当导演，是赶鸭子上架

沈爱群

“亞旗导演的动画片《舒克贝塔》获得成功，我很意外。”郑渊洁快人快语，“导演方面的能力与经验？我肯定没有。”

“担任《舒克贝塔》第一季的导演，我也是赶鸭子上架——头一回！”郑亚旗很直爽。

2020年8月，由郑亚旗导演的动画片《舒克贝塔》第二季开播。去年9月，同样由其导演的《舒克贝塔》第一季在腾讯视频播出，豆瓣评分拿到8.7的高分，两个月后其播放量破亿。

郑亚旗是“童话大王”郑渊洁之子。《舒克贝塔历险记》是郑渊洁创作的著名童话小说。

小郑的勇气

2018年4月第14届中国国际动漫节期间，北京皮皮鲁总动员文化科技有限公司CEO郑亚旗在杭州宣布《舒克贝塔》动画项目正式启动。2019年9月27日，动画片《舒克贝塔》在腾讯视频独播。

一年半的时间里，拍一部26集的片子，郑亚旗遇到的困难真不是一般的多。

“时间上真的很赶。”郑亚旗说，“一开始，我真的压力挺大的。选团队，找导演，找编剧，定形象，做分镜……千头万绪！而且，起先我也没想过要当导演。”

没有合适的导演，是摆在他面前的第一道难题。

《舒克贝塔》第一季，讲述了不想当小偷的小老鼠舒克和被花猫咪丽欺负的小老鼠贝塔“自我成长”的故事。这对最佳拍档开着飞机驾着坦克，一起冒险一起成长;他们抓坏人、开航空公司、上太空、到全宇宙冒险，用行动一步步实现自己的价值。

“这是一个连续剧式的故事，步步相连，环环紧扣。但是我发现，最近20多年来国内外的动画片基本上是由一个个单环故事串起来的。能胜任连续剧动画片的导演非常难找。”一度，为了找到合适的导演，皮皮鲁总动员公司甚至把目光投向欧美，未果。

在此过程中，有编剧还给他出主意：把舒克改成女性，贝塔还是男性，这样的片子才能保证收视率;或者是，像畅销剧那样，一个男主配女一、女二。

“我说不行，这不是‘毁童年吗？我从小看动画片长大，清楚孩子们的想法。”郑亚旗说，“既然这样那样的事情都得我来敲定，制作团队也是我们自己的，压力都在我一个人身上，那就由我来当‘背锅侠吧。”

就这样，郑亚旗成了导演。

老郑的放手

1989年，上海美术电影制片厂曾经制作过动画片《舒克和贝塔》，同样改编自郑渊洁的童话小说，共13集，每集10分钟。

但去年郑亚旗的《舒克贝塔》播出后，评论一致认为其有“郑氏特色”。

“一部作品的人物形象和故事，难免受到导演的审美情趣的影响。”郑亚旗说，“我的审美观，跟老郑从小对我的教育有很大关系。”

他口中的“老郑”，就是“童话大王”郑渊洁。

郑亚旗出生于1983年。他一向这样描述自己的求学经历：正统小学毕业，“自家私塾”中学毕业。

至今，郑亚旗说要在两个方面感谢老郑：一是老郑支持并培养了他在影视方面的兴趣爱好;二是小学毕业后在家学习的经历，使得他的自学能力超强。

从4岁多开始，郑亚旗就喜欢上了看电影、看动画片。对此，老郑的态度是：随便看！

为了支持儿子的爱好，老郑后来还买了一台录像机。就像大多数父亲一样，老郑自己看过后觉得好看的，就录下来，推荐给儿子看。

“在老郑对影视作品的把关下，我看着各种各样的片子茁壮成长了。”郑亚旗说，“这么多年，我唯一没变的爱好就是看剧，动画片、英剧、美剧、纪录片，啥都看。后来工作渐渐忙起来了，但再忙，每天吃饭时只要能看个20分钟就觉得很高兴、很满足！”

郑亚旗第一次知道“导演是干什么”的，也是老郑的功劳。他记得很清楚，20世纪90年代流行LD盘（镭射影碟），那时一张正版LD盘片要人民币700多元，老郑也舍得买来给他看。通过LD盘里美国导演卢卡斯《星球大战》的幕后花絮，少年郑亚旗懂得了，“导演原来是这么工作的”。此后他看片子的时候总会情不自禁地思考：接下来的情节，导演会怎么想？“也许，那时候就为我最终成为导演埋下了伏笔吧”。

