In history, what is the story of Ren Dahui?

Mr. Ren Dahui is known as "China's No. 1 Producer" and the chief producer of the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and has served as the producer of CCTV's version of "Dream of Red Mansions", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin".

In 1987, the TV series "Dream of Red Mansions" was broadcast on national television, causing huge repercussions. The success of "Dream of Red Mansions" made Ren Dahui, who had served as the production director of the "Dream of Red Mansions" crew, feel very gratified, and in this year, Ren Dahui's career also reached a new level, he was transferred to the TV drama international cooperation company under the China International Television Corporation as the general manager, and soon after he arrived, the leaders of CCTV found him and told him that the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was about to be filmed. I myself have experience in filming big dramas, so when it came to filming "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", one of our ministers said to people, don't fight any of you, I will find you a producer, I will definitely be able to cooperate with you, and promise to complete this thing well. The leading group of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is the first leading group established after talking to oneself first.

After three years of preparation, in 1990, the preparatory team of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" entered the substantive operation stage, and the first thing was to determine the director, and at that time, there were not many directors and producers in the mainland who had experience in shooting large-scale TV dramas. Everyone said that we had the experience of "Dream of Red Mansions", and we were still looking for our own director, but in the end, it was decided to invite Wang Fulin to be the director, and said that Dahui, you go to inform Wang Fulin, and sometimes joked that I told Director Wang, "Dream of Red Mansions" is you looking for me, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" but I went to find you, Wang Fulin laughed. In this way, Wang Fulin and Ren Dahui became partners again, and this time, they shouldered the heaviest burden in the history of Chinese TV dramas at that time, recalling that they had more than 100 people in the crew and cast of "Dream of Red Mansions" at that time, and they filmed for a total of two years. The cast and crew of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" will greatly exceed that of any previous drama, and the budget for episodes will be more than twice that of "Dream of Red Mansions", which will be a longer filming cycle, maybe five years, or even longer. One of our deputy ministers said no, don't say that it has been filming for five or eight years, just shoot for more than three years, more than four years, what if something happens, what if something happens to the actors, what if you can't catch it, no, you still have to find a director, everyone shoot quickly.

A few years ago, when filming "Dream of Red Mansions", the actors were all with the group for two years and could not take on the scene elsewhere, and at this time, it was obviously out of place to let many actors in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" follow the crew for five years, how to speed up the filming progress, Ren Dahui and Wang Fulin discussed with the leaders and finally determined the solution, with Wang Fulin as the chief director, and five sub-directors, by Cai Xiaoqing, Zhang Shaolin, Sun Guangming, Zhang Zhongyi and Shen Haofang served respectively, and the five directors were divided into five teams, two teams were on the team, three teams were prepared, and occasionally three teams were on the team.

After the director team was determined, the crew quickly began to look for actors, and the many characters in the play, especially the characters in the novel, had to be carefully considered to find the most suitable candidate. After nearly a year of selection, most of the actors were finally in place, but I didn't expect Zhuge Liang's actor selection to go wrong. Because there are so many directors and five directors, everyone has an agreement, that is, the actor must agree with the five directors before he can decide who to decide, for example, Guan Yu and whom. At the beginning, Tang Guoqiang came, and the Zhuge Liang was not him, it was Pu Cunxin, and then Pu Cunxin suddenly received something, so Zhuge Liang was empty.

Zhuge Liang is one of the important characters in the Three Kingdoms drama, and the role runs almost through the beginning and end, and whether Zhuge Liang's actors are properly selected is directly related to the success of the whole play. Seeing that the day of start-up is getting closer and closer, Zhuge Liang's candidate is still vacant, and everyone is at a loss. That's at this time, Tang Guoqiang came, what did Tang Guoqiang try, try Zhou Yu, also the students, after trying Zhou Yu, Tang Guoqiang is very familiar to everyone, we all think he is a "cream student" in our circle, we have a director named Shen Haofang, Shen Haofang said, tell Director Wang Fulin, say Director Wang, let him stick on his beard and let's see if it's okay, Zhou Yu is beardless, do you know, everyone understands that sticking a beard is to play Zhuge Liang, because I heard that Zhuge Liang (actor) has a problem.

