In the memory of a generation, there is a generation of youth, but what should it be like during the War of Resistance? Artillery fire, rubble everywhere, mourning everywhere, this may be people's association with the war of resistance. But even in the tragic war years, there are joyful, lively, spring-like memories of youth. The original youth drama "Wild Bee Flying" takes us into her adolescence with the memories of an elderly man with yellow oranges.
This drama is adapted by Ouyang Yibing based on Huang Beijia's children's literature, directed by Zhong Hao and Liao Wei, planned by Jiangsu Cultural Investment Group and the Propaganda Department of Changzhou Municipal Party Committee, and produced by Jiangsu Grand Theatre and Jiangsu Children's Art Theatre, which closely links patriotism and youth revolution and interprets a scene of patriotic youth defending their families and defending the country.
At the beginning of the plot, the elderly yellow orange meets her young self in the memory, because the Anti-Japanese War broke out, the young she and her family moved from Nanjing to Chengdu Huaxiba together, although the situation is turbulent, there are also happy moments. Under the mulberry tree that once gave her happiness and happiness, the ten-year-old yellow orange greeted her father who returned from a long journey, and also welcomed the new member of the family that her father took back,—— Shen Tianlu, the son of her father's friend Shen Qiyun, around Shen Tianlu, the sudden "intruder" of the family, yellow orange from resistance, to acceptance, and then to worship, she personally experienced a series of events, Shen Tianlu was witty and clever for the "three chicken feathers" incident of yellow orange, and risked death to save her mother in the ruins of the bombing fire. Go to the construction site to move stones to earn money to buy a pikan shoulder for her mother to resist the autumn cold... Therefore, when Shen Tianlu was enlightened by the patriotic thinking of the Huang Orange family, after learning the story that his father, whom he had never met, had already sacrificed his life for the country, he surrendered to the air force without hesitation, embarked on the road of serving the country, and finally died with the enemy plane and sacrificed himself in the air battle against the enemy.
"Wild Bee Flying" shows the revolutionary theme in a very clever way, it is not like many regular dramas, focusing on the tragedy of war and the tragedy of sacrifice, but using a counterpoint to set off the theme. It shows the children's ramblings and the warm details of the family in a large section of the plot, interspersed with the struggle actions of revolutionary youth, and only uses a few sentences at the end of the play to brush shen Tianlu's sacrifice over, but such a layout not only does not weaken the theme, but it is evocative for a long time, which is the miracle effect brought by the contrast. This is a youth drama, at the beginning of the plot, the audience is infected by the youthful atmosphere that comes to the face. The yellow orange of the boyhood is innocent and lively, the family is happy and harmonious, the same has a garden with flowers, a fruit tree full of mulberries, the same loving parents, and brothers and sisters who love each other, as a teenage girl, yellow orange has the common characteristics of all girls of the same age, and has also sold cute around her father, and will also let her father buy a favorite pencil box, and please her brother and sister to be a lobbyist, and will also steal her brother's belongings because of selfishness, and will also proudly introduce her brother to junior high school classmates. Don't forget to add: "He's a high school student." Her careful thoughts, hobbies, and even little vanity are no different from today's girls, but she lived in a period of war and war, with enemy planes flying overhead from time to time and unexpected bombardments, constantly reminding people that this was a war of resistance years when we were invaded by the Japanese Kou, and it was: "If we don't go to war, the enemy kills us with bayonets, and points at our bones and says, Look, this is a slave!" "The cruel years." Therefore, her peaceful life was constantly broken, first her brother and sister joined the army to serve the country, and finally even the most gracious brother Tianlu also rushed to the battlefield, since then the relatives were separated, the flesh and bones were separated, Shen Tianlu as one of the protagonists of the plot, his integrity and kindness and character that stood up to the sky left a deep impression on the audience, but it was such a beautiful teenager, and finally sacrificed in the war against aggression. Lu Xun said that tragedy is the destruction of valuable things in life for people to see. The drama uses the harmonious warmth of Professor Huang's family to reflect the cruelty and ruthlessness of the invaders, the simple innocence of the teenager to reflect the tragic crimes of the war of aggression, and the death of the beautiful teenager to reflect the great eternity of the revolutionary cause.
The form of expression of "Wild Bee Flying" is also unique. The symbol connecting the plot is the piano song "Wild Bee Flying Dance", its story comes from the legend of the prince incarnating as a wild bee to take revenge, symbolizing that I do not let the land of China, who if you offend me, do not wear the national integrity of the sky, the song of "Wild Bee Flying Dance" as a clue to connect the whole play, in different occasions continue to appear, initially the elderly yellow orange in the mind sounded the "Wild Bee Flying" fragment, thus pulling up childhood memories, to the teenager Yellow Orange took Shen Tianlu to the school piano room, playing this unlearned song, Before Shen Tianlu joined the army, he explained to his sister that he must play this song well and wait for him to return, and the old yellow orange was full of sorrow and anger, passionately interpreting this song from eighty years ago. A song "Wild Bee Flying" symbolizes the vibrant youth stirring, symbolizes the revolutionary hardships of the blue wisps of the road, and symbolizes the indomitable national spirit. As the title and title of the play, it brings the audience into a passion that echoes the rapid melody of the repertoire again and again in the continuous repetition and interpretation of the stage, which is a metaphorical expression of the main theme of the revolution. Moreover, the play sets up the old and juvenile images of yellow oranges, which resolves the alienation brought by the era gap of the story to the audience, it takes the perspective of yellow oranges in the old age as the starting point, puts the narrative background in the present, and even modern words such as "iron powder" and "brain residue powder" appear in the language of the people in the play, which suddenly closes the distance between the audience and the actors, and then pulls the plot back to eighty years ago in the way that the people in the play go back, that is, natural and ingenious, although the drama cannot be montage-style editing like the movie. However, the choreographer arranged for the elderly yellow orange and the young yellow orange to appear in the same time and space, which not only facilitates the free switching of the storyline, but also makes people feel the life of the "deceased like a sifu". Shen Tianlu joined the army before leaving, should have bid farewell to the young sister, but he went to the old yellow orange, so that the trick of traveling through time and space is full of different metaphors, touching and sentimental, if there is really a soul in the world, we should say to those heroes like Shen Tianlu, who threw their heads and spilled their blood for the liberation of new China: "The mountains and rivers are unharmed, the country is safe, and today's prosperity is as you wish!" ”
Liang Qichao wrote in "Young China Talk": "Teenagers are strong and the country is strong", teenagers are the hope of the country, this drama takes teenagers as the object, integrates rich and lively forms of expression into the broad and profound revolutionary theme, not only the content is healthy, but also full of life, for example, interspersed with family scenes in the Sichuan dialect, which makes people can't help but be funny; some plots are played by young children, increasing the sense of reality; traditional Chinese ethics and morality are also reflected in the play - Yellow Orange stole his brother's pencil box and felt guilty. Shen Tianlu blamed himself for not fully comity to his sister, etc., these small details made the drama a revolutionary theme of the play, but it echoed with the audience, almost no era of estrangement, really achieved in-depth life, rooted in the people, in the humor to see the solemnity, in the daily ambition, in the solemnity of the profound, both far-reaching theme, but also full of passion, worthy of an excellent revolutionary theme of youth drama.
Correspondent: Wang Biao
Proofread by Faye Wong
Source: Purple Cow News