in the 82 version of " Journey to the West ", the brave and witty Sun Wukong , the honest and kind Tang Seng, the honest and humorous Zhu Bajie, and the daring Sha Wujing are believed to be childhood memories of many people.
is not only that, but many famous scenes can be born here: the interaction between the king of the daughter country and Tang Monk makes people blush and heartbeat; the fight between Sun Wukong and Iron Fan in the Flaming Mountain is terrifying; the friendship between Tang Monk and Sun Wukong on the Scorpion Mountain is full of emotion. Thousands...
However, the scenes in this play are vigorous and turn around a thousand times. Outside the play, there are laughter and lively.
was taken in the filming of " Three Beats the White Bone Spirit ", and the crew thought this was the most embarrassing scene. Later, director Yang Jie also confided to reporters in an interview: "No one would have thought that such a thing would happen, and it also delayed our shooting progress at that time."
"Intensively shooting preparations" The scenes shown by
in the old version of Journey to the West are very diverse, but since the special effects were not popular at that time, they could only be shot outdoors. At the end of March 1983, was about to shoot the twenty-seventh episode of Journey to the West, "Three Beats of White Bone Spirit". Director Yang Jie took the entire scene to Zhangjiajie and Lengshuijiang in Hunan Province to film scenes, and finally set the Boyue Cave in Loudi City as the cave of the White Bone Spirit. To say that this Boyue Cave is a very remarkable historical site, has the reputation of "World Lava Museum". The
cave is famous for its tall caves and peculiar shapes. At the door stood a huge rock, towering into the clouds, like a judge in the underworld overlooking the world. "Just standing there behind your back makes you feel gloomy and sweaty. Isn't this the cave of the bone spirit in the book?" Yang Jie exclaimed in the interview.
The problem with the dangerous terrain is that the roads are very tortuous and difficult to navigate, not to mention that some roads collapsed, and the staff could only run on both ends of the mountain.
In order for the equipment to operate normally, in the middle of the night, the staff has to get up to replace the battery. Usually, the equipment is fully charged at the foot of the mountain, and then it is immediately manually transported to the mountain. It takes more than ten miles to travel back and forth, everyone I can't even eat when I'm busy.
But even so, it still can't stop the footsteps of people coming here. The film crew of Journey to the West attracted a lot of tourists to visit. The flow of people in Poyue Cave increased sharply, and it also attracted the attention of the government. The cultural department of the municipal party committee thought it was an excellent opportunity to promote Loudi , so they arranged a visit with the crew for the next day, and would shoot the promotional materials.
"At that time, thousands of people came to visit our filming every day, including tourists and other crew members, and the leaders were also very interested in our filming techniques. In this sense, the framing of Boyue Cave was undoubtedly a success. Yes."
Yang Jie also added:
"The timing of the crew's start-up is also very particular. The white bone spirit written in the original book is made up of the grievances of heaven and earth, so what is needed is the kind of gloomy atmosphere, and Loudi The climate is also varied. So we also asked the local meteorological department, and luckily it was always rainy and rainy.”
“Two extremely embarrassing scenes” Five important episodes are Baigujing entrenched in Baihuling, a farmer's family of three killed, Baigujing's three dramas, Tang Seng, Tang Seng reluctantly expel Sun Wukong, and the Monkey King Zhi fights Baigujing.
Due to the late start of filming and the local weather, everyone unanimously decided to shoot the episode "Farmer's Family of Three Killed" first. At the beginning of the day, the audience of was silent, and the terrifying atmosphere of came, and almost everyone could not help shivering. The first thing
catches the eye is the extremely cold scene: in the deserted mountains, the setting sun crooked like bloodWriggling and hanging diagonally in the pale sky, suddenly heard a shrill whine in the distance, and made people tremble with fear.
At the same time, the picture suddenly changed, a small thatched cottage stood upright on the mountain, and the smoke from the chimney continued to rise. This was a family of three who had been working hard all day in preparing their dinner.
Director Yang Jie strives to be real in every frame, so all the props in the scene are real.
Gradually, the aroma of the food slowly spreads to the surroundings and penetrates into people's nostrils. Running back and forth for a long time has exhausted the staff physically and mentally, and the fresh meals of constantly stimulate their fragile stomach and taste buds.
Everyone at the scene swallowed their saliva quietly. The plot was about to continue, and the white bone spirit was about to come to this thatched cottage. The scene was very tense. However, at this time, I don't know where the sound of "Guji, Guji" came out. The noise is actually very common at the scene, and Yang Jie didn't take it seriously at first.
What caught people off guard was that the sound of "Guji, Guji" continued to come from all over the set, accompanied by the sound of swallowing, which was very abrupt in the crowd. There was silence on the field for a few seconds, and everyone thought it was as if they didn't hear it, but the sound of "Guji, Guji" sounded one after another, and the was really lingering and endless.
, who played the role of the white bone spirit, wanted to step into the room without falling feet, and said helplessly: "Director, are we still recording?" "Are you all hungry? I have been debugging equipment all morning. I didn't have a good rest." The deputy director of suddenly realized.
But the recording work is already underway. If everyone goes to eat and rest at this time, all the previous work will be in vain.
