Recently, the 2022 CCTV New Year drama "The World of People" launched by Tencent Pictures, Xinli Media, and Yuwen Film and Television "Troika", which is being broadcast, has set off a wave of national drama chasing, which was officially announced by "News Network", and the premiere ratings set a new high for A set of TV dramas on CCTV in the past three years, with a maximum rating of 1.65% in a single episode, harvesting nearly 200 hot searches on the whole network in the first week, providing the audience with a visual feast and successfully detonating the social platform.
This period drama takes the three generations of the Zhou family living in the civilian area of a provincial capital city in the north at the end of the 1960s as the main line, spanning 50 years of time and space, depicting more than a dozen civilian children represented by Zhou Bingkun, Zhou Bingyi, Zhou Rong, and Zheng Juan, as well as the ups and downs of more than 100 other characters from all walks of life, which can be said to be a "life history of the Chinese people in fifty years".
Judging from the several episodes broadcast, whether it is the plot control or the creation of the atmosphere of the era, "The World of Man" can be said to be very solid. Collective forest farms, state-owned enterprise lathes, the years of knowing the youth, buying cloth with tickets, three-line construction, the familiar scenes in the memory of generations are vividly reproduced, and the simple and moving civilian perspective instantly makes people's thoughts travel back to that unforgettable era.
Lei Jiayin, Xin Baiqing, Song Jia, Yin Tao
The emotional interpretation of Lei Jiayin, Xin Baiqing, Song Jia, Yin Tao, Ding Yongdai, Sarina, Cheng Taishen, Song Chunli and many other old and young and powerful actors also made many viewers can't help but smile and worry with the sadness and joy of the characters in the play.
Lei Jiayin as Zhou Bingkun
In the face of the bold initiative of Qiao Chunyan, a young woman who has just opened her love, the Zhou family elder Zhou Bingkun, played by Lei Jiayin "Lei Datou", is clumsily coping with that hint of humility that makes the two interact and make a lot of jokes, which really makes people "Bengbu" live.
On the other hand, in order to pursue ideals and love, the second daughter of the most affectionate Zhou Rong was touched by the courage of her to go to Guizhou to support the religion for many years.
Writer Liang Xiaosheng
Why is "The World of Man" so "top-notch"? First of all, we must start from the original work, "The World of Man" is adapted from the 1.15 million-word novel of the same name by the famous contemporary writer Liang Xiaosheng. This realistic masterpiece, which won the highest award for Chinese literary works today, the Mao Dun Literature Award, was praised by people's daily (overseas edition) as "a truly epic long-form masterpiece of our time" and "a simple, sincere and compassionate work."
"The World of Man" is also the first reality-themed drama that Tencent Pictures, Xinli Media and Yuwen Film and Television have jointly participated in after the integration. In the early stage of the novel's publication, Tencent Pictures and director Li Lu jointly chose to shoot and obtained the film and television adaptation rights of "The World" for 8 years.
Directed by Lee Lu
The director and chief producer of "The World" this time is Li Lu, a national-level director, who has directed many excellent dramas such as "In the Name of the People" and "Circuit Prosecution Group". The screenwriter invited Wang Haiyu, who is known as the "first writer of Chinese marriage" and is loved by the audience with "Chinese-style divorce", "New Marriage Era" and "Holding Hands". The two "great gods" work together to present the audience with a realistic theme of height, depth, breadth and temperature.
In order to vividly restore the realism and sense of age of the era spanning 50 years in the story, the main creator of the crew lasted more than three years from the preparation of the script, and carried out an intense shooting that took six months. For the details is more "harsh" control, as large as the historical scenes of various periods, the changes in the family environment at various stages, to all kinds of life props, bowls and spoons, all of which are in line with the original appearance of the era in the northern environment.
Since its inception, Tencent Pictures has attached great importance to the carrying role of film and television works on the spirit of the times, focusing on the "Era Melody Series" created by such works, and has launched or will soon launch more than 30 works, ranking first among the six major cultural product series of Tencent Pictures, and "Human World" is one of the important works. Tencent Pictures hopes to show the brilliance and temperature of human nature in the language of film and television through stories rooted in life with the texture of the times and the spirit of the times, carry forward the main theme, and tell Chinese stories well.
Although the Spring Festival holiday has ended, even if you return to the place of struggle, you can still "cloud" with your parents to chase "The World of Man" and listen to your parents tell some stories of the past!