Chapter 485 "National Class Couple"
The content of the episode "Interesting Journey to the Kingdom of Women" has become a cliché in later generations.
In the beginning, Tang Seng and Bajie drank the water from the Zi Mu River by mistake and got pregnant. The monkey went to get the water from the abortion spring and cured his master and fellow apprentice.
During this period, the Queen of Western Liang admired Tang Monk's handsome appearance and was willing to entrust her with the throne to marry this royal brother. The queen was full of affection and showed her affection repeatedly. Even though Tang Monk was a saint, he was not a stone-like person and his heart was inevitably moved.
But in order to achieve his goal of obtaining Buddhist scriptures, Tang Seng had no choice but to resolutely cut off the hidden emotions in his heart.
Just as he was struggling with his feelings, the Pipa Demon Girl hidden in the palace of the Kingdom of Daughters appeared.
It’s the Pipa spirit that appears in the opening credits.
The Pipa Spirit used magic to kidnap Tang Seng and take him to the Poisonous Divine Mountain, wanting to force him to marry her, but Tang Seng naturally refused.
Later, Wukong and Bajie went looking for a master and had a fierce battle with the Pipa Demon. As a result, the little monkey who was stabbed by her poison needle stood at attention and the little pig blew a bubble gum on his forehead. In the end, thanks to the help of Li Weijia...ah, the Pleiades Star Lord, they were finally able to subdue the Scorpion Demon who could play the pipa.
As for the Pure Love Warrior, the Poison Enemy King, and the Dark Moon Demon Lord and all that, well, that's all stuff in Black Myth.
Cuihua Hutong, formerly the People's Digest.
Zhu Hong and Liu Bei were sitting in front of the TV in the main room, each holding a small stool, staring at the TV intently. They saw the Scorpion Demon exposed by the crowing of a rooster by the Pleiades star official. The one-hour episode of "A Fun Journey to the Kingdom of Women" finally came to an end.
“How was this filmed?”
"Why do you think Zhu Bajie has such a big bubble on his forehead?"
"I don't know. I'll ask my brother-in-law later." Zhu Hong said.
What they were talking about was the scene where Bajie was stung by the Scorpion Spirit and a big bump instantly appeared on his head.
I watched the big bag grow from small to big, becoming round and bulging. I don’t know how the crew did it, it felt like a magic trick.
The truth is a bit embarrassing.
That bag is not a blown-up bubble gum.
It is a valuable family planning tool.
That is. condoms.
The special effects at that time were not advanced enough, and these shots were all the creative ideas that the crew racked their brains to come up with. When filming, Yang Jie tried many methods, but found that the results were not ideal.
Finally, someone said that the condom was thin and easy to inflate, so they just used a condom as the "bag". So the props cut a small hole in Bajie's mask, and then the actor Ma Dehua under the mask blew up the condom. It looked in the camera as if he was really stung by a big bag in an instant.
As he was speaking, the picture on the TV changed.
I saw a large seal on a page of document with the words "Western Liang Women's Kingdom" inscribed on it.
Turning again, under the green pavilion, there was the Queen Zhu Lin of the Kingdom of Women, wearing a head of agarwood flowers, a brocade feather robe, a long bright pearl around her waist, and lotus flower shoes on her feet.
She raised her head, her almond-shaped eyes were misty, and there was reluctance in the corner of her eyes.
The camera slowly moves back, and the queen's gaze is directed to Tang Monk, who is wearing a cassock and bowing.
At the same time, outside the screen, a plaintive song "Daughter's Love" sounded.
"~What do you mean by royal power and wealth~"
"~Why worry about the rules~"
The two of them walked along the long pavilion, surrounded by palace servants, maintaining the physical distance between the great Tang monk and the Queen of the Kingdom of Daughters, and walked side by side without saying a word.
Tang Monk, played by Jiang Xian, seems to be focused, but his eyes drift to the queen beside him from time to time, colliding with Zhu Lin's captivating eyes.
The two of them looked so glamorous!
But no matter how long a pavilion is, it will eventually come to an end.
The two of them walked outside the pavilion, facing Zhu Lin, Jiang Xian bowed again and shouted a sentence to keep the person at a distance.
"Your Majesty, please stay."
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Zhu Lin's performance at this moment was so distraught and hesitant. She tried hard to maintain her dignity as a queen. She raised her hand to take the pass from "Tai Shi", clenched it in her palm, hesitated for a long time, and then handed it to Tang Seng with trembling hands.
Tang Seng also stared at the queen in a daze. After a few seconds, he struggled to look away and bowed again.
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
The off-screen music perfectly played the line from "It's Hard to Say Goodbye" written by Teacher Yan Su.
