When someone interrupts at a critical time, everyone is angry.

Cao Zhiqiang is no exception.

Just when Cao Zhiqiang planned to ignore it, he continued to insert a gun and bury his head as if there was no one in the room.

The knock on the door outside rang again, and it seemed to be endless.

Not only that, but a familiar voice came: "Cao Zhiqiang, it's me, I know you're inside, hurry up, find you something, have something to do!" ”

Cao Zhiqiang heard it instantly, it was Xu Qingdong, Director Xu's voice.

Just when Cao Zhiqiang was stunned, Wu Qinghong also reacted, blushing and grabbing Cao Zhiqiang's arm with his hand and whispering: "Don't make trouble, the coming day is long, people came to look for you on purpose, let's go see you first, don't lose your courtesy." ”

Cao Zhiqiang sighed, then turned off Wu Qinghong's body, and then said loudly in the direction of the door: "Come on, wait a minute, come here!" ”

The reason for the compromise was that Cao Zhiqiang thought it through.

Forget about others, but Xu Qingdong estimates that he can't be a person.

Because the front desk is very familiar with Xu Qingdong, this is why Xu Qingdong can come up directly to find him, and no front desk staff calls in advance to ask.

And since Xu Qingdong came to look for it, he must have asked the front desk and asked him if Cao Zhiqiang was there.

He will only come to him if he is sure that someone is there, otherwise he will not come up at all.

In this case, there is no need to play with people who are not in that way, it is just self-deception.

Besides, he was in such a hurry to find himself, it was estimated that there was something really wrong.

You still can't delay the business because of personal feelings.

Soon, Cao Zhiqiang put on a pair of underwear and a nightgown.

After instructing Wu Qinghong and asking her not to make a sound.

Cao Zhiqiang put on his slippers and walked out of the bedroom, then walked through the living room and came to the door of the room.

Taking a deep breath and messing up his hair again, he deliberately pretended to have just woken up and opened the door.

As soon as the door was opened, Cao Zhiqiang was stunned first.

Because he originally thought that Xu Qingdong was the only one who came.

If it were him, his sloppiness would be nothing, but more kind.

But what he didn't expect was that there was a smiling ...... beside him Aunt?

That's right, although the other party is dressed very neatly and neatly, his hair is also black and bright, and his temperament is not bad, but the crow's feet at the corners of his eyes indicate that ...... This is obviously an aunt!

Just when Cao Zhiqiang was stunned, Xu Qingdong said with a smile: "You finally opened the door." But how did you get this look? ”

Cao Zhiqiang came back to his senses at this time: "Ah, I'm sorry, I was still sleeping just now, who are you?" ”

Xu Qingdong said: "Let me introduce first, this is Yang Jie, Director Yang!" A national first-class director, and also my senior!"

"Ah, hello, hello, Director Yang!" Cao Zhiqiang hurriedly nodded and smiled at the aunt named Yang Jie.

"Hello, Director Cao, I have admired my name for a long time!" Yang Jie also smiled and nodded, "I took the liberty of visiting and disturbing your rest, please forgive me." ”

Cao Zhiqiang was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that the director Cao she said meant by the director of Hongguang Film Factory.

Although Cao Zhiqiang wears many hats, in the film and television industry, his biggest identity is actually the director of the film studio.

The identity of the director of this film studio is much more awesome than the title of director and teacher.

Since the other party is a director, it is very appropriate to call himself the director.

"Where, where, see and laugh." Cao Zhiqiang hurriedly humbly, "Director Yang, you are older than me, you don't have to be polite, just call me Xiao Cao." ”

"That's so polite." Yang Jie smiled and shook her head, "I'll still call you Director Cao, be more formal." ”

Just when Cao Zhiqiang was about to continue to be modest, Xu Qingdong next to him became impatient: "Okay, okay, don't be respectful to each other, if you continue, it's over." ”

Immediately afterwards, Xu Qingdong said to Cao Zhiqiang: "My big factory director, I can't hide it, I came to you this time, it's really a serious matter!" This matter is about me, Senior Yang, and she ...... So, let's go in and talk about it. ”

"Good, good." Cao Zhiqiang hurriedly got out of the way, "Please come in, please come in!" ”

Soon, everyone entered the living room, and Cao Zhiqiang asked them to sit down on the sofa first.

Next, Cao Zhiqiang asked them to sit in the living room for a while, and he went inside to change clothes.

After all, there are outsiders, and they are still aunts, and it is not appropriate to continue to wear nightgowns.

When Cao Zhiqiang changed into casual clothes, washed his face, brushed his teeth, and tidied his hair, he came out again.

found that tea had already been brewed on the coffee table, so he waited for him to go over and sit down.

