Source: Tonight's Newspaper
At a time when the competitions of the National Games were fiercely carried out, a sports-themed TV series "Winning Gold" was broadcast on CCTV Eight tomorrow night. Xu Yinsheng, Xu Shaofa, Guo Yuehua, Liang Geliang, Ma Wenge, Wang Jun, Wang Tao, Liu Wei and other more than 30 table tennis world champions made cameo appearances, which became the biggest highlight of this drama.
"Winning Gold" is directed by Zhang Qian, co-directed by Yuan Jun and Tian Yong, and starring Zheng Kai, Zhang Tutao, and Xia Xing. The play tells the story of Liu Zhengguang, a poor student in the early 1960s, who entered the city with a ping-pong dream and played in the city through unremitting efforts to enter the national team and win glory for the country in the international arena. "Winning Gold" received strong support from the State General Administration of Sport, and Xu Shaofa, a famous Chinese table tennis player, served as the coach. Liu Jun, the producer of the play, revealed: "The General Administration of Sports only made one request to us, that is, it must be true. ”
In order to solve the professional problems, the crew specially invited Xu Shaofa, a Chinese table tennis celebrity and former head coach of the national team, as the technical general adviser, and Wang Jun, a member of the past championship champion, as a technical director, to carry out a three-month devil training for the main actors. Wang Jun's guidance has very strict training requirements for footwork, posture, grip, serve and even mental outlook, and even requires actors and athletes to eat and live and train together, trying to restore the real state of athletes. The actor entered the group three months in advance for ping-pong training, plus a six-month shooting period, and lived in the world of table tennis for most of the year.
Zhang Qian, the director of the play, introduced that "Winning Gold" was talked about from the 1950s to the 1980s, and the age span was extremely large. In order to make this drama well, the team traveled to cities and villages in Beijing, Hebei, Northeast China and other regions, and used five months of shooting time to interpret a 40-year time span. In the director's view, table tennis technology has made great progress in the past few decades, and what "Winning Gold" has to do is to restore the real table tennis story and the emotions of the times in that era. "There are many table tennis matches in the play, all of which have been carefully designed to restore the truth."
There is a scene in the play, the older generation of table tennis players with a ball game to continue the youth and blood, in order to make this scene can be perfectly presented, the crew invited a number of national table tennis elders to the scene to shoot, the Chinese Table Tennis Association Chairman Xu Yinsheng, former head coach of the national team Xu Shaofa, Guo Yuehua, Liang Geliang, Ma Wenge, Wang Jun, Wang Tao, Liu Wei and other table tennis celebrities appeared on the "arena". Zhang Qian said that "Winning Gold" is not only a sports type drama, but also a drama about the struggle of Chinese, hoping to use this TV series to show the spirit of Chinese struggling for dreams and vigorous spirit.