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On November 13th, after the Journey to the West crew attended the movie launch conference in Kyoto, they rushed to Chang'an en masse.

There, after they met with the people of Chang'an Film Studio, they rushed to Xixia Yingchuan City with a large amount of shooting equipment.

More than 80% of the location shooting of Journey to the West will be completed here.

After killing pigs, sacrificing wine, and worshipping God, the crew officially started filming on November 18.

At the same time, countless domestic media sent reporters to Xixia Yingchuan to conduct follow-up visits.

For Peng Yichen, a person who has repeatedly created miracles, or for his adaptation of Journey to the West to shoot a marriage proposal movie, it really attracts the attention of Chinese audiences.

Moreover, "Journey to the West" claims to invest 300 million yuan for filming, and it will cost 100 million just to make special effects shots.

This is absolutely unprecedented in the history of Chinese films.

Peng Yichen's first time in charge of such a big-budget movie, and it was his marriage proposal, so many gimmicks gathered in one movie, these reporters can't go crazy if they don't want to.

So, in the week when "Journey to the West" just started filming, the reporters blocked the entrances and exits of the set.

In order to prevent them from taking photos of the inside of the crew, the crew also spent a lot of manpower watching this group of reporters.

This has seriously affected the filming progress of the crew, forcing Peng Yichen to personally come forward to solve these reporters for the first time.

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When Peng Yichen took the initiative to walk out of the set for the first time and came to the reporters, these reporters were extremely excited.

You must know that since Peng Yichen became famous, there are only a handful of records of him being interviewed by reporters.

Except for getting a reply or two from Peng Yichen every time he was besieged at the airport and the Yanhuang Film Festival, the reporters had no way to interview the hottest "star" in the Chinese film industry.

The media aimed long guns and short guns at Peng Yichen.

"Thank you very much for your attention to the movie "Journey to the West", but everyone's current practice of besieging the set has had a negative impact on the filming of the movie. I can now answer your 5 questions about Journey to the West. When I'm done answering the questions, please cooperate with us and stop huddling outside the set, okay?"

Peng Yichen said with a smile to all the reporters present.

The reporters were very happy to hear that Peng Yichen was willing to answer his questions, and soon agreed to cooperate, and left the crew after asking questions.

After all, they can't be stuck here all the time for a "Journey to the West"!

"Director Peng, may I ask if Journey to the West is really based on Journey to the West, is it really a love movie?" Soon the first reporter selected by Peng Yichen began to ask questions.

On the day of the listing of Huimin Film and Television, Peng Yichen also answered similar questions. But time was limited, and his answer was very simple.

Therefore, now reporters are most concerned about how Peng Yichen can adapt "Journey to the West" into a love movie.

Peng Yichen was not taboo, and replied directly: "Well, it is adapted from Mr. Wu Chengen's "Journey to the West". But this is also a romance movie, a magic movie, and a comedy movie. In my mind, this movie will be a different type of movie in the eyes of different people. So, I can't simply give this movie a genre. I can only tell you now that love is indeed the main line of this movie, because I put my love for Jing and my perception of love into this movie. ”

The reporter listened to Peng Yichen's explanation, and his brain was a mess of porridge, a moment of love, a moment of comedy, a moment of magic, how much content does this movie cover.

Could it be that Peng Yichen was carried away by success and began to talk nonsense?

The second reporter who was selected immediately asked the next question.

"When will you and Teacher Yu Jing get married?"

It was a female reporter who asked the question, and when she said it, she still had a hint of longing and excitement on her face.

Peng Yichen's practice of proposing marriage with love hit the longing of countless women in China for love and marriage, and this female reporter is also one of the women who was hit by Peng Yichen's romance.

Hearing this question, the smile on Peng Yichen's face also became gentle, and he answered such a very private question for the first time in front of reporters.

"After the release of the movie "Journey to the West", we should be married. ”

The next two questions are about the amazing rise in the stock price of Huimin Film and Television after its listing and the box office prediction of "Journey to the West".

Peng Yichen was all perfunctory.

Knowing that the reporter who asked the last question asked a question that he liked very much, he answered the reporters' questions seriously again.

"May I ask Director Peng, what is your evaluation of the movie "Journey to the West" in your mind? Or what do you think is the core of this movie?"

Peng Yichen thought for a long time before he said his answer.

"In my heart, "Journey to the West" is a comedy that can make you laugh and cry. It's just that when you're done laughing, you'll find yourself in tears.

Even the tears you leave behind are bitter.

Although judging from the name of the movie, it is in Journey to the West, but it is actually in the life of everyone.

Laughing and crying, crying and laughing. Life is impermanent, joys and sorrows.

If there is a core of "Journey to the West", then this core is: from fighting fate to accepting fate, from losing love to finding love, from doing what you want to taking responsibility.

This is the "Journey to the West" in my heart!!"

After answering this question, Peng Yichen turned around and walked back to the set, although the reporters were still unsatisfied, but under the guidance of the staff, they gradually dispersed.

The filming of "Journey to the West" has re-entered the formality.

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In the suburbs of the Xixia Yingchuan River in the northwest, the scorching sun is in the sky, the land is arid, and the desertification is very serious. Even though it's mid-November, the daytime temperature isn't too low.

"Journey to the West" will be filmed in this desert.

And half of the crew of this Journey to the West are the old team of Chen Jing Film Company, and among these people, there are people who changed jobs from Chang'an Film Studio, and there are also people who defected to Peng Yichen when he was filming in Xiangjiang.

Most of the remaining half of the people are employees of Chang'an Film Studio.

A small part is the people sent into the crew by Huimin Film and Television, and these people are mainly responsible for producers, planners and other positions in the crew.

And because, Journey to the West is essentially a fantasy movie, which requires a lot of special effects shooting and special effects synthesis.

Therefore, there are more than a dozen special effects artists from digital technology centers in the crew to shoot with the crew.

Even in the crew's team of cameramen, in addition to the "wingless bird" Zhao Liansheng is still the first cameraman, a professional special effects cameraman in a digital technology training center is also used.

The entire crew plus actors is nearly 500 people.

To command and mobilize such a large crew, for Peng Yichen, this is undoubtedly the first major challenge encountered in the filming of "Journey to the West".

Fortunately, Peng Yichen holds several positions as the actor, director, screenwriter, and producer, and he is basically a one-man existence in the crew, so no one dares to challenge his authority.

In addition, he has already filmed three movies and one TV series as a director before.

When filming "Red", the scale of the crew was not small, and Peng Yichen used this TV series to practice himself, which was to accumulate experience in shooting blockbusters.

Now these experiences have all played a role, allowing Peng Yichen to deploy the work of various departments of the crew and preside over the on-site shooting with ease.

This allowed him to easily overcome the first major challenge during the filming of "Journey to the West".

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