Now that the special effects are so developed, why is it that almost no one has filmed the Lion Camel Ridge, and it is also enjoyable to think about it?

The Journey to the West said in the original:

Sun went into the cave and watched from both sides. Look-

Skeletons are like mountains, and bones are like forests. People's hair becomes sensible, and people's skin and body rot into mud and dust. People's tendons are wrapped around trees, and they are as yellow as silver. A sea of blood, it really stinks. The small demon in the east cuts the flesh with the living; Splash demons in the west and cook fresh human flesh. If the Monkey King had not been so brave, the second ordinary man would not have entered his door.

Isn't this a lion camel bell (corpse camel bell) ... purgatory on earth? Let's take a look at the lion camel country in lion camel ridge.

Back to the seventy-seventh group of demons deceives nature and worships truth as one;

Small drill pipe:' ... there is a city in that carriage, called Lion Camel Country. Five hundred years ago, he ate the king and civil and military bureaucrats in this city, and all the men and women in the city were eaten by him, so he took his country away from this world. Now this country is full of monsters.

First of all, the scene must be horrible, and the bodies should be piled up in rows. Special effects can be found in The Lord of the Rings. These three kings are not easy to mess with. They are the mountain of Manjusri Bodhisattva, the mountain of Emei Bodhisattva and the mountain of Vishnu. Think about the mount of the Bodhisattva, how powerful and ever-changing. These all need special effects, and the three kings are not as big as TV dramas. The elephant must be as big as the giant in The Lord of the Rings, the lion as big as the creature in Angry Beasts, and the golden eagle as big as Raton in Godzilla. These alone need a lot of special effects. They are definitely gold-swallowing beasts, but if they are put in Hollywood, they will be money.

Generally speaking, we have technology and money, but we will never allocate special effects.

Let me put this aside. If China's films are not rated, you can't expect to see the lion camel ridge chapter on the big screen.

Why?

Because the description of this chapter in the real original is extremely bloody, extremely horrible and extremely depressing ... What is a sea of dead mountains and blood, that is, you can smell the bloody smell through Wu Cheng'en's words.

The original text is very clear:

What is this concept? Foreign movies about Voldemort and Sadako are simply weak. Okay! Golden-winged Dapeng directly eats the population of a country as bird food and directly destroys the country.

If the description in the book is really shot, it will directly explode all the banned films on the market. If you really want to see the works that restore the original pictures and plots, then Journey to the West can only hope that China's film and television works will be graded before.

Moreover, The Journey to the West is a novel with political metaphor. The 86 edition of Journey to the West is very beautiful, but even the essence of the original is not reflected.

In order to face the aesthetic acceptance of the public, the monster image in the play directly deleted the part with heavy taste.

In fact, parents are like this.

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Therefore, the real journey to the west is not suitable for children!

See a lot of childish statements. In fact, they are all immature.

You should understand that although film and television are art, all human activities can be attributed to "commercial behavior". This means that investors must make a profit to carry out an activity.

I also like Lion Camel Ridge, but if it is put on the screen or you are an investor, how are you going to make money?

To put it mildly, how to attract the audience to the cinema?

Everyone will think of shocking action scenes and grand scenes.

But can you make money by this alone?

Ok, make money first, but how to shoot it?

If nothing else, just make up.

Photographed by CCTV, the green lion has a blue face, the white elephant has a dead nose, and Dapeng is a crow.

In Hong Kong, the green lion is like a curly foreigner, the white elephant's nose is like a hanging sausage, and Dapeng's nose is a hooked nose.

Zhang Jizhong took a photo, and the green lion Dapeng was somehow domineering, and the white elephant simply had no nose.

Is this the Lion Camel Ridge in our mind?

Of course not.

In our minds, the lion camel ridge and the three demons are giants as tall as transformers and eat people like beans. The green lion is as fierce as an African lion and as domineering as a western lion. White elephants in Buddhist scriptures are all six-toothed, and "nose like a dragon" is a difficult point in special photography. Dapeng must not be like a crow, but should refer to Gallo's design shape. You can see the Dapeng statue in Tibet. They can never be "beggar clothes" of cloth, but armor combined with their own biological characteristics. Such as lion armor, elephant leather armor and Dapeng golden armor.

