1980 My Entertainment Era

Chapter 221: Bibotan, playing a palace maid?
On June 6, Xia Tian and Milan went to the Military Art Academy Auditorium.

Director Yang and his team will be shooting many interior scenes here, such as the Dragon Palace in the East and West Seas, the Dragon Palace in Bibotan, the underworld, the meal scene after returning from the journey to the West, and so on.

Xia Tian also has a role to play, and Director Yang of Bibotan wants to give Xia Tian more scenes!

The Nine-Headed Insect of Bibotan: You, get rid of Tang Seng and his disciples!

Because Monkey King is not good at water battles, Little White Dragon goes to the bottom of the water to look for the stolen Buddhist treasure.

Director Yang arranged a "bad fate" between Princess Halloween and Prince Long San!
But in the TV series I watched later, it was actually Director Yang who made some changes. In the original novel, Princess Halloween and the Nine-headed Insect were the original couple.

Xiao Bailong had no connection with her, but he was cheated for no reason. How miserable!

The actress who plays Princess Halloween is Zhang Qing, 21 years old, with no acting experience, but she is very spiritual, especially her eyes. She must also be from opera.

After reading the script, she also complained: "Is Princess Halloween blind? Why is she going to find the Nine-headed Monster instead of chasing the Little White Dragon?!"

If Milan hadn't been standing next to Xia Tian, ​​she would have gone up to meet him.

When Xia Tian was trying on the costumes, he thought about it for a while and then found Director Yang.

"Auntie, I don't think this is appropriate!"

"Why is it inappropriate? Isn't it inappropriate to arrange a beautiful wife for you?"

Xia Tian: Is that a beautiful wife? Isn’t that a beautiful hat?!

Xia Tian said, "In the original novel, Monkey King transformed into a nine-headed monster and went into the water to trick Princess Wan Sheng into giving him the Buddhist relic. If you want me to participate, that's fine."

In the story before Bibotan, during the Flaming Mountain incident, the Bull Demon King came to Bibotan for a banquet, but Sun Wu stole his Golden Crystal Water-Repellent Beast, which then turned into an old cow and entered his sister-in-law's stomach, and stole the Palm-leaf Fan.

Sister-in-law, don't look back, I'm Lao Niu~
Now it turns out that the husband is the one who cheated...

Wow, this is exactly what Monkey Brother likes!

"But this is a really big change. I think when we adapt a classic, we should preserve the original structure, characters and plot to the greatest extent possible."

"It's a bit inappropriate to change it to a former couple having an affair now. They are not a good match. It's better to change it to a childhood acquaintance. Seeing that the Nine-Headed Insect is not working, he plans to change his tactics and seduce them."

Bibotan is just a lake. How can it be compared with the Dragon Kings of the Four Seas?

Besides, this guy stole Buddhist treasures and the Ganoderma lucidum from Queen Mother of the West. He is not a decent person!
If the Dragon King is to be officially enthroned, he should be called the Bibotan Dragon King!
The Halloween Dragon King is from a family of monsters and is not the same kind as the Little White Dragon at all.

The Little White Dragon is a legitimate god, albeit a criminal. The All Saints Dragon King is just a bunch of bandits who call themselves the All Saints Dragon King and have also used the name Dragon Spirit.

It is quite like the embarrassing situation of local wealthy merchants in later generations who have money but no status and have to imitate the upper class society.

Finally, Director Yang also felt that although he wanted to give Xia Tian more roles, it was not appropriate to add them to his head, and Xia Tian’s analysis was correct, it seemed a bit inappropriate.

So they adopted Xia Tian’s statement that after the Nine-headed Insect ran away, Princess Halloween fell in love with the handsome and well-born Third Prince Long and wanted to seduce him.

The Third Prince of Long also pretended to be interested and tricked the Buddha treasure out~
Zhang Qing: My role can’t be improved?!

We finished filming the interior scenes of Bibotan in the summer, so there aren’t many scenes left here.

The next day was the last scene of Xia Tian - the Yellow Robe Monster of Baoxiang Kingdom turned Tang Monk into a tiger, and Monkey King was pissed off by the White Bone Demon, so Xiao Bailong turned into a palace maid in the palace to sneak attack the Yellow Robe Monster, but was defeated and stabbed. Then he persuaded Bajie to ask Monkey King for help.

Originally Xia Tian thought that he could just pretend to act, and then an actress would turn herself into a palace maid and fight a few moves with the yellow-robed monster. Unexpectedly, Aunt Yang asked Xia Tian to dress up as a woman and do the performance himself on the grounds that "art cannot be sloppy"!
Xia Tian: No, whose maid is over 1.8 meters tall?!

Director Yang: Don’t worry about it, just see if I can make you look shorter!

Xia Tian: No, Auntie, it would be much easier to use actresses! It would save us a lot of trouble!

