Chapter 136: Against all odds

The reason why Ah Xing chose "Journey to the West" to fight against Qingyun. (Vertex hand-hitting) is because it is a very classic and wonderful feature. In the world of her previous life, this one has been remade several times, and the ratings have always been good, not to mention others, she has watched it countless times herself. And the audience is very wide, men, women and children like it very much! The most important thing is that its author also lives in a feudal society, and the stories written are naturally easy to be accepted by the people of this world.

When A-Xing made this suggestion, it was with great enthusiasm. But when I really wanted to put it into action and adapt it into a play, I found that there were great difficulties in it, and it was not easy at all.

First of all, the modeling design of the characters. "Journey to the West" has many mountain spirits and monsters, like pigs, bears, and foxes...... Strange shapes, strange shapes, with the current makeup technology and props, it is difficult to interpret these images well!

Second. All kinds of props, many weapons and treasures in "Journey to the West", but although these are somewhat difficult, they are not completely impossible to solve, just to spend more silver.

Third, a wide variety of scenarios. Up to the Heavenly Court, down to the Dragon Palace, as well as Huaguo Mountain, Flame Mountain, and even palaces and temples, Zhong Bo, the stage designer, has a lot of gray hair.

Fourth, and most importantly, how should so many scenes of clouds and fog in "Journey to the West", scenes of instant transformation, and scenes of wind, fire, thunder and lightning during the battle of immortals?

If these are done, Ah Xing dares to guarantee that this "Journey to the West" alone can make them listen to the scenery for many years, but if it is not done well, the effect will be nondescript, highlighting its newness, curiosity and interest, it will not attract guests to follow for a long time, and it will not achieve the purpose of Ah Xing to create a continuous drama.

A-Xing locked herself in her room for three days, thinking carefully about these questions. Three days later, she will be a make-up artist and stage master of the theater. and Ling Zifeng, Xu Steward, and old actors like Lin Hai and Mei Xianghua all gathered together for a meeting.

At the beginning of the meeting, Ah Xing first told her plan and the general storyline of "Journey to the West", and when everyone first heard this plan, they were as happy and excited as Ling Zifeng had just heard this plan, slapping the table, patting his thighs, applauding loudly, and praising loudly. The atmosphere was very warm. But when Ah Xing threw out one question after another, everyone's smiles slowly disappeared, and they all showed deep frowning expressions.

Ah Xing comforted everyone: "You don't have to worry, we can think slowly about the details, I think as long as we work hard to find a way, these problems will not be a problem." As she spoke, she took out a stack of paper from her arms and handed it to the makeup artist Master Yi, who has always been Tingsong's makeup artist and costume artist, and used to prepare fake beards, fake head coverings, costumes and the like for opera. Sometimes he would paint his face for the opera, but since the drama replaced the opera, because the makeup requirements of the drama are not as complicated as the opera, his work has been much easier, and he didn't expect to receive such a difficult task today.

Ah Xing handed him the drawings in his hand and said, "This is the shape of some of the characters I have drawn." You see, think of a way, see if you can achieve as realistic as possible. ”

Master Yi took the drawings and looked at them a few times, then made a bitter face and said, "This is a monkey again, a pig, and so many strange-shaped goblins, there are few normal people at all, doesn't this kill me?" ”

The rest of the people craned their necks to look at the drawings in his hand, and when they looked at him again, they all looked sympathetic.

Ah Xing also knew that it was difficult for him, so she sighed and said softly: "Master Yi, you have to think of a way, in fact, you just need to grasp the image characteristics of these characters." She lowered her head and pointed at Sun Wukong and said: "Like this monkey, it is the hair on the face, and then the face of the monkey, this pig is the pig ears, the pig nose and the pig belly, you think about what materials are appropriate." The rest of the goblins are about the same, in terms of ears, noses, claws. Just make some of the main features and you're good to go. It doesn't need to be very similar, but as long as it looks like it has some characteristics of the original form. After speaking, Ah Xing looked at him and asked sincerely: "Master Yi, the success or failure of our theater is here, and I ask you to bother more." As long as you can do a good job of the image of this play, there will be no image modeling that can stump you in the future, and after this play, you will definitely be famous all over the country! ”

After saying this, Master Yi's blood boiled, he looked at the drawings in his hand again, and then nodded very firmly, and said: "Okay, Miss Axing, don't worry, I will definitely do my best to do this, and I will definitely live up to the expectations of the two bosses!" ”

Ah Xing nodded happily, and the rest of the people also spoke out to encourage Master Yi.