Of course, it can be said that the world is invincible, and the imagination can be unconstrained, but how to shoot it?

The three Lich Kings are only part of it. The question is, if we have such elaborate three demon kings, what kind of little demons will they be equipped with? Is it 30,000 extras or 30,000 computers with high resolution? What kind of cave do you live in? Is it to find an ancient cave in the scenic spot like CCTV, or to build it in the studio, or to synthesize it in the computer?

Of course, the audience don't have to think about this, they just need to buy tickets and go to the cinema to say yes. But producers must consider.

Sometimes high investment is not equal to high return. Such as Asura and Shanghai Fortress. Sometimes a good word of mouth doesn't necessarily mean a good box office. Such as the mountaineer "Send me to Qingyun". It is impossible for the producers not to consider these. After all, there is a large family to support. Do you think it's really money laundering to make a film without being sure?

According to the current movie market, the box office should be at least three times the investment, and it is possible to make a profit. So, let's invest 300 million. This is the most basic input. That should be at least 900 million box office. A ticket to 30 yuan, at least 30 million people watched the film. How to ensure that these 30 million people enter the cinema. Just the huge fan base of Journey to the West?

Journey to the West does have a great mass base, but unfortunately this base has been basically destroyed by all kinds of endless bad films. You see, how many movies of Journey to the West have not been finished and released? Zheng Baorui's The Journey to the West series, Stephen Chow's The Journey to the West series, and six-year-old children's Dare to Ask Where the Road Is, not counting The Journey to the West animation, as well as The Return of the Great Sage, The Ghost King's Return, The Journey to the West, etc. These are only relatively good movies, not those big grid movies with hundreds of dollars. Under such conditions, what is the return rate of filming a high-input Journey to the West? Even a gold mine will dry up one day. How to guarantee the investor's income?

According to the current population composition of China, even if there are1300 million people, 700 million people will go to the cinema. Then there are 400 million besides the elderly and children, and 200 million if divided into men and women. It seems that there are enough people, but this is just an amateur algorithm. You have to consider the influence of piracy, the arrangement of movies in cinemas, and now the movies are already a lot of dollars. Without adding new elements, such as comedy, tribute and stars, how can you ensure the box office? Now the so-called blockbusters, if they want to sell films, must exceed 1 billion on the first day, which means that the number of people who buy tickets on the first day must reach 3 million. To do this, we must not only look at the quality of the film, but also coordinate with the cinema to ensure the number of screens, and then rely on word of mouth. We also need to consider the quality of other films in the same period. Nezha is not very good, because there are no good films in summer, and the climbers are not bad, but there are still good films in the same period, so it is not easy to guarantee a big sale. Mature and steady investors will not act easily. For example, Wanda abandoned The Wandering Earth and voted for Lover 2. Investors prefer small projects with guarantees. The success of wandering earth is just one example.

Although there are billions of movies at the box office in China now, how many movies are there a year? Because of the fixed consumption of movies, most movies have become cannon fodder, including many veteran directors, such as Zhang Yimou, Tsui Hark and Chen Kaige. It's hard for them to make a blockbuster that exceeds 500 million yuan. And the new director is not easy to find resources. Although The Journey to the West, a derivative of Journey to the West, got1600 million box office. But this is largely because of Stephen Chow's fame. Then there was a curse. If The Lion Camel Bell takes the cost route again, the box office will be worrying.

Objectively speaking, the current level of special effects in China can only be said to be "fifty cents no more". Some delicate and natural things are still difficult, such as the hair on animals and advanced movements like the nose of a white elephant, all of which require special machinery and design. Or the short board of China special effects. If China people can do it, it's not difficult to single out Hollywood. When I watched Kung Fu Panda, I liked its animated fighting design which combined animal movements with martial arts. I hope to shoot such a journey to the west one day. Unfortunately, it is still not up to date.

In a word, shooting Lion Camel Ridge is a big project. If the technical conditions are insufficient and the script is not good, it is better not to shoot it rashly, otherwise it will really ruin one.

The lion camel bell in The Journey to the West tells us that this place is occupied by green lions, white elephants and Dapeng. They have 47,800 little demons and are very powerful.

