He Runfeng, host of Tencent News in-depth interview program "Where to Start", once again presented a high-reputation masterpiece, Xin Shuang bluntly said that he cried for half an hour after the opening of Douban丨Exclusive interview! In the program, the host asked Xin Shuang the focus questions of many viewers from the performance aspects of the suspense drama "Long Season", and Xin Shuang seriously answered them one by one.
During the dialogue, Xin Shuang Jin's sentences were frequent, which not only reflected his talent as a TV series director, but also reflected his serious and respectful creative attitude to the audience.
It can be said that after understanding these interview golden sentences of Xinshuang, I really understand the TV series "Long Season".
01 Life is absurd, but we are still willing to raise our heads and live this life seriously
"You know that there are a lot of absurdities in your life, but what kind of posture do you use to face this absurdity. Without asking (Sisyphus) the meaning of pushing stones, we are to live our lives well. You recognize the absurdity, but you are still willing to raise your head and live your life. ”
In fact, from the perspective of the vast universe, our human life is so small and short, and the so-called "longevity" and "strength" of human beings are only a drop in the ocean compared to the long time and vast space, but a snap of the fingers.
So, in a sense, life seems absurd. Specific to each of our lives, there are always many moments when we feel absurd and illusory.
But will we not work hard to live because of these absurdities?
It doesn't. As Xin Shuang said in the interview, we "don't ask about the meaning of pushing stones", as long as we live our lives well.
Sisyphus, a figure in Greek mythology, was the most resourceful man on earth.
Because he had offended the gods, the gods punished him by pushing a boulder up the mountaintop. But every time he pushed the boulder and was about to reach the top, the boulder rolled down and returned to the starting point.
Thus, Sisyphus, day after day, year after year, repeats this seemingly absurd and ineffective labor.
However, Sisyphus found the meaning of perseverance and hard work in this senseless hard labor.
The mythical fable of Sisyphus pushing the rolling stone, used as a metaphor for our lives, could not be more apt.
02 What is the greatest meaning of time
"The greatest meaning of time is to pass through me and finally smooth me out."
Watching "The Long Season", what really touches our hearts is not the bizarre corpse case that runs through the play, but the desolate sense of fatalism in the long years from middle age (youth) to old age (middle age).
It's about time, about people's lives, about the destiny of life.
When asked by the host, "What is the greatest meaning of time", Xin Shuang replied, "The greatest meaning of time is that time passes through me and smooths me." Nothing will be left. Time will eventually wipe these things clean. ”
"Time is a very fair thing, its original name may be called change, and it is called time by another name. It is that time passes through a person's life, and when it passes through, it will leave a trace, and then time will slowly erase this trace. ”
In the face of a long time, no matter how big hatred and deep scars will be smoothed out, no matter how sincere love and passionate dreams will eventually disappear.
However, there are always hatred and scars that cannot be erased. Just like Shen Mo in "The Long Season", after 18 years of escape, life is better than death, after returning, before bent on death (captured), he still desperately kills his uncle and aunt to take revenge, which is an obsession that even death cannot erase, and also represents the huge pain and shadow that is difficult to heal that Shen Mo began in his childhood.
A long time can heal Wang Xiang's pain of losing his only beloved son, but it cannot calm his longing for his beloved son and his determination to pursue a truth for 18 years.
03 Director Xin Shuang's second suspense work, why did you choose "The Long Season"?
"Whether I find something in the script that I can grasp, or there are some details of life that you are familiar with, and those plays you will directly form a picture in your head, which is something that attracts me to be able to create."
After directing the fire of "Hidden Corner", many investors and producers found Xin Shuang and asked him to direct a new drama, but Xin Shuang did not move, because the script he wanted to choose must have a "grip" in it that could stimulate his creativity.
04 Another way to open the Northeast
Why is the main scene in "The Long Season" set in the crisp autumn of the northeast?