Then Ah Xing explained the design task of the stage master, and told him the scenes that would appear in the first episode, including Heavenly Court, Huaguo Mountain Water Curtain Cave, and East China Sea Dragon Palace, and Master Zhong wiped the cold sweat on his head again and again, but he knew the importance of this drama. So without saying a word, he said that he would definitely go all out.

Ah Xing said to him: "I will write down the main characteristics of these scenes later, so that you can have a reference." Also, it's best to hire a pyrotechnic master, many scenes require a lot of smoke, and you have to find a good pyrotechnic master to control it! ”

Master Zhong thought for a while and said, "I know a very good master who makes fireworks, he has been doing fireworks for many years, so it should be right to ask him to come over!" ”

"Then trouble Master Zhong to do this, the silver is not a problem!"

Finally, there are props, and Ah Xing listed all the props that she could think of in the first scene. Sun Wukong's golden hoop stick and the weapon artifact of the heavenly soldiers. Master Wan, the props master, said: "Although it is a little complicated, it is not difficult to do. Miss A-Xing, don't worry, just leave it to me! ”

The script is still handed over to Ling Zifeng to deal with, although Ah Xing remembers all the storylines of Journey to the West, but it is still not as good as Ling Zifeng's pen power to adapt it into a drama script. So Ah Xing dictated the story, Ling Zifeng recorded and sorted it out, and then discussed together which plots should be kept and which plots could be streamlined, after all, an episode is only one hour, and in order to ensure the excitement of the drama, some cumbersome plots must be deleted.

The two were busy together for a few days, and the script for the first episode came out. The first episode is mainly about the birth of Sun Wukong and his learning of art, and then he made trouble in the Heavenly Palace, was pressed on Wuzhi Mountain, and finally worshiped Tang Seng as a teacher. The plot can be described as very tight. The scene changed very quickly. After the script came out, it was followed by the problem of casting.

Originally, the plan was to release a new episode in 10 days, but because it took time to prepare for the stage, the actors' makeup, and the script, it was changed to 15 days to release a new episode. Considering that it is impossible for actors to rehearse performances endlessly for a long time, after discussing with Ah Xing and Ling Zifeng, it was decided to prepare three groups of people to play Tang Seng and apprentices, and they will be staged in turn episode by episode.

The main actors in the first episode have been decided, and Zhu Bajie and Sha Seng did not appear. Sun Wukong is played by Chen Feng, a short man with flexible hands and feet, and Tang Seng is played by Mei Xianghua. Ah Xing ordered Chen Feng to spend at least two hours with the monkey every day, and learn some of the monkey's movement characteristics, so that the performance could be more expressive. Chen Feng did a good job of this, and a few days later, he already had a bit of the taste of Monkey King in his gestures.

After the actors were selected, rehearsals were also in full swing. In order not to let Qingyun know, in case they are tricky and sabotage, this rehearsal is quite secretive, and none of the scenes that were about to leave last time let them participate in the rehearsal of this episode. So Qingyun only knew that Tingsong was preparing a new play, but what was the specific situation, he couldn't stop the wind at all.

However, Hu Lingxuan didn't take their new drama to heart at all, he thought it was Ah Xing's move to turn the tide. And doomed! New play? What's so great about the new play! They Qingyun will have a new play every few days, and he doesn't believe that Ah Xing can bring the theater back to life with a new play!

Listening to Song's side, the rehearsal was not smooth, and many scenes were more difficult than Ah Xing imagined, such as the soaring clouds and fog of the heavenly soldiers and generals. Ah Xing thought about it, and hung a platform in the air of the stage, and the periphery of the stage was made into the shape of clouds, and when people stood up, it really seemed like they were driving through the clouds. There is also Sun Wukong's Douyun, the martial artists are not martial arts masters, so they naturally don't know how to do light work, and it is impossible to fly around in the air. So it is also used in this method, hanging a platform with a douyun-shaped with a rope from the air, Sun Wukong turned over on the small stage with a heel during the performance, and then the rope hung him and slid from here to there, although there are some goofs, but the overall effect is still good, and the audience is not so much.

The biggest headache is the battle between Erlang God and Sun Wukong, the two of them are birds, eagles, snakes, and temples, so that Ah Xing doesn't know how to express this effect when she wants to break her head. She doesn't know how to do magic! When I thought about it, my head hurt, and I couldn't help but regret how I chose such a difficult play in "Journey to the West", but I knew in my heart that if it wasn't for such a novel and interesting play, it would not be enough to compete with Qingyun.

