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"White Deer Plain" is called the "Chinese version" of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", and the author Chen Zhongzhong depicts the magnificent historical picture of the nearly fifty years from the Republic of China period to the founding of New China with delicate brushstrokes.
The whole novel was written by Elder Chen word by word.
In the existing manuscripts, you can see the traces of his many deletions, which can be said to have exhausted his life's efforts and touched generations of readers.
Unfortunately, nearly 20 years after the novel was published in 1993, no one "dared" to bring it to the big screen.
Although everyone knows that this book is well written and has great influence, its time span is too long, the energy density is too large, and the quality will inevitably be greatly reduced when compressed into a movie.
However, in 2012, the sixth generation of director Wang Quanan still took this step, he joined hands with the Western Film Group to shoot the film version of "White Deer Plain".
Before and after 6 years of preparation, investment of 120 million yuan, but also invited 5 strong male actors, but finally in the Berlin Film Festival to return home, the domestic word-of-mouth box office also lost, netizens scolded "epic masterpiece was filmed into the rural style of the mother-in-law biography", Wang Quanan has also been in a slump ever since.
Chen Zhongzhong said that movies cannot solve the time and space limitations of novels, and the only thing that can solve this problem is TV dramas.
So 5 years after the movie version was released, the TV series version finally came out.
With an investment of 230 million yuan, 85 episodes (adjusted to 77 episodes after rebroadcasting) of large-scale grand production, just broadcast an episode of Douban rating immediately rushed to 9.2, a time of praise.
However, before the glory could be celebrated, the drama version of "White Deer Plain" came out with bad news: the first episode was taken down after it was broadcast, and all parties responded uniformly that "the suspension of broadcasting is to achieve better broadcast results", and then waited for 24 days before re-broadcasting on satellite TV.
We don't know exactly what happened in 24 days, but after the rerun, the number of episodes broadcast in "White Deer Plain" did decrease from the official announcement before the start of the broadcast to 77 episodes.
Although it was cut 8 episodes of content, after the rebroadcast, "White Deer Plain" still won a super high audience reputation, and the Douban score has been stable at more than 9 points.
However, word of mouth did not bring ratings.
During the rebroadcast, "White Deer Plain" has always been inferior to another popular drama "Ode to Joy 2" broadcast at the same time, and the ratings of the two dramas are as different as the quality.
In such an era of lack of collective faith, Chinese audiences undoubtedly need this TV drama version of "White Deer Plain" more than "Ode to Joy 2".
And its large scale in the depiction of human nature, as well as the excellence in production, is enough for us to send another attention that it should have after 3 years.
First, the investment is 230 million, and it has undergone 3 rounds of review in 14 years
For such a major historical theme of film and television dramas, its birth process is often tortuous.
For example, the approval of the film version of "White Deer Plain".
Since 2003, the famous screenwriter Reed has embarked on the creation of the adapted script of the film version of "White Deer Plain" under the arrangement of Xiying, during which he has been behind closed doors for several months, but the first version submitted in 2004 was rejected by the Film Bureau, and Reed carefully revised the second version without success, and even "did not dare to report for review" after internal inspection of Western Film.
It was not until Wang Quan'an completed a new set of scripts in 16 days that the Film Bureau reviewed the project and approved the project.
The "hardship" of the birth of the drama version is far greater than that of the film version, and it has undergone 3 rounds of review from front to back.
According to media reports, since 2003, a film and television company in Shaanxi has begun to prepare for the adaptation of the TV series "White Deer Plain", and has received full support from Chen Zhongzhong.
However, it was not until 7 years later that the drama version of the project passed the first round of filing review, and the number of episodes filed was 40.
In 2011, the producers began to form a team and adjusted the original 40-episode plan upwards, while finding a 35-year-old screenwriter Shen Jie to write a script.
In order to write a good TV script and ensure loyalty to the original work, Shen Jie visited Chen Lao twice, and finally spent two and a half years grinding out a million-word TV script.
At the end of 2013, after Shen Jie revised it several times according to the opinions of the General Administration, the final script finally passed the second round of review, and the TV series was immediately approved for filming.
After 3 years of group building and filming, the TV series finally finished before the Spring Festival in 2016.
After a year of editing and production, the sample version of the drama was also sent for review at the end of 2016, and after the third round of multi-party review, the drama party revised it according to the opinions, and finally determined that the next 85 episodes would be published.
From conception to broadcast, the energy consumed by this work is difficult to measure, and all the effort is to achieve a TV series epic.
The original author, Chen Zhongzhong, is also full of emotions for this drama.
At the beginning of the filming of the TV series, he wrote a congratulatory message of "stirring up the history of the country for a hundred years and then casting the soul of the white deer" to encourage the whole crew. He pinned his hopes for the film and television adaptation of "White Deer Plain" on this TV series.
