"When writing, I made a list of the ages and origins of the main characters. I found that it was a group of young people who ushered in a new era. Because young people are vigorous, it is tomorrow, it is not to accept defeat, not to give up. In the face of a full class of young students, Zhao Ningyu, the screenwriter of the TV series "Glory and Dreams", sighed so much. On May 28th, the series of activities of "Ten Cities and 100 Schools Light and Shadow Party Lessons" was launched at Fudan University, and screenwriter Zhao Ningyu and actors Chen Turing and Yu Jiwei exchanged close communication with teachers and students of Fudan University.
As the key drama of "Ideals Shine in China - The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television Celebrates the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China", the major revolutionary historical drama "Glory and Dream", directed by Liu Jiang and featuring more than 100 powerful actors in China, is being broadcast on Oriental Satellite TV. On the video website, young audiences kept barricading: "Well-made, film texture", "From the plot rhythm to the narration lines and sounds, I have always felt that it is reproduced in a real situation", "The content is compact, it is really a grand historical picture".
"Glory and Dreams" begins with Changsha in 1982, when the staff found the martyr's relic "Even Feeling" in Yang Kaihui's former residence, and the pages of yellowed paper were turned over. The camera then shifts to the elderly Mao Zedong, unfolding the narrative from his memories. Realistic nostalgia flashes back to the clips of Mao Zedong and Yang Kaihui when they were young. "The play spans nearly 35 years, from 1919 to about 1954, which is a magnificent history of the Chinese Communist Party's struggle to change the world." Zhao Ningyu said.
Although he has served as the screenwriter of "The Great Cause of Building the Army" and participated in the creation of "The Great Cause of the Founding of the People's Republic" and "King Kong Chuan", he is very familiar with this history full of "glory and dreams", but the screenwriting process still makes Zhao Ningyu feel "boiling", "After the first draft was written, I lost more than 10 pounds." ”
"Glory and Dreams" is a veritable "large volume" work. There are more than 700 shooting scenes, more than 100 powerful actors participated, and 3 groups were launched for shooting at the same time. Zhao Ningyu made a summary, and there are more than 400 characters in the play, including many very important figures in the history of the party. For the depiction of "great men", he believes that it is necessary to return to the perspective of "ordinary people". "Great people and ordinary people are dialectical relations, if the great man lacks the emotions of ordinary people, he will not breathe and share the fate for the emotions of hundreds of millions of people; if he is just an ordinary person, he will not play his role at a major historical moment."
"I have a habit of writing a script and then I'll do it myself. When the play was filmed, I also had close contact with the production, photography, props, and makeup of the three groups to consider the details. Zhao Ningyu said, "Thank you very much to the whole group of actors, they let the characters grow out through their own way." ”
Actress Chen Turing, who plays Fu Dongju, the daughter of Fu Zuoyi in the play, said that filming and understanding the archetypes of the historical figures she played is a good opportunity to learn the history of the party. "Fu Dongju is a new woman who is both rigid and soft, both knowledgeable and courageous. What touched me the most about her was her home and country feelings. ”
Cheng Wenwen, a student at Fudan University, was a docent from the school's history museum from Fushun, Liaoning Province, and her grandfather was a soldier to resist the United States and aid Korea. At the party class scene, she shared her grandfather's story. "Grandpa was one of the first fighters to cross the Yalu River to North Korea. He still had shrapnel left in his body, and because North Korea was cold, his nose was frozen and he lost his sense of smell. This is the old hero around me, and from him, I draw the power of the times. ”
The series of activities of "Ten Cities and 100 Schools Light and Shadow Party Lessons" was sponsored by Shanghai Radio and Television Station. The event will cover 100 colleges and universities in ten cities across the country online, calling on 10,000 college students to participate in light and shadow party classes and study party history; offline landing in Shanghai, Beijing, Chongqing, Yan'an and Changsha and other places, linking Fudan University, Tsinghua University, Chongqing University, Yan'an University, Central South University and other universities, through film and television forums, red walking, party history knowledge Q&A and other forms, to pay tribute to the revolutionary spirit and inherit glorious dreams.
Column Editor-in-Chief: Shi Chenlu Text Editor: Zhang Yi
Source: Author: Zhang Yi