The "Shanghai-produced" TV series "Chasing Dreams and Blue Skies" (formerly known as "Made in China") will officially end this Sunday. In the last plot, the picture turns to the military parade ceremony for the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China, and 166 aircraft of the 34th type, all independently developed by China, cross the sky; in contrast to the beginning of the series, when New China was just founded, 17 aircraft were all confiscated equipment. In the past 70 years, China's aviation industry has achieved historic changes from scratch, from small to large, from weak to strong.
According to the statistics of "China Audiovisual Big Data", after the broadcast of "Chasing Dreams and Blue Sky", it ranked first in the ratings of prime-time TV dramas for many times, with an average rating of 1.319% per episode and a highest single-day rating of 1.48%. On the afternoon of August 27, the seminar of the TV series "Chasing Dreams and Blue Skies" was held in Beijing. Zhong Chengxiang, a librarian at the Central Research Museum of Literature and History, former vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and a literary and art critic, said: "On the occasion of the centenary of the founding of the Party, there was the beginning of the "Age of Awakening," which was the time of awakening a hundred years ago; and "Chasing Dreams and Blue Skies" showed the style of the Chinese nation after the awakening of the Chinese nation today on the Chinese screen. ”
Comprehensively show the development process of the new Chinese aviation industry
As a TV series showing the 70-year development process of China Aviation, "Chasing Dreams and Blue Sky" starts from five aviation families of Qin Tian, Zhao Deliang, Zhang Changjiang, Zheng Youfu and Li Zizhi, reflects the development of China's aviation industry with individuals with distinct personalities, and conveys the mission of the times of aviation people with real historical stories. When the series began broadcasting, countless real-life aviation students came to "check in" in the form of a "bullet screen" and the belief that "aviation serves the country, my generation should be the first" brushed the screen.
"'Chasing Dreams and Blue Skies' is an image textbook for the 70-year development history of the new Chinese aviation industry, and it is also a heroic epic of three generations of aviation people who are struggling to move forward." In the view of Li Zhun, former vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and a literary and art critic, the three generations of aviation people are a heroic group, "From the perspective of the development path of China's aviation industry, this is a process from scratch, from relying on others to teach to relying on themselves, from imitation to creation, from weak to strong." ”
Zhong Chengxiang said that in the history of the development of Chinese television dramas, there is a weakness that industrial themes have always been weak and difficult to write. "There has been 'Chinese Flight Attendant' before, which is written about the waiters in civil aviation; 'Chasing Dreams and Blue Skies' shows aviation people in various fields from designers to test pilots." He said, "As the aviation industry of the country's heavy equipment, it is necessary to achieve a panoramic reflection of the history of the aviation industry for decades, and to write the history of the struggle, spiritual history and ideological history of Chinese aviation people. ”
In the view of Shangguan Ruye, responsible editor of the TV Drama Project Department of the Film and Television Drama Documentary Center of the Central Radio and Television General Station, "Chasing Dreams and Blue Skies" solidly carries the proposition of the times of "Made in China" and "Heavy Weapon of a Big Country" with a typical artistic image. "For the first time, in the form of film and television art, this drama comprehensively shows the 70-year development process of the new Chinese aviation industry from the blue wisp of the road to competing on the same stage with the world's advanced countries." "Chasing Dreams and Blue Skies" began from the founding ceremony and wrote until the current development of large aircraft, "The struggle of three generations of scientific research heroes, test flight heroes and craftsman heroes has made Chinese-made aircraft soar in the blue sky of the motherland." ”
This TV series has also made the older generation of aviation people feel a lot. "When I watched the play, I saw my old leaders, my masters, and my comrades-in-arms who fought side by side with me, who faced almost the same environment and embodied the same spirit." Liu Gaozhuo, former secretary of the party group and general manager of China First Airlines, said.
For the first time, the aircraft development unit was opened to the crew for filming
MiG 15, Sabre F86, J-5, Boom 6, J-7, J-7, J-7, Air Police 500, Shin-Ark 60, Yun-20... In "Chasing Dreams and Blue Skies", various Chinese and foreign models have appeared one after another, which is also the first time that such a rich "aircraft group army" has appeared in domestic TV dramas. In order to depict the development process of China's aviation industry in a panoramic and meticulous manner, the play lasted 4 years of polishing, the script changed several drafts, the team has interviewed more than 50 representatives of the aviation industry, consulted nearly 100 biographies, and strived to make all the characters in the play close to the truth and close to life.
"The main theme of our creation is that sentence - 'The heavy weapon of the country, cast it with fate'. I hope that through this play, through these characters and the 70 years of history, the audience can feel the weight of this sentence. Director Li Yunliang is a descendant of the military industry, in the face of such a large time span of the subject, he frankly said that the creative principle is "true", and the state of the characters must be "restored history and reproduced history" as the main purpose. In the play, the main scenes are filmed in the real aircraft development unit, the important props are real aircraft, and the aviation experts check the whole process and strive to deeply restore the development process of the national heavy equipment. The crew has successively filmed in Shaanxi Fei, Xifei, China Test Flight Institute, First Aircraft Design Institute, Self-Control Institute, Strength Institute and other aircraft design, manufacturing, test flight, test units, etc., many of which are open to the TV drama team for the first time.
The plot of "Chasing Dreams and Blue Sky" spans 70 years, and Zhang Bo, the protagonist Qin Tian, needs to present a life state from his 20s to his 90s. "Before this drama, I watched a lot of aviation materials and videos, and the spirit of aviation people who are not afraid of sacrifice and bravely move forward deeply touched me." He said, "Many people ask me what is the moment of Qin Tian's highest light? I don't think it's a one-man highlight or a scene. The aviation industry from scratch, from no conditions to create conditions, the whole drama wants to express the highlight moment of that era. In the play, Li Zizhi plays Feng Bai from a military family, and his mother and uncle are both air forcers. He said: "Playing the profession of test pilot in the play fulfilled my dream. ”
At the end of this play, Qin Tian, Zhao Deliang and other older generations have "left the scene", and a new generation of Chinese aviation people, represented by Jiang Zhanpeng and Zheng Guoqiang, inherit the spirit of serving the country by aviation, and dedicate their lives to China's aviation industry like their predecessors. This also made Xu Ming, a "post-80s" aviation person and executive deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of High-energy Beam Processing Technology of the Aviation Industry Manufacturing Institute, think of himself. "I was born in Yanliang District, Xi'an, and many of my elders have worked hard for the aviation cause of the motherland in this hot land." He said, "'Chasing Dreams and Blue Skies' truly reproduces the arduous scene of model research, we have failed, we are tired, and we have the idea of giving up, but there is always a dream that inspires us to overcome all difficulties, which is the dream of an aviation power!" ”
Column Editor-in-Chief: Shi Chenlu Text Editor: Zhang Yi
Source: Author: Zhang Yi