Youth is a good companion to return home
The most beautiful times, the most beautiful youth
In the field of the harvest in her hometown of Taoxi County, Guan Songjiang, a master's degree graduate from Tsinghua University, is telling her girlfriend Zhao Mengmeng about her efforts and bright prospects for returning to her hometown to start a business and leading the villagers to overcome poverty and create a better life. Around them, a group of young people like Guan Songjiang and Zhao Mengmeng were struggling for the future of their hometown, with bright and proud smiles on their faces.
This beautiful picture comes from the film "Youth As a Companion and Good Homecoming" created and filmed by Changying Group to build a well-off society in an all-round way.
The long shadow people of the new era, with the spirit of "Little White Building", forge the original mission, go deep into life, observe reality, and strive to dedicate more fine works to the people.
Walk into the countryside
Go into the masses
Feel the black earth
The fragrance of the earth
Exchange and discussion
Innovative creation
In order to deeply grasp the original work of the film from the source of the script, at the beginning of 2020, the Changying Group launched the "On the Script of the Drama" forum activity, widely inviting scholars, screenwriters, writers, and Weibo movie big V from inside and outside the province to communicate and discuss with the creators of Changying around the excellent Chinese and foreign scripts, and to discuss and interpret the theme selection, structure of the play, character shaping and the meaning of the work, so as to enhance the competitiveness of script creation and cultivate the breadth and depth of script creation.
With the successful holding of a series of forums on "Seeking The Origin of Drama", Changying Group gradually explored an effective way to transform academic research into realistic creative achievements, and the film script of "Youth As a Companion and Good Homecoming" came into being.
In order to vividly record the magnificent cause of "decisively winning the battle to overcome poverty and build a well-off society in an all-round way", Changying Group organized creators to go deep into the front line of economic and social development, draw creative inspiration from the great practice and fiery life of the people, and carefully collect vivid stories.
Bao Shenghua, Hao Tianxiao, Hu Ying, and Ma Ben, four senior screenwriters, leaned down, walked into the countryside and the masses, and felt the fragrance of the black earth. They took their steps into the vast countryside of Jilin Province, consulted a large number of real and touching rural prosperity leaders, poverty alleviation cadres, college student village officials, and returned home entrepreneurial college students on the road to poverty alleviation, and one by one simple and vivid characters entered the minds of creators, and their smiles eventually became the plump characters in "Youth as Companions and Good Returns to Hometown".
The story of "Youth As a Good Companion to Return home" vividly shows the magnificent theme of decisive victory in poverty alleviation and college students returning to their hometowns to start a business, truly reflecting the beauty of today's rural life, and the spiritual world of rural youth sunshine, struggle, love of life and love. Full of the creator's deep affection and attachment to the times, the script was polished and completed.
The movie "Youth As a Companion and Good Hometown" tells the story of a group of young people who, under the guidance of the party's precise poverty alleviation policy, gave up the good life in big cities and returned to their hometowns to start a business under the background of the era of decisively winning the battle against poverty and building a well-off society in an all-round way. The protagonist of the film, Guan Songjiang, returned to his hometown after graduating from Tsinghua University and proposed to serve as the director of the county poverty alleviation office. Through the investigation during the five-day publicity period, the film progresses layer by layer, unveiling one lid after another of the young cadres being questioned, showing the protagonist's wonderful strokes in poverty alleviation and rural revitalization.
The film has attracted a large number of heavyweight literary and art workers of all ages to join in. The film is directed by the famous director Zhao Qi, with Bao Shenghua, Hao Tianxiao, Hu Ying and Ma Ben as the screenwriters, and Qu Shifei as the script director. Young actor Ye Zuxin plays the protagonist Guan Songjiang, and young actor Jiang Mengjie plays the heroine Zhao Mengmeng. Powerful actors Huang Junpeng and Xu Wenguang starred. Tian Muchen, Zhang Helun, Dong Chunhui, Li Zheng, Ren Mingsong, Xing Yufei, Bai Yihong, Wang Kuang and other young actors co-starred. Lin Yongjian, You Yongzhi, Cheng Ye, Fang Qingzhuo, Shi Dasheng, Sun Sihan and other powerful actors specially starred.
Director Zhao Qi won the Best Young Director Award at the 74th Venice Film Festival "Focus on China's Young Filmmaker Training Program" and the Best Film "Red Maple Leaf Award" at the Vancouver International Chinese Film Festival in Canada. Getting the film script of "Youth As a Companion Good Returning Homecoming", Zhao Qi's first feeling is to find a resonance, in his view, "Youth as a Companion Good Homecoming" is a group portrait of a group of youth, hot-blooded era youth, which is a work of the times with practical significance.