郑亚旗小学毕业后，老郑编撰了10部有趣的教材，决定自己在家教育他。每天下午，父子俩上3节课;傍晚，一起到河边去散步，和他讨论电视上或书里各种不同的话题。就这样，3年后，郑亚旗学完了中学6年的课程，从特殊的“自家私塾”毕业了。

“在老郑的指导下，我的自学能力超强。至今除了驾照和潜水需要考证外，别的所有技能我都是自学的。”郑亚旗说，“这种能力，直接影响到后来我开公司、当导演。凡是新技能，学习就是了。”

郑渊洁说：“儿子的经历告诉我，如果孩子喜欢什么，父母应该尽可能支持，因为兴趣能让孩子做事事半功倍。对于孩子的兴趣，父母如果做不到支持，也别反对。”

Like Father， Like Son

By Shen Aiqun

In early August， Zheng Yaqi will release the second season of ， an animation series based on stories penned by his father Zheng Yuanjie， the bestselling author of stories for children in China. Last September， the junior launched the first season of his fathers masterpiece for children. It was a huge success. At Douban， an authoritative rating website in China， the first season received a rating of 8.7 points. Within two months the first season was viewed 100 million times. It has been screened on various media including CCTV， Chinas largest television network， and received more than 800 million hits online.

Zheng Yaqi， CEO of Pipilu Company which owns all the copyrights of his fathers works for children， announced in April 2018 in Hangzhou that the first season of  was to be screened in September 2019. The announcement was ambitious. Eighteen months and 26 episodes posed a big challenge to the junior. He was all in one： producer and director. The 26 episodes are one story， unlike many other animation series that are composed of episodes which tell separate stories， making the production more difficult. Pipilu Company tried in vain to find a director in Europe and America to direct this would-be blockbuster series. Zheng also declined to have the story rewritten or have the characters modified， as suggested by some screenwriters. He wanted to retain the story as much as originally created by his father.

Since he was the decision maker of the production and he said no to many suggestions and advices， he found he had to do all the main jobs. So he organized a team and launched the production with him as the director. It was his first time to direct a production for an animation series.

Zheng Yaqi owes his success to his father Zheng Yuanjie. The original series created by his father is a masterpiece. And he himself is his fathers masterpiece.

Born in 1983， the junior heard stories by his father when he was just a toddler. At about 3 or 4， he began to watch animated films and feature films. His father never hesitated to find feature films and animation films for his son and buy his son a computer when a computer was still a luxury that cost a big fortune.

After the junior finished primary school education， he didnt go to a junior high school. He stayed at home studying under his fathers guidance. The senior created ten textbooks for the son to master for his secondary education. The ten textbooks were interesting enough： one book had 419 stories which responded to the 419 crimes as listed in the criminal law back then， another textbook was a sex education book explaining sex and how babies came about， and yet another textbook was a series of stories about a wolf that looked bad but was actually a kind-hearted good creature. All the examinations took the form of test papers prepared by the son. The son passed an examination if the father failed to give correct answers to the questions the son put on the test papers. It took the son three years to complete his studies of the ten textbooks.

When Zheng Yaqi turned 18， his father gave him a car as a gift and sent him on his way to the outside world. Though his primary school diploma was a huge problem on the job market， Zheng Yaqi proved to employers what he really could do and he became a super achiever. A few years later， he became his fathers business partner and began to publish his fathers stories for children and turn these copyrights into other cultural products. Under his fathers tutelage， he is great at learning and mastering know-how fast. His drivers license and scuba diving license were acquired through learning from coaches， but he mastered all other skills and techniques on his own.

From what the son has achieved， the fathers education has turned out to be excellent. In 2019， the business of publishing and selling his fathers books alone amounted to 100 million yuan.

His father is gratified with his education project for his son and proud of the junior. At first his father didnt know his son was directing the series. One month before the releasing of the series， the father heard about it from the son and became worried and highly curious. After viewing some episodes in postproduction， the father was more than happy about what he saw. He knows his son understands him and his stories best. After all， his son grew up reading all the story books he wrote and developed. He lets his son run the business. He appears at the companys office only when he goes there to sign an authorization document. His son advises him to keep fit and healthy so that he can sign more such authorization papers in the future.