"Journey to the West" I think everyone should have seen it, and the most impressive thing in it should be the strange power and chaos and a lot of character images. I remember when I was young, as long as it was a holiday, I would see the eighty-three version of "Journey to the West" directed by Yang Jie on the TV series, according to the shooting level at that time, everyone felt very amazed. In fact, the earliest filming of "Journey to the West" is not the 83rd edition, the earliest should be traced back to the silent film "Pansi Cave" in 1927.
The director of this film is named Dan Duyu, he was once a small high-ranking official, seeing that the film industry has a great future, he invested all his money in the film industry and opened a film and television company. In fact, before this, there were very few film companies, and the only famous film industry was "Dingjun Mountain", but it was a completely opera-based film.
At the beginning, Dan Du Yu was completely groping to shoot the film, and in the beginning he only made some life movies, but the reaction was average. In order to break through and innovate, Dan Duyu made a film about Western games. This idea comes from his seeing Journey to the West, thinking of those wonderful and interesting pictures in Journey to the West, everyone can only rely on reading books to imagine, if you can shoot the strange and chaotic god of Journey to the West, it will definitely attract many viewers.
But as soon as Du Yu had this idea, he said and did it, and he studied a book of "Journey to the West" assiduously, and finally chose the chapter of "Pansi Cave" among many chapters. After having the script, he began to choose actors, in the book because the actress played the spider essence of the beautiful charm, so in the selection of actors in order to pursue the standards in the book, the actress should be the better the better.
But Du Yu's film company has not yet made money, and due to the company's financial constraints, he can't afford to hire famous actors at all, only to find some actors who are not famous. However, the positioning of this film is a silent film, compared to the sound film, all the storylines in it are completed by the actors with physical expression, which is higher in difficulty than the sound film.
At that time, the key to the reputation of the actors was how the actors acted, so the actors that Du Yu could invite could not be said to be the kind with superior acting skills, so the effort paid in the whole shooting process needed to be greater.
Since there were no computer animation effects such as PS at that time, for some specific characters and scenes, Du Yu remembered the use of animal actors, such as when Goku turned into an eagle to take away the clothes of the monster, the eagle used was the real eagle, unfortunately, although the eagle at that time completed the action of taking away the clothes, the eagle also flew away and never came back.
Throughout the filming, Du Yu basically copied the chapter of "Pansi Cave" 1-to-1. First look at the character of Sun Wukong, the face of the hair is basically a yellow hair Lei male face, this is not nothing, to say that the most pitiful or play the pig eight precepts of the actor, he wears a pig face style black leather holster, the nose is long and large, completely "wild boar" appearance. Moreover, the hood is still very breathless, and in the hot situation, it is necessary to make a variety of actions to fully reflect the greed and greed of the eight precepts of the pig, which is also a great challenge for the actor itself.
When everything was ready, Du Yu found that the crew did not have money to invite extras, so he begged the actors who were invited, hoping that they could say that their families would come to perform for free, and finally solved the problem of extras in the hollowing out of their minds.
After the new movie was released, it really received public attention. It can be seen that the efforts of the director but Du Yu are worth it, only the tickets for "Pansi Cave" have reached one dollar a piece, and it should be known that at that time, the salary of the employee was only five yuan a month.
That's it, but Du Yu was popular with "Journey to the West" for 2 years, but 2 years later, this film was permanently banned by the Nationalist government. Many people regret this, and the reasons for pursuing it afterwards are mainly these two points.
First of all, although it was the Republic of China period at that time, people's old ideas still existed, but in the play, in order to pursue the truth, some actresses only wore a belly pocket, which was extremely exposed in the eyes of the Republic of China government. And there are many fight scenes, the character image is also more fierce and terrifying, and the fight scene is too violent, which is very easy to bring bad influence to everyone.
Secondly, at that time, in an effort to break superstition, the reform movement during the Republic of China period pointed the spearhead at "Journey to the West". I feel that this bad atmosphere should not be allowed to harm people's nerves, not to mention that the content of the book cannot be believed, and how can they fool the audience.
There may be many reasons, but the most important is the above two points, so "Pansi Cave" is completely banned in China. But it is very fortunate that this film and television production, "Pansi Cave" was the first Chinese film that was once turned over by Norway. Later, Denmark gave the negatives of "Pansi Cave" to China as a gift, which led to the preservation of this precious film.