Is CCTV going to create a new ratings king bomb?
A "Hidden Corner" allows the audience to discover an acting treasure, Qin Hao.
A "Donkey Got Water" allowed the audience to find an acting king, Ren Suxi.
What kind of CCTV new drama makes these two divorced parents who play a child in strength, but for the sake of this dear child, they have to have another dear child after divorce?
This drama, tonight I watched it - "Dear Child".
CCTV 8 sets of golden files broadcast, iQiyi network broadcast.
When it comes to this drama, it is impossible not to mention the original film adapted from the play, "Left and Right", which won the Best Screenplay Award at the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival, starring Zhang Jiayi, Liu Weiwei, Cheng Taishen, Yu Nan, and Gao Yuanyuan.
The four powerful factions interpret a major ethical dilemma faced by two families:
What can a divorced parent pay for a dear child with an incurable disease?
Too dog bloody? The jury of the Berlin Film Festival at that year obviously did not think so, and behind the seemingly strange story, there may be many contradictory choices of real families.
Is it right or wrong?
And how do you face the resulting disintegration of two families?
In recent years, it seems that there has been one rare CCTV drama that focuses on such a deep and complex topic. Will it be a Central Eight Tear King Explosion?
Come, let's ask these eight powerful factions why they can't let go of this "dear child".
Don't blame me, I didn't tell you one thing: I would cry.
I. Movie God: Winning the Berlin Film Festival Screenplay Award, what is so special about this story?
The cast of both movies and TV series is extremely gorgeous.
A middle-cost family life ethics drama that can bring such a group of people together, what story does "Dear Child" tell?
The earliest trailer poster actually revealed a lot of information. A child's hand, pulling out countless threads, four adults, two families, entangled in threads, inextricably linked.
Combined with the film version of the story and trailer, it is not difficult to speculate on the direction of the story.
Xiao Lu, a young couple, married Fang Yinuo for many years and finally gave birth to a daughter Hehe. On the day of delivery, Xiao Lu outside the delivery room was unexpectedly absent.
The child is born, and the new parents are also beginning to meet the challenges of identity conversion. With the intervention of both parents, a series of family conflicts occur frequently, and the relationship between husband and wife is moving towards an inflection point and a reef.
The two eventually parted ways.
Years later, their lives, which had reorganized their families, returned to peace, but the good times were short-lived, and the peaceful life was disrupted by the sudden bad news.
At this time, her daughter Hehe was found to be suffering from leukemia. From a medical point of view, the doctor,
It is recommended that they have another child and use the newborn's umbilical cord blood to save the grass.
It was difficult to convince each other's families, but they tried to get pregnant through artificial insemination, but they all failed.
The child's body could not afford to wait, and it seemed as if there was only one solution left: needless to say, the storm caused by this rescue of the daughter pushed several families into human torture and difficult choices.
Exactly what kind of choice the protagonist will make is the biggest suspense in the movie. Like the movie, the characters in Dear Little Kids are tied to an urgent motive—
A dear child has to live.
Divorced parents must give birth to another dear child.
The touching part of the story is that the problem that was not a problem was originally a problem, but because of the change and reorganization of marriage and family, people had to bear a kind of "sin"——
But is it sin to want your child to live?
Compared to the film version,
The 34-episode version should focus not only on the story itself, but also on deeper family and ethical issues.
Watching the trailer, you can already feel that the story tension is very strong, very exciting, and even, very heartfelt, because this story, better than the momentum.
It was as if a sharp blade had been stabbed in the heart, the wound slowly healed with the passage of time, and the great sorrow and great pain were sharpened into a faint pain. But the scars will never be healed, and the pain and entanglement will not be able to dissipate for a long time.
The film won the Silver Bear Award for Best Screenplay at the Berlin Film Festival, and as long as it is reasonably adapted on the basis of the original work, there should be a masterpiece with flesh and blood characters, three-dimensional story, drama and full of sense of life.
The screenwriter and director of this drama is Hu Kun, the script planner in "The Hidden Corner".
The film "Tokyo Trial", which he wrote, also won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Screenplay. There are not many directors' works, but the ratings of the departments are stable.
It can be said that if you want to find someone to adapt "Left and Right", Hu Kun, who is good at family suspense plots and explores the adult world from the perspective of children, should be one of the best candidates.
