In 2022, the TV series "The World" caught fire, but director Li Lu said: "If there were no Chen Daoming's line, "The World" would not have such a big fire. ”
In 2022, CCTV will launch the blockbuster era giant "The World", in addition to the Chinese New Year's Eve Spring Festival Gala and the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics must occupy the broadcast time, CCTV basically broadcasts uninterruptedly, coupled with the excellent quality of this drama, it has become the hottest TV series in the Spring Festival file!
In almost every episode, we were moved by characters in the drama such as Zhou Rong played by Song Jia, Zhou Bingkun played by Lei Jiayin, and Father Zhou played by Ding Yongdai, especially Zheng Juan played by Cherry, which is very infectious.
In every episode of "The World", there is a kind of human warmth and kindness that beats our hearts and warms our tears.
After watching more than a dozen episodes of "The World", the audience has the right to speak: it is one of the best TV series in 2022, and it deserves it.
In 2018, Cheng Wu, vice president of Tencent Group, read Liang Xiaosheng's novel "The World" and was deeply moved by the kindness, integrity, responsibility and responsibility of the characters in the play, so after one month of contact with teacher Liang Xiaosheng, he purchased the film and television adaptation rights of this novel for 8 years.
He found Li Lu, the director who had filmed "The Happiness of the Boss", "In the Name of the People" and "Circuit Inspection Group", and discussed filming it into a TV series.
Li Lu has always wanted to make a TV series with a grand narrative and epic temperament, just like "White Deer Plain" directed by Liu Jin and "Ordinary World" directed by Mao Weining. "The World" makes up for this deficiency.
After Li Lu finished filming the TV series "In the Name of the People", he always wanted to create another great work, and he was also looking for suitable works everywhere.
At this time, after director Li Lu received the task of filming Liang Xiaosheng's novel "The World", he also did research on "The World".
The novel also won the Mao Dun Literature Award, and when Liang Xiaosheng wrote the novel, it took a full five years to write, with a total of 1.15 million words.
After reading it, Li Lu felt that this novel was the novel he had been looking for, and Li Lu immediately decided to meet the author Liang Xiaosheng.
When Li Lu saw Liang Xiaosheng, he asked him, "Why did you write this novel?" ”
Liang Xiaosheng said: "At the beginning, I actually wanted to write about the situation at home in those days, and most of my works now are celebrities and great people, I just want to write about the relatives of ordinary working families in the city." Thus, there was the novel "The World".
The most simple creation is the most attractive, so director Li Lu was still moved by Mr. Liang Xiaosheng, and what impressed him more was the plainness and ordinary of the work itself and contained the truth of life.
When Liang Xiaosheng learned that Li Lu was going to be made into a TV series, he gave him a lot of adaptation rights in order to support Li Lu.
But the problem is that adapting this 1.15 million-word novel into a script is a huge challenge for any screenwriter.
Li Lu also knows a lot of friends in the entertainment industry, he found Chen Daoming, Chen Daoming also extended a helping hand after knowing the news, he not only agreed to serve as a narrator, but also introduced Wang Haiyu, the "first marriage writer in China", to him.
Chen Daoming not only contributed to the birth of the script of "The World", but also personally read the narration for the TV series. So later director Li Lu said: The most critical character is Chen Daoming who did not appear in a role, and if there is no Chen Daoming, there will be no "The World"!
Chen Daoming actually admired Li Lu very much when he filmed the work "In the Name of the People" in 2017.
Some people once said that Chen Daoming was particularly optimistic about the role of the actor Hou Liangping at that time, but Chen Daoming, who was wrong, still did not have the opportunity to star in this work, but he helped Li Lu find some old drama bones to make this work a classic.
The work "The World" is also particularly attractive to Chen Daoming, so he will help Li Lu a lot.
Chen Daoming invited a big screenwriter like Wang Haiyu, and the adaptation of this work is already stable.
In 1999, he created the romance novel "Holding Hands"; In the same year, he served as the screenwriter of the emotional drama "Holding Hands", which had an average rating of 9.2 in a set of prime-time TV series on CCTV.
Since then, the novels written by Wang Haiyu have become closer and closer to marriage events, especially "Chinese Divorce", "New Marriage Era", "New Marriage Era" and so on.
However, Wang Haiyu mostly writes novels by herself and then works as screenwriters herself, but she was also attracted by this work after seeing Liang Xiaosheng's "The World".
Wang Haiyu decided to be the screenwriter of this work, which was the first time she had written for another work.
But Wang Haiyu did not expect that "The World" was the most difficult script she had written in the 30 years since she entered the industry. The writing of the script took three years, and several times due to selfless creation, liver blood deficiency almost fainted.
In the original work, the male characters are plump, but the female characters are very single. Wang Haiyu decided to work female characters, especially Zheng Juan, who had a tragic fate. In the face of reality, Zheng Juan was knocked down again and again, but in front of life, she stood up again and again.
The most interesting thing is that the major actors in the play are attracted to the script and don't even want to be paid.
As powerful and excellent actors, they will be very excited when they see excellent works, because the script is the soul for actors, so Li Luxuan's works are very valuable. Let the actors love it when they watch it, and even act without pay.
However, at the beginning, director Li Lu still took some effort when choosing actors. He didn't have much confidence at first, because the choice of actors had to be northeastern, and he had to ponder the influence and acting skills of these actors.
As soon as Li Lu opened, Li Lu invited Yu Hewei to play the eldest brother Zhou Bingyi, but Yu Hewei has been paid continuously in recent years, and he can't take out the schedule at all. Yu Hewei passed by the role of Zhou Bingyi.
In the end, the role fell to Xin Baiqing, and although Xin Baiqing's acting skills were superb, it was tepid at the time. However, Xin Baiqing fell in love with the script, and he decided to give it a try.
When Xin Baiqing received this role, he liked it very much and studied the role for the first time, he was afraid that he would not act well, and he did not negotiate the salary with the director. This is really a good actor who does not pay for the script and acting.
Next, the director has to implement other roles. Li Lu believes that the role of Zhou Bingkun is none other than Lei Jiayin, and he feels that Lei Jiayin has the advantages of Zhou Bingkun and is very suitable for playing this role.
He was not familiar with Lei Jiayin, and found his teacher to play and help Lei Jiayin play Zhou Bingkun.
Lei Jiayin received this role, and after reading the script, he liked it very much, and he also prepared to join the group without talking about the salary.
Lei Jiayin's kindness, kindness, and inner complexity to Zhou Bingkun were very ready to express it, and there were several touching scenes, and the director burst into tears.
There are too many old drama bones and powerful people in this work, and they shape the characters one by one too graphically. And Yin Tao's acting skills can be a god.
Especially in the scene where Zhou Bingkun's mother died in Sarina, Yin Tao cried and fell in her mother's arms, and her acting skills were very touched by the directors and other actors present.
Sarina even cried with Yin Tao, Yin Tao said that his heart was about to come out, and that sad emotion was really impossible to express in words, but it completely let Yin Tao express it with acting skills.
"The World", as the opening drama of 2022, stood out among the major awarding institutions in this year, won many awards, and replayed it many times, and this time Li Lu won again. And the original creator Liang Xiaosheng burst into tears after watching their films, and he said that he was very satisfied.
I hope that director Li Lu will bring more good dramas and look forward to it.