For love "horizontal and vertical"

Morning reporter Yin Yin

Written by Wang Liping and starring Zheng Kai and Yuan Shanshan, the urban fashion light comedy "National Life" will land on Oriental Satellite TV and Zhejiang Satellite TV on October 9, and be broadcast simultaneously on Tencent Video. Yesterday afternoon, the drama held a premiere press conference in Shanghai, although a number of popular reality TV series have been created, but Wang Liping said bluntly: "Every time a new drama is launched, my heart is sincerely afraid, because for the screenwriter's creation, I have always maintained an original heart." In her view, at any time, we should excavate the truth, goodness and beauty in the lives of ordinary people, "insist on ourselves, insist on originality, adhere to realistic themes, and never become obsolete." ”

Twin Cities Love presents a north-south difference

Over the years, Wang Liping has always insisted on creating tv dramas with realistic themes, and "National Life" is a continuation of this creative style. The drama is narrated from the perspective of men and women in two metropolises, one south and one north, telling the twists and turns of love story between Wang Shuwang, a craftsman who longs for a "slow life", and Lu Lu, a young female screenwriter who pursues her dreams.

The collision of cultural differences between the north and the south presented in the play is vivid and interesting, which can be seen from the name of the male protagonist. The three words "Wang Shuwang" are pronounced in Shanghainese as "horizontal and vertical", which means "open-minded". Not limited to the love drama of "making heaven and earth", but through the presentation of two young people on the reality of desire and ideal collision, the confusion, growth and self-perception of contemporary young people are discussed. In the face of the obstruction of the love affair by the families of both sides and the setbacks in their respective careers, the two young people have shown the momentum of "horizontal and vertical" and worked hard for a lifetime with their lovers.

For why it is named "National Life", Wang Liping bluntly said that the inspiration comes from the famous saying "stage small world, world big stage", for every ordinary "national", real life is their small stage, "National Big Life" brings together these small stages to form the big life of the current people.

Zheng Kai checked the Shanghainese dialect for Yuan Shanshan

Since his debut, Zheng Kai has successfully shaped a series of northern youth images, making everyone almost forget that he is a Shanghainese. In Zheng Kai's view, Wang Shuwang's view of feelings is like the shabu-shabu lamb in old Beijing, "there is enthusiasm and passion." In his life, he can have no house or car, and his mind is full of thoughts about how to spend the best time with the people he loves most. ”

Zheng Kai's Beijing accent lines in the play are quite authentic. It turned out that after graduating from the Shanghai Theater Academy in 2008, he went to Beijing to develop, and he was already familiar with the way of life and language habits of Beijingers. If the characteristics of the Beijing guy are "fighting righteousness", then the Shanghai "囡囡" must be described as "嗲". Yuan Shanshan, who plays Lu Lu, is from Hubei, and her hometown dialect and Shanghai's Wu Nong soft language can be described as a world of difference, when filming "National Life", Yuan Shanshan was defeated in front of this "language barrier". She confessed that the Shanghainese she is most familiar with is the name "horizontal and vertical" in Zheng Kai's play, and other Shanghainese lines are often "stuck" when they speak, fortunately, Zheng Kai, a "native" of the tenth level of Shanghainese, corrects his pronunciation on the spot.

It is quite interesting that in the play, Lu Lu's profession is a young screenwriter, and in some dramatic events, the audience also peeks into the current situation of the colorful Chinese TV drama industry from one side. Similar professional backgrounds also make people think, will there be a shadow of screenwriter Wang Liping herself? In this regard, Wang Liping laughed and denied, "Screenwriters must jump out of their own lives and objectively write about other people's lives." So, my work never writes its own story. ”