This is an authentic Chinese story, a Chinese story that tells the success of the chinese.
The TV series "Human World" has become the focus of the ratings at the beginning of the Year of the Tiger, because it touched the hearts of Chinese audiences with its full of Chinese human feelings. Writer Liang Xiaosheng said: I want to tell the stories of the past to young people, so that they can know what China was like in the past. The original author tells the story of the Chinese fathers in literary language. Then, in the TV series "The World" directed by Li Lu, we saw the half century of China's transition from suffering to change, and saw the lives of the people who were bumpy in the waves of history, and experienced sorrows and joys. In fact, it depicts not only the former China, but also the China that has continued from the past to the present.
In the signposts traveled by Chinese society, the philosophy and emotions of life Chinese are written
The success of "The World" stems from respect for life. It seems like a cliché, but the reason why old people talk about it is because it is the truth.
"The World of Man" is about a double life: First, China's social life. Contemporary Chinese social life is magnificent, there are few small bridges and flowing water and pastoral tranquility; it always profoundly affects the fate of all people, and few people can transcend the outside and wander the peach blossoms. The story of "The World" unfolds from 1969, and the fate of many young people is quietly reversed. Then, it showed important social events such as the resumption of the college entrance examination, the return of intellectuals to the city, the reform of state-owned enterprises, the business boom, and the reconstruction of shantytowns. These events are the signposts that Chinese society has traveled, constituting the history of contemporary society and the history of the fate of the Chinese people. Chinese society is a rough sea, and everyone is a small boat that is bumping in it, or a swimmer without a lifebuoy, breathing together and sharing a destiny.
The second is the daily life of individuals. The background of social life is vast, but the choreographer closely focuses on the fate of ordinary people's lives, without the dramatic strong plot to promote, more is the trivial details of life. A northeastern workers' family, a group of people in the shantytown of "light character films", and a drama of the lives of the people who came from the nose of fireworks slowly unfolded. For example, in the first episode of the opening chapter, the Zhou family is faced with the choice of going to the mountains and going to the countryside. Zhou Bingyi went to the countryside to leave home, Zhou Rong did not quit and said goodbye, and the family of five was divided into three provinces and four places. The father took the photo of the family portrait that had been washed and printed and said, "This may be the last family portrait of our family. "Social life is the wind, personal life is the grass. Wind blowing, that is, through the meticulous description of the "grass movement" of personal destiny, to refract the "wind blowing" of the life of the times, this is the choreographer's understanding of the lives of the Chinese people, and it is also the artistic logic of the entire "Human World".
The TV series "The World" adopts a family narrative structure. The family is a miniature specimen of Chinese social life, containing Chinese philosophy and emotions of life. When you write a good family, you are impressed by thousands of families. The story of the Zhou family is the narrative axis of the whole play, and the creators abandon the whimsy of the family and are faithful to the basic character of the ordinary family.
The father is simple and traditional, strict with his son and pampered his daughter. In the end, it made the daughter step on the heart, step on the pain and love, a typical Chinese father. The mother is virtuous and takes care of the family, the eldest son Zhou Bingyi has ambitions and can take responsibility, the second daughter Zhou Rongyi has no hesitation and is tender and tenacious, and the younger son Zhou Bingkun is generous and often can do his filial piety. It's Chinese familiar family member, like a neighbor, like your own home. Although "we" were often highlighted in those days, as long as there were individuals, there were personal desires for life. Even if it is a large family, conflicts and quarrels between each other have become the norm of life. Zhou Rong's sudden departure from home made her father's heart ache and absolute; Zhou Bingkun seemed to be the most mediocre and the most sensitive, fighting for his father's "vanity"; quarreling over the "thin feelings" of his eldest brother. "Human World" presents this kind of interpersonal conflict in the family as real and warm, and its core value is the humanistic thinking of the Chinese family.
Humanistic thought is different from humanisticism. Western humanism advocates individual respect and freedom, and Chinese human ethics wants to pay more attention to the harmony, goodwill, simplicity and sincerity of interpersonal relations. The father-daughter feelings, mother-son feelings, and even brother-sister feelings expressed in "The World of Man" are full of this kind of human affection. In particular, although Zhou Bingkun is mediocre, he has morality and dares to appear for his friends; he has filial piety, is the most reliable support for his mother, and is the pillar of the family, and he warms all the audience. Home and Wanshixing are the highest performances of Chinese Lun's ideals, which make the audience feel empathy and be moved.
Those who have exuberant artistic vitality usually see the power behind them
The audience likes to watch "The World of Man", especially like to see many of the characters in the play. For example, Zhou Bingkun, such as Zheng Juan, such as Qiao Chunyan, etc., are all talking about it for everyone. The discussion about them goes far beyond the scope of artistic creation and extends to many aspects of life, which is the social effect of the spillover of excellent works. Over the years, many people have read Robert McKee's book "Stories" and concluded that good works are good stories. In fact, the story is only a means of character building, "the plot is the unfolding history of the character's personality", and the ultimate task of artistic creation is to shape the characters. Therefore, the classic artistic image is a clear indicator of the artistic achievements of an era. In the same way, the key to measuring the success of a work is whether there is a successful artistic image.
"The World" has successfully created a number of lifelike characters. Father and mother are portrayed in ordinary, just like every audience's "Father and Mother", behind the usual is skill.
