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The return of the great sage of journey to the west is a 3D animation film based on the traditional Chinese myth journey to the West. It is co produced by Hengdian film and television, sky city, Yancheng October and micro film era, Gaolu animation, Gongzi brothers, century long, Shandong film and television, Dongtai Longxing Shengshi, Huai'an Xiyou industry and Yongkang Yihe, directed by Tian Xiaopeng, Zhang Lei and Lin Zi Zhang Jie, Liu Jiurong, Tong Zirong and so on.

The film tells the story of the monkey king, who has been alone and submerged for 500 years at the foot of the five elements mountain. After being mistakenly released from the seal by the Tang monk, commonly known as Jiang liu'er, in his childhood, the monkey king recovers his original intention and completes his self salvation in a journey of adventure accompanied by each other.

After the film was released in China in the form of 2D, 3D and Chinese giant screen on July 10, 2015, it attracted the attention of netizens and audiences and extensive media coverage with its excellent reputation. According to people's daily, the film is a phenomenal work rarely seen in Chinese animated films in the past decade.

In 2015, the film won the best art film award of the 30th Golden Rooster Award and the excellent feature film award of the 16th Huabiao award. On August 6, 2016, in the list of top 50 films released by the Organizing Committee of the 20th Huading award, the film ranked 16th.

Synopsis

Four hundred years after the havoc in the heavenly palace, the great sage of heaven became a legend. In Chang'an City, where mountain demons are rampant, the orphan Jiang liu'er and the monk FA Ming are dependent on each other, and the little boy is often fascinated by the monkey king who makes havoc in the heavenly palace. One day, the mountain demon came to rob the boy and girl. Jiang liuer saved a little girl, which made the mountain demon chase and kill him. He ran all the way into the five elements mountain, hit and bumped blindly and lifted the seal of the monkey king. After Wukong was free, he only wanted to go back to Huaguo Mountain, but he had no choice but to escort him back to Chang'an city. Along the way, Bajie and bailongma also appeared by chance, but they were either down or possessed, and the heroes were no longer there. In order to rob the girl, the Demon King sets up a puzzle in the nightclub. However, he finds that Wukong has lost all his magic power and easily grabs the girl. Wukong doesn't want to save the girl any more. Jiang liuer decides to save herself. On the day of the total solar eclipse, in the Xuankong Temple, the demon king prepares to throw the boy and girl into the Dan furnace, but the river rushes into the Taoist temple, and the last battle begins.

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Behind the scenes

(1) In the film, Jiang liu'er's hair is from bald to round at the beginning, to the long round in the second half of the story. Jiang liu'er's hair grows with the development of the story. In the character setting, Jiang liu'er has two versions: the explosive head and the wire drawing head, but they don't appear in the movie;

(2) The Peking opera sung by demon king chaos in demon cave is not sung by Tong Zirong, but by two professional Peking Opera actors;

(3) The first version was recorded in Shanghai, and the chaos of Tong Zirong's dubbing and Jiang liuer's dubbing by Lin Zijie were retained; the second version was recorded in Beijing, in which Zhang Lei dubbed the monkey king; the third version was recorded in Beijing, in which Zhang Lei dubbed the monkey king;

(4) Jiang liu'er has two dubbing actors, one is Lin Zijie, a professional dubbing actor; the other is Ji Ji, because some of the dramas with strong emotional outburst need more mature dubbing actors to complete. These are the reasons why Jiang liu'er's dubbing in the two sections of the film is slightly inconsistent;

(5) The villains in the film are from the "chaos" in the book of mountains and seas. Tian Xiaopeng thinks that the monsters in the original book of journey to the West are too concrete and too human like. "Chaos" represents a kind of invisible fear, which symbolizes the hidden demons in monkey king's heart;

(6) There are about four or five versions of Monkey King's image design, and there are countless fine-tuning versions in the end;

(7) Lu Wei, the producer of the series, said that he would shoot five films in a row to become China's first world-class animation brand;

(8) As the world's first 3D animated film with the theme of traveling to the west, "the return of the great sage" has set the highest overseas sales record of Chinese animated films in Cannes. In the 18th Shanghai International Film Festival in 2015, it became the first animated film shortlisted in 12 years since the establishment of media awards;

(9) There are more than 90 scenes in the film, and different lighting effects in the same scene may lead to new changes;

(10) More than 100 investors will not sign their children's names on the film, not themselves;

