Yin Jun's doubts didn't last long.

Because he quickly called Wei Xiaofan's house and asked about Wen Bixia, who was present at the time.

Wen Bixia is only 15 years old this year, but if anyone ignores her because of her age, she will definitely suffer a big loss.

This girl's cleverness is better than that of many adults.

For a simple comparison, He Qin, a girl who came to the Lin'an Kun Opera Troupe from her hometown alone to learn and perform, is not as good as her.

Wen Bixia is really a girl who got up from the bottom of society, she started acting under the help of Yin Jun before the age of 12, and she has a very good grasp of people's hearts, and it is not wrong to say that she is a little adult.

Hearing Yin Jun's inquiry, Wen Bixia smiled, "It's very simple, they came to them to act, and brought me in, this must be a request for someone! What do we have to worry about her? And the only thing the three of us have in common is that we all know Brother Jun! I heard that Liu Xiaolingtong, who plays monkey play, contacted Director Yang, you can probably find out." ”

After a pause, Wen Bixia said, "I think it, they must think that Brother Jun, you have money, sponsored "Shaolin Temple", and sponsored "The Burning of the Old Summer Palace", so you want to attract some investment sponsorship, ......right? Brother Jun, you have to be careful, if you are targeted, you will be looking for money all day long!"

"I know. ”

Yin Jun's heart was warm, and after chatting with Wen Bixia about her situation in Huajing for a while, he asked Wen Bixia to call Wei Xiaofan over.

The young man first told Yang Jie about today, and then said, "Brother Wei, do you think we should give them some sponsorship?"

Coincidentally, Wei Xiaofan actually knew about it.

"When I was a child, I liked to watch the shadow puppet show of "Journey to the West" the most, and now they are going to make a TV series, of course we can support it. Wei Xiaofan said, "What's more, Director Yang Jie is a very courageous person." She has already found more than a dozen big names in the opera industry, ready to let them play important roles in it. can find so many good actors at the same time, she must want to do a big job, not a small fight. ”

Wei Xiaofan himself was born in the Peking Opera circle, and after returning to the mainland, he had a lot of connections with his former classmates, brothers, and sisters, and even with the circle of opera, he was also very close.

Only then did he know a lot about Yang Jie's actions.

In Yang Jie's "Journey to the West", Yin Jun likes to use people in the opera industry, which Yin Jun knows.

For example, Tang Seng's mother is a pillar of Huangmei Opera in China, and she has won the highest awards in stage plays and TV dramas; the actor of Bai Gujing is also one of the best drama masters in Shanghai; Guanyin Bodhisattva is played by a famous Hunan opera performance artist; the jade-faced fox is also from opera and is a member of the Jiangnan Kunqu Opera Troupe; Miss Gao, the daughter-in-law of the second senior brother, is also a student who graduated from the Jindong Opera School; the princess of Halloween, who abandoned the little white dragon, is also an opera actor; and the scorpion essence is a family history, and her father is a famous old student……

Let's talk about actors.

Among the three Tang monks, Xu Shaohua is a famous drama actor, Chi Congrui is also from Peking Opera, and lives upstairs in Yang Jie's house; Brother Monkey is needless to say, Kunqu Opera and Monkey Opera actor; the second senior brother Ma Dehua is an actor in the Northern Kunqu Opera Company; the third junior brother is one of the earliest students of Renyi, and he also has very profound achievements in drama and drama...... All of the above are future national first-class actors!

It's no wonder that Yang Jie chose to do so, except for Yang Jie, who has been in charge of opera since the 60s, a TV program director who has a deep understanding of opera talents and a preference, in this era, in addition to the opera industry, there can also be a steady stream of talents, and any film school has basically been delayed by the previous decades.

From now on, after 20 years, the selection of actors will gradually transition to the students trained by the film school.

But in Yin Jun's opinion, in fact, these actors from the opera industry are far more reliable than students who have only studied in film schools for a few years.

If it weren't for the good-looking faces, those stars in the future would not be qualified enough compared to the actors in the opera industry.

In terms of acting, it is simply eight streets behind.

This is also an important reason why "Journey to the West" can be filmed so well!

Hearing Wei Xiaofan's approval, Yin Jun was also relieved.

Wei Xiaofan regards Yin Jun as his younger brother, and he is very careful about the expenses of the Kirin Group in the mainland on weekdays, and will not tolerate waste.

There are many units and individuals who once wanted to come to the Kirin Group to play the autumn breeze and wanted to sponsor and invest, but Wei Xiaofan didn't pay attention to them.

Last time Yin Jun went to get half of the overseas copyright of "Shaolin Temple", Wei Xiaofan persuaded Yin Jun that it was completely unnecessary to spend so much money to make movies in the mainland.

Now Yin Jun wants to sponsor "Journey to the West", but he can't tell Wei Xiaofan the real reason, he is really worried that Wei Xiaofan will dissuade him, so many things will be difficult to operate.

Fortunately, Wei Xiaofan knows the crew of "Journey to the West" very clearly, and then he also has his own thoughts: "Jun, I think you can invest money and sponsor this time, mainly because "Journey to the West" is one of the four famous novels, and its influence is very far-reaching. If you can make a contribution in this, your development in China will be much smoother in the future. ”

Yin Jun took the opportunity to pick it up: "Well, then, Brother Wei, how much do you think it is appropriate for me to sponsor?"

