Chapter 118: Journey to the West Again

Yi Qing has always admired Yang Jie, the director of "Journey to the West", Tang Xuanzang spent a total of 17 years filming in the West, and it took 7 years for director Yang Jie to shoot "Journey to the West".

From 1982 to 1988, it took 7 years to shoot 25 episodes, if it was placed in Yi Qing's previous life, who could believe it?

At that time, the filming period of a TV series was more than half a year, which was surprising enough, and 7 years and 25 episodes were completely unimaginable.

In fact, as early as 1982, the Journey to the West crew had already filmed "Demon Removal and Black Chicken Country", and it was piloted on the National Day of that year, which was a huge success once it was broadcast, and also gave the Journey to the West crew great confidence to shoot this drama well.

But even so, Director Yang Jie finally decided to reshoot this episode, just because he was dissatisfied with Sun Wukong's appearance.

After that, the first 11 episodes such as "Three Dozen White Bone Spirits" were filmed from 1982 to 1985, and they were officially broadcast during the Spring Festival in 1986, so the CCTV version of "Journey to the West" is called the 86 version.

From 1986 to 1988, he filmed 14 episodes of "The Great War Red Child", "Fighting the Three Monsters", "Fun Jing Daughter Country", etc., and all 25 episodes began to be broadcast on February 1, 1988.

It was an unprecedented success, and its social influence far exceeded that of all TV series broadcast at that time, and even the 87 version of "Dream of Red Mansions" could not hide its edge.

As a traverser, Yi Qing is difficult to understand that a director would be so persistent and spent seven years of his life for a play, you must know that when filming "Journey to the West", Director Yang Jie was just over fifty years old and was in the golden age of a director, and it was the time to make achievements, but she dedicated the most precious seven years of her life to a play.

No one knows how many difficulties Director Yang Jie has overcome and how much pressure she has withstood in the past seven years, in fact, she has faced many problems since she received the task of filming "Journey to the West".

First of all, there has never been a TV series with this kind of theme in China, although Japan and Baodao have filmed it before, but Tang Seng is either a woman, or crying and shouting to marry a monster, so there is no way to learn from the character modeling.

There is also a technical problem, when the pilot episode was first filmed in 1982, Director Yang Jie didn't know what the stunt was, and no matter how he filmed, he couldn't shoot the effect.

Later, after being instructed by someone, Director Yang Jie knew that there was such a thing as hanging Weiya, so he went to Xiangjiang to learn, so that every time the four masters and apprentices hung Weiya, they had to feel glad that they survived!

The soft power can't keep up, and the hardware conditions are not available, the entire crew has a camera, and often a scene has to be filmed many times in order to achieve multi-angle shots.

Even, the crew didn't even have a white horse, so they could only use a black horse to paint white instead. When the horse goes to the river, or it rains or something, it becomes a dark horse again.

Of course, these hardships can be overcome, but the most fundamental problem is money, like the crew of the Red Mansion, the funds for Journey to the West are also very tight, and they are not even as good as the Red Mansion, there is only a quota of 5 cents per meal, and in those places in the south where prices are already expensive, a bowl of dumplings is 2 yuan 5, only 6, and the actor can't eat at all, Director Yang Jie pays for the staff to eat, so she is accused of going to the mountains and rivers in the name of filming a TV series.

The actor even said that there was no starring role at all, unlike a third-tier actor who had seven or eight assistants behind him.

Even the four masters and apprentices are often called as on-the-spot workers, moving props, setting up machines, and everything has to be done, and when there are no actors, they immediately draw pictures and costumes, and one person with multiple roles is accustomed to the Journey to the West crew.

But it is the selfless dedication and dedication of director Yang Jie and the actors at any cost that led to the 86 version of "Journey to the West", which can be said to be the crystallization of the blood and tears of a generation of TV people.

In addition, in the special era, a few years after the reform and opening up, the material and spiritual life was very scarce, and the TV set was not popular.

Journey to the West is a CCTV mythological masterpiece for all ages, and there is basically nothing that people who came over in that era don't like, and it has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so it's hard not to become a classic.

It was a real honor for Yi Qing to be able to participate.

But such a classic, later there were trolls who said that the 86 version of "Journey to the West" was shoddy, I really don't know what they thought, under the technical conditions at the time, if they could make such a "Journey to the West" shoddyly, Yi Qing was willing to kneel on the ground and sing conquest.

In addition, some people say that they hope to retouch the 86 version of "Journey to the West" through modern scientific and technological means, so that it will become exquisite and truly become a classic.

Regarding this statement, Yi Qing's attitude is: the eggs!

Do you know what feelings are?

Director Yang Jie's later sequel to "Journey to the West" is very exquisite, when he heard that the sequel to "Journey to the West" was going to be broadcast in his previous life, Yi Qing was also very excited, he was in the army at the time, and sneaked into the army reading room at night to watch, but from the beginning, he felt that the painting style was wrong, and he decisively abandoned the drama, and he also carried a punishment for this matter.

At that time, the shooting conditions were indeed greatly improved, but the most important aesthetic standards were seriously degraded.