After Tang Guoqiang glued his beard, his image and temperament were very much in line with the director's requirements for Zhuge Liang, but whether he could play Zhuge Liang well was unknown to everyone at that time. Later, Director Wang said to himself, this "cream boy", is this something we have to do about it, and then brought it up, saying this, talking to Tang Guoqiang, he has to make a sketch, because there is a minister in the leading group above him, you have to let him watch it, so he told Tang Guoqiang that you are ready, and after a week, you will record "Longzhong Pair", which is Zhuge Liang's monologue "Longzhong Pair", according to Zhuge Liang's image and makeup, and finally everyone watched it, everyone was satisfied.

In 1991, the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" officially started filming, compared with all the previous crews, the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" crew can be described as huge, five groups of director teams, plus many actors, were filmed all over the country, and the coordination was very cumbersome. "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is about 1,000 cast and crew, and there are nearly 200 people in each team. We have a very clear system, that is, every one to two weeks there is a regular meeting of the production director, you have to fly back anywhere, or I go to you or you come back, you have to fly back in Yunnan for a week or two, let's have this meeting, what will it be, that is, the five production directors are all there, coordinate, the horses, the plumbing, all have to come, we coordinate, how to shoot in the next two weeks, next month, who, who, who, what is pinched.

Ren Dahui knows very well in his heart that the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" he is producing may become a very important work in the history of Chinese TV dramas, and the number of actors and costumes and props required to shoot this drama is unprecedented. So far, the number of extras, props and costumes used in the filming of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is still the largest among domestic TV dramas. Horses or props, all of them are one, one is already tens of thousands, Hollywood once invited himself to visit Hollywood, the person in charge of the Hollywood props library bragged to himself that we have 70,000 props, I thought about it at the time, 70,000 pieces, I said that we "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" at least 30,000 props, a weapon is counted as one, they were also surprised when they heard it, your "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and the number of props in Hollywood in the United States is really about the same, that is thousands of weapons, knives, forks, swords, Halberd, this shield, and then all kinds of actors' costumes, that's all, you come to the 4,000 PLA, do you have no clothes, just wear PLA clothes, you have to wear Wei Shuwu's clothes, so in this sense, probably in the history of Chinese TV dramas or films, its scale can also be written.

What makes Ren Dahui feel relieved is that the filming conditions of the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" have changed greatly compared with the fact that he only had one or two cameras in the crew of "Dream of Red Mansions". Filming "Red Cliff War" eleven cameras, there are ten at the bottom, and a helicopter is rented above, a total of eleven cameras to shoot, so it doesn't mean that like filming "Dream of Red Mansions" at the beginning, there was an inch with a single camera, and there was no inch at that time. Ren Dahui remembered that at that time, the five groups of directors filmed together, and the schedule was indeed guaranteed, but the drawbacks also followed. Five team shooting, there are a lot of inconsistencies, if you make him consistent, he also has inconsistencies, for example, two teams shoot Zhou Yu, just two actors play Zhou Yu, in the end, you can't get it, what should these two Zhou Yu do, Wang Fulin was stunned in the end, and then made up for it, reshooted, reshooted, made up for several episodes, and finally there was a make-up team to make up for it, so I think that filming a good drama, first of all, the book is good, the book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is really good, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" The second is to have a good team, I think our team is a better team, that is, I and the following five directors and five producers, including Director Wang, this contradiction everyone will talk about things, everyone is united, but we must shoot the scene well.

At the beginning of the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the scene of the galloping war horse tripping is impressive, but as everyone knows, this shot is not a stunt, but the crew tried it out again and again in danger. I asked them to shoot a few times, but the shooting was not ideal, and the horse didn't dare to fall when it got there, and I didn't dare to fall as soon as I did that difficult action, and some of the stuntmen above were also a little worried, and they said no, they had to shoot it, I wanted this shot. Then I talked to the stuntman to find the most sensitive, to find the stuntman who had the fastest reaction, and told him that if you want to find a way to touch it, dig a big hole, cover it with grass, disguise it as a road, and not let the horse know, run at high speed, snap, and the camera flipped, and this shot in the opening film, that's how we shot it, and now it seems that we all use stunts, but we only used this stupid method at that time.

