Behind-the-scenes tidbits of Journey to the West: Yang Jie was kicked out of the drama troupe by Tang Priest and his disciples, and died in the wilderness in vain-

After the filming of Journey to the West was completed, it was shown on TV for more than 3,000 times.

Every episode is a household name.

After World War I, all the main actors became famous.

Only director Yang Jie is unhappy.

In an interview, she made it clear: "The Journey to the West is the eternal knot and pain in my heart. I haven't seen you for ten years. I will change the channel when I see it. "

The host got to the bottom of it and wanted to ask her why.

Yang Jie hesitated and showed them her autobiography.

This autobiography is called My Eighty-One Difficulties.

It is about the sadness of Yang Jie's mental journey.

When she received the task of filming The Journey to the West, Yang Jie found it a hot potato.

First of all, in the mainland, both technology and equipment are backward.

It is impossible to make such a large-scale magic drama.

Secondly, The Journey to the West is the most neglected remake of the four classic novels.

The whole crew has only one camera and one photographer.

The camera is the oldest 300P in the station.

If you don't focus carefully, the picture will be "virtual"

The photographer is Yang Jie's husband, Wang Chongqiu.

If it weren't for him, no one else would have succeeded.

Knowing that there is a shortage of people, money and materials, it is almost impossible to move.

In order to save money and time, Yang Jie brought photographer Wang Chongqiu, site manager Li Chengru, artists, lighting and others before shooting.

The whole country is looking for famous mountains and rivers, Buddhist holy places.

They have been running nonstop for three months and visited almost half of the tourist attractions in China.

Finally, a suitable road to the west was determined.

After the official shooting, Yang Jie and Wang Chongqiu were even more stressed.

The hardest thing about filming is how to shoot.

Walking in the clouds, ever-changing, monsters.

How are these things presented?

They went to Hong Kong to steal teachers, and what they learned was just a scratch.

Not only are they unwilling to teach, but even the basic props are unwilling to show too much.

So even the simplest hanging Weiya, we can only roughly imitate the tiger to draw a cat.

This also leads to frequent accidents.

Pig Bajie, Friar Sand and especially the Monkey King.

They all feel terrible.

Even if I hung up Weiya's Tang Priest twice, I was unfortunately dumped once.

So every time a star hangs up Weiya, he must give a high five to be glad that he is still alive.

As for walking on clouds and the splendor of the heavenly palace, dry ice and trampoline are naturally used.

But people who stay in dry ice for a long time will be seriously unwell.

After filming the scene of the barefoot fairy going to the flat peach party, a regular worker fainted and was rescued urgently.

Not only dry ice is dangerous, but fire is also dangerous.

During the filming of Hong Haier, the Monkey King wore an asbestos suit sewn by the crew.

The hair on his face and body was burnt, and his body was severely deprived of oxygen and suffocated, and he was almost burned to death.

If it's just the difficulty of special effects, we still have the difficulty of shooting with ordinary cameras.

The only old camera we have.

Not only does it not focus, but also the camera and video recording functions are separated.

That means a chase, and they may need more than a dozen people to complete it.

For example, in episode 1 1, a simple princess is riding a horse to chase rabbits.

The camera should run with the camera, and the two people behind should also run with the video recorder.

Then the camera assistant ran away with the monitor.

Finally, the director has to go to see it.

This kind of tug-of-war often leads to a beat of five or six hours.

But chasing directly is the easiest.

The hard part is the picture of spinning and rolling in place.

For example, the Monkey King is cursed.

He needs to lie on the ground and turn clockwise, and the cameraman needs to lift it counterclockwise.

Often taken several times, the photographer can be transferred to Tucao.

Later, the leaders sympathized and specially imported an ADO stunt machine from the United States for "blue screen matting".

Those simple shots will do.

But as long as people are dug out and rotated, they are as flat as pieces of paper.

Later, the crew learned.

If you want to make the plotter three-dimensional, you have to spend another $50,000 on software.

Everyone is distressed by this sky-high figure, so this 50,000 is not spent.

What we see in Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon is also a flat character special effect.

However, even if the conditions are so difficult, Yang Jie is so serious.

They were severely criticized by the top.

25 episodes of TV series, filmed for 6 years.

This is equivalent to shooting an episode every two to three months.

This makes the leaders suspect that they are using their position to travel around and waste national resources.

So, tired and tired, Yang Jie had to burn the midnight oil to write a report after a busy day.

But even so, the leaders in Taiwan Province still hope that they will force the finale.

After filming Hong Haier 14 episode, the budget of the crew has been used up.

In order not to affect the next normal shooting progress.

Yang Jie had the cheek to ask Taiwan Province for money, but didn't give it, saying that the final budget was given to a dream of red mansions.

He also said, "I don't want to take money to invest in yourself, but the copyright still belongs to me."

This made the crew fly into a rage.

But in order to struggle for such a long time, I have to compromise temporarily.

Finally, Li Hongchang, the actor and production director of Centipede Essence, took the initiative to ask his old leader for advice.

