It's finally here.
CCTV's New Year's Drama, which premiered tonight, is not the "Human World" that was circulated on the Internet before, but it - "Beyond".
A set of golden files on CCTV, as well as the three major platforms of Youaiteng, were broadcast simultaneously, just in time for the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics on February 4.
It is very likely that "The World" will take over after the end of "Beyond". According to the normal broadcast rhythm, it is possible to launch during the Spring Festival.
Every year's CCTV New Year drama is expected by all the people and looking forward to it. Every year the audience has the same question: Why it?
Well, be happy. Come now – why Beyond? In addition to the theme of the ice competition in the scene, what is the basis for this big drama to complete the "transcendence"?
Ice competition, enough to burn
Winter Olympics + three generations of sports people 's heritage + short track speed skating.
It can be said that this combination is the ace combination of the Theme of the Winter Olympics.
Some people have long set the pace of watching - "watch the Chinese team's Winter Olympic project here, chase the drama over there."
While competing in the Winter Olympics, feel the excitement and suspense of sports.
While in the story, feel the passion and blood behind the Winter Olympic games.
The whole story of the play is based on the successful bid of Beijing to host the 2022 Winter Olympics in 2015: the old generation of athletes retired, and the successor of the new ice and snow project needs to be excavated.
The heroine Chen Mian is the representative of a new generation of short-track players.
What is more special is that the heroine in the story is not a talented proud son of heaven, but a "stupid bird" who is repeatedly chanted "you are not talented enough" in the play.
Presumably, this is exactly what the screenwriter wants:
The inspirational story of how a short-track speed skater who is not a genius, with love and will, grew from a member of the qingdao team to a national team athlete and finally stood on the field of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Although this story revolves around the heroine, it actually reflects the hard work and efforts of three generations of athletes.
A good work must have a foundation, and this drama is based on the never-ending sports topic of "the transcendence and self-transcendence of three generations of athletes in the Olympic arena".
Therefore, this story is by no means simply to put together a hot spot of the Winter Olympics, but to really borrow this theme to complete a new era of annotation of the "Winter Olympic Spirit" that condenses into our common feelings.
The difficulties that can be imagined are:
How to condense the story of the struggle and dream behind the huge volume and national attention of the Winter Olympics into 24 episodes.
How can a new generation of actor Li Gengxi interpret the style of a new generation of athletes, although she is recognized as an acting school in the 00 flowers, how to make up for the gap in hard conditions such as ice competition and combat ability?
The wonderful scenes of sports competitions must be highly restored and dramatic without violating the laws of sports. How to shoot?
Obviously, the main creative team is crucial.
The main creative lineup is stable enough
There is no doubt that "Beyond" is a "national drama" that is nailed down.
Because the story of short track speed skating, although not unknown to everyone, everyone knows, but the audience is definitely beyond age, gender, class.
The more popular, the more challenging - how to make everyone happy?
I haven't worried about that.
Because Zhang Xiaobo has always been a master of multi-genre and multi-genre.
This drama is still a cooperation between director Zhang Xiaobo and Lemon Meng Pictures, many people know that he has filmed "Mr. Good", "Thirty Only", "Little Shede", etc., urban drama is his strength, in fact, he has also filmed such a big production as "Kyushu Muyi".
Whether it is driving a literary drama or an action scene that needs to highlight visual effects and intense rhythm, Zhang Xiaobo has no problem. And what the director is best at is storytelling.
The screenwriter of this drama, Li Jia, has written TV drama works with sports themes such as "Struggle, Youth", "Glory Ping Pong", as well as youth and teenager theme works such as "The Best of Us", plus the high-burning animation "Kuiba" series, it can be said that he is definitely one of the most suitable domestic screenwriters for "Beyond".
But if you just look at "Beyond" as a sports work with a youth theme, it would be a pity.
It's clear that the director has laid out a larger narrative in the series.
There was a scene in the trailer that impressed me.
