"It's beautiful to think about." Zhou Bingkun and Zheng Juan, who have stepped through a thousand heavy waves and stayed by their lover's side, have walked through the road of life, and the first round of broadcast of the 58-episode TV series "Human World" has reached the final chapter.
From its launch on January 28 to the finale on March 1, this TV series that followed the earthly atmosphere and was full of human feelings refreshed the ratings record of the same period of CCTV in the past five years, and also became the first episode on the iQiyi platform to break the tens of thousands of hits on the station. For more than a month, hundreds of millions of viewers have pinched the point to chase the drama and shed tears for the people in the play countless times. Only 12 hours after the finale was updated, the number of views of related topics on Weibo has exceeded 100 million. How many young people do not give up the life of the Zhou family, the grass and trees, and the netizens and actors invariably write long articles to bid farewell to the ordinary fireworks, sorrows and joys in the play.
The national excitement and resonance caused by "The World of Man" does not stop there. The first round of broadcasting has not yet ended, and the replays of CCTV eight sets and Jiangsu Satellite TV have been arranged into the calendar. Tie Ning, chairman of the China Writers Association and chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, commented on the popularity of "The World of Man": "Once again, it is a powerful proof of the intimate relationship between literature and film and television, from literature to film and television, which is not only describing a process, but also marking a vast space for vibrant creation and acceptance. Yin Hong, vice chairman of the China Literary and Art Critics Association, praised it for writing the "Chinese code" of the ordinary world. The nearly 50 years of Chinese history presented in the play, the fate of people at different levels in the unfolding social changes, the true feelings flowing between people, and even the theme song of "grass and trees are sprouting, children are growing up" are haunting the audience's hearts for a long time.
From the novel of the same name by writer Liang Xiaosheng who won the Mao Dun Literature Prize to the screen scroll, the creators have used the power of realism to write a touching Chinese story between heaven and earth and people's hearts. Hundreds of millions of viewers witnessed a piece of light and character in the world of Shewo, became a companion of the epic of the people, and embraced the idealistic rush in the tide of the times. The TV series "The World of People", which has become a cultural phenomenon in 2022, makes people believe that all kindness and integrity and perseverance will be transformed into green mountains, rivers, lakes and seas in the world, and penetrate into the life and growth of the Chinese nation.
It is worth mentioning that as early as a month before the start of filming, Disney streaming media purchased the overseas rights to "The World of Man". Through this long-form TV series, the whole world will see the style of Chinese, and see what kind of spirit and strength, so that China has surpassed the development of the capitalist world in 40 to 50 years in 40 or 50 years.
It shares the same heart with the audience: through the joys and sorrows and the rise and fall, being a good person is always the most worthwhile thing in the world
"The World of Man" is an epic poem belonging to the Chinese people. It writes about the life of social change, and uses plain and delicate brushstrokes to create a group portrait of different levels and rich characters. A living person, so that all viewers can find the shadow of their own or their parents, that is, the appearance of a kind, tenacious, honest and reliable Chinese.
The story revolves around the fate of the three generations of the Zhou family, and also draws up the warm feelings of the brothers and sisters' neighborhood partners, and a light character film illuminates the most ordinary people in Chinese society year after year. Among them, parents, lovers, siblings, peers, neighbors... Every relationship is vividly interpreted; family harmony, the turn of the times, starting from scratch, industrial upgrading, life and old age, illness and death... Every ebb and flow is portrayed in a very real way. In countless tears, the audience witnessed the ups and downs of people's lives and the changes in society in the past 50 years.
With the audience in mind, all the characters in the play will be included in the Chinese TV drama art gallery for a long time. The parents of the Zhou family have been simple people all their lives and people who pay attention to virtue; the eldest brother Zhou Bingyi is clear and upright, and is a symbol of the wind of sending affection for the homeland and the gentleman; the elder sister Zhou Rong will always be full of tears for idealism; "old knot" Zhou Bingkun speaks for the heavy feelings and righteousness of the common people; Hao Dongmei, Cai Xiaoguang, and Zheng Juan shine with the beautiful character of being poor and untouchable; the "six little gentlemen" and many neighbors and workers are the Chinese who watch over each other and help each other, and they are also the bearers and fighters who follow the vicissitudes of the years of reform; and including Jin Yueji, Qu Xiuzhen and others, a group of party cadres are also active in the play, which jointly deepens people's spiritual thinking about the times and society.
It was popular during the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger, and the scene of the Spring Festival reunion and the yearning for a family portrait photo also appeared many times in the play. With home as the fulcrum, the series has leveraged the encounters of various people in the torrent of history, and "The World of Man" has thus moved from a small family to a vast world, penetrating the intergenerational world to today. The structure of being in charge of the family strings together the benevolence, righteousness, and wisdom of Chinese society, and this value background also maintains enthusiasm and compassion for all those who have experienced hardships and even sufferings outside the play.
