Episode 7: Red Youth on the Screen 2016 Beijing Municipal Cultural Boutique Project Key Project, Commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of the Victory of the Red Army Long March Tribute Drama "Red Guard" has just been produced and will be broadcast on the star. This drama tells the story of a Red Army detachment that endured all kinds of difficulties and dangers during the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression period and finally escorted important drawings to the large army. Producer Ji Jiwei hopes that through this story, he can truly show how the young people at that time pursued their ideals.
Pictured: The poster producer of the TV series "Red Guard" Ji Jiwei hopes to truly show how the young people pursued their ideals through this story. Xu Jiwei: I belong to the military background, worked in the army for nine years, and I have such a feeling that the spirit of the Long March of the Red Army was originally tall. In fact, the reason why we chose this book is to see that the young people at that time chose what I should do for the fate of the country and for their own ideals. After watching this drama, I can really understand that in the era of war, these young people also have their own ideals, and how they do it for the ideal.
Pictured: The creation of the tv series "Red Guard" stills TV drama script is derived from a real history accidentally discovered in an interview three years ago: during the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression period, the mint in Jiangxi's Central Soviet District had a special trade section that needed to purchase materials overseas, and a group of red procurers braved guns and bullets and lives to deliver important materials to the Central Soviet Region and later the Long March. The story of this group of red procurers touched the screenwriter Yuan Qin, in order to let more people understand this history, Yuan Qin adapted this story into a TV series, hoping that this story can also impress more audiences. In order to write a good script, she consulted a large number of materials and documentaries as references.
Pictured: The reporter interviewed Yuan Qin, screenwriter of the TV series "Red Guard": When you receive a theme and you really understand it, you will find that every time it is a process of self-learning and growth, I feel that it is particularly good. If I hadn't written about this subject, I probably wouldn't have been so autonomous in reading about the relationship between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party at that time and about the history of the early days of the Long March. In fact, after reading it, you will find that our victory is inevitable. In order to recreate that history, the film crew went to multiple locations to shoot, and executive director Wei Mengna revealed that they crossed the swamp and climbed the snowy mountains in order to make the picture that was finally presented to the audience real and touching, and this walking experience also gave her a special insight. Vermona: What impressed me was the swamp scene, where we found a large mudflat full of reeds on the shore of Xiangshan Mountain, and it rained just two or three days before the shooting, and the mudflat was extremely muddy. The situation inside it is probably only experienced by people who have been there, and then our scene just happens to be the key point of the plot twist, all the main actors have to play in the mud beach, because it is very important, so we have been filming for more than half a month, every day the staff comes out of the mud beach is a mud man, shoes and pants can not see all the mud, the weight has to grow a few pounds. Then the actors are also very hard, to run and fight in it. Another of my understandings of the Long March is that when the road is still very long, you have to walk slowly. Now many people in the society are very impetuous, once they see a goal, he will have to suffocate his head and keep rushing forward, but forget a sentence called want to speed is not reached, if you rush very fast, there is no way to judge whether your road is going right, whether you can reach the end. So when walking, you can slow down.
Pictured: The long march of stills from the TV series "Red Guard" is a long journey, and each step of it has an entry point that can be told. Unlike many long march-themed film and television dramas, Yuan Qin chose to review this historical event from a female perspective, using the experiences of small characters to show the background of the big era, hoping that the audience can more easily accept and understand. Yuan Qin: Song Qingling once said that the most people who died in the war were men, but the people who were hurt the most were women and children, so I think that cutting into the Long March from a female perspective will make more people willing to watch.
Pictured: Sun Qian as Chen Zixuan Yuan Qin: Our heroine Chen Zixuan, she embodies a trait that I like more about oriental women, that is, she is very tough. It is different from being strong, resilience is a trait that distinguishes us Eastern women from Western women, she is actually not strong, she was just an ordinary woman with faith and yearning for revolution, but when she is involved, she must become a warrior with a gun to fight. So what does she do? How to grow? She was really forced out step by step. That is, I accepted this task and must hand it over to the Soviet zone, and when the Soviet zone is not there, I must hand it over to the large troops, and this is also the key point for the success of our revolution.
