First, the fake Zhenyuanzi appeased the true Taoist priest.
There is an ancient Taoist temple on Qingcheng Mountain with beautiful scenery and simple architecture. Director Yang Jie chose this place as the shooting location. However, Taoist priests in their eighties do not welcome the cast. Even if Director Yang Jie produced a letter of introduction from the National Taoist Association, the Taoist was only a cold and normal reception. Taoist priests are so long, and the following Taoist priests are even more indifferent. Director Yang Jie didn't know why, so she had to ask the crew not to disturb the monks as much as possible. At one time, she thought that Taoist priests might just like silence rather than crowds.
A few days later, the Taoist priest made a 180 degree turn and became enthusiastic about the crew. It turns out that Wu Guiling, who plays Zhenyuan Daxian, has made great contributions. When talking with the Taoist priest, he had to know that the Taoist priest thought Journey to the West was derogatory to Taoism, so he had such an attitude towards the cast.
Wu Guiling suddenly realized that she took out the script and showed it to the Taoist priest. In the play, Zhenyuanzi easily appeased the Tang Priest and his disciples twice, and forced the Monkey King to invite reinforcements to heal the tree everywhere. Even Guanyin Bodhisattva said that she would give Zhenyuanzi three points, which shows that the Journey to the West crew still respects Zhenyuanzi, the ancestor of Taoist immortals.
After reading the script, the Taoist priest was convinced, so he began to cooperate enthusiastically with the crew to shoot. Under his influence, the Taoist priests changed their previous indifference. Even when Zhenyuanzi was filming a scene, the Taoist priest asked the Taoist priest in the Taoist temple to help him as an extra actor.
When the crew hung the plaque of "Wuzhuangguan" on the gate of the ancient road view, the 80-year-old Taoist showed childlike pride in his eyes. Even when Wu Guiling took a photo with him, he took the initiative to let Wu Guiling stand on it to show his respect for Zhenyuanzi and Wu Guiling.
Street boy in his twenties and thirties.
In the episode "Stealing Ginseng Fruit", there are two supporting actors who are particularly brilliant, that is, Qingfeng and Yue Ming, two street children who are sarcastic and overbearing, especially Yue Ming, who stole the limelight in the scene of scolding Tang Priest.
In fact, such a lovely street child is not small at all. Her actor is Wang Yang. She is an actress in China Children's Theatre, just like Chae Rim in Yue Ming. Wang Yang was born in 1952. When this episode was filmed, she was just 30 years old, three years older than Wang Yue, who plays the Tang Priest, and seven years older than the six-year-old monkey.
Later, Wang Yang played Xue Baoqin in A Dream of Red Mansions. At that time, she was thirteen years older than Xue Baochai and eleven years older than Bao's brother Ouyang Fenqiang. She's really not old.
Third, the pig swallows sticky rice paper, and the monkey sand monk eats cold potatoes.
The more eye-catching prop in this episode of stealing ginseng fruit is the lovely ginseng fruit. When I saw this thing on TV that year, I believe many viewers also guessed what material it was made of. Of course it can't be made of meat. Apples are the most guessed, because they are crunchy when watching the breeze, the bright moon and Friar Sand.
Journey to the West photographer Wang Chongqiu solved the mystery. In fact, all the ginseng fruits were made with the help of Zhang Liejun, an artist from the local Sichuan People's Art Theatre, and the materials used turned out to be cold potatoes. Those lifelike ginseng fruits were all carved by Zhang Liejun and his colleagues. One * * * made hundreds.
Sweet potato is a cool and delicious thing, which can be used as a vegetable or a fruit. After eating, it can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, strengthen stomach and promote digestion. After filming, these props are good snacks for the crew.
However, Pig Bajie, who swallowed ginseng fruit in one gulp, ate sticky rice paper instead of cold potatoes. After all, he had to swallow it whole. Glutinous rice paper itself is edible, so the greedy eight quit is not a disadvantage.
The fourth is Li Chengru, who is very lucky.
In the episode of Stealing Ginseng Fruit, there are actually three ginseng fruit trees. The normal hanging ginseng fruit is the prop tree specially built by the crew. After being knocked down by the Monkey King, it was a bonsai tree saved by Guanyin Bodhisattva, and it was only taken once. Just put the video backwards when you save it, including the drop and return of ginseng fruit.
The hardest tree is the cool breeze and bright moon holding the weeping tree roots. This is a real-life shoot, and it needs such a big tree root to be real, so the task of finding a big tree root is given to a well-connected audience to sit in Li Chengru.
Li Chengru ran in Chengdu for a long time, but he didn't find such a big root. After all, he can't really cut down a big tree. Who would have thought his luck would explode? He happened to meet a highway construction site in the wild, and many trees were cut down on the construction site. One of them is a big tree root that meets the director's requirements, and there is no place to find it. Li Chengru found a car to find someone to finally transport the big tree roots to the shooting scene.
Verb (abbreviation of verb) Director Yang Jie pays homage to his father.
Director Yang Jie is from Sichuan, and his father Yang Bokai is a famous revolutionary. 1947 was arrested and imprisoned by the Kuomintang. 1949 On the eve of the liberation of Chengdu, Yang Bokai and more than 30 other comrades-in-arms were massacred by the Kuomintang at the 12th Bridge in Chengdu. They are called the martyrs of the Twelve Bridges in Chengdu. After liberation, the Chengdu municipal government buried the remains of these martyrs in Chengdu Cultural Park, which became a patriotic education base in Chengdu.
When The Journey to the West's crew filmed in Qingcheng Mountain, director Yang Jie asked the crew to find a relatively large garden suitable for shooting ginseng fruit trees, requiring a large venue and suitable surrounding scenery. When the crew found a place to invite Director Yang Jie to inspect, they found that the original staff chose Chengdu Cultural Park as the shooting location. But what the staff didn't know was that the cemetery of Director Yang Jie's father was not far from the ginseng fruit tree.
After the filming of "Stealing Ginseng Fruit" was completed, director Yang Jie took time out to pay homage to his father alone. I don't know why, it seems that there is providence, so that director Yang Jie can reunite with his father at the filming scene of Journey to the West.
In the ancient road view of Qingcheng Mountain, the The Journey to the West crew also used this Taoist place to shoot the scene of the Monkey King becoming a monk. So, when the Monkey King was forced by Zhenyuanzi to go to Wuzhuangguan to find a prescription for medical trees, and the Monkey King was forced to go back to find Master, he didn't go far, just walked from the main entrance of Gudaoguan to the backyard.