Qilu Evening News Qilu one-point reporter Liu Yuhan
The tv series "Human World", adapted from the award-winning works of Mao Dun Literature Award, proved the charm of serious literature and became a model for serious literary film and television adaptation. The drama is adapted by the famous screenwriter Wang Haiyu, talking about the experience of film and television adaptation, she said: "One is details, the second is details, and the third is details. ”
Writer Liang Xiaosheng's novel "The World of Man" won the 10th Mao Dun Literature Award with the highest vote in 2019. The novel "The World of Man" spans a large span of time and space, depicts many characters, covers major social and historical events such as going to the mountains and going to the countryside, the construction of the third line, and the recommendation to go to university, depicts a group portrait of contemporary Chinese society, and uses ordinary characters to outline the development and changes of Chinese society, which can be called a "fifty-year history of the life of the Chinese people". "People's Daily" once praised: "Liang Xiaosheng's 'The World of Man' is a huge work worthy of the truly epic nature of our time" and "a simple, sincere, and full of compassion."
Putting "The World of Man" on the TV screen has become a big wish of director Li Lu. From literature to film and television, it also needs the extradition of a good screenwriter. Through the recommendation of Zhou Mason and Chen Daoming, Li Lu found the screenwriter Wang Haiyu. Wang Haiyu has thirty years of experience in script writing, and popular dramas such as "Chinese-style Divorce", "The New Marriage Era" and "The Colonel's Daughter" are all from her handwriting. "Wang Haiyu is strong in emotion and detail, which are crucial to 'The World of Man'."
In Wang Haiyu's view, it is very difficult to adapt serious literature. "When we first started learning to write, teachers and seniors would say, avoid storytelling, dilute stories, avoid coincidences, avoid all kinds of fierce conflicts, but TV dramas need these things that are sung and sighed, twists and turns, and no coincidences or books. The literary nature of "The World of Man" has been established, and technically I must strengthen its drama, and in terms of content, I must break the limitations of the author's own description, because it is written by the people at the bottom, and the world is not only composed of the people at the bottom, which is more difficult in these two aspects. ”
Talking about the experience of film and television, Wang Haiyu said, "One is details, the second is details, and the third is details." "Just like selling a house, one is the location, the second is the location, the third is the location, there must be a lot of details, the details must be integrated into the organic whole, equivalent to the flesh and blood after a human body puts up the bones, is to find such details, and it is to externalize the psychology in the novel, everything involved must be externalized, to become an image, there is no psychology, but this kind of description of the psychology is to rely on the details."
Wang Haiyu was born in 1952 and is the same age as the protagonist of the novel, "Zhou Bingkun". The theme of the book", "Shouting and Speaking for the People living at the bottom", is very attractive to Wang Haiyu. Although Wang Haiyu also had the experience of going to the countryside to support farmers, she truly saw the life of the low-level people in the 1970s for the first time through "The World of Man". "It's a blind spot in my life, a blind spot in cognition. This, for me, is a perceptual complement to China's contemporary history. The shock to me is also very big, these people are so poor, so bitter, still able to live tenaciously, what is the reason? ”
In Wang Haiyu's view, shouting is right, but only shouting is not right. So she proposed to add bright and warm tones to the steely background of the novel. "Any life, it has two sides, just like everyone lives in a collective, there will be different feelings." 」
Wang Haiyu also expressed his gratitude to the original author Liang Xiaosheng, "I think he understands me very well, and for the adaptation, he will never interfere much, and will not disturb my thinking, views, and trade-offs." She believes that it is absolutely necessary to respect the screenwriter's first feeling, and the screenwriter must be self-aware." You say that the east wall is not good, the screenwriter adds a brick to the east wall, you say that the west wall is not good, the screenwriter builds a piece to make up for it, and the screenwriter is bad to this extent. ”
In this drama, Wang Haiyu said that Zheng Juan is the female character she has written about as "the most difficult", she is a housewife who has experienced legends, dares to love and hate, and is soft and introverted, but intellectual women such as Zhou Rong, the daughter of the second daughter of the Zhou family, are more familiar to Wang Haiyu.
In the face of market feedback, Wang Haiyu has a clear understanding. "In the past, it was more important to the market, the TV era, saying that the remote control was in the hands of the uncle and aunt, so they should do what they love to watch." Now in the Internet age, young people are the main force, to write what they love to watch. "But for me, what I care about is that I have creative impulses for what, what I see, what I want to express." What you want to express, express well, can still attract many people to like. Don't try to pander, pandering has no way out, pandering is always lagging behind. ”