The noonday sunshine new drama "Mountains and Seas" just aired 4 episodes and ushered in a round of applause, many netizens on the Douban platform scored a 5-star high score, and it is estimated that the opening score will be at least above 8.0.
This drama tells the story of farmers in Xiji County, Haiyuan County, Guyuan County and other areas of Ningxia since the 1990s, under the call of national policies and with the help of their counterparts in Fujian Province, they have continuously overcome difficulties and built the "dry beach" with flying sand and stones into a "golden beach".
It is said that it is very difficult to make this kind of drama look good, from the perspective of the same type of drama in the past, there are two points that have been widely criticized, one is that it is difficult to get rid of the slogan-style performance, and the other is that the cadres are tall and detached from the masses, resulting in although many works are blown wildly by the media, but the audience is not willing to watch.
The most fundamental reason why "Mountains and Seas" will unusually win the praise of the audience is that it is grounded, close to life, and presents the story in dialects, so that the audience believes that all this is not acted out, but really happened.
In particular, every character in the play seems to be the person next to them in the memory, and from them you can find the familiar shadow of the year.
For example, Li Dayou, played by You Yong, has unkempt hair, black and red face, a dry cigarette bag, pants legs are held one by one, a little hanging Erlang is always a poor look, like the one in your village back then?
There is also the splash played by Reiza, who is full of earthy smell under the perennial wind and sand, sun and rain, but the audience can still read her beauty through her pure and clean eyes.
To tell the truth, seeing the scene where she and Ma Defu reunited a few years later, the author's heart was sour at the same time, and his thoughts seemed to suddenly pull back to his innocent time.
Because at that time, there was also such a girl around me...
Because of this, when watching a play, my heart is always inexplicably moved by something, and this is the charm of a play, which can make you have a strong sense of substitution and integrate yourself with the characters in the play.
Why does the noonday sun make a main melody drama that was not optimistic beforehand so delicious?
According to Hou Hongliang, chairman of Noonday Sunshine and producer of the play, "Landscape and Water" is actually a task entrusted to them by their superiors in October 2019, and the requirements are particularly high, to make a work of "civilian perspective, national narrative, and international expression".
Generally speaking, film and television companies shoot dramas to choose the script in advance, negotiate with the original author to buy the copyright, find the screenwriter for secondary creation, and then prepare to start shooting.
However, "Landscape and Water" did not have a ready-made shooting script in advance, nor was it in the shooting plan of the noonday sun, it was GDZJ who proposed to shoot such a film as a tribute drama, and gave the task to the noonday sun to complete.
Why so many film and television companies will choose the noonday sun, of course, they are interested in their production strength and creative attitude, "noon production, must be a fine product", which is not only the audience's recognition of the word of mouth, senior leaders are also convinced.
Noonday Sun attaches great importance to this trust, the industry's best TV series director Kong Sheng personally came out, because of the directing of "All Is Good" and the director Sun Molong to assist, which can be described as a strong combination of strength and strength, the first to win people, to solve the most core, the most critical, the most important part of the main creative team of a drama.
The next thing is to create the script, we see that the person responsible for the script planning and co-ordination is the best gold medal screenwriter in China, Gao Mantang, and then there are Wang Sanmao, Wang Lei, the screenwriter of "All Is Good" and "I Am Yu Huanshui", and the screenwriter of "Dajiang Dahe 2".
The screenwriting team is strong and reliable, which fundamentally ensures the quality of the story.
In the next casting, a look at the crew is exhausted, in order to perfectly reflect the character outlook and customs of the northwest area, use the northwest dialect to restore the real daily life of the local people, many of the main roles are interpreted by the northwest actors.
Huang Xuan, who plays Ma Defu, is a native of Lanzhou, Gansu;
Zhang Jiayi, who plays Ma Shouting Water, is a native of Xi'an, Shaanxi;
Played Li Dayou You Yong, a native of Xi'an, Shaanxi;
Yan Ni, who plays the governor of Yang County, is a native of Xi'an, Shaanxi;
Hu Ming, who plays Zhang Shucheng, is a native of Yan'an, Shaanxi;
Jiang Guannan, who plays Li Shuiwang, is a native of Xi'an, Shaanxi;
Bai Yu, who plays Ding Shijun, is a native of Xi'an, Shaanxi;
Tan Xihe, who plays Secretary Tan, is a native of Xi'an, Shaanxi.
In addition, Wu Yuejuan, a Fujian cadre who supports Ningxia, is played by Fujian actor Yao Chenlai.
Behind all this ingenuity, in addition to considering the acting skills of a group of actors, there is also a purpose, that is, to let the audience give recognition to the roles they play from the identity.
In addition to doing a good job of laying the groundwork, the creative attitude of the crew is also particularly admirable.
At the beginning of the shooting, the entire crew began to take root in Ningxia, and the actors immersed themselves in local life from all aspects of clothing, food, housing and transportation, and felt the atmosphere of the plot.
At the beginning, the shooting scene did not even have a tree that made the cast members cool, in order to present the story best, the entire crew started from the ground nest, and then went to the adobe house, completely in accordance with the real Minning Village development process to upgrade step by step, in the natural environment of the extremely harsh northwest land to complete the breakthrough from scratch.
At the time of the killing, because the drama was too deep and the feelings with the crew were too deep, Huang Xuan, who was unwilling to give up, couldn't help but cry; zu Feng, who played Teacher Bai, after drinking, took Huang Jue's hand and couldn't help but sigh that he hadn't filmed such a fun scene for many years.
And you Yong, the old drama bone who plays Li Dayou, likened Kong Sheng to the "chef" of "Mountains and Seas", saying that he made a good table for everyone, filmed for 30 years of dramas, and felt that this summer was really happy.
Yes, there are such careful film and television companies and cast members, not only Li Dayou feels very happy, the audience feels happy, nothing else, because the noonday sun launched, Chef Kong Sheng's TV series dish is too appetite for the audience.