An investment of 3 million yuan was allocated from the Ministry of Railways 1 1 Engineering Bureau.

I thought that this 3 million omnipotent shot all the remaining 15 episodes safely.

However, a few years later, prices soared.

The actors in the crew have to raise money, and the crew has to spend money on food and drink.

Although they reduced their expenses, one person played multiple roles.

But in the end, Journey to the West ended in 25 episodes.

It's not just the difficulties and obstacles along the way that can make Yang Jie feel cold.

And along the way, those complicated interpersonal relationships.

02

Bai's actor teacher was tricked into participating by Yang Jie.

Artists at that time were more conservative.

Few people are willing to accept this scary role.

It happened that Yang Jie still valued white the most.

She thinks that Mrs. Bones should not only be beautiful and full of charm, but also have the momentum to lead thousands of troops.

But she searched for a long time but couldn't find anyone.

Later, I happened to see a model opera, and Yang Chunxia, a Peking Opera actor, made her shine.

In order to invite Yang Chunxia, Yang Jie waited at her door for three hours.

Yang Chunxia intends to refuse.

But as soon as I entered the door, I couldn't help praising Yang Jie's incomparable temperament and beautiful appearance.

Yang Chunxia was flattered, so he let go.

It's ok to play Bai, but give her the role of king of her daughter's country.

You have to save your image anyway.

Yang Jie agreed without thinking.

But in the girl country, Yang Jie changed her mind.

She said we were careful.

You can't let the audience think that the king of the daughter country is white.

So she changed Yang Chunxia without authorization and took Zhu Lin to court.

After that, the two have no contact.

Yang Chunxia never mentioned The Journey to the West again.

We all know that Tang Priest was actually played by three different people.

The first Tang Priest was Wang Yue.

He is from a professional film academy.

Zhang Tie-Lin and Zhang Fengyi and I are classmates.

When Yang Jie went to school to pick people, it happened that the students had a holiday.

So she can only look at photos.

In all kinds of photos, she took a fancy to Wang Yue at a glance.

Before Wang Yue joined the league, Yang Jie specially arranged for him to shave his hair and go to the temple to experience life.

Learn Buddhist knowledge and rules.

The first scene he tried was "Eliminating the Black Phoenix Country".

Among them, dressing up was unsuccessful.

The leader thinks that his skin is dark and miserable, and he is not the best candidate for Tang Priest.

But Yang Jie insisted on watching it again.

Later, he filmed Guanyin Temple, Stealing Ginseng Fruit and Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon.

Acting and dressing are gradually accepted.

At this moment, however, Wang Yue said that there was a movie suitable for him and he wanted to try it.

Yang Jie asked him if he wanted to give up the Tang Priest.

He said no. He just wants to continue filming Tang Yan after filming.

It seems to be a farce now, but it was not accepted at that time.

Yang Jie told him that you can't come and leave whenever you want.

Let him think about it.

Unfortunately, in the end, Wang Yue chose movies.

Yang Jie was helpless and began to choose the next Tang Priest.

At this time, an actor named Xu came to audition for Little White Dragon.

Yang Jie thinks he is gentle, but not brave enough.

It's impossible to play the little white dragon, but it's not bad to play the Tang priest.

In this way, Xu became the second Tang Priest.

He has filmed seven episodes with the crew in the past three years.

Suddenly he turned to Yang Jie and said that the leader of their regiment had given him a place to go to college.

He must take the exam.

Yang Jie asked inexplicably, can't you shoot Tang Priest when you go to college?

Xu Huashao and Yang Jie promised that they would just take the exam.

You don't have to go to school, but you also have a diploma.

Yang Jie was dubious, but she still let Xu Hua go less.

But later, Xu Hua Shao made an unreasonable request to Yang Jie.

He wants the crew to come forward and help him settle the matter of getting a student status without going to school in the name of the central government.

Yang Jie naturally feels insufficient.

But Xu adamant4, said no no, Yang Jie won't give it to him.

Yang Jie has no choice but to wait for time to negotiate.

But at the same time, she also asked Xu, if you could only choose one, who would you choose?

Xu replied that of course she was Tang Priest.

However, when the film crew started filming "Girl Country", Xu had already disappeared.

Yang Jie called their troupe.

The troupe said that Xu and his lover had gone to school.

Yang Jie immediately called the Academic Affairs Office, and the director told her on the phone.

Xu Hua said that he was just going to take some photos and then take a few days off.

Hearing this, Yang Jie flew into a rage and told the director.

Not a few shots, but a very important play.

A few days is not enough. It takes ten days, eight months or even a month.

It is difficult for Xu to ask for leave, but Yang Jie's words also make the school willing to let people go.

After filming "Girl Country", Yang Jie sent two producers back to school with him.

Want to negotiate with the school.

But when the school asked Xu which was more important, filming or going to school.

Xu said to the school.

Taiwan Province's leaders got angry when they heard it, and said they would change people.

There are many actors in China. The man wearing this dress is Tang Priest.

