The popularity of "The Age of Awakening" has made everyone realize that the main theme of film and television works can also become blockbusters; the circle of "Mountains and Seas" has made everyone find that rural dramas with rural themes want to be seen by more people, not only can the funny style like "Country Love" be successful, it can also use documentary and grounded gas to infect people's hearts.
But "The Age of Awakening" and "Mountains and Seas" have been over for a long time, so where is the next high-quality main theme TV series? The answer is far away, close at hand - the recent high-profile rural revitalization theme network drama "On the Field of Hope".
Looking back at the plot of "On the Field of Hope", I have to say that in the case of the main theme becoming more and more difficult to come up with new, this just-concluded boutique country drama has indeed taken a key step in the "rejuvenation" of the main theme work.
"On the Field of Hope" is a rural revitalization network drama directed by Wang Junye, written by Rao Junren, and starring Cao Jun, An Yuexi, Luo Gang and Zhao Liang. The drama tells the story of Zhang Nan (Cao Jun), who is about to graduate with a master's degree, who is forced to return to his hometown Baiguo Village due to family changes, and serves as the captain of the team stationed in the village.
When he was a child, Zhang Nan was bent on getting out of the mountains and taking root in big cities. When I was about to graduate with a master's degree and was finally able to stay in Shanghai to work, the news came that my mother was ill. For the sake of his mother, Zhang Nan reluctantly gave up the great future of Shanghai and reluctantly returned to the native Baiguo Village as the captain of the team stationed in the village.
Baiguo Village is located in the mountains of Guizhou, in the days of working in Baiguo Village, Zhang Nan slowly changed his thinking, but also untied the childhood knot, with a gritty and indomitable character, and his girlfriend Bian Xiaoyue (An Yuexi) joined hands to devote himself to a broader rural cause, contributing to the revitalization of the countryside.
Such a plot introduction is very concise, and a touching rural story cannot be spread into a picture in front of everyone with a small amount of text, but it can be followed. After watching the whole play, you will deeply feel the power of "rejuvenation" expression of "On the Field of Hope". And this power happens to be facilitated by a team of young people behind the scenes.
The vast majority of the teams behind "On the Field of Hope" are young people. Among them, the screenwriter Rao Jun, young talents, many people know. He served as a screenwriter at a young age, and achieved such a popular fairy drama and costume drama as "Flowers and Bones" and "Ancient Dust", and the screenwriter's foundation is needless to say. But this 180-degree change in style and the writing of rural dramas related to rural revitalization were also a challenge for him.
Director Wang Junye also admitted that before the start of filming, during the preparatory period, the rural themes that were rarely dabbled in made many staff feel very confused. Later, this group of young creative team members really went deep into local life to know what is called seasonal water shortage; only to hear that it will snow in the south, and the snow is so big that it can break the wires; I went into the rural primary school to understand how the teachers dedicate their youth; when they saw the prototype characters of the team stationed in the village, they understood what is the hardship of abandoning the family and giving up their business, and also let everyone more personally appreciate the good intentions of the screenwriter Rao Jun in creating the play...
After learning about real country life, this young group of creators targeted the younger audience precisely and began to create. They chose to focus on the story of rural revitalization from the young perspective of young party members, which allowed us to see Zhang Nan's growth after solving rural problems again and again, and to see Xiao Yue's sense of responsibility for rural children to go to school.
Young people use the perspective of young people to tell the stories of young people involved in the cause of "rural revitalization", such a drama, who does not like to watch? There is no old and pedantic preaching, no big truth that is rigidly made up, and some are just thin water and long streams, and the silent truth of moisturizing things hits people's hearts.
It is worth mentioning that in addition to having a sense of reality, "On the Field of Hope" can also make people feel a strong sense of familiarity and youth, and while narrowing the distance between the main theme and young people, it also arouses the local feelings of countless audiences. Yungui specialties such as spicy chicken, sour soup horn fish, rice tofu and so on remind the Yungui young people who worked hard in the big city of the taste of their hometown when they were young; the scenes such as writing homework on the bench and carrying water with flat shoulders and wooden barrels made countless viewers sigh "Ye Qing Hui".
"On the Field of Hope" reflects reality, takes root in life, and takes advantage of rural themes to successfully break into the sinking market. Its video playback on platforms such as Kuaishou and Douyin has achieved good results, and the topic of Kuaishou end "Baiguo Village has encountered new problems" ranked 1st in the entertainment list, "Cao Jun's acting skills" ranked 4th in the entertainment list, and episode-related topics such as "Teacher Bian's Warm Heart Teaching Daily" and "Liu Chengxin's Humble Daily Life" have successively dominated the list, and the popularity has continued to rise. It can be said that the rural drama has truly entered the hearts of the rural people and the hearts of the masses.
Although "On the Field of Hope" has come to an end, in addition to thinking about the revitalization of the countryside, the problems such as "the balance between college students' return to their hometowns and the realization of the value of life" and "the contemporary young people's concept of love" reflected in the play are still worthy of our deep consideration, and on these issues, I believe that everyone can find their own answers in the play.
The main theme of the TV series, can also have in line with the young people's aesthetics of the mirror and shooting methods; college students graduating in the choice of big city bed or small city room at the same time, you can also consider returning to the hometown to do meaningful things, realize their own life value; and young people's sweet love, not only in the cinema to eat a bucket of popcorn, punch card red wine in the Internet red restaurant, it can also be the ideal to go together, hand in hand to find the meaning of life process.
Young people, if you have these thoughts after watching "On the Field of Hope", then the efforts of "On the Field of Hope" in the rejuvenation of the main theme work have not been in vain.
"On the Field of Hope" is in the front, and the back is not necessarily wooden. It is expected that more and more main theme works will follow on the road of "rejuvenation".