China News Service, Beijing, July 10 Title: Out of the Circle and the Basis of a Drama Interview with "Rebel" Director Zhou You
China News Service reporter Gao Kai
On the centenary of the founding of the Party, the large and small screens here frequently greeted the main theme of the explosion. In the TV drama market, during the first round of broadcast of the spy war drama "Rebel", the prime-time ratings for 20 consecutive days ranked first, with a total of 428 hot searches on the whole network, and the total reading volume of Weibo-related topics exceeded 20 billion, becoming a novel work out of the circle.
The director of the play, Zhou You, was interviewed by a reporter from China News Agency a few days ago, looking back at the creation scene of "Rebel", the young director talked about the most about the polishing of the script.
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Talking about the circle of "Rebels", Zhou You said bluntly, "I think the main factor is to tell a story that is pure and attractive enough. ”
"Rebel" is based on the novel of the same name by Yu Yu, the original work is only 40,000 or 50,000 words, the drama version of "Rebel" finally met with the audience at the length of 43 episodes, the script reached a volume of 400,000 to 500,000 words, Zhou You said that the entire adaptation expanded a lot of characters and events, the story spanned more historical stages, and the volume of adaptation was very large.
"Our general direction and principles have always been very clear, that is, to retain the structure and pattern of the original work, to present its cold and stoic temperament in its original taste, and to avoid any strong and straightforward value output as much as possible, which is what attracted me most at that time in the original work, so these principles should be said to be dead from the beginning, absolutely unshakable." Lobby around.
According to Zhou You, after the first version of the script came out, he and the screenwriting team spent nearly two years into it to polish the script in an all-round way, "The original book left us with great room to play, several professional screenwriters have a lot of wonderful creations, and our trade-off criteria are very simple, that is, whether it is in line with the tone we originally set." For this reason, many times a scene we will overturn three or four drafts. ”
It is this standard that keeps Rebel away from superficial design.
The hero and heroine in the play are shot at the same time, from the accumulation of emotions to the criticality of the plot, there are conditions for heavy painting, and even sensational processing, but what is finally presented to the audience on the screen is only a simple aerial shot in the drifting snow, cold and poignant.
"We did deliberately choose a more restrained and restrained way of expression, which is consistent with the trade-off criteria I originally talked about." In this regard, Zhou Lobby said.
As a work that focuses on depicting the protagonist's mental journey, "Rebel" is somewhat unique in its complete abandonment of narration and monologue, and Zhou You said: "We have read a lot of materials and found that the revolutionary ancestors on these hidden fronts are characterized by loneliness and forbearance. I tend to use more natural expressions to express this sad temperament rather than adding subjective interpretations from the creators. ”
deliberate
After the broadcast of "Rebel", its design of many key nodes that are not conventional and logical and inevitable has been appreciated by the audience, especially the emergence of "On Protracted War", which finally made the protagonist completely become a "rebel", which made many viewers shout "amazing".
On Douban, an audience member wrote, "On Protracted War is very familiar, but what is presented here is really blood-boiling, and the light in the dense darkness, Lin Nansheng and I can fully achieve empathy." ”
In this regard, Zhou You said: "For us, the large-scale layout of the character Lin Nansheng in front of this play is to hope to give his heart a convincing inevitability." As for where the landing point of this plot falls, we have repeatedly discussed and deliberated in the process of creating the script. Although Lin Nansheng is decadent and sad in Hong Kong, his heart is not dead, but every moment he wants to find a gap that can breathe, open it up, and then embrace the sunshine and hope. At this time, he heard the broadcast of Yan'an and heard "On Protracted War", which was actually something that combined the symbol of our whole being. ”
"A lot of viewers were thrilled to say this online, and I'm really happy to see that the audience fully felt the point that we had to think about over and over again." Lobby around.
detail
During the broadcast of "Rebel", from the heroine's college uniform to the different basketball courts of that year, from the gun models on different occasions to the currency categories at different points in time, the details that can stand the test in many dramas frequently arouse heated discussions among the audience.
Zhou You admitted, "We do spend a lot of energy on the handling of details, the story of "Rebel" is very legendary, and it is very tightly linked to the node of history, which requires us to do the trick as 'real' as possible." And this work, from the script creation to almost every detail. ”
Zhou You said that from the coins to guns that appear in each scene, the characters' clothing to the street scene signs, especially the details related to the plot, are determined according to the specific year, "These are basically written in the final script, and various departments then implement them according to these." ”
All of this, no matter how big or small.
For this kind of "fine cutting" that is almost costless, Zhou You said, "There may be some details that the audience has not noticed, but I think it is worth it, in fact, the hard work of our various departments has strengthened the overall texture of the whole play." This is like the relationship between qualitative variables, we do a lot of small work, spend a lot of thought, one or two may think you can take it off, but the atmosphere quality of the whole play is actually created by this detail, how to cut it is not excessive. ”
For some time, the creation of TV dramas here has experienced the loss of traffic, IP cooling, and even the small screen of the movie superstar "Xiafan" is difficult to win the favor of the audience, the root of which is related to the beginning of the creation of the book, this time following the zhou tour back to the creation scene of "Rebel", or from a certain point of view, once again confirmed the weight of the "book of a drama". (End)
Source: China News Network