This is a summer theater that takes you old plays to new ones
Let me ask you what it's like to broadcast a drama 3,000 times???
This is not some Versailles ratings myth.
In 35 years, it has been replayed more than 3,000 times on various TELEVISION stations, and only the @86 version of Journey to the West is required here.
"Journey to the West" and winter and summer vacations are super matched.
Just turn on the TV and see that "Journey to the West" has begun to replay again, and then you know:
Ah, summer vacation is coming.
Although, the social animals have no summer vacation.
Holding half a watermelon, lying on a bamboo bed, and staring at the old-fashioned TV is an afternoon of summer, which has long been swept into the lost memory kingdom.
But, there's a good saying. No one has a summer vacation forever, but there are always people spending the summer vacation.
If the summer drama can only choose one "top stream", it must be:
86 edition of Journey to the West!
God of one generation, two generations, many generations! yyds！
Before, i could always hear a voice saying:
The act of watching "Journey to the West" is outdated and out of flavor. Besides, the post-00s don't watch "Journey to the West".
Ah Kan wants to say, sober up.
The post-00s may not watch TV anymore.
But they chased "Journey to the West" at station B, which did not prevent them from following the barrage hahahahahahahaha (Wasn't that me when I was a kid?) )
Well, a new generation! attaboy!
On Station B, the show has garnered more than 50 million views, 1.7 million bullet screens, and more than 1.87 million people chasing the show.
On weekday afternoons, casually open an episode, you can meet 112 friends and A Kan to watch online together.
True, transcendent, still top-notch.
Here the new generation re-encounters the miracle of national opera;
Middle-aged and elderly children relive the classics, not only the sense of summer rituals, but also the re-touching: when I was a child, I was probably "blind and deaf" (just look at the monkey cubs).
"Journey to the West" turns out to be beautiful! Tide again!
"Biubiubiu toot ~ oop pedal ~ oop pedal ~ hole hole! Toot toot to beep to toot to beep to beep, to be
With the familiar melody of the opening.
Yungong Xunyin Xu Jingqing - Journey to the West TV series soundtrack soundtrack
When everyone grew up, they were shocked for the first time: the king of electric music!
It turns out that "Journey to the West" is such a trendy drama. That was 1986, and I actually used the title song of the electric sound.
The title song of this film is called "Yungong Xunyin", and the name was given by netizens later.
Xu Jingqing, a composition teacher, is 79 years old this year. He also opened an account on Station B to interact with children and tell behind-the-scenes stories.
It turned out that the inspiration for the opening song came from the sound of workers knocking on lunch boxes in the canteen.
Xu Jingqing used electronic synthesizers with folk music, which in the 80s was very fashionable and definitely a modern pioneer.
At that time, the song could pass, which was not easy.
After the episode was piloted, it was accused by critics of "music too foreign" "How can electronic music be used to express classical masterpieces?" ”
It was the director Yang Jie, who withstood the huge pressure and plucked back all the opinions.
Yang Jie wrote back: "Journey to the West is a mythological drama, which is not limited by any era and region. Song, don't change! ”
Hammer it out. Odd woman also.
Many people do not know that the hero behind "Journey to the West" is a female director.
When director Yang Jie took over the play, she was already 53 years old.
He and her husband (wang Chongqiu, the photographer of this film), were filming this drama outside, and it was filmed for six years.
This is a "miracle" in the history of Chinese drama:
There is only one camera, walking through thousands of mountains and rivers, shooting for 6 years. It was only 25 episodes.
Everyone doesn't believe it's only 25 episodes
This kind of slow work is slow to the point of some foolish spirit of filming.
No matter what the era, it is impossible to have it again.
A six-year-old child was once asked in an interview: What changes have you never imagined at the time?
He said that he did not expect to shoot an episode of a TV series now, just a few days is enough, sometimes even a day.
But.
Behind the six years of hard work, Yang Jie and Wang Chongqiu's daughter had no one to take care of her at home, so she could only drop out of school and take her to the set, and at a young age, she began to learn makeup.
Such a sacrifice is heartbreaking.
What are you most afraid of when you shoot "Journey to the West"? Fear of stunts.
If you know, mainland TV dramas have only officially started in 80 years. In 1981, he began to prepare for the filming of "Journey to the West".
I understand that everything is crossing the river by feeling the stones.
But there are still traces of other aspects to follow, and stunts are the first major difficulties on the way to the passage.
Admit that we were too far behind.
In the 1981 American film "American Werewolf in London", the werewolf transformation scene has been able to complete tens of seconds of life and continue to be high-energy.
Our crew, however, had never even heard the word "Weah".
Soaring clouds, soaring into the sky, and soaring flat, the audience who saw this for the first time on television was crazy.
But no one knows that this is the crew went to the Hong Kong TVB set to observe and learn a circle, and then came back to imitate the "hanging man" to start construction.
Because it was not professional enough, falling down became a common thing.
Once, Yan Huaili (Sha Monk), weighing more than 170 pounds, fell directly on the head of the cameraman Wang Chongqiu, and the cameraman fainted on the spot.
Another time, six-year-old children fell from three or four meters high, and everyone was stupid.
Fortunately, after being sent to the hospital, there was nothing.
Everyone is preaching that there is a bodhisattva blessing in the underworld.
Stunt puzzles rely on dirt methods (such as dry ice, jumping out of bed) and various trial and error to complete.
But what are you afraid of when filming "Journey to the West"?
Yang Jie said that I am afraid that it is not enough to impress people's hearts.
It almost comes from the instinct of a female director.
She doesn't want the "youkai coming - the master is captured - Sun Wukong saves people - the next level continues" process routine.
She wants to shoot a true "gods and demons are humane, and the charm is also sophisticated".
With a daughter country episode.
