The 1905 Film Network Special Draft National Poverty Alleviation Summary and Commendation Conference was solemnly held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on the morning of February 25. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, presented awards to the winners of the honorary title of National Model for Poverty Alleviation and solemnly declared:
Through the joint efforts of the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups in the country, at the important moment of ushering in the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, China has won a comprehensive victory in the battle against poverty.
Plant a tree to nourish generations; light a lamp to illuminate a city.
In order to cooperate with the major publicity of the decisive battle against poverty and the decisive victory over the comprehensive well-off, the feature film "The Era of a Thousand And Clear Blues" has been released in theaters nationwide, depicting a "long volume of poverty alleviation and well-off".
In the spring of 1963, Jiao Yulu, secretary of the Lankao County Party Committee, in order to prevent wind and sand fixation and help farmers get rid of poverty, personally planted a young tree, which people affectionately called "Jiaotong". Today, "Jiao Tong" has grown into a big tree, becoming a symbol of Jiao Yulu's spirit, and Lankao has also been soaked like a sea.
In the summer of 1990, when General Secretary Xi Jinping was the secretary of the Fuzhou Municipal Party Committee, he filled out a poem "Nian Nu Jiao And RememberIng Jiao Yulu" after reading "The People Call for Jiao Yulu" at night, which was full of his deep remembrance of Comrade Jiao Yulu:
The soul flies thousands of miles, looking forward to returning, this water, this mountain, this place.
Who among the people does not love officials? Turn tears into rain.
Birth is also sand dune, death is also sand dune, father and elder life and death system.
Twilight snow towards frost, do not change the hero's spirit!
The moon is still as bright as ever, the night of sijun, the liver and gallbladder are as long as washing.
The road is long and the road is far away, and the breeze in the sleeves comes and goes.
For the sake of serving as an official, benefiting one party, the business was leveled.
Green I trickle, will it be a thousand acres of clear blue.
This lofty poem "Nian Nu Jiao, Remembrance of Jiao Yulu" uses the phrase "Who among the people does not love officials?" The tears are scorched into rain" "The road is long and its repair is far away, and the two sleeves of the breeze come and go" makes a poetic image summary of Jiao Yulu's spirit, "green I trickle, it will be a thousand acres of clear blue" conveys the concept of the times of "trickling power gathers majestic power" - countless grass-roots cadres contributed a drop of water with the help of the people, and together gathered into a world of thousands of acres of clarity, giving back to the Chinese people a better new era.
The movie "The Age of a Thousand And Clear Blues" is named here, implying that the great battle of poverty alleviation in the new era has brought about earth-shaking changes in the overall well-off.
Li Dongxue: When I first took over the play, my heart was worried
Produced by the Program Center of the Movie Channel, "The Age of a Thousand Clear Blues" tells the story of Lu Jingsheng, a hot-blooded young man who wants to find a way out of China's rural areas in academia, and meets the cadres at all levels in Lankao represented by Fan Zhongzhou, deputy secretary of the county party committee, and Han Suyun, township secretary, and leads the people to fight for three years, and finally changes the county town that has not been able to get rid of poverty for half a century, and paints a long scroll of well-off prosperity in Lankao today.
Lu Jingsheng is played by Li Dongxue, a young actor from Henan, as an ambassador of the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, he is no stranger to China's contemporary county grassroots cadres represented by Lu Jingsheng, "When I was in school in my hometown, I knew Lankao and Jiao Yulu very well. Now when we make "The Age of a Thousand Clear Blues", we must not only carry forward the spirit, but also report an excellent result to the audience. ”
At the end of the movie, Lu Jingsheng also borrowed Lu Jingsheng's mouth to point out the meaning of the title: "The future of China is a thousand acres of crystal clear, with my strength!" ”
For the title of "The Age of a Thousand And Clear Blues", Li Dongxue believes that this represents a very harmonious and beautiful life, full of poetic feelings and historical heights. He said: "This line is our last shot, one day on the Yellow River, I told Ning Dao that we can adjust a sentence or add a word - that is, the future of China's thousand acres of clear blue, that is an ideal, that is a picture outlined, there is a strength of mine." Because we were on the yellow river at that time, the trickle of water merged into a river, which is the future of China. In fact, this film not only allows poverty alleviation workers to find resonance, but each of us can feel that we can contribute our own strength to the country, including everyone who watches this movie, everyone to exude their own energy, constituting a thousand acres of clear blue in the future Of China. ”
According to director Ning Jingwu, when Li Dongxue was originally selected as the male protagonist, he wanted to find an image that matched the financial elite temperament of Lu Jingsheng's role in henan actors. As a Native of Henan, when Li Dongxue received the invitation to this film that reflected the poverty alleviation in his hometown, he naturally wanted to act very much, but he was also very nervous, especially when he made this film at the doorstep, he was afraid that the audience would not be moved, so he used a more cordial Henan dialect in moderation under the director's suggestion.
