Everyone's childhood has a TV series called "shadow", such as "Fengshen List" and "Young Bao Qingtian".
But when it comes to the originator of horror TV dramas, it is the 87 version of "Liaozhai".
87 edition of "Liaozhai"
How terrifying is this TV series?
The mountains are desolate, and the moon is faintly starry
A house of dim lanterns came from far and near
Under the cold and silent green lights, demons and ghosts, fox fairy spirits
It's creepy and scary
In those years, such a scale could be passed, which was also extremely lucky. However, even if it is so terrible, when we were children, even if we covered our eyes, we had to peek through the cracks of our fingers.
Because the plot is too wonderful, the music is too in place, the beauty is too eye-catching, and each one is called "stunning"!
Even after more than 30 years, the Douban score of this TV series is still as high as 8.6 points.
Douban score
An audience member once commented on the 87th edition of "Liaozhai":
"Twenty years later, this work is still unforgettable. It is not a fast food that is eaten and forgotten, sweet and instant, but a taste of aftertaste, sweet and long tea. ”
In the end, why is this drama that seems to be backward and the picture is not clear enough today, and why is it still an insurmountable classic?
To understand a play, you need to know more about the truth behind the scenes
Hello everyone, I'm Sir Shogun
Today, Shogun Sir will walk with you into the story behind the scenes of the 87th edition of "Liaozhai"
In 1983, Shandong Television's self-produced "Water Margin" series was very fruitful.
Subsequently, the "Journey to the West" filmed by CCTV once again set off a boom in the adaptation of famous works, and director Yang Jie shouldered the heavy responsibility and experienced 9981 difficulties with a group of actors before presenting the audience with the most audience and the most replayed classic series.
Journey
While the iron was hot, CCTV immediately launched "Dream of the Red Chamber", still talking about the streets.
Seeing the success of these two dramas, there was one person who could not sit still, he was Yu Yueting, who was the director of Fujian Television Station at the time.
Yu Yueting
In 1986, Yu Yueting had just taken up his post, and seeing the hit of "Journey to the West", he also had a bold idea in his heart - to also make a classical literary masterpiece!
At this time, a writer named Li Dong in the stage gave him a suggestion: Since you want to shoot, why not be bold and shoot a 60-episode "Liaozhai".
Li Dong
Unexpectedly, this idea poked Yu Yueting's heart. As soon as he slapped his thigh, he made "Liaozhai"!
The idea was there, but the reality gave Yu Yueting a blow. You know, behind the "Journey to the West" is CCTV, although the funds were not abundant that year, but at least it can get basic protection, and the twenty-five episodes of "Journey to the West" cost about six million.
But Fujian Television is only a local station, and the entire TV drama department is only 16 people, and it is not even possible to put together a film crew. And the funding is also far from the same, the annual allocation of funds allocated by the station to the TV drama department is only 200,000, and this money can not allow Yu Yueting to complete this dream in any way.
Coupled with the fact that the remake of classical masterpieces was a big project, in that era, almost all the production of blockbuster TV series was a rock crossing the river, long preparations, complex personnel, and overstretched capital, for Fujian Tv, this is tantamount to shaking the tree!
Dream
But even if there are many hardships and the future is uncertain, Yu Yueting still has an iron heart to shoot!
In March 1987, on a small island in Ningde, Fujian Province, the Liaozhai Recording Headquarters was officially established, and 16 people and a four-story house in the village were all their family foundations.
Dreams are beautiful after all, but reality has become difficult. They planned 60 episodes, but now they can't even get ten thousand dollars.
Just when everyone was worried about the funds, Li Dong, who was in charge of script coordination, stood up. He first found the film studio and partners and discussed with them: since the funds are so tight, it is better to shoot while broadcasting, or to observe how the response of the show is, and then decide whether to continue shooting.
In the Chinese film and television industry at that time, such an idea was the first, and this proposal was immediately recognized by everyone.
