" Journey to the West " is one of the four masterpieces of our Chinese culture, and its remake of the TV series has attracted the love of countless fans.
Among the many remakes, the 86 version of Journey to the West impressed everyone the most. One of the actors played more than ten roles, but they didn't pay a cent.
"Master" Tang Seng commented on him, simply devoting himself to art, the pursuit of art is the highest pursuit, anything can make way for filming. The actor that
wants to talk about today is the "Sand Monk" in the 86 edition of "Journey to the West" - Yan Huaili .
Yan Huaili
The wonderful fate of Yan Huaili and "Journey to the West"
"Journey to the West", a remake in 1986, vividly interprets this famous work. Men, women and children from all over the country have appreciated this classic work, and this work has won extremely high praise. honor. There are five protagonists in this work of
. Among them, the "Sand Monk" played by Yan Huaili is the third disciple, who is specially responsible for helping the master to subdue demons and eliminate demons on the way to learn scriptures.
However, what most people don't know is that many familiar roles in this work, such as Taishang Laojun, etc., are also played by Yan Huaili alone.
According to statistics, Yan Huaili played a total of more than 20 characters including big and small characters in the 86 edition of "Journey to the West". Among them, there are still more than ten main characters excluding the dispensable characters such as soldiers and demons. .
"Journey to the West" stills
Yan Huaili was born in the 1930s, when the political situation was turbulent. Although his family was poor, Yan Huaili's parents still let him finish high school.
In 1952, 16-year-old Yan Huaili went to a bank to work as an accountant in order to share the pressure at home.
At that time, bank accountants were quite popular because their jobs were stable. Yan Huaili's family is also very satisfied with this job. But Yan Huaili didn't like the job, he preferred theatrical performances. Naturally, his family was very opposed to it. Later, the two sides negotiated that Yan Huaili would be allowed to go to school as long as he was admitted.
In 1958, Yan Huaili, who was working and studying at the same time, got a high score in the college entrance examination and could choose the college he likes.
In 1958, Yan Huaili was admitted to the People's Art Theater, and after graduation, he was assigned to the Central Theater to do research on drama.
Yan Huaili
In 1982, he was valued by the leaders of CCTV and was dug up to do research on film and television.
In "Journey to the West", Yan Huaili's acting skills are at ease, making people feel that he is a veteran actor who has experienced many battles.
But actually, this work is very special to him because it is his first acting in film and television, and it is also his first acting role in a TV series.
Before that, when Yan Huaili was working on film and television, he had personally experienced the filming of film and television works at the shooting site. He had seen many directors give guidance to actors' performances with his own eyes, and he was also very familiar with some performance skills. Before
decided to star in "Journey to the West", Yan Huaili took advantage of the fact that the entire crew was still recruiting troops and practiced her acting skills hard, for fear of losing the chain to the team. After the crew really started filming, he played the role of "Sand Monk" to life with his hard-trained acting skills and indomitable spirit.
Sand Monk
At that time, "Journey to the West" had already been filmed by many production crews, so the filming crew did not get enough sponsorship.
Yan Huaili has a deep love for acting, so she played many roles without receiving extra pay.
Yan Huaili's contribution to the crew is not only a simple and honest "sand monk", but also other characters with different styles. After the show was broadcast, the audience did not recognize the other characters as "Sand Monk" at all. With Yan Huaili's efforts,
has performed many roles incisively and vividly, and almost every role has its own temperament and behavior style. Yan Huaili pays great attention to the portrayal of the characters' personalities. He has repeatedly figured out each character, and finally deduced this classic.
Yan Huaili's multiple rolesIn the whole crew, the relationship between the second and third brothers is the best.
In the interview, Ma Dehua not only has a lot of memories of this third junior brother, but also has sympathy and regret that are hard to hide. When
was filming in the crew, due to the needs of the plot, the third junior brother often played against the second senior brother, which made the two people feel very good.
Because the crew at that time did not have good material conditions, sometimes going to remote places to film scenes often caused the problem of box lunch tension. At that time, everyone would rush to grab the lunch box after filming, but Yan Huaili needed to take off his beard to go to eat, and he often couldn't grab enough dishes.
When Ma Dehua saw this, he often gave him a portion of his dishes. After filming together, the two often ate a lunch with a dish. This experience of sharing suffering has made the friendship between the two continue to sublimate.
