The reality drama "The World of Man" ended last night (2nd) on CCTV. Since its launch at the end of January this year, the drama has set a new high for the average ratings of TV dramas on CCTV in the past five years, the popularity of the iQiyi platform has exceeded 10,000, and the Douban score has been 8.1, becoming a win-win "explosive" drama with both ratings and word of mouth. On the 28th, the Chinese Writers Association held the "From Literature to Film and Television - "Human World" Symposium", and the participating experts agreed that the popularity of "Human World" is undoubtedly another successful case of excellent literary works being adapted into high-quality dramas, and the experience behind it is worth discussing and summarizing together by literary and film and television people.
Liang Xiaosheng, author of the novel "The World of Man"
Once again, the intimate relationship between literature and film and television is proved
Liang Xiaosheng's novel "The World of Man" was first published in December 2017. Shortly after the novel was published, Tencent Pictures and director Li Lu jointly decided to adapt it into a film and television work. In November 2018, Tencent Pictures acquired the film and television adaptation rights for eight years from a small cultural hand that helped Liang Xiaosheng represent the copyright of "The World of People" at that time. In August of the following year, "The World of Man" won the highest award of Chinese literature, the 10th Mao Dun Literature Award, with the highest vote.
Tie Ning, chairman of the China Writers Association, said that the Year of the Tiger in many people's homes was opened with the broadcast of the TV series "The World of Man", and its popularity once again strongly proved the intimate relationship between literature and film and television. "Literature and film and television are a relationship that distinguishes, inspires and inspires each other, completes each other, and ultimately enhances and amplifies each other. Let literature and film and television enter the hearts of the broader masses of the people together, which is also the common direction of efforts of generations of literary and film and television people. ”
Zhang Hongsen, secretary of the party group of the China Writers Association, pointed out that the TV series "Human World" is adapted from the award-winning works of the Mao Dun Literature Award, and the birth of this "blockbuster" is an inspiring and enlightening thing. "Today, if literary creation wants to better integrate into the modern communication pattern, it must be more fully and proactively exchanged and learned from and integrated with many art disciplines and cultural forms." He revealed that the China Writers Association will implement the "New Era Mountain and Countryside Great Changes Creation Plan" and the "New Era Literary Climbing Plan" this year, focusing on creating and launching a number of high-level and weighty literary masterpieces, and sending more and better literary resources for film and television and other cultural fields.
As the producer of the drama, Cheng Wu, vice president of Tencent Group, admitted that he was moved by the simple realism of the original work and decided to devote his strength to the film and television adaptation of this work. "Our mission in doing content is to make good stories live forever, which requires literature as the starting point, creating a national resonance point with film and television, and then being able to feed back literature, which is also a Chinese model for telling Chinese stories well and creating China's unique IP."
Liang Xiaosheng affirmed the director and screenwriter's improvement of the original work
The popularity of the TV series "Human World" stems from the thick life heritage of the original author and the ingenuity of the main creative staff, who have insight into the essence of life in the subtleties, accurately capture the delicate emotions of the world, and finally present a simple and lovely character image, a tearful storyline and a real and moving life of the people, which has triggered the deepest emotional resonance in the audience's heart. At the symposium, liang Xiaosheng, the original author, Li Lu, director and chief producer, and Wang Haiyu, screenwriter, shared their creative insights.
Liang Xiaosheng admitted that he was not optimistic about the film and television adaptation of "The World of Man" at first, until Li Lu made it clear after contacting the original work that "this is the work I want to shoot", and the two finally reached a consensus on shooting a work that "pays tribute to the people at the bottom". "Film and television dramas have made a good distillation of the ideas I want to express. The TV series of "The World of Man" 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's 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. ”
"The novel "The World of Man" has brought a very good foundation for adapting film and television dramas. First of all, there is a group of standing characters, and secondly, it also contains the historical aspects of nearly fifty years, which has enough depth of the times, and finally there are vivid stories and the smell of fireworks in the world, which is the most important basis for distinguishing it from other novels. Li Lu concluded.
Screenwriter Wang Haiyu herself is also a novelist, and she knows that literature is different from film and television: "Serious literature is the reflection of individuals on life experiences, while TV dramas are popular art." The more serious the literature, the more difficult it is to change it to a TV series. The expression of fiction is transformed into film and television expression, in addition to form, but also conceptual. In her view, film and television drama is a collective art, "this drama has made the most correct balance between art and the market, and is the best of the originals, directors and film and television dramas I have worked with." ”
Being upbeat in the midst of suffering is an important value of "The World"
Taking the life trajectory of Zhou Bingkun, a civilian child, as a clue, "In the World" creates a group portrait of many laborers, builders, reformers, entrepreneurs and other characters, showing the great changes in Chinese society in the past 50 years from their ups and downs full of sorrow and joy, which not only has the "glory and dream" of China's social development, but also faces the difficulties and complexities of the reform and opening up process, which can be called a "civilian epic". During the seminar, the participating experts conducted in-depth exchanges on the grand background of the times presented in "The World of Man", the social value of realistic works, and the film and television transformation of literary works.
Wang Yichuan, a professor at Beijing Normal University, commented from an aesthetic perspective: "'The World of Man' has allowed Chinese-style mental wisdom to lead the spiritual principles of realism, and has embarked on an artistic path of Chinese-style realism, which can give useful aesthetic paradigm inspiration to contemporary TV dramas of similar themes and other types of artistic creation." ”
"Being uplifted in the midst of suffering is an important value conveyed by the literary work "The World of Man."" Rao Shuguang, president of the China Film Critics Association, believes that the craftsman spirit of the main creator of the TV series allows the audience to appreciate the times and social changes in Chinese society in the past 50 years through "The World of Man", see the expression of emotions and life in a specific cultural environment, and obtain spiritual and ideological washing and nourishment.
Talking about the IP development of literary works, Pan Kaixiong, former 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 it to be interpreted will inevitably continue to enlarge, which also means that the space for this IP to be developed will be larger. "The success of this feature-length TV series not only brings pleasant aesthetic enjoyment to the audience, but also provides a successful case for the construction and development of the mainland's cultural industry."