Poster of "Our Southwest United Congress"
"China is not France, because there will never be a last lesson in China." With the shouting of Feng Youlan and Wen Yiduo, the arduous years of southwest United University running schools in Yunnan more than 80 years ago seem to be back! Following the announcement of the official launch on December 31, 2019, the TV series "Our Southwest United Congress" released its first trailer flower early in the morning of New Year's Day 2020. In addition to young actors such as Wang Hedi and Ye Zuxin, who won unanimous praise from netizens, the masters of the year such as Feng Youlan and Wen Yiduo in the play also appeared for the first time in the film, which triggered heated discussion.
The position of the Southwest United University in The history of China, especially in the history of education, is beyond words. In 1938, in the face of the smoke of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, in order to protect the Chinese cultural context, teachers and students of Peking University, Tsinghua University and Nankai University migrated south and jointly established the "Southwest United Congress". In the 8 years of its existence, it has cultivated countless literati masters, scientific talents, and heroes of the War of Resistance. Although the university no longer exists, the Southwest United University has long been regarded as a historical epitome of Chinese intellectuals and the motherland's shared hardships. It is precisely because of this that the film and television works that reflect the life and pursuit of teachers and students of this university have not been interrupted, and the documentary "Southwest United University" filmed by Xu Bei, a famous documentary director in Chongqing, in 2018, has been well received.
It is also in this context that there is a TV series "Our Southwest United Congress". According to the filmmakers, the TV series "Our Southwest United Congress" takes the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression as the background, telling the story of a group of hot-blooded young people with iron bones from Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Nankai University who traveled to most of China, inherited their cultural blood in the smoke of gunfire, and pursued the way to save the country in a difficult environment. After the official start of production in August 2019, the crew of "Our Southwest United Congress" has successively traveled to Beijing, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Yunnan and other 14 places to shoot.
Wang Hedi posted a photo of qingqing on Weibo
The first time the drama appeared in public, it should be at the new work conference held by Tencent, one of the producers, last June. "The transfer route filmed by the crew is similar to the southwest route of the Southwest United University in that year, all the way to the south, and the hardships in this make us deeply feel the spirit of 'fortitude and perseverance' of the Southwest United University." Wang Hedi, the actor who played Tsinghua student Cheng Jiashu in the play, said so. According to the person in charge of the crew, the main creative team strives to build "Our Southwest United Congress" into a masterpiece with both historical thickness and youthful temperament, and praises the youth ideal and erects a monument to the national spirit through the works.
In the newly released trailer flower, the patriotic enthusiasm of the students of Tsinghua University was vividly expressed. Zhou Ye, a young actor who plays the female number one Lin Huajun in the play, fully demonstrated the gentleness and knowledge of the female students at that time. It is worth mentioning that at the end of the first edition of the film released this time, tu Shouyi, Wang Xiji, Deng Jiaxian, Zhu Guangya and other outstanding scientists who graduated from the Southwest United University that year and later won the "Two Bombs and One Star" medal were also specially displayed as a tribute.
Young actor Zhou will also play the female number one Lin Huajun in the film
The reporter also found that according to the stills provided by the producer of "Our Southwest United University", there are also many powerful actors and old drama bones in the play who play the main roles - such as Tan Kai, who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States and was a professor of chemistry at Southwest Union University, Long Yun was played by Gao Shuguang, and the old drama bone Liu Peiqi played Xu Teli.
Tan Kai played the famous chemist Zeng Zhaoli
According to reports, the origin of the filming and creation of this "Our Southwest United University" TV series dates back to 6 years ago, during which the producer Fang Fang's screenwriting team changed 5 rounds and created 14 versions successively. In December 2018, the script passed the expert demonstration of the script of the major historical project of the TV series. According to the filmmakers, the team behind "Our Southwest United University" consulted a large number of real and vivid and little-known historical materials, biographies, reminiscence articles and other research, and went to Peking University, Tsinghua University, and nankai university history museum to study and visit, and obtained many precious first-hand information, which has the elaborate design of the storyline and character settings in the play.
Upstream News Chongqing Morning News reporter Qiu Jinyi