Gu Bei has now become Yang Jie's confidant, close to the faction, and took him with him when he went out to run errands for two days in a row, and he is also an artist, Peng Li, as Yang Jie's old team, does not have this treatment.

It was not only Gu Bei and Yang Jie who went out today, but also Wang Chongqiu, who had a camera hanging around his neck.

"Director Yang, where are we going today?"

"There are several places, you will know when you get there."

Yang Jie was thinking about something, and when she heard Gu Bei ask, she just said something casually.

However, Wang Chongqiu was very patient and explained to Gu Bei.

The purpose of their outing today is to visit a few people to prepare for the casting of Monkey King.

Ooh......

That's the most important thing!

In "Journey to the West", the four masters and apprentices are the protagonists, and Sun Wukong is the most important and dazzling core.

It can be said that they want to film "Journey to the West", and the key to success lies in this monkey.

The Monkey King, the great sage of Monkey King, is astute and supernatural, has vast magical powers, goes to heaven and earth, is omnipotent, and dares to compete in front of the Buddha.

Later, he was pressed under the Five Elements Mountain for 500 years, endured all the hardships, suffered a lot, and was enlightened by Guanyin, and embarked on the road of learning the scriptures.

Such a hero that everyone loves, but he is a monkey!

When the meeting was held in the morning, Yang Jie had already given the tone, and she should have the characteristics of a monkey in her performance, that is, she should have the nature of a monkey, and at the same time, she must have the rich thoughts and feelings of a person, and she must also have the dignity and magic of a god.

In general, it is necessary to have monkey energy, popularity, and spirit at the same time in Sun Wukong's body.

Regarding the candidate to play the Monkey King, at the morning meeting, everyone put forward several alternatives, martial arts actors, drama actors, or opera actors?

Martial arts actors can fight, drama actors can act, and opera actors have experience.

Yang Jie hesitated in which range to choose, and finally decided to take a look, waiting at home, she would definitely not be able to wait for Sun Wukong.

The first stop, the three of them went to Shichahai Martial Arts School first, in the story, Sun Wukong has a lot of plays, the early havoc in the Heavenly Palace, and the later stage of learning the scriptures on the way to kill demons, this monkey's skills must be good, if there is no martial arts skills, it will definitely not be.

I heard that Yang Jie and others came to select actors for the TV series "Journey to the West", and the leaders of the martial arts school were very enthusiastic.

The students hope that they can become the next Li Lianjie, and the school leaders also hope that another movie star can come out of Shichahai.

This is a living signboard, and it is more attractive than the number of awards won in domestic competitions.

This attraction lasted for many years, until the new century, and there were still people who fantasized about repeating Li Lianjie's model, such as a certain peasant boy named Silly Gen'er.

According to Yang Jie's request, all the students between the ages of 18 and 28 were summoned together and played a set of monkey boxing one by one.

Since it is a monkey, it will naturally be a monkey fist.

Could it be that as soon as Sun Wukong appeared, he used a trick tiger and crane double form?

Yang Jie watched it very seriously, and there were several martial arts movements that were particularly exciting, and asked Gu Bei to write them down, even if he couldn't play Sun Wukong in the future, he could also be used as an alternative to a stand-in martial arts actor.

Gu Bei registered and made a book, and Wang Chongqiu was responsible for taking pictures.

With a click, every green face was recorded.

Ho! Ha!

Another one came up, his face was very delicate, and he was still a little white face, but a set of monkey punches came out, and he was particularly fierce.

Hehe!

Even Yang Jie, who didn't understand martial arts and was just watching the excitement, couldn't help laughing, and the leaders and coaches of the martial arts school on the side were even more embarrassed.

This is no longer a monkey, it is almost the same as saying that it is King Kong.

"This young man came back from Lao Mei, his mother is Tai Chi master Mai Baochan, I heard his mother say that he used to be free fighting in Lao Mei, and after coming to our martial arts school, he focused on Tai Chi and Xingyi Boxing."

Understand, understand.

Although he was a lot younger, Gu Bei still recognized the other party at a glance just now.

Chen Zhen!

In my memory, I also played Sun Wukong later, but now he is still a very arrogant big boy.

Collected his fists, turned around and returned to the team, looking lacking in interest, anyone who saw it knew that he was dealing with an errand.

He was the last one, and then the leaders of the martial arts school announced their disbandment, and their respective coaches took them away.

"Director Yang, look at ......"

Yang Jie pondered for a moment, and finally didn't give a letter, only said that she would go back to think about it, and the final candidate would have to be decided after a meeting to study it.

Anyone who understands knows that this is a pretext, and it is basically no fun to talk about it.

"There is no problem with martial arts skills, there are indeed a few good seedlings, but we don't just have to fight this play, if we want to play Sun Wukong alive, we must first be able to act."

came out of Shichahai Martial Arts School, and Yang Jie directly vetoed the selection of martial arts athletes to play the Monkey King.

Indeed, as she said, no matter how good she plays, it's useless, she can't act, everything is in vain.

There are also drama actors who vetoed together, the truth is basically the same, they can act, but they don't have monkey spirit, and they can't do it either.