Ma Dehua
When everyone asked why Ma Dehua was willing to give him the few dishes, he said that on the one hand, Yan Huaili's role requires a lot of physical strength and should eat more;
On the other hand, he admires Yan Huaili's love for art , who took the initiative to ask Ying to play multiple roles without pay. He believes that this kind of selfless dedication to art is not something everyone has.
Later, before Yan Huaili died, what he wanted to see most was his friend Ma Dehua.
Ma Dehua
Yan Huaili was ill due to "play"
If you want to play a good role, especially following the "Sand Monk" who went to the West to learn scriptures, what you need is not only the professional quality of the actors themselves, but also a high demand for physical strength.
On the screen, most of the scenes in which Yan Huaili appeared as a "sand monk" are heavy burdens, and important materials such as scriptures carried by Tang monk are preserved. If
is today, many shooting crews would choose to use the burden of not taking on anything because of the hard work of the stars, and even the stars themselves would ask to use stuntmen to do the hard work, but the shooting crew of "Journey to the West" at that time was completely Real props are used.
If his physical fitness is not up to standard, Yan Huaili cannot play the role.
Sha Seng
Originally, Yan Huaili's physical fitness would be one of the best in the crew. But later, Yan Huaili was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis , a very serious lung disease.
So why did Yan Huaili get this disease? It also has something to do with the play.
was filming "Qiao Luocheng" in Hebei, and many environments were in the woods or mountains, especially in the summer, mosquitoes and flies were naturally indispensable. To deal with these flying insects, dichlorvos became a sweet pastry in the crew.
This is a very common thing, although dichlorvos can also cause damage to the human body, but dichlorvos has a strong smell, and everyone will avoid it after smelling it, thereby reducing the damage to the body. But Yan Huaili is a special existence.
Yan Huaili
Before it was her turn to shoot, Yan Huaili liked to study the script in her room very much, so that she could not respond in time to the outside world. According to a colleague, it was probably at this time that Yan Huaili was damaged by dichlorvos.
At that time, Yan Huaili didn't feel any strange smell when he smelled dichlorvos, but his chest always felt so stuffy that he often had to go out of the room to breathe fresh air.
Later, he fainted during filming. After being sent to the hospital, the doctor found that fibrosis had occurred in his lungs, and the main culprit was dichlorvos.
Many people are very confused, the smell of dichlorvos is very strong, there is dichlorvos in the room, can't you smell it?
Yan Huaili (left)
In fact, although Yan Huaili is better than others in terms of physical strength, his olfactory organs are a little worse.
and at that time he was very hot and often took on different types of roles to polish himself. He was just polite in the crew this time and didn't stay for long.This caused him to not know that the people in the crew liked to use dichlorvos. The matter of
was quickly discussed by everyone.
Some people think that Yan Huaili is a very dedicated spirit and worth learning from. Some people think that Yan Huaili's crew should take full responsibility.
Yan Huaili
After her body was healed, Yan Huaili stood in front of the media and spoke out, saying that although her body was injured, she still loves performing arts and will devote herself to art.
At the same time, let your fans not blame the filming crew and take all the responsibilities.
In a later interview, a reporter asked Yan Huaili why he didn't get paid in "Journey to the West" and didn't hold the crew responsible in "Qiao Luocheng".
Yan Huaili replied that he didn't want to hurt everyone's confidence in art because he was hurt. He really loves art. It doesn't matter if it's a small loss in terms of money or health, it's fine if you like it.
Yan Huaili
Sha monk's funeral, teacher and apprentice reunion
After falling ill, Yan Huaili could only sit in a wheelchair and rely on his wife to take care of him.
After they got married, they had a child. In the early years, in order to make her husband feel at ease in filming, his wife basically took the initiative to take over all the housework at home, which made Yan Huaili hardly need to worry about family affairs. When
learned that Yan Huaili's wife was still there before her death, many unreasonable netizens once doubted whether his wife was taking care of Yan Huaili's hard-earned savings.
In fact, in those days, the salary of most actors was based on the salary system. In many cases, whether they could get it depends on the crew. It is not as easy to offer tens of millions of remunerations as it is today.
