The Epoch Report Drama "Those Days": Witnessing the Power of Reality

In recent years, around the "poverty alleviation" and "rural revitalization", a number of rural theme film and television works with both popularity and reputation have emerged, such as the movie "Eighteen-Hole Village" adapted from the true story of poverty alleviation in Hunan Eighteen-Hole Village; "My Hometown and Me" shows the rural style of the new era in the form of comedy; and the TV series "Mountains and Seas" comprehensively shows the "Minning Model" under the East-West cooperation poverty alleviation. But in general, there are still relatively few rural theme film and television works, and the image of farmers on the screen is not vivid and three-dimensional, and the works that make people shine are even more rare.

Recently, a rural theme 20-episode era report drama "Those Days" was broadcast on the TV screen and on the network platform at the same time, and the response was good. Some people believe that this is another "work of conscience" of rural theme TV series after "Mountains and Seas", which directly calls "enjoyable" after watching it, which makes people endlessly reminiscent. The drama is jointly produced by the China Agricultural Film and Television Center, Fuzhao Media (Fujian Pingtan) Co., Ltd., and the China Agricultural Film and Video Publishing House, and jointly produced by the Propaganda Department of the Fujian Provincial CPC Committee, the Fujian Provincial Radio and Television Bureau, and the China Agricultural Film and Television Center, and is a key drama of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. Since its launch on August 10 on Jiangsu Satellite TV and the whole network platform, it has won high reputation on many network platforms. The compact story, reasonable contradictions and conflicts and the touching poverty alleviation spirit of real people in the play have been widely praised by netizens. Up to now, the total number of "#电视剧那些日子" entry videos on a short video platform has exceeded 440 million times, which is better than the performance of many commercial dramas in the same period, and has repeatedly rushed to the Sina hot search list.

In recent years, there have been fewer high-quality tv dramas with rural themes, so what does this "Those Days" stand out for? The TV series takes 10 outstanding Communist Party members among the winners of the Poverty Alleviation Award as the prototype of the story, and the main creators can experience life and shape the characters from the perspective of farmers and audiences, so that the audience can deeply feel that such characters are not made up out of thin air, but grown out of the soil. Therefore, in the author's opinion, the creative attitude of going deep into life and taking root in the people, touching and infecting people with real characters and true feelings, may be an important factor in the success of "Those Days".

The "Beautiful Youth" unit tells the story of Huang Wenxiu, the winner of the "July 1st Medal". Touching people with true feelings is the key to this episode's gripping. Huang Wenxiu was going to brave the rain to rush back to the scene where Baixiao Village rushed to rescue and say goodbye to his parents, "One sentence, I am gone, how many Chinese's hearts have been stabbed." "It is precisely because of such people who carry the weight for us that we can live a happy life." These netizen comments make people happy to see the practical significance of TV dramas for young people in the new era to establish correct values. In the unit of "Shenshan Kitchen Lady", actor Fang Xiaoli wears the same mud-stained liberation shoes as the prototype characters, herds sheep on the rugged mountain road, carries a hundred pounds of moso bamboo down the mountain, and integrates with the prototype characters, playing this authentic farmer and also performing the inner tenacity of a peasant woman. For example, in the unit of "Longshang Flowers", the main theme of professional Household Ding Liuyuan successfully interpreted the legendary deeds of Li Xiaomei, the winner of the National Poverty Alleviation Dedication Award, who is disabled and zhijian, who led the villagers out of poverty. When the protagonist returns to the township with a high paraplegia, the villagers wait day and night, giving her the strength to be reborn. Some netizens sighed, "People live to this point, even if they have no regrets in this life..."

Liu Yanhong, producer and general director of the play, introduced that "truth" is the vitality of this drama. "Those Days" in line with the principle of combining authenticity and documentary, reasonable integration into the artistic expression of film and television dramas, there are no gorgeous props in the play, no exquisite makeup, but everything comes from real life, simple and natural. This TV series, which has only 20 episodes, was filmed by the crew in 10 former deeply impoverished villages in 8 provinces and regions, including Hainan, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Sichuan, and Hebei. The impact of real scenes and sincere emotions on the audience is obviously incomparable to the shooting of a film and television city. So when you see people and things on the screen that you have encountered when you grow up, you will be deeply attracted to it and can't help but resonate with it, which is the power of reality.

In the play, the audience saw the stubborn concepts and backward faces of some people in the original deep poverty village, and truly experienced the children's love of ordinary heroes, warm moments, and the difficulty of life, all of which carried a strong human fireworks. As a literary work, nothing is more powerful than the real force, and nothing is more penetrating than sincere emotion. The recognition of this rural drama by the audience and netizens is the recognition of the creator's sincere attitude towards filming, the recognition of the pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty, and the recognition of the mainstream values of the family and country feelings embodied in the play.

At present, the clarion call for rural revitalization has been sounded, and fiery scenes of rural struggle in the new era abound. Great times call for great creation, and rural theme film and television creation is promising. We believe that only when film and television creators take root in the vast land of China and extract creative materials from the practice of the broad masses of the people can they dedicate more fine works worthy of the people and the times. (Li Zhenlu)