"Chitose Adult's First Love" began broadcasting "Millennium Love" and was not made into a "brain-dead idol drama"

Original title: Director Chen Zhengdao: Using film specifications to shoot TV series

Recently, the fantasy love drama "The First Love of Chitose Adults" (hereinafter referred to as "Chitose Adult's First Love"), directed by Chen Zhengdao and Xu Zhaoren, and starring Song Qian and Huang Jingyu, was launched on Tencent Video. What is surprising is that this idol drama with a name that sounds a bit "brain-dead" actually broke through the "good" rating all the way in Douban, reaching 7.4 points. The tried-and-true "Millennium Love" model in dramas such as "Three Lives and Three Worlds and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms" and "Lonely and Brilliant Gods and Ghosts" has once again succeeded, and this time it tells the love story of humans and foxes.

Recently, Chen Zhengdao, director of "The First Love of Chitose Adult", was interviewed by reporters. He has directed blockbuster films such as "Midsummer Lightyear", "Return to Twenty", "Memory Master" and this is his first time directing a TV series. He said that the team behind "Chitose's First Love" is all "movie coffee": "I use movie specifications to make TV series. ”

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Story: The anti-routine bridge section is fresh and unconventional

"Chitose's First Love" is based on Shi Dingrou's novel "Love and Strange Guests", and her novel "Lichuan Past" has also been adapted into the hit TV series "Meet Wang Lichuan". "The First Love of Lord Chitose" tells the story of the mysterious archaeologist Helan Jingting (Huang Jingyu), who is actually the right priest of the Fox Clan, and is known as "Lord Helan" by the clan. He eats flowers, loves "moonlight bathing", is blind during the day, has excellent vision at night, and has only 3 heartbeats per minute. 1,000 years ago, a girl named "Hui Yan" used her life to exchange her life for Lord Helan to have the vision to see objects at night, so Lord Helan searched for Hui Yan in each life and accompanied her in the long river of time after that. The background of the play has come to modern society, and Hui Yan has become Guan Pippi (Song Qian) in this life, and she has completely forgotten her past life and Lord Helan. Guan Pippi is an intern at the magazine, an ordinary girl with a gentle personality and some lack of self-confidence. She originally had a rich and handsome boyfriend with green plum bamboo horses, but she did not expect that her boyfriend empathized with her girlfriend. At this time, only Lord Helan has been with her, giving her warmth and letting her slowly let go of her heart and boldly love.

Although the story sounds a bit old-fashioned, there are many anti-routine bridges in the play. For example, at the beginning, in order to get close to Guan Pippi, Lord Helan used the routine of "love at first sight", who knew that Pippi was treated as a beggar and gave him a large amount of change; in the first episode, Lord Helan and his two retinues met a pet dog, and did not change the nature of the fox, and the three big men were frightened and jumped to the edge of the fountain pool... These vivid details make the whole play seem fresh and unworldly, and also make the characters very pleasing.

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Production: Each episode plus monologue form is novel

Since Chen Zhengdao was originally a film director, "The First Love of Chitose Adult" uses a film production team. He said: "At the beginning, we hoped that this drama could be made with the specifications of the film. All three directors of photography have made films, Lin Zhijian has worked with me on "Return to Twenty Years", Ho Po Wing is a well-known photographer in Hong Kong, and the lighting engineer he brought has done "A Generation of Grandmasters". There is also the stylist who has just finished making Tang Wei go to Cannes. Even the opening scenes are made by digital kingdoms. In the shooting, Chen Zhengdao and Taiwanese brother Xu Zhaoren were divided into two production teams: "We have a total of 4 photographers, divided into two production teams to shoot together, and we can spend more time on lighting, scenes and shooting to do our best." In terms of work distribution, Chen Zhengdao mainly shoots modern scenes, and the costume scenes of "past lives" are completed by Xu Zhaoren.

Some viewers have noticed that at the end of each episode of "Chitose Adult's First Love", there will be an inner monologue of the character. For example, in the first episode, Lord Helan's monologue is poetic: "I Helan Jingting, a fox in more than 900 years old, from the distant Celestial Fox Star." For 900 years, I was the right priest of the Fox Clan, one man above ten thousand people. Everything here is strange and familiar, this is not my first time on Earth, here the day is bustling, the night is red and green, but it is far from the style of hometown. In my hometown, the evening wind blows through the treetops, the moonlight is an intoxicating wine, I can hear the birds and beasts sleeping in silence, and life grows warmly..." Speaking of the setting of these monologues, Chen Zhengdao said: "This is the idea of the screenwriter Shenyang. This is a fantasy drama, fairy tales are actually some of the feelings and fantasies in our ordinary lives, we hope that these monologues can touch the hearts of modern people. He also laughed that the form of this monologue is also intended to target the situation that many episodes are now being broadcast longer and longer: "If each episode had a conclusion at the end, the show would not have had a 24-episode script cut into thirty or forty episodes in the future." ”

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Actor: Throw yourself into the soaring acting

Before this drama, Huang Jingyu's most well-known role was Gu Shun, the sniper in this year's Spring Festival movie "Red Sea Action". This time in "Chitose Adult's First Love", Huang Jingyu once again made the audience shine. Chen Zhengdao also praised him: "He played the role of the kind of social barrier, he will be shy, do not know how to get along with women... This is a cute way of dealing with it. The heroine Song Qian has previously acted in many costume dramas such as "Magic City" and "Ancient Love Song", and her acting skills have been criticized by the audience, but she did not expect that this performance was surprising. Chen Zhengdao revealed: "Pippi will show a lot of courage in the later stages, hoping that the audience can survive to episode 16 and see this silly white and sweet transformation." Song Qian acted very naturally. ”

Speaking of casting, Chen Zhengdao unveiled the story behind it: "Among the three investors, Tencent does not seem to have it, but Mango and LeYang have handed me a lot of actor information for our reference. We also asked them to audition, but we didn't get it. Investors sometimes mention two sentences, but I pretend not to hear them. I still want to choose the actor who is the best for the role. It is reported that the supporting roles currently selected have all gone through three or four auditions. During the filming process, the crew's management of the actors was also quite strict. There are many scenes in this drama completed in Thailand, Chen Zhengdao said: "We have detained all the actors in the group for more than 3 months, Thailand is far from the country, everyone can't fly around and roll the play, the spirit of the actors is focused on this play, and also gave us a lot of advice, quite fun." Everyone is fully engaged. ”

(Editor-in-charge: Zhang Huawei, Gao Hongxia)