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The Chinese table tennis team is well known for its strength. At the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Chinese table tennis team won a total of 4 gold medals and 3 silver medals, and the fighting spirit of "national table tennis" left a deep impression. Recently, the TV series "Winning Gold", which takes the development process of Chinese table tennis as the main line and shows the admirable "ping-pong spirit", ended on the CCTV TV drama channel. As a work "produced in Guangzhou", "Winning Gold" was well received, and the ratings and word of mouth achieved good results.
Text/Guangzhou Daily all-media reporter Moschig correspondent Wei Chaoran
"Guangdong Power" recreates the road of "winning gold"
The TV series "Winning Gold" is jointly produced by CCTV, the Propaganda Department of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee, the Propaganda Department of the Zhejiang Provincial CPC Committee, the Propaganda Department of the CPC Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee, the Sports culture development center of the State General Administration of Sports, Guangzhou Global Ruidu Cultural Communication Co., Ltd., and Haining Orange Rice Film Co., Ltd.
As a key support project in Guangdong, "Winning Gold" gathers a strong "Guangdong force", and the main creators are from Guangdong: the general director Zhang Qian is a native of Guangzhou, who worked as a photographer and director at the Pearl River Film Studio in his early years, and won the 17th China TV Drama Feitian Awards Outstanding Director Award for "PeaceTime"; Xu Shaofa, general adviser of table tennis, has continued to contribute to the sports cause in Guangzhou after retirement; Ma Lin, a guest table tennis player in the play, is a world-class table tennis champion cultivated by the Table Tennis School of Shantou City, Guangdong Province Guangzhou composer Li Haiying composed more than 20 symphonic soundtracks for the play, and personally conducted the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra to record the whole score on the spot.
Producer Liu Jun said that the crew of "Winning Gold" personally interpreted the spirit of hard work and excellence, and had almost perfect requirements for professionalism and details. The whole drama was prepared for 8 months in the early stage, the shooting period was 6 months, the post-editing period was more than 10 months, the post-production was 8 months, the total shooting material exceeded 50,000, and the number of special effects shots in the whole drama exceeded 8,000. All efforts are only to live up to the mission and recreate the road of "winning gold".
The "national hand" guides the restoration of the real state of the athletes
In order to achieve the greatest "fidelity" of table tennis competition, the crew of "Winning Gold" invited Xu Shaofa, a famous Chinese table tennis player and former head coach of the national table tennis team, as the general consultant of technical guidance, and invited Wang Jun, the champion of the Table Tennis World Championships, to stay in the crew as a technical director, and organized experts to discuss the script for many times. Wang Jun has very strict training requirements for the actor's footwork, posture, grip, serve and even mental outlook, and even requires actors to eat and live with athletes and train together, trying to restore the true state of athletes.
Zheng Kai, who played the male protagonist Liu Zhengguang, said: "Before filming, all the actors ate and lived with professional athletes at Beijing Sport University and trained in closed training for 3 months. We have a short time and a lot of training, with an average of 8 hours of ball practice a day, but this is very important for us for 3 months. Xia Xing, one of the heroines, played by Xu Qian, has practiced table tennis for 10 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 join the cheers, Xu Yinsheng, Li Furong, Ma Lin and other famous "national players" friendship starring, audiences of all ages can see their familiar and favorite players.
The audience watched with blood boiling
Set against the backdrop of the 1950s and 1960s, "Winning Gold" tells the glorious history of Chinese table tennis, showing a group of young people represented by Liu Zhengguang, a rural boy, who have grown from a talented "wild ball boy" to a world champion.
"After receiving the theme of "Grab the Gold", I was very excited. China is a big sports country, there should be such a play, can reflect and reflect the spirit of Chinese sports people, can condense the sense of national honor and pride of the Chinese. Director Zhang Qian said: "The spirit of table tennis is what China needs at present, and "Winning Gold" must fully embody the 'soul' of Chinese table tennis. Director Zhang Qian revealed that in the creation, the crew of "Winning Gold" firmly grasped a point - "'Winning glory for the country' is the long-cherished wish of all Chinese athletes." The story time span of "Winning Gold" is as long as 50 years, how to control the creative direction and let this 'soul' not disperse, is what we want to focus on and focus on solving. ”
Screenwriter Zhang Kunpeng said that when writing "Win Gold", he had "cried many times for his dreams" and "used the dreams of the people in the play to refract the dreams of Chinese table tennis people, so that all Chinese audiences felt proud, proud, inspired and inspired in the process of watching "Win Gold", which is my dream."
The efforts of the crew, the audience felt. Many viewers said that they were deeply attracted by "Winning Gold", "a very good inspirational TV series, watching people's blood boiling" "All the characters in it are portrayed very vividly, reflecting the love of China's table tennis players for their careers and the spirit of fighting and not accepting defeat, it is worth watching several times" "Watching TV series, I have a sense of tension of watching the game on the spot, very excited."