2021 is the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, and it is also the year of the outbreak of the main theme of film and television dramas.
After the poverty alleviation and relocation drama "Mountains and Seas" was released at the beginning of 2021, it gradually spread throughout the network with word-of-mouth, and the Douban score was as high as 9.4, becoming an annual phenomenon-level hot drama.
The tribute drama "The Age of Awakening" followed closely behind, with a Douban score of 9.3, and most of them were young audiences, and they also realized that the original main theme of film and television dramas can also be filmed so well!
Just as Long Pingping, screenwriter of "The Age of Awakening," said: "It's not that young people don't like the red theme, but blame us for not writing well." A work of heart, the audience can feel its sincerity.
Recently, Mango TV launched a main theme drama "Ideal Shines on China", which is likely to directly become another "King Fried" series of short dramas after "China" in Mango TV.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > a short drama form of one story per episode</h1>
As a tribute drama for the centenary of the founding of the Party, "Ideal Shines on China" is directed by Fu Dongyu and Liang Zhenhua is the chief screenwriter, bringing together 16 directors and 20 screenwriters, a total of 40 episodes, each episode tells an independent character story.
The 40 main figures of different periods, like dots of starlight, painted a moving picture of the COMMUNIST Party of China since its birth a hundred years ago, leading the unity Chinese of the people, the torch of lofty ideals, the pursuit of national independence, the prosperity and strength of the people and the country, and the unremitting struggle to realize the Chinese dream of rejuvenating the Chinese nation.
"Ideal Shines on China" stars Chen Turing, Cheng Yi, Deng Lun, Dong Xuan, Guo Tao, Hou Minghao, Huang Jianxiang, Li Randi, Lin Yongjian, Lu Yi, Huang Junpeng, Niu Junfeng, Peng Xiaoran, Qiao Zhenyu, Qin Junjie, Jiang Mengjie, Tan Songyun, Wang Kai, Wang Yibo, Wang Junkai, Yan Yikuan, Ye Xiyue, Yu Xiaoguang, Yuan Bingyan, Zhang Jiani, Zhang Jingyi, Zhang Xueying, Zhao Liying, Wu Lei, Jing Bairan, Zhang Yixing, Tong Liya, Li Yitong (ranking before and after) and others.
The drama gathered nearly 10,000 cast members, 15 independent filming groups, spanning 28 cities, and took 2 months to shoot. It premiered on Hunan SATELLITE TV on May 4, 2021 and was simultaneously broadcast on Mango TV, Youku.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="65" > content is grounded and does not levitate</h1>
Each episode of "Ideal Shines on China" is more than 20 minutes long, telling a character story.
Among them were Chen Wangdao, who translated the "Communist Manifesto," Chen Yi'an, the "No. 9 Martyr of the Republic," Wang Xin, the songwriter of "Singing the Motherland," Guan Chonggui, the "fighting hero" of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Lin Ming, chief engineer of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, Zhang Huamei, "China's First Industrial and Commercial Self-Employed Household," and so on. Countless young people have dedicated their ideals, blood and energy to the most magnificent cause in the world.
The TV series will present the different character stories of "revolutionary period, construction period, reform period, and rejuvenation period" from different angles, not pursuing panoramic writing for a hundred years, but with a small view, with the perspective of ordinary people and ordinary people, grounded in concrete things, simple people, not blunt and old-fashioned preaching, but in a sympathetic and empathetic way to lead the audience to feel the background of the big era.
For example, the first issue, "The Taste of Truth."
The opening scene shows everyone arguing and looking for a way to save the country. Chen Wangdao, played by Jin Dong, frowned, sat in a corner and thought alone, when the scene was out of control and everyone began to move, he quietly left with an oil-paper umbrella, full of anxiety and confusion about "finding the way".
"In today's China, there are too many mountains and too few temples, which temple can save China?"
The next set of shots shows a variety of old Chinese street scenes, chaotic crowds, crowded stations, and decaying objects.