In order to help Li Dongxue shape Lu Jingsheng, a financial elite, director Ning Jingwu gave him several books to do his homework, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Yunus's "The Banker of the Poor" and "Wang Anshi's Transformation law" edited by historian Qi Xia. Many of the inspirations and ideas in these books are all confirmed in the "Era of a Thousand And Clear Blues", and the epitome of Lu Jingsheng, a grassroots cadre sent by the SECURITIES Regulatory Commission to help the poor in Lankao, a young financial worker who has refined the typical, and a village secretary, shows the necessity and importance of financial poverty alleviation, as well as the spiritual outlook of China's poverty alleviation.
In order to embody the image of grassroots cadres who inherit the spirit of Jiao Yulu, Li Dongxue deeply understood the life of Secretary Jiao and repeatedly studied the film "Jiao Yulu". He said: "After so many years, we have returned to Lankao to make a film, whether there is some potential connection between the two films, or a dialogue that spans time and space, whether 'The Age of a Thousand And One Clear Blues' can give an answer or complete an answer, this is a question that we often communicate in our shooting." ”
Subsequently, Li Dongxue followed the director and made the first Lankao trip in his life. On this trip, he saw the county government made of red bricks full of the atmosphere of the times, and paid homage to Secretary Jiao in Jiaotong Square, but what brought him more was shocked - the appearance of Lankao and the movie "Jiao Yulu" has long been completely different, and it has long been transformed from a poor county town with wind and sand and salt to a modern city full of greenery and vitality, which can be said to be turned upside down. This in turn made him think about what China would look like in the future. What will China's thousands of acres of clarity look like in the future?
During his days in Lankao, he found that the grassroots poverty alleviation cadres were so energetic and idealistic, and they worked in the village for a long time like chicken blood and were separated from their families. Such a huge effort makes it inevitable for these poverty alleviation cadres to wipe their tears when they tell their own stories, but if they are asked whether they think it is worth it, their answer is so firm - they still think it is worth it.
Here, Li Dongxue also used the platform of "China Film Report" to express his deep respect for the grassroots cadres who still insisted on the front line: "It is particularly rare to have such an opportunity to complete the filming of the film "The Era of a Thousand And a Thousand Clear Blues", which is a story based on the epitome of all the first secretaries in China, but it is you who have really worked hard to pay your first secretaries who are struggling in the forefront, and I sincerely salute you. May we enjoy the most pleasant time in the new year under the clear sky, and sow the best hope in the clear fields of thousands of acres. ”
Ning Jingwu: A financier in the director
Compared with Li Dongxue, director Ning Jingwu began to create poverty alleviation works as early as 2015 "For this land", 2016 "Mao Fengmei", and 2019 "Woodman Liao Junbo".
For Lankao, director Ning Jingwu's impression is more from the 90th version of "Jiao Yulu", which also has a dialogue across time and space with "The Age of a Thousand And Clear Blues". In the 90th edition of "Jiao Yulu", Secretary Jiao led the masses to plant paulownia to resist the wind and sand, but today, we see in the movie that the "Jiaotong" planted by Secretary Jiao has become a base for making folk music such as guqin, guzheng, yangqin, pipa, etc., which also reflects the theme of the movie "poverty alleviation before helping aspirations" - that is, changing the thinking of the poor people from the concept.