"I think we should still focus on opera actors."

Wang Chongqiu, who has always been a quiet talker, rarely took the initiative to express his opinion.

Yang Jie nodded, she also knew that if she wanted to choose a monkey that she liked, she not only had to be able to fight and act, but the most important thing was to have experience in this area.

So far, the image of Monkey King is still presented on the opera stage the most, and all kinds of dramas have acted in stories about "Journey to the West".

If you can absorb these available skills, and then give them a life-like and humanized performance, and finally blend martial arts and the fancy shelf on the stage of opera actors.

"That's right, but ...... Let's take a look first. ”

When Yang Jie was thinking about Sun Wukong's actor before, the first thing that came to mind was the opera actor, but she still had some concerns.

Because a mature opera actor has to go through a long period of training, not only on the stage, but also in life, he has become accustomed to opera, walking, talking, even a look, as if with gongs and drums.

What they want to make now is a TV series, not an opera art film.

It's just that the range of options available now is too small, so I can only look at it first.

However, Yang Jie also has her own requirements for the selection criteria, first of all, she must be young, easy to accept new things, and she must learn to perform in life, and she can't walk without the gong and drum scriptures.

Secondly, you must not be afraid of hardship, playing the Monkey King is very hard, and it is not okay to run away if you can't stand it halfway.

In the end, the filming time of this scene will be quite long, and the actors must be able to be single-minded, not half-hearted, and things like falling in love will have to be sacrificed and postponed.

"Where are we going next?"

"It's an appointment, let's go visit the Northern Monkey King."

Li Wanchun, the Northern Monkey King, is a national treasure-level opera performance artist, Gu Bei, as an attendant, came with a longing mood, but unfortunately the process of this meeting was not pleasant.

Even a little bit of a feeling of not speculative, Mr. Li Wanchun insisted that the image of the Monkey King must be expressed by the "hooked face" on the opera stage, otherwise it will not be called art.

Director Yang Jie obviously disagreed.

Hook your face?

If it's really the same as the appearance on the opera stage, how can you perform in the real mountains and real waters?

This is not the "Journey to the West" of the TV series at all.

When talking about the actor of Sun Wukong, Mr. Li is very enthusiastic, and he also recommended his son Li Xiaochun to Yang Jie.

But the problem is that Li Xiaochun is the pillar of the Inner Mongolia Peking Opera Troupe, and he can't borrow it easily, and he is also older, which does not meet the age threshold set by Yang Jie.

asked Mr. Li to recommend other people, but he shook his head and didn't speak.

Alas......

Although Juxian doesn't have to believe it, Yang Jie has already said clearly, why Li Xiaochun is not suitable, who knows how to attract Mr. Li's anger.

Helpless, they couldn't talk together, and the three of them could only get up and say goodbye.

The work of finding Brother Monkey continues, and Gu Bei wants to give Director Yang Jie a wake-up call several times.

It's not easy to find monkeys, and there is a ready-made one in Shaoxing.

But how do you mention that?

Before Gu Bei could think about it, he went all the way to the Experimental Peking Opera Troupe of the National Opera School, and when he learned of his intentions, the head of the troupe happily recommended a student named Dong Zhihua.

When she met, Yang Jie was a little moved, this Dong Zhihua has good kung fu, age, figure, and image are all appropriate, and after chatting for a while, he feels smart and clever.

Later, she married a daughter-in-law, was the agent godmother of the domestic entertainment industry, gave birth to a son, and won the actor.

Heck, this feeling of seeing through decades at a glance is simply not too cool.

Obviously, Director Yang Jie wanted to use each other, but when it came to specific details, there was a problem, Dong Zhihua is the pillar of the experimental troupe, and he often has the task of performing abroad.

The head of the troupe also made it clear that if Yang Jie wants to use Dong Zhihua, the time must be adjusted with the group, that is to say, once there is a performance task in the group, Dong Zhihua must come back to report, focusing on the work of the group, and the crew of "Journey to the West" will have to stop and wait.

"Isn't that!"

Coming out of the theater, Yang Jie was still sulking, and his first requirement for actors was not to be half-hearted.

According to what the head comrade said, patting and patting, Brother Monkey's somersault cloud is gone, and hundreds of people in the crew can only wait stupidly, how can this scene be filmed?

"Dissipate your anger, Xiao Dong is the pillar of the regiment, and it is already rare for the comrade head of the regiment to promise to lend it to us."

Wang Chongqiu's mentality is very good.

But the mentality is so useless!

To film "Journey to the West", the first thing to be decided is Monkey King, and the male number one is gone, how to carry out the next work?

"Director Yang!"

Gu Bei really couldn't hold it back, if he continued to be like this, hitting one head in the east and one head in the west, when would he be able to dig out the sixth brother!

At this time, it was almost dark, the weather was cold, and with the wind and sand, Gu Bei didn't want to continue to wander outside.

"If you have something to say, say it."

The little old lady was depressed, and her tone was very impulsive.

"I want to say, since the Northern Monkey King has no results, should we find the Southern Monkey King?"