So the crew went around looking for sponsorship, and in the face of the dilemma, the director even released harsh words before filming began, don't come if you want to make money!
However, what everyone did not expect was that when they heard that Liaozhai was going to be put on the screen, the entire art world actually exploded!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="105" > the main creative dream team</h1>
All kinds of able people from the south and north of the Tiannanhai gathered in Fuzhou, which made FujianTai, which was originally under pressure and "lonely and angry"
In an instant, it became a "group of excitement".
Liu Yinping of Shanghai Television first joined the main creative team, and the producer who later became popular in the industry under the name of "Liu Dayin" also created many myths in film and television dramas, such as Liu Xiaoqing's version of "Wu Zetian" and Chen Daoming's version of "Kangxi Dynasty".
Liu Xiaoqing's version of "Wu Zetian"
Subsequently, Fujian Tv received many self-recommendation letters written by directors. They are full of emotion, grateful for the obsession of the crew, and even want to bring their own team to join.
There are Suri, the director who directed "Liu Sanjie", Wang Fulin, the director of the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber", Chen Jialin, the director of "Nurhaci", and Xie Jin, who is known as the "grandfather of Chinese cinema"!
Xie Jin
In addition, the luxurious team of consultants is even more jaw-dropping!
Feng Zhi, who was called "China's most outstanding lyric poet" by Lu Xun, Cao Yu, who was known as "Chinese Shakespeare", the famous painter Fan Zeng, and Yuan Shishuo, an expert in classical literature, all joined in.
In the end, the entire crew brought together dozens of directors, hundreds of actors, twenty or thirty screenwriters and thousands of creators! This team almost covered half of the Chinese literary and art circles at that time.
Such a lineup can really be described as unprecedented and unprecedented.
In this way, a legendary "dream team" opened a magnificent liaozhai world in the city of all wills, shaping the legend in the history of Chinese TV series creation.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="107" > all the staff are stunning</h1>
In order to be more in line with the original work, the crew has made sufficient efforts in casting, and many familiar actors have participated in the filming: "Tang Monk" Xu Shaohua, "Jia Rui" Ma Guangru, Xue Baochao "Zhang Li".
Xu Shaohua
In addition, "Liaozhai" can be described as beautiful as a cloud. Some people say that this is a "full of color" TV series, whether it is the protagonist or supporting roles, each of which can be called "national color heavenly fragrance"
Zheng Shuang, the third lady of "Water Margin", Su Ma Lagu Ruping of "Kangxi Dynasty", He Qing, the only one who has performed the four famous works called "the first classical beauty", Qu Ying, who is still active on the screen, Wu Haiyan, the daughter of the Journey to the West, and Chen Hong, who is known as the "first beauty of the mainland".
Chen Hong
In addition, there are many beautiful women who have glimpsed a glimpse, and they disappear like ephemeral flowers after their stunning appearance in the play.
Gao Jianhua, who plays Xiangyu, Zhang Li, who plays Ah Ying, Wang Lingqun, who plays Bao Ning, and Zheng Hui, who plays Ah Bao.
A smile, Juan Li is incomparable. The most beautiful Fanghua, integrated with Baimei.
Charming
However, because of the search for money while filming and broadcasting, no money has become the biggest problem of the crew! Although there is a little corporate sponsorship in front of it, it is still far from enough for a huge work to shoot sixty or seventy episodes.
During the filming of "Life and Death", director Zhao Huanzhang took the crew to shoot the location, but when the scene was ready to check out, he found that the money was not enough. The location asked to withhold the costume props as collateral, and in desperation, a staff member of the crew volunteered to say that he could leave himself as a hostage.
Hearing this, Zhao Huanzhang immediately took out all the money in his pocket, and the others were also deeply moved to pay money to redeem people, and at this time, everyone did not have a penny of labor fees.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="108" > hard shooting</h1>
The crew had difficulty raising money, and the shooting was also extremely difficult. Because of the demand for dramas, the play needs a lot of special effects shots, but the technology at that time was still relatively backward, and the actors had to do high-risk actions by themselves.