(11) Founded in 1999, the company is known as China's Pixar and the earliest and most professional character animation company in China;

(12) King jinyinjiaowa will appear in later films;

(13) The whole project was called journey to the West 3D before, and then changed its name; the film schedule was changed from Spring Festival to summer;

(14) In the original book of journey to the west, Tang monk was called Jiang liu'er when he was young, and he practiced in the ninth generation, and he didn't meet Monkey King until the tenth generation. What did he experience in the ninth world to make him become a thorough and enlightened man in the Tenth World;

(15) It begins with a salute to the 1964 edition of "havoc in heaven";

(16) The story of chasing in the mountains is based on the adventures of Tintin. The director revealed that when he was doing the play, he left four or five animators, who was the one who collapsed;

(17) Jiang liu'er's hair grows with the plot;

(18) The design of the villain is based on the description of chaos in Shanhaijing. It has no face, six legs and a fat body, which fully conforms to the image in the film. Tian Xiaopeng gave up the classic characters in the original work, such as the ox demon king, the king of gold and silver horn, and so on;

(19) The villain was voiced by Mr. Tong Zirong, 71, a famous Chinese dubbing artist;

(20) Many audiences think that the ending is rather hasty. In fact, there is a foreshadowing in the film. According to the director, the structure of the whole story can not be finished by one film. The idea of the first film is acquaintance, or affinity; the problem to be solved in the sacrococcygeal region in the future is faith;

(21) the director thought about putting Dai Quan's Wukong in the film, but it needed to readjust the rhythm and the picture of the film to match it. At that time, neither money nor time was allowed. Sequels may be used;

(22) in the early stage of production, Jiujiang was positioned as a film suitable for audiences over 10 years old;

(23) in the "dynamic segmentation" stage, Tian Xiaopeng asked the technical team not to consider the time and cost, but to achieve the ultimate perfection. As a result, the cost of this stage has increased three to four times, lasting more than two years;

(24) the production cycle of the first film took eight years, and the production team of the second film will complete it in two years;

(25) with the help of the return of the great sage, tap water and purified water became the new names of the spontaneous water army.

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Creative background

In 1995, when Director Tian Xiaopeng was a junior, a friend copied him a 3D production software, which changed his fate. He deleted all the Games in the computer and began to focus on 3D animation. In 1997, he participated in the production of part of CCTV's domestic cartoon journey to the West. At that time, he cultivated the plot of great sage and had a bold idea: to make a series of three-dimensional animation journey to the West.

Tian Xiaopeng thinks that in the eyes of modern people, some points in the original book of journey to the west can not be understood, and some values are also in conflict with modern people. Therefore, he decided to tell a different journey to the west, which is more in line with the values and appreciation habits of modern people, and has magical characteristics. It will let the audience follow the growth footprints of Monkey King and Jiang liuer (Tang monk), and convincingly understand their mental journey of learning from experience.

The whole film has gone through eight years of brewing and three years of production. The world view of the film is based on the original novel Journey to the west, which is expanded and interpreted according to the traditional Chinese mythology.

There are heaven, man and earth in the world. The mission from heaven is to let Tang Monk go to the west to get back the Sutra, so as to benefit the world of monsters. Wukong and Bajie are all non mortal demons, but they are different from other demons. They once entered the immortal sequence of heaven, but they were demoted to the world for violating the rules of heaven. Because of the same mission, they are intertwined with the growth of Tang monk, from mutual strangeness, mutual separation, mutual escape, and even once for the enemy. It was not until the tenth generation of Tang monk that they were willing to protect Tang monk to the West. Before becoming a famous monk, Tang Monk experienced different life experiences or identities. Every time he experiences death, he forgets everything, reincarnates in a new time and space, and begins another journey in the world with mortal body and extraordinary love. The story of this work is set in the first life of the reincarnation of the tenth Tang monk.

Character design

The film does not use the monkey king design commonly used by the monkey king in the past. Tian Xiaopeng said that the monkey king in his mind should be a hero who is not good-looking, but rebellious and chivalrous. He hopes that the audience will like the character through the thick humanity of Wukong in the film, rather than simply accept it from the surface, and think that only in this way can the character stand up.

As Tian Xiaopeng's favorite role, "Jiang liu'er" carries the theme of the film, that is, persistence. It was this persistence that made him pursue justice without hesitation, and finally released the conscience of the monkey king, which helped him recover the power of the great sage.

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