The Golden Age of China Entertainment

"Director Wang! What do you want from me?"

It's impossible to be sent by CCTV, so I plan to drag him over! ?

"It's a little bit of a problem. The Red Mansion was broadcast at the end of last year, and the audience responded very well. Director Yang Jie is looking at it will be broadcast at the end of the year. The station is thinking, should we take advantage of this shareholders' wind and make another movie?" There are only four masterpieces left, Taili intends to entrust this project to me, but they don’t give me any troops, no, there is no way, I can only recruit troops myself!"

The co-author, Director Wang Fulin, wanted to save the game, but was short of manpower, so he turned his ideas on him.

But is CCTV going to shoot it so soon?

Yi Qing remembers that it should have started in 90, filmed for four years, and aired in 94?

It's only been 87 years, the time is wrong!

"Director Wang, CCTV is planning to launch with that in mind? You know better than me that shooting the Three Kingdoms is no different than the Red Chamber. With so many war scenes, it will cost a lot of money!"

Of course Wang Fulin knew that when Taili decided to shoot the Four Great Classics, it was because of the many war scenes in the Three Kingdoms and the huge cost that it chose the Red Chamber.

"I didn't say to shoot now. I also put forward conditions to the stage. It will take one year to study, and at least one year to prepare. It's early, I just told you in advance, so that you have a Prepare, how about it, would you like to follow me to make another four classics?"

Yi Qing is definitely interested. He has also participated in the filming of He Qing. If he can participate again, he may be able to collect the four great classics in the future, just like He Qing.

But~~~~~~~

"Director Wang! How are you going to shoot this scene!?"

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Chapter 525 Martial arts and literary filming

Probably because of the great success of the broadcast at the end of last year, it strengthened the confidence of CCTV leaders to change the classics. Before the broadcast, another one of the four classics has already begun to be planned.

But to shoot, the difficulty can be imagined. Just how to express the grand war scene is a very difficult problem to solve.

Of course, the successful experience in the previous life has proved that domestic TV drama workers are capable of filming this classic masterpiece, but the difficulties they have to face during the filming process are also huge.

In the previous life, it was aired after the Spring Festival in 94. It cost a lot of money, took a long time, and the scale was unprecedented.The setting is realistic, the scenes are grand, the whole film is magnificent and magnificent, and the soundtrack is beautiful, it can be called an immortal work among domestic TV dramas.

Although in many details, from the perspective of Yi Qing, a person of later generations, due to the limitation of the times, he could not achieve perfection.

For example, the issue of changing actors was discussed more by the audience. Except for Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Sun Quan, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhuge Liang, the main characters remained the same from beginning to end. Yuan Benchu ​​shaved his beard and turned into Zhou Yu to avenge himself, Gongsun Zan turned into Zhao Yun, and Zhao Lei resurrected into Jia Chong.

The costumes were also unsatisfactory. It is said that because there were not enough costumes at the time, the crew went to the Japanese crew next door to borrow them, which resulted in the armor in some shots with Japanese style, but it is unknown whether this is true or not. up.

In addition, in addition to the famous battles, many war scenes in the drama are too realistic, resulting in a lack of expressiveness. The specific performance is that when the generals are singled out, the soldiers turn in circles, or the soldiers on both sides clatter each other with spears. There are really not many shots where extras have a sense of the scene.

However, although there are some shortcomings, this does not shake the classic status of the CCTV version. Compared with the many versions of movies and TV series shot later, the CCTV 94 version is difficult to surpass in any aspect.

Yi Qing is naturally willing to have the opportunity to participate in the filming of this classic, let alone the invitation personally sent by director Wang Fulin.

just~~~~~~~~~

"Director Wang, how do you plan to shoot this scene?"

Wang Fulin was taken aback by Yi Qing's question. He had just received a notice from CCTV and was still negotiating conditions with the above. In fact, the matter had not yet been fully settled. Yi Qing suddenly asked him how he wanted to shoot, how did this make him answer.

"Xiao Yi, what do you mean how to shoot?"

"Director Wang, for such a big drama, we have to decide the tone in advance. At the beginning, CCTV was going to shoot the adaptation of the four famous novels. Why didn't you shoot it as soon as it came up? You won't forget the reason, right?"

Of course, Wang Fulin will never forget that the main reason why he didn't shoot at the beginning was technical conditions, financial ability, and more importantly, how to shoot such a grand war scene, the peak battle in the era of cold weapons?No one has experience.

"You said this. I have thought about it these days. It is indeed too difficult to completely restore it. Therefore, I thought of simply filming martial arts dramas and focusing on those literary dramas in the original book, such as Sangu thatched cottage, tongue war Qun Confucianism, Crouching Dragon Hanging Filial Piety, and Tongque Terrace, such as the Battle of Guandu, Chibi Fire Attack, and the Seven Captures of Meng Huo, should be slightly weakened, which can’t be helped, after all, it’s really hard to shoot!”

