Millennium director

In the Magic City Zoo and the Golden Monkey Ecological Park, the crew of "The Great Sage" is filming.

In order to be able to rent this special shooting venue, Light and Shadow Times spent a lot of money, and only this one venue was closed for shooting.

That's all because this movie is a Wu Yuan movie, otherwise the Magic City Zoo would not have lent its park to the film crew for filming.

After all, as the largest zoo in Shanghai, there is always no shortage of tourists here all year round, so there is no need for movies to help promote such things.

It can only be said that Wu Yuan's face fruit is quite easy to use.

The reason why the crew rented the zoo was to shoot part of the plot at the beginning of the movie. The male protagonist Sun Wu works part-time in the monkey park, meets the old keeper played by Liu Xiaolingtong, and then works with him.

This part of the plot is not much, but it is very crucial, and it also contains a lot of foreshadowing. For example, the two will talk about Sun Wukong during casual chats, and even argue about what kind of monkey Sun Wukong is.

In the monkey park, this scene is being filmed at this time.

Sun Wu, played by Zhang Yishan, was wearing the clothes of a keeper. While feeding the monkeys, he argued with the six-year-old boy who was leaning in the corner of the park and cleaning:

"Isn't it all written in "Journey to the West" that Sun Dasheng is the stone monkey that jumped out of the stone!"

"In the original work of "Journey to the West", Tathagata Buddha said that there are "four monkeys in the world". "The first is the clever stone monkey, which can understand changes, know the weather, know the location, and move the stars to change the battle." The second is the red-hatted horse-monkey, who understands yin and yang, understands people and affairs, is good at going in and out, avoids death and prolongs life. The third one is the monkey, holding the sun and moon, shrinking thousands of mountains, distinguishing between good and bad, and playing with the universe. The fourth is the six-eared macaque, which is good at listening to sounds, able to understand, know the front and back, and everything is clear. "

"Sun Dasheng must be the legendary Lingming Stone Monkey, not an ordinary monkey!"

Sun Wu looked confident, but the six-year-old boy just shook his head: "What the book says is wrong. There is no such thing as a spiritual stone monkey. It's all just hearsay. But there really is a six-eared macaque. But it’s just because that guy has three pairs of ears that it’s called a six-eared macaque.”

"Sun Wukong is a macaque. In "The Poems of Tripitaka of the Tang Dynasty", Sun Wukong claims that the 84,000 copper-headed and iron-fronted macaque king of Ziyun Cave in Huaguo Mountain is the same species as the six-eared macaque, and they are both macaques."

"This book is earlier than Journey to the West."

"Furthermore, from the perspective of living habits, macaques are social animals in the mountains and forests. The most powerful "monkey king" in the monkey group leads the monkeys. Therefore, the monkeys in Huaguo Mountain are all macaques, so they will choose the monkey king, and finally choose the monkey king. Out came Sun Wukong, the Monkey King.”

"How could Sun Dasheng be just an ordinary macaque?" Sun Wu didn't listen at all. He rolled his eyes and said very dissatisfied: "Sun Dasheng is the Monkey King. His background is definitely extraordinary. It’s a magical monkey.”

"The Monkey King is also a monkey." The six-year-old boy showed no emotion at all. Instead, he looked at Sun Wu's back with fondness and said with emotion: "It's rare to see you around these days. This is how you protect Sun Monkey.”

"Very good!" At this time, Wu Yuan's voice came from the large loudspeaker hanging in the air in the distance: "After this section, add another mid-shot!"

"Every unit prepares!"

In half a day, the six-year-old boy, paired with Zhang Yishan, filmed four or five scenes in the monkey park, and the filming went very smoothly.

One of them is an actor who plays the old Monkey King, and the other is an actor with a background as a child star. They are indeed very capable in acting and have a high degree of tacit understanding, which makes Wu Yuan very satisfied.

But he didn't expect that during the filming break, the two people would actually argue around him about what kind of monkey Sun Wukong was.

No way, the topic written in the script did arouse the curiosity of the two of them.

"You ask me, how do I know." Wu Yuan was also confused this time and said speechlessly: "The specific species of monkey was not clearly stated in "Journey to the West"."

"Besides, this kind of mythical story has evolved many times. Who knows what the earliest setting of Monkey King was."

"But I am also more inclined to think that the prototype of Sun Wukong may be a macaque, and it is definitely not a golden monkey anyway." Wu Yuan pointed to a lively group of golden monkeys in the monkey park and said with a smile.

This topic was discontinued, and everyone was busy cleaning up the scene and preparing for the filming of the next scene.

At this time, a staff member from the Light and Shadow Era who had been waiting outside the studio came up and started talking to Wu Yuan in a low voice.

"Director Wu, Mr. Li just made a phone call and said that the second film exhibition in Dali is about to be held. He asked you to take time to attend it then."

"This year you will continue to present several awards as the presenter."

"The second session is about to begin?" Wu Yuan nodded suddenly. Although the filming time here was tight and the tasks were heavy, he still promised: "I will be there when the time comes."

The Dali International Film Festival is the first private film festival in China hosted by Light and Film Times, and it is also the only private film festival. The first one was held only last year.

At that time, the first session was quite successful. Wu Yuan personally took the lead and invited three national-level filmmakers from Japan, South Korea and Thailand to serve as judges. He also sent out invitations widely, and eventually invited more than 50 films from across Asia. Among the films participating in the exhibition, half are Chinese independent films, and the remaining half are films from other Asian countries.

For a large-scale film festival that aims to expand internationally, the number of more than 50 films participating is undoubtedly relatively small, and even shabby.

But as a film festival that has only been held for the first time, it is already very good to have more than 50 films participating.

The first Pingyao Film Festival organized by Chief Jia only had more than 30 films participating, and almost all of them were domestic films, with few foreign films.

"So far, as of now, there have been as many as 70 domestic and foreign independent films participating in the second session, most of which are still Asian films, but there are also some Latin American independent films."

"So Mr. Li hopes to work harder." The staff added.

When holding a film festival, everything else is empty, and the quality of the participating films is the real thing.

In the first session last year, there were actually no outstanding works, all of which were experimental or very immature works by newcomers. Really high-quality films did not participate, so the fame of the first session was successful only because of the influence of Wu Yuan and the judges.

But this is not a long-term solution after all. If a film festival wants to be held for a long time and gain influence, it still has to present several good works at the festival, just like the three European films that win the best film award every time will become the vane of European films.

If the Dali International Film Festival wants to have influence and status, it must select several works that can influence the Asian literary and artistic film circle!

"Sure, I hope to produce a few truly excellent films to make our film festival famous." Wu Yuan said with emotion.