The 86 version of "Journey to the West" in the current scientific and technological conditions cannot be met, the crew can only stubbornly buckle the costumes, props, and actor makeup, each of which strives to achieve perfection, and when it comes to the sequel, the scientific and technological conditions are no problem, but the faces of Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie are like injections, full of hyaluronic acid, and the muscles are stiff when they look at it.

There are also demons, monsters, gods and bodhisattvas, and bells and whistles to kill Matt.

The action design is even worse to make people's stomachs ache, just like Hong Kong and Taiwan martial arts films, they fly up at every turn, and the lens rotates 360° concave shape.

Not to mention the dragging plot, the abuse of special effects, and the bad lines.

To put it simply, the high-end aesthetics, classical charm, and soundtrack that are carefully carved in the old version are all missing in the sequel.

For example, the old version of the theme song is sung: Dare to ask where the road is, the road is under your feet~~~~

High-end atmosphere and grade.

What about the sequel?

I just captured a few demons, and then lowered a few demon ~~~~~

Yi Qing listened, and wanted to "hehe" twice, and then coaxed!

The Journey to the West crew lives in a guest house in Wuxi, and the conditions are worse than those of the Red Mansion crew in Hangzhou, it was dark when Yi Qing arrived, and the crew just came back from filming.

Yi Qing saw Director Yang Jie and hurriedly walked over: "Director Yang, I'm here!"

Director Yang Jie was thinking about things, and a person suddenly popped out in front of her, and the old lady was startled, and when she saw that it was Yi Qing, she immediately smiled: "Didn't you say that you have to go to the crew of the Red Mansion to shoot a few scenes first? Why did you come over so quickly?"

"There's only one scene left over there, I'll come over after filming!"

"Okay, you take a rest first, and I'll have someone arrange a dormitory for you later, and when you're settled, come to my house, which is on the third floor." ”

Yi Qing responded, and walked into the guest house with the large army, there were still some acquaintances when he was in the group before, and he felt quite cordial when he met again.

Wait a minute!

When Yi Qing and Xu Shaohua greeted each other, they suddenly remembered one thing, hasn't Tang Seng in the episode "Sweeping the Tower and Identifying Strange Injustices" been replaced by Zhong Rui, the richest woman?

The interludes in it seem to be all sung by him!

Why is it still Xu Shaohua?

Yi Qing felt that his influence on the little butterfly should not be so great, right?

Jin Lili postponed the entrance examination, but it was the result of his repeated work, what happened to Xu Shaohua?

Could it be that he was also inspired, gave up his studies, and prepared to devote himself to the filming of "Journey to the West".

With a question mark, Yi Qing entered the dormitory arranged for him, and there were also Brother Monkey, Zhu Ba, and Sha Laosan in the same dormitory.

"Brother Zhang, which episode are you filming now?"

If Yi Qing remembers correctly, Xu Shaohua filmed a total of eight episodes, and after filming his daughter's country, he went to school, and then changed to Chi Zhongrui.

But the last time he joined the group, Xu Shaohua had just arrived, and it had only been a few months, and he had filmed eight episodes?

No, I can't!

If there is really this speed, "Journey to the West" can still be filmed for seven years?

Brother Monkey is lying on the bed, if acting in the Red Chamber is mental work, Journey to the West is real physical labor, every day when he comes back, the actors are so tired that they don't even want to eat.

"Now, it's "Three Difficulties", what's wrong?"

Yi Qing was stunned: "What are you calling me over for filming this episode?"

I can only ask Director Yang Jie about this.

Yi Qing put down his luggage, went out and went up to the third floor, went to Director Yang Jie's room, knocked on the door and entered.

"Director Yang!"

Yang Jie beckoned: "Xiao Yi, come and sit!"

Yi Qing sat down and couldn't help asking: "Director Yang, shouldn't the rest of the scenes of Little White Dragon be filmed until "Sweeping the Tower and Identifying Strange Injustices~~~~~"?

Yang Jie smiled: "I knew you would definitely ask, originally, I didn't plan to let you come over this time, but when we were filming, we happened to meet a very good location here in Wuxi, so I thought about filming your scene first!"

What Yang Jie said is half true and half false, and it is indeed true that she met a suitable location, but more importantly, Yang Jie is worried that when she shoots "Sweeping the Tower and Identifying Strange Injustices", Yi Qing will not be able to spare time.

She called Li Chengru before, originally thinking of inviting Li Chengru back, but without this all-rounder, she didn't feel comfortable doing anything.

As a result, Li Chengru was unwilling, saying that he was doing a big deal, and then when the two were chatting, they talked about Yi Qing, saying that Yi Qing is now a cow, and he has just been a producer in a drama in Beijing and Taiwan as soon as he is nineteen.

When Yang Jie heard this, this is worth it, Yi Qing is now in the position of producer, and the work will definitely become busier and busier in the future, in case it is time to shoot "Sweeping the Tower and Identifying Strange Injustices", Yi Qing has no time, will he change the actors?

So, I followed Li Chengru and asked him to inform Yi Qing to come over and shoot the rest of the little white dragon's scenes, so that he would have no worries after filming.