The story adapted by him, although it will not be as dark as "The Hidden Corner", it should still have a strong tension, both family affection and humanity. From a heads-up perspective, look at the lives of ordinary people, and a dilemma between adults in front of children.
Behind this ethical choice of the commoners, hidden under the rolling torrent of life is the true root of the strength of this story- life, moral pressure, and children.
Second, the acting feast: a tear-jerking drama, why use the eight major acting schools?
Whether it is in "The Hidden Corner" or "Tokyo Trial", the director's pen portrays wonderful group portraits.
Hu Kun's biggest feature is to combine dramatic stories and emotions to create greater resonance.
Although the original film is good, it is still only a high-reputation literary and artistic film, and a TV series for the public can stimulate a greater degree of resonance?
Look at the actors.
It can be basically concluded that Qin Hao played the role of Zhang Jiayi - Xiao Lu; Ren Suxi played the role of Liu Weiwei - Fang Yinuo; Nie Yuan played the role of Cheng Taishen - Xie Tianhua; Xie Keyin played the role of Yu Nan - Dong Fan.
Of course, compared with the film version, there are more characters in the drama version, so there are more old drama bones, and character shaping is a big challenge, which also makes people look forward to it more.
First of all, the male protagonist, Qin Hao.
Many viewers' impression of Qin Hao is the silent interpretation in "The Hidden Corner". But he is actually the royal male protagonist of Director Lou Ye, and the works he has acted in, such as "Qinghong" and "Tuina", are classics in domestic literary and art films.
It can be said that this time, the role of this middle-aged man and father who faces a choice is his real home.
How did Qin Hao perform in this drama?
As can be seen from several shots in the trailer, it is indeed a hard work.
In a scene, while saying "I beg you" to people, he kneels down while talking, pleading, and an action, he plays the character's heart on the verge of collapse.
What is this man thinking at this moment? Look at this look --
confused. Helpless. firmness.
Only by saving the child can a father's inner torment really end. Sometimes, pain does not come from external discipline, but from the depths of the heart that never stops eating.
Isn't Qin Hao's performance the best answer?
Next, the heroine, Ren Suxi.
Before "The Unknown Generation", she has already shown her acting skills to the fullest.
Last year, she starred in the web drama "I'm Good in Other Places", which has a good reputation and also shows that she began to shift her position to urban life drama. But compared to the last light comedy, this kind of inner test character is more suitable for her.
The role of the remarried mother this time is a junior high school Chinese teacher with a particularly soft personality, and a mother who loves her daughter.
It can be seen that her role may be the engine of the tension of the whole drama.
In the trailer, after her daughter got sick, she was always silent and introverted, her smile was rarely cheerful, and even crying turned into lonely whimpering.
The helpless pain of being tormented by life is hidden under her eyes, and it is necessary to look carefully to detect it.
This silent tension, silence is better than sound.
It is expected that the performances of both of them will be extremely restrained, but it is also more poignant because of the contrast between the superficial restraint and the surging emotions in the heart.
However, from the perspective of materials, perhaps another role will be the one with the most audience popularity in this drama - Nie Yuan.
Many people do not realize that Qi Tianlei, the noble prince in "Marrying the Wrong Flower Car to the Lang", and Luo Cheng, who earned countless tears from the audience in "The Legend of the Heroes of Sui and Tang Dynasties", have now evolved into an acting school.
This time he played Fang Yinuo's remarried husband, Xie Tianhua.
Yes, please don't ask me why the role of Xie Tianhua did not find Xie Tianhua to play, Laughing brother became a police drama as soon as he appeared OK?
Compared with the film version, the role in Nie Yuan's drama should be the one with the biggest change, from a silent husband to a steady and calm neighbor big brother, reliable, reassuring, affectionate and single-minded.
In the play, in the face of the choice of his wife and ex-husband to regenerate a child, you can see his inner entanglement and helplessness, and there are also his and Qin Hao's action scenes, this posture is said, Luo Cheng at that time, just play OK.
But what struck me most about the trailer was him.
One shot is of him squinting and teasing the children on the bus.
Another shot is when he takes the initiative to shave off his hair to comfort the child, and smiles brightly at the child before shaving his head, as if all the is gone.
I believe that when the series starts, this role should also circle a wave of acting fans for Nie Yuan.
Fourth, Xie Keyin.