This coincides with Yang Jie's idea.

So Yang Jie gave up Xu Hua Shao and started looking for another Tang Priest.

The choice of the third Tang Priest is very casual.

It was Yang Jie who met on the dark stairs.

Yang Jie thought he was good-natured, good-looking, elegant and generous, so she invited him to audition.

Unexpectedly, he not only has a correct image, but also has no sense of disobedience with previous actors.

So they finalized the third generation of Tang Priest-Chi.

Although Zhong Ruichi became a monk halfway, he was the last one to persist.

Yang Jie is full of praise for him, but he is not so generous to his "disciples".

03

It is said that if you have money, don't forget each other, but it is easy to get into trouble and difficult to get rich.

It's not easy to film Journey to the West. Without saying a word, everyone has suffered a lot.

But in the face of the flowers and applause from the outside world, they did all the chilling things.

The The Journey to the West crew was invited to perform in Singapore.

Yang Jie wants to take this opportunity to make Journey to the West leave a strong impression on the world.

She is in full swing to gather everyone to arrange a rehearsal program.

I went to the editing room to continue the follow-up work of Journey to the West.

However, during the Spring Festival, Yang Jie received the news that Tang Priest and his disciples were acting in other places.

Yang Jie was surprised. She knew that Zhong Rui Chi was resting at home.

Just say how is it possible.

As a result, the other party said that Xu, the second generation Tang Priest and three disciples were invited.

Yang Jie was furious.

She was born in a red family since she was a child. At the beginning, she filmed Journey to the West purely for art, not for fame and fortune.

Shang Yan, a master and apprentice, is unorganized and undisciplined, except for making money and speculating.

This seriously touched her bottom line.

So she immediately called a meeting and criticized the three men.

But they are not satisfied.

The report of hitting Yang Jie directly reached Taiwan Province.

Because Yang Jie has offended the leaders of Taiwan Province many times.

So take this opportunity to fire her directly.

After being expelled, the Zeng family became deserted.

None of the popular leading actors defended her.

Instead, David Jiang, the singer of the theme song, stood up.

He said that without Yang Jie, there would be no you today. If Yang Jie doesn't go to Singapore, I won't go either.

As the saying goes, a hundred birds are exhausted, and a good bow hides it.

How many grievances must be implied in this, so that Yang Jie, who is deeply famous, can say the malicious words of not watching Journey to the West for ten years.

Maybe they all think that Yang Jie's use value is here.

Unexpectedly, Journey to the West still has a chance to make a sequel.

1994, master and apprentice finally admitted their mistakes. They went to the door and knelt down, crying and apologizing.

What will Yang Canjie do if she doesn't forgive her?

Need to find someone else?

Love Yang Jie, who could have made her proud all her life, showed off all her life.

But what she finally said was:

"I'd rather it didn't succeed."

She said that she saw through the changes of human feelings, and she said that she was like a white horse in Journey to the West.

After using it, it is ruthlessly abandoned.

The white horse that the crew rode in those days is now dead in the suburbs, with no bones left.

At that time, the crew did not have a white horse.

We can only draw horses and take a long-term view.

But painting is too much trouble. When a horse enters the water, the water will change color.

Later, someone brought a white horse to the cast.

This horse is too small for Tang Priest to ride.

So I can only hold it.

Later, Yang Jie found a tall and powerful white horse on the grassland.

But it has a military record.

That is the mount of Sanjay Zabu, head of a cavalry regiment in Inner Mongolia Military Region.

In order to get it, Yang Jie took a tough approach to the colonel.

The head of the regiment was very reluctant, but in the end he felt that he could contribute something and let go.

He sent the 4-year-old horse into the army and sent it to the crew.

Bai is a tame war horse, working hard in the mountains and seas.

Six years, hot or cold.

It must constantly contribute acting skills.

Even if you fall off a cliff, your life is in danger several times.

Not willful and crazy.

After the shooting, Yang Jie had the heart to arrange the ending for him.

But Yang Jie's right to speak is not great.

Bai was sent to Wuxi film and television base.

The base is pulled out to make money.

Receive tourists during the day and be locked up with other strong horses at night.

Often can't grab hay, don't have enough to eat.

1995 Sister Yang came to visit Bai Shi.

It's skinny and lifeless.

Yang Jie tearfully asked the staff to take good care of her.

But when she came the second time, Bai was not as good as before.

Its eyes are dull and its movements are slow.

Hiding timidly in the corner.

Yang Jie was in tears.

Only a year later, Bai fell.

After death, hastily buried.

No one knows where it is buried.

Yang Jie, who learned this news, wrote The Tragedy of the Dragon Pony with tears in his eyes.

I lament its miserable life and hope that it will stop being a white horse dragon and continue to be a dignified soldier in the next life.

At the same time, she also thought of herself.

Is there a difference between a man and a horse?

Who cares about your mood when it's useless? Care about your life and death?

People are still like this, what can white do?

Their tragedy, in this materialistic era, no one can save it.