On September 25, the table tennis competition of the 14th National Games entered the final period. On this day, the first "National Ball" era drama "Win Gold", directed by Zhang Qian, director of "Bright Sword", landed on CCTV-8's golden file, which can be described as timely and of extraordinary significance.
The TV series "Winning Gold" reproduces the pioneering legend of China's "national ball", starring Zheng Kai, Zhang Juju, Xia Xing, Bai En, Wang Lu and other young actors, and Wu Gang, Cheng Yu, Wu Liansheng and many other old drama bones. The drama traces the history of table tennis, pays tribute to sports heroes, and shows the precious qualities of the older generation of table tennis people who still adhere to the dream of a sports power in a difficult environment with flesh and blood and full of images, and boosts domestic sports dramas to climb to a new peak. The peak of "Winning Gold", which is shining on the CCTV screen, has the following three particularly obvious labels.
The first tab: always focus on the theme of competitive sports
"Winning Gold" takes the 1950s and 1960s as the background, taking the victory of the Rong Guotuan as the starting point of time in 1959, telling the story of Liu Erga (later renamed Liu Zhengguang), who loves to play table tennis, starting from the commune table tennis competition, all the way from the county to the province, and finally being selected for the national team, from "playing wild ball" to going abroad to win glory for the country, he experienced ups and downs but never gave up the dream of table tennis, and later did not hesitate to devote everything he had to engage in table tennis education, and cultivated a new generation of young athletes with the fighting spirit of winning gold.
In order to achieve the maximum "fidelity" of table tennis competition, "Winning Gold" invited Xu Shaofa, a veteran figure in the Chinese table tennis industry and former head coach of the national table tennis team, as the general adviser of technical guidance, invited Wang Jun, the champion of the Table Tennis World Championships, as a technical director to stay in the crew, and also coordinated the main actors to conduct a three-month intensive training at Beijing Sport University, and organized experts to study the script for many times. Xia Xing, one of the heroines of the play, played by Xu Qian, has practiced table tennis for ten years, is a national first-class athlete, and has won the national youth table tennis championship. She said in an interview: "I feel like I'm not acting at all, and good acting is not acting. At the same time, the drama has more than 30 players who have won the table tennis world championship to cheer, Xu Yinsheng, Li Furong, Ma Lin and other famous "national players" friendship starred. Domestic gold medal directors, first-class creative teams, high-quality scripts, and professional sports directors have laid a quality guarantee for the "color" of "Winning Gold".
An inventory will find that in recent years, many domestic sports-themed film and television creations have "bought and returned pearls", and their drama often covers up the sense of competition and cruelty of competitive sports, and sports have become the "beautiful picture background board" of love idol dramas. In contrast, "Win the Gold" drama is solid and rigorous in structure, it abandons sports drama routines such as preaching and youth idols, and its narrative main line is always along the promotion of table tennis competition, closely focusing on Liu Zhengguang's struggle from continuous desire to eventually becoming a professional golfer, the main story focuses on the table tennis arena, truly and concretely depicts the ecological characteristics of competitive sports, so that the audience can deeply understand the historical origin and professional knowledge of table tennis through watching the drama.
Dramatic conflict revolves around the arena, with sports becoming the engine of narrative rather than the accelerant. In the play, even the protagonist's progress in love is closely related to the competitive story and is closely linked, and although other friendships, families and other side lines are promoted synchronously, they have always been the foil of the main line. Such a detailed and appropriate arrangement reflects each other, and although the "sky full of stars" does not compete with the "bright moon", it also emits its own light. It can be seen that "Gold Grab" has matured and mastered the only way to tell a good competitive sports story.
The second label: pay attention to highlighting the Chinese sportsmanship
There is the anti-Japanese theme of "phenomenon-level" film and television drama "Bright Sword", a glorious pearl in front, and the same director's "Gold Grab" has attracted much attention. Like "Bright Sword", it not only realizes "the same director", but also embodies the "same spirit" - the narrow road meets the brave to win. In a way, this happens to be the core connotation of Chinese sportsmanship. In the play, Du Jianhua was worried that Liu Zhengguang would be asked to retire, and suggested that he talk to the coach to express his love for table tennis, Liu Zhengguang blurted out a golden sentence, "Love table tennis Needless to say, hard work and winning are the best proof." This is similar to li Yunlong's sentence in "Bright Sword", "Bright sword, what shines out is momentum, it is boldness, and it is the spirit of manhood", which is quite similar.