Chen Wangdao eventually found his faith, communism, so he had to translate the Communist Manifesto, which could be used as an ideological weapon to bring about an ideological revolution.
Chen Wangdao, who returned to his hometown, began to translate day and night in a firewood room, and when his mother brought zongzi to him to eat, he peeled off the zongzi, but used the ink as a sugar dipped in zongzi, ate a mouthful of ink and did not react, and his attention was still in the book.
When his mother asked him how the rice dumplings tasted, he also said "sweet enough"...
The taste of truth is sweet.
"The Taste of Truth" occurred in 1920, and the next few episodes took place in 1927, 1950, 1980, 2001, 2011, etc. Although these stories do not follow linear time, they are scattered and concentrated, and some viewers joke that watching this drama is simply "opening a blind box", and there are many surprises.
Fu Dongyu: "In the theme creation of the centenary of the founding of the Party, "Ideals Shine on China" is a strange flower. It abandons the traditional way and talks about our ideals in a way that is not limited and not heavy. Each of the 15 groups of directors has seen all 40 selected questions, and each group fills in five 'volunteers'. Even if the finalized story does not correspond exactly to the preferred choice of each group, each director will selflessly contribute his ideas. ”
After the 25-minute positive film, the "micro-classroom" will be broadcast simultaneously, which can not only strengthen the knowledge of the historical characters involved in the play, but also enrich the audience's perception experience.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="68" > drama bone plus flow Actors are combined across ages</h1>
"Ideal Shines on China" has a total of more than 200 actors, carefully arranged three generations of actor partners, and the strength of the old drama bones include Jin Dong, Lin Yongjian, Liu Yijun, Wang Jinsong, Hou Yong, Li Jianyi and others.
Powerful young actors include Wang Kai, Wang Yibo, Zhao Liying, Tan Songyun, Yang Ying, Chen Xiao, Wang Ou, Deng Lun, Zhang Jingyi, Wu Lei, Wang Junkai, Wang Shengdi and others, among which there are many traffic stars, which also adds a lot of attention to the play.
In "Choice", Wang Yibo plays Jiang Xianyun, a Huangpu prodigy, and the story tells the story of when the two parties broke up, the communists adhered to their original intentions and never gave up their communist membership.
In "Field of Hope", Zhao Liying changed her previous image and played Lei Jinyu, a new-age woman who led the people of her hometown to get rid of poverty and become rich, telling the story of her devotion to the work of poverty alleviation in her hometown.
In "Far Away, Not Far Away", Wang Junkai plays Lin Ming, the chief engineer in charge of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge project, while Zhang Yixing plays Xiong Dajian, the "father of mine warfare" in one episode.
Over the past hundred years, it has been countless such young people who have followed in the footsteps of their predecessors and dedicated their ideals, blood and youth to the most magnificent cause in the world.
The cross-age combination of youth and middle age also allows young actors to refine and sublimate their acting skills in the process of interpretation, so that the audience can feel amazed.
For example, the episode "Buttons" starred Zhang Jingyi, Niu Junfeng, Zhao Luoran, Wei Zhen, Zhang Shanmeng and others, and Zhang Jingyi led the role of Zhang Huamei, "China's first industrial and commercial self-employed household".
In 1980, in the early days of reform and opening up, Zhang Huamei, a stall vendor in Wenzhou, was snubbed by others.
Because of the stall selling goods, in the eyes of many people at that time, it was a "speculative upside down" and an act to be condemned. The staff of the Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce banned them at any time. However, the staff member Wang Jiawen (Niu Junfeng) is full of understanding and sympathy for the vendors, when the yin and yang are wrong, he confiscates Zhang Huamei's buttons, looking at the grief-stricken Zhang Huamei, Wang Jiawen realizes that although the buttons are small, they are the hope of Zhang Huamei's and her family's life.
Soon after, the state carried out economic structural reform, and Wang Jiawen, in accordance with the spirit of the central document, reported to the unit departments with real data and first-hand information, and promoted the legal operation of individual traders. Wenzhou, as a pilot city, decided to give all unlicensed traders formal recognition for their legal operations.