She didn't want to eat him, she just wanted to love him.
The scene where the king of the daughter country secretly met with Tang Monk in his dream was added by Yang Jie himself.
His wavering is the snuggling of each other in the dream; it is even more difficult to look at each other outside the dream, and the forehead is sweating.
"You say that the four are empty, but you close your eyes. If you open your eyes and look at me, I don't believe your eyes are empty? ”
To all kinds of emotions, he replied, "If there is an afterlife..."
This episode. I couldn't understand it when I was a child.
Later, when I grew up, I realized that it was the most difficult and thrilling level that my daughter's country had ever lived.
What I also grew up to understand is that I missed it after I was now a lot of Fairy Drama style Lei Jiao:
How beautiful are the casting in "Journey to the West".
Zhu Lin of the daughter country.
It has the dignified elegance of the queen and the charming eyes of the little daughter.
Everyone loves her as pure as water, and she is very tender. I prefer her to be brave and courteous, without hesitation.
Quietly asked the holy monk, the daughter is not beautiful.
This role has also become the "white moonlight" in the hearts of a generation.
Chang'e Fairy from the Dance Academy.
Choreographed a dance for the plot, a light yarn man dance, a dance, random flowers to confuse the human eye.
Exotic jade rabbit essence.
The "Tianzhu Maiden" section of "Oh ~ Sha Oh Sha Oh ~ Sha Li Wa Sha Li Wa ~" sang.
People are sweet, delicate and cute.
Actor Li Lingyu later released a tape of the golden song of "Sweet and Sweet", which sold well. Became about the first generation of "Sweetheart Sect Masters".
When I grew up and relived it, I realized: When I was a child, I only cared about monkeys!
All the female characters in "Journey to the West" are beautiful and have their own styles.
This is related to Yang Jie's casting criteria: all goblins must be beautiful.
It is also related to the beauty of the orthodox classical that was admired at that time.
In comparison.
Now many of the "beautiful" shapes, I can't understand, but I am greatly shocked.
In the '80s, actresses cared more and were scared more.
The role of "White Bone Essence", no one dared to play.
Words added to her: cannibalism, insidiousness, and scheming.
Few actresses dare to endure the empathetic insults of the audience.
So when Yang Jie found "Queen of Peking Opera" Yang Chunxia to star, the first thing the latter asked was: "Do you think I look like a white bone essence?" ”
Yang Jie hurried and did not dare not dare.
As a result, Yang Chunxia was almost "tricked" into playing - she was also promised the role of the king of the daughter country to "save" the image.
Interestingly, Fu Yiwei in the 90th edition of the "List of Fengshen Gods" was also "tricked" into acting.
Today I showed my back, tomorrow I showed my arms, and I found out that something was wrong when I was acting! How to cross less, it is too late to regret it.
7 spider spirit sisters, there is a scene to wear a gauze skirt in the water to make trouble.
The "wet suit" scene frightened the girls who were only fifteen or sixteen years old, and everyone hid in the room and cried together, and finally starred.
But the scene of exposing the navel and spitting out silk, no one dared to say anything.
As a result, Yang Jie used a boy's navel to "fool" the audience on the screen for more than thirty years.
In one word: wonderful.
When "Journey to the West" was filmed, there was no concept of a studio, and there was no film and television base.
Cutouts, green screens or whatever.
And today's audience suffers for a long time. Naturally, I miss the field shooting of "Journey to the West" at that time.
In fact, this is a road scenery film.
Three dozen white bone essence in the mountains, in Zhangjiajie; daughter country, in Suzhou garden; HuaguoShan Water Curtain Cave, located in Guizhou Huangguoshu Waterfall...
"Journey to the West" is slow to shoot, and it also has a lot to do with it. After all, Zhen Wanshui has traveled all over the country.
Field shooting, wind meals and camping, steamed buns and pickles.
They must also be maliciously reported: spending money indiscriminately, sightseeing in the mountains, and not doing business properly.
Yang Jie was wronged, but calmly - the investigation team came casually.
Therefore, after several months of filming, the investigation team finally got the miserable conditions of the crew.
Before leaving, he left a message: "I came to know that you worked so hard!" The conditions are too bad! ”
Subsequently, an additional million funds were won for the crew.
Just now when you open three dramas and two can find the same Hengdian shooting.
In 2021, "Si Teng" finally made people see something different.
The crew filmed on the spot, most of which was filmed in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan. It's a walking road trailer.
I'm not saying how good the show is. But it's sincere.
To be honest, it is unfair to compare "Journey to the West" with later dramas.
Because.
This drama is a miracle completed in a specific era of innocence with the spirit of foolishness and moving mountains.
This miracle, even Yang Jie herself, cannot be copied (for example, the sequel is not so successful).
It is the ultimate representative of the "craftsman spirit" of film and television people.
Later, there was rarely a mission and determination to treat drama as a work of art.
It was an "age of innocence."
It's like in that interview.
Q: If you were to use an adjective to describe the expressions of people in the 80s, what would you say?
The six-year-old child replied: Sincere persistence.
Director Yang Jie has written a book called "Dare to Ask Where the Road Is", which tells the "ninety-nine eighty-one difficulties" of the shooting process.
In the preface to the book, she sighs:
"The 1980s were the years of struggle, the years of struggle, and the years of dedication. Today's values are completely different - money first, fame and fortune first.
In the eyes of today's people, the people of our time may be some "stupid hats".
I can't forget that era. ”
But yeah. And I thought:
Today's creators, even if they only inherit a little bit of the "silly hat spirit" at that time.
I will not let myself go and hand over those bad dramas that take pleasure in defying the intelligence of the audience.
Whether it is worthy of the audience and keeps the heart.
This sense of responsibility has not changed with the times.