During the filming of "Flower Girl", in order to save the money for the stand-in for the crew, Huo Lianhua, the actor who played AnGongsheng, actually got entangled with a giant python about 50 centimeters thick, and did not forget to joke: "Comrades, in case I can't do it, everyone can go together!" ”
When filming "Lu Gongnu", the situation of the headquarters of Liaozhai became more and more difficult, and the headquarters could only sell the only work car, plus the 6,000 yuan that the production director Wang Feng paid for himself to make the crew start the camera as scheduled, and after the shooting was completed, the crew also saved 1337.67 yuan.
In 1988, this TV series co-produced by Fujian Television Station and Nanchang Film and Television Creation Research Institute was finally released in the anticipation of the people. Once it was broadcast, it gave all the audience a surprise, which not only caused a strong response in China, but also spread throughout Southeast Asia.
Japanese television stations even spared no expense to buy the broadcast rights of all TV dramas, and Chinese TV dramas were translated into Japanese for the first time and went abroad!
Now more than 30 years later, this Liaozhai, which has been called "childhood shadow" by countless people, has become a classic legend that can be compared with the four famous works of CCTV.
Although it seems that the makeup of that year was rougher, but the antique style, there is no spicy eye link and the shape of killing Matt, and the theme song in the play is still fresh in people's minds.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="114" > Shandong's special theme song</h1>
When making the opening song for "Liaozhai", the story of this fox ghost world made Wang Liping, who has been in the battlefield for a long time, make it difficult. He thought about it but could not find inspiration, just at this time, the lyricist Qiao Yu called and read the lyrics he had just written to Wang Liping.
Wang Liping
Coincidentally, Mr. Qiao's Shandong accent collided with this song to create a different spark, and Wang Liping immediately burst into inspiration and composed the song in only 15 minutes. As a result, the Shandong characteristics of the theme song "Talking about Liaozhai" were born in a coincidence.
You also talk about fasting, and I also say talking about fasting
Joy and sorrow come to that heart together
The ghost is not the ghost, and the monster is not the monster
The cow ghost snake god is more cute than the righteous gentleman
In addition, the soundtrack in the play also adds a lot of color to the play. Especially the music at the beginning, with the flickering lights
At that time, I really frightened a lot of friends.
Although many directors have remade "Liaozhai" later, they have never been able to surpass this version.
Speaking of these songwriters at that time, the final remuneration was only 800 yuan, which was almost of a public welfare nature. Because in their hearts, it is also their greatest wish to make an effort for such an artistic and challenging film and television drama.
Unfortunately, in 1990, Fujian Television suddenly dismissed Yu Yueting from his post, and after the new director arrived, he ordered the filming of "Liaozhai" to be stopped, and the dramas such as "Painted Skin" and "Nie Xiaoqian", which were about to start filming, also had no choice but to "miscarry", becoming a permanent regret.
Zhao Wei and Zhou Xun, "Painting the Skin"
Wang Zuxian's version of Nie Xiaoqian
Today, Shogun Sir relives his old dreams and is still attracted by the plot and moved by the characters.
These antique shapes and soundtracks, as well as the actors who are full of dramas between their hands and feet, make Sir The Curtain still love this drama deeply even after more than ten years.
Writing ghosts write demons are superior to people, and stabbing greed and stabbing into the bones is three points
These demons, ghosts, foxes and elves, people and ghosts fall in love, and the yin and yang are separated.
These originally unrealistic plots make this TV series more soulful and vital.
When we watched the play, we not only saw these bizarre stories, but also felt the strangeness of people's hearts and the strangeness of the world.
There are tears in laughter, and there are sorrows in music
A little solemn, a little witty
A little bit of a joke, a little bit of emotion
Who can solve this taste
I'm Shogun Sir, we'll see you next time!