Eight years ago, a period drama showing the life of peasants in northern Shaanxi was simulcast on Beijing and Oriental channels.
The reason why it is so important is because of the subject matter.
The play is adapted from Mao Dun Literature Award-winning work - Lu Yao's novel "Ordinary World".
The story revolves around the fate of the brothers Sun Shaoan and Sun Shaoping, the children of farmers, and tells the experience of a generation of young people in the mid-70s of last century in pursuing ideals and love.
The second is because of the starring role.
There are Wang Lei, Tong Liya, Yuan Hong, Li Xiaomeng, who were evaluated by netizens as the "most beautiful" rural period drama.
The performances of the four leading actors are very eye-catching, especially Wang Lei, who won the Flying Sky Award at the end of last year.
To this day, his role as Sun Shaoan is still talked about by the audience.
The magical northern Shaanxi accent and Wang Lei's life-like performance made the "Northwest Hammer King" popular on the Internet.
Today, the reputation of this drama is still stable at 8.8 points, which shows how long-lasting the charm of a good drama is.
At present, Lu Yao's famous work "Life" has also been adapted into a period drama, which is-
"The Road of Life"
As one of the producers of the play, CCTV gave enough cards.
CCTV broadcast a set of prime time, CCTV TV series official promotion, even the news broadcast took out 23 seconds of publicity time.
On the day of broadcasting, the show rushed into the top three in the national ratings, and after that, the ratings broke 1 for four consecutive days.
In terms of word of mouth, although the Douban score has not yet come out, many high-praise comments said: strong sense of age, all acting skills online.
The director of the play is Yan Jiangang, and his representative works include "Dust Settled", "Xiongguan Dream" and "Great Ancestral Hall".
Screenwriter Yang Xiaoyan is also one of the screenwriters of the high-reputation period drama "Mountain and Sea Love".
This drama is starring Chen Xiao and Li Qin, both of whom are familiar actors.
Chen Xiao, as a powerful actor in the Mesozoic Dynasty, has had many ancient puppet masterpieces, and his performance in "The Legend of Lu Zhen" and "Menghualu" is good.
This time, he also changed his handsome image in the past and turned into a young man in northern Shaanxi with the atmosphere of the times.
Li Qin, who has been challenging different roles for many years since his debut.
Tian Xiao'e in "White Deer Plain", Yuan Chun in "The Legend of Chu Qiao", and Lin Wan'er in "Qing Yu Nian" are all impressive.
In addition, there are Tang Zeng, Lin Yongjian, Liu Wei, Li Guangfu, He Saifei, Zhou Yemang and other powerful people as supporting roles, and the lineup has to be expected.
The play is partly based on Lu Yao's novel "Life", and the story is set in northern Shaanxi in the eighties.
It takes the fate of Gao Garin, a young man who "failed" the college entrance examination, as the main line, telling the story of his continuous struggle to change his fate after suffering a series of blows.
Through the perspective of Gogarin, the audience can also see the tenacious perseverance of aspiring young people of that era who did not succumb to fate.
So, is this period drama that focuses on the theme of northern Shaanxi as much as "Mountains and Seas" good?
After brushing 9 episodes of bluestone, this will take you to find out.
01. Taking "college entrance examination replacement" as the starting point, it firmly grabbed the audience's attention as soon as it started broadcasting
On the basis of respecting the original work, this drama has been adapted with the times.
One of the most daring adaptations is to change the setting of the position of substitute teacher in the novel to be taken away from the place of Gogarin University and replaced by the place of Gogarin University.
With "college entrance examination replacement" as the starting point, I have to say that this new drama really dares to shoot.
In 1984, Gao Jialin (played by Chen Xiao), a young man from Gaojia Village in northern Shaanxi, was pulling up a war drum and fighting for the college entrance examination.
His family was poor, his parents were illiterate, and his family was barely supported by farming.
For Gogarin, the college entrance examination is an opportunity that he must also seize to change his destiny.
It is precisely because of this that he studied hard and became a well-known scholar in Gaojia Village.
In stark contrast to Gao Garin, Gao Shuangxing, the son of village chief Gao Minglou.
Gao Shuangxing did not have a clear goal in life, but was pressured by his father to study.
Therefore, when he applied for the college entrance examination, he said to Gao Garin, I will report whatever you report.
