If you want "Journey to the West" not to repeat the mistakes of the past, you must operate on it and make certain deletions. It's a cut, not a revision! Bi Xia thought about it repeatedly in his brain, and found that he had no way to modify it at all, and could only delete it to a certain extent.

The script of "Journey to the West" seems a little loose to a certain extent. At the beginning, the main creators did not have a specific script when filming "Journey to the West", and another thought, all the stories were created and filmed during the filming, and this wonderful story was the product of the collision of inspiration between the two geniuses of Stephen Chow and Liu Weiqiang.

There is genius in this world, and the definition of genius is 1% inspiration and 99% effort. It is this 1% of inspiration that distinguishes geniuses from ordinary people. Maybe the two creators of "Journey to the West" did not deliberately design the meanings that were later interpreted by Dahua fans when they created them, they were just a spiritual light at the time, and then subconsciously thought that this story should be written like this, and this story should be filmed like this.

This subconscious manifestation is the superhuman thinking in the subconscious, which is the embodiment of their genius.

It is precisely because they did not have a specific script at that time that the plot is not so compact, giving Bi Xia a little space to cut. The three-hour film, with at least 30 minutes of content, was a big project, and it was definitely the most challenging job for Bixia in years.

He began to write, dividing the story of "Journey to the West" into small paragraphs and writing them down one by one.

For a week, a whole week, Bixia was in his studio. In the past week, Bi Xia stopped the continuation of "Buddha is the Way", only relied on the release of the manuscript, stopped the continuation of "Tianlong Babu", and devoted himself to the deletion of "Journey to the West".

This work made him extremely painful, all kinds of entanglements, all kinds of worries, and in the process, he came to his face. for fear of desecrating this classic of the century. Now that the first draft is finally complete, the length of the film will be about 140 minutes, which is the normal length of these blockbusters.

The excitement of "Journey to the West" is divided into two parts, one part is the foreshadowing of "Moonlight Treasure Box", and the other part is the narrative of "The Great Sage Marrying", these two parts are indispensable, without such a long foreshadowing of "Moonlight Treasure Box", there is no shock given by the later "The Great Sage Marrying".

Bi Xia's deletion revolves around this central idea, not only to ensure the integrity of the foreshadowing, but also to ensure his coherence. Make the whole movie more compact, and the content of various jokes is continuous, ensuring that within one hundred and forty minutes, the audience will meet the climax of waves of waves.

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"Director Zhang, this is my script." Ten days have passed since the last conversation with Zhang Hailei, and after the first draft of the first deletion was completed, Bi Xia spent another two days correcting and perfecting it to ensure that he achieved the perfection he had in mind.

After the completion of "Journey to the West", Bi Xia believes that it will surpass the original, because Bi Xia is on the shoulders of giants. He used the original plot as a template. Removing some dull plots makes the whole movie more distinctive, and in addition, Bixia has made great changes to the scenes of the movie.

You must know that the original drama of Lu Dao only invested a total of 40 million. And Zhang Hailei's film investment is obviously not just that, so in terms of special effects and scenes, Bi Xia strives to be perfect. If it is filmed according to the vision in his heart, this "Journey to the West" is definitely a super production with deep thoughts and magnificent scenes. Of course, it is also a gold-swallowing beast, at least Bi Xia's Tianen Studio does not currently have the financial strength to shoot it.

"I'll see, I'll take a look......" Zhang Hailei looked very expectant and eager. His performance at this point was somewhat contradictory. On the one hand, Bi Xia's achievements in the theme of gods and monsters determine that he is the authority, and on the other hand, making a script in ten days seems a little impetuous.

With such a mentality, after he took the script, he plunged headlong into the story and forgot to even greet Bi Xia.

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Tang Seng: What are you doing?

Goku: Let it go!

Tang Seng: What do you want? Wukong, if you want to, you can speak, if you don't say how I know what you want, although you look at me very sincerely, but you still have to tell me what you want. Do you really want it? Then you can take it! You don't really want to, do you? Do you really want to? ……

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Tang Seng: Wukong, how can you talk to Sister Guanyin like this?

Wukong: Wow! Don't be noisy!

Tang Seng: You're scaring me again!

Tang Seng: Hey, hey, hey! Don't be angry, you will be angry! Wukong, you're too naughty, I told you not to throw things, why are you... You see I'm not done yet, and you're throwing the stick away! The Moonlight Treasure Box is a treasure, and it's not right that you throw it away will pollute the flowers and plants!

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Voiceover: At that time, the sword was only 0.01 centimeters from my throat, but after a quarter of the incense, the mistress of the sword would fall in love with me completely, because I decided to tell a lie. Although I have told countless lies in my life, this one I think is the most perfect......

