Unexpectedly, the first drama on the fans at the beginning of 2022 turned out to be the theme of "short track speed skating".
As the premiere drama of CCTV's golden file this year, "Beyond" is indeed extraordinary:
1989 and 2014 "Two-Line Narrative": The 1989 storyline art setting and costume Taoism are extremely outstanding, and the performance of "Please Answer 1988" is the inner flavor;
In the line of 2014, Hu Jun, Sha Yi, and Mei Ting took Li Gengxi to perform acting skills, and the nursery rhyme was turned into slag by seconds.
Because I was addicted to watching it, I brushed more than 100 short videos of "short track speed skating" outside the play: Ren Ziwei who knew "revenge", Wang Mao, the "Korean speed skating nemesis", and Wu Dajing, who won the championship cleanly...
Can it be broadcast in the CCTV golden file before "The World of Man"; even the news network is pushing; Douban netizens five-star praise brush screen... What is "Beyond" exactly a fairy drama?
Highlight 1 of the 1989 line: There is a "Please Answer 1988" flavor
In 1989, pregnant woman Wu Qinghong (Ma Li) ran to the ice rink and used the Walkman Walkman as "bait" to catch the "unborn" skating teenager. So "Bad Boy" Zheng Kaixin "came out of the world" and staged a story of "Wu Qinghong surrendered the bad boy to the Shun Provincial Short Track Speed Skating Team".
In the summer of 2014, Chen Mian (Li Gengxi), a young girl who had just won a roller skating competition, in order to realize the "short track speed skating dream" in her heart, secretly took the high-speed train to Qingdao with her family, slept on the road overnight, and worked as an ice rink cleaner for half a month, just to impress the coach into the "Qingdao Short Track Speed Skating Team".
Interestingly, the coach chen mian wants to impress is the "bad boy" Zheng Kaixin (Sha Yi).
It can be said that the two-line narrative technique is rare in sports dramas, and it is not easy for each line to perform unique and eye-catching highlights.
One of the highlights of the line in 1989 is that the "fireworks" and "nostalgia" are full, and there is even a taste of "Please Answer 1988".
For example, the pattern on Zheng Kaixin's sweater, which is the "tide brand" that the post-80s were envious of when they were young;
Zheng Kaixin's "smuggling big brother" outfit is Liang Jiahui's "gangster politician" style in "Black Gold", that year, "social people" love to keep this head, who left who is domineering;
The birthday cake that Master took out for Jiang Hong's birthday, from the box to the cake style, was "memory killing".
There are also several teenagers who excitedly sing "We are Asia, the mountains are high heads"; carrying the coach to secretly rent video tapes to watch "Across the World"; talking about love with "oil pens" on the back of the hand to write phone numbers...
The high-quality art scenery, the costume and the texture brought by the sincere eyes of the teenagers allow us to see the shadow of "that year" on the "story line" of 1989.
1989 Line Highlight 2: Ma Li peaked at the peak of acting skills
The second highlight of the 1989 story line is the coach Wu Qinghong, played by Ma Li.
If a character has a huge personality charm, then the film and television characters ripped from her will be more vivid. Wu Qinghong and Ma Li are such cases.
"Wu Qinghong" is the first "short track speed skating professional" to appear. But in this person, no ink falls on her superb skills and past glory, and only the fulfillment, tolerance, faith and sacrifice of the present can be seen.
In the first scene of Ma Li's appearance, others are celebrating, but she comes to the wild ice rink as a pregnant woman to look for a "skating genius teenager", which shows a good personality at the beginning.
When doing ideological work for the children, I can feel that Wu Qinghong's belief has been firm to the extent that "it can give the children strength".
It can be said that the spirit of the character of Ma Li is the spirit that "Beyond" most wants to express.
The screenwriter of Beyond once said:
"Of all the people we interviewed, what I found most impressive was not the story of the champions who won the championship, but the story of countless ordinary athletes who were willing to make sacrifices and fulfill others on the road of struggle."
Although the main line shown in the TV series is the story of how two generations of Chen Jingye Zheng Kaixin and Chen Mian fought for the short track speed skating career.
But it is precisely because of Wu Qinghong's "background" that the main story is thicker, and the spirit of "short track speed skating" is the faith of generations of continuous relay, and this theme is about to come out.
In the early years, the author also interviewed a retired Olympic champion coach, the old man's 80-year-old is still worried about the "lack of grass-roots talents", the old man said that "1 out of 100 athletes emerged from the tip, now the base number is so small, and then continue like this, the tip above will be broken." ”
Wu Qinghong should represent the "100 bottom people" - the champion is always a minority, and there are countless unsung heroes behind a champion!
Ma Li has a deep understanding of the characters and the screenwriter's intentions, and Wu Qinghong, who she plays, has a "spoiled and unfazed" demeanor in every word and deed:
She looks at the team members like a child, and there is a calming power in the gentleness; and every time she gives a training task and deals with difficult problems, she becomes a coach with a national mission: with unquestionable reason and objectivity.
She doubled the joys and pains of these children to commemorate the personal contributions and sacrifices made for the honor of the country.
In summary, I am willing to evaluate Wu Qinghong in "Beyond" as the peak of Ma Li's acting skills.
