△The scene of the symposium
During the Spring Festival, the TV series "The World of Man" was broadcast on a set of golden files on CCTV. Since its inception, the drama has received continuous praise, repeatedly appeared on the Weibo "hot search list", Douban score of 8.1, and has now accumulated more than 400 million viewers to watch. "The World of Man" has become another successful case of excellent literary works being adapted into high-quality dramas.
Liang Xiaosheng's novel "The World of Man" won the 10th Mao Dun Literature Award in 2019. The novel takes Gongle District, a civilian community in a provincial capital city in the north, as the background, through the growth experience of the three brothers and sisters of the Zhou family, strings together historical events such as the construction of the third line, the restoration of the college entrance examination, the reform and opening up, and the transformation of shantytowns, and creates the portraits of many laborers, builders, reformers, entrepreneurs and other characters, recording the "life history of the Chinese people in the past fifty years" from their ups and downs full of sorrow and joy, showing the magnificent changes in Chinese society.
The novel "Human World" was successfully adapted into the TV series "Human World" and became a "hot spot" and a "hit", which is both inspiring and inspiring. Recently, in order to deeply explore and summarize the experience of literary, film and television adaptation, the Chinese Writers Association held a symposium on "The World of Man" in Beijing. Tie Ning, chairman of the China Writers Association and chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, said that the popularity of "The World of Man" once again strongly proves the intimate relationship between literature and film and television, from literature to film and television, which is not only describing a process, but also marking a vast space for vibrant creation and acceptance. Literature and film and television are a relationship that distinguishes, inspires and inspires each other, completes each other, and ultimately enhances and amplifies each other.
"'The World of Man' is serious literature, and the law tells us that serious literature is more about the author's personal thinking about life experiences and the expression of private feelings, while TV dramas are popular art, so the more serious literature, the heavier the traces of personalization, and the more difficult it will be to adapt." "In the World" screenwriter Wang Haiyu devoted himself to the creation of the script for this time, and did not complete it until a month before the shutdown, and repeatedly revised and polished in the middle. She said at the symposium that the most basic point of serious literature is the truth of human nature, the more real the more credible, credible is moving. Now that the atmosphere of film and television creation has gradually moved to the track of art itself, writers can only impress others if they insist on writing what they think, think and feel.
"This work of 'paying tribute to literature and paying tribute to life' is not only a thick and warm history of the lives of the people, but also a magnificent history of reform and development, which provides a solid literary foundation for the production of TV series." As the producer of the drama, Cheng Wu, vice president of Tencent Group and CEO of Yuwen Group, said that the organic cross-border and integration of literature and film and television is an important innovative path for the two literary and artistic forms from "plateau" to "peak", and it is also a high-dimensional refining expression from "works" to "boutiques".
After reading the novel "The World of Man", Yan Jingming, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association, analyzed the main reason for Liang Xiaosheng's novel "fire" because the realist character and realist spirit in it can always arouse the enthusiasm of the audience. "There is history in his novels, contemporary history that contemporary people have experienced and is still in the end, a reality that is closely related to our lives, the lives of the characters in the novels are wrapped up in the trend of the times, and the fate of the characters in the novels is a portrayal of a generation." The successful adaptation of "The World of Man" from a novel to a TV series has greatly inspired Yan Jingming, who feels that literature should improve its ability to coexist with other arts with a more open mind. In today's era of new media, writers should also learn with a broader vision and a more open mind, and draw creative nourishment from it.
Wang Yichuan, a professor at Beijing Normal University and vice chairman of the China Literary and Art Critics Association, also commented from an aesthetic perspective: "'The World of Man' has allowed Chinese-style mental wisdom to lead the spiritual principles of realism, and has embarked on an artistic path of Chinese-style realism, which can enlighten the contemporary TV series of similar themes and other types of artistic creation with beneficial aesthetic paradigms, and let Chinese-style realism and aesthetic methods produce new results." ”
Zhang Hongsen, secretary of the party leading group, vice chairman, and secretary of the Secretariat of the China Writers Association, revealed that the China Writers Association will launch and implement the "New Era Mountain and Countryside Great Changes Creation Plan" and the "New Era Literary Climbing Plan" this year, and through a series of new ideas, new measures, and new methods, to concentrate on creating and launching a number of high-level and weighty literary masterpieces, and send more and better literary resources to the film, television, and other cultural fields. "Today, if literary creation wants to better integrate into the modern communication pattern, it must be more fully and proactively exchanged and learned from and integrated with many art disciplines and cultural forms." Zhang Hongsen said that literature in the new era can grasp the historical initiative and open up infinite possibilities in continuous embrace and derivation. The active consciousness of literature is gaining wide support and response, which embodies a kind of "two-way initiative", which proves that the cultural ecology in which we live is good, positive and highly active.
The original author's thick historical life background and the ingenuity of the main creative staff, insight into the essence of life in the subtleties, accurate capture of the delicate emotions of the world, and finally present a simple and lovely character image, a touching storyline and a vivid and real landscape of people's life, triggering the deepest emotional resonance in the audience's heart, from the novel "Human World" to the TV series "Human World", giving deep enlightenment to literature and film and television creation. As Tie Ning said, let literature and film and television enter the hearts of the broader masses of the people together, which is also the common direction of efforts of generations of writers and film and television people.
Source: People's Political Consultative Conference Daily (2022.03.14.09 edition)
Reporter: Xie Ying
Layout Editor: Xie Ying, Yang Xue, Zhang Li, Guo Haijin
New Media Editor: Xue Jing
Review: Jiajia Zhou