"White Deer Plain", a national epic, China's best novel since May Fourth, from the late Qing Dynasty, the beginning of the People's Republic to the 1960s and 1970s, spanning nearly 100 years, encompassing the historical masterpiece of China's transition from feudal society to a new democratic society, like a pushpin, fixing a piece of history on the coordinates of Chinese civilization.
Chen Zhongzhong resigned from the provincial writers association in order to write "White Deer Plain", and moved his family to the countryside of Xi'an, spending 6 years before and after, living a life of eating steamed bread and swallowing pickles, and finally being able to write the book "White Deer Plain".
It can be said that "White Deer Plain" is Chen Zhongzhong's second life and a work of blood and tears.
The adaptation of "White Deer Plain" is also a huge amount of money, and the requirements for actors are extremely harsh. Zhang Jiayi took the lead and co-opted dozens of A-list stars such as He Bing, Li Qin, Lei Jiayin, and Qin Hailu in one fell swoop.
It is worth mentioning that Li Meng, the actor of "Bai Ling", is also an actor hand-picked by the author Chen Zhongzhong.
Bai Ling is the soul of "White Deer Plain", she is the representative of the new woman, has received a new education, and she naturally understands the reason why there is a complete egg under the nest. Compared with Tian Xiao'e and Leng Qiuyue on the White Deer Plain, she is the one who takes the initiative to fight and is active. At the same time, Bai Ling broke free from the shackles of the three from the four virtues, and she could better represent the germination of The New Thought of Bailuyuan.
At that time, Li Meng had just turned 18 years old, and he was extremely lucky to be able to participate in this drama. Also because of the role of Bai Ling, Li Meng became the spokesperson of the 2011 Xi'an World Garden Fair.
But when the scene was broadcast, the audience found that Li Meng's role was all deleted, and the role of Bai Ling also became Sun Iridium.
After knowing the reason, I only felt that Li Meng deserved it, and the scene should be deleted.
For such a large change, director Liu Jin's explanation is: "The problem of film length, so Li Meng's role was cut." But such an explanation is clearly not convincing.
Later, when the news flowed out, when Li Meng's scene was deleted, the lead actor Zhang Jiayi was still on fire in the theater, and he couldn't bear it before deciding to delete all her scenes, although it would cost a lot of manpower, material and financial resources for this!
There was a lot of discussion about this incident, and some people were upset with Li Meng, saying that Sun Iridium had relied on Zhang Jiayi's relationship and came in through the back door. No one explained this.
After a few years, Li Meng participated in a show and mentioned the matter again, and the truth was made public.
In the face of the people's questions in the program, Li Meng did not want to tell the truth, and replied: I don't know. And one-sidedly thanked the "White Deer Plain" crew.
Zhang Jizhong and Li Chengru on the jury stage continued to ask: "Really don't you know?" Today you take this opportunity to tell the truth. ”
Li Meng instantly cried into tears. She said: "I'm a somewhat flawed person. As for why it was replaced, the reason is no longer important! ”
At this time, the teacher Zhang Songwen on the side spoke up for Li Meng, saying that there was such a thing when filming "The Hidden Corner":
At that time, there was a shot of Li Meng cutting an apple, but the apple had already been cut, but Li Meng insisted on the exact same apple. At 12 o'clock in the evening, the prop teacher ran outside to buy apples, and everyone in the crew rested and waited for the apples.
Zhang Jizhong said directly after listening: "I will definitely not choose such an actor." Li Chengru and Hao Lei also taught: "Speaking well, you are more true in love, and saying that it is ugly is to drill the horns." You can't let everyone wait for you because you're alone! “
When it comes to this, the truth is clear.
Although Li Meng did not say why the "White Deer Plain" crew would replace himself, everyone knew that it was Li Meng's problem. In fact, it was because Li Meng played a big name and the crew had a lot of trouble that she had to be replaced. As for the public opinion that Sun Iridium is Sun Li's sister, it is all nonsense to take the back door.
As the reasons behind Li Meng's replacement were revealed, the audience deepened their good feelings for Zhang Jiayi, and they all thought that this drama could be successful, thanks to Zhang Jiayi's efforts.
It is precisely because of Zhang Jiayi's persistence that later this TV series "White Deer Plain" has been praised and recognized by everyone inside and outside the industry, and the TV series "White Deer Plain" has won the First Golden Eagle Award, the Magnolia Award and the Feitian Award respectively.
It is more worthy of all the dedication and painstaking efforts of Chen Zhongzhong to this work.
In order to create "White Deer Plain", just to collect information, Chen Zhongzhong spent 2 years, visited many places, and read a lot of county records to find inspiration.
From the idea of the novel to the completion of the draft, Chen Zhongzhong spent another 4 years. Chen Zhongzhong began to create "White Deer Plain" at the age of 44, and it was not until the age of 50 that he completed the creation of the novel.
The people around him were puzzled by his attachment and asked him, "Why are you so bitter?" Chen Zhongzhong sighed and said, "I have loved literature all my life, and I want to write a work that I gave to make a coffin pillow for myself." ”
However, after many years of best-selling, the work was never able to win the literary award, and in 1997, the mao dun literature award jury suggested that Chen Zhongzhong delete the explicit description in the article!
Persuaded by the editorial department of the publishing house, Chen Zhongzhong had to compromise and delete 50,000 words of content, and he also successfully won the Mao Dun Literature Prize.
But Chen Zhongzhong was very sad about this, he said: "The places deleted are the most important places in my opinion, without these contents, the whole book loses its soul!" ”
Before Chen Zhongzhong's death, he had always been worried about this matter!
Fortunately, Elder Chen retained the original manuscript. With the progress and tolerance of the times, the undeleted version of "White Deer Plain" was successfully published, the original manuscript state was preserved, and it was listed by the Ministry of Education as a must-read series for college students.
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Mr. Fan Zeng, a well-known scholar, commented:
"Mr. Chen Zhongzhong's "White Deer Plain", a generation of strange books also. Fang Zhi Ossi, although Balzac and Standal, did not give in lightly. ”
Chen Zhongzhong used his simple words to portray the changes of China's modern nation and the black and white side of human nature to the fullest.
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