Pictured: Guo Ruixi, the actor of Lotus in the stills of the TV series "Red Guard", is a very young actress, and she feels a lot of pressure when she receives a TV series with revolutionary themes for the first time. She constantly reminded herself that when filming a Long March drama, she must first understand the feelings of the Long March. Guo Ruixi: When I was a child, my grandfather told me the story of the Long March, because my grandfather was a soldier of the Eighth Route Army, and listening to him tell me the story of their war in that era, such as how to sleep in the snow, and then when the war was fought, his comrades-in-arms might still be chatting for a minute, and then they might die in front of his eyes the next second, which was very tragic. Before, when I listened to it, I didn't feel touched at all, and at that time, I was relatively young and couldn't understand the meaning of the Long March. When I received this play, I kept recalling the stories that my grandfather told me. I liked the personality of the character, belonging to a girl who was more intense and could jump from the upper floor. When filming, Hanging Weiya jumped down from the upper floor, and I wanted to show a state of complete fear, showing the fierceness of the character's heart. But I was really scared, I was afraid of heights, and there were several scenes in which I was filmed, and everyone gave me a lot of encouragement on the sidelines and said to me: It's okay, let's take you down. I was thinking that people in that era could completely disregard their own lives and their own safety for a goal. After filming this play, I enjoy the life now, this kind of comfortable life is the people of that era who exchanged their lives for it. A country is composed of everyone, so we also have to do our duty, although now we do not have to go to war, but we have other important things to do, we have to love this country, when the country is facing all problems, each of us has the responsibility to do our duty to do our duty, but also believe that there is a country to have a home.
Pictured: Guo Ruixi as Lotus in the shooting scene, Guo Ruixi also often asked the actor Zhang Tong who played with her for the historical details of that year, Zhang Tong played the role of Wei Monk in the war drama "Bright Sword" in 2004 for the audience to be well known, and later he participated in a number of revolutionary film and television works, more familiar with the war years, he often took the initiative to tell the story of that year to young actors at the shooting scene, mobilizing everyone's creative enthusiasm.
Picture: Zhang Tong as Dai Xiangtao Zhang Tong: I am particularly respectful and even admired the young people of that era, let's take the current buzzword, I think their three views are particularly positive, life outlook, values, world view, three views are very positive, they know what is meaningful and what is meaningless. Then their significance may be measured by taking the interests of the vast majority of people as their answer. So when I was acting in the play "Red Guard", although I played a particularly unreliable person, this was only a means of communication on the surface. This character usually looks at Hanger Lang Dang, and his mouth is never idle, but his man's sense of responsibility, small wisdom, and many cute places. Including a lot of materials and historical materials, it also shows that this character is in his twenties, and he has abandoned the high-ranking officials in the family, Houlu, and the splendid future, and is willing to pay attention to those things that they think are worthy of attention, such as liberating all of China and defending the red regime. Why defend? Because with the Red Soviet power, more poor people can live a good life. We were shooting the last scene, I got off the hot air balloon, it was raining that day, it was very cold, both of my knees were broken, because finally my legs were broken, directly to the ground, I did not like to take knee pads, bang this knee is purple, I also slowed down for several days. But when I was acting in this scene, I would feel that suddenly I understood some of the beliefs and behaviors of my ancestors or these young people, and I felt that there was a lot of power in my heart, that is, he would not feel that he was miserable, and even that he was very happy. Although it may be very bitter, his heart is full of sunshine.
Pictured: Xu Min, a still actor in the TV series "Red Guard", played a member of the squad, and suffered some hardships during the filming process, but he felt very lucky because the experience of filming this drama made him have more understanding of the revolutionaries and the expression of true feelings. Xu Min: There is a scene in the play: Once, when we were passing through Chongqing Prison, the Kuomintang said that it was going to arrest me, and after I was arrested, everyone stood there together and sang the international anthem. First, the weather was indeed relatively cold, the second shooting environment was indeed more difficult, and the third was also integrated into the plot at that time, when everyone sang the international song together, the true feelings were revealed, and it was indeed felt that the revolutionary heroes of that year were not easy, and the scene was quite moving. This is also a thing that I am very happy and honored to participate in this play, not to perform an emotion, but more of a real feeling. We have won the victory of the Long March, and the Long March has passed eighty years ago, for the audience in front of the TV now, how will the spirit of the Long March be projected into their lives? Director Wang Ding believes that in this drama, contemporary youth can find spiritual resonance with the youth of eighty years ago.
Picture: Wang Ding, director of the TV series "Red Guard": The so-called Long March spirit is that no matter what situation you encounter, can you stick to your beliefs, do not give up, and do not give up while influencing others. So many people have sacrificed in the Long March, so many martyrs have paid the price of blood, now think about what we have done to be worthy of them? Is it still necessary for us to adhere to the original intention of that year - this original intention is to fight the world for the people, this is a thing I want to say. Actor Zhang Tong believes that generation after generation of young people continue to struggle to achieve their ideals, which is a kind of inheritance and development of the spirit of the Long March.
Picture: Stills of the TV series "Red Guard" Zhang Tong: I think the spirit of the Long March can be understood as perseverance to difficulties and eternal persistence towards the goal, of course, the premise of this goal must be good and good. Then I think that in our current society, we have many young people who have also inherited the spirit of the Long March, for a certain ideal in their minds, the ideal of career, the ideal of taking care of their families, etc., he will face many difficulties, but in the face of difficulties, he is not depressed, very positive to face, and find ways to continue to fight, then I think it is inherited a long march spirit.
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