Ling Zifeng saw that her brows were twisted into twists when she was so worried, and couldn't help but persuade: "Just let them fight directly, those changed scenes will be deleted directly, these things can't be performed at all!" "Anyway, he can't think of a way, and he can't do spells! And looking at Ah Xing's appearance, she can't think of a way.

Ah Xing shook her head and said: "I don't want to work so hard, I also want to delete this scene, but this can be said to be the most exciting scene in the Heavenly Palace, it's a pity to delete it like this!" I'll think again! Uncle Ling, you can also help think about it! ”

Ling Zifeng persuaded: "Ah Xing, why do you have to be so serious? Anyway, the audience doesn't know that there is such a play, as long as Sun Wukong and Erlang God play wonderfully, the audience is just as satisfied! ”

"But I know that there is such a wonderful play, but I can't bring it to everyone, I feel very uncomfortable! No, I'll have to figure it out! ”

Ling Zifeng smiled helplessly: "Then think about it slowly, my hair has turned a lot gray in order to think about this drama during this time, I don't want to bother anymore, what if my hair is all white?" I haven't married a daughter-in-law yet! ”

Ah Xing chuckled, knowing in her heart that he was deliberately telling jokes to make her happy and make her relax. Looking at Ling Zifeng's haggard face because of his busyness during this time, he also felt a little sorry in his heart.

"Uncle Ling, you go and rest for a while, maybe you have a good rest, your hair is black, and you can find a beautiful and capable aunt right away!"

Ling Zifeng patted her on the head and said with a smile: "You dare to make your uncle happy!" ”

But he said so, but he didn't go to rest, and still sat with Ah Xing racking his brains to figure out a way.

After Ah Xing lost a few pounds of flesh and grew two big dark circles, she really came up with a way.

She asked the prop master to make the props of eagles, birds, snakes, etc. Then when Sun Wukong and Erlang God changed, they let the pyrotechnic master release white mist, and at the same time the stage was black, and the actor took advantage of the black light to retreat from the stage, and when the lights came on again, only an eagle and a snake were left on the stage chasing and fighting, during which it was only a blink of an eye. Of course, both the eagle and the snake are controlled by humans with ropes, like marionettes. It's the same when it changes again, when the white fog suddenly rises and the lights go black, and when the lights come on again, the animals on the stage change again.

But because there are no electric lights, they are all candle lanterns, it is not very convenient to turn off the lights and light them, and it is impossible to ask so many people to wait for one lamp, so Ah Xing thought of a way to make a big black cover for the lantern, pull it with a rope, and then let one person guard it and cooperate with the pyrotechnic to pull it up, and put it down.

Later, Ah Xing asked everyone to perform according to this method, and it turned out that although it was not as realistic as it was on TV, it was already very shocking and stunned in this era of no special effects! Everyone is very satisfied with this effect, and they are full of confidence in the success of "Journey to the West".

Within a few days, Master Yi's character modeling was also made. Master Yi obviously didn't rest well during this time, his face was haggard, and his beard was scummy, but his eyes were unusually bright, and he presented a series of things he made in front of everyone like a treasure, and then dressed up the actors one by one in front of everyone.

While working on his hands, he explained to everyone: "I use small wool for Sun Wukong's hair, wash and dry it, dye it and color it, and then sew it on a tight-fitting dress, as long as Chen Feng wears the clothes on his body, I will draw a monkey face for him."

For the other monsters, the nose, and the horns on the head are all made of wood, and then painted and put on the face and head. The hair is the same as Sun Wukong's approach, and finally put some makeup on the face......"

He dressed up Sun Wukong and a little demon for everyone to see, and then asked Ah Xing proudly: "Ah Xing girl, how is it?" ”

Ah Xing looked at it, although it can't be compared with the makeup on TV, but it can also be seen that it is a monkey, and the little demon can also see that it is a cow demon, so it's okay!

Ah Xing nodded and smiled: "Okay!" Well done! These goblins can be dressed up like this, but if you run into some of the main goblin characters in the future, you may also be able to design a mask to put on your face to make the face more hideous and terrifying, and it will be more realistic! ”

Master Yi rolled his eyes, thought about it, and praised: "This method is good!" I'll figure it out later! ”

"Okay, that's it for the makeup in this episode, I'll ask two more people to help you, so many goblins want to put on makeup, it's really hard for you!"

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