Continuing the good reputation of the first season, the second season of the documentary "China" is being broadcast on Hunan Satellite TV and Mango TV, in this time in a freehand way to look back at Chinese history, with vivid personnel to highlight the Chinese spirit of the image account, the actor's emotional interpretation, the voice actor's poetic expression perfectly integrated into the story, but also won the audience's warm response, social platform praise and discussion endlessly. How to talk about not talking about palace fighting and power plots, but only about society, economy and life, and explore the ideological and institutional values precipitated in history? Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter dialogue documentary "China" creator.
A Visualized "General History" of China
"Li Du and Li Du inherited the ideas and spirit of China for the past thousand years, shining on each other and also illuminating China." "Zhao Tuo's thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, only half of the walls are left, but they are still like a dream, brilliant." Like the first season, in the second season of "China", as the picture of Chinese history slowly unfolds, it is still Zhou Tao and He Jiong's "soul narration", giving the audience an immersive auditory feeling.
Along with the narrator, the actors who played historical figures in "China" participated in the performance. Whether it is Li Bai Dufu, who feels sorry for each other, or Guan Hanqing, who is tragic and heroic, or Zhang Juzheng and Hai Rui, who have a very different way of being a subject, the actor plays a historical figure and becomes a narrator of history, giving the audience a full sense of substitution. These historical flashbacks and character retrospectives made many viewers cry, "The work can make people wet their eyes, and we are touched by these small and stubborn individuals, who can build such a thick and broad civilization!" ”
Feng Lijun, the film's historical consultant, deputy dean and associate professor of the School of History and Culture of Shaanxi Normal University, said: "The actors' costumes are accurate and exquisite, the furnishings are minimalist and expressive, and the narration is narrated by the famous domestic announcers, calm and quiet, even the scene of the outbreak of conflict has a taste of waiting to see how it changes, there is no too deliberate performance, this is another kind of fake and real." ”
The name of a documentary film "China" condenses the thousand-year history into dozens of works, which shows the courage and confidence of the creators. Li Dongzhen, producer of the second season of "China", said that the simple purpose of "knowing a little" about the history of the country and the "warmth and respect" for the past history are the starting point of the creation of "China". Compared with previous historical documentaries, which pay more attention to excavating stories in a certain period of history, or a certain event and character, "China" is to become a visual "general history" of China, and to understand the concise "outline" of historical development in one step.
Adopt a capitalized tone,
Trace how China has come today
How to represent "China"? The film abandons the systematic, coherent and comprehensive introduction of history, abandons the recording method of chronicles, abandons the purely thematic way of telling, and abandons the in-depth excavation and examination of historical details. Li Dongyan said that "China" selects those who have the most far-reaching influence on future generations, the most pioneering and turning point of important nodes at that time, the most representative, the sense of the times, the most dramatic people and stories, tracing how China and Chinese today have come all the way. Because this choice determines the tone of "China" and also determines the depth and temperature of each person and story.
In terms of theme, the second season of "China" sorts out the ideological sources and changes in China over the past thousand years, presents the birth of home-country feelings and people-oriented ideas, and also presents the parallel development of the world. But in terms of expression, "China" highlights the "power of gentleness" with its narration. Along with the advantages brought by video narrative, it also runs through personalized and stylized expression and presentation. In Feng Lijun's view, as a documentary, "China" has achieved a phenomenal breakthrough in historical storytelling, "for the first time, it perfectly uses this kind of slow motion, the background is blurred into real landscapes, and the lens language that pays attention to the freeze frame of the moment scene is used to tell the history of China." This lens language is cleverly adapted to the Chinese story, and the story and the picture are integrated. ”
"Looking" for China in the lens of "China"
"When the monsoon sends messages from all over the world, China opens a window to the world little by little." While the audience relished the beautiful commentary of the second season of "China", it also explored the historical views and cultural attitudes behind a documentary in its lens.
Behind the names of the episodes of the second season of "China", the audience perceives the flow and evolution of cultural thought: "Dreamland" shows the aesthetics of the Song Dynasty and even determines the aesthetic height of the Chinese of later generations; "Shijing" tells the story of the drama that undertakes the mission of carrying the tao with literature; "Dadu" shoots the grand situation of the reunification of the multi-ethnic country that has been continued again; "Hami" recreates the historical confrontation of Chinese and Western cultures... "Where did China come from?" How did you get here? How did the ancestors shape the spiritual temperament of this land while creating the country? Li Dongyan said that the creator has gone through a five-year process of learning, exploration and creation with such curiosity and awe.
The creative attitude directly reflects the creator's view of history. Feng Lijun analyzed: "Since historical China is the source of modern China, how do we understand the 'we' in history today, which is the most important task of "China". This 'understanding' is the pursuit. The beauty of pursuing historical China, whether it is the beauty of ideological controversy, the beauty of building a unified country, the beauty of calmly coping with historical changes, or the beauty of catching up with the world trend. ”
Therefore, in the second season of "China", we see the refinement of Chinese character culture, see a new round of infusion of the essence of the culture of the northern nationalities, and see the consensus of unifying multi-ethnic countries like faith... The evolution of historical China is the development of Chinese civilization; the development of Chinese civilization is the invariance and change of the way of life of the Chinese.
Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Zhang Nan