Ye Zuxin, a young actor who plays the male protagonist Guan Songjiang, in order to interpret the image of this promising young man, has had a long exchange with the director and screenwriters, and repeatedly speculates on the characteristics and positioning of the role. He also read the wonderful stories of many college students who returned to their hometowns to start their own businesses in the black land of northeast China, integrated the role of Guan Songjiang into them, and created a "Guan Songjiang" with flesh and blood, crying and laughter, blood and tenderness, entrepreneurial ambition, fighting spirit and more perseverance.
At the end of August 2020, just out of the scorching heat of the three-volt day, the crew of the movie "Youth as a Companion and Good Homecoming" ended filming in Changchun, came to Songyuan City, the location of the location of filming, and successively traveled to Songyuan City, The former Golroth Mongol Autonomous County Changshan Town Sikeji Village and Chagan Lake Scenic Area to run and shuttle, intense shooting. The film lasted nearly two months from the start to the end. At the end of the movie on October 8th, on the night in Matsubara City, where the filming was filmed, even if you walk outdoors in a down jacket, you still have a cold feeling. All efforts are made to present the perfect work.
In September 2021, the movie "Youth As a Companion and Good Hometown" was selected into the list of "2021 Poverty Alleviation Theme Film Recommendation Activities", which is one of the 10 poverty alleviation theme films recommended by the China Filmmakers Association to the whole country.
The film's promotional song "Return to Hometown", composed by Chun He, composed by Meng Wenhao, and sung by Han Lei, with its catchy melody and simple and affectionate lyrics, perfectly fits the emotions and themes of young people returning to their hometown and building their hometown in the new era expressed in the film.
Previously, Changying Group invited a number of senior experts and scholars to hold internal film viewing and seminar activities, and everyone conducted professional exchanges from the aspects of the artistry of the film, the dimension and breadth of artistic creation, and the exploration of genre film creation, and gave high praise to the artistic value and social impact of "Youth As a Companion and Good Homecoming".
Cui Yongquan, former director of the Changchun Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film and Television News and Publications and former director of the Cultural and Historical Committee of the Changchun Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, believes that the film "Youth As a Companion and Return to The Hometown" has a strong story and a high degree of completion, and can deeply feel the idealistic feelings of the screenwriting team, which is the basis for the success of the work, this film is not only a work that reflects the background of the big era of poverty alleviation and the appearance of the new countryside, but also presents feelings and responsibilities, so that the work has reached a high enough spiritual dimension.
Han Zhichen, a national first-class screenwriter, a famous calligrapher and a producer, said that the movie "Youth As a Companion and Good Return to Hometown" presents many aesthetic symbols of Jilin Province, such as black land and northeast humor, depicts the optimism, open-mindedness and deep love and stubbornness of northeast people in the face of difficulties, and through the art form of film, it sends out the voice of long shadows, the voice of Jilin and the voice of northeast China, and sings the main theme of Jilin comprehensive revitalization with rural theme films.
Professor, doctoral supervisor and vice dean of the School of Media Science (School of Journalism) of Northeast Normal University use the "Geng Continuation" and "Innovation" to describe this film, "Geng Continuation" refers to the fact that the Long Shadow people have always been practicing the Party's concept of literary and artistic creation, practicing the Party's cultural undertakings to pay attention to agriculture, care for the countryside, and care for farmers, "Innovation" refers to the way of telling and presenting the elements of rural theme films in the new era has been very different, and it is expected that Long Shadow will take this film as the starting point, and in the future, in youth, inspiration, suspense, The creation of films of various themes such as cities has blossomed.
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Kong Chaopeng, deputy dean of the School of Journalism and Communication of Jilin University, believes that "Youth As Companions And Good Returns to Hometown" not only explores the marketization of the main theme film, but also allows all audiences, especially young audiences, to have a sense of substitution and closeness when watching the main theme of the film, and the two have achieved effective unity.
Yu Yong, professor and doctoral supervisor of the Department of Digital Media of the School of Media Science (School of Journalism) of Northeast Normal University, said that "Youth As a Companion and Good Homecoming" is of great reference significance to literary and art workers, as long as they go deep into life, excavate life, move people with emotion, and present vivid, full and resonant works to the society through creativity and artistic creation, they can get the recognition of the audience.
Qu Hongmei, professor, doctoral supervisor and vice dean of the School of Philosophy and Sociology of Jilin University, pointed out that the film "Youth As a Companion and Good Homecoming" has social value and academic value, and the film completes the thinking of rural ethics in the new era by presenting the pursuit and ideal of young people's efforts to change the face of the countryside, which will lead to more diversified literary and artistic works and theoretical research to reflect the new rural ethics trend.