw Sun Wukong coming fiercely, she fell into the nest and fought, helplessly against him.
Seeing that there was no way to take Sun Wukong, the Luocha woman took out a banana fan and flew Sun Wukong out of the fan fifty thousand miles away and landed in mount Xiaosumi.
Sun Wukong found lingji bodhisattva who lived on Mount Kosumi, borrowed the Wind Bead from him, and turned back to Cuiyun Mountain.
When Luo Cha Nu learned that Sun Wukong had gone and returned, she was also shocked, so she had to come out with a banana fan to fight. However, this time Sun Wukong has a fixed wind bead, and the banana fan does not work for him.
The Luocha woman had to turn around and leave, and closed the door tightly and did not come out. Sun Wukong is not good at hitting the door, but he has a clever move and turns into a small bee to enter the door.
At this time, Luocha Nu was resting in the cave, hating Sun Wukong. The maid offered tea, and Sun Wukong saw that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, so he turned into a chrysanthemum and fell into the teacup, and was drunk by the Luocha woman.
Sun Wukong had a seizure in The Luocha Woman's belly, which made her stomach ache unbearable, so she had to agree to obediently hand over the treasure fan. But the Luocha woman was scheming, and secretly made her eyes look at her, so that the maid took a fake fan for Sun Wukong.
Sun Wukong did not know what the plan was, took the fake fan, and went to the Flame Mountain with the Eight Precepts of the Pig to extinguish the fire.
As a result, the fire became bigger and bigger, and Sun Wukong and the Eight Precepts of the Pig were burned to the point of wretchedness, only to learn that they had been caught in the treacherous scheme of the Luocha Woman.
When Sun Wukong saw that he could not borrow a fan, he thought that it would be better to go to the Moyun Cave of Jilei Mountain to ask for the Bull Demon King. He came to the Thunder Mountain, disagreed with the Bull Demon King, and moved his hands again.
The Bull Demon King ordered his cattle to surround Sun Wukong, and Sun Wukong did not lose the wind at all.
At this time, the Eight Commandments of the Pig also came to help in the battle, and the Bull Demon King saw the enemy of them, but at the sound of an order, he collected the troops back to the cave and closed the cave door and never came out again.
There is a relatively big change in the movie here, in the original work, the Bibotan Ten Thousand Saints Dragon King came to invite the Bull Demon King to the feast, and Sun Wukong also secretly followed, and took the opportunity to secretly ride his water-avoiding golden crystal beast to the Basho Cave to deceive the Banana Fan.
In the movie, the plot of Bi Bo Tan was deleted, and Sun Wukong left a clone of him, guarding the Moyun Cave with the Eight Precepts of the Pig, and he himself became the Bull Demon King and flew back to Cuiyun Mountain to deceive basho fan.
The Luocha woman did not know what the plan was, thinking that her husband had returned and served him diligently.
Sun Wukong deceived the banana fan and the trick to make the fan bigger, picked up the fan and left. But he didn't learn the trick to make the fan smaller, so he had to drag the big fan back to the Flame Mountain.
At this time, the Bull Devil King learned that Sun Wukong had deceived the banana fan, so he changed into the appearance of the Eight Precepts of the Pig and deceived the banana fan away.
Sun Wukong was furious and frustrated, and discussed with the Eight Precepts of the Pig to divide the soldiers into two ways, the Eight Precepts of the Pig went to fight the Moyun Cave; Sun Wukong went to the Basho Cave to find the Bull Demon King.
Inohachi came to Moyun Cave and killed the Jade Princess and the demon soldiers of the whole cave. Poor Jade Princess did not offend anyone, but she was a rake of the Eight Precepts of the Pig. Many people say that in the "Journey to the West" novel, the jade-faced princess died the most unjustly, which shows that there is no good end for The little three Huh...
Sun Wukong arrives at Basho Cave and fights with the Bull Demon King again. At this time, the sand monk also came to help with a group of land Yin soldiers, and the Pig Eight Precepts cleaned up the Moyun Cave and also came to Cuiyun Mountain to join the battle group.
The Bull Demon King, with his outnumbered enemies, gradually fell behind, and he appeared in his original form and turned into a big bull that could breathe fire, and wanted to burn Sun Wukong to death.
But where sun wukong would be afraid of fire, he finally subdued the Bull Demon King.
At this time, Guanyin Master came to the round field with the red child, and the Bull Devil King and the Luocha female couple saw their son and were willing to lend the treasure fan to Sun Wukong.
Sun Wukong came to the Flame Mountain with a fan and finally extinguished the fire.
Here Pigo would like to elaborate on the use of this banana fan and the hatefulness of the Bull Devil King and the Luocha female couple.
We all know that the Flame Mountain was formed when Sun Wukong pushed the alchemy furnace of Taishang Laojun to the ground. And that banana fan one extinguished, two fans of wind, three rain, the local people in order to be able to plant grain on the mountain, to bring four pigs and four sheep and other tributes to Cuiyun Mountain to ask the iron fan princess to fan the fire, the couple is relying on this to eat.
In fact, as long as you take the fan and fan seven seven forty-nine times, you can extinguish the fire forever, but the guy who eats the iron fan princess will be wasted.
They were afraid that Sun Wukong would take the banana fan to extinguish the fire, so they killed him and refused to borrow the fan, saying that it was because the red child was just an excuse.
Therefore, Sun Wukong finally defeated the Bull Demon King and extinguished the fire forever, which was a matter of immeasurable merit for the people.
Although this is an opera film, most of the shots are studio shots, but also added a lot of locations.
The construction of the shed is also very exquisite, and the pavilions and arch bridges in the cave are beautiful.
Although the special effects of post-production are simple, they are also ingenious, and even now it seems that the intentions of their production can be seen.
Sun Wukong, played by Liu Xiliang, has both the form of a god and is not worse than the sixth master, and he is extraordinary, turning over hundreds of heels in the film, and his depth of skills is breathtaking.
Let's talk about Wang Fengxia, who plays the Princess of the Iron Fan, she made her debut when she was 4 years old, and she was only 28 years old when she starred in this film, which can be seen that her image is slightly thinner than in CCTV's "Journey to the West".
Pigo feels that this is her peak performance, whether it is appearance, body shape or performance, it is better than in CCTV's "Journey to the West".
In fact, she later suffered from breast cancer, and was already a sick performance when filming "Journey to the West", and then gradually became seriously ill, and in 1993, she died at the age of 38.
When Pigo was very young, he once saw this "Flame Mountain" in the cinema, but at that time, he was very young, and he couldn't remember it, only vaguely remembering the beautiful Iron Fan Princess.
Unexpectedly, Teacher Wang Fengxia passed away so early, and the role of the Iron Fan Princess she left behind is still considered to be the most outstanding image in opera and film and television.
Pigo felt that although her life was short, she could leave the same classic artistic image in both works, and she could already be famous in film history.
Text/Pippi Film Editorial Department: Bloody Dan Heart
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