Ren Dahui also said: "Director Wang and I both told the stage that it is really difficult to realize some war scenes with the current technical means. In addition, our domestic directors are really inexperienced in this area."

Sure enough, it is still the case!

To say that the biggest regret left by the CCTV version is that the war scenes have been weakened, and it has been severely weakened.

You know, what kind of era was that?

The feudal lords were in conflict and the people were in dire straits. From the end of the Han Dynasty to the completion of the Sima clan's unification, the population of the Central Plains dropped by seven or eight. In addition to the deaths caused by natural and man-made disasters, the most important thing was the successive years of wars.

So many famous classic battles, such cruel and bloody wars, were finally weakened to the point where the war almost became a child's play, how could it not be regrettable.

"Director Wang, Teacher Ren, I disagree with you two."

Hearing this, Wang Fulin was not surprised. In fact, he took the initiative to invite such a young man like Yi Qing because of his active thinking. Little Liba who can do things as ordered, why invite Yi Qing specially, there are a lot of people like this in the stage.

"It doesn't matter if there are disagreements, let's discuss slowly, Xiao Yi, don't be shy, just talk casually, since things haven't been settled yet, let's just talk about it!"

Yi Qing heard the words, pondered for a while and said: "Director Wang, Mr. Ren, I think the reason why they are regarded as the Four Great Masterpieces is not only in our country, but also in North Korea, South Korea, Japan, and even Europe and the United States. Strength, the key is because this book gives a panoramic description of the war-torn era. The princes of all walks of life played games with the world as a chessboard. If it’s weakened in TV dramas, what’s left?”

After hearing this, Wang Fulin and Ren Dahui were also lost in thought. They were only thinking about the technical conditions before, and they really ignored them. Now, after hearing what Yi Qing said, it seems that something is really wrong, and even the topic is a bit off. .

Yi Qing went on to say: "For example, in the chapter of the Battle of Chibi in the book, starting from the burning of Bowangpo, Zhao Zilong went out seven times and entered Changbanpo seven times, Zhang Yide roared on the Dangyang Bridge, and the grass boat borrowed arrows , Burning Chibi, can it be said that when the time comes, just use the narration to say the last sentence and take it away?"

Of course not, if everything is written off, what is left of this play?

"It's the same as singing Peking Opera on the stage. Just a bunch of old students babbling and singing, without the martial arts and painted faces, the audience under the stage will all fall asleep?"

"What you said makes sense, but~~~~~~~It's difficult~~~~~~~~"

Wang Fulin sighed, not to mention such a grand war scene, even when he was filming, if there was no fight scene that Yi Qing helped design, Liu Xianglian helped Xue Wenlong, he didn't know how to deal with it.

Battle duels in the era of cold weapons are, after all, different from modern warfare.

When dealing with modern warfare, as long as there are more bombing points and the pyrotechnics are handled properly, the rest is a group of people charging, and a little more makeup will be OK.

How to shoot the war in the era of cold weapons?

Especially in the tens of thousands of battles, the cavalry charged like a thunderbolt, the archers rained arrows overwhelmingly, and the replacement soldiers fought hand-to-hand. Wang Fulin felt his scalp tingling. How to deal with this?

"Director Wang! This is a matter of tone. We filmed this film, in addition to meeting the needs of domestic audiences for culture and entertainment. I think the key is that the country hopes to promote Chinese culture to the outside world through this kind of work. With its influence, the filming is good. Everyone is happy, and I’m afraid it’s going to be a joke, especially in Japan!”

Japan's respect for Chinese culture has always been like this, unlike South Korea, which strives to de-Sinicize. Although people look down on modern China, their enthusiasm for Chinese culture has never changed.

As a classic masterpiece of Chinese civilization, its popularity in Japan is not even weaker than that in China, and there have always been film and television works on the theme of the Three Kingdoms.

In the previous life, when CCTV was planning to start shooting, Japan also planned to shoot. It is not self-deprecating. As far as the present is concerned, Japan's film and television production level is obviously higher than that of China.

If the two companies start at the same time, when the finished product comes out, if the TV series produced in China can't even compare with Japan, it will be a big joke.

At that time, a group of domestic film and television workers will have to jump into the river in embarrassment if they say "Chinese people can't make their masterpieces well".

"Xiaoyi, what you mentioned, have you already thought about how to solve those technical problems?"

As soon as Wang Fulin finished speaking, he laughed first. He just mentioned this matter to Yi Qing today. How could Yi Qing have a solution, unless he can predict the future.