Zhou Bingkun is the most popular with everyone. The general audience always has a natural affinity for ordinary people. Zhou Bingkun is the most mediocre among the children of the Zhou family. He does not have the IQ of his eldest brother and second sister, and even without their ambition and diligence, he is more at ease with the situation. That time, his father took the whole family around to visit the New Year, and he was a little proud that the eldest brother and second sister were Peking University students, and his self-esteem was bruised and he was once angry. However, with his mother who has been with him for a long time, he has no complaints or regrets. In particular, the encounter and love with Zheng Juan proves that he is a rare good person: integrity and kindness. Zhou Bingkun is humble but not humble, suffering but not bitter, he rarely has any flame in his life, and then uses it to warm each other's joy. A person who knows what he is living for can endure any kind of life. Life kisses me with pain, but I sing in return. Because he believes that living a good life is beautiful.
The female group portraits in "The World" have their own appearances. Zheng Juan is everyone's most beloved character. Compassion is the emotion that people are most willing to give. She was almost the embodiment of suffering, falling into the dust, or rather, a speck of dust in life. Suffering is the essence of her life, and she instinctively endures it without distorting her soul. "I am not worth it", is her understanding of herself, but also a reminder to others, she is worried about affecting others, but she is not worried about dragging herself, especially in the face of Zhou Bingkun's emotions. Zhou Bingkun and her first encounter, the director used the camera to render Zheng Juan delicate and fearful, so that Zhou Bingkun's desire to protect suddenly came out. With the development of the plot, Zhou Bingkun read her innermost heart: not succumbing to life for the low, but sacrificing herself because of kindness, which is the most beautiful light in human nature. So, they have no remorse for each other. Some viewers commented: Zhou Bingkun and Zheng Juan are the happiest couple in "The World". I agree. Happiness is happiness, and happiness that is felt is true happiness.
Adam Smith, the father of economics, said: "The greatest source of suffering and chaos in life often comes from overestimating differences: greed overestimates the difference between rich and poor, and ambition overestimates the difference between high officials and commoners." Zhou Bingkun and Zheng Juan accepted each other's ordinariness and gained a certain sense of happiness. Because whenever they encounter difficulties and embarrassments, warm eyes or hug each other tightly, it seems that they have the courage to live. Love is sometimes a snow lotus, so simple that it does not need other foils.
Hao Dongmei is a "fallen princess", and life at the bottom makes her empathetic. When her parents returned to high-ranking officials, she loved Zhou Bingyi as always and tried her best to balance between the Zhou family and her mother's family. Zhou Bingyi told her: There is no misunderstanding, only a gap. Gaps exist objectively. She believes: Be rich and noble, don't forget. Qiao Chunyan is impressive, a bathroom foot washer. She was like the wind of the northern summer, crisp and warm. She took the initiative to pursue Zhou Bingkun, and was rejected several times but was still enthusiastic.
Kindness is the quality of these female figures, and they would rather sacrifice themselves than others sacrifice for themselves. This traditional virtue of Chinese women, you can not fully praise, but you can not not be moved. In contrast, Zhou Rong is a little different. She has poetic impulses and a life opinion. She recognizes that a good daughter's good years are only a few years, but she believes that a good life is more important than a good year. To this end, she follows the poet's boyfriend, in fact, she follows the self, even if she finally encounters betrayal, the self is still her unconscious dream, and sometimes she is criticized for abandoning her family affection. The ego is sometimes considered selfish.
These characters in "The World of Man" have a strong artistic vitality, whether you like it or not, they all stand there, with the attitude that art should have.
Finding the light of truth, goodness and beauty in the complicated life is the cultural consciousness of the creator
The creators of the TV series "The World" respect life. They are not driven by whimsy, but reverently face the original appearance of life and sincerely shape the character image. They believe that art is not necessarily higher than life, because Chinese society and personal life contain far more exciting life than the creator. The preparation of the script of "The World of Man" lasted for three years, and the shooting took more than six months, and the scene design and prop selection were almost demanding, in order to restore the historical scenes and life of Northeast China. Respecting life is not a naturalistic record of life, it requires the insight of the creator. The maturity of the creator comes from his insight and expression of life and human nature.
The creators of "The World" are successful. They are willing to search for the inner essence of daily life, willing to empathize with the heart of each character, even the most secret motives are no exception, and then vividly describe life and capture the voice of human nature with the original logic of the character, conveying the underlying values of truth, goodness and beauty. The success of the TV series "The World of Man" is the victory of life - you respect life, life gives you infinite charm; it is also the victory of artistic creation - you create with your heart, and the audience listens with your heart.
It is worth pointing out that the performance of "The World of Man" is very outstanding, which is a group creative performance. It breaks the superstition of relying on big data and traffic statistics to configure actors, and it believes that true art depends on the strength of artistic performance.
Warm realism, this is a theoretical expression of the continuous success of the mainstream creation of TV dramas in recent years. It means that even if we creators express the hardships and even hardships of real life, we actively give the audience the warmth of humanity and human feelings. Pure light and darkness, too, can't see things clearly. We must always find the light of truth, goodness and beauty in the complicated social life and the intertwining of good and bad human nature.
Chinese society has been full of ups and downs and magnificent waves, giving birth to the sad songs and laughter of the world. Therefore, actively expressing the stories of the Chinese people should be the cultural consciousness of the current creators and production subjects. I remember hearing tencent pictures put forward the direction of production at a cultural forum: "Pay attention to the stories that are happening in this era", and at the same time launch the "Times Melody Series" creation plan. The TV series we are watching, "The World of Man", is a successful practice of this. A generation has a generational mission. Cao Xueqin did not write "Dream of the Red Chamber" at that time, how could posterity write this ancient legend? Balzac did not write "The Comedy of Man" at that time, and who can write this "chronicle of French society" so realistically? Therefore, contemporary creators have the responsibility to tell contemporary Chinese stories well and shape contemporary Chinese well.
Author: Ren Zhonglun (Vice Chairman of China Filmmakers Association, Chairman of Shanghai Filmmakers Association)
Editor: Wang Yan
Planner: Wang Yan
Editor-in-Charge: Fan Xin
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