"~I am full of tenderness~"
"~He left with a stronger will~"
"~I just blame this life for not being able to be together~"
The four masters and apprentices laughed, played and scolded each other while Tang Seng waved his robe and rode away on his horse.
The Queen of the Kingdom of Women was left alone with tears in her eyes. She chased forward a few steps, then stopped by a tree, and shouted out longingly.
"Brother Yudi."
"Oh, is Tang Seng a blockhead? The queen is so deeply in love, why can't she stay in the Kingdom of Women?!"
"That's it, don't go, don't go!"
“How could this episode be filmed? It’s so sad!”
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
In front of the TV, Zhu Hong and Liu Bei were both almost crying.
Everyone has read "Journey to the West" and knows what the section about the Kingdom of Women is about.
Throughout the 81 trials, there is the White Bone Demon who first turns into an old man, then a woman, and finally a little girl; there is the Six-Eared Macaque that even Guanyin Bodhisattva cannot tell apart; there is the "ancestor of earthly immortals" Zhenyuan Daxian; there is a gourd that holds the monkey's golden horn and silver horn; and there is the Flame Mountain that can only be extinguished by a palm leaf fan.Among the eighty-one trials, some will be beheaded, some will be thrown into a frying pan, some will go to heaven to find the Jade Emperor, and some will go to the South China Sea to find Guanyin Bodhisattva.The difficulty of the Kingdom of Women.
Compared to those other disasters.
It seems like it’s really nothing.
No matter how you look at it, it seems to be the most boring difficulty!Whether it is Zhu Hong or Liu Bei, their understanding of this difficulty is limited to the characterization of Tang Monk as a man who is not interested in women.
Isn't it just that the Queen of Women pursued Tang Seng relentlessly, but Tang Seng simply ignored her?
Let’s talk about the highlights.
Only the fact that the master and disciple were pregnant was somewhat interesting.
Finally it made it to the TV series.
This episode is so mind-blowingly brilliant!
And if you think about it more carefully, this difficulty is clearly the most difficult one!
The hero has a hard time being a beauty!Not only the hero, but also Tang Seng is sad.
And Jiang Xian played the role of Tang Monk in the TV series.
It was obvious that the golden body of the holy monk of the Tang Dynasty was broken.
Obviously he's emotional!Otherwise, why, when the Queen asked him “Do you like it?”, his answer was not “No”, but “In the afterlife”.
Because we are destined to be together but not destined to be together in this life, we can only wait until the next life!Oh, all in all, Jiang Xian’s performance as Monk Tang is so vivid.
Although Wang Yue’s previous performance as Monk Tang was also very good, he did not look like an ordinary person.
Whenever something happens, they start to recite the tight curse on Monkey King’s head.
Even in the episode with the White Bone Demon, he remained hard-hearted when faced with the bow of Sun Wukong's four clones.
In comparison, Jiang Xian's Tang Monk is more like an ordinary man than him, a Tang Monk with seven emotions and six desires.
Faced with the deep love of the Queen of Women, even a holy monk of the Tang Dynasty could not help but be moved.
"Journey to the West" has been a major TV series that has attracted nationwide attention since it was broadcast, or even before it was broadcast.
After the broadcast, although there were constant controversies, the ratings of 89.4% were there.
All in all, people all over the country are watching this TV series!
Wei Ran Hutong.
Wu Jianguo's room was full of people, with children and short people in the front and tall men and women in the back. There were so many people, but except for a few children, no one was noisy. They were all watching the TV intently and attentively.
It is the Tang monk riding his horse and heading west, while the Queen of the Kingdom of Women stands by a tree, looking eagerly."Ouch!" "Great shot!"
“The photo was great!”
As "It's Hard to Say Goodbye", another version of "Daughter's Love", came to an end, the room began to become noisy.
"This song is so nice."
"Yeah, I haven't heard of it before."
"I don't even know what it's called, I want to buy a tape and listen to it."
"Oh my god, Lao Cao, what's wrong with you? Why are you crying while watching a TV show?"
"Who is crying? I, I didn't sleep last night, so I am tired today."
"Pull it down."
"That's right, Lao Cao, why are you being so stubborn? The film is so touching, so what's wrong with shedding a few tears?"
"piss off."
"Hey, if I'm not mistaken, is that Tang Monk the kid from the Jiang family?"
"The kid from the Jiang family?"
"No way, isn't he a writer? His novels are so famous."
Amid the noise, the TV show’s credits rolled quickly at the end.
Director——Yang Jie.
Tang Monk——Jiang Xian.
"Oh, it's really Jiang Xian!"
The young man from Old Li's family stood up and said excitedly, "I thought I had made a mistake. It's really him. When we were little, we used to play with throwing firecrackers into the toilet during the Chinese New Year!"
