How hot was Journey to the West at that time? Let's report a set of data directly to you:

Since the launch of 1986, it has been very popular, even spread to Singapore and other places, with the audience rating as high as 96% and replayed more than 3,000 times, setting a historical record.

However, behind the popularity of the 86th edition of The Journey to the West, there are many crises and profound contradictions. The director was directly kicked out of the crew, and the four Tang Priests were exiled all the way. Finally, they found themselves the real "monsters".

Today, we will reveal the secret for you, and look at the complicated love-hate relationship between Tang Si Da Si and director Yang Jie.

20 13 Yang Jie, who is over eighty years old, was interviewed by Lun Dao and spoke her innermost thoughts:

Journey to the West is an eternal knot and pain in my heart. I haven't seen you for ten years. I changed the channel directly when I saw it in these ten years!

For the elderly who are over 80 years old, this is definitely the truest sentence. Journey to the West is the most successful work directed by Yang Jie, comparable to his own son. Why do you say such things?

The story begins with 1982.

Director Yang Jie is a successful director. I have directed programs such as the Spring Festival Gala before, which was welcomed by the public.

1982, director Yang Jie received a special task to shoot The Journey to the West, one of the four classical novels. Under the shooting conditions at that time, it was definitely the most difficult task, because it needed special effects and picture effects more than other masterpieces.

However, Director Yang Jie said nothing. Although he did everything by himself, it was later discovered that the situation was far more complicated than expected.

The first is the cost. In the extremely difficult shooting environment, physical consumption is huge, but each person only has 50 cents a day for meals, and an actor has to play multiple roles. Many roles can't afford extras, they are directors and staff.

But the filming of Journey to the West almost died because of some criticisms!

Director Yang Jie is a serious person. Since we have accepted this arduous task, we should dedicate our best works to the people of the whole country.

To this end, director Yang Jie led the crew to trek to shoot. In order to get a more realistic shooting scene and present the great rivers and mountains of the motherland to the audience, he traveled all over 19 provinces and cities.

However, some people privately said that Director Yang Jie used this fund to take the crew around and squander and misappropriate funds.

For various reasons, the original budget for shooting 4 1 episode was used up after shooting only 14 episode, and the shooting plan was put on hold for a time.

Director Yang Jie had no choice but to ask Director Wang Feng for money, but Wang Feng was very angry and flatly refused her request.

Just when everyone was at a loss, Mr. Li Hongchang, the deputy director of the producer, brought good news to everyone and used personal connections to get a budget of 3 million from the 11th Engineering Bureau of the Ministry of Railways.

Finally, thanks to this 3 million, the next shooting was completed.

The previous budget was used too quickly, not because the crew was wasting it, but because the filming encountered many unexpected difficulties and had to rely on money to solve it.

Under the shooting environment and technical conditions at that time, it was more difficult to shoot this level of Journey to the West than the "Eighty-one Difficult" in the play.

First of all, there are no leading roles and supporting roles in the cast. Everyone is in the same position. No assistant, no nanny car, no preferential treatment. After filming, the actors have to carry several wagons, and some actors have to play several roles, so they are too busy to win makeup.

After a whole day of shooting, everyone was sweating and exhausted.

Shooting a scene in the sky, because there is not enough money to buy dry ice, is done by burning incense, while the underwater scene is shot through a big fish tank.

The director and the actors are very dedicated. In order to achieve a more perfect effect, many actors almost paid the price of their lives.

Hard work. It took four years from 1982 to 1986, and finally 25 sets of ideal works were shot.

Once the Journey to the West was broadcast on 1986, it quickly caused a sensation and was highly recognized by the people of the whole country. For the next 30 years, The Journey to the West has been brushing the screen, and the audience never tires of watching it, and the ratings are surprisingly high every time.

Yang Jie's efforts finally paid off, and she was selected as one of the top ten directors of national film and television, ranking first.

But more popular than director Yang Jie are four Tang priests and mentors, because these four mentors and mentors have appeared on the screen for a long time, and almost everyone knows them, from an 80-year-old man to a three-year-old child.

The Monkey King (six-year-old children), Tang Priest (Xu, Zhong Ruichi, Wang Yue), Zhu Bajie (Ma Dehua) and Friar Sand (Huaili Yan) all spread all over the country, and even once spread abroad.

You can * * * suffer, but you can't share the joys and sorrows. For their own interests, the crew members of Journey to the West began to have contradictions, and finally even contradictions were irreconcilable.

At the beginning of the conflict, Singapore invited the whole crew to participate in a performance, and director Yang Jie also arranged intensive rehearsals for presenting the most perfect things to foreign friends.