"It's a very heavy thing, everyone will use a joke or two, with a little bit of the unique humor of the Northeast language, and it will be quickly dissolved."
"What I hope to present is not a blow, but a comfort. Just like the whole theme of this play, look ahead, don't look back. ”
As a Northeasterner, I hope to show a new style that is different from the previous Northeast suspense drama style.
In the eyes of outsiders, the northeast may be synonymous with ice and snow, but in the refreshing eyes of northeasterners, the northeast is actually four distinct seasons and has very beautiful and splendid autumn scenery.
Moreover, in the eyes of Xin Shuang, one of the characteristics of the character of Northeasterners is that they will lift weights, and some seemingly heavy and sad things may be presented in a more humorous and relaxed way, and eventually dissolved and melted.
Therefore, Xin Shuang deliberately chose the seasonal scene of the play in the blue sky and white clouds, a verdant green and golden autumn.
The old brothers in the play are sad and absurd enough in their lives, but there are also many highlight moments and happy times that belong to them.
Director Xin Shuang does not deliberately deepen the suffering while expressing the pain of the characters in the play, but presents a gentle comfort. And with the words of the elderly Wang Xiang "Look forward, don't look back" as the end of the play, it is to encourage people that no matter what they have experienced and how much pain they have experienced, everything will pass, and we should actively look forward.
05 Xin Shuang talked about life and death and life from the death of his father
It turned out that during the filming of "The Long Season", Xin Shuang also experienced the death of his father. When the host asked about this matter, Xin Shuang said that he had never mentioned this incident in public before, because he did not want to use the "death of his father" as a publicity point for the work, which was mistaken as "selling miserable".
When the host asked again, will the death of your father have some impact on your play, Xin Shuang replied that he would not let personal emotions be mixed into the work and affect the purity of the content style of the work.
But everything that happens in life, not simply the "death of my father", inevitably becomes part of the character of my life.
Xin Shuang said, "I think it's not just this thing, anything you experience in life, the sum of all things, is yourself." And then you're in the creative process, and you mobilize everything, the sum of these things. ”
Talking about Gong Biao's accidental death in the play, Xin Shuang said:
"A complete life includes both life and death. Like Gong Biao's death, many people say that Gong Biao is so miserable, why is it so sudden. But that's the whole story, death is always sudden, it never notifies you in advance that it's coming. ”
Life is impermanent, life is full of accidents. Cherish today. Cherish the moment.
06 Respect the audience and do not underestimate the audience, the audience will respect and love the work
When the host asked that some viewers felt that the pace of "The Long Season" was slow, Xin Shuang said that after the work is launched, it belongs to the audience and no longer belongs to the creator, and we need to look at any evaluation of the audience with a very open attitude.
In the middle, Xin Shuang mentioned a detail in the play, that is, Wang Xiang volunteered to see the broken corpse, and as a result, he vomited and fainted on the spot and was sent to the hospital, when Director Song went to visit him and took a photo with him. When Wang Xiang went home, he developed and enlarged the group photo and put it in the photo frame, solemnly hung it on the wall, and asked his wife to help look at the impropriety.
At that time, when you saw this, the audience may think that this is an idle pen, a sizzle that shows Wang Xiang's character, but later, after Wang Yang drowned, the same position on the wall was replaced with Wang Yang's portrait, at this time, you realized that this detail actually echoed before and after.
At this time, the host sighed a few words, and asked Xin Shuang that this detail did impress me very deeply, but the premise is that the audience must see the back to understand, so do you feel that the current audience seems to be more and more impatient to slowly appreciate a good work?
Indeed, in today's short video and fast-paced world, more and more people are cultivated to taste fast food, and they are less and less impatient to read a long article and watch a slow-paced TV series.
Therefore, the person who writes the article thinks about how to make a few more gimmicks as a title to attract readers to click in; People who make TV series think about how to get something bloody and stimulating, something that can cause controversy and quickly attract everyone's attention.
