Do you think Yang Jie s masterpiece is only Journey to the West ? In fact, these classics were all

Mondo Entertainment Updated on 2024-01-29

Speaking of the 86 version of "Journey to the West", almost everyone knows and knows about it.

This drama almost connects the youth memories of several generations, from the elderly to the primary and secondary school students who are still studying.

It can be said that the 86 version of "Journey to the West" has brought joy to countless people.

However, it is regrettable that director Yang Jie, who filmed this TV series, unfortunately passed away due to a heart attack on April 15, 2017.

Director Yang Jie is the first generation of TV directors in China and the first female producer in China.

At that time, when filming the TV series "Journey to the West", because of insufficient funds, Director Yang Jie mobilized all his connections, raised funds from various sources, and finally completed the filming of the TV series with the spirit of never giving up.

However, many viewers only know that director Yang Jie has directed the TV series "Journey to the West", in fact, she has directed many popular TV series that are popular all over the country.

It can be said that director Yang Jie's achievements in the field of TV dramas in the last century are no less than director Zhang Yimou's attainments in film.

Now, a generation of famous directors has passed away, so what popular TV series has director Yang Jie made?

Director Yang Jie has many filming works, but if you talk about the most well-known and influential, it is "Journey to the West".

In fact, the story behind the filming of "Journey to the West" is not simpler than learning from experience!

In 1978, Japan actually filmed the TV series version of "Journey to the West" first.

You must know that "Journey to the West", as one of the four classic masterpieces in my country, how can it be remade by another country first?

So CCTV urgently held a meeting at that time, and the central content of the meeting was the remake of the TV series "Journey to the West".

Yang Jie was working at CCTV at the time, but because she was young and lacked qualifications, she never got a good job opportunity.

At that time, the director of "Journey to the West" was still undecided, and the other directors of CCTV had their own jobs at that time, so they couldn't stop the drama they were currently filming and reshoot "Journey to the West".

At this time, the leaders of CCTV began to notice the newcomer Yang Jie, and they thought that although Yang Jie did not have much experience in filming TV series, she had strong directing skills, so they planned to let Yang Jie serve as the director of "Journey to the West".

When Yang Jie heard the news, she immediately agreed, believing that she could make a "Journey to the West" that Chinese people love to watch.

But in the actual filming process, Yang Jie realized how heavy the burden was on her body.

Because the filming process of "Journey to the West" is different from other narrative TV series, there are often a lot of special effects.

You must know that "Journey to the West" was filmed in the eighties of the last century, when China was almost blank in the field of special effects.

In the face of the scenes where the characters need to become bigger and smaller at every turn, the crew is in a state of anxiety.

Later, it was through the field to learn Xi technology in other countries that the problem of special effects was solved.

In addition to the special effects, there is also the problem of hanging Weiya.

Because at that time, China's hoisting technology was very immature, and it was not even clear what material the steel wire used in hoisting Weiya was.

So at that time, the actors often fell from a high altitude when they hung Weiya, especially the Monkey King played by Liu Xiaolingtong fell the most, and once, he even broke his ribs.

As soon as Director Yang Jie saw that the situation was like this, he immediately decided to send the crew to Hong Kong to study and Xi, which solved the problem of hanging Weiya.

In addition to technical problems, financial problems also gave director Yang Jie a headache.

Because the filming of "Journey to the West" requires a large number of actors, and the scenes involved are also very complex, so halfway through the filming of the TV series, the crew ran out of the budget given by CCTV.

At that time, in order to save money, the crew even used only one camera to shoot the whole film.

Later, director Yang Jie went to all parts of the country and asked friends to find a relationship before finding Mr. Li Hongchang, who was willing to invest.

When Mr. Li Hongchang heard that the crew was facing a predicament, the thug gave the crew a fund of 3 million with a wave of his hand.

It can be said that the weight and significance of this money are crucial, and without this money, there may not be the later "Journey to the West".

In the end, director Yang Jie finally completed the filming of "Journey to the West" after a lot of hard work and six years.

And the 86 version of "Journey to the West", even if 37 years have passed since today, it is still the best and most classic version in the minds of many audiences, and there is no one else.