It is the characters played by Sha Yi, Tu Songyan and Hu Jun, who get together to eat hot pot, and as a result, they eat and eat and start watching the game.
One of the lines of dialogue is: their future must be better than ours.
Obviously, the episode is going to cover the broader story of ice sports athletes.
Ice sports, after all, are not as familiar as sports such as table tennis and volleyball, to create national empathy, it is not possible to add a few lyrical lines, and a large number of condensed and accurate details are needed to create an atmosphere of collective memory in order to immerse the audience in.
Zhang Xiaobo's control of emotions has been very skilled and efficient.
What's even more difficult is how to bring thoughts to every audience through stories. In particular, Sha Yi and Hu Jun, who were once close comrades-in-arms of the national team, who had worked together to exert their youth and sweat for the goal of winning glory for the country, and parted ways because they were burdened with too heavy pressure to win gold, carried the thinking of "transcendence".
Is it difficult? It's hard to see.
3. The cast is enough to explode
This drama undoubtedly has an extremely solid lineup, acting school, really too much.
The main supporting roles of the series are Li Gengxi, Hu Jun, Sha Yi, Tu Songyan, the main supporting roles are Ma Li, Mei Ting, Zhang Guoqiang, Wang Zijian, Liu Yitie, Tong Yao, etc., plus Zhang Jiayi, Zhang Guoguo, Lei Jiayin, Tao Hong, who appear in the douban actor list of the drama, at least 12 acting schools.
And many of the actors are also quite exciting:
The first, Li Gengxi.
"Ying Zi" in "Little Joy", Ginger Mud in "Sword Line in the Snow".
In this play, she is the arrow character of the whole play - short track speed skating young player Chen Mian.
This is undoubtedly a challenging character, this character is talented, but not a top genius, and she is a little late than others.
She faced the "old enemy" of the field again and again, and then coped with the challenge again and again, and finally stood on the field of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
Compared with costume dramas, Li Gengxi's performance in modern dramas is obviously more prominent, especially in "Little Joy", her acting skills can be described as fresh and natural, the crying drama is full of tension, and it is very eye-catching in the new generation of small flowers.
And she is especially good at playing a stubborn character, the role of Chen Mian can almost be called tailor-made.
And Zhang Xiaobo obviously added double insurance for her - "Daddy" + "Future Father-in-Law".
My second most anticipated actor is Hu Jun.
Played Xu Xiao in "The Sword Line in the Snow", that is, Hu Jun, the future father-in-law of Jiang Ni,
This time in "Beyond", he directly became the father of the character of Li Gengxi.
He named his daughter "Crown", apparently expecting her to win the championship for the Chinese team. However, as a former member of the national short track speed skating team, Chen Mian's father determined that Chen Mian was weak when he was young and was not suitable for "female inheritance of her father's business", and later put more effort into the talented player Xiang Bei (Chen Meiyi), but Chen Mian eventually boarded his father's short track speed skating competition.
Hu Jun's acting skills have no need to say much, and another major advantage of his performance, whether it is red flowers or green leaves, can make the actors who play the opponents also bloom, and the opponent plays of father and daughter are obviously full of tension and implicit inheritance, which is also very much looking forward to.
Third place, Sha Yi.
Li Gengxi's "daddy" Sha Yi in "Little Joy",
This time, it became a discerning master - the coach of the Qingdao short track speed skating team - Zheng Kaixin.
When it comes to Sha Yi, you will think of his classic screen image: cute, a little oily, and his mouth can't stop!
"Hideko, open the door, I'm Daddy" is his new screen representative image.
His chemical reaction with Li Gengxi in the play can definitely rush out of the screen, Zhang Xiaobo obviously took a fancy to this strong chemical reaction, and let the father-daughter file transform into a master-apprentice file.
But Hu Jun and Sha Yi are likely to play not only the stories of this generation, but also the stories of The older generation of Chinese athletes and coaches under the dual-time narrative, thus showing the inheritance of the sports spirit of "surpassing themselves, tenacious struggle, and winning glory for the country" among the three generations of short track speed skaters.
