The TV series "Human World", adapted from Liang Xiaosheng's "Mao Dun Literature Award" award-winning novel of the same name, is being broadcast on CCTV's golden file and iQiyi. A few days ago, Li Lu, the director and chief producer of the play, said in an interview with the media that there are very few works that can show the social and human changes in China in the past 50 years with words, but "The World of Man" has done it, "It is a thick history of the lives of the people." ”
Poster of "The World of Man"
During the filming of "The World of Man", in the cold and humid shed in the northeast, staying up for more than six months, Li Lu lost nearly 30 pounds, he did not want to lose weight, but still thin. Li Lu said that he wished he was a cute fat man, "Now I have no stomach and am dying." ”
"The World of Man" has characters and historical depth.
"The World of Man" has characters, historical depth, and specific facts
The whole drama of "The World of Man" revolves around the growth of Zhou Bingyi (Played by Xin Baiqing), Zhou Rong (Played by Song Jia), and Zhou Bingkun (played by Lei Jiayin), the three brothers and sisters of the Zhou Family, presenting the changes of the times spanning nearly fifty years. In the early days of the novel's publication, when "Human World" had not yet won the "Mao Dun Literature Award", Tencent Pictures and director Li Lu jointly chose to shoot and obtained the film and television adaptation rights of "Human World" for 8 years. In Li Lu's view, "The World of Man" has characters, historical depth, and specific facts. Li Lu said that over the years, China has undergone earth-shaking changes, the city has developed into what it is now, the total economic volume has developed to such a scale, and there are not many film and television dramas depicting the working class.
Six good friends of the "Light Word Piece".
The adaptation of the script of "The World" took two or three years, and the adjustments have been made in the middle. Li Lu said that the weight of the story told in this "Human World" is the heaviest and the largest number of characters in his filming years, which has experienced decades of rapid development and rapid development from cloth tickets, food stamps, planned economy to market economy. "This is indeed the change and leap we have experienced, which has attracted the attention of the world, and we have completed the development of Western society for hundreds of years in these decades."
Li Lu sighed, we are often too easy to forget, now everyone's good life and the front rely on cloth tickets, meat tickets, food stamps, one to two pounds of pork supply period per month is only a few decades apart, when a neighbor in an alley to eat at other people's homes do not have to say hello, sit down to eat, talk about sleepy and go home to sleep, now living in a building no one knows anyone, "May finish watching "The World of Man", everyone will have their own thoughts on the emotional structure between people and people. ”
Chun Yan, played by Huang Xiaolei (right), teaches Zheng Juan, played by Yin Tao, to massage.
A good actor is "acting like something"
"The World of Man" brings together a group of old, middle-aged and young powerful actors, and the lineup is very neat. Li Lu refers to the several leading actors in the play as "Four Beams and Eight Pillars", "Four Beams" refers to Lei Jiayin, Xin Baiqing, Song Jia, and Yin Tao, and "Eight Pillars" refers to Ding Yongdai, Sarina, Cheng Taishen, Song Chunli, etc. Li Lu said that when he was filming, he was in a very cool mood every day, "Such a good actor, how to look how happy." ”
Wang Yang and Song Jia play a couple.
Li Lu admitted that he and his partners have only one criterion for selecting actors: suitable. There are more than 100 roles in the drama of "The World of Man", and the four main actors Lei Jiayin, Xin Baiqing, Song Jia and Yin Tao have not cooperated with Li Lu before, "Their performance is very good, really good actors." This group of actors is very malleable, acting like anything. ”
Lei Jiayin and Ding Yongdai play father and son.
When filming "The World of Man", after the end of work every day, Li Lu would organize the whole crew to read the script together, not three or five people, but more than 20 main creative personnel. He firmly believes that everyone has been immersed in the story for a long time, and everyone will feel that which scene and which line and which character have gone astray. "The atmosphere of the crew is good, everyone has not so many things, as soon as the words touch, the drama leaves, and the spark comes out." Li Lu said that many people came to visit the class were shocked, the actors did not have a caravan, and when the camera was spaced between the camera, they would also chat on the spot and wait for the next shot, and the overall creative atmosphere was very good.
In "The World of Man", the Zhou family reunites during the New Year.