Even when he was sick and lying in a hospital bed, he was worried about the work.
3 months after the TV series was completed, Chen Zhongzhong passed away due to illness.
Although he failed to catch up with the broadcast of the TV series, the final result did not disappoint Elder Chen.
This 85-episode blockbuster has gained a good reputation, although it is a bit high and low because of its heavy theme, it is still a rare TV series.
Second, the change and invariance of the drama version
After watching this play, Pi Ge has eight words of feelings: big things are not vain, small things are not informal.
The key plot TV series in the original novel have been restored originally.
For example, Renyi Village's opium cultivation, Bai Jiaxuan's ancestral hall, Mr. Zhu's construction of the school, the famine in the village, the plague, Tian Xiao'e's emotional line, Bai Ling's emotional line, etc., the ins and outs before and after are explained very clearly, even if you have not read the novel, there is no obstacle to appreciation.
It's called big things.
Compared with novels, TV series has made a lot of bold adaptations.
In terms of characters, the bad of Lu Zilin is increased, so that the two protagonists, Bai Jiaxuan and Lu Zilin, one is good and one evil, and there is more dramatic conflict.
Characters such as stones, cripples and fools have been added to the village, making the image of the villagers more diverse and vivid.
Bai Jiaxuan's third son Bai Xiaoyi, Lu San's wife, Lu San's second son Rabbit Baby and other characters with few scenes have been deleted, making the primary and secondary more distinct.
In the story, a lot of plots with fierce conflicts have been added. For example, Bai Jiaxuan and Lu Zilin were kidnapped, such as the money of the peddler who bought the candy man was robbed, such as Lu Zilin's various squeezes on Bai Jiaxuan behind his back.
These added plots have no effect on the main story, but increase the watchability of the TV series.
It's called small things.
It is precisely by doing these eight words that the quality of "White Deer Plain" from the beginning to the end is maintained at a very high level, and it seems to have a sense of pleasure.
Three, two actors play super gods
Like another high-profile anti-corruption drama broadcast at the same time, "White Deer Plain" is also a gathering of big names.
He Bing, Zhang Jiayi, Qin Hailu, Liu Peiqi, Lei Jiayin, etc., which one is a character who can pick a beam, and their performance and tacit cooperation have also made this drama reach a new height in quality.
However, due to the length of the script role, the role of each actor cannot be balanced, and Pigo summed up that the actors of the play can be divided into three categories.
The first type of actor is originally very good, but there is not much room for play.
For example, Qin Hailu, who plays Xiancao, Liu Peiqi, who plays Mr. Zhu, Lei Jiayin, who plays Zhaopeng, and Li Qin, who plays Tian Xiao'e.
They play a good wife and mother, a reader with a hard bone, a revolutionary with a strong will, a beauty who is tricked by fate, because the attributes of the characters are relatively single, so the acting skills do not have much room to show.
The second type of actor is an actor who is already very good and meets the right role to play supernatural.
The show has two actors playing super gods.
One is Teacher He Bing, who brought Lu Zilin to life.
The first ten episodes of the TV series because of the existence of Teacher He Bing, Pi Ge is brushed up in one breath, too addictive.
In addition to Mr. He Bing's own superb acting skills, the arrangement of the script is also indispensable.
Here you can compare the movie version of "White Deer Plain", the film version of Lu Zilin is played by Teacher Wu Gang, who is also an old drama bone, but because the character image of Lu Zilin in the script is too dry, resulting in Wu Gang's play space is not much, this role is not brilliant.
In the TV series, the screenwriter added a lot of Lu Zilin's role, such as his playful words of burying Bai Jiaxuan, his small means of making bad behind his back, his fake and serious micro-expressions, and his father-son relationship with Zhaopeng, all of which made this image plump up from many angles.
In addition, Teacher He Bing is a pillar of the renyi stage, his lines are depressed, the rhythm control is very good, the Shaanxi dialect he speaks is particularly flavorful, and his line skills also add a lot to the series.
Teacher He Bing used to have a positive image, and this time playing a negative character also gave people a great sense of freshness, and he harnessed this role with ease.
Another supernatural actor is Zhai Tianlin.
Pico once thought he was an actor with strong foreign strengths, but after watching "White Deer Plain", I really thought he was too good to act.
If the early drama of this drama is He Bing holding up, the later drama is Zhai Tianlin in Carry.
Zhai Tianlin gives us what it feels like, a brother who is flying without any obstacles.
However, in the play, he plays the stupid son of the landlord's family, with a round head, a non-committal demeanor, and a slightly obscene temperament, which makes it impossible for people to compare him with Dr. Zhai who spoke wildly on the live broadcast.
