Poster of "Glory Ping Pong"
Pulling the ball with a backhand, slamming hard... These technical terms belonging to table tennis are finally no longer just in the mouths of sports commentators and veteran fans. Starting tonight, they will become high-frequency lines in a TV series, and whether there is a "professional style" is only for everyone to judge - on the evening of March 9, the competitive theme web drama "Glory Ping Pong", which has been jumping tickets for nearly two years, will begin to meet the audience at iQiyi.
The background board of the Rio Olympic Games in Brazil can be seen everywhere, and people can't help but think of Xu Tan and Yu Kenan in the drama, which is really the shadow of Ma Long Zhang Jike? The trailer has been out of several waves and has not seen the heroine appear, this is for the professional deliberate? The mystery of the screen debut of the "National Ball" ping-pong is actually as many as the points to watch.
"National Ball" was filmed into a drama, which was the first time
Last year, the Growth Process of the Chinese Women's Volleyball Team was put on the big screen, "Win the Championship", let the Chinese people see the charm of shooting China's dominant sports project movies, and many of the hot discussions at that time were about looking forward to the "national ball" table tennis can also go to the screen. The "Glory Ping Pong" that starts tonight can be regarded as a response to everyone's expectations.
"Glory Ping Pong" actually started filming earlier than "Win the Championship", which was close to the end of the whole drama when it started, but since then it has continued to jump tickets, so that everyone has waited until now. The "National Ball" screen debut, it is understandable to wait a little longer. Before the start of the broadcast, the upstream news Chongqing Morning News reporter also specifically checked the relevant information and found that in the global professional competitive theme film and television works can only be regarded as a niche, of which there are even fewer about table tennis, even if there is, it is mostly filmed for Japan and the United States.
Compared with "Win the Championship", which is based on the collective project of volleyball, which emphasizes the team and the collective, "Glory Table Tennis" reflects the table tennis project more from the growth of individual players. When the producer was interviewed by reporters, he clearly stated that this drama was created based on the character of a Chinese professional male table tennis player. Chief screenwriter Li Jia positioned the play as a "national table tennis drama", and the script alone took two years to create, in order to strive for authenticity, the screenwriting team interviewed thousands of professional players here to understand the real life of athletes. In February last year, "Glory Ping Pong" was selected into the state administration of radio, film and television major theme network film and television drama project database, which is enough to see its attention.
Who are Ma Long and who is Zhang Jike?
In the past two years of waiting, combined with the "Glory Ping Pong" has been bursting out of the film flowers, etc., the expectations of netizens have been continuously raised. Among them, the first thing everyone expects is the professional style.
Bai Jingting and Xu Weizhou play Xu Tan and Yu Kenan in the play
According to the content summary, the story of the whole drama almost all revolves around the growth of Xu Tan and Yu Kenan, whose personality and playing are closely related, and have the characteristics of obvious contrast. Xu Tan, played by Bai Jingting, has a shy personality, he began to play because he was influenced by his grandfather who loved table tennis, in order to strengthen his body, after years of training, he grew into the most comprehensive and trustworthy absolute main force in the team. This is clearly synonymous with stability and stability.
Yu Kenan, played by Xu Weizhou, has a stubborn personality, and he learned to play with his father, a former table tennis player, and aspired to become a world champion since childhood. Compared with Xu Tan, he is almost the representative of talented players. The two experienced and witnessed a period of history of Chinese table tennis together, and finally stood at both ends of the decisive table of the world's highest table tennis venue.
Combined with the background board of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games in Brazil that appeared many times in the latest film, countless netizens and fans have compared Xu Tan and Yu Kenan with Ma Long and Zhang Jike. In the real-life table tennis men's singles final of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, Maron Lick Zhang Jike won the championship.
In addition, there is another detail in "Glory Ping Pong" that is also hotly discussed. In the currently exposed cast list, female characters have been ranked fifth away, and there are almost no female characters in many versions of the film. Is this deliberately intended to reflect professionalism? In addition to the answer to be solved, many netizens already believe that this can prove to some extent that "Glory Ping Pong" is serious enough, rather than focusing on men's table tennis projects, in fact, it is taking the emotional drama route of talking about love.
Tang Jiahao will play the role of national hand Leng Yi in the play
In addition, there is another detail worth mentioning, and the play also invited the former Real Guoshou to star. Tang Jiahao, a national first-class table tennis player from Nanchong, Sichuan, is one of them. Born in 1998, he was admitted to the table tennis school founded by world champion Cao Yanhua in Shanghai at the age of 8, and was the same disciple of Olympic champion Xu Xin. In "Glory Table Tennis", he will play the main force of the national table tennis team Leng Yi, according to the introduction of this role integrated the characteristics of the two straight board masters of national table tennis, Wang Hao and Xu Xin.
Upstream News Chongqing Morning News reporter Qiu Jinyi