Director Yang: Can art be considered troublesome? Hurry up and put on your makeup!

Wow, that makeup artist looks like he is fully prepared and eager to try!
I spent half an hour putting on makeup, and made Xia Tian look like a 1.8-meter-tall beauty.
Xia Tian: I am about to become an eight-foot-tall palace maid~
In summer, I also use my long hair and put on skirts, bend my knees, lower my head, walk like a dwarf, lower my eyebrows and look pleasing to the eye...

Everyone: Hey! Hey hey hey! You know what, this looks quite delicious~
Especially Milan, he almost jumped for excitement!
Xia Tian dressed up as a palace maid, and she looked pretty good, and it didn't feel forced or out of place, and you can still see some of Xia Tian's appearance~
Director Yang was so happy that he laughed out loud several times!

This is the first time I’ve seen a director laugh!

While the toast was going on, the Third Prince Long suddenly attacked with a sword and almost stabbed the yellow-robed monster to death, but the opponent blocked it with a wine jar!
The Third Prince of Long immediately revealed his true form, and attacked with his sword, emitting cold light! However, the yellow-robed monster Kuimu Langxing was not a pushover either, and suffered a loss in the first two moves. Once he had stabilized his position, the three forks quickly gained the upper hand, and then with a "hey" sound, he stabbed his opponent's leg!

Then the Third Prince Long groaned, turned into a cloud (white smoke) and retreated - this part is the post-production special effects.

OK~ done!

Xia Tian: I have sacrificed so much for art!
While Xia Tian was removing her makeup, Milan was watching and teasing her: "Hey, whose beauty is this? Do you want to go with me? I have everything at home~"

Now there are only a few scenes left of Journey to the West, including the interior scenes of the Queen of the Kingdom of Women. Many of the previous materials have already begun editing and dubbing!
Director Yang is so fast!
However, Director Yang also made a suggestion: "Milan is so beautiful! Do you want to play a role too?"

Xia Tian was stunned: "That's a good thing. But she has no experience!"

"It doesn't matter. It's easier to learn without experience!" Director Yang looked kind.

Xia Tian: Hmm? That attitude is wrong!

"So what can she play?"

Director Yang smiled and said, "What do you think of Madam White Bone?"

"Ah?!" Xia Tian was stunned! White Bone Demon? !

Director Yang took one look and quickly advised: "The White Bone Demon is also good! Don't underestimate her because she's a demon, but she's very dramatic!"

Director Yang had found many actresses, but when they heard about the role of White Bone Demon, they shook their heads like rattles: "White Bone Demon? Too scary! How about playing something else? Anything is fine!"

They looked for one candidate after another, but none of them were willing to act!
Liu Xiaoqing was very interested in this female demon, but she proposed that she wanted to play three roles (the White Bone Demon, the old woman, and the village woman) by herself.

In the end, Director Yang rejected her idea - makeup cannot completely change one's appearance. The White Bone Demon has changed many times but it's still her. That won't work.

In fact, it’s no wonder that the actresses don’t dare to play the role. Today’s audiences often associate the role with the actor. If she really plays the White Bone Demon, it may affect her future career!

Only Liu Xiaoqing doesn't care about this anymore~
So, Director Yang set his sights on Milan, who was not an actor - although she was a little young, she could make up for it with makeup, costumes and performance.

Besides, who says that Mrs. White Bone can't be younger? She is a skeleton spirit, so it's reasonable for her to be young and mature!
"No, Aunt Yang..."

"Don't look down on him just because he's a villain!"

Actually, if we find some third-tier actors, there are still many people willing to play the role. But Director Yang is a bit paranoid, he must have a beautiful woman, preferably famous.

"No! Auntie, it's not because I don't like the White Bone Demon, but although she looks steady, she is only 23 years old. Can she act out the feeling of the White Bone Lady?"

Xia Tian was a person from the future, so naturally he was not like many actors today who were cautious about their roles.

But he was afraid that Milan wouldn’t be able to perform!

Although she is usually good at acting with herself, she is the same with others~
It is said that women are born actors, and Milan is one of the best!
But it’s hard to say whether it will work in front of the camera!
"How do you know if you don't try? Tell her and see if she's willing." Director Yang thinks highly of Milan.

Xia Tian went over and said to Milan: "...What do you think?"

Milan was surprised at first, then asked worriedly: "Can I act now? I can't do it at all!"

Xia Tian: You are really good at it, you just don’t realize it~
"Since you said so... then let me try it?" She herself was quite interested!

Mrs. Bones, she's so cool!

Monkey: Then at this moment...

Huang Mei: Just like at this moment...

Monkey: How can they be so similar?

Huang Mei: Similar, very similar, but you lack something compared to him.

Monkey: Could it be the golden hoop on your head?
Huang Mei: No, he has become a Buddha now and has learned to play dumb, but you won’t.

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(End of this chapter)