For the sake of the overall situation, Yang Jie had to say:
"We know that everyone is working very hard. For the normal shooting of Western Games, we spend every day with the stars and the moon, and sleep in the wind. The director team including me is very grateful for everyone's efforts. But our shooting It’s just the beginning, at least a small clip can be finished before we can finish the work, everyone is working hard and persevering, we will try to go through all the scenes!”
In this way, everyone was starving until after 1:00 pm, and Yang Jie spat out “ka” When the word was said, everyone immediately put down the equipment and smiled in relief.
"I'm going to eat, but I'm starving!"
"What meal did the crew prepare for tonight? You can't eat a boxed lunch!"
"No, no! Everyone will go to a restaurant with us tonight! Let's eat the special delicacies of Loudi!" Yang Jie shouted with a big hand.
"It's really good."
"It's not for nothing!"
This made the crew happy, so a large group of people went down the mountain in a mighty way, laughing and laughing along the way.
Yang Jie said in his recollection: "I thought the sound of hungry people in the morning filming was embarrassing enough, but I didn't expect it to be even worse!"
Loudi's special food is very diverse, Snowballs , Baixishui tofu, Luokou Rongqiao cake... They are all very classic, but the most famous dish is the spicy stinky tofu.
is different from the salty and sweet taste of Changsha stinky tofu , Loudi's stinky tofu retains the original tenderness and smoothness of tofu, with moderate spiciness, which is very popular with tourists. Not surprisingly, almost everyone in the crew ate a mouthful of Loudi's spicy stinky tofu.
had enough to eat and drink, and the group went up the mountain in a mighty way to film. "Let's be more serious next time, the propaganda department of the municipal party committee will come to learn from our filming. This time, my stomach can't growl!" The director team of urged.
When the crew started filming again, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon. At this time, people outside Poyue CaveOvercrowded, the crowds are like a city, and even the comrades of the municipal party committee can only stand on tiptoes, clinging to each other's shoulders to watch.
The next step is to shoot the most terrifying scene in "The Murder of Three Peasants' Family". Baigujing already knew that Tang Seng and his party were going to pass through Baihu Mountain, so she would absorb the souls of the farmers to disguise herself and to deceive Tang Seng.
At this moment, Bai Gujing was walking towards the farmers with his triangular eyes and his mouth wide open. This is a slow-motion picture. In order to capture the angle and show the terrifying expression of the bone spirit, the photographer Wang Chongqiu had to lie on the ground, holding the camera high with both hands, and the moved with the pace of the bone spirit.
And just as the white bone spirit rushed down and sucked the blood of the peasants, by coincidence, a loud fart burst out from somewhere in the cave. It's exactly the same as the scene in the morning!
And what's more, it was shot in the cave this afternoon. The Boyue Cave is made of various stalactites, and the solid stalactites are in the shape of water droplets. surroundings.
So even a little movement can be expanded infinitely, and this movement is formed by stalactites to form a series of echoes in the Boyue Cave. It can be expected that this "sound fart that broke through the wind" will be heard one after another in the Boyue Cave, and the also has its own rhythm, which reverberates for a long time.
This is not the most important thing. What is unexpected is that someone said something next: "Huh? Who brought stinky tofu into the crew?"
"Does the stinky tofu in the morning also have its own rhythm?"
, especially Wang Chongqiu's laugh, can't even hold the camera stably. His shoulders shake violently, and the more he shakes, the more he shakes the bones out of the picture. What made people laugh even more was that the person who played the white bone spirit stood up and asked the exact same thing: "Director, are we still going to record it?" , there was a lot of fart noises in the afternoon." The scene suddenly lost control, and even the onlookers held back their laughter. Yang Jie looked at it and said with a blank face: "What's the matter, are you still shooting?"
"I'm sorry director, I laugh too easily, let's continue shooting." photographer Wang Chongqiu cleared his throat , straightened his face, "But it's really funny!" He couldn't help anymore, his stomach hurts when he laughed, and now the camera can't be lifted at all.
"The result of the incident that can't help but laugh"
"Stop, stop, stop filming, how can you film when you laugh like this!" Yang Jie said helplessly. During everyone's break, I didn't expect Director Yang Jie to ask again: "Who put this in? I ate too much stinky tofu at noon?"
Everyone looked at each other, who would admit such a thing? But everyone started joking with each other: "You ate three pieces of stinky tofu at noon, could it be you?"
"He also ate four pieces, I think it was him!"
The crowd laughed again. By the time the second shot started, it was already evening. Still shooting this scene, photographer Wang Chongqiu was lying on his back on the ground again, and he couldn't help laughing before he raised his equipment.
filming was interrupted again, Yang Jie was really angry: "You can shoot the next scene, change the photographer to shoot this scene, how do you shoot just thinking about that fart?" ended up changing the photographer , I was still laughing during the process. Yang Jie had no choice but to shoot other shots first, and then go back and shoot this shot when all the shots were finished.
Yang Jie was asked laterDao, which scene of "Journey to the West" impressed her the most, she said without hesitation about "Three Beats of the White Bone Spirit": "This whole scene was filmed in a very difficult location, and things started to go wrong in the morning, and it started to go wrong in the afternoon. It was even more exaggerated, and we were embarrassed in retrospect." This time in
"Three Beats of Bone Spirits", the terrifying music, scary costumes, and gloomy pictures in the play were once the shadows of many people's childhood, but who would have thought Behind such a terrifying lens, is there such an interesting story?
