Remember the python spirit in "Journey to the West"? I thought it was a special effect, I took it after seeing the real thing!

Hello everyone, today we will talk about the 86 version of "Journey to the West". This TV series can be said to have been seen by the people of the whole country. It will be played in a loop every summer and winter vacation. Although there are only 25 short episodes, Many of the contents have become classics, and the essence of 6 years has been concentrated in it. The reason why this show is so popular is that in addition to the wonderful performance of the actors, the director team did very well in some details, such as the python spirit at that time, but at that time it really borrowed a python!

In Journey to the West, the plot of the python spirit is definitely the most horrible. Although she looks coquettish, she is maintained by drinking human blood. Therefore, she does not know how many people have swallowed, which can be said to be a heinous crime. And her body is a giant python, so it has become a childhood shadow of many people.

's most critical battle in the battle with the python spirit is Wukong and the snake-shaped fairy. At the beginning, director Yang Jie wanted to use computer special effects to complete it, but the effect was really bad, and I couldn't watch it at all. When everyone was in distress, Yang Jie directly thought of a bold idea. She borrowed a real python directly from the local zoo, so all the pythons we saw later were real, but the head was turned into the face of a monster.

Although this shot only lasts a few minutes, it is a very big test for actors. After all, things like pythons are really scary. However, the old artists at the time were able to calmly complete the shooting in this environment. This kind of determination is really admirable. It is precisely this kind of conscientious actors that we can see such wonderful works!

Nowadays, the special effects technology of movies has been very developed, and it can even be fake, but works like "Journey to the West" are difficult to shoot again. The hardware is important, but if there is no precipitation of the content, no matter how good the special effects are, we have seen this phenomenon in more than one movie!