However, the four apprentices of Tang Priest suddenly asked for leave collectively (Tang Priest is Xu), and the four leading actors were absent, which made the rehearsal impossible and had to be stranded.

Finally, it was reported that four apprentices went to a program in Jinan privately. Director Yang Jie was very angry at the way that the four men and women broke away from the group and went to the cave to make money.

In front of everyone, Yang Jie angrily denounced the four people: All four of you have gone to collect money, and we are still here waiting for you to eat instant noodles!

Because the crew had little money at that time, eating instant noodles became the norm. For four people to take private jobs, Yang Jie gave an ultimatum directly: Without my permission, you are not allowed to go to the cave to make money privately.

The four masters and apprentices are also very wronged. They worked hard for several years, suffered so much and had nothing. Now is the harvest time. What's wrong with going out to earn some hard money?

Some people even bluntly said: it is our freedom to turn off the camera, and we have the right to arrange time.

Finally, the director and the mentor broke up in discord, and the four of them couldn't swallow this tone and found the director to complain.

Due to the need of funds and video editing, Yang Jie and the director have some contradictions. In addition, this time, the four leading actors complained together, and the director was completely angry and directly kicked Yang Jie out of the crew.

The Tang Priest's four apprentices were so powerful that they directly kicked out all the directors. They even made a bold statement: If anyone disobeyed, they would not take them to Shang Yan.

Later, an interview with Yang Jie said sadly, "After filming, I can't control the actors."

Some people even say that if director Yang Jie wants to leave, we won't leave, so we will force Yang Jie to retire.

The ancients said: birds are exhausted, good bows hide, cunning rabbits die, running dogs cook!

But then again, after years of hard shooting, it is understandable to make money after becoming famous. Just communicate with the director. Why did you take such an extreme approach?

The whole cast was silent, and no one dared to offend the four Tang Sanzang except The Journey to the West's lead singer.

Because in Singapore, only four apprentices and lead singer David Jiang were invited, which made him very dissatisfied. In the face of the misconduct of four mentoring, they directly denounced four people:

You can't be so ungrateful. Without Director Yang Jie, there would be no four of you today. If you don't take Yang Jie to perform in Singapore, I won't go either.

This feud was deadlocked for seven or eight years, and it was not until 1994 that Four Mentors and Yang Jie refused to give way to each other.

1994, Journey to the West is going to make a sequel. The four of them panicked when they heard that a sequel was going to be made. Did they miss such a good opportunity? After so many years, everyone's enthusiasm has declined, and a new work is urgently needed to enhance their image.

So, four Tang priests and tutors went to Yang Jie's house, knelt at the door, cried and apologized, and asked Yang Jie's forgiveness.

In the end, Director Yang Jie was in a slightly better mood and continued to shoot the sequel to The Journey to the West. Finally, with the joint efforts of everyone, a classic work was put on the screen.

The Monkey King is played by a six-year-old boy named Zhang Jinlai, who is also considered as the first hero in The Journey to the West. He has great powers and superb skills, and he can save the day every time. As long as the Monkey King is around, the audience will feel at ease.

However, some of Zhang Jinlai's later practices were totally defeated, which were directly spurned by the people of the whole country and resisted by some extreme netizens.

What the hell is going on?

2065438+In June 2007, director Yang Jie died at the age of 88, and many stars went to pay their respects, including four Tang Sanzang.

I thought these four people were fully aware of their mistakes, but they regretted it. Therefore, Zhang Jinlai has ulterior motives. At the mourning scene, he actually advertised for the new film.

Obviously, it was a very serious day and a very sad scene, but it was used for consumption, which made many viewers very unhappy, so the wave of resistance continued.

What the audience can't bear is that Zhang Jinlai is extremely inflated, thinking that 1000 people will see the Monkey King, and 1000 people will think that the Monkey King is just like him, completely ignoring other actors.

In addition, he was outspoken about Stephen Chow's A Chinese Odyssey, and felt that the image of the Monkey King in it defiled the classics. To tell the truth, Zhang Jinlai and Stephen Chow are not on the same level at all, which makes people booed.

Finally, he hung his photo on the wall of Wu Cheng'en's former residence, so that every visitor could remember his appearance. One wrong behavior keeps appearing, and many people slowly turn from powder to black and finally fall into the altar.

Director Yang Jie once said before his death: Everything is instantaneous, everything will eventually pass, and the past will become a beautiful memory.

On the one hand, there is a director who regards money as dirt and just wants to make good works, and on the other hand, there are four teachers and apprentices who are full of money and forget their righteousness. Their personalities are high and low!

Everyone needs to be grateful, grateful to the world, grateful to their parents, but also grateful to all those who have helped themselves!

What do you want to say about Yang Jie and Tang Priest, directors of Journey to the West?