The director of this work, Zhang Qian, has been polishing for eight years, holding the ambition of creating a "sports version of "Bright Sword"", he invited table tennis celebrities, world champions, gold medal drama bones, young actors, etc. to participate, combined with table tennis technology and the most advanced shooting methods at present, made a lot of useful explorations in camera processing, character performance, etc., and set up a monument to the Chinese sportsmanship in the form of film and television dramas. The transformation from "Liu Erga" to "Liu Zhengguang" is also an excellent "metaphor" for this theme to a certain extent. After entering the provincial team's Miaozi training team, Wild Boy, who is good at "playing wild ball" and has created his own "cutting ball" playing style, has doubts about coach Xu's basic skills training, and loses in the confrontation with Sun Shaojie, the captain of the provincial table tennis men's team, and Ye Luzi loses to the regular playing style. Since then, he has become convinced of formal scientific training, he used dumbbells instead of rackets, painstakingly practiced swinging movements, after experiencing various arena advancements, changes in the times and spiritual growth, Liu Erga finally became the "Liu Zhengguang" who won glory for the country.
The brave and fearless protagonist personality and the super-burning inspirational plot make the character image of the protagonist Liu Zhengguang vaguely have the shadow of "Li Yunlong in the table tennis world". Liu Zhengguang, who "dares to fight and is not afraid to lose", can get stronger and stronger after each loss and successfully counterattack. "If the speed is slow, it will be accelerated, the technical difference will be more practiced, and if there is a gap, it will be desperately chased, and if it is not solved, it is the only way to fight." Liu Zhengguang's words when encountering setbacks, simple but powerful, simple but full of philosophy, is not the best interpretation and vivid interpretation of the Chinese sportsmanship?
"The ball does not land, never give up, fight to the end, and win glory for the country!" It is this kind of sportsmanship, as well as the existence of many "Liu Zhengguang", that makes the sport of table tennis a "national ball" loved by the Chinese people. The portrayal of this spirit also gives the TV series "Winning Gold" an extraordinary spiritual character.
The third label: carefully portray the sports figure group elephant
For the Chinese people, table tennis is not only a sport with a broad and deep mass base, but also a "time ruler" to record the changes of the times and inherit the memories of their parents.
In 1959, at the 25th World Table Tennis Championships held in Dortmund, West Germany, Rong Guotuan passed the hurdle and won the first world championship in the world sports competition for China; in 1961, the 26th World Table Tennis Championships were held in Beijing, and table tennis became a widely loved sport in China; in 1965, in the 28th World Table Tennis Championships, Chinese athletes won five championships, four runners-up and seven third places in seven sports competitions, celebrating the whole country; in 1971, China and the United States opened "table tennis diplomacy" In 1981, the 36th World Table Tennis Championships was held, and the Chinese team won 7 championships, creating an unprecedented record in the world table tennis world in 55 years when one country won all championships...
The TV series "Win the Gold" expresses to the audience the fact that glory has always accompanied the Chinese table tennis team with the "scale" of video data.
In addition to showing the gripping competition on the field, "Winning Gold" also delicately portrays the relationship between characters and the times, spirit and inheritance, blood and inspiration, controls from the dual perspectives of life and art, and carries out a group portrait collective portrayal of Chinese table tennis people, fully showing the fate and personality of many characters: Wang Binghui, deputy director of the Yong'an Municipal Sports Committee, who runs to find and snare table tennis talents, Xu Zhipeng, the coach of the provincial men's team, and Du Jianhua, who runs with Liu Zhengguang in the rain and steals eggs to form a friendship. Sun Shaojie, Xu Qian, a women's singles player who has worked tirelessly to win the world championship, Sun Haoning, a new generation of table tennis players who have loved table tennis since childhood, Tina and Ben geson, international table tennis friends, and Xu Shimu and Ma Cuicui, who have paid silently in order to win gold without asking for returns...
These delicate and vivid portrayals vividly show the ups and downs of the personal fate of these table tennis players with distinct personalities in the big era, and show the precious qualities of the older generation of table tennis people who still adhere to the dream of a sports power in a difficult environment. The glory and glory of Chinese table tennis has never been a reproduction of individual heroism, but tacit cooperation, collective unity, and decades of perseverance.
In more than 100 days, we will usher in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, and the spirit of sportsmanship will shine brightly and continuously over the land of Shenzhou. May every Chinese of us realize this spirit from the central eight hit drama "Winning Gold", unite and cooperate, work tenaciously and diligently, and run one stick after another in the "relay run" of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, so as to achieve a good result for the next generation.
Source: Guangming Network