Why did Zhou Nan have to be treated as dead in the original book of "The World of Man"?
In fact, Liang Xiaosheng created the image of Zhou Nan, which conveys a very profound meaning.
Liang Xiaosheng has a very profound concept, that is, the phenomenon of "class".
And the word "class", whether in the "Human World" novel or in the TV series, is a word that appears quite frequently.
Many of the plot settings in the TV series are around the "class". For example, the official reinstatement of Governor Hao, the view of Jin Yueji's portal, and the fact that Zhou Hao and the two families do not meet each other all reflect the creative intention of the TV series to try to explain the objective existence of Liang Xiaosheng's social class gap in the original novel.
In Zhou Nan's body, it also reflects the concept of "class" imposed on the body.
Zhou Nan's biological father, Luo Shibin, appeared as a synonym for "capital" in Liang Xiaosheng's conception.
During the Cultural Revolution, "capital" was suppressed, and Luo Shibin could only hide underground and engage in some shady small business to maintain his livelihood.
In prison, Luo Shibin fought and fought, and it was interesting that Luo Shibin, such a strong and aggressive person, was repaired in the fight rack of somehow in prison, thus losing his reproductive function.
This also means that in the special era of the Cultural Revolution, "capital" was severely cracked down, and the vitality of "capital" was inherently lacking. Even in the later times of wind and sunshine, the "innate lack of capital" will irreparably diverge its influence. This was Luo Shibin's motive to persistently seek zhou Nan back in the future. This means that "capital" needs to find its own "heirs", because "capital" itself is selfish, just like selfish "genes", passing only on its own blood heirs.
Relatively speaking, why is Bingkun noble? In his eyes, there is no "selfish gene", he sees the value of life itself, the brilliance of human nature, because the tradition of the Zhou family is to attach importance to family affection, unlike Luo Shibin, the "upstart" has no father and no mother, once traced, indulgence, indiscriminate lust, TV series shows that later his wife Zeng Shan was at least his third woman.
Of course, Bingkun also has a misunderstanding, after all, he is also a human, with the original desire of "genetic inheritance", when he first saw Zheng Juan, he also had an instinctive desire, but he was subject to the Zhou family's family's at least from the surface of the "desireless" family atmosphere, and suppressed the catharsis of this desire, so that Bingkun always stood on the side of human nature, and did not have the side of wanton indulgence like the "capital" represented by Luo Shibin.
At this special point in 1972, the power of capital he represented, in the absence of suppression, broke out of the barbaric attribute, that is, the "gene of capital", looking for a way out, driving Luo Shibin, expanding the road of this gene.
This led to Luo Shibin's sexual assault on Zheng Juan.
In the TV series, when Zheng Juan confided in Bingkun that she was raped by Luo Shibin, she deliberately emphasized that she was unable to resist because she had broken a rib and became pregnant with a child.
This not only shows that Locke Shibin is a "rapist", but also a "murderer".
What is the nature of the problem of breaking a woman's ribs?
If Zheng Juan shows evidence of her ribs being broken in court, then the "original sin of capital" should trace the earliest antecedents that Luo Shibin lurked until the era of reform and opening up from a drunken disorder in 1972.
As a "sin of capital", Zhou Nan was infected with a noble person, a pure person, and a great person in the atmosphere of the Zhou family as a working class.
In Liang Xiaosheng's original work, Zhou Nan was tempted by the capital represented by Luo Shibin after becoming an adult.
In the novel, it is written (see a self-description of Nan Nan on page 116 of the second part of the novel): "When I knew that I actually had a biological father who was the boss alive, and he assured me that he could completely change my destiny, let me live in a good house in a good neighborhood, and live a generous life in the future, I could not help but be attracted to such a life." ”
No one can resist this temptation.
After all, on the one hand, there is a shadowy and life-threatening poverty (the National Day lying on the track and surpassing the sister's suicide are all the consequences of this poverty), and on the other hand, there is the wealth that is within reach and glory.
In the TV series, we also see Zhou Nan's ambivalence about the temptation of luo Shibin's outgoing interests.
In the play, a lot of plots have been added, including Luo Shibin putting pressure on the Zhou family to let Zhou Nan go on vacation to him, and using money and the affection of tiger poison and inedible children to envelop Zhou Nan.
In the TV series, when Luo Shibin sent Zhou Nan abroad, Zhou Nan suddenly called out to Luo Shibin when he entered the airport boarding gate: "Dad."
This made Luo Shibin overjoyed, even more incredible.
But at least it shows that Zhou Nan has accepted Luo Shibin's fatherhood.
Is this a deviation from Liang Xiaosheng's original work?
At least, in Liang Xiaosheng's original work, Zhou Nan was shaken, but he firmly sided with the Zhou family.
In Liang Xiaosheng's novel, Zhou Nan was shot in the United States to die of righteous courage, when a group of gunmen rushed to the campus to kill their classmates, Zhou Nan used his body to protect the first student, the gunman turned and dropped the muzzle of the gun to another innocent person, Zhou Nan once again used his body to block the evil bullet.