In "The World of Man", Zhou Bingkun, the third son of the Zhou family played by Lei Jiayin, is the core character of the whole drama, and Lei Jiayin's role is extremely heavy. There is a major scene in the play, before the death of Zhou's father and mother, Bingkun, played by Lei Jiayin, asked on the side of the bed, "Daddy, who do you like the three of us the most?" Dad said, "I said your sister when you weren't there, and I said your brother when your sister wasn't there." Li Lu said that the original script of this sentence was not, and it was Improvised by Lei Jiayin on the spot. Li Lu very much recognized Lei Jiayin's performance: "A good actor is the four words of 'acting like what', there are many big names who have acted all their lives, they are all playing himself, and they will always be the first role to play for a lifetime." Lei Jiayin is not, "Meritorious Service" and "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an" I have watched, I feel that it is completely two people, including Zhou Bingkun this time, this is the ability to shape the character. ”
Lei Jiayin and Zhang Kaili contributed superb acting skills in the play.
The civilian community "light character film" was built by the crew
"The World of Man" spans a large range of years and involves many scenes. At the beginning, everyone suggested that Li Lu set up a studio on the outskirts of Beijing to save money and effort and time. Li Lu thought that shooting on the outskirts of Beijing was always "almost meaningless", and in the end he still chose to put the main filming location in Jilin and shoot in real time. There is a scene that needs to shoot the snow scene on changbai mountain, the winter in the northeast is extremely cold, the crew goes up the mountain, to drive a long winding road, but also to shovel more than ten kilometers of snow one person high, of which Jilin Province gave great support, "all by transferring snow shovels to go up the mountain." ”
The most important scene in the play, the civilian community "light word film", was built by the crew. The "village in the city" written in the original novel, that is, the village that cannot be demolished in the middle of the city, is difficult to find. At the beginning of filming, Li Lu already had the image of "light word film" in his mind. The house in the northeast is not the same as the south, the northeast is a trip to the red brick house, built very regularly, Li Lu and the art director Wang Shaolin and other people discussed together, want is the southern kind of octopus-like house structure, each small alley can turn in, so the crew went to find. "We originally tried to find a real scene, but it was not suitable, and the cost of another repair and maintenance was not as good as building it ourselves."
The main activity area of the characters in the play, "Light Character Film", was built by the crew.
An excellent TV series is inseparable from the joint efforts of the team, and Li Lu is also particularly grateful to the "Human World" crew team, including the photographer Zhang Wenjie, the editor Cao Weijie, the lighting Lin Yanguo, the composer Zhang Yilin and all other staff members. In the span of nearly fifty years, the background details of each era and the uniqueness of art require rigorous examination and extensive reading of a large number of materials. "How many T hard drives, filled with video pictures. For example, the texture of a small wall was broken, and the wall was broken in that era and was wiped with cement. Do a lot of very fine homework, which must and should be done. ”
If there is more to say, nothing is to say less
The original work is long, there are many characters, and the time span is large, the series needs a longer volume, which is also the reason why the number of episodes of "Human World" is long, "Human World" has been compressed a lot from the initial 88 episodes, cut into 72 episodes, to 66 episodes, and then to the current 58 episodes. At present, the series is nearing the end, many netizens left a message saying that they still have not watched the addiction, and hope that "The World" can be filmed to 100 episodes. In Li Lu's view, the number of episodes of a drama should be determined according to the content, "if there is more to say, nothing to say less." ”
The three children of the Zhou family are with their father and mother.
Li Lu asked young people why they were interested in "The World of Man". "They said they wanted to see how mom and dad were living back then. Even before Lei Jiayin took up the play, she told his father about the project. His father said, you have to act, act to show us. Young people will look at this work with a mentality of exploring and deciphering the past. Don't underestimate any generation of young people, good looks are good looks, not good looks, no matter how advanced, people will not look. ”
Xin Baiqing plays the eldest son Zhou Bingyi.
Li Lu said that our total economic output is now the second largest in the world, and these developments have come to this day through generations of mutual understanding and selfless efforts. "The efforts of these three generations have created tremendous changes in China that have attracted the world's attention in the past 50 years." Li Lu took the Zhou family's parents as an example, married for decades, gathered less and left more, his father supported the construction of the southwest third line, visited relatives once every three years, and did not go home for the longest time for eight years, "What is that called marriage?" How much has the child had to change, and how many eight years of his life would have been? They have made a great contribution to the development of the country. ”
Liu Wei, a senior reporter of the Beijing News
Edited by Tong Na Proofreader Wang Xin