China Youth Daily Client News (China Youth Daily, China Youth Network reporter Shen Jiequn) Since the launch of the reality-themed contemporary drama "Human World", it has set a new high in the average rating of TV dramas on CCTV in the past 5 years, the popularity of the iQiyi platform has exceeded 9800, and the Douban score has been 8.1. In order to deeply explore and summarize the experience of literary film and television adaptation, the Chinese Writers Association recently held a "Symposium on "From Literature to Film and Television -- "In the World"" in Beijing.
First published in December 2017, contemporary Chinese writer Liang Xiaosheng's novel "The World of Man" is a novel that follows the life trajectory of Zhou Bingkun, a commoner's son, and shows the development and changes of Chinese society in the past 50 years.
Tie Ning, chairman of the China Writers Association and chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, said that the popularity of "The World of Man" once again strongly proved the intimate relationship between literature and film and television.
"Language is the most profound and basic way of existence of human beings, and literature, as the art of language, has the longest and deepest tradition; other art disciplines such as film and television art are not only different from literature and promote their own characteristics in the process of opening up their own artistic world, but also obtain abundant resources and strong support from literature." Tie Ning said that between literature and film and television, there is a relationship of mutual differentiation, mutual motivation and mutual inspiration, mutual fulfillment, and ultimately mutual enhancement and amplification.
Zhang Hongsen, secretary of the party leading group, vice chairman and secretary of the secretariat of the China Writers Association, pointed out that today, if literary creation wants to better integrate into the modern communication pattern, it must be more fully and proactively exchanged and integrated with many art disciplines and cultural forms.
Liang Xiaosheng, the original author of "The World of Man", said: "Film and television dramas have made a good refinement of the ideas I want to express. The TV series of "Human World" changes some of the characters and plots from conceptual to concrete, and more intelligently performs dramatic presentations, such as the portrayal of the role of Zhou Mu, the plot of Zhou Father's approval of Zheng Juan to let Zheng Juan hear the dialogue between father and son at the door, etc., these changes all prove that the director and the adaptor have improved the original work. If the novel could be rewritten, I wanted to incorporate the wisdom of the creators. ”
Li Lu, director and chief producer of "The World of Man", said that the novel "The World of Man" has brought a very good foundation for adapting film and television dramas. "First of all, it has a group portrait of a group of characters that can stand up, and secondly, it also contains nearly fifty years of historical beings, has enough depth of the times, and finally there are vivid stories and the smell of fireworks in the world."
The "Human World" drama series was jointly launched by Tencent Pictures, Xinli Media, and Yuwen Film and Television "Troika". As the producer of the drama, Cheng Wu, vice president of Tencent Group and CEO of Yuwen Group, said: "Our mission of doing content is to make good stories live endlessly, and we need to take literature as the starting point, create a national resonance point with film and television, and then be able to feed back literature, which is also a Chinese model that tells Chinese stories well and creates China's unique IP." ”
Pan Kaixiong, former member of the party group and vice president of China Publishing Group Corporation, said that the novel "The World of Man" is a veritable big IP, and when its classicity is gradually recognized and determined by people, the space for its interpretation will inevitably be enlarged, which also means that the space for this IP to be developed will be greater.
Source: China Youth Daily client