Coquettish Rebirth

To be honest, after thinking of this idea, Jia Hongjian really felt that he was too awesome!real!

Of course, what he was thinking was more horror, but after such a comparison, it also seemed to make people shudder suddenly - in a 90-minute movie, the first 80 minutes can be shot with serious events The tailoring of "Journey to the West", looking at the top Hollywood special effects, looking at the magnificent effects made by the top cg, watching the fantasy adventure journey of Tang Monk Tang Xuanzang, this is definitely a Chinese classic "Journey to the West" was filmed!Then, in the last minute, there was a shocking reversal!Let the middle-aged and elderly Tang Seng face the officials or eunuchs sent by the emperor, and slowly tell a true story - along the way, because of his inner demons, he killed people and robbed them.Because he thought that the country girl was seducing him and was a goblin, he killed the girl. When he met an old man and an old lady who came up the mountain to find the girl, he was cruel and killed them one by one!Then he, Tang Seng, did not have any apprentices to follow him, so the so-called ninety-nine and eighty-one disasters during his 1-year journey abroad were all 17 bloody tragedies!How amazing!

Wait... It seems a little unreasonable to design it this way?The original "Journey to the West" seems to be inconsistent with the number of years recorded in the history books?Jia Hongjian suddenly remembered that in the original book of "Journey to the West", those Tang monks returned from abroad for a total of 14 years. Thorough, and such a book is not a historical novel like the Three Kingdoms!It is a bit of a fantasy novel in itself.Therefore, the exaggeration and inaccuracy of the writing should not be held accountable.It’s as if Li Shimin didn’t send Tang Seng there at all in history—in the novel, Tang Seng is the imperial brother, but in fact, in real history, Li Shimin didn’t let Chinese people go abroad at all, and it seemed that they had to have the approval of the state before they could go out.Then Tang Seng was "smuggled" out!He was mixed in with the merchant team and was taken abroad!Then there is another saying in history that Tang Seng returned to China in 17 years, that is, after he arrived outside the customs in 19 years, he did not dare to enter the country because he knew that he was smuggling out of the country!

So in fact, the Tang monks in history were lonely when they went to learn Buddhist scriptures, and they were also alone when they came back.Actually the round trip time is an estimate!Exactly how long did he use it.No one knows how long I lived in Nagada, India!

After much deliberation, Jia Hongjian felt that he could adopt a method of combining history and stories—just like the "New Three Kingdoms" he had always worked on before, which was more historically factual.Instead of being completely faithful to the original work itself!If we interpret it from a modern perspective all of a sudden.Let Tang Seng smuggle out of the country without any approval and "passport".Then all kinds of murders and goods along the way, and finally came back with a lot of scriptures, was intercepted by "customs" officials.Then the official pulled him into the hut, asked him to take a bath and shave his face, and then asked him about this experience. Finally, the official reported two stories to the court. Finally, the court chose to believe the first one and told the first story Spread the word... how?

Or let Tang Xuanzang enter the customs smoothly, and finally the whole country was a sensation, and then the emperor summoned Tang Xuanzang.Tang Xuanzang narrated two stories in front of the emperor, and the emperor considered that the whole country was a sensation, and in order to educate the people, he chose to believe the first story, which was accompanied by monkey pig and a sand monk. The story of Tang Monk going to learn Buddhist scriptures?

hiss!Which of these two ideas feels great, no!It even made Jia Hongjian want to talk about this topic with Li An now, to see which one he thinks is better!hiss!This story is great!Hollywood has filmed "Journey to the West" in history, but the adaptation was called a pervert!Not to mention that Sun Wukong is a foreigner, but he is also in love with Guanyin Bodhisattva... Is there any king's law?Back then when Jia Hongjian found this film on the Internet and downloaded it to watch, it was really so tender on the outside and tender on the inside!As a result, he checked it later, and it was true that the box office of the so-called "Journey to the West" was a mess!

And if his story version of Journey to the West is filmed, how can he win an Oscar?The beautiful visual effects, the magical special effects of all kinds of monkeys and monsters, how can they not compare with "Lord of the Rings"?At that time, the story in the first 80 minutes will make foreigners watch with excitement and excitement. It will make Chinese people feel that their own culture has finally flourished for a while, and finally it will be published directly without much adaptation, and then finally At that time, Jia Hongjian gave them another "magic work"!Another big reversal!How could such a masterpiece not make it to the Oscars?Don't say anything else, we have already dubbed it in English, so why don't we have to compete for the best foreign language film?How can it be nominated for an Oscar for best screenplay and best film?

