Classic works are constantly being remake. Which version of The Journey to the West is the real classic?

When it comes to Journey to the West, which version is the most classic, nine out of ten people will think that the Monkey King portrayed by six-year-old children in CCTV The Journey to the West has become a classic of that era. This TV series has also created several Guinness World Records, and it was filmed with a camera and a photographer for six years. The special effects of this TV series were not enough at that time, because a dedicated director and a group of excellent actors gave us a wonderful TV series and accompanied us in our childhood.

I think the most classic reason of CCTV version of The Journey to the West is that the actors are more capable of Chinese opera. The problem reflected in the screenshot. Needless to say, six-year-old children are Shao Opera and Monkey Opera. Bajie is a Kunqu Opera actor and Chi is a Peking Opera actor. They used to be actors themselves, not to mention continuing to film, which gave them full experience. At that time, it was three minutes on stage and ten years off stage. It is even unprecedented to say how much sweat the CCTV version of Journey to the West has condensed.

The production cycle is long, and the actual shooting is far away. Making TV plays in the 1980s is more bitter than making movies now. In addition, it is estimated that many people's hometowns have been selected for the CCTV version of Journey to the West, such as Zhangjiajie and Huangguoshu. There was no Golden Week in the 1980s, and when these scenes came out, many viewers were envious. Look at Zhang Jizhong's version of The Journey to the West. In the 60th episode, Lao Zhang sent several planes to take aerial photos, and when he came back, he became a green screen. Although the synthesis has also cost a lot of money, at present this technology is just thankless.

I think Journey to the West is really a very, very valuable literary work. It successfully predicted the miracle of audio-visual language, and provided various wonders for today's adaptation (spectacle of characters, spectacle of actions, spectacle of scenes ...), which are the inherent advantages of film and television works.