This setting has the zhou family's excellent rules and destinies from the working class tradition.
However, in the TV series, it is changed to Zhou Nan on the way back to China, preparing to use the money given by Luo Shibin to buy a scooter, and then on the road, encountered a group of gangsters who robbed the road, and when the gangsters ordered them to hand over their money, they shot.
In the flashing shots, there is a hazy hint that Zhou Nan is going backwards, but there is no longer the very obvious feat of seeing righteousness and courage in the original novel, at least in the novel, Zhou Nan twice tried to block the gangster's bullet with his body.
In the novel, when the Zhou family reviews why Zhou Nan has heroic feats in the United States, it focuses on finding the cultural and theoretical motives for Zhou Nan's actions from the family roots.
On page 161 of the middle of the novel, the Zhou siblings once discussed why Zhou Nan was in a foreign land, showing such a rare act of helping people.
Zhou Rong said: "I can't imagine it, but it's not strange. Nannan's approach is too similar to that of our Zhou family. Bingkun had to fight for this son in order to make him like a member of our Zhou family, not to become a person like Luo Shibin. If he had lived with Luo Shibin for two years, I am afraid he would not have behaved like that. ”
Bingyi also agrees with this view, mentioning that "when my father was young, he was a man who saw righteousness and courage. ”
Zhou Rong continued to elaborate: "Although Nan Nan has nothing to do with the genes of our Zhou family, he grew up in our old house, and I saw our father tell him and Congcong the story of the Yang family. When my father said that when Yang Erlang fled in order to let his brothers seize the road, and when he tried to lift the city gate and was crushed to death, Nan Nan's tears were like beads with broken threads! What my dad said was: 'You both give me to remember that in times of danger, whether it is for classmates, or for colleagues and co-workers in the future, everyone in our Zhou family must get it!' Cong Cong asked, "Shouldn't people who don't know be like that?" My father said, 'In times of danger, someone has to do that for people you don't know!' ”
Zhou Rong said very clearly that Zhou Nan's feats are, first, very Chinese, with the support of China's culture of righteousness, and second, very Zhou family. It has the influence of the Zhou family's tradition of working class.
However, all this is missing in the TV series, and Zhou Nan's only positive function in the play is to encourage Feng Yue to stand up from depression and inspire Feng Yue's fighting spirit with the love inspiration of "meeting Qinghua".
And Zhou Nan was inherited by the Zhou family, accepted the concept of the Zhou family, betrayed the selfishness of "capital", and sacrificed his life in a foreign country to maintain the supreme principle of justice and humanity, all of which were deleted in the TV series.
In the original novel, Zhou Nan once compared the differences between Bingkun and Luo Shibin, clearly defining Zhou Nan's final position, and Zhou Nan in the novel said: "But I now understand,...... The man who gave me life, he can't give me relatives and friends like you. He didn't have a true friend, and the people he knew were all people he was trying to use or trying to use him. He didn't actually need affection, he had to fight for my son, just to make his life look more complete. ”
Therefore, at least in the portrayal of Zhou Nan in the TV series, it deviates from the setting of the original novel.
Liang Xiaosheng's novel describes the power of "capital" represented by Luo Shibin, which penetrates into the bones and has the same natural predatory attributes as "original desire", which not only determines that he wants to exploit loopholes to achieve "genetic invasion" (rape of Zheng Juan), but also to carry out "survival embezzlement", in the novel, it is written that Luo Shibin even said to Bingkun: "Even if Zheng Juan is transferred to me, you will get more compensation fees."
In the novel, it is mentioned that Luo Shibin tried to buy shares in the hotel where Bingkun was located, and in the TV series, Luo Shibin also wrapped up the torrent of funds and became Bingyi's guest, the purpose of which was still to pressure the Zhou family, take the "curve" path, start from the periphery, encircle Bingkun, try to get Zhou Nan, the essential intention is to realize his recovery and recovery of "lost genes" through capital investment.
As the bottom people in the "social class", the weapon used to resist the blow of "capital" is the traditional cultural value concept and the "human feelings", which the people rely on, including the spirit of seeing righteousness and courage inherited by the Yang family, and even allowing the inheritors of the "gene of capital", such as Zhou Nan, to achieve their own rebirth, betraying the selfish factors of his gene giver in his bloodline, and in the exotic land, showing the noble spirit of mankind and expanding the spiritual energy of the Zhou family.
This is also where Liang Xiaosheng uses his class concept to implement the true positive energy of society and the "right way on earth" seen in the expansion impulse of "capital".
However, in the TV series, the image of Zhou Nan is only a sunshine boy, and the profound meaning embodied in him has disappeared, and it cannot be said that at this point, the TV series can only make a fuss in the romance drama, but in the profound social analysis and the publicity of Chinese culture, it is unable to do it. This cannot but be said that the TV series gives people a sense of avoiding the heavy and light.