No need to ask, it must be Xu Qingdong who makes tea.

Only Xu Qingdong knew where tea and boiling water were.

After all, he had been here more than once before, and he was familiar with it.

After smiling slightly, Cao Zhiqiang went directly to sit down in his seat that was obviously his own.

After sitting down, Cao Zhiqiang smiled at the director Yang Jie first: "I'm sorry, I really didn't expect a distinguished guest to come to the door, I was really sleeping before, which made you smile." ”

Director Yang smiled: "It's nothing, I said it, in fact, we were presumptuous." ”

Immediately after, she sighed and said, "Alas, in fact, if it weren't for the immaculate, I wouldn't have taken such a bold approach." ”

As soon as he heard this, Cao Zhiqiang knew that business was coming.

So Cao Zhiqiang nodded quietly: "Well, can you ask, what is the matter?" As long as I can, I will do my best. ”

"This ......" Director Yang hesitated for a while, not knowing what to say.

"Director Yang." Xu Qingdong said with a smile, "It's all time, let's tell the truth." You believe me, our factory director, but he is a god of wealth, very rich, and has a very strong attainment and understanding of film shooting.

So, with your difficulties, I think he should be able to help. ”

When Director Yang heard Xu Qingdong say this, he nodded, became serious again and said to Cao Zhiqiang: "Okay, since that's the case, I'll take the liberty of saying it directly."

Actually, I came this time to ask for help.

Here's the thing. ”

Next, Director Yang told her about the difficulties she encountered and the help she hoped to get from Cao Zhiqiang.

Hearing this, Cao Zhiqiang instantly understood what she wanted to do, and he also knew who she was.

It turned out that this Yang Jie turned out to be the director of the famous TV series 86 version of "Journey to the West" in his previous life.

She came here this time for the "Journey to the West" she was filming.

According to her, the TV series "Journey to the West" was filmed by her, and the cause was Japan's "Journey to the West".

Back then, she came into contact with the TV series from Japan by an unexpected chance, that is, the Japanese version of "Journey to the West" in 78.

Originally, she was still watching it with appreciation, but after watching it, she was "shocked"!

This shock is not surprise, but anger, anger!

She believes that Japan does not know our "Journey to the West" at all, and it is completely made up.

Because in the Japanese version of Journey to the West, Tang Seng turned out to be a woman!

That's it, the key plot is messy, and all kinds of spoof plots completely destroy the classic image of Journey to the West.

For example, one of the plots is that Tang Seng actually fell in love with a goblin, crying and shouting to marry a goblin, but was knocked unconscious by Sun Wukong with a stick, so he was able to continue to learn from the West.

Other spoof plots abound, and Director Yang who watched it was angry, thinking that this was simply discrediting Journey to the West.

Therefore, at that time, director Yang Jie came up with the idea of making an authentic Journey to the West.

She hopes to make a real Journey to the West, so that people around the world know what the real Journey to the West is like.

Later, she applied to the Central Channel, and the station also approved her plan, but only gave 3 million in funding.

Just these three million, it is not a one-time give, but it must be given one after another, in batches, and once for each episode.

Even the cameras that shoot are very low-end, and there is only one camera.

In such a humble situation, director Yang Jie still started filming.

In fact, the money originally given by the Central Station was quite okay, after all, the three million funds were really a lot in 1982.

Even if you give money once per episode, it's just as much.

Because even if it is the first episode of "Demon Removal and Black Chicken Country", CCTV will spend 500,000 yuan to shoot it at one time.

At that time, this money was enough to shoot a big movie.

The 500,000 in 1982 was worth more than the 10 million later.

Therefore, if Yang Jie is willing to follow Xiangjiang's example and engage in a simple movie studio shooting, this money will be more than enough.

However, director Yang Jie insisted on shooting real scenes, and she had to go to the great rivers and mountains of the motherland to shoot real scenes.

This is undoubtedly a bold innovation.

You know, even in this era, live-action shooting is quite expensive.

Just a group of actors' eating, drinking, and Lazar is a lot of expenses every day.

And during this period, most of the landscapes in various places were paid, even if you were a film crew, you still had to pay money.

This is another expense.

Not to mention accommodation and travel expenses.

Since each episode involves a lot of scenic spots, and these attractions are often in the north and south of the motherland, it is very difficult to shoot, the filming time is also very long, and the cost is naturally not small.

Moreover, "Journey to the West" directed by Yang Jie was not filmed in the original order of the TV series, but according to the degree of difficulty.

For example, the first episode they filmed "Demon Removal Black Chicken Country" was relatively simple and the earliest to shoot.

The second episode they filmed, "Stealing Ginseng Fruit", was mainly filmed in Sichuan.