After coming to the local area, at first the villagers thought that the crew was filming film and television entertainment works, and then gradually realized that what was filmed was their poverty alleviation, that is, their real life, so the villagers' feelings for the crew became closer and closer, and many people became friends. This also reminds Ning Jingwu of the 90 version of "Jiao Yulu", there are also many villagers who joined the film shooting, when the crew was killed, they were very reluctant to teacher Li Xuejian, and they were reluctant to leave Lankao.
The spirit of Jiao Yulu that runs through the film is divided into two parts in his view, one part is the spirit of blood dedication of rights for the people, and the other part is the spirit of chasing science and continuous innovation of Jiao Yulu chasing paulownia technicians at the railway station - this spirit is also reproduced in the story of Lu Jingsheng helping Lankao get rid of poverty through financial poverty alleviation in "The Age of a Thousand Acres of Clear Blue", continuing the development of Jiao Yulu's spirit; and the image of Secretary Jiao also appears again on the statue of Jiao Yulu in Jiaotong Square, which Lu Jingsheng looks up to at the end of the film. and on the bronze statue on the finalized poster.
"The Age of a Thousand And Ones" wants to show a new Lankao, showing a change from the Lankao of the Jiao Yulu era to the Lankao completed by the battle against poverty, which is also the process of re-reading the Lankao and deeply reading the Lankao for director Ning Jingwu. Since the story begins in Lankao in 2014, that is, to restore Lankao at the beginning of the battle against poverty, the filming location chosen for the film is actually the village that people are about to demolish, which is deliberately retained as a film. The dirt roads and commissaries in the film are improvised scenes.
There is also a special reason why this film chose Ning Jingwu as a director, that is, his financial background. Before attending film school, he worked for five years in the bank's investment research institute, which is one of the most economic and financial directors. Therefore, in the film, he refused to blindly talk about dedication, dedication and bitterness in the story, but instead showed a very important link in China's poverty alleviation methodology in a panoramic and all-round way - financial poverty alleviation, which is a worldwide topic, providing valuable experience for the world's resolute work of poverty alleviation.
Director Ning Jingwu
For the original intention of the creation of this film, Ning Jingwu said: "China has done such a big project in a five-year span of time, so that two-thirds of the poor people can get rid of poverty, which is a very great cause, but only through fragmented news reports, many people can't understand it, so I hope that through our panoramic in-depth display, in addition to telling the efforts of poverty alleviation cadres, and the embodiment of Jiao Yulu's spirit in today's cadres, I also hope to talk about China's poverty alleviation innovation - organizational innovation, method innovation, precision strategy. In this way, he completed the world-wide feat and told this Chinese story well. ”
Such a huge project, how to show it through small people or small entry points? For the poverty alleviation battle that truthfully reflects "true poverty alleviation and real poverty alleviation", "The Era of a Thousand Clear And Clear Blue" must continue to dig deep on the basis of previous film and television works, study the root causes of poverty, and study the real difficulty of poverty alleviation, only in this way can we complete the description of the battle against poverty. Therefore, on the basis of a large number of interviews, Ning Jingwu found a large number of character archetypes and refined them, and finally established more than 15 characters with personalities, showing the style of poverty alleviation with group portrait roles, making poverty alleviation scripts with a long novel paradigm, and writing poverty alleviation in a deep realist way.
What made him most pleased was that many poverty alleviation cadres did not realize from the beginning that the battle against poverty was such a huge and hard-hitting battle, and when they personally participated in this great cause of changing history, the sense of happiness and joy was deeply rooted in their hearts. When "The Age of a Thousand And a Thousand Clear Blues" was screened on a small scale in Henan, the resonance of these cadres was beyond imagination, and this resonance stemmed from the glory and emotion in their hearts that was witnessed on the big screen, which made Ning Jingwu gain an unprecedented sense of achievement.
As a director, Ning Jingwu's greatest wish is that twenty years later, when audiences around the world want to understand China's poverty alleviation, "The Age of a Thousand And Clear Blues" is a model.