And this also laid the groundwork for his successful replacement of Gogarin in college.
At that time, the college entrance examination was not like now, and high school juniors had to pass the pre-examination before they were eligible to participate in the college entrance examination.
Gao Garin has a classmate who has taken the exam for three years, but because he didn't pass the pre-exam, he directly missed the university.
As a top student, Gao Garin was the first to join the college entrance examination army with the first score in the county, and Gao Shuangxing barely crossed the line.
Just when Gogarin thought he had hope of getting out of the yellow earth, reality was like a basin of cold water.
He, unexpectedly, "fell off the list".
It turned out that when the postman met Gao Minglou, he handed him over Gao Garin's college admission letter.
Gao Minglou, who learned that his son was not on the list, came to steal the beam and change the column in order to let his son go to college.
He asked Gao Shuangxing to replace Gogarin in college, and as for Gogarin, the brighter future that he should have had was ruined.
However, this was only the first hurdle that Gogarin encountered.
Soon, negative and decadent, he came out of the haze, accepted the reality that he "failed" in the college entrance examination, and made up his mind to repeat it.
Unexpectedly, the house leak coincided with overnight rain, and Gogarin's mother accidentally fell while picking wild walnuts.
A large amount of medical expenses have made the family's already struggling livelihood even worse.
The tuition fees needed for Gogarin's repetition were also gone.
In desperation, he could only dispel the idea of repeating his studies and become a teacher in a rural school.
Just when he was doing his best to improve the teaching conditions of the school and try to get more children back to the classroom, he was tripped up by Gao Minglou...
Judging from the plot of the first 9 episodes, the show focuses on the two major blows of Gogarin's "falling off the list" and "unemployment".
And his unpredictable fate will always affect the hearts of the audience.
02. The protagonist has a watch, and the group portrait drama is also wonderful
If the novel is a one-man play by Gogarin, then this drama is about the life path of a generation of young people.
In addition to the protagonist of the play, the group portrait drama is also very exciting.
First of all, let's talk about the protagonist Gao Garin played by Chen Xiao, which is a cold disciple who wants to say "miserable" after watching it.
The college entrance examination was replaced, the job was replaced, and the villagers talked about... It's a bad fate.
On ordinary people, it takes several layers of skin, but he has always been tenacious, firmly believing that reading can change the fate of rural children.
For example, when Liu Liben, the richest man in the village, asked him, who had fallen off the list, to persuade his daughter to give up studying, Gao Garin came to speak earnestly and seriously.
At the same time, he is simple and sincere.
When he knew that Ma Shuo, a classmate who had not passed the pre-exam, had nowhere to go, he led him to his dormitory and helped find a job to do.
Gao Shuangxing, played by actor Wang Tianchen, is an original character in the play.
Gao Shuangxing, as Gao Garin's classmate, is like the shadow of the other party.
In terms of study, he is not as good as him, and in terms of the relationship with teachers and classmates, he is not as good as him, and even which university to apply for must follow Gogarin.
And at the instigation of his father, Gao Shuangxing, who agreed to replace him, also officially became the shadow of Gao Garin.
Studying at a university in Shanghai, he could only live under the name Gogarin, careful not to be discovered by teachers and classmates.
Only when the construction site is work-studying, Gao Shuangxing dares to face others with his true identity.
Gao Shuangxing, who steals other people's lives, is undoubtedly pitiful and hateful.
Also, the heroine Liu Qiaozhen played by Li Qin, this is a rural girl whose thoughts keep pace with the times.
On the one hand, it's about reading:
Although her father did not let her go to high school, she has always been aggressive and loves to learn.
When faced with her father's theory that it was useless for women to read, she directly responded positively, accusing her father of "old feudalism".
And he advised his sister to study well, so that she could get out of the mountains and see the wider world.
On the other hand, it's about love:
In that era when she was still married at the behest of her parents, Liu Qiaozhen chose to pursue love freely, and her love for Gao Garin was consistent.
In addition, she also shows the independent side of a new generation of women and has the ambition to make a career.
In addition to these roles, other characters are also extremely distinctive, such as Huang Yaping played by Zhang Jiani and Ma Shuo played by Tang Zeng.