Zixia: I'll kill you half a step further!

Supreme Treasure: You should do this, and I should die. There was once a sincere love in front of me, I didn't cherish it, and I regretted it when I lost it, and there is nothing more painful in the world than this. Cut my throat with your sword! Look no further! If God could give me a chance to do it all over again, I would say three words to that girl: I love you. If I had to put a deadline on this love, I would like it to be...... 10,000 years!

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The original contradictory mood was gradually left behind as the script deepened, and there was no trace of the back. watched the dialogue between Sun Wukong and Tang Seng, watched the plot of Bajie and Chun Thirty Niang, the story between Supreme Treasure and Jingjing, and the love between Zixia...... Zhang Hailei laughed loudly for a while, snickered for a while, frowned for a while, and nervous for a while.

When he saw Zixia lying in Sun Wukong's arms and said: "My crush is a hero of the world, one day he will step on the seven-colored clouds to marry me, I guessed the front, but I can't guess the ending ......", Zhang Hailei saw tears in his eyes.

He closed the script, his mind was blank, he wanted to think of anything but couldn't remember anything at all, and flashed the pictures on the script from time to time, and then paused in the sentence "Look at that person, it's so strange, like a dog", this story makes people happy and sad at a glance, but he keenly feels that this story is not so simple, as if it hides a deeper meaning.

It is better to act than to act, he ignored Bi Xia, who had been hanging for several hours, and flipped through the script again, this time he read it more carefully.

"Lao Zhang, Xiao Xia, it's time to eat." With a few knocks on the door, Zhang Hailei's wife, who is also a famous domestic actor Honglu, opened the door and said to them: "Lao Zhang, you too, Xiaoxia is a guest, how can you let people stay in the study with you all afternoon." ”

Honglu's arrival pulled Zhang Hailei back from the world of scripts, and then he realized his recklessness, so he quickly got up and took Bi Xia's hand and said: "You can't leave today, stay and have a meal, I still have a lot of questions to ask you." ”

The second time he read the script, he had some in-depth interpretation of the story of "Journey to the West", which made him even more surprised to feel that what Bi Xia wanted to express in this story was too profound, it didn't look like the work of a young man in his twenties.

At the dinner table, Zhang Hailei and Bi Xia sat next to each other, and he asked curiously: "Bi Xia, how could you think of writing such a story, this story is too subversive to Journey to the West, and you can't even see the shadow of Journey to the West at all?" ”

Zhang Hailei's expression and words made Honglu listen curiously. Honglu can be said to be the earliest generation of idol stars in the mainland. At that time, the ideology had just loosened a little, and the packaging of actors had just emerged, and Honglu was the earliest group of beneficiaries. She participated in many of Zhang Hailei's film shoots in the early days, and it can be said that she is Zhang Hailei's queen heroine. In the process of that cooperation, both of them were beneficiaries, Zhang Hailei won many awards internationally, and she also became the first internationally influential actress in the mainland.

In this cooperation, the two finally fell in love and tied the knot. After getting married, Honglu resolutely retired and took care of Zhang Hailei's life, during that time it was the days when Zhang Hailei was running around in Baodao, Xiangjiang, and the United States, and the husband and wife never gave up, becoming the most enviable couple in the circle. Now that they are a husband and wife, Honglu will occasionally take on some films without affecting the family, and she is a veritable actress.

As the wife of an actress and a world-class director, Honglu's appreciation of art is definitely above most people in the circle, and when she saw her husband's impatient look, she was very curious about what kind of script Bi Xia wrote when she fell to the ground.

"Sometimes when I watch "Journey to the West", I will find that there are many unreasonable places in it, for what can make trouble in the heavenly palace, Sun Wukong will repeatedly eat deflated on these little demons on the way to learn the scriptures, is this too much contrast between before and after? So I began to imagine that I set up in "Buddha is the Way" that learning scriptures from the West is just a calculation of Buddhism to spread its influence in the world, and Sun Wukong is just a monkey who is calculated if he is still a stone. Under this premise, I thought, what is the heart of such a monkey? Thinking about it, there is this story. With that, Bi Xia smiled embarrassedly.

This smile was because he plagiarized Xingye's story and felt empty, but in the eyes of Zhang Hailei and his wife, this was a rare deficit performance, and he couldn't help but smile on his face.

"Think well, with such imagination, you have so many wonderful works." Zhang Hailei couldn't help but high-five, "Some of your ideas for Journey to the West, let's talk about ......"

Honglu looked at the two men who didn't even eat when they talked about movies, and shook their heads helplessly, but it is precisely with such enthusiasm and concentration that they can achieve remarkable results in this field. (To be continued......)