It was here that they waited for the arrival of the Tang Priest and ate him, so there was a battle of wits between the other three disciples and monsters.

The horror of Lion Camel Ridge is that there are three old demons with high mana and status, such as Green Lion, White Elephant and Dapeng, as well as tens of thousands of small cannibals under their command, and the Lion Camel Kingdom that has become a ghost. Extract a description and feel it:

Lion camel country is a place that belongs entirely to monsters. There is no need to hide your head and show your tail here, because monsters can be seen everywhere and cannibalism is legal.

Because mortals are only food in the eyes of monsters, the most important thing is safety, because regardless of Buddhism and Taoism, it can be seen that this is simply a paradise for monsters and a purgatory on earth!

It's creepy, this lion camel ridge is simply a corpse forest! Skulls are piled up like mountains, bones are placed like forests, and human hair buttons are glued together to form a carpet.

The human skin was spread out and hung on the branches to dry, and the human flesh rotted on the ground and turned into mud. People's tendons are wrapped around trees, and when they are dry, they are as bright as silver. It's horrible. It's horrible.

These special effects can be made, but how many people do you need? How much does it cost to buy such a grand film?

And if we can get some special effects on it. But whether it can be approved for you to play after making it is the key.

In The Journey to the West, the lion camel bell is really a story worth pondering. If modern special effects technology is used, it can present an unparalleled wonderful picture.

So it's really a good suggestion to put Lion Camel Ridge on the screen.

Before answering this question, let's briefly review the "difficulty" of "lion camel bell".

In other words, on the way to the west to learn from the scriptures, there is a place called "Eight Hundred Li Lion Camel Ridge". There are three demons on this ridge. The skills of these three demons can definitely be called "the most ruthless" demons, even if they can't be called "the strongest" in the whole journey to the west.

Where is their malice?

Tell me about these three demons. The eldest is the green lion king, the second is the white elephant king, and the third is the Dapeng bird. The origins of these three demons are not simple. The Green Lion King is the seat of Manjusri Bodhisattva, and the white elephant is the mount of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva.

And this Dapeng bird, although the third child, is actually a vicious person. "Big Brother without Water" in the Westward Journey World! High profile and ambitious. When the eldest brother's second brother was subdued, he refused. He wants to overthrow the Tathagata and take Lei Yin Castle.

Although speaking, his origin is related to Tathagata. It turns out that at the beginning, the Tathagata was built into a golden body at the top of the snowy mountain. After walking dozens of miles, I was suddenly sucked into my stomach by a peacock. The Tathagata intends to kill the peacock. But the buddhas advised him, "You killed him just to kill your mother!"

If the Tathagata is helpless, he has to do it, leaving the peacock alive and making it a "Buddha mother peacock, Daming King Bodhisattva". And this Dapeng was born by mother peacock. Theoretically, Tathagata is still his "nephew". Therefore, this Dapeng bird is a little fearless and runs amok.

This Dapeng also did a "great thing", that is, occupied the ideal city and turned a country into a magic cave.

Think of the Monkey King, what a bold man! What world have you never seen? When he walked to the gate, he was suddenly too scared to stand up.

Can't help it. Finally, the Monkey King thought that Tang Priest was hopeless this time. This time, maybe the Monkey King really gave up. When he went to Lingshan, he invited Tathagata to receive him. When the Tathagata picked him up, it was a real battle.

The original book said: "The Great Sage turned a somersault and jumped into the air, and three elites rode the clouds to catch up. Monkey dodged and hid in the golden light and shadow of the Buddha, but he was completely gone. I saw three Buddha statues in the past, the future and the present, 500 arhats and 3,000 gods. They were scattered and surrounded by three demon kings. "

It means that the Tathagata invited three Buddhas to subdue these three demons.

Let's talk about the highlights of this chapter.

First, the demon is vicious!

As mentioned above. These demons are cruel, and they are all big and powerful. Besides, there are many little demons under it. There are tens of thousands of people, which can be compared with Guo Hua's monkeys and grandchildren who went to the Monkey King.

Second, the plot is tortuous!

First of all, the Monkey King's design scared away the little demon below. Therefore, there will be opportunities to fight alone. Then, the fighting link is also quite dramatic, showing the Monkey King's courage, caution and even eloquence to the fullest.