In December 1980, Zhang Huamei received a hand-painted business license stamped with an official seal, which was written with a brush "Industrial and Commercial Certificate No. 10101".
A small piece of paper contains the first step of the motherland's reform and opening up and transformation to a market economy! It has a very unusual significance. The story of Zhang Huamei is also a true portrayal of the motherland's continuous progress in reform, opening up, and economic construction.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="69" > The story is touching and the plot is moving</h1>
In "Ideals Shine on China", there is no person who is portrayed as a god, there is no deliberate sensationalism, and there is no excessive preaching. The reactions are all living people, their joys and sorrows, their sorrows, joys, fears, and even protection.
So far, many viewers think that the most touching episode is the second episode of "Guardian" starring Lin Yongjian.
In 1927, China was shrouded in white terror. Zhang Jueqian, who originally lived in the countryside of Zhejiang, originally had nothing to do with these.
But his son Zhang Renya, one of the early members of the Communist Party, returned to his long-lost home and entrusted him with an important document: "This thing is more important than my life, and it must be hidden." ”
In order not to burden his family, Zhang Renya made a deep prostration and left.
Zhang Jueqian found many places to keep this document, but he felt unstable, and finally told his younger son that his eldest brother was dead, so he would set up a crown tomb for him - just hide the document in the crown tomb.
The old father's protection is more than 20 years, only the old cow who can't speak sticks to the crown tomb with him, the family does not understand him, and the townspeople also begin to mutter.
Finally, the old cow that accompanied him also died: "Old man, you can't accompany me anymore." It was not until after the liberation of the whole country that Zhang Jueqian finally opened the tomb of the crown, took out the secret document, and handed it to the party organization. These precious historical documents are now in the collection of the Central Archives, the National Museum and other memorials.
In fact, in 1932, Zhang Renya in the Central Soviet District had died of illness.......The old father who learned all this, waddled to the front of his son's crown tomb, and the departed son seemed to be a spirited young man, standing in front of the old father, the father and son looked at each other and smiled.......I did what you want me to do........
Lin Yongjian's acting skills are very moving, guarding the document he does not speak much, but the back shadow is the play, the eyes are the play, the silence is the play, the faith that transcends life and death, the promise that is unswerving, guarded to the end.
Touching stories, as well as giving up his dream of winning the championship and willingly serving as a sparring partner for the women's judo national team, Liu Leilei has been like a day for sixteen years. "Everyone works hard for an ideal, which makes me feel ordinary and meaningful."
There is also Wang Xin, a songwriter who exhausted all his efforts to write "Singing the Motherland" for the motherland, this story is starred by the acting stars Guo Xiaodong and Wang Ou, which makes the whole plot have a kind of love temperature and encouraging power.
After that, we can also see the stories of ordinary people in different positions such as female cadres, soldiers, announcers, conductors, journalists and other people in different eras. Many traffic stars that everyone is looking forward to, such as Wang Yibo, Li Xian, Wang Junkai, Zhao Liying, Du Chun, Wang Kai, etc., will also all appear.
The entire drama has 40 characters, some of whom are the navigators of great ideas in the context of the times, and some of whom are important figures who have participated in the historical process. But more than that, it is still an ordinary person.
They all hold the same ideal and shine on the land of China. It is precisely with such an ideal in mind that the country has survived a long night and ushered in the dawn.
Fu Dongyu: "This is also the reason why we chose these 40 sets of character stories....I hope that the series is an introduction, and young audiences will continue to dig deeper, explore and further approach history after seeing these characters outside of 'common sense'."
Chasing the show itself is also paying tribute to the most adorable people.
From "Mountains and Seas", "Awakening Era" to "Ideal Shines on China", although these main theme film and television dramas are not perfect, they strive to keep up with the pace of the times, strive to be grounded, present the appearance that the audience likes to hear and the sincerity of creating good works, it is worth becoming a "king bomb" and worth becoming a hit.