It can be said that this acting combination, the possibility of overturning, is almost zero.
The actor I'm looking forward to, there's a fourth one: Tu Songyan.
Tu Songyan is really red.
From the phoenix male Feng Chunsheng in "The Journey of No Confusion" to the "scum daddy ceiling" Jin Bo who came out of the circle of "Xiao Minjia", Tu Songyan has assumed various scumbag roles in recent domestic dramas.
But the role he came out of the circle the year before was the best father in "In the Name of the Family".
Undoubtedly, this is an actor with a thousand faces and what he plays, this time he plays, obviously also a short track speed skater of the previous generation, and he is also very much looking forward to the chemical reaction between him and Hu Jun and Sha Yi.
Before it's over, the show also has a cast of powerful actresses.
For example, Mei Ting in "Parental Love" seems to play the mother of the heroine.
Zhang Xiaobo's old partner, Tong Yao. The professional appearance is also very beautiful.
However, from the trailer, the heaviest role is still Ma Li.
Although, many people already see Mary as a standard comedian.
But in fact, it is not difficult to see that Ma Li also has the performance strength to control the main drama, and the role of this sports coach is also likely to let the audience see more multi-faceted performance of Ma Li.
Is that the end of it? It's not over yet.
As the main supporting role, there are also Many well-known actors such as Zhang Guoqiang and Wang Zijian.
And Zhang Jiayi, Zhang Guoguo and Lei Jiayin, who have worked with director Zhang Xiaobo, are likely to also make cameo appearances in the play, and what roles they play specifically are also very exciting.
Such a big battle fully explains the weight of the episode. In every sense, the show is clearly poised to go, and as soon as it is out of the track, it will complete a round of sprints.
4, the beginning of the big drama, to explode
Obviously, "Beyond", a CCTV new year drama, is a real time, place, and people, all in one place.
Time of day: The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is approaching, and the people of the whole country are celebrating the Spring Festival while cheering for the Olympic athletes while watching the behind-the-scenes stories of the Olympic athletes.
Great.
Geographical advantage: CCTV a set of prime-time hits, the three major platforms push together.
And – people and.
Many older generations, even if they don't care about sports, as long as they see our short track speed skating girls, they still can't help but be excited and emotional.
Undoubtedly, this is one of the most out-of-the-loop and most likely to arouse audience empathy in the ice project. Behind this sport, there are also countless stories of struggle and dreaming that are worth excavating.
From this point of view, "Beyond" is probably the most suitable work for this time period among all the new dramas in the beginning of the year.
And if the drama wants to maximize the audience's empathy, the most important thing is to shoot the best appearance of Chinese ice athletes, including the appearance of every predecessor who has fought hard and sacrificed.
And now every Chinese girl, the way they are.
From the old generation of short track speed skaters who have experienced various difficulties, still dare to persevere and bravely climb the peak, to young athletes with the love of short track speed skating and the noble mission of winning glory for the country, exerting their youth, galloping on the field, three generations of short track speed skaters, a generation has a generation of tasks, this is the reason why the series is called "Beyond", because the true meaning of sports competition is to constantly transcend.
Although a drama is not enough to tell the story of all the ice athletes, the sense of substitution created by the solid details itself has no threshold, and everyone can feel it.
If you can make the spirit of the Winter Olympics land as much as possible through the series, especially so that young audiences can also empathize, do not feel like preaching, the series will be successful.
Although the number of domestic dramas with sports themes has been increasing in recent years, the real classics are still too few, and the theme of ice competition is both a precious wealth and a new theme rich mine, which is also a new transcendence for domestic dramas.
Together to the future, is the slogan of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
"Beyond" meets with the audience at this time, bringing the audience a bloody and inspirational sports competition story, and undoubtedly completing a domestic sports drama for the future - transcendence.
I wish China's athletes and also look forward to the success of this new transcendence of this national drama.