In 1994, Zhou Xingchi spent 60 million yuan to shoot "Journey to the West", and took out 800,000 yuan from it to ask Zhao Jiping to compose music, Zhao Jiping said: "Composing music can be done, but I have a request, do not put my name at the end of the film, I am afraid of ruining my reputation." ”
At that time, when filming "Journey to the West", when scoring the film, Zhou Xingchi heard that there was a very powerful composer in the mainland, named Zhao Jiping, Chen Kaige's "Yellow Land" and Zhang Yimou's "Red Sorghum", all of which were written by Zhao Jiping.
Therefore, Zhou Xingchi found Zhao Jiping with 800,000 yuan and full of sincerity. Zhao Jiping was reluctant to read the script, what was this written? Later, under the persuasion of Wu Tianming, Zhao Jiping reluctantly agreed to compose the soundtrack of "Journey to the West", and Zhao Jiping put forward a request after composing the music: "Don't sign my name in the film, I can't afford to lose this person." ”
The theme song of the film, "Love of a Lifetime", was completed by the famous Hong Kong composer Lo Guanting. At the beginning, when Lu Guanting composed the theme song of "Journey to the West", he couldn't find inspiration for his left and right thoughts, so he flew from Hong Kong to Xi'an, the filming location of the crew at that time. Liu Zhenwei told him, "This is a love story that has not borne fruit for five hundred years."
After listening to Liu Zhenwei tell the story, Lu Guanting was shocked and completed most of the song on the way back to Hong Kong.
After arriving home in the evening, Lu Guanting picked up the guitar and pondered while playing, and realized while playing. After two hours, the whole song came out, and then he gave the task of filling in the words to his wife. Two days later, his wife Tang Shuchen directly wrote the lyrics of "Loved in a Lifetime", at that time Lu Guanting did not know that one day in the future, this "Love of a Lifetime" would become a generation of classics.
At the end of "Journey to the West", the sunset samurai and the purple xia fairy watched the supreme treasure silently turn around on the city wall and step onto the vast desert, and the song of "Love of a Lifetime" sounded, and this sad and helpless song echoed in the leisurely world.
Many viewers sighed, watching the first time, thinking it was a comedy, watching the second time it turned out to be a tragedy, and when they watched it again, they understood that it was life.
When I watched "Journey to the West" when I was young, I didn't know the magic of that look of ten thousand years, and I didn't care about the pain of losing my beloved. After all, when we are young, we think that we have more time to squander, and there are opportunities to keep, but we do not know that some things will never be regained if they are lost.
Supreme Treasure finally understood that he wanted to protect Zixia, but he did not have the ability, when he put on the tight hoop, he had the ability to protect Zixia, but he had to pay the price for losing the ability to love, and finally doomed the Supreme Treasure to lose Zixia.
The transformation of the Supreme Treasure to Sun Wukong is the process of a person's slow growth, he has reined in debauchery, let go of love and hate, this is a painful process, and there is too much helplessness in between.
Young people do not understand is infatuation, middle age understands the vicissitudes.
When you are young, you meet your beloved, you want to give her happiness, but you have no ability, when you have the ability to give her happiness, the beloved person can only leave you.
Some people say that when you understand "The Love of a Lifetime", you understand what sadness and helplessness are. When you really understand "Journey to the West", you understand love.
In the film, when the Supreme Treasure silently turns around and steps into the vast desert, after many years of experiencing the bitterness and helplessness of life, we understand how difficult it is to turn around.
This is the truth of life, when you reach middle age, you wake up to its cruelty. How solipsistic I once was about love, how remorseful I am now. This is the helplessness and confession of a middle-aged man after shouldering a heavy responsibility.
Stephen Chow once said: "Sometimes you think you just missed one person, but in fact you missed the whole life." ”
There are also many behind-the-scenes anecdotes in "Journey to the West",
Playing the Bull Devil King in the film is Lu Shuming, who once played Guan Yu in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and Zhao Jiping, because he could not understand the plot of the film, after filming, Lu Shuming also put forward the same requirements as Zhao Jiping, "You must not add my name at the end of the movie, I can't afford to lose this person." Liu Zhenwei finally removed Lu Shuming's name in the movie. So even after many years of release, many people don't know that the Bull Demon King in the film is played by "Guan Yu".
In the film, zixia fairy and pig eight precepts have exchanged body plots, and the eight precepts of pigs in the film are indeed zhu Yin's cameo.
The location of the film was selected in the Zhenbeibao Film and Television City in Yinchuan, Ningxia, and I did not expect that after the popularity of "Journey to the West", the Zhenbeibao Film and Television City was blessed by misfortune and became a famous tourist attraction, and the Internet celebrity punch card holy land. Whenever tourists come to Zhenbei fort Film and Television City, they can hear the familiar song "Love of a Lifetime".
After the film was released in 2015, the box office fiasco directly led to the bankruptcy of Chow Sing Chi's newly established Caixing Company, and Hong Kong film critics scolded director Liu Zhenwei to the point of exhaustion, and Liu Zhenwei had to bid farewell to the Hong Kong film industry and leave For Canada.
What Liu Zhenwei and Zhou Xingchi did not expect was that three years later, "Journey to the West" inexplicably became popular again, and then the plot of this film, together with Zhou Xingchi's funny and nonsensical lines, quickly spread like a virus throughout the Network at that time.
As "Journey to the West" swept the Internet, critics also began to reinterpret it, giving it more connotations.
"Journey to the West" has thus become a representative of postmodern films, and finally was directly canonized, and Zhou Xingchi was also called "Star Ye", and many viewers said that because of "Journey to the West", Xing Ye owed a movie ticket.
After many years, another "Journey to the West" series of movies "The Origin of the Journey to the West" will be broadcast on the network platform.
The film tells the story of the origin of the Supreme Treasure and Zixia in their past lives. The story takes place 500 years before qi tian dasheng made a big fuss in the heavenly palace, and the "wick" Zixia played by Ma Xinrui is about to burn out, and the lamplighter must pull out the sword to save her.
Zixia discovered through the Moonlight Treasure Box that her lamplighter was the Qi Tian Dasheng who had made a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace five hundred years later. And the Qi Tian Great Sage in this lifetime is the Supreme Treasure of Ordinary People. So Zixia and the Supreme Treasure began a love story that was earth-shattering and weeping ghosts.
I don't know how this "Origin of the Journey to the West" will continue to write the love story of Zixia and supreme treasure. Are you looking forward to this film? #大话西游之缘起 #
