If the adaptation of Journey to the West ranks first, Water Margin is the second, all because of those untimely plots that can't be filmed, but because the conditions of Journey to the West are too difficult, one cameraman and one camera shoot for six years, and in the end it was almost cut in half because of funding.

And when it comes to Water Margin, it's different, with an investment of nearly 50 million - even if this money is not much compared to this drama, it is already generous enough, after all, the cost of each episode is also one million.

At that time, the biggest actor, Li Xuedao, was only 10,000 yuan per episode, but in this life, because of the delay of a few years, the investment and salary have increased a little, but compared with the original version, the increase is also limited.

Even so, more than 100 episodes of Water Margin were filmed in the end, but the whole team still put their hearts into the plot when dealing with the plot, unlike the original work, at least there was an explanation in the later stage.

Although this version of the Water Margin will also have a lot of criticism in the future, many of them are actually subjective judgments.

For example, Song Jiang, many people think that Li Xuedao is a wretched actor, but in fact, Song Jiang is just a small official, where can his vision and pattern go?

Not to mention that compared with the overlord of the Three Kingdoms, even compared with many people in the Water Margin, he seems to be very modest, and in his mind, he is just forced, and the best way out is Zhao'an.

Such a person, of course, can't perform heroic, let alone compare his past experience, but Li Xuedao acted appropriately, including walking, Li Xuedao's small steps were specially consulted, and it can also highlight the character of this kind of character - cautious.

Li Xuedao did not act according to Jin Shengsi's criticism: "Song Jiang, a hypocrite", although he has the power to scheming, he is bent on finding a way out for Brother Liangshan, he always believes that it is not a lifelong career to occupy the mountain, this is the essential difference between him and the Chao Gai Group, and it is also the irreconcilable contradiction between him and Tie Niu.

Sometimes the audience is like this, you act according to the actual situation, he says that you are nonsense, especially Zhang Jizhong's version of "Journey to the West", those demons and monsters are designed according to the original book, and in the end they are criticized for nothing, but after reading Journey to the West, you know that every monster has a poem, what it looks like, what it wears, what weapons it wears, and it is clearly depicted.

And the beautified 87 version of "Journey to the West" was later refuted by many people who thought they were superior to others after reading the original work, saying that what was changed, in fact, how did the original work be.

You know?

Some people also say that the war scenes of the Water Margin are not bloody, and those generals, resourcefulness, etc., are far worse than those of the Three Kingdoms - this is also a lie.

What level is the Three Kingdoms, that is the battle of the world, they are all the top masters in the country, and the dispatch of soldiers and horses is also tens of thousands, 100,000 records, and the Water Margin is at best a group of reckless men in the mountains and fields, and it must be too far behind.

Even if there are some who were originally officials, but the highest Hu Yanzhuo is only the capital of Runing County, in the Northern Song Dynasty, the province is equivalent to the province, and the county is equivalent to the city, that is to say, Hu Yanzhuo is at most equivalent to the number one of the future small military regions.

As for letting him command tens of thousands of soldiers and horses as commanders when he fought Liangshan, it was just a temporary promotion for emergency purposes. And Guan Sheng's inspection is a little lower than the control of the capital.

Therefore, it is strange that such a group of rabble can fight a big scene, at most it is a dispute between the county and the government, and they often can't beat the wrong door, and the tricks of the next three indiscriminate are not uncommon.

The only thing that is commendable about the Water Margin, that is, the flesh-and-blood characters in it, although they have their own evil, but on the opposite side, if there is a sound system and an environment for living and working in peace and contentment, how can they have the soil of evil?

Sun Erniang's bun shop has been fine for so many years, Wenzhizhai Liu Gao can convict Wuzhizhai Huarong with just his own words, and Lin Chong has embarked on a miserable road since he offended Gao Yu...... There is too much chaos and disorder that leads to this situation.

Because of this, later generations rated the Water Margin as one of the four famous novels, because of its attack on the darkness of the time - when the little people could only survive by killing, that is, when the above was the most corrupt.

In Ning Yuan's previous life, after watching the Water Margin, many viewers had an evaluation: If the Three Kingdoms can have a martial arts scene of the Water Margin, then it can be called the one who has no one to come.

Although personal martial arts in the Three Kingdoms is not the main thing, there is always a sense of diaphragm in it, such as the three people practicing martial arts after the Taoyuan Three Rebellions, dancing in the square with the old man, and Sun Ce's assassination, which was also said by the audience to dance with a child, but Sun Ce died like that, and it was too insulting to the name of the Tiger of Jiangdong.

Not only the Three Kingdoms, but also the martial arts drama of Journey to the West, at the beginning director Yang Jie couldn't afford it because of the cost, but it wasn't until Cao Rong came in later that the martial arts drama was much better.

Cao Rong, who was the second Prince Moang in 99 to collect the spirits of the Black Water River, that martial arts drama impressed many people, and later, he starred in Sun Wukong's Journey to the West, and the fight scenes were much better.

You must know that when Cao Rong was in 97, he won the best action director of the Treasure Island Golden Horse Award with Cheng Long and Hong Jinbao's "A Good Man".

In the circle, there are only a handful of people who can guide these two kung fu superstars.

Even Yuan Heping won this award three years later in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

However, the Yuan Heping brothers in this period were already experienced, and they joined the Water Margin to give the boring Water Margin some bloody elements.

For example, Wu Song drunkenly beat Jiang Menshen, Qin Ming beat Shi Wengong, and Hua Rong shot Zhu Biao, which made people's blood boil.

In addition, what complements martial arts is the BGM created by Zhao Jiping - the background music of "Wang Jin Fights Gao Yu".

Especially as soon as the suona sounded, the cream nest appeared immediately, and it never disappointed.

In addition, Zhao Jiping's "Song of a Hero" also adds a lot to this drama, coupled with Liu Huan's strength in singing, the momentum is overwhelming, making this drama more widely spread.

During this period, Zhao Jiping was definitely a first-class film and television golden song producer, not only the two theme songs of "Kangxi Weifu Private Interview", "Infinite Rivers and Mountains" and "The People's Things Lead Away", but also the theme song of the same name of "Mansion Gate", the theme song of "Dragon Babu", and Wang Fei's "Forgiveness", all of which were created by him.

In addition to them, there are also Zhang Jizhong's future partners, Yu Min and Zhao Jian.

In the future, they collaborated on most of Jin Yong's works, and at this time, because of their outstanding performance, in the later stage of the Water Margin, the increased literary and opera group was completely handed over to the assistant director Lu Tao, and the martial arts group was handed over to Yu Min and Zhao Jian.

First-class martial arts, first-class musicians, first-class behind-the-scenes and actor team, make this Water Margin full of energy.

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