In 1987, after the broadcast of Wang Fulin's "Dream of the Red Chamber", the writer Wang Shuo was furious; even when recording the program, he angrily criticized Wang Fulin for being seriously unreliable, saying that "this drama almost showed me vomit", when the host asked which places were unreliable, the answer he gave instantly made the program scene embarrassing!
In 1987, the birth of this version of "Dream of the Red Chamber" was actually not very smooth, and although the director Wang Fulin was not a very famous director, it was not as bad as Wang Shuo said.
At that time, when participating in the expedition, Wang Fulin found that the British BBC had put many pearls on the screen, and classic works such as Shakespeare were even remade many times. At this time, compared with the domestic TV drama market, there is a lot of room for improvement.
Therefore, when Wang Fulin talked about his views with Hong Minsheng, the two immediately agreed and thought of going together.
Hong Minsheng, who was the director of CCTV at the time, was also very confused about the immaturity of the Chinese TV drama market at that time, so he was naturally very interested in hearing that Wang Fulin had the idea of putting classics on the screen.
However, Hong Minsheng still asked Wang Fulin: "There are so many famous works in China, which one do you think is the most appropriate to shoot first?" ”
Wang Fulin blurted out: "Of course, it is Dream of the Red Chamber!" ”
Because "Journey to the West" needs special effects, "Water Margin" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" both need grand war scenes, which have a certain shooting difficulty, and only "Dream of the Red Chamber" is the best to shoot.
Later, the director of the station entrusted this arduous task to Wang Fulin, who agreed with a full mouth, turned around and looked at the original work dumbfounded.
"Dream of the Red Chamber" is a classic among classics, worth many red scholars to devote their lives to studying, can he, an ordinary reader, really shoot well?
Six gods and no masters, he could only find helpers, and at the beginning he found Fan Cen, the director of the Yue opera "Dream of the Red Chamber", Fan Cen also had no confidence, stayed for a few days and left.
Later, he found the director of Chengyin of the North Film Studio, but unfortunately, director Chengyin died of a sudden heart attack, and finally Wang Fulin himself was left.
In the following year, Wang Fulin did not participate in any activities, that is, with the red scholars, deducting the details of "Dream of the Red Chamber", and the script adaptation alone took two and a half years.
Not only has every detail in the play been carefully considered, but every line, and even every step of the characters in the play, has been pre-arranged to ensure consistency with the story in the book.
Then director Wang Fulin began China's first such a large-scale casting, which lasted more than a year and selected 153 actors from more than 10,000 people across the country.
These actors were sent to the Yuanmingyuan in Beijing to receive training from masters of traditional Chinese studies and red studies, and even in advance, even their living habits were strictly in accordance with what was said in the book.
At that time, for the crew, this TV series was not as simple as a work, they were adhering to their own cultural heritage in China, so they took every step with special care.
The investment in this play is also extremely impressive, and when the filming was completed in 1987, it had already invested 6.8 million yuan. Moreover, in the more than three years of shooting, the crew shot more than 200 scenes in more than ten provinces and cities in China, shooting tens of thousands of shots.
In order to shoot this "Dream of the Red Chamber", even the crew of "Journey to the West" at that time was shelved for a long time because of lack of money, and the manpower and material resources were also given priority to supporting "Dream of the Red Chamber".
Looking back at the 87 version of "Dream of the Red Chamber" today, I have to marvel that this has indeed become a real classic. After all, the current capital has been unable to polish a TV series for such a long time, so it is not an exaggeration to say that this version is insurmountable.
Chen Xiaoxu, Ouyang Fenqiang, Zhang Li, Deng Jie and other actors were popular.
Unexpectedly, the writer Wang Shuo criticized Wang Fulin as useless. "Wang Fulin is a director who has no talent at all, and is seriously unreliable!"
The host asked him: "Everyone says it is a classic, why don't you agree?" ”
Wang Shuo said: "The actor's choice is not right, Jia Baoyu is from Sichuan, Lin Daiyu is from Anshan, and a bunch of children are frozen." I think it's silly to shoot famous books, and the stunts in "Journey to the West" are too silly.
Besides, the original work of others is a TV drama script, which is ready-made in itself, why do you change other people's? ”
He felt that he should find a Beijinger to be a director, and then find a group of Beijing actors to act, which is the original taste. It really can't work, and the people of the northeast can too," Empress Dowager Cixi said. ”
"You have to wear a flag suit to speak Beijing dialect, that kind of very upper-class, very elegant Beijing dialect, and the words of dreaming of the Red Chamber in Beijing dialect are particularly comfortable to catch!" They all speak Mandarin... Almost showed me vomit! ”
Wang Shuo is known for his literary talent, and he is also a famous and famous one in the modern literary world, but we have to say that everyone has a dream of the Red Chamber in their hearts, and his understanding should let him understand it himself.