03, the green leaves shined, and many outstanding supporting actors showed their acting skills
In addition to the plot and characters, there is another point that must be mentioned, which is the performance of the actors.
Following the perspective of the protagonist, we also saw a number of outstanding supporting actors, and their interpretation of the characters added a lot to the show.
The first one, Lin Yongjian.
At the beginning of this year, Lin Yongjian brushed his presence in the Chinese drama market.
In the hit drama "The Three-Body Problem", he played the majestic General Chang Weisi with his own sense of joy, which unexpectedly fit and did what it was.
In this drama, Lin Yongjian plays the village chief Gao Minglou.
It seems that he is a village cadre who thinks about the villagers, but in fact, he is a hypocrite who will not hesitate to destroy others for the future of his son, which makes people hate their teeth.
After knowing that Gogarin was successfully admitted to the university, he asked his son Gao Shuangxing to replace Gogarin in college.
It can be said that Lin Yongjian, wearing a hat and reading glasses, not only fits the face of the character in terms of styling, but also performs the charm of a "shrewd" cadre, and his little eyes have selfish ideas as soon as he turns.
The second place, Liu Wei.
As a first-class actor of the National Theatre of China, Liu Wei's good acting skills are undoubted.
Last year in "Happiness to Ten Thousand Homes", his role as Secretary Wan was impressive.
This time in "The Road of Life", Liu Wei is no longer a village cadre and becomes the richest man in the village.
Liu Liben, played by him, is not only Liu Qiaozhen's father, but also a capable person who can do business in Gaojia Village.
For Liu Liben, the most important thing in life is to be a girl and make money.
He also has an old conceptual side, thinking that women's reading is useless, and wants his daughter to give up studying and marry early.
Liu Wei's vivid and substitutionary performance reminds people that there are similar people in reality.
It is worth mentioning that this is also Liu Wei starring in "The Road of Life" after "Ordinary World".
The third place, Li Guangfu.
In the past two years, the old drama bone Li Guangfu is still active in the hit drama, "Who is the Murderer" and "The World" have his wonderful performances.
In this drama, he plays the well-informed Deshun Ye in Gaojia Village.
With gray hair, bronzed skin, and patched clothes, from the point of view of appearance, it has the feeling of the older generation of rural poor.
In the face of the confused young people in the village, Deshun Ye often acts as a "life mentor", using unpretentious truths to lead them out of difficulties.
For example, when Gogarin was frustrated because he failed the college entrance examination, Gogarin's father came to him to enlighten.
He directly named the point, and life had to "survive" by himself.
Although there are very few scenes, Li Guangfu portrays the character as charming and real.
The fourth place, Tang Zeng.
For Tang Zeng, everyone should be no stranger.
In last year's hit drama "Happiness to Ten Thousand Homes", the male protagonist Wang Qinglai played by him can be said to be the TOP1 most disgusted in the hearts of the audience.
It can make the audience see the anger, which also shows that his acting skills are good and he has a very accurate grasp of this role.
This time, Tang Zeng played Gao Garin's high school classmate Ma Shuo, a rural baby who took the college entrance examination three times.
With just one scene, he made the audience remember the character.
After the pre-examination, Gao Garin took the first place, and Gao Shuangxing was also on the list, but Ma Shuo fell off the list.
This also means that Ma Shuo is not qualified to participate in the college entrance examination, which is tantamount to a thunderbolt on a sunny day for him, who has been taking the exam for three years.
Through his eyes, movements and lines, Tang once performed the image of a college entrance examination student who was disappointed in himself and guilty of his parents.
As a period drama showing the style of northern Shaanxi, the crew of "The Road of Life" is attentive.
From the perspective of scenes, architecture, and service roads, all of them truly restore the style of northern Shaanxi in the eighties.
It is reported that in order to restore the era scenes in the book, the crew went to Luyao's hometown of Qingjian County to shoot.
In recent years, there have been frequent college entrance examination replacement incidents.
For Gogarin, the replacement victims, the impact is indelible.
The opportunity to change the fate of the family and oneself was so easily taken away.
From this point of view, "The Road of Life" is extremely profound in its performance and reflection on the college entrance examination.
Overall, this drama has real life and grounded performances, which are worth watching.
I hope that in the subsequent plots, "The Road of Life" can continue to bring more excitement.
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