Beijing, January 4 (Reporter Ren Siyu) In the past year, the film and television works on the theme of mother's love have ushered in a blowout, "Hello, Li Huanying" and "Everything About My Mother" have made many people cry, and at the end of the year, there is also a drama "Hello! Mother Adult", like a trickle, has won the praise of many audiences.
There is no dog blood plot and quarrel hot search, it calmly and quietly tells the life story of an ordinary mother and son in a small town in northern Jiangsu province spanning more than thirty years, although the heat is not high, it has won a high score of 8.2 points on Douban. How does it show the warmth of the Chinese family?
"Hello! Mother Lord" stills
How hard is it to adapt prose?
Recently, the Youth Working Committee of the China Television Drama Production Industry Association (hereinafter referred to as the "Youth Working Committee") hosted the "Hello! The "Mother Adult" youth seminar was held in Beijing, and the representatives of the main creative team and the members of the Youth Working Committee conducted in-depth discussions and exchanges around the two-way creation and practice of IP and film and television adaptation.
"Hello! "Mother Adult" is adapted from the bad student essay collection "On the Clouds: 99 Little Things with Mother", the author tells the thoughts of his mother who died of cancer through a large number of details, many readers are moved, and Zhang Ayi, the founder of Magic Pupil Pictures, is also one of them.
However, it is extremely difficult to adapt this poetic prose into a TV series. The main characters in the book are only the mother Ding Biyun and the son Ding Xiaojun, and the other characters and stories are mostly fragmented. Zhang said that they used a stupid and meticulous method to disassemble and sort out all the characters into categories, and then re-aggregate them into specific events and credible stories, "A bit like painting, our adaptation process is to turn the sketch into a realistic oil painting with real and perceptible details." ”
Chief producer and founder of Magic Pupil Pictures, Zhang A-hitch. Courtesy of the organizer
The original author once recalled his mother, "You gave birth to me when you were twenty-nine and left when I was twenty-nine." And this has become the key to the adaptation of the creators. The play adopts a two-line narrative, the mother and son have their own lives parallel, and each episode has a theme, so as to outline the half-life trajectory of the mother and son.
True, realistic, simple, is the creators talk about "Hello! A key word often mentioned in the creation of "Mother Lord".
Zhang Ayi said that when they created, they basically retained the seemingly bland and warm temperament of the original work, as far as possible to let the characters return to the original way of life, and the links such as fu hua Dao and art also restored the real life scene as much as possible.
"There are many small fragments of the life of mother and child in the original work, and the words and sentences are very simple, but I can always read the author's hidden affection." This also gives us the inspiration to restrain the sensational part and retain the flavor of the original. Screenwriter Gong Xue said that the narrative of this drama is also a new attempt, "restoring life can move the audience, when writing this play, I feel that my heart has become soft, I believe that the audience who likes the drama is also a person with a soft heart." ”
Hope to bring you "delayed gratification"
In the story, the mother Ding Biyun experienced a lot of ups and downs in her life, she sacrificed the opportunity to study for her brother, found that her husband chose to divorce and leave the house after cheating, missed out with people who knew and loved each other, worked hard with her children alone after being laid off, and suffered from cancer in her later years...
But the play does not amplify these fierce contradictions and conflicts, nor deliberately sensationalize, "We do not want the play to have commercial elements, no one in the play 'open and hang', is an ordinary ordinary person, many of whom are the stories of the people around them, we can see a very cruel part of the fate, but the main creator gives the temperature of the characters." Screenwriter Gong Xue said.
In Gong Xue's view, despite encountering many difficulties, Ding Biyun always has a way to survive, rely on his own clumsiness to make a road, always treat life gently, accompany each other with his son, and have the courage to bear, which is also the most precious quality of this mother.
Screenwriter Gong Xue. Courtesy of the organizer
But at a time when audiences are accustomed to double speed and triple speed chasing dramas, the other side of the peaceful narrative also means that it will be difficult for some viewers to quickly "immerse" in it, and "Hello! The high reputation of "Mother Adult" Douban 8.2 points corresponds to its "low profile" on the Internet.
In the creative stage, the main creative team has been mentally prepared for this. Zhang A hitomi said, "Hello! "Mother Adult" is a drama of "delayed gratification", "We hope to be scattered and not scattered, to win with rich details of life, I hope that after watching it, the audience can truly feel that it is closely related to their own lives." ”
High-quality IP should be able to impress the heart
At the seminar, Luo Jianhui, former director of the Network Department of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television and vice president of the China Online Audiovisual Program Service Association, said, "Hello! "Mother Adult" is a "enduring" TV series that has created a glorious image of Chinese women with traditional virtues.
He took the example of "Parental Love" repeatedly broadcast by TV stations, and the creative team must use a positive attitude and feelings to dig deep into the realist theme in order to highly restore the sense of real age and let the audience feel the truth, goodness and beauty of the world.
In recent years, the difficulty of IP adaptation of film and television dramas has often become a hot topic, Luo Jianhui said, the so-called high-quality IP, is a work that can touch the heart, "Our IP creation and adaptation should adhere to the point, is to firmly grasp what makes you move, regardless of form, length or length, fully express it well, do not wander." ”
Seminar site. Courtesy of the organizer
Wang Pengju, vice president and secretary general of the China Television Drama Production Industry Association and a member of the steering committee of the Youth Work Committee, also mentioned that IP does not mean that it can not be used without screenwriters, nor can it be easily described by derogatory terms, "We are recreating on the basis of others, there must be a problem of respect in the process, respect for the original author, respect for the audience, respect for the heart, adaptation must be moved rather than tempted." ”
In his view, IP adaptation should integrate the creator's experience of life and the perception of life, give the characters and stories a new spiritual outlook, and at the same time must be innovative. At present, we not only need heroic epics and era dramas, but also need works such as "Golden Marriage" and "Parental Love", which express the life course and joys and sorrows of ordinary people, express the beauty of life in chai rice oil, salt sauce and vinegar tea, achieve ordinary and eternal, and educate people in the invisible. (End)