Of course, that's not the point. The point is that the Monkey King got the upper hand at first. However, in the end, he was tricked into the third demon city. So there is the matter of inviting the Tathagata to subdue the demon.

Thirdly, this chapter concentrates the essence of the westward journey.

First of all, there are many characters in this chapter, especially Tathagata, ancient Buddha burning lanterns, Maitreya Buddha, and Lingshan Buddhas who besieged the demon, although the scene is spectacular. It also appropriately shows the theme of "boundless Buddhism".

At the same time, it also explains why the devil is the "truth" of the devil. And the "reason" why the devil is a devil.

When Dapeng Bird was taken in, he said, "You are a vegetarian there, and you are extremely poor; I eat human flesh here and get endless benefits! If you starve me, you are guilty. "

This is really "taking a step back, turning into a demon and further becoming a Buddha!"

Finally. Answer the subject's question.

"Now that the special effects are so developed, why is it that almost no one shoots the lion camel ridge, and it is enjoyable to think about it?"

I also agree with this suggestion very much. It is not difficult to create a film with great influence on the horizon with modern science and technology.

The difficulty lies in how to do it well, which conforms to the "taste" of westward journey in our minds.

Recently, there are many movies about the theme of Westward Journey. Monkeys are not like monkeys, and Bajie is not like Bajie. Immortals are not immortals, and magic is not magic! On the whole, the pictures are neither fish nor fowl. The dialogue is retarded and the plot is white. Instead, it will be called ruined.

Therefore, if the editing and director are in place, it is still worth a try to shoot the episode of "800 Li Lion Camel Ridge".

Journey to the West is a fairy tale, not a science fiction film, but a gimmick! Watch the journey to the west. It's the Monkey King Sun Monkey! The Monkey King is not beautiful, no one can see how good your stunts are, how scary, how scary!

There are two versions of the real the Monkey King:

One is the Monkey King in the earliest cartoon "Make a scene in Heaven", which looks good!

The other is the Monkey King, a six-year-old child. 1986 was broadcast in The Journey to the West and received rave reviews. At that time, I was a teenager and liked to watch Journey to the West. I remember the Monkey King, a six-year-old child, commenting in the newspaper at home: Man, God and Monkey are the Trinity! I was particularly impressed by this sentence. After I watch other versions of Journey to the West, no one will perform this effect again.

In 2000, CCTV made a sequel to The Journey to the West. After more than ten years, both the technical effects and the funds of the film crew far exceeded those of that year, but the sequel looks worse than before, just because the six-year-old children are no longer the six-year-old children when they were young, and the gas field and agility are not as good as before!

Six-year-old children belong to the Monkey King family, who can show the spirituality of monkeys and be the real Monkey King. Now, I'm afraid there is no real the Monkey King. How can I remake Journey to the West?

It is said on the Internet that six-year-old children have already planned. The third part of "Dare to Ask Where the Road Is" is "Stone Camel Bell", which will be released in the next two years. Let's wait!

The name is: the great lion camel ridge!

The villain starring: lion, elephant, eagle;

Decent Starring: Monkey, Pig, Horse and Friar Sand

Main supporting roles: Manjusri Bodhisattva, Samantabhadra Bodhisattva, Tathagata and Tang Priest;

Other supporting roles: eighteen arhats, king of the lion camel kingdom, vassal, eight hundred leaders!

Extras: 800 humans, 3,000 monsters and 3,000 bodies!

We need 36 cameras. 360-degree shooting of the sky, the ground, southeast and northwest!

Total investment budget: 800 million yuan!

Real building lion camel ridge Fiona Fang 30 square kilometers! Invest 3 billion.

Welcome investors to contact! [Laugh] [Laugh] [Laugh]

After reading the original, you will find that it is really horrible. You can't shoot. If it doesn't pass, the child won't look at it at all.

It's naive, you think it's fun and exciting, but in the era of commercial fever movies, the scene is too realistic and bloody to pass the trial.

If you want to have a selling point, it's easy to get through. How about Paisi Cave, Daughter Country, Gaolaozhuang,

There are beautiful women, goblins, monks, heroes and love. Only in this way can we make a goblin hole. What's the point?