What's more, in the early years of filming, Yan Huaili often paid out of his own pocket to subsidize the crew, not to mention making money, it is not bad to not lose money. But his wife won't complain about it.
Yan Huaili et al.
In 2009, Yan Huaili's illness worsened, and his wife quickly informed Yan Huaili's friends.
Although Yan Huaili cured the disease ten years ago, the fibrosis of the lungs cannot be cured, and he has serious sequelae.
In this case, Yan Huaili still devotes himself to artistic performance unremittingly. After an overwork, he finally fell. pulmonary fibrosis caused other organs of the body to be damaged to varying degrees, and his body could not last long. Before
passed away, he missed the filming of his first work "Journey to the West" very much, and once proposed to meet his old friends. However, this wish is doomed to be unfulfilled.
Yan Huaili et al.
In April 2009, Yan Huaili finally died of lung infection at the age of 73.
Four days later, Yan Huaili's funeral was held in Babaoshan, which lasted two hours. For this funeral, the four masters and apprentices all came together, and this was the first reunion after many years.
In fact, when we learned that Yan Huaili's physical fitness was getting worse, everyone wanted to make an appointment to visit, but Yan Huaili's wife refused this kind offer.
On the one hand, she knows that everyone is busy, and it is not easy to get them together, and someone must delay her career; on the other hand, she also knows that Yan Huaili is a very strong person, since Yan Huaili is the most physically active person when filming. A strong person, he must not want to let himself appear in front of everyone in such a weak posture.
Yan Huaili's memorial service
Although they were not able to reunite before their death, their mentoring and apprenticeship is not fake, and their caring for each other is beyond words. Regarding the funeral, the wife wanted to keep everything simple.
But at the suggestion of Yan Huaili's many friends, the funeral was held.
When the theme song of "Journey to the West" sounded, everyone seemed to have the image of Yan Huaili's "Sand Monk".
Although it has been decades since "Journey to the West" was broadcast, everyone still has a deep impression on this actor.
At Yan Huaili's funeral, the four teachers and apprentices reunited.Gathered together, and sent a wreath in person to see off the "junior brother" who passed away early.
Yan Huaili's memorial service
Chi Chongrui who played "Master" was very sad, his eyes were full of tears, he resisted letting them fall, and he was almost speechless in front of many media cameras.
He not only has sympathy and pity for Yan Huaili, but also admires him. He admires Yan Huaili's love of art very much.
According to Chi Chongrui's introduction, he once played the role of "Sand Monk" instead of Yan Huaili. Because Yan Huaili had to fly from Guangxi to Beijing to treat eye diseases for a while, but the filming had to continue, Chi Chongrui tried the role of "Monk Sand".
He said that after having this experience of "Monk Sha", he realized how difficult it is for Yan Huaili, who carries the burden everyday.
Yan Huaili's memorial service
not only the master Chi Chongrui and Yan Huaili have a deep relationship with their apprentices, but also the relationship between the masters " Monkey King " Liu Xiaolingtong and "white dragon horse" Wang Bozhao and the third junior brother very deep.
Wang Bozhao came to bid farewell with the elegiac couplet written by himself.
Coincidentally, the day of Yan Huaili's death happened to be the Gregorian birthday of the senior brother. In order to commemorate the third junior brother, the senior brother decided that he would never have a solar birthday from now on, and asked his children to only remember their own lunar birthday.
At Yan Huaili's funeral, he took the stage to speak with grief: "Monk Sha went to the Western Heaven himself, I hope he can obtain the scriptures and become an Arhat."
In addition, more than four teachers and students came to the funeral. Yu Zhenhuan , the "hairy boy" who participated in the new version of "Journey to the West", also came to send Mrs. Yan's last journey and gave flowers by himself; Zhu Lin who played the "King of the Daughter Kingdom", the famous actor Yang Lixin and others Friends and fans came to attend Yan Huaili's funeral.
Yan Huaili's memorial service
Everyone was emotionally sad, and the funeral scene was solemn.
Yan Huaili not only played the role of "Sand Monk" vividly, but also played the other roles exactly, giving the audience a very vivid impression.
Up to this day, although Yan Huaili has been gone for 13 years, every time he talks about the TV series "Journey to the West", everyone will think of that flexible and vivid character.
Yan Huaili will always live in our hearts.
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