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When it comes to Kong Sheng, you may not know who it is.
However, when it comes to famous TV series such as "Parental Love", "Mountain and Sea Love", and "Breaking into Kanto", you will be surprised.
Oh, it was him!
The TV series he shoots can occupy most of the entertainment industry.
Each drama has dominated Douban for many years with an average of more than nine points, and there are 16 dramas with more than 8 points on Douban.
As a director from a non-science class, Kong Sheng can have such achievements, and is often jokingly called the "sweeping monk" of the director's class.
The first half of his life was obscure, and the second half of his life was a blockbuster.
A native of Shandong, the brown man, when he was a child, the pancakes were green onions, which left a deep impression on him, which also made him have a special love for period dramas.
The special humanistic style of the land of Qilu has also cultivated Kong Sheng's love for folk customs and folk customs.
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When the college entrance examination was resumed in 1978, Kong Sheng, like others, felt like a life-saving straw.
Unexpectedly, this straw went away with the water, and Kong Sheng was abandoned on the way across the canoe bridge by thousands of troops.
Just like Song Yunhui in his lens, there is an ambition in the air, and there is no place for it.
Eventually, with the tide of the times, he became a worker. The sweat under the scorching sun always reminded him of this humiliation.
At that time, the workers still had a lofty status, but this was far from Kong Sheng's dream, and they really couldn't bear to face the loess and turn their backs to the sky.
Transformation is the only way out.
Not long after, through his own efforts, Kong Sheng was admitted to a night university to study Chinese language and literature.
Kissed by mosquitoes countless times in the summer, he did not put down his books at all, so he successfully entered the university.
Although it was a night school, there was a shortage of talents at that time, and the threshold for being able to enter the university could be called the dragon and phoenix among people.
After graduation, Kong Sheng was assigned as an editor in a magazine and got the "iron rice bowl" that everyone envied, and every day he faced a dense text, which gave him a headache.
There are often photographers here who take various beautiful photos, which makes Kong Sheng very envious.
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But he scoffed at this life at a glance, preferring the vast and free world, using the camera to record eternal beauty, so he often asked photographers privately for advice.
Later, he simply resigned and entered a TV station as a photographer, saying that he was a photographer, but in fact he was just a camera assistant.
Carrying the machine every day, following the reporter to run the news, it didn't take long to fall into a shoulder pain.
Every day the wind and the sun blow, the appearance looks more and more vicissitudes, from a distance, it is an old farmer.
The photos he took became more and more beautiful, and in just one year, he was in the main photography position.
Later, in order to improve his photography skills, he often entered some crews to observe. The horizon is open, the courage is also bigger, and sometimes even some suggestions can be given to the director.
He admired the director who commanded thousands of troops, and always wanted to develop in this direction.
I didn't expect that one day, I would really sit in front of the camera and direct a play for others.
In 1994, with the biographical drama "Kong Fansen", he attracted much attention after winning the Shandong Provincial Excellent Video Award.
Before filming began, many people saw that this was a new director, and almost no one was willing to invest.
Kong Sheng had no choice but to compress, compress and compress funds.
Even so, he achieved great results and became famous.
Later, he filmed the TV series "Police Officer Cheng Guangquan", which won the first prize of the second prize of the Chinese TV Drama Feitian Award, and flourished in the director's class.
Kong Sheng's control of details always maintains a nitpicking attitude.
When the filming of "Breaking into kanto" began in 2008, he went to the shooting site half a year in advance to survey and collect stories.
At that time, the northeast was in winter, tens of degrees below zero, and it was forced to stay for half a year until it reached a near-perfect level.
There was a scene of Zhu Yawen cutting wood in the snow, in order to achieve the perfect effect, he had to shoot for a few hours at minus 30 degrees in the winter, calling the director a cruel person.
Regardless of the size of the character, each character is a living life, and you can find your own shadow in life.
Some people say that Kong Sheng will produce fine products if he shoots.
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Later, Kong Sheng also took in two apprentices, Hou Hongliang and Li Xue.
They are all talents who came out of the land of Qilu, and they are all engaged in photography. The three people collided with a different spark and became an indestructible "iron triangle".
Before 2014, the three people in the old owner, mountain film company mixed up, not willing to stay in the system to work, and later the three people jointly established the "Noonday Sunshine Film and Television Company", creating their own era.
In 2015, in the 30th TV series "Feitian Award", director Kong Sheng won the Excellent Director Award with three high-quality works of "Peking No War", "Langya List" and "Parental Love", becoming the third director to win a grand slam.
Among them, "Parental Love", co-starring Guo Tao and Mei Ting, has maintained a good score of 9.5 points on Douban and has become a bearer in domestic dramas.
In the end, there was a photographer role, which only appeared for a few minutes, and Kong Sheng felt that it was his old business, so he chose to fight in person, which was almost perverted to the point of detail.
The next few people cooperated, "All Is Good", "Big River", "Langya List", almost in various types of TV series bloomed everywhere.
His drama, like his people, has no excessive publicity and no side events, but you can't help but watch and taste, as if it happened around you.
It is like "Song Yunhui" in "Great Rivers and Great Rivers", in the torrent of the times, it always maintains its original intention.
The fires of Kong Sheng's every play are often unexpected, and at the same time reasonable.
Some people say that among TV drama directors, the only one who can really live up to this era is Kong Sheng.
That's what he said and that's what he did.
Filmed in six years, seven explosive dramas were made, and became the first person the stars wanted to cooperate with.
Kong Sheng has become a movable type sign of the noonday sun, occupying half of the domestic TV series, hoping that he can bring us more good works.
Author: Chu Ren
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