"Oh my, this kid is amazing. He even acted in Journey to the West. He is so promising!"
"I'm already a very successful person. I've written so many novels. I have several of them at home. What's the big deal about acting in Journey to the West?"
"The child has been handsome since he was young. I said at that time that he would definitely be an actor when he grew up. Look, I was right!"
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Wu Jianguo didn't take the noise of the people around him seriously, he just stared at the screen.
As a line of "The Queen of Daughters - Zhu Lin" appeared, Wu Jianguo slapped his thigh.
"That's true!"
"What is it?"
The people around him were startled by his movement.
"Zhu Lin! Isn't this the wife of the kid from the Jiang family? When they went to get their marriage certificate, it was me who handled the formalities for her." Wu Jianguo said excitedly.
"Dad, what's that look in your eyes? Even Zhu Lin can't recognize you."
"That's right. I recognized Zhu Lin as soon as she came out."
"Which Zhu Lin?"
"The one who acted in Shaolin Temple!"
"Oh, if that's the case, then Monk Tang and the Queen of the Kingdom of Women are really a couple!"
"Not good."
"These two are so good. In the play, Tang Monk and the Queen of Women can't get along, but outside the play, they have become a couple. Oh, I don't know why, but I feel less sad all of a sudden."
"Me too, this is so clever, the play says they'll see each other in the next life, but outside the play, the two of them are actually meeting in the next life!"
"They are really a couple. I was just thinking about it. The actors acted so affectionately. It would be such a pity if they couldn't end up together."
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After all, the story between Jiang Xian and Zhu Lin was not something that everyone knew about. Now that it had spread in the room, everyone in the room had sweet smiles on their faces as if their dream couple had come true.
The feedback from the first broadcast of the episode "A Funny Journey to the Kingdom of Women" was quickly passed on to the TV station.
The atmosphere on stage was also quite tense.
I don’t blame them. It’s mainly because I just received a few phone calls and the feedback they gave was not very good.
One of them came up and introduced himself, saying that he was a cultural scholar in a certain city and had been working on the four great classics for many years.
The episode "A Funny Journey to the Kingdom of Women" was met with a barrage of criticism right from the start.
"That's nonsense!"
“Blind shooting!”
"A play is not nonsense, and an adaptation is not random fabrication!"
What is the Kingdom of Women?That is an abnormal land of Taiyin. How can this abnormal country of women in the original novel beautify into a paradise on earth? Or a country full of human touch?Even the Queen of the Kingdom of Women has transformed from a "pink skeleton" into a lovesick woman!
Tang Seng is even more outrageous!He actually said something like "If there is an afterlife"!In addition to this expert scholar, many fans of the original novel also called and began to question the reporter.
"What's wrong with Yang Jie in your station?"
"Change the script!"
"Why would you let Tang Seng, who is a good monk, get tempted by worldly desires?"
Faced with such criticism, the staff on duty at the station looked aggrieved and could only respond politely.
"Well, thank you for your attention and opinions, we will work hard to improve."
After receiving several such calls in succession, the staff on duty became a little nervous, thinking that the episode of "A Funny Journey to the Kingdom of Women" must have been filmed badly and was scolded like this.
Just as I was thinking about it, the next call came in.
"Great! This episode of Journey to the West is really great! Great plot, great acting, great adaptation, great filming, and it's very innovative from another angle! So beautiful, so beautifully filmed!"
"Thank you for your love."
After hanging up the phone, the staff on duty felt a little relieved to see that someone was still praising him.
Before I could think about it, several more calls came in.
"It's a great film. The Tang Monk is great, as is the Queen of the Kingdom of Women. Their performances are so touching."
"Director Yang Jie is really creative. Comrade, could you please tell me the name of the song on TV? Do you have a tape?"
"I've seen so many scenes filmed so far, but overall, I still like the episode "A Funny Journey to the Kingdom of Daughters" the most. It's so impressive."
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There are criticisms, but compared to the overwhelming praise, these criticisms are insignificant.
The staff on duty also reacted.
Experts and scholars don’t like it.
But the people like it!
Ordinary people are simple and enthusiastic. As long as you take good photos, they are willing to praise you. They don’t care about any messy and inexplicable “persistence”.
In the office, the deputy director who had always been paying attention to "Journey to the West" breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the feedback.
When it was submitted for review, the episode "A Funny Journey to the Kingdom of Women" caused quite a bit of controversy.
In the end, it was thanks to her efforts that this episode was aired.
But if you watch it now, people still like this episode quite a lot.
There is also the couple Zhu Lin and Jiang Xian.
Many viewers called to inquire.
They acted like a pair of true lovers, could it be that they turned their fake into real life?
(End of this chapter)