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In 1986, after "Journey to the West" was broadcast on CCTV, it triggered a craze for the audience to chase dramas, and now 37 years have passed, and there have been more than 3,000 rebroadcasts alone, which makes people never get tired of watching it, which can be described as a classic among the classics.
But the birth of the classic is not accidental, and the story behind the production of this TV series is more exciting and touching than the show itself.
Due to the limited conditions at that time, this 25-episode TV series was filmed for 6 years, which is unimaginable today.
Many crew members recalled that after filming "Journey to the West" at that time, it felt like taking a true scripture, and the hardships were beyond the imagination of outsiders.
In order to find a suitable location, Yang Jie took the crew to more than 30 provinces, and even went to Thailand, which can be called the road to learn from experience.
At the same time, the special effects technology at that time was insufficient, and many fighting scenes that soared through the clouds and fog were really not easy to make, including the burning of Sun Wukong by Red Boy, which was really burned.
In addition to the fact that the technology can't keep up, the production budget of the entire crew is also stretched, only 6 million, and the production cost of 350 million yuan today is completely different.
Limited production budgets, which leads to many actors "juggling" multiple roles by one person.
In addition to playing the Monkey King, he is also the old Taoist of Che Chiguo, his aunt, the little monk of the temple, and the little monster of Jindou Mountain.
The most is an actor named Li Jiancheng, and one person has played more than 20 different roles, monsters, mortals, eunuchs, and mountain gods.
Writing here, I must talk about the soundtrack in "Journey to the West", such as "Dare to Ask Where the Road Is", "Daughter's Love", "Cloud Palace Xunyin" and other catchy classic tunes, all of which were created by the composer Mr. Xu Jingqing.
As for the soundtrack of the TV series, there are still many twists and turns.
At the beginning, director Yang Jie found seven composers in order to score "Journey to the West", but the results failed to satisfy her.
Until one day, she heard Xu Jingqing's "Happy Huaguo Mountain", which was integrated into Western electric bass and electric guitar, and the bold and avant-garde style was very in line with the essence of Journey to the West, which instantly made Yang Jie's eyes shine, and immediately made Xu Jingqing become a composer.
Xu Jingqing comes from a rural family in Shandong, and his parents are farmers, but this has not affected his pursuit and yearning for music in the slightest.
He liked to play erhu since he was a child, and after graduating from middle school, under the recommendation of his teacher, he was finally admitted to Harbin Academy of Arts through hard work.
It's just that after he graduated, he was sent to the agricultural television center to dub animals, and it didn't develop well until 1983, when a phone call broke his peaceful life.
This call came from the crew of "Journey to the West", asking him to write the opening and ending songs of this drama, which is not difficult for Xu Jingqing, who has been dubbing all year round.
However, when he actually sat at the table to compose music, he realized that he had underestimated the difficulty of the matter, and looking at his scratching of his ears and cheeks, even his wife couldn't help but complain that it felt more difficult for you to write something than for a woman to have a child.
Xu Jingqing, who was exhausted of inspiration, could only admit: But no, you gave birth to a child because you have a child in your belly, and I don't have anything now.
But even so, he couldn't lie down, after all, he had to find a way to complete this arduous task.
So, he pondered every character in Journey to the West day and night, thinking about how to write a majestic and ingenious style.
Just when he was thinking about it, he suddenly saw a group of migrant workers knocking on the lunch box and passing by in front of his window, humming a little song while walking, this kind of casual and free and uninhibited spirit is not the true portrayal of Sun Wukong?
Inspiration suddenly popped up like lightning and flint, Xu Jingqing immediately lay on the desk and wrote down these melodies, and the classic opening song of Journey to the West "Cloud Palace Xunyin" was born.
But after "Journey to the West" aired for 11 episodes, it encountered a big trouble.
Beijing Daily pointed out by name that the opening song "Yungong Xunyin" was too Westernized and not suitable for Chinese masterpieces, and people were generally conservative in their thinking at that time, and many people expressed their dissatisfaction with this Western electronic music, and CCTV director Wang Feng even held a special meeting to ask for Xu Jingqing to be replaced.
The reason is simply that why does the theme song of Chinese TV use Western musical instruments, and some experts also say that this is a blasphemy of famous works, saying that there is no sense of the times and no sense of region?
In the face of such doubts, Director Yang Jie became popular all of a sudden, and replied domineeringly: "This song is the soul of "Journey to the West", and replacing it is equivalent to ruining this work." What is a sense of the times, what is a sense of place, what is the sense of the times for this myth of yours, and which era are you?"
Fortunately, with the strong insistence of director Yang Jie, Xu Jingqing was retained, and "Cloud Palace Xunyin" was finally retained, and later became a popular classic song, which has been sung to this day.
This turmoil is actually a collision between traditional aesthetics and modern innovation.
In the field of music, people's aesthetics are constantly changing with the development of the times. New musical elements and styles are constantly emerging, bringing more possibilities for music creation.
The reason why the 86 version of "Journey to the West" is classic is that everyone, from the director to the actor to the composer, is conscientiously polishing the work, and everyone works together to achieve this classic work.
Finally, I would like to pay tribute to the classics, to director Yang Jie and composer Xu Jingqing, and to all the actors and production staff who have contributed to this drama!
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