The TV series "Big Waves and Sands" was launched on Zhejiang Satellite TV and Jiangsu Satellite TV last night, as a masterpiece of the theme drama "Ideal Shines on China - The State Administration of Radio and Television Celebrates the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China", it looks back at the history of struggle from the May Fourth Movement in 1919 to the "Seventh National Congress" in 1945 with a new creative concept. It is the magnificent history of the Communist Party of China chopping waves and turning the tide and leading the Chinese people to national independence, and the power of the formation of exciting ideals and beliefs is the most powerful sense of substitution in the TV series, which allows young audiences to follow the plot to trace the psychological journey, life choices, fate direction and faith of the early Chinese Communists.
Directed by Jiana Shahati, starring Bao Jianfeng and Cheng Taishen, and co-produced by Hangzhou Jiaping Film Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Shangshi Film, the drama uses a unique dual-time and space structure to answer the starting point of the creation of "Party History Drama". "In the early stage of script development, we often had feelings in the process of reading a lot of historical materials, and felt that looking back at history and learning party history was eager in our hearts. So we propose that why not use the process of young people learning and telling the history of the Party to run through the whole story. Shahati said that the results of the subsequent research among young people also confirmed the judgment of the main creator - "The young people of today have a real need to learn the history of the party in their hearts." "What the TV series has to do is to respond to needs in an artistic and youthful way.
Systematically sort out the history of the May Fourth Movement to the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and peel away the true meaning of "big waves and sandstorms"
From Shikumen in Shanghai to Jiaxing South Lake, a small red boat carries the people's trust and the hope of the nation. In 1921, the first national congress of the Communist Party of China was held, and Mao Zedong, Dong Biwu, Li Da and other deputies jointly witnessed the official launch of the Communist Party of China. But the early spread of Marxism in China begins with the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 and the outbreak of the May Fourth Movement. In "The Great Waves and Sands", the retrospective of modern young Chen Qihang also begins here.
The 40-episode series uses a contemporary historical perspective to look back at the many major events that took place from 1919 to 1945, namely systematically combing the history of the May Fourth Movement to the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China. In the past 26 years, it is not only the unremitting exploration of the early Chinese Communists and the search for truth to save China, but also the development trajectory of the Communist Party of China from scratch and from weak to strong. "The Great Waves and Sands" uses Chen Qihang to edit the nested dramatic structure of the party history video, stringing scattered events into strings.
"And the running of this history will also peel away the true meaning of 'big waves and sands.'" Shahati said: In that chaotic world where the road is bumpy and the doctrines are contentious, our revolutionary ancestors proved through arduous revolutionary practice that only by integrating Marxism with the concrete practice of the Chinese revolution can We save China. At the same time, with the development of the fate of mao zedong, Chen Duxiu, Dong Biwu, He Shuheng, Deng Enming and other early Chinese communists, the audience will also see that these figures who once set out side by side, because of their different choices at the turning point of history, eventually went to different fates. "On the road of revolution and under the tide of the times, if there is faith, there is confidence, and if you adhere to the original intention, you will blow all the wild sand to gold." Between the mirrors of the different fates of the characters, the true meaning of 'big waves and sands' is peeled off. ”
Borrowing the thinking and heart of young people, it adds first-person warmth and cordiality to the review of party history
Flipping through the creation of TV dramas on the theme of party history, voiceovers are not uncommon, but most of them are all-knowing perspectives, objective and calm. "The Great Waves and Sands" is very special, it borrows the thinking and heart of the young man Chen Qihang to add first-person temperature and cordiality to the review of the history of the Party.
Chen Qihang in the story, like ordinary young people in today's time, has the skills of the Internet age, and also has the confusion that the majors, interests and careers he has learned are difficult to integrate. The reason why his perspective can be substituted by the young people in front of the screen is not only because of the setting of age, occupation and living environment, but also because he decided to make a party history video. By chance, he took inspiration from the ups and downs of the early Chinese Communists' lives, and since then changed the content direction of the anchor, specializing in party history. Shahati said that this is the greatest significance of "The Great Waves and Sands" to open up the history of the Party from the perspective of contemporary youth.
In the follow-up plot, Chen Qihang received attention and controversy in the process of making a video of party history. Taking the party history video as an opportunity, he will also meet a group of friends, including grassroots party members, history fans, and peers who were once confused like him. In Shahati's view, the plot and the creative process have always had an intertextual relationship, "like Chen Qihang, our creation is also a process of constantly consulting historical materials, multi-faceted references to biographies, self-statements, and examination articles; similar to the troubles of young video creators in the story, we are also innovating under pressure whether young people can afford to tell the thick party history."
A few days ago, a sentence circulated among young netizens: "Is there a sequel to the TV series "The Age of Awakening"?" Your happy life today is the sequel! In "The Great Waves and Sands", Chen Qihang has a line that works in the same way, "The history created by 'One Big' continues to this day, and you and I live in it, and this is what attracts me." ”
In the view of the creator, the contemporary perspective in the play is the extension and emergence of historical time and space - under the historical time and space, what did the revolutionary ancestors do to cut through thorns? Chen Qihang, the producer of the video, and thousands of young people who are watching the show will understand that everything is for today's good life. In this way, the echo of history is embodied on the screen.
Author: Wang Yan Wang Xiaoli
Editor: Shi Wei