1979 Golden Age

The Spring Festival is a three-day holiday.

"Judge Bao" was broadcast once on the third day of the Lunar New Year, and it was immediately replayed and was still popular.

Ten million TV sets are enough to create a certain effect, but unfortunately there is no ratings statistics at this time. It has a strong influence in some groups, especially among people in the TV industry.

Last year's "Eighteen Years in the Enemy Camp" was too traditional. "Judge Bao" really makes people's eyes light up, because it is essentially commercial in nature, and it is full of popular elements.

Oh, it turns out that TV dramas can be shot like this! It turns out that historical figures can be written like this!

This expands the thinking.

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Now the span of the Spring Festival is very long, unlike in later generations, when there is no feeling after the New Year's Eve.

On the morning of the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, the air in the capital was still filled with a strong smell of sulfur, and the festive red color that could be seen everywhere would not be removed until after the Lantern Festival.

"Ding!"

A bus stopped at the platform, and Li Jianqun, carrying a large bag, got on the bus with great effort.

She leaned against the armrest, pulled off the scarf covering her face to take a breath, and rummaged through her wallet in her pocket, and was startled by a sudden call: "Qin Xianglian!"

"You are Qin Xianglian, right?"

A female comrade in her 40s, with a plump face and looking like a cadre, came towards her, looked her up and down in a second, and said with certainty: "It must be, you must be!"

"Uh, I'm playing Qin Xianglian."

"Hey, I told you! Come on, there's a seat in the back... No, no, I'll buy it for you, it's so hard to carry so many things."

The female comrade bought her a ticket and enthusiastically pulled her to sit down. All the passengers in the car saluted, some had seen the play, some hadn't, and they were all talking about it.

"It's over!"

Li Jianqun twitched her lips, and the free days were gone!

She experienced such a thing during the Chinese New Year in Wuhan. Her family didn't have a TV, but a neighbor did, and it was so lively! It was as if all the people on the street had crowded into my house, and I was being watched like a monkey.

"I want to act, just bear with it!"

She had a good attitude, but she didn't like to socialize with strangers, but she had to socialize at this moment.

"You are so pitiful! A widow with two children, what's so good about Chen Shimei? You just sued him to death for being a flatterer, and you even thought about him. You are so disappointing. Haven't you heard that women can hold up half the sky?"

"I haven't heard of Qin Xianglian!"

No matter what she said, the female comrade just vented on her own, nagging for a while, and finally said: "Look at you, you are born to be a punching bag. If anyone dares to be that Chen Shimei and bully you, just say it, and the masses will make the decision for you!"

"Yes, everyone will make the decision for you!"

"Chen Shimei should be beheaded!"

Haha!

Li Jianqun kept a perfunctory smile. It wasn't that she was self-righteous. She really had nothing in common with this group of people. She endured the whole journey in agony, but she jumped down before she reached the station.

She was sweating. She wiped it and exhaled: "Is this the taste of being famous? It's quite uncomfortable."

She walked for a long time and arrived at Lechunfang with difficulty. Everything was the same as before.

The door was half open. Dai Hanhan was sweeping the snow at the door with a broom in her hand. She ran over to greet him: "Teacher Li, I wish you a happy New Year!"

"Happy New Year to you too!"

"Wow, you are a big movie star now. Oh no, you are a TV star! The newspapers have written about you. Maybe you will come to interview me."

"If you come, please block them for me!"

Li Jianqun waved his hand, went into the yard, looked at Ji Chunhua again, and wished each other a happy New Year. He asked: "Is Teacher Chen back?"

"We are talking about something inside. Director Yang Jie is here."

"Oh?"

She went into the house to put down her things, took off her heavy cotton jacket, and wrapped herself in a blanket, turning into a gypsy, and then began to clean up.

At the same time

In the main room, Chen Qi shook hands with a guy with a surprised look on his face, and said with a smile: "How did you get into Director Yang's team? Aren't you in the study class?"

"The study class ended last year! I heard that "Journey to the West" was going to be filmed, so I took the initiative to apply for the role of Tang Monk. Director Yang didn't like me, but kept me as a production manager. I didn't expect to meet you again, what a fate!"

It was no one else, but Li Chengru.

At that time, they had met once at Beijing Film Academy. Chen Qi chose Zhang Guangbei to film "Justice Bao" instead of him.

Li Chengru worked at Jingshan Garment Factory, but he basically didn't go to work. He was just hanging around everywhere. He worked as a production manager in "Journey to the West" from beginning to end. He originally thought that he could be transferred to CCTV, but after "Journey to the West" was finished, he didn't succeed, so he went into business in a fit of anger.

Chen Qi exchanged a few polite words with him, and Yang Jiefang said: "The leader of our unit asked me to ask you if you are still interested in writing the script for "Judge Bao". They still want to shoot it."

"Are you the director?"

"No, I don't have the time!"

"Then I won't write it. I don't have the time either."

"Okay, then I'll go back to them."

Yang Jie smiled and continued: "I watched "Journey to the West" twice during the Chinese New Year, and immediately gathered people. Now there are six people. Me, Wang Chongqiu, Li Chengru, an art director, a lighting engineer, and a script supervisor.

In a few days, we will go to scout the scenes, roughly travel around the country, and then shoot when we come back."

"Are you not going to have centralized training?"

"What is the training for Journey to the West? How to play monsters and monsters? No one has acted in it before. I'm looking for opera actors who have good skills. I'm not like Wang Fulin. He has never seen "A Dream of Red Mansions" and requires one year of full-time study before filming. Ouch..."

Yang Jie has always had an unforgettable memory of Dream of Red Mansions, and added: "I contacted two screenwriters, but it has nothing to do with you. You write according to your own habits, and just give it to me after you finish it. I am here today to borrow two people from you. "

"The first one is Li Jianqun. She is so beautiful in her ancient costume. Be sure to lend it to me for another photo shoot. Is she yours now?"

"My people are from my company!"

"It's all the same! The second Gong Xue, I want her to come."

"She's from Beijing Film Studio. What do you want from me?"

"..."

Yang Jie looked at him sideways with a "what do you think" expression on her face.

Chen Qi had no choice but to nod and said: "Okay, I'll persuade her. Then let's do this. I happen to have a small team under me that can help you with your work, such as Ji Chunhua, who knows how to fight and draw wire.

And Li Jianqun, don’t just think of her as an actor. She is an artist. If you give me some costume designs for a few episodes, I want her to try it out. The background of "Journey to the West" is the Tang Dynasty. If you want to film the customs and customs of the Tang Dynasty, this one would be good..."

He wants his staff to gain more experience, but he has limited filming opportunities each year, and "Journey to the West" is a very challenging place, so it's the best opportunity.

Yang Jie understood after thinking about it and responded verbally first. She knew that the other party's subordinates were all capable people. Just as he was talking, the cotton curtain was lifted, and Li Jianqun came in wrapped loosely in a blanket.

"Ha ha!"

Yang Jie couldn't help but laugh and said: "Why are you dressed like this? I have never seen you like this in my team."

"It's work with you, so you have to scold me. It's different here. What are you talking about?" Li Jianqun said.

"I'm talking about you, will you perform "Journey to the West"?" Chen Qi said with a smile.

"ha?"

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This year’s Spring Festival is particularly lively.

Chen Qi is busy with various things here, and Hong Kong is even more restless, because the situation during the Spring Festival has become clear.