Highlights of the 2014 storyline: Li Gengxi killed Tong Yao in seconds, Sha Yi was funny, and Hu Jun's performance was like what
Li Gengxi played Chen Mian in "Beyond", which is obviously much more suitable than in "Sword Line in the Snow".
"Although I slipped the last place, I lost to the Qingdao team. Coach, I'm here to say I'm sorry to you. But I'm in a mixed mood right now, and even a little happy, because I'm finally qualified to stand on the ice rink and finish a game with everyone! ”
"I love skating and it's an opportunity I've never had since I was a kid. When I stood on the ice, I thought: Chen Mian you have to fight for breath, you must not fall down... I enjoy the process of transcending myself...
You, as a coach, don't want to bring out an athlete who is doomed to lose. But as a father, how do you know your daughter is bound to lose?! ”
Chen Mian tried to slide 1500 meters "failed", angrily fighting with his father Chen Jingye, this wonderful line made me cry.
Chen Mian and his mother talked about their hearts, and Li Gengxi showed five emotions of innocence, joy, resentment, sadness and well-behaved in just two minutes, and it can be said unceremoniously that the acting level has killed Tong Yao, who plays Zheng Kaixin's wife.
Watching Mei Ting and Hu Jun play is a kind of enjoyment. I have to say that Hu Jun's performance is decent, the middle-aged Chen Jingye can't see the boldness of Qiao Daxia and the thickness of "Lei Daddy", just two words: stubborn, Gen, see him want to bite two turnips.
And Sha Yi, who plays the middle-aged Zheng Kaixin and Coach Chen Mian in the play, is acting and funny "double responsibility", and every time he rides the broken three rounds of the chicken, duck and goose, it is unbearable.
Looking at Sha Yi's blessed and compromised little fat face, I really don't know what zheng Kaixin, the rebellious "wild boy" of that year, went through to become like this
Visual highlights: 6,000 square meters of ice rink "really slippery", reproducing the "burning" of short track speed skating
Another biggest enjoyment of watching "Beyond" is to watch the "short track speed skating" real ice show.
On January 12, 2008, China's Wu Dajing broke the world record with a time of 39.584 seconds to win the championship, winning the first winter Olympic gold medal in the history of China's short track speed skating men's team.
At present, the opening of the Winter Olympics is imminent, and it is too appropriate to watch "Beyond" at this time.
Spectators who like short-track speed skating will know that the arena of short-track speed skating is simply "beautiful" and "burning":
It has both the beauty of figure skating - the speed of athletes gliding on ice is like flying, and there is also the "burning" that surpasses sprinting.
For example, Wu Dajing short-track speed skating 500 meters only needs to glide 4.5 laps, less than 40 seconds to complete, is simply "the speed between breaths".
In order to recreate the charm of short track speed skating, the crew of "Beyond" built a 6,000 square meter real ice rink, and all the actions of the actors were completed on the real ice (in 1989 and 2014, the two line ice rinks were in the same venue, but in the scene arrangement, cross-generational and cross-style sets were carried out).
In this way, watching a drama is like watching an Olympic game, often watching the "ice plot" in a heartbeat and holding breath.
Probably because the short track speed skating itself is "burning", the speed skating teenagers are also hot, this drama is easy to make people feel immersed, and even some people go to the ice rink to skate after watching the play.
Spiritual highlights: The spirit of sacrifice is shocking, and the spectators wish that the Olympic athletes will be injured
Watching "Beyond", you will feel the shocking sportsmanship while doing some life thinking:
What is the definition of success when people are alive? What kind of "spiritual qi" should people use to face setbacks and sacrifices?
After thinking about it in the end, it is inevitable to come to the following conclusion:
"Everyone's life is actually a arena, and people's life is actually a process of transcending themselves, transcending the past, and realizing true value" (screenwriter's words).
At present, it has just been updated to 11 episodes, and Jiang Hong's story is "buckled".
Chen Jingye, Zheng Kaixin, and Jiang Hong had an accident in the game of entering the national team: Zheng Kaixin sprinted and accidentally kicked Chen Jingye's skates, and after Chen Jingye fell, the skates cut into Jiang Hong's ankle, causing nerve damage, and Jiang Hong was forced to end his career as an athlete.
Only one game ruined all the dreams of Jiang Hong's life.
The footage of Jiang Hong kissing the ice is tearful: Jiang Hong falls on the ice, like a bird with broken wings falling into the sky. He could never go to ice, but ice was still his dream forever.
Jiang Hong's fall is heart-wrenching, but also reminiscent of the fallen talent athletes in reality:
Liu Xiangka in front of the railing, Sunland fractured his cervical vertebrae in the vaulting test, Tang Gonghong, who lifted weights at the Athens Games and bled seven tricks... How I hope that China's Olympic athletes will never be injured!
In the play, Chen Jingye, who "survived", seems to be no happier than Jiang Hong.
If life gave him one or two hopes, it gave him ten pounds of despair. Athletes live in the world of competition, "comparing" every minute and every second.
"Effort" may not win "talent".
Jiang Kaixin could easily get the "Asian Winter Games", he could not reach the leg training, and had to return to the provincial team to participate in the "Qitaihe" competition.
Will Chen Jingye give up? How will he survive and he will later win the championship internationally? Wait and see what happens next.