After Ren Dahui and Wang Fulin led everyone to fight for two years, the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was finally filmed. In the first month of 1994, the 84-episode large-scale TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was officially broadcast in the mainland. Like "Dream of Red Mansions", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was loved by the audience during the broadcast. This TV series uses manpower, material resources, and costumes and props, which has created many records in the history of Chinese TV dramas.

Our production association once held a meeting, everyone asked themselves to talk about "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", after they finished speaking, those producers across the country said, Lao Ren, you are amazing, but we can't learn from you, we can't afford to learn, we can't do this, the directors, deputy directors, and production directors of all stations across the country sit together and talk, just let yourself talk about how much your "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" costs, props or something, after you finish speaking, you say that you are not typical, you can't learn from you, you are too big.

As the chief housekeeper of the entire "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" crew, Ren Dahui remembers that one of the questions he was asked the most at that time was how much money it cost to shoot such a TV series. When I went to Thailand for a visit, I interviewed myself on a Thai TV station, and I heard that your "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" cost a lot of money, and I said yes, I said that our "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" cost 20 million US dollars according to US dollars, and then the host glared at himself, and said that he spent 10 million US dollars on filming, and we built two scenic spots, a Three Kingdoms City in Zhuozhou and a Three Kingdoms City in Wuxi, so I added up to 20 million US dollars. The host looked at himself, I heard that you used a lot of extras and a lot of big scenes in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", how many people did you share, I was actually rough and didn't calculate very carefully, I said 400,000 people, "Red Cliff War" 4,000 people, one shot Shoot for a week, you calculate how many times, that is more than 20,000 people, those big scenes are too many, I said 400,000 people, and then the next day Thailand spread that China's reform and opening up is really rich, and you dare to spend 20 million US dollars to shoot a movie, China is really developing fast. During the broadcast of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it was loved by the audience, and what made Ren Dahui even happier was that not only in China, but also in East Asia and Southeast Asia. The first is Thailand, Thailand held a huge press conference, invited about twenty of us to go, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Cao Cao, Zhuge Liang, it seems that Cao Cao did not go, the king of Thailand, his uncle is called Arnold, especially like "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", he said that I have been watching the Thai version since I was seven years old, at that time the old man had come in a wheelchair, it seemed that he was almost eighty years old, he said that after I finished Chinese, I will watch the original Chinese version, he said that you "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" It's so well written, I'm really happy that you're here today, and you're all flying out of the book. Because he is old and rarely appears in public, the scene is very solemn. At that time, mainland TV dramas had never gained such a big impact overseas, Ren Dahui was worried when he talked about copyright transfer with Thai TV stations, because before this, there had been no case of exporting TV dramas in the mainland, how much price should be set, Ren Dahui was completely unsure of his heart, and then Thailand brought a message and said that they wanted to buy the copyright, and the program department of China Television International Corporation didn't know the price, so how should I make a price with him, so I called myself to go, and I said that I didn't know the price either, but I knew a situation at the time. "Pekingese in New York" was sold to Hong Kong for 2,500 US dollars, why did I say it was so pitiful, before that, it was pushed forward, Chinese TV dramas were sent, not sold, you may not know, it turned out that this was all as a cultural exchange, and various embassies in China took our master tapes to give to others, and I thought at the time, I am bigger than the production of "Beijingers in New York", I have so many people, tens of millions of investments, thousands of troops, I have to double, five thousand dollars, but he has to bargain with me, I have to be a little higher, I want to say six thousand dollars a set, after I finished speaking, the other party in Thailand is surnamed Lin, and he is also a Chinese, Chinese, and he didn't react after listening to it, and after a while, he said to himself, and began to say something else, what about that propaganda, and then what, which means that there is no problem, when to sign the contract, I was still thinking in my heart, broken, I should have more points, more points, and I can earn more foreign exchange for our country.