The girl group Aidou debuted, but performed amazingly in the acting variety show "I Am an Actor".
She played Xiao Lu's remarried wife Dong Fan in this play, looking at the poster picture, she laughed with tears, her eyes were gentle, in the play, several collapse dramas that tested her acting skills, she held up.
Especially the sentence "I can't accept it, no one in this world can accept it", but after seeing the trailer, this kind woman still accepted this "no one can accept" choice in order to save Hehe's life.
Whether Xie Keyin can become an actor depends on this role.
In addition to these four, the main creator also found four acting schools to form a luxurious group of relatives and friends of the protagonist group——
It is the old team in "The Hidden Corner", the recognized acting school, Liu Lin, a look in the stills, I entered the play.
The old drama bone Li Qinqin, Yue Hong, who had already won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress as early as the 1980s, should be the mother-in-law of the two families who played.
Finally, a heavyweight Easter egg - Liu Weiwei, is the female one of the film version of "Left and Right", what role she will play, is also a big interesting suspense in the play.
Why find so many acting schools, because this is a highly life-oriented family drama that requires actors not just acting, but living in stories.
Their performances should grow naturally.
The series didn't find a way to make anyone a hero. Instead, it focuses on their inner torment and struggle.
However, the strong drama cannot hide the human touch in the blood of the story.
Even in the face of many great changes and blows, people always live a difficult and peaceful life.
Those who are really dazed, lonely, desperate, hopeful, strong... They are all common. Because adults have a common goal, to save children
3. Tear-jerking drama: The most tear-inducing CCTV drama recently is coming?
After the synopsis and trailer came out, there was another kind of sound.
Some netizens are worried: "Dear Child" does not seem to be in line with the atmosphere of the past of CCTV dramas?
After all, we have long been accustomed to seeing such big dramas as "A Generation of Hong Shang" and "Love to Fight will Win" on CCTV, and rarely see family ethics stories with relatively personal entry points.
But I think this difference is precisely the advantage that "Dear Child" may be able to break through.
It is not difficult to see that the story takes place in Changsha, whether it is the people's dinner tables, the narrow streets, the various snacks on the streets of Changsha, as well as the mosquito nets and fans of ordinary people's homes, and the vendors who push the carts. You can feel the strong smell of Changsha.
Why Changsha? I think it should be that the creator wants to find a highly urbanized city to wrap up the story of this realistic theme.
Indeed, Chinese dramas began to have more and more works with the label of realism. But what is the realism we expect?
It's not just about carrying social news. Rather, it touches you and me. Tell the story of ordinary people who are doing their best in life.
If "Dear Child" only connects the parenting experiences and ethical dilemmas of two families, then its discussion of the topic of "family, children" is only scratching the itch of the boots.
But the landscape of the show should be more than that.
Tough choices are just the cornerstone. The aim is to focus on the story and extend the plight of a series of modern families associated with it.
Find back the small character narrative and humanistic care that domestic urban dramas have gradually lost. Starting from trivial life phenomena, focusing on the details of family and affection, it inspires the audience to explore the true meaning of "family" and "love".
Although ordinary people may not have the extreme encounters of the two families in the play, the prenatal depression of the mother, the young couple who are not prepared for childcare, the educational concept is not compatible, and the conflict between the elders of the two families should let the audience who have become parents find their own shadow from it.
If the series can continue the advantages of the film version, it will not fall into the void.
The original work was able to gain the high reputation of the film festival, not only because the scale was large enough, but also because of the depth of the shooting.
From the individual to the family, then to the ethical system, and finally to the level of society as a whole.
Just to throw out the core torture of the whole play: "As a parent, how do you save your dear child?"
There is a moving scene in the trailer, the adults of the two families, after experiencing entanglement, silence, quarrels, and collapses, everyone stands in a row, waiting before the operation, and it can be predicted that at this moment, in the operating room, a child's operation is underway.
At that moment, all the moral pressure and the urging of conscience were gone, and everyone's eyes in China had only the same expectation: children.
Not all the pain can be lucky to find a way out, but the two reorganized families will eventually have to put aside their contradictions and reconcile with each other's fate.
Painful choices do not separate adults and children, and the family is always together in the face of the ebb and flow of fate, which is about more than any other so-called reconciliation, any cheap tears, which shows the solemnity of life itself.
Nothing in the adult world is better than saving that one, my dear child.