Based on Liang Xiaosheng's novel of the same name, directed by Li Lu, written by Wang Haiyu, and starring Lei Jiayin, Xin Baiqing, Song Jia, Yin Tao, etc., the TV series "The World of Man" is being broadcast on CCTV. Even with the Spring Festival file, the Winter Olympics and other ratings of the big hit "head-on collision", "The World of Man" has gained a lot of fans in the unhurried broadcast rhythm. The total number of episodes of the drama is as many as 58, currently only one-third of the CCTV broadcast, the performance of China's audiovisual big data has exceeded 2%, in the Cool Cloud real-time TV data list reached 1.5%, the highest of the rest of the TV series is only 0.6%, the ratings data has become a full line of crushing trend.
Liang Xiaosheng initially did not consider film and television
For Liang Xiaosheng, the author of the novel of the same name, "The World of Man" itself is a special work. In addition to the reputation of the Mao Dun Literature Award brought by the work to the author, "The World of Man" is not like Liang Xiaosheng's other works that have been filmed and televisionized, such as "Ring of The Year", "Snow City", "Zhiqing", "Return Era", etc., all of which were created at the invitation of the TV station, ""The World of Man" together decided that it was impossible to make a TV series, and I definitely did not think about it in this regard. ”
It is precisely because the creation does not consider film and television, the story of "Human World" does not take too seriously to the difficulty of shooting, the author made up his mind from the 1970s, it is this obsession that has created the sense of "Human World", and has become the best exposition of Liang Xiaosheng's writing concept, "describing the desire of life evolution". Liang Xiaosheng said that in the process of life evolution, the times are also changing, such as the working class, and the concept now is completely different from that time.
Liang Xiaosheng used "seeing each other and hating the night" to describe the first meeting with Li Lu, the director of "The World of Man". The two people have a lot of common language about realistic theme works, and Li Lu's concept of expressing the image and feelings of the working class also made Liang Xiaosheng appreciate it, so Liang Xiaosheng changed his mind and decided to fully support them, and it was difficult to support them. In order to express this support, Liang Xiaosheng even hand-wrote a 5-page authorization, saying that as long as Li Lu followed "professional and pure, then how to change it can be done."
The main creators all have a Northeast complex
"Northeast China is my hometown, and it is my wish to make this drama in my hometown." Li Lu said that the main creators' complex for the northeast is indispensable, in his view, the charm of the northeast is not necessarily the "Kangtou culture" that pushes the cup and changes the cup, but also the more affectionate black land culture, he hopes to be able to show the most beautiful and rugged things in the northeast in "The World of Man".
Li Lu believes that although the number of episodes of "The World of Man" is long, it will definitely touch the hearts of thousands of families and let the audience see the end. In terms of time span, "The World of Man" does not adopt the narrative method of chronicles, but uses a leap-forward, leisurely walking method to show major events closely related to the fate of the characters. The drama is all civilian in character shaping, not creating gods, but portraying fate. In Li Lu's view, the realistic theme is to paint people, it is difficult to paint people, and all the characters in "The World", the audience is easy to find prototypes in their own homes. The group drama with a time span of fifty years is extremely difficult to control, and the screening, direction, proportion, proportion of the age, deadline, character personality, fate, and so on must be carefully considered.
There are hundreds of famous and surnamed characters in the play, and their actors are also experienced actors, and Lei Jiayin and Song Jia among the main actors are all northeasterners. When meeting with the producer, Lei Jiayin emphasized that her fit with the character is not only reflected in the appearance. He grew up in Anshan, when he was a child, his family lived in the workers' compound, those days were his happiest memories, but also the root of his northeast complex, "I am Zhou Bingkun, I must act, I must act!" ”
In the timeline of "The World of Man", Zhou Bingkun, played by Lei Jiayin, was roughly born between 1952 and 1953, Lei Jiayin's father was born in that era, the state-owned enterprise where his parents worked had also undergone reform, and his mother had also been laid off. For him, "The World of Man" is the life of his father, and the character archetypes in it are engraved in his mind, "I had a strong idea at that time, and after filming, I also left a thought for my parents." ”
Focus on portraying the sense of age
"The World of Man" spans a time span of fifty years, in order to vividly restore the realism of the story, the script preparation lasted more than three years, and took six months of intense shooting, 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, a bowl and a spoon, are extremely consistent with the original appearance of the era in the northern environment.
In order to recreate the residential areas of the old industrial cities in northeast China, the crew built a scene of 40,000 square meters, the light line used 70,000 meters, and the lights were enough to install dozens of ultra-long box cars. In the preparation stage of shooting, a lot of old objects were also collected, and a prop library of about 1,000 square meters was built, like the old posters, old wall calendars, and old clothes that appeared in the play, many of which were real things collected through the collection. "Striving to let the audience dream back to that era as soon as they see it" is the goal that the crew hopes to achieve.
When the drama was broadcast, Zhou Bingkun suspected that his sister's sweater pants were too tight, the embarrassment of Zheng Juan's family not having pants to wear because they were too poor, and the plot of six or seven young people queuing up in order to buy a pork, all let the audience return to the era of material scarcity. The emotional connection between the "light character film" and the poor and inexhaustible ambition, and the youth and wantonness of the "six gentlemen" who are difficult to share with the blessings, let the audience in the bullet screen relive the human feelings and warmth of the past era. With the progress of the plot, the play is about to enter a small climax, and the sadness of the fate of the characters and the superposition of the creation of the times will also bring a huge impact to the audience, and this civilian epic drama that has established a legend for ordinary workers' families is gradually entering a better situation.
Source: Beijing Daily Client | Reporter Li Xia Solstice
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