The plot at the beginning of the TV series "The World" begins with a box of books.
Zhou's son, Bingyi, was about to go to the Construction Corps, and he entrusted a box of books to Bingkun for him to keep properly.
From the lens, we can see that the thick books like bricks are "War and Peace", "The Brothers of Yelsov", "What to Do?" and other literary books.
There were also political books written by Stalin, but at that point in time they should have been read openly, not hidden in boxes, which was obviously impossible. In Liang Xiaosheng's original work, there is no mention of Stalin's writings.
Bingyi said that these books were not his alone, but everyone gathered together, including Hao Dongmei's books.
In the original novel, the final destination of the box of books is not explained, but in the TV series, after Bingkun moved to his new home in 2004, the old books kept in the box were placed in the bookcase of Bingkun's family.
When Hao Dongmei and Cai Xiaoguang came to Bingkun's house for a party, they looked through these books, and Hao Dongmei opened the books and said with surprise that this was her book.
In the first episode of the TV series, Zhou Rong also mentioned that in this box of books, there are three books of hers, namely "Anna Karenina", "The Brothers of Yelsov", and "Three Hundred Poems of Tang Poems".
These books are mainly French romantic works, which are represented by Hugo's "Les Misérables" and one of Liang Xiaosheng's favorite foreign writers, and Liang Xiaosheng's literary style is also influenced by Hugo's unique influence.
The other is the Soviet revolution and love literature, such as the Yersov Brothers.
In "The World of Man", beloved literary works are merged into boxes and hidden in the home, from Liang Xiaosheng's personal experience.
In his documentary novel "Mother", it was mentioned that the first novel he bought was "The Young Guard", and then he bought "How Steel is Made", "Cow Mo", "Brave", "Happiness", "Red Flag Spectrum"... In addition to "Red Flag Spectrum" and "Cow Mo", which are all Soviet novels, "Niu Hao" is also a favorite book of Paul in "How Steel is Made".
Liang Xiaosheng's literary enlightenment teacher is the literature of Hugo and the Soviet Revolution plus Love.
"The Ring of The Year" reproduces this scene
The box containing the books was hidden under the bed by Liang Xiaosheng's mother.
Because the Liang family's terrain is low, when the water is sent in the summer, the rain soaks into the home and soaks this box, you can imagine that in 1969, Liang Xiaosheng went to the countryside, and these books were so year after year by the rain, ten years later, what will become.
In 1979, Liang Xiaosheng returned home and found the box, remembering that it contained the literary enlightenment books of that year, but the lock on the box was rusted and difficult to open.
Liang Xiaosheng smashed the lock and found that the books in the box had been shortened into a box of shredded paper.
This plot was vividly reproduced in the 1992 TV series "Ring of the Year".
Wang Xiaosong in the play can be said to be a character set up according to Liang Xiaosheng's personal experience, and even the name can see the correspondence and similarity.
In the play, Wang Xiaosong returned home, opened the dusty box, the books inside, has been decayed to pick up, the protagonist of the play carefully picked up a book, you can see that the cover of the "Resurrection" written, but the pages inside have been torn, shattered when touched.
Liang Xiaosheng's novels and film and television works adapted from them have a very prominent phenomenon, that is, repetition.
After all, a person's mastery of the material is limited, and if he writes more novels, he has to chew the steamed bun again.
In "The World of Man", the plot of this box of books is used again.
In "The Ring of Years", the story of the owner of the book and the box of books is emphasized, while in "The World of Man" the fate of the book collector and the box of books is emphasized.
In the TV series "The World of Man", it is also shown that Bingkun once took out the books in the box, listened to Bingyi's instructions, read them carefully, and drew nourishment from them.
In the original novel, it is particularly pointed out that the book that Bingkun once read was "What to Do?" by the Russian critic Chernyshevsky. But in the TV series, Bingkun reads a political book.
In the TV series, the box of books was kept until 2004, when Bingkun moved to a new home, so that the time since the books were stored in the box has reached 35 years.
In the play, Hao Hongmei got a book, opened the title page, and was surprised to see that the handwriting on it was as clear as if it had just been written, and the content was: "Hao Dongmei, purchased at Xinhua Bookstore on October 1, 1965." ”
The book is called Jane Eyre.
It is also the favorite book of the heroine played by Ni Ping in "Snow City".
This plot would have been normal, but this book of "Jane Eyre" is too novel, unlike the erosion of the years, which makes people can't help but be suspicious.
According to the decoration of the cover of the book, I went to check it out, and unfortunately found that the book was originally published by the Shanghai Translation Publishing House in 1988, and it was an English-Chinese film script.
The adaptor of this screenplay is Jack Pullman.
The film was released in 1970.
That is to say, when Hao Dongmei was in 1965, the film had not yet been filmed, let alone the script of the film that was only translated into Chinese in 1988.
Therefore, this dressing gang is really a little too challenging to the audience's IQ.
At this point in 1965, Dongmei should have read Chinese translated novels, and it was impossible to buy a movie script.
"The World" put a lot of effort into the props, but it is strange why the version used to represent a book purchased in 1965 was a film script published in 1988.
Even if you are on the shooting scene and turn this book, there will be no props that are only in such a "crossing drama".
In fact, in the first episode, the crew had already found several hardcover books of the year, and it was more pleasing to use those books than to debut with a new book published in 1988.
Of course, we can also see that the prop team has indeed made an effort in finding old books, at least we can see that when the TV series needs a novel of "Jane Eyre", the props team immediately went to the used book market to find the book.
It is estimated that there were many old books at that time, and the members of the props group did not look closely, but saw the title of a book called "Jane Eyre", and immediately took it back, and then used it in the TV series.
These literary books can be said to nourish the three brothers and sisters of the Zhou family in "The World of Man", and also affect the creative direction and style of Liang Xiaosheng, so these books are not a simple book, but also have the symbolic meaning of spiritual inheritance, therefore, when these books appear in the TV series, they should show a more historical temperament and flavor, in order to match the pure style of the literary books that have always sincerely paid tribute to these literary books that enlightened the characters in the play, however, the TV series is precisely at this point, perfunctory, It is really a failure to the significance of these literary enlightenment books for the characters of the novel.