Chinanews client, Beijing, October 17th (Reporter Ren Siyu) Recently, the appearance of a movie caused many people to shout "childhood is back."

　　On October 14th, the classic animation "Book of Heaven" announced that it will be on the national big screen for the first time. This animated feature film produced by the Shanghai Art Film Studio in 1983 has a Douban score of 9.2. In addition to the memory killing, it also makes netizens. The one who called "tears" directly is that of the 12 main creators written in the movie posters, 6 have passed away.

　　38 years have passed, why do people never forget "The Book of Heaven"?

Source: Movie Stills

"The Book of the Heavens", where is the strange?

　　Compared with the "Naos in Heaven" and "Nezha Naos in the Sea" which were also produced by Shanghai Film Studio, the most impressive thing for many people is that it is interesting.

　　There is a rare book "Book of Heaven" in the heaven, which has been locked in the stone niche gate for three thousand years.

The book recorded 108 spells. In order to benefit mankind, Yuan Gong secretly went down to the earth and carved the contents of the heavenly book on the stone wall. However, he violated the heavenly rule and was punished to guard the heavenly book in a cave.

　　At this time, the three foxes stole the elixir in the alchemy furnace and turned into three fox spirits.

They went down to the world to deceive people and money, pretending to be a fairy, and colluding with the government to oppress the people and harm the world.

　　Therefore, Gong Yuan directed the gifted egg-born, a child who jumped out of the egg, to practice the spells in the heavenly book, and fight against the fox spirits to eliminate harm for the people.

Source: Movie Stills

　　This story comes from the ancient novel "Ping Yao Zhuan". The film's main creator used the "skewers" method to arrange the script, which merged many traditional folk tales, which was quite subversive at the time.

"In the past, our screenplay could not be edited like this," Qian Yunda, one of the directors, once recalled, "To string together violated the rules of our screenwriters in the past."

　　Yuan Gong and Dansheng fight against the three foxes with their wits and wits. The story of "The Book of the Heavens" is not complicated, but the characters in it are extremely vivid, such as the kind-hearted Dansheng, the selfless "fire-thief" Yuan Gong, and the treacherous Foxes, gods, monsters, emperors, monks, magistrates, merchants, etc. all have their own characteristics.

Source: Movie Stills

　　And some plot designs of "Tianshu Qi Tan" are also quite meaningful.

For example, the grandfather of the county grabbed a cornucopia and kept giving out gold and silver treasures. As a result, his father fell, and one father after another came out to make a noise, and eventually he was insatiably greedy.

　　In the film, Yuan Gong wiped out the fox, but he was finally captured by the Heavenly Court. His spirit moved many viewers: "I remember seeing Yuan Gong being taken away by the Heavenly Court chain, and I was crying." "When I was a child, I always thought that he would still be there. There is a sequel."

Not just for kids

　　Looking back at the creative team of "The Book of the Heavens" now, it is quite luxurious.

　　Looking at the dubbing team first, Ding Jianhua dubbed "Egg Life", Bi Ke dubbed "Yuan Gong", and dubbing artists such as Su Xiu, Cheng Xiaohua, Shi Rong, Cao Lei, Shang Hua, etc., contributed wonderful sound performances to this animation. .

　　Directors Wang Shuchen and Qian Yunda studied in the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia respectively. The former created "Nezha Naohai" (screenwriter, director), "Scenery" (screenwriter), etc., and the latter directed "Little Sisters of Prairie Heroes" and "Sloppy". "The Adventure of the King" and other animation masterpieces.

　　In the film, the famous composer Wu Yingju combines traditional Chinese musical instruments and Western musical instruments in innovation. He has also provided classic domestic animation soundtracks such as "A Harassment in Heaven", "Muddy Flute" and "Little Tadpoles Finding Mother".

Director Qian Yunda.

Source: Video screenshot

　　Back then, the creative team headed by Wang Shuchen and Qian Yunda were unwilling to make a movie for children only.

　　Director Qian Yunda invited Ke Ming, who was the art editor of Xinhua Daily in Nanjing, as the animation design. He used Chinese folk art, paintings, sculptures, toys, operas and other elements in artistic modeling. Many of the characters in the film are The opera facial makeup was borrowed, such as the fox girl’s slanted eyes and blush that absorbed the Danjiao facial makeup, and the county magistrate borrowed the image of the harlequin, and added the rat face and the rat’s whiskers, making the audience unforgettable.

Source: Movie Stills

　　The interesting and agile style of "Book of Heaven" is also inseparable from the creativity of the main creative team.

"I just let them find a way," Qian Yunda said. For example, when you eat a flatbread with raw eggs, take a bite from the middle, and then wrap your neck around your neck to eat. The original artist himself came up with the interesting picture.

Source: Video screenshot

　　In addition, the landscapes of pavilions, waterside pavilions, palace courtyards, and weeping willow arch bridges follow the style of the "Wumen School of Painting", drawing human landscapes with meticulous brushwork and heavy colors, and natural landscapes with elegant ink.

Many folklore images are also added to the film, such as the "Hundred Birds Facing the Phoenix" that the little emperor marveled at, walking on stilts, dancing dragons and lions, and so on.

The golden age of domestic animation

　　Director Qian Yunda once said, "At that time, "The Book of the Heavens" was still very popular, because it was interesting and funny, and it still met our requirements for the beauty of strangeness."

Source: Movie Stills

　　In "The Book of the Heavens", the arrogant little emperor was dubbed by the voice artist Cao Lei. She remembered that she had let go of the dubbing at the time. Sometimes the little emperor in the screen was drooling, and the director Su Xiu told her to slobber in her mouth. , So speaking becomes uncomfortable.

　　"When we matched it back then, we liked this movie very much. Why? Because the film was silent at the beginning, but the characters drawn by the director are very personal and unique, which provides us with a prerequisite to give full play to. To match a foreign movie, you must paste the sound and lipstick of the original film. We can play it by ourselves and create it ourselves. Director Wang Shuchen listened to us and was inspired by the dubbing. He made changes to the picture based on the dubbing. This is indeed a collective creation." Cao Lei said.

　　More than 30 years have passed. The director and screenwriter Wang Shuchen, screenwriter Bao Lei, animation designer Ke Ming, composer Wu Yingju, dubbing artists Bi Ke, and Shang Hua, among the main creators of "A Strange Book of the Heavens", have all passed away. One of the directors Qian Yunda is now over ninety years old.

　　Ding Jianhua, who re-dubbed the film's "Egg Life", sighed that the previous voice was unburdened, but now the voice is burdened.

Source: Video screenshot

　　In order to better present this domestic animation classic, "Tianshu Qitan 4K Commemorative Edition" has gone through a long process of overall restoration and digitization.

　　In the new poster, Dan Sheng opened his arms and ran towards the sky, chasing light and hope, and carrying forward the spirit of the book of heaven. Yuan Gong in the lower left corner of the screen looked at him with a lift and waved goodbye to his apprentice Dan Sheng, implying that Huiguang was passed on from generation to generation. There is no end.

　　These classic cartoons, as well as the dedication of the creators behind the scenes to Chinese animation, should not be forgotten.

(over)