But unexpectedly, director Xin Shuang answered the host like this:
"I don't think about the audience in this way, if you carry a kind of audience is not as smart as you, the audience is not as good as you, the audience will not accept new things, if you have such a creative attitude, it is a very arrogant thing for the creator, because you have been underestimating the audience."
You can say that again!
No wonder "The Long Season" has such high quality, which has a lot to do with the director's refreshing and correct creative concept, as well as his serious creative attitude of respecting the audience!
Writing here, I can't help but think of the famous director who satirized the audience as "garbage".
Different attitudes towards the audience, in exchange for the attitude of the audience are also different!
07 The transition snow at the ending, representing "comfort"
Audiences who have seen "The Long Season" must remember the heavy snow at the end of the show.
A snow, strung together the lives of the characters in the play, strung together their past, present and future, and fixed a happy moment in their lives, watching this paragraph, I can't help but tear up, as if we see our own lives.
"I think the audience really understood the meaning of that snow. What that snow represents is comfort. The past, the present, and the future merged in that moment. ”
08 Destiny and a poem
Snap your fingers, he said
We snap our fingers with a resonance
Distant things will be shattered
The people in front of them did not know at this time...
In "The Long Season", the original author of this poem written by Wang Yang is Ban Yu, the literary coordinator of the play and a young novelist in Northeast China.
This poem is a "prophetic poem" in the play, predicting the tragic fate of the main characters in the play.
When Wang Yang and Shen Mo went to see the railway, Wang Yang recited this poem to Shen Mo. When Wang Yang recited poetry, the golden afterglow of the setting sun hit the youthful faces of a pair of young people, which was particularly beautiful and beautiful.
At that time, Wang Yang and Shen Mo secretly liked each other, how did they know that fate had already laid the foreshadowing and wrote a tragic ending for them!
"It's as if that snapping finger is snapped at that moment, and the fate of all people is clicked together at that moment."
In the finale, Wang Xiang and his son Wang Bei and the returning Li Qiaoyun reunited into a happy family of three, and Wang Xiang recited the poem of his son Wang Xiang to Wang Bei and Qiaoyun, and the atmosphere at this time was a calm and peaceful after the rain and the sun.
09 The last Easter egg of "The Long Season"
At the end of the finale of "Long Season", it ended with Wang Xiang's sentence "Look forward, don't look back" and Jiang Yuheng's old song "Look Back Again".
The song "Looking Back Again" is infinitely melancholy and sad, but at the same time, it also feels a kind of tranquility and relief through the years.
But there are also questions from the audience, it is clear that Wang Ming shouted "look forward and don't look back", but why did the director have a song "Look Back" at this time, isn't it contradictory?
In this regard, Xin Shuang said:
"That "Looking Back" is actually not for the characters in the play, not for Wang Xiang. Because the old Wang Xiang, when he shouted to the young Wang Xiang, look forward and don't look back, his story ended. "Looking Back" is actually for the audience, for myself, and for all creators. It is comforting to all such emotions. ”
10 Doing nail art is refreshing
At the show scene, we will find that the director Xin Shuang did a nail art.
In everyone's impression, doing nail art seems to be the patent of a woman or girl who loves beauty.
Xin Shuang said that after filming "The Long Season", everyone went to Dali, Yunnan for half a month, and they were too bored in the middle, so they tried to do nail art, and the result felt good, so they liked to do nail art to decompress and empty themselves.
For men doing nail art, when the host asked Xin Shuang's inner thoughts, Xin Shuang said:
"If you want to do nail art, you can do nail art, and you want to live a free and happy life."
I like and appreciate such an attitude to life.
With sober and independent thinking, a serious and respectful creative attitude to the audience, not pleasing others, not taking yourself too seriously, hiding behind the scenes, and creating with peace of mind, this will lead to the birth of such an excellent TV series as "The Long Season".
Looking forward to the next excellent suspense drama with Refreshing!
(Text/First Dewdrop)