One night, Zhang Yimou quietly asked Zhao Jiping (the arranger of the Journey to the West): Do you think I can be a director?
Zhao Jiping stared at Zhang Yimou seriously and said: You need a chance to prove yourself.
At that time, Zhang Yimou did not have the background of Chen Kaige, and he did not have the artist temperament, and people in the industry were not optimistic about him.
Zhang Yimou asked doubtfully: When will it arrive?
Zhao Jiping smiled and pointed to the oily noodles, Zhang Yimou understood that he would give him his own bowl.
Zhao Jiping: A woman.
Zhang Yimou was very happy after hearing this and asked: When will she come?
Zhao Jiping touched his belly, burped, and said: The heavenly opportunity must not be leaked.
Zhang Yimou did not ask much now, and promised on the spot: My debut work is you.
In 1984, Chen Kaige filmed "Yellow Land" and called Zhang Yimou, who was still working as a worker in the cotton spinning factory at the time, to carry a video camera, and Zhao Jiping was responsible for composing the music.
Zhao Jiping proposed that the three of them go to northern Shaanxi to find inspiration in order to make the theme song of "Yellow Land" more appropriate to the movie.
The three of them rode a 28-year-old phoenix bicycle from Beijing to Yan'an, and in the cave he listened to the peasant singer He Yutang and sang a night of folk songs from northern Shaanxi.
The clouds collide and stimulate sharply, and music flows secretly from the soul.
Soon, Zhao Jiping had the feeling that he was eating Shaanxi's special oil noodles and garlic, and wrote the theme song "Daughter Song".
One night, Zhang Yimou quietly asked Zhao Jiping: Do you think I can be a director?
At that time, Zhang Yimou did not have the background of Chen Kaige, and he did not have the temperament of an artist, and people in the industry were not optimistic about him.
Zhao Jiping wiped his belly, burped, and said: Heavenly opportunities cannot be leaked.
In 1987, just after Mo Yan's "Red Sorghum" was written, he was favored by Zhang Yimou, who found Mo Yan's gaomi hometown overnight and had to buy the copyright to adapt it into a movie.
Under Zhang Yimou's soft and hard bubble, he gave Mo Yan eight hundred pieces and got the script in his hand.
A year later, Zhang Yimou really waited for his first film, "Red Sorghum".
Zhang Yimou found Zhao Jiping: I have fulfilled my promise.
Zhao Jiping asked: What effect do you want.
Zhang Yimou: A love letter from a bandit to a woman.
Zhao Jiping wiped his mouth, Zhang Yimou understood in seconds, and made him a bowl of oil noodles.
After Zhao Jiping had eaten enough, he used the ramming song of northern Shaanxi one night, plus the flower face singing method of the Qin cavity, and combined the chanting and drumming.
The song is catchy, Zhao Jiping only hummed it once, and the crew all learned it, and Zhang Yimou loved it even more.
After "Red Sorghum", composer Zhao Jiping suddenly became angry, and various awards such as the Golden Rooster Award, the Golden Eagle Award, and the Feitian Award were soft, and the status of the jianghu skyrocketed overnight.
Zhao Jiping has created a golden age of Chinese film and television music in the past few decades, and has dabbled in many fields of music creation, which is impressive.
Chen Kaige's first film "Yellow Land", Zhang Yimou's first film "Red Sorghum", and Zhou Xingchi's first film after the establishment of the company, "Journey to the West" are all songs written by him.
The arrangement of "Farewell to the Overlord" made him a god in one fell swoop, and he became one of the top film score masters in China at that time.
In order to score "Farewell to the Overlord", he softly softened the classical and Western strings of Peking Opera.
After Chen Kaige listened, he only said four words: "Swinging qi and intestines."
Whether it is in cooperation with Chen Kaige, "Farewell to the Overlord", "Wind Moon", "Mei Lanfang", or with Zhang Yimou, "Red Sorghum", "Big Red Lantern Hanging High", "Qiu Ju Fights a Lawsuit".
In cooperation with Zhang Jizhong in film and television films such as "Water Margin", "Smiling Proud of the Rivers and Lakes", and "The Tale of the Dragon Slaughtered in the Heavens", Zhao Jiping is like a traveler, writing music with his "feet".
Writing the music of "Water Margin", he walked in the land of Qilu, wrote "Qiao Family Courtyard" he went deep into Xinzhou, Shanxi Province several times to collect wind, wrote "Great Qinling" he walked into the hinterland of Qinling Mountain, and so on.
It can be said that the music of Zhao Jiping heard by post-80s and post-90s audiences will never be less than listening to Jay Chou's songs.
According to statistics, more than 800 million Chinese listeners have listened to his music for three generations, but Zhao Jiping is a behind-the-scenes worker, and few viewers will notice him.
His fascinating understanding of music has resulted in a close link between tradition and the times again and again.
Because my father told him: Only when you understand this land can you write good things.
When Zhao Jiping composed music for Zhou Xingchi's "Journey to the West", he came to the set and saw that the shed was full of pig intestines, and he threw up at that time, but he promised to others, and after composing the song, he asked Zhou Xingchi not to hang his name.
However, many years later, it was this bad film that he arranged, but it became a classic, and I don't know if he later negotiated with Xingye to sign it.
@LeEco 2008 feels that art should be like this, and really powerful artists will treat their works very strictly and have the ultimate pursuit of their own works.
Because of this, Zhao Jiping took it from the people, poured it on the people, and finally spread the music.
Good film and television works need good music, just like a good horse with a good saddle, no one can be less.
Do you like the works of Teacher Zhao Jiping? Which is the most classic?
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