Among the young actors, he plays the most complex role (from brother Gongzi to beggar, and from beggar to county chief), and his acting skills are also the most outstanding (Pi Ge feels that his acting skills are more than Lei Jiayin of the same play), and every time I see Xiaowen played by him appear, I know that a good play is coming.
Such a potential actor, if he honed his acting skills well, he went to the old drama bone, but he went to the whole crooked and evil way outside the play, and finally sacrificed himself to the Chinese scientific research community, which is sad and lamentable.
There is only one actor in the third category of this drama: Zhang Jiayi.
He is the most special being.
Zhang Jiayi is not only the male number one in the play, but also the artistic director.
As an actor, he has no big problem, even if he is obviously inferior when playing against He Bing, but at least he is decent, and he can't fault it too much.
But his other identity is controversial.
A few years ago, the actor's sky-high salary caused public anger, so the state introduced a salary limit order, but many actors have a new method, they not only become actors, but also set up studios, participate in the investment and distribution of the film and other links, not only earn film remuneration, but also earn division of labor, and the money obtained is not reduced at all compared with the past.
For example, Wu Xiubo in "The League of Military Teachers" is a producer, for example, Zhang Jiayi in this drama is the artistic director.
Of course, the actor's multiple identities in the play are beyond reproach, so it is a good thing to tie himself more closely with the film and television drama, and to win and lose and lose.
But facts often disappoint us.
For example, Wu Xiubo has the right to choose actors in "The League of Military Divisions", so the relationship with other actors is suddenly ambiguous, and it is not surprising that the final thunder is detonated.
And Zhang Jiayi, who is also known as "handsome uncle", also crammed two related households in this play.
The first relationship is the actor of Heiwa, the actor's name is Ji He, is Zhang Jiayi's cousin, Zhang Jiayi has also brought him in many popular dramas such as "You Are My Brother", "One Servant and Two Lords", "Bonus Fireworks" and so on.
Ji He's acting skills are excellent, but the drama is not popular.
In this play, both his appearance and acting skills are very close to the black baby in the original work, so good that people forget that he is a relation.
But the second relationship has become the biggest black spot of the show.
That is Bai Ling's actor Sun Iridium.
In Pigo's opinion, she completely "ruined" the role.
Fourth, the biggest drag oil bottle of the play
Open Douban, the first 8 posts in the discussion area of the TV series "White Deer Plain" are all about Sun Iridium, most of which are questions.
In fact, this character could have been made extremely well.
Here we are going to mention an actress named Li Meng.
As early as the preparatory stage of the film version of "White Deer Plain" in 2010, Wang Quanan finally fell in love with Li Meng, who was just 19 years old after interviewing more than 3,000 newcomer actresses, and at that time Li Meng was not the "Wang Yao" who was now bursting into flames with "The Hidden Corner", when she had just enrolled in nortel acting, but her performance was already very agile.
Even After Chen Zhongzhong watched her audition, he was extremely satisfied, and personally named Li Meng as the best candidate for the role of Bai Ling in his book.
Unfortunately, limited by the length of the release, Li Meng's white spirit scenes in the movie have been deleted.
When shooting the TV series, the new crew still took into account the opinions of Elder Chen, plus Li Meng did act well, so the role of Bai Ling was still played by Li Meng.
But after filming more than forty scenes, the media revealed that Li Meng was temporarily removed, and the new actor was replaced by Zhang Jiayi's student Sun Iridium, also from the Beijing Film Academy.
This Sun Iridium has two labels that stand out, one is Lin Xinxin's ex-girlfriend, and the other is Zhang Jiayi's student.
The first is still the category of gossip, and the second label has to be associated.
Good people found that Sun Iridium often exposed his teacher-student relationship with Zhang Jiayi in the social media, and some people broke the news that they played a father and daughter in the play, and the relationship outside the play was not ordinary, which forced Zhang Jiayi Studio to publish articles to refute rumors overnight.
We don't discuss the authenticity of the gossip, as far as the drama is concerned, Sun Iridium is indeed the biggest drag oil bottle in this play.
Standing with a number of other powerful actors, her acting skills are obviously several notches weaker.
In order to keep up with the rhythm of other actors, she only squeezed her eyebrows, shouted, and finally used too much force, which was counterproductive, a revolutionary woman would be played by her into a female nerve, and half of the bullet screen of this play was spitting on Bai Ling, an actor.
Zhang Jiayi is the artistic director of this play, how many pounds does his own students have, he doesn't know? Sheng Sheng installed such an actor, pretended to be confused, and praised her good acting skills, which was really disappointing.
However, flaws do not hide Yu, "White Deer Plain" is still a classic worth two brushes and three brushes in general.
But Pigo also wants to use this drama to persuade many big guy actors with bootlegs:
Please cherish your feathers, treat your own works must be strict, outside the works should be strict with yourself, do not think of the audience as a fool fool, otherwise you will only lift the stone and drop your own feet in the end!
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