Director Yang Jie has been widely praised since the release of "Journey to the West", and she herself has had many opportunities to direct.

At that time, the TV series "Zhu Yuanzhang" released in 1993 still has a whopping 8 on Douban5 ratings.

This TV series is starring Lu Qi and Liu Falu, and tells the life of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the People's Republic of China, with a real narrative technique.

Looking at my country's film and television dramas about Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, there are thirty or forty films.

So why does this film directed by Yang Jie get such a high rating?

The root cause is that Director Yang Jie did not make the characters in the play face-painted.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang is the absolute protagonist of the TV series, the director is of course not stingy with the extraordinary intelligence and courage of filming Zhu Yuanzhang.

But director Yang Jie also did not avoid Zhu Yuanzhang's bad qualities, such as bloodthirsty and brutal in his later years, and indiscriminately killing ministers, which made the people in the court panic, and there was a tendency to storm and storm.

It is really such a real and three-dimensional character image that makes the audience have a deep sense of substitution, as if returning to the Ming Dynasty with director Yang Jie, and experiencing the daily life of a generation of emperors up close.

In addition, Director Yang Jie also paid attention to the emotional aspect of the TV series during filming, not blindly filming the emperor's power and conspiracy, and making the TV series into a historical drama, but focusing on the deep friendship between Zhu Yuanzhang and Queen Ma, and the strong love of childhood sweethearts when they were young.

In the TV series, when Queen Ma carefully carried the freshly baked flatbread in her arms and gave it to Zhu Yuanzhang, who was locked in prison, she endured the pain of being burned on her chest and let the flatbread burn her chest, which touched countless audiences.

Yang Jie also made her famous director even more famous because of this drama.

Director Yang Jie formed a team in 1997 and filmed the story of Sima Qian, a generation of famous ministers.

This TV series has 18 episodes and tells the story of Sima Qian, the author of "Historical Records", which is known as "the swan song of historians, the separation of rhyme".

At that time, director Yang Jie was even more eclectic in the selection of actors, and when she was on the set, she was personally responsible for selecting the actor who played Sima Qian.

After more than a dozen rounds of selection, she finally decided on Qiu Yongli as the leading actor in the TV series "Sima Qian".

And the final result is also very impressive.

Qiu Yongli's resolute face fits Sima Qian's character image well, coupled with the actor's excellent acting skills, the image of Sima Qian, a generation of erudite and talented, upright and unyielding ministers, is vividly portrayed.

In the end, this drama has also become a classic in the minds of many people.

The TV series "Journey to the West Sequel" was released

The 86 version of "Journey to the West" was unable to be filmed due to limited funding and other issues.

In order to make up for the regrets of the year, director Yang Jie decided to reshoot the content in the 86 version of "Journey to the West" at the beginning of the new century.

This "Journey to the West Sequel" has only 15 episodes in total, but it makes up for all the plots that are not covered in the 86 editions.

However, after the show came out, it did not receive the expected praise.

Some viewers think that "Journey to the West" sequel is not as good as the 86 version of "Journey to the West".

You must know that the filming budget of "Journey to the West Sequel" is more than 20 million, why is the shooting effect not as good as "Journey to the West", which was shot with millions of dollars back then?

One of the reasons is that the audience feels that the sequel is not as compact and natural as the original story, and the script is not carefully polished.

Another point is that the actors have also changed, for example, the actors who played Zhu Bajie and Sha Seng have been replaced by newcomers.

For viewers who are familiar with the old version, replacing the main actors will undoubtedly make their TV series less experienced.

But in the final analysis, it is a matter of feelings.

Even if the sequel is as well shot as the original, the audience may also think that the first version is better.

In fact, it's not because of the TV series itself, but because no one is young.

The beauty of memory is, to some extent, irreplaceable eternity.

Director Yang Jie was born in the war-torn era, and has experienced countless major changes in the motherland in his life.

As a director, she has been working hard all her life, deeply cultivating her field, and striving to bring more classic works to the audience.

Today, she is gone, but her legacy continues to influence generations of people.

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