As for the third episode of "Woe to Guanyin Temple", the filming locations involved Fujian, Hainan Island, Hangzhou Lingyin Temple and other places, and each place had to stay for a long time and shoot for a long time.

It can be seen from these three episodes that the difficulty of filming Journey to the West is gradually rising.

Director Yang Jie is also in this process, constantly running in with the members of the film crew and accumulating relevant experience.

After filming these three episodes respectively, director Yang Jie accumulated relevant experience, and then began to overcome the most difficult part, that is, the real first episode of Journey to the West - "The Monkey King Comes Out".

This episode, because it involves a lot of special effects, requires a lot of live-action shooting and special effects production.

In China during this period, the level of special effects production was very low, so the way they thought of it was to produce it through the real stage.

In order to save money, when they were shooting live-action, they also filmed "Three Dozen White Bone Spirits" together, just to maximize the use of local landscape resources.

For example, the interior view of the Water Curtain Cave is the Boyue Cave of the Lengshui River.

and in "The First Appearance of the Monkey King", the scene where Sun Wukong crossed the ocean and passed by the street was filmed in Quanzhou Old Street.

In addition, they also visited Zhangjiajie and other places, overcame all kinds of difficulties, and filmed little by little.

However, live action shooting is just that, and the money is like water.

Therefore, the funds that Yang Jie wants are about to bottom.

But less than one-third of the plot of "The First Birth of the Monkey King" was filmed, and even "Three Dozen White Bone Spirits", which was filmed incidentally, only filmed a quarter of the plot.

As for the two episodes of "Official Feng Bi Ma Wen" and "The Great Sage Haunting Heavenly Palace", they were also filmed by one-third respectively.

The biggest problem here is the excellence required by director Yang Jie.

For example, Huaguo Mountain, according to Director Yang Jie's understanding, it must be a beautiful place.

So she synthesized the beauty of each place and then mixed it up.

To this end, from the beginning of 1983 to the present, she has visited Huangguoshu Waterfall in Guizhou, Lengshuijiang and Zhangjiajie in Hunan, Dongshan Island in Fujian, Wenchang in Hainan, Botanical Garden in Lushan, Jiangxi Province, Wulong Pond, Wulao Peak, Han Pokou, Beidaihe in Hebei, Qiwang Tomb in BJ, Jietai Temple, and so on.

She took pictures of the beauties of these places one by one, and then edited them into one place, which is Huaguo Mountain in her mind.

In addition, in order to shoot the scene of Tianhe herding horses, she also took people to the Xilinhot prairie in Inner Mongolia to shoot the picture of thousands of horses galloping.

Not only that, but they also had to deal with the difficulties of the horses being frightened, and the large herds of horses running through the smoke created by the dry ice.

In other words, the scene of Tianhe herding horses is all true!

Including those smokes too!

For this reason, she basically spent her time and energy on this whole year.

It is conceivable that she has such a tossing method, and how much money is not enough.

Therefore, before the Chinese New Year, she spent all the funds given by CCTV before, and came to CCTV to ask for money again.

However, CCTV said that there was no money and asked her to wait.

But she could afford to wait, and the group of people under her could not afford to wait.

After all, the group of people under her command are still waiting for her to pay their salaries.

And she knows the process in the station very well, once she is really patient and waits, she doesn't know that she can give money again in the Year of the Monkey.

But if the team has no money, it will definitely disperse.

Once the team is gone, it's hard to start over.

In this way, the previous hard work is almost in vain.

Just when Yang Jie was frowning and asked the leaders of the stage for money everywhere.

Someone suddenly gave her an idea, saying that she could go to the famous Hongguang Film Studio recently to ask for money.

Hongguang Film Factory is a new film factory, the first film that can be made, it won a big victory in Japan, and achieved the first good result at the box office there, it is said that the box office exceeded 100 million, and Hongguang Film Factory also made a lot of money.

As soon as Yang Jie heard this, she decisively asked someone to inquire and went directly to Hongguang Film Studio.

As a result, after I went, I found that Hongguang Film Studio was actually working in cooperation with a publishing house, and there were few real staff.

However, the deputy director of Hongguang Film Factory is considered to know, and he is a junior before, named Xu Qingdong.

In the past, when Yang Jie went to Nortel to give lectures, she had several contacts with him.

So the two of them chatted.

Yang Jie is a straightforward talker, she directly talked about the process of filming "Journey to the West" and all the difficulties encountered.

Say a thousand things and ten thousand, it boils down to two words - ask for money!

In this regard, Xu Qingdong was not ambiguous, and directly made an appointment with her, and came to find the real owner, Cao Zhiqiang, the next day.

And then, it's the case now. (End of chapter)