This idea is so good, it's even so good that Jia Hongjian thinks it's impossible not to shoot now!However, can Ang Lee make such a good movie in this era?Jia Hongjian couldn't help thinking about this question.Not to mention that Jia Hongjian was suspicious, the same blockbuster movie that was supposed to make money—Hulk, this movie was smashed by Ang Lee in history!Although the film's box office was okay in the end--6000 million US dollars in the first week, the industry criticized it all, saying that Ang Lee turned a popcorn film that was smashed and looted into a preaching film!It's okay to add humanistic care, but adding too much makes many people feel sick!As a result, although such a film performed well in North America, it was not well-received or well-received in mainland China!It feels as if Ang Lee is still relatively young, and he is only deep for the sake of being deep, at least in a commercial film like Hulk, and Ang Lee still can't grasp the boundary between profundity and business!So if Jia Hongjian gave such a story to Ang Lee now, would Ang Lee also be shot?

At that time, when Ang Lee filmed such a journey to the west, whether to go back or not, the filming was extremely entangled, extremely deep?Could it be that all kinds of technical means are not used to become a means of attracting people to pay, but just become a "display board" and an accessory that has to be used?To be honest, Jia Hongjian knew that in order to grow as a director, he really had to practice his skills, and he needed to waste a little bit of film to develop it.Just like the marksman in the army, who didn't waste tons of ammunition to become a marksman?Who can shoot a gun right out of the womb?Even Dirk Nowitzki of the Mavericks, didn't it take the old Nelson two years of unlimited firepower to train this German big man who can only float on the outside like Dazhi to become a king?

So, is Jia Hongjian going to entrust Ang Lee to make such a film?Handed it over to Ang Lee, maybe Ang Lee might have messed up the filming.After the filming is ruined, this idea will be abolished. It is impossible to say that Ang Lee will use the money to re-shoot this film ten years later-sometimes a good idea, especially this kind of film with a magical ending at the end, the story After being exposed, it's boring!It's like a joke. If the whole burden is told in advance, who will be happy in this audience?

So put such a story in ten years before filming it for Ang Lee?But ten years later there will be "Fantasy Drifting of Boy Pi"!At that time, the two stories with a bit similar overall structure will conflict with each other?Looking back, two films with the same structure were produced, both relying on Hollywood's top special effects to attract people, and then relying on the "two stories" at the end to make a twist, should the audience not call cheating money or refund tickets?No matter how similar the two stories are, the director dared to film them. He must be fooling the audience, and he must have made no progress!

Besides, the original work of "Youth Pi" will appear in 01 or 02. If the film is later than 01 and 02, when the original work comes out, won't everyone find that creativity has crashed?At that time, the effect of this surprise will be much worse!So this film must be shot as soon as possible!Then you have to shoot, and you have to shoot well!

But Jia Hongjian has no one on hand now!Spielberg, who is familiar with his films, is in a mess. He wants to shoot "Harry Potter" and "Band of Brothers" and then "Journey to the West" TV series. It will take him three to five years. It's time!No matter how awesome Spielberg is, it is impossible for one person to direct several works at the same time?So who should we choose?Looking at the film and television circles around the world, how many people can combine commercial films and literary films well?Is there anyone who can make a lot of money and at the same time bring depth, making people want to spend a few days and a half months pondering various metaphors and connotations in the movie?who?

Hiss... it seems that there is really one!Suddenly Jia Hung-chien thought of "Let the Bullets Fly"!This Jiang Wenna is a genius!This buddy is more proficient than Ang Lee in playing with all kinds of metaphors and metaphors—this guy is exactly the kind Jia Hongjian described, he likes to draw a big naked woman on paper and then add a few strokes Go to a few strokes and change it to a puppy or something, and then show it to the adults.Then watching the grown-ups praise him one by one, he secretly had that sullen personality!What this kind of person likes to play most is sneaking around!And metaphors and metaphors are of course all kinds of sneaky things!

In addition, this Jiang Wenna is also a standard literary youth. In the few films he made in history, various circular narratives and various interlaced narratives like stream of consciousness are really similar to what directors of literary and artistic films in the world do. up!And the most wonderful thing is that Jiang Wen has not offended anyone because he has been entangled by Jia Hongjian in the past few years. In history, Jiang Wen directed and acted "The Devil Is Coming" at this time in 99, and then When he failed the review, he took the film abroad to participate in exhibitions. This offended the leader and he was banned immediately, and he was not allowed to be a director for 5 years.Therefore, in the five years after 2000 in history, Jiang Wen was still an actor.As a result, he became an actor. He really didn't regard the director as a human being. If there was anything wrong with the director, he directly used the director to grab the class and seize power!Later, I heard that a certain well-known director was so angry that he cried!

Could Jiang Wen have filmed "The Magical Journey of Tang Xuanzang"? (To be continued..)