At the end of "The World of Man", Zhou Bingyi instructed his younger sister in his family letter: "The people of our Zhou family can become all kinds of people in the future, but we must not become people without virtue; in the future, we do not have to become people who are successful as everyone thinks, but we must not become people who do not love our family and do not love the country." Live well, as we have all experienced and fought for. "Hundreds of millions of viewers, like Zhou Bingkun, still believe that being a good person is always the most worthwhile thing in the world.
It makes the hand-in-hand between literature and film and television a good story: in mutual inspiration and perfection, it inspires deep power
Two days ago, a moving scene occurred at the "From Literature to Film and Television" symposium held by the China Writers Association: writer Liang Xiaosheng, screenwriter Wang Haiyu, director Li Lu, and the hands of the three creators clasped together. This is a new story of serious literature and film and television hand in hand.
Time back to December 2017, Liang Xiaosheng's novel "The World of Man" was first published, taking the life trajectory of zhou Bingkun, a commoner's son, as a clue, showing the development and changes of Chinese society in the past 50 years, which runs through it, not only the "glory and dream" of China's social development, but also the difficulties and complexities of the reform and opening up process, shaping the portraits of many laborers, builders, reformers, entrepreneurs and other characters, from their tragic and joyful life, epic display of magnificent Chinese social changes. Shortly after the novel was published, director Li Lu decided to shoot a TV series. 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 2019, "The World of Man" won the highest award for Chinese literature, the 10th Mao Dun Literature Award, with the highest vote.
Liang Xiaosheng admitted that he had a wait-and-see attitude towards film and television adaptations, but the final presentation moved him. "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. ”
Tie Ning said: "Language is the most profound and basic way of existence of human beings, literature as the art of language, has the longest and deepest tradition; film and television art and other art disciplines in the process of opening up their own artistic world is not only different from literature and publicize their own characteristics, but also from literature to obtain abundant resources and strong support." 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. "Looking back at the history of literature and film and television development over the past many years, works such as "Life", "Ordinary World", and "White Deer Plain" can profoundly look forward to the power of film and television in the power of literature, and understand the power of literature in the power of film and television. Literature and film and television come together to inspire a deeper power that reaches the hearts of the people.
It firmly believes for the creators that the hot heart that delivers realism will not be disappointed
The writer cast the final vote for the ingenious adaptation. In fact, "The World of Man" can become a blockbuster in the year of the tiger, from the novel to the film and television, all the creators along the way to deliver the realism of the hot heart, has been accepted by hundreds of millions of viewers across the country. Wang Yichuan, vice chairman of the China Literary and Art Critics Association, commented: "'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 enlightenment to contemporary TV dramas of similar themes and other types of artistic creation." ”
Throughout the process, the novel uses three generations of the Zhou family in the ordinary world to condense the dramatic background of the 50 years of China's times, and portrays the dramatic tragedy and joy of the fate of the characters in the background. It can become a "history of the lives of the people" in China for half a century, proving that truly great drama comes from life. The realistic basis of Liang Xiaosheng's writing is the real life of the land under his feet - whether it is China's arduous modern national transformation road in the past 100 years or the difficult quest of New China for the rejuvenation of the country's prosperity and strength and the people's happiness in the past 70 years, how many vicissitudes of the world, how many lives and deaths, how many days have been turned upside down, how many hardships and hardships have come, and there are almost many fate stories around each of us and everyone's family. A century of China has provided a rich "story treasure" for artistic creation with countless living lives.
On a solid literary foundation, the second-degree creators of film and television adaptations— from screenwriters Wang Haiyu and Wang Daou to director Li Lu, and then to Lei Jiayin, Xin Baiqing, Yin Tao, Song Jia, Sarina, Ding Yongdai, Zhang Kaili, Song Chunli, Ma Shaohua, Bai Zhidi, Wang Yang, Huang Xiaolei and other actors — truly demonstrated that a good drama is the ingenuity of the whole process of writing and directing Fu Huadao. Together, they restore the outstanding sense of age and destiny in the novel, enrich the endless details that are intriguing after the image, and also brighten the background of the story under the ups and downs of life and the world.
See the times, see people's hearts, there is warmth, there are tears, "The World of Man" through the power of realism, washed between heaven and earth, was "sealed god" by netizens. With more film and television institutions and filmmakers attaching importance to realistic themes, and with the deepening of the understanding of the big era and big history of the past century or so, "The World of Man" provides a sample of the creator's firm belief in realism: the hot heart that delivers realism will not be disappointed.
Author: Wang Yan
Editor: Wang Xiaoli
Editor-in-Charge: Huang Qizhe
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