The first TV series filmed in the mainland was "Eighteen Years of the Enemy Camp", which was broadcast in 1981, so "Journey to the West", which began filming in 1982, can also be regarded as the earliest batch of TV series in China.
Now when it comes to "Journey to the West", everyone mainly thinks of the "TV series with the most replays", of course, there are "four masters and apprentices" who have been popular for more than thirty years.
In fact, as one of the earliest classic TV series filmed, "Journey to the West" has several other contributions, one is to explore a set of successful experience in TV series shooting, the other is to develop the earliest "Weiya" and special effects, and also promote the rare electronic music at that time. The third is to train and cultivate a large number of TV drama talents, in addition to the actors in front of the stage, including many staff members in the background.
This article is about a young elder in "Journey to the West", Ma Lizhu.
First, the old qualification small field record
Field note, a small position on the film and television shooting scene but a very important job, to put it simply, is responsible for shooting all the scene of the camera classification mark. At the same time, don't think that this position is just to play a board before shooting and then record it, in fact, the field record is equivalent to the director's left arm, a director can not even shoot a scene without one or several good scenes, and the field record is also the work that many directors do at the beginning.
Let's put it this way, if the director is equivalent to the head of the regiment, the deputy director is the deputy head of the regiment, and the field record is basically equivalent to the chief of staff, which is also a very important position in the crew.
The "Journey to the West" crew has had four field notes, the earliest field notes are Li Chengru and Ma Lizhu, but soon Li Chengru went to the field as a drama manager, and the field notes were replaced by Shen Huifen and Ma Lizhu.
Shen Huifen is really playing guanyin incarnation in "Three Difficulties in Kantu", she is an opera actor, and it is indeed not her strength to remember on the spot, so she soon quit the crew.
Shen Huifen left, Yu Hong came, the field record was replaced by Yu Hong and Ma Lizhu, Yu Hong was transferred from the Second Artillery Literary and Labor Troupe, and played two roles in the play, one was the daughter envoy in "Sweeping the Tower to Distinguish the Strange Wrong", and the other was the Tianzhu King Queen in "Tianzhu Harvesting Jade Rabbit". In addition, it is also in the process of recording on the spot, because the six-year-old children need to make up more things, Yu Hong often works overtime with monkeys, and the two of them come together for a long time, and Yu Hong has become a monkey sister-in-law.
Ma Lizhu did not remember on the spot when she first went to the "Journey to the West" crew, when CCTV let her and Li Yang and others audition, ready to let Ma Lizhu be a voice actor, just Yang Jie was also present, Yang Jie's daughter Mimi and Ma Lizhu were girlfriends, and the two had known each other for a long time.
Yang Jie knew that Ma Lizhu was recording on the spot in the theater troupe under CCTV, so she directly stopped her and did not let her audition but followed Yang Jie to the crew to record on the spot.
In this way, Ma Lizhu participated in all the filming of "Journey to the West" from beginning to end, and can be called the oldest qualified Traveler to the West.
2. Multi-functional assistant
"Journey to the West" was filmed for more than six years, in order to save money, the whole crew estimated that in addition to Wang Chongqiu, they all had to be multi-functional, the roles played by the actors in the team were all starting from ten, and the staff of each post included what martial arts instructor (Erlang Shen), and the assistant director (Yellow Robe Monster) were all multi-tasking.
As the most powerful assistant around Director Yang Jie, Ma Lizhu seems to be doing more and more complicated work.
Yang Jie's "translation", Yang Jie's hasty writing is relatively sloppy, it is said that she often can't recognize the words she wrote, but it doesn't matter, Yang Jie can't recognize the words written by Yang Jie, Ma Lizhu can, so she has become the first "translator" and transcription of Yang Jie's various letters, scripts, reports and lyrics.
Sometimes Yang Jie's voice was hoarse, Ma Lizhu took the loudspeaker as Yang Jie's megaphone, Yang Jie said a word, she shouted a word. Once Yang Jie shouted "Fengpo, you (from the camera) get out!" Ma Lizhu did not move and shouted: "Fengpo, you go out!" ”。 The whole crew laughed, because Ren Fengpo was not only an assistant director but also a senior, Yang Jie could shout like this, and Ma Lizhu could not.
The actors of the crew, other scenes must play roles, and Ma Lizhu will naturally not be less. In "Journey to the West", she played the most Guanyin Bodhisattva, because Zuo Dayue was the pillar of the Hunan Xiang Opera Troupe, and the filming time was relatively tight, so many of the long-range and virtual images of Guanyin Bodhisattva were Ma Lizhudang's stand-ins.
In the episode of "Tianzhu Harvesting Jade Rabbit", the Princess Tianzhu played by Li Lingyu jumped into the lake, and the first time she filmed because she failed to wear a gang, but her clothes were so wet that she could no longer use it, so shelved this shot. When there was a suitable opportunity, Ma Lizhu completed the background scene of this lake jump for Li Lingyu, which is not a simple diving, but also dangerous, according to Ma Lizhu recalled that her face was almost stunned when it touched the water surface, fortunately there were staff rescue underwater.
In addition, some palace ladies, female officials and other dragon sets Ma Lizhu will often be on the battlefield.
Xiong Ni's nanny, Xiong Ni, who was still in the Hunan Diving Junior Team, also went to the "Journey to the West" crew to run a dragon set to play a little monkey, everyone knows that Erlang Shenlin Zhiqian sent Xiong Ni with a head injury to the hospital, and few people know that it is Ma Lizhu who has been taking care of Xiong Ni during his hospitalization.
Xiong Ni told Ma Lizhu not to tell her father the news of his injury, and Ma Lizhu agreed. The two became good friends who talked about everything, and in the days that followed, Xiong Ni encountered some setbacks in diving and wrote a letter to Ma Lizhu, saying that he did not want to dive and wanted to become an actor. Ma Lizhu wrote back to encourage Xiong Ni. Later, when Xiong Ni finished second at the Olympic Games, Ma Lizhu also shed tears.
Not only Xiong Ni, Director Yang Jie's young daughter Ya Ya suffered from neuropathic headaches, the result was used by quacks as epilepsy treatment, people became unresponsive, after discovering the problem, it was Ma Lizhu who came forward to help, she found her friends in the hospital to see Ya Ya, and saved a future excellent makeup artist.
Monkey keeper, the "Journey to the West" crew once raised a monkey, is the mascot is also one of the "teachers" of the six-year-old child, and the task of raising this monkey falls to Ma Lizhu, who makes her a field record of everything that must be done.
Third, the husband and wife accompany the director group
After following Yang Jie for more than six years, he filmed the classic masterpiece "Journey to the West", and Ma Lizhu's small field record can also be described as "wings hardened".
In the years that followed, Ma Lizhu began to serve as an assistant director of some TV series, especially in CCTV's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and she cooperated with Ren Fengpo and Xun Hao, assistant directors of "Journey to the West" at that time, to form the Journey to the West trio in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
And the reason why Ma Lizhu can take on a heavy responsibility in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the key person is her lover, the famous director of CCTV, Shen Haofang, and the assistant director in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" where Shen Haofang is a sub-director has always been Ma Lizhu.
Shen Haofang and Ma Lizhu formed another husband and wife director group in China, and they have cooperated in many TV series together, the most representative of which is undoubtedly "The Happy Life of Poor Mouth Zhang Damin".
This is the story of a small field reporter in the "Journey to the West" crew, who worked hard for "Journey to the West" for more than six years, and "Journey to the West" also achieved her life's work.