, but there are very few movies that have a long-lasting discussion like "Westward Journey".
Unknowingly, it has been more than 20 years since the movie series "Journey to the West" was released. The movie did not achieve much when it was released. After a long period of tempering, it became a classic.
And everything at the time has long been wrong. Some netizens dug up the behind-the-scenes content of "A Chinese Journey to the West", which may have left light and shadow, and brought us back to that wonderful time. In the
video, Zixia, Supreme Treasure, Bull Demon King, Pig Bajie, and "Grape" director Liu Zhenwei filming in the desert with Lu Guanting's "Lifetime Love", time seems to be going backwards...
Hero of the world, one day he will step on the seven-colored clouds to marry me. I guessed the first but I couldn't guess the ending. Zixia finally failed to get together with Dasheng, Zhou Xingchi did not get to the end with Zhu Yin...
The desert was lonely, and the big guys dressed very thick...
Sun Monkey and Bai Jingjing, are you me? The supreme treasure...
guess what book Zhou Xingchi was reading at the time?
Niu Xiangxiang, the younger sister of the Niu Devil King, took a group photo with Wu Juejin and martial arts director Cheng Xiaodong in the theater.
I admire you very much. -Admire me? -More than admiration? I am afraid of losing you.
Group Demon Flurry
Zhou Xingchi left hand Karen Mok and right hand Zhu Yin, this is also very rare to see!
From 1994 to 1995, Liu Zhenwei was in charge of the script and directed, and Stephen Chow was the lead actor and producer. The costumed love fantasy movie "A Chinese Journey to the West" was invited to participate in the 90s Hong Kong stars Zhu Yin, Wu Mengda, Karen Mok, Lan Kitaying and others. It consists of two episodes. Released.
But now it looks like a combination of gold, in return it is indeed a fiasco at the box office and bad reputation.
In the mainland region, the box office of "Western Journey" in the south is slightly better than that in the north, but it is not as popular as expected. In Beijing, "Western Journey" is regarded as a typical failure of release.
In February 1996, "Moonlight Treasure Box" was still released as a winter holiday film. Three months later, "The Great Sage Marries" came out, but both box offices were only around 200,000, and many audiences were even counted in single digits. , Some film companies decided to replace "Journey to the West" with domestic films two days after the screening, in order to avoid more losses.
The clever Hong Kong filmmakers never expected that in the 1990s, there was a group of guys in the mainland who made a lot of money by selling smuggled optical discs. These discs were transported to various dark small rooms in the mainland and cultivated the first real In the sense, fans who grew up watching movies, we kindly call that place: video room.
, a film that failed to be reproduced in Hong Kong, unexpectedly emerged on the mainland. It is not only spread word of mouth among movie fans, but even academia is always happy to disassemble its meaning, love and hatred, through reincarnation, from lines to scripts, From character to core.
During the Spring Festival in February 1997, "Journey to the West" was first broadcast on the CCTV movie channel. Once it was broadcast, it gained a very high ratings, and began to cultivate the first generation of fans of "Journey to the West".
Finally, a few years later, during Stephen Chow's decision to travel north, the first character asked was the "Smelly Monkey" Supreme Treasure in "A Chinese Journey to the West".
"Journey to the West" has since been equated with "classic".
The desperate Zixia, the helpless supreme treasure, the Tang Sanzang who sacrificed her life to marry righteousness, can guess the beginning of the story but can't guess the end of the story, the lines of "Love you for ten thousand years" can be reversed...
these characters and lines He Qiao Duan is to weave the memories of the youth growth of the 80s and 90s. In "Journey to the West" we see the sacrifices and sacrifices, and we see the person who regretted that we missed it. We never met the first The two "Journey to the West", it is precisely because we never meet the second self, that it is especially precious for the first time. All the pain of
was the most painful when I first tasted it, but the latecomers were nothing but a survivor.
At the time when the overall film and television resources were scarce, it was possible to subvert the original novel like "Journey to the West" and achieve a love movie with joy and sadness.The height of the work is really rare, and the surprise is expected. The favorable circumstances, the right time and the right people, made "A Journey to the West", resulting in a lack of good news for subsequent followers.
Even later Liu Zhenwei's "The Great Sage of Love", "A Great Journey to the West 3", Stephen Chow's "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" and "Journey to the West: The Demons" cannot be compared with the original version in 1995.
In December 2004, Stephen Chow began touring the promotion of "Kung Fu" in mainland China. In a media interview, he said: "Please don't ask questions about "Journey to the West". This movie has been ten years and many things have Forget about it."
Since 1996, "A Westward Journey" became popular all over the country, Zhou Xingchi has been asked numerous times about "Western Journey" in various public occasions.
Zhou Xingchi is one of the investors of "Westward Journey" and the owner of this movie. This movie was originally his transformation and entrepreneurial work, but it was a pity that he lost at the box office at the time, making his ideal state of the movie a few years late .
At the beginning of the filming of "A Westward Journey", there was no complete script, so Liu Zhenwei adopted the Wong Kar-wai method of "writing while filming".
wanted to make a movie at the beginning. Later, several main creators, including Zhou Xingchi, contributed a variety of wonderful sections. The content of the movie became more and more pages, so it was decided to be divided into two parts after shooting.
Liu Zhenwei and Zhou Xingchi after the series of "A Chinese Journey to the West", the only collaboration between the director and the performer was "Return to the Soul Night". After that, the closest collaboration was "Kung Fu", which was directed and starred by Stephen Chow, and Liu Zhenwei was the producer.
"Journey to the West" is a co-production film, co-produced by Hong Kong Color Star Company (closed) and Xi'an Film Studio (now Western Film Group). In this re-screening in 2014, the mainland copyright owner is still Western Film Group and the distributor is China Film Corporation.
Most of the interior scenes of the movie "Journey to the West" were shot in the studio of Xi'an Film Studio, while the exterior scenes were shot at Beipu Film and Television City in Ningxia Town.
After 1996, "A Westward Journey" became popular with the help of DVDs, video tapes, and TV stations, and Zhenbeipu Film and Television City also began to visit.
To this day, there are still countless fans going to Zhenbei Fort to find the footprints of "Journey to the West".
Some people unforgettable the dialogue of "A Great Westward Journey", some like Zhou Xingchi's performance, some are nostalgic for Zhu Yin's innocence, some regret the death of the thirteen mothers of Spring, and some will inadvertently hum the song "Love in a lifetime" on the road... …
bitter sea, turning over love and hate…In the world, it is hard to escape fate…
so many years have passed, if you can still make a movie together, that would be great.
