"Monkey King - Rebirth" is based on the original “Journey to the West” and adapted screenplay by director Adam Juang. Director spent more than two years writing the script and revising more than 60 versions. The team also conducted questionnaire surveys with people of all ages to find the target audience and created an unconventional adventure story. Our targeted viewers who are between the age of 6 to 12 and their parents. A short film extracted from this feature film won more than 30 awards at international short film festivals from October 2020 to February 2021.
Director Biography - Adam Juang
Adam Juang ( born 1965 ) - Director, screenwriter, 3D CG specialist, Maya certified advanced instructor, worked in the CG industry for 32 years. Assistant professor for industry-university cooperative research master degree program at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology in 2007~2008. Instructor on Maya 3D special effects for digital content academy at Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs Taiwan in 2007. Served as judge for a 4C digital creation contest in animation category organized by Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs Taiwan in 2005. Jury of Taiwan National Computer Animation Competition in 2000.
Director of "Rescue Master Tang" (15-minute short film) Award record (30 awards in total) Among them, the individual awards are:
1. Won the Alternative Film Festival in Toronto, Canada - Best Screenplay
2. Won the European Film Award - Best Animated Cinematography
Director's Statement - Adam Juang
The four famous Chinese classics "Journey to the West", "Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", and "Dream of the Red Chamber" grown out of the five thousand years of Chinese culture have exerted extensive influence on the ideological concepts and values of the Chinese at home and abroad, from the past up to now. Instances of contemporary movies and TV dramas that were inspired or based on the four novels are numerous. Among the four, "Journey to the West" is favored by the Chinese globally for its wild imagination in terms of story line and its depiction of human nature. I personally have been deeply attracted to the story of "Journey to the West" since I was a child. As I grew up, I always felt differently about the characters' personality and fantastic scenes when re-reading the book at different stages of life, and my fondness for the story grew accordingly. Since 32 years ago, I have been involved in the production of commercials, opening segments for games, and animation as well as special effects for TV, movies , and all sorts of films. During these 32 years in the computer animation industry, a voice constantly appears: The story of "Journey to the West" that I like so much is to be best presented with the tool of computer animation.
"Monkey King - Rebirth" is based on the original “Journey to the West” and adapted screenplay by me. I spent more than two years writing the script and revising more than 60 versions. The team also conducted questionnaire surveys with people of all ages to find the target audience and created an unconventional adventure story. Our targeted viewers who are between the age of 6 to 12 and their parents. A short film《Rescue Master Tang》extracted from this feature film won more than 30 awards at international short film festivals from October 2020 to February 2021.
In order to express the introverted and restrained character of the oriental people, the animation style of the characters in this movie is different from that of ordinary animation movies, and the movements and expressions must be more restrained and not exaggerated.
Also, because I personally like traditional martial arts, Director Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is my favorite movie. Influenced and inspired by him, I added a lot of traditional martial arts and human nature to this animation movie. As an action movie, Children can see a lot of traditional martial arts and many beautiful scenes in this movie, we made the movie into a stereoscopic 3D format, allowing them experience a fantastic journey with Sun Walker, Bajie, Wujing, White-dragon horse and master Tang. The whole movie conveys a positive belief: no matter how difficult the challenges are, as long as we work together and never give up, we can ultimately achieve the goal。
In addition, the Bull Demon King’s family is an obvious reverse teaching material. The divorce of parents can easily affect the normal growth of children. I hope that parents can also understand after watching movies with their children.