"This is the story I want to write the most in my life!"
Yesterday, when Zhou Mason saw the TV series "Breakout" based on his novel "The People's Property" broadcast, he said:
It takes courage to write such a story, which is by no means an industrialized, routine creation of "The Name of the People 2", but a shock hidden in my heart for more than 30 years. For my age, more than a million words, 5 years to complete, this is tantamount to a battle, a lonely battle!
30 years
Two shocks
4 years ago, Zhou Mason's "In the Name of the People" was broadcast and spread all over the country.
In 2017, "In the Name of the People" was a national hit
It has been rumored that Zhou Mason wants to push "The Name of the People 2", and even at a TV conference last year, Yaoke also announced the title of the play - "The People's Property", which the public is looking forward to.
Finally, this week, after the show was renamed "Breakout", it met with the audience.
Sure enough, the show only aired one episode on the first day and won 21 hot searches.
On the first day of the first broadcast of "Breakout", it swept the screen hot search
Like "In the Name of the People", Zhou Mason also arranged the story of "Breakout" in Jingzhou.
In the story, qi Ben'an (Jin Dong), Lin Manjiang (Huang Zhizhong) and Shi Hongxing (Yan Ni) are three protagonists who are orphans of the mining disaster, they come from different families, they are adopted by the organization to be played by Xi Meijuan, and when they grow up, they each embark on a leadership position in a state-owned enterprise.
Jin Dong as Qi Ben'an
The audience can see that they have different values in the context of the same era, some people give in and some people insist, some people compromise and some people take responsibility, and the dark side of human nature coexists with brilliance.
Huang Zhizhong as Lin Manjiang
The life choices faced by the characters in the play are just like Jin Dong said: "Don't say that it is the leader of a state-owned enterprise, that is, in our daily life, we will definitely encounter relatives and friends around us who come to you to help with things, at this time, we must adhere to the principle and bottom line of being a person." ”
Yan Ni as Shi Hongxing
Of course, in the end, there must be someone who keeps the original intention in the face of temptation, is loyal to conscience and faith, and stands out from the siege.
The story is inseparable from Zhou Mason's life experience.
In 1974, after graduating from high school, Zhou Meisen became a miner in the Hanqiao Coal Mine of xuzhou mining bureau.
There, Zhou Mason became friends with some of his peers, "Several of the children I know have been orphaned because of the mining accident, the youngest is 15 years old, the eldest is 17 years old, the organization arranges for people to raise them to grow up, and also sends them to the workshop to learn a skill." ”
Director Zhou Mason
When those children entered middle age, some became model workers, some took up leadership positions..." I also saw that some of them made mistakes in management positions and were arrested and imprisoned, so I was shocked by their stories again. That's when I wanted to write their stories. But it wasn't until 30 years later, when "In the Name of the People" opened up a good writing territory, that I began to write. ”
5 years
Thousands of modifications
That year, before preparing to shoot "Breakout", Zhou Meisen told Lu Chao, general manager of Shanghai Yaoke Media: "This is not 'The Name of the People 2', nor is it a case, and it may lose the original audience." ”
Lu Chao said: "Excellent works do not routine! ”
As a result, Zhou Mason opened a "lonely battle", polishing back and forth, which lasted 5 years.
I want to make this drama into a work of Qingming and Shanghe schema, which should not only show state-owned enterprises, but also small and medium-sized private enterprises, and show the lives of contemporary people at all levels to the audience from my perspective. I'm a writer and creating is my greatest interest.
In "Breakout", the audience will see that Zhou Meisen takes the reform of state-owned enterprises as the incision, and various figures such as senior party and government officials, corporate executives, newspaper reporters, and vulnerable groups at the bottom have appeared on the scene to portray the faces of all sentient beings.
"Breakthrough" portrays the faces of all sentient beings with the reform of state-owned enterprises as an incision
Looking back at the creation of these 5 years, Zhou Mason said: "This drama has been revised more than 1,000 times, remade twice, and it took a lot of effort, and the whole creative team paid a lot. ”
During the filming process, Zhou Mason saw the persistence and efforts of a group of excellent TV people. Zhou Mason said: "This play is very difficult, the amount of lines is also very large, especially the work-related lines are not only large, but also very professional. Everyone in the crew is getting creative and adding to the show. Every actor has worked hard for this play, and director Shen Yan has also spent a lot of time and energy on this play. Just imagine, if the script is not good, the director is a little worse, and the actor reads a 'one-two-three-four-five' instead of the line, then the play can't be watched. ”
Because Zhou Mason's drama has always been large and difficult to line, when filming this drama, the actors have "secretly" hidden in their respective rooms to work hard, find assistants to help with words, and some assistants are repeatedly "tortured" and even can memorize the lines of other actors.
stingy
east
"In the previous scenes, I attacked first, or I came to provoke this dispute, and this time in "Breakout", the people around me except Huang Zhizhong, they are all 'surrounded', only I am 'sudden' outside. I can only choose to be conditioned and stuffed there. Jin Dong said, "In March 2018, director Shen Yan handed me the script of the 20 episodes that had just come out, and I struggled for almost half a year. But then I thought, I don't know if there will be a play in the future that can bring together so many excellent actors, such a strong lineup, so I came. ”
yellow
will
disloyal
Compared with Jin Dong's hesitation, Huang Zhizhong frankly said that as soon as he received the script, he was moved by all the characters, he said: "Zhou Mason is really powerful, and a play can carve out the state, personality and color of each character." I was most fascinated by the lines, and during the filming, I was fighting with the lines every day after I went back to my room! The amount of lines is too large, and at the same time it is very exciting, and what we have to do is to show the amount of information in the lines vividly, accurately, and vividly. ”
Yan
maid
Speaking of working her lines, Yan Ni also said: I remember that the assistant of the period said my lines every day, and one day, we had breakfast together, and he was still memorizing my words. I asked him how you had said all my lines, and he said that because I had to recite words with the period teacher every day, I would memorize them. ”
On the night of the premiere of "Breakout", Zhou Meisen also stood in front of the TV set like the audience, saying: "The book has been listed nationwide, and the TV series has also been broadcast on Oriental Satellite TV and Zhejiang Satellite TV. It's like a festival, with more than a million words of hard work, and 30 years of anticipation has finally landed. ”
Zhou Mason's new book and the original work of the TV series "Breakout"
The People's Property
At the age of 13
A famous quote
From a coal miner to being known as "the first person in China's political novel", Zhou Meisen has won many awards such as the National Book Award, the National Five One Project Award, the China Television Feitian Award, and the China Television Golden Eagle Award.
"Born in this age,
My work cannot but be concerned with this era. ”
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In Zhou Mason's mind, the idol who led him to create was Balzac. At the age of 13, Zhou Mason got an old book from an old man who collected rags, although there were more than a dozen pages missing, this "Biography of Balzac" deeply attracted Zhou Maison, who still remembers a sentence written by Balzac under napoleon's statue: "You conquer the world with your sword, I will conquer the world with my pen!" Teenager Zhou Mason secretly swore: "When I grow up, I will also be China's Balzac!" ”
Balzac
Much like Balzac's life experience of floating in the sea and running a soap factory and a printing plant, Zhou Mason has worked as a coal miner, as a deputy secretary-general of the municipal government, done business, and speculated in stocks... These experiences broadened the subject matter and horizons of his creations.
I live in a period when China broke away from the planned economy and moved toward a market economy and toward comprehensive reform. My own life path is almost synchronized with reform and opening up, without reform and opening up, there would be no me today. As a screenwriter, I work hard and don't get lazy. Just like when I made this "Breakout", I didn't come for the sake of profit, but with a sense of mission and to fulfill the wishes of life. I believe this drama will remain in the history of Chinese TV dramas.
The creation continues,
Zhou Mason said:
"There may be a story of Kyoju in the future..."
New Performing Arts Studio
Author: Wu Xiang
Editor: Wu Xuying
Image: Image courtesy of the film, partly from the web
© Xinmin Evening News Cultural Department