Journey to the West is basically filmed on the spot. Are there any special effects?

Now everyone has seen The Lord of the Rings's Harry Potter. Of course, the Monkey King is no stranger at all, but when The Journey to the West premiered 30 years ago (pilot 1982, official premiere 1986, 25 episodes of continuous broadcast 1998), we had no idea what the immortal looked like.

It can be said that the old version of Journey to the West is the first magical world of our Chinese sons and daughters.

I used to be very retarded, thinking that the place where white smoke rises is fairyland.

Although the special effects at that time were very cottage, they were completely incomparable with the current blockbusters, but in my young mind, they have caused great shock.

It's amazing to see the Monkey King getting bigger and smaller for the first time.

There can be two identical priests Tang on TV. How did you get them out?

There are still flying around, which makes my eyes shine!

When I was a child, I really thought that all the people who filmed Journey to the West were aliens, and the technology was hundreds of light years ahead of us. Otherwise how can it be so awesome!

It was not until I read some materials recently that I realized that these special effects that looked cool 30 years ago were painstakingly "ground" by the crew. There is no precedent for reference in China, so I can only open my mind wide.

If people want to walk faster and feel like walking on clouds, they use skateboards.

Shoot the dragon palace under the sea? Actually, I just put a fish tank in front of the camera.

Those white smoke curling up to create a fairyland atmosphere are actually people lying and shaking dry ice bottles. A staff member fainted after inhaling too much dry ice.

△ Sister Fairy dances beautifully, but how much dry ice does it take to create such a fairyland?

Later, the crew went to Hong Kong to learn "Hanging Weiya", and people can really fly.

But at that time, their "Weiya" technology was not advanced enough, the steel wire was too thin and the load was too poor, and many actors fell down.

Ma Dehua, the actor of Pig Bajie, said that at that time, everyone was hanging Weiya with their lives. Every time we ascend to heaven, everyone says, "We didn't fall to death this time." .

The most exaggerated scene is when Hong Haier set off the "Samadhi True Fire". The six-year-old child was really burned in asbestos clothes.

Why not call it body body double?

"First, this action is very dangerous and people are human beings. I think I can do it if I can. Second, I have to keep doing the Monkey King's movements during the burning process, and most people really can't perform it. "

The six-year-old said that after filming this scene, his greatest feeling was to know what it was like to be burned to death. ...

As for the dynamic effect of the world's rotation and shaking, it is the credit of the cameraman Wang Chongqiu (that is, Yang Jie's husband).

The Monkey King asked the Monkey King to turn clockwise when shooting Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon, but the photographer was lifted up the ladder and turned counterclockwise in order to make the camera dizzy.

Basically, the whole cast is a magical picture shot by the above method.

You may feel silly, but in the 1980s when resources were scarce, it was a genius to be able to do this.

In the era without special effects, the brain is used to create classics. Pay tribute to the classics.