Many post-80s and post-90s have watched "Journey to the West Afterword" and are unforgettable for the repeated martial arts shots in the play. In addition to the criticism of martial arts, in fact, the story itself is still very good-looking, with the style of reasoning suspense drama.
Speaking of which, I have to say that the screenwriter of the play, Qian Yanqiu.
Nowadays, Qian Yanqiu is famous, once filmed "Detective Di Renjie" to win the red Liang Guanhua and Zhang Zijian, and the three have cooperated in many plays one after another, known as the "Iron Triangle".
Many years later, Qian Yanqiu was preparing to remake "Journey to the West Afterword", at which time the director of the Television Drama Department of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television talked to him: In recent years, the four famous works "Journey to the West", "Dream of the Red Chamber", "Water Margin" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" have been filmed badly and hurt feelings, and the TV series can no longer move the four famous works in the future.
Before the filming of this play began, Shandong Satellite TV had already designated this drama as the Spring Festival file, and it had been sold before it was filmed, which showed the TV station's recognition of Qian Yanqiu's ability.
Before this conversation, Qian Yanqiu had set the six-year-old child to play Sun Wukong early, and let Zhang Zijian play the Erlang God.
Many people don't know that when your "Journey to the West" was filmed before the shooting, the crew found six young children, and both sides talked very well. Later, for various reasons, it was missed by mistake. Finally, Hong Kong actor Cao Rong was hired to play Sun Wukong.
If the six-year-old child had been allowed to star more excitingly, after all, the sequel to "Journey to the West" had already been broadcast at that time, and the influence was still very large. However, this is all hypothetical.
Qian Yanqiu held a meeting from the General Bureau to prepare for the filming of "Journey to the West Sequel" and saw that it was going to be aborted, and the main creators met overnight and could only change the script. Therefore, Sun Wukong changed to Shi Dangdang, Rulai changed to the Jade Emperor, Tang Monk changed to Erlang God, Pig Eight Precepts changed to Pig Half Jin, Heavenless Changed Kui Gang and so on.
After the role, the actor also has to adjust the role, who will play Shi Daredang? The six-year-old boy was not suitable, so he changed to play the Jade Emperor.
In order to find Shi Dangdang, the investor, producer, and director team tried their best to find the right actor, and various reasons were unsuccessful. Seeing that the shooting date was coming, Zhang Zijian was finally selected to play Shi Daredang. Who will play Erlang Shen, at the beginning also looking for a number of actors, is not appropriate, everyone will lock their eyes on the director Qian Yanqiu.
Qian Yanqiu is a director, and he has to work a lot of filming, shuttling back and forth between martial arts and literary dramas. He doesn't want to act, and he needs to wear 50 pounds of armor in the summer, which is generally unbearable. In the end, because no one played, he went up to the top.
In this way, this "Shi Dare to Be a Hero of Tiandong" urgently changed the script, fixed the role, and finally broadcast, many viewers criticized this play, this is not the "Journey to the West Sequel" of that year, but the characters are different, the story structure is exactly the same.