Reporter: Meng Ying Yan Hong
The long-form tv series "Marshal Peng Dehuai" with a major revolutionary historical theme is being broadcast in prime time on our comprehensive channel. This drama is the first TV series with a panoramic account of Peng Dehuai's revolutionary career, which vividly expresses Peng Dehuai's legendary life. In order to restore history more realistically, the screenwriters, directors, and actors have done a lot of work, such as field investigations, reading historical materials, and searching for the deceased. Today we will go behind the scenes of this drama and see how the revolutionary historical drama is made.
"Marshal Peng Dehuai" is the first TV series to tell a panoramic account of Peng Dehuai's revolutionary career. Peng Dehuai was born on October 24, 1898, to a poor peasant family in Pengjiaweizi, Wushi Township, Xiangtan, Hunan. The TV series "Marshal Peng Dehuai" begins with Peng Dehuai killing a local bully in 1920 when he was a soldier in the Xiang Army, and recalls Peng Dehuai's magnificent life of joining the Communist Party, joining the Red Army, experiencing the Long March, the War of Resistance Against Japan, the War of Liberation, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and the construction of a new China.
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Director Song Yeming: "Marshal Peng's entire journey was through the Red Army period, the War of Resistance Against Japan, the War of Liberation, and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea after the founding of the People's Republic of China, various stages of war, as the people's liberation army's war course, he has experienced all of them, and through this film, he can see his combat history more comprehensively. ”
In addition to showing Peng Dehuai's military career, the play also portrays his chivalrous tenderness as a man and a husband, and his unswerving loyalty to love.
Director Song Yeming: "In the past, we showed marriage relatively little, from this play, it is his first wife, and with Anna and Pan Xiu, the marriage relationship of the three women, in this play are very fully displayed, and Mr. Peng is more loyal on marriage issues, he will not be with two women at the same time, which is very worthwhile." ”
Marshal Peng Dehuai's life is a history of the Chinese revolution, and how to write about the ups and downs of China's national destiny in the past hundred years and how to write Peng Dehuai's firm communist feelings during the arduous war years is a difficult problem facing screenwriter Ma Jihong.
Screenwriter Ma Jihong: "When I first accepted this task, in general, I still had real feelings for Mr. Peng, I myself grew up in the army, I was a soldier at the age of 15, and now more than 40 years have passed, so after receiving this task, there is indeed a kind of, that is, both sacred, but there are some trepidations. ”
Ma Jihong, a military writer who has written such military-themed TV dramas as "Li Dazhao," "Peng Zhen," and "Glorious Journey," is very serious about creating the script of "Marshal Peng Dehuai," because this is the first literary and artistic work that shows Peng Dehuai's life in a panoramic way, and Ma Jihong has made a lot of preparations for this.
Screenwriter Ma Jihong