Do you know? "The Moonlight Treasure Box of the Journey to the West" and "The Great Saint Marrying Relatives" were originally a complete film, and director and screenwriter Liu Zhenwei did not prepare a detailed script at the beginning, and only relied on the framework in the concept to start shooting.
Not only are the character names in the film appropriated from another abandoned script, but even many classic lines are actually played by actors such as Stephen Chow themselves. Later, Liu Zhenwei patted and filmed before realizing that the development of the plot had exceeded his estimates, and the short three or two hours could not contain his original whimsy, so he simply divided the plan into two, and only then did we have the upper and lower episodes we see today.
"Journey to the West" was co-produced by Xi'an Film Studio and Hong Kong Color Star Corporation in 1994. The investment was close to HK$60 million, which was the largest investment in a Sino-Hong Kong co-production film that year.
The West Film Studio was a famous factory at that time, and there are certainly not many people who know about the company.
Caixing is the first film company founded by Zhou Xingchi after filming "Jigong", and "Journey to the West" is also caixing's debut.
When Zhou Xingchi was looking for a door opening work, he saw Liu Zhenwei, who had many years of experience in comedy films, so he looked for him to partner. At the beginning, after reading the script, the Western Film Studio did not intend to cooperate with it, but it saw that the lead actor was Stephen Chow, and the appeal of Stephen Chow in the film circle a year or two ago was unmatched, so it agreed.
In July and August 1994, the crew officially started, in order to complete the shooting work as promised in more than 100 days, the behind-the-scenes staff was divided into three groups, Group A was led by Liu Zhenwei to shoot the literary scene, Group B was responsible for shooting the martial arts scene, Group C was waiting in Xi'an Film Studio, as long as the actors went to Ningxia Town North Fort Film and Television City to shoot the exterior, as soon as they finished work, they invited the inside shooting work, so at that time, both the actors and the staff had to work overtime to shoot on the scene, which was extremely hard.
However, after the film came out that year, many people could not understand what the film wanted to express, and Zhang Zien, who was the deputy director of the art factory at the time, even believed that this film could not represent the artistic pursuit of the Western Film Studio, and even could only be regarded as cultural garbage.
Due to the tight shooting hours and heavy tasks at that time, in order to save resources, the crew really made the best use of them. Liu Zhenwei not only starred in bodhi laozu himself, the blind man in the play was also played by executive director Jiang Youcheng, and after the Purple Xia Fairy won the Soul Transfer Dafa, the masked Pig Eight Precepts was also played by Zhu Yin herself.
In addition, the god-nagging Tang Monk urgently asked Luo Jiaying to come to the rescue when the original actor could not withstand the nonsense performance style.
Luo Jiaying also originally created many classic lines in the film,
"You want it, you want to make it clear, I'll give it to you if you want it, of course I won't give it to you if you want me, it's impossible for you to say you don't want me to give it to you, you don't want me but you want to give it to you, everyone is reasonable." 」
According to relevant sources, the script of the first draft of Wong Kar-wai's "East Evil and West Poison" was later useless, and the first 15 minutes of the play were later taken by Liu Zhenwei to do the script of "Journey to the West with Big Words".
And what the supreme treasure said in the play: "There was once a sincere love in front of me, I did not..." is to borrow from Wong Kar-wai's "Chongqing Forest" "If memory is a can, I hope this can will never expire" that sentence.
Liu Zhenwei said in an interview at the time that the men and women in the movie loved many times but never said a word of love. But it is precisely because of this sentence that the young people of that era remembered this sentence and remembered the big words of journey to the west.
Although the music at the end of "Journey to the West" is signed by Lu Guanting, most of the music is produced by Zhao Jiping, who is also the music producer of "Red Gaoliang", "Farewell to the Overlord" and today's "Mei Lanfang". He was still a big investment from the Western Film Studio, so the Western Film Studio found Zhao Lao.
Although Zhao Lao did not like the plot and style of the film, he still produced most of the music due to the face of the Western Film Studio. After the music was finished, he instructed the film not to sign his name at the end, and he could not afford to lose the man.
Sure enough, the box office of "Journey to the West", which had just been released for a day or two, directly hit the street, and fans did not believe that Stephen Chow would make such a movie.
What is more serious is that the Caixing Film Company that Zhou Xingchi and Yang Guohui just formed has also collapsed in situ. It also delayed many of Stephen Chow's large-scale investment film plans, such as the later movie "Kung Fu".
Careful netizens can see in the later "Kung Fu" movie that Feng Xiaogang said after coming out of the police station:
"I can't do movies in any business, and on Sundays the cinema doesn't even have a person",
And the name of the movie theater in the film is the Star Color Cinema that Xingye himself has closed, which is also laughing at himself!
So how did the journey to the west succeed in turning over?
In 1996, the film copy was transferred to the Beijing Film Academy, and unexpectedly set off a storm in this university overnight, and students envied the love story of Supreme Treasure and Zixia Fairy in the play.
In the following two years, the VCD of "Journey to the West" sold more than once, the Spring Festival Movie Channel was replayed many times, and a large number of big talk fans were cultivated, coupled with many praises for this film on the Internet, which spread to 2000, and the Journey to the West in the mainland was already too hot to do it, and even Zhou Xingchi himself was very surprised by it. I don't know what Elder Zhao will think later?#Gossip Manual# #综娱大赏 #