"How much to sponsor, let's talk about it when I talk to Director Yang Jie, their appetite is generally not big. Wei Xiaofan groaned, "However, this time you may have to suffer a loss, the copyright of "Journey to the West" is dominated by Huaxia TV, so it is impossible for them to give it out." Although it is possible to get some copyright for the overseas version, I don't think we should be better. ”

"Why?"

"Because it gives them the impression that they are calculating. Wei Xiaofan explained, "The help in return is not so impressive, especially when facing a behemoth like CCTV." ”

Yin Jun smiled on the other side of the phone.

Not to mention, Wei Xiaofan is really a smart person who can see through too much fog.

If Chen Xiaoer could have such an awareness more than ten years later, he would not have been forced to stay in the drama industry for more than ten years.

"But it's not like we can't do anything. Wei Xiaofan saw that Yin Jun didn't speak, thinking that he was a little unhappy with the strength of Huaxia TV, "The entire crew is in charge of Director Yang Jie, we have any suitable actors, we can stuff them into it, as long as they can play a good role, it will definitely be a household name in the mainland!"

Yin Jun's heart moved at this time, "It's okay to come from Xiangjiang?"

If you can, Chang'e will be handed over to Goddess Zhao to play, but it is very appropriate!

There is also the little white dragon, Liang Chaowei's face, isn't it the endorsement of the best person like a dragon?

"No, no, no. Wei Xiaofan coughed lightly, "For example, Ayu, it's okay for her to play a small supporting role, but if a Xiangjiang actor is used to play an important role, such as one of Tang monks' apprentices, it will be said by those stubborn old men, and maybe it will have to be revised...... I'm talking about you stuffing He Qin and Tao Huimin into it. And Liu Xiaoqing, aren't you very optimistic about her?

When did I take a fancy to Aunt Xiaoqing?

Yin Jun was suddenly a little speechless.

But he thought about it instead, he really praised Liu Xiaoqing in front of Wei Xiaofan as a good actor, and then this time he also took care of her in the advertisement, in front of others, isn't this optimistic about Liu Xiaoqing?

But the young man remembered Aunt Xiaoqing's ups and downs in her life, and he still didn't say it after all.

"Ahem, okay then, Brother Wei, you can arrange it. Let them do it! Money can be given a little more, and it will not be easy for them. Yin Jun could only respond like this.

How bitter the crew of "Journey to the West" is, it is not at all something that people in later generations can imagine.

Everyone only saw Brother Monkey flying around in a chic manner to fight monsters, watching the second senior brother's clumsy funny play, and watching the master being caught by monsters again...... But no one has ever thought about how such an excellent TV series was filmed.

As mentioned earlier, "Journey to the West" only has one camera, and it is old-fashioned, so when shooting, what fragments are filmed, divided into several groups to shoot, there is no door!

This is one of the main reasons why "Journey to the West" was filmed for 6 years.

Another reason is that Yang Jie and they are too serious, they have traveled through mountains and rivers for 6 years, almost half of China has been completed, and finally they went to Thailand to shoot, which was absolutely rare back then.

Therefore, there is a reason why Huaxia TV wants to investigate whether Yang Jie is extravagant and wasteful.

Also, there is no way to avoid those special effects when filming "Journey to the West", the smoke is easy to solve, and the faces of the monsters are easy to make, but the scenes of flying around are real and cannot be perfunctory.

It was all said by a staff member in eastern Guangdong, Xiangjiang has this way of "hanging Weiya", so that the actors can fly up without revealing traces, so the crew sent people to Xiangjiang to study for a while, and then tightened their belts and bought a set of second-hand Weiya equipment in Xiangjiang.

Unexpectedly, in order to save money, not only was the quality of the second-hand Wia not good, but the wire rope of Wia was too thin, and it had failed many times, and the actor fell directly.

What is it like to fall from the sky, I don't think any normal person wants to try it.

Therefore, every time the four masters and apprentices came down from Weiya, they had to congratulate themselves on spending such a day safely.

Not to mention the difficulties during these filming, even the living conditions on weekdays, the crew is very poor.

Although it is not as good as the crew of "Dream of Red Mansions", Brother Bao and Sister Lin secretly went to dig the farmers' cabbage late at night, and came back to eat so sadly, but even the four masters and apprentices have a salary of dozens of yuan a month, and they need to be more actors, and they have to help do more work to earn a little more.

In fact, in that era, there was no difference in the treatment of the main actors and ordinary actors, everyone was the same, and even the farmers who came to help temporarily took more than the actors.

After getting the funds of the 11th Bureau of China Railway for the second time, he encountered a big price increase, and he could only save by slamming the door.

went to Guangdong to film, the noodles have risen to 2.5 yuan a bowl, and the actors must not be able to eat enough for a bowl, that is, Yang Jie and her husband took out their salaries together in order to subsidize the main actors to eat a full meal, and it can only be a meal at noon, otherwise no amount of money will be enough to eat.

Such hardships and difficulties are what the new generation of stars who will have to "start at tens of millions of dollars, turn on air conditioning on the set, change stand-ins in the rain, and have a lot of assistant bodyguards" at every turn, and they can't even imagine it.

Being able to shoot 25 episodes of "Journey to the West" in such a difficult environment is definitely an amazing thing in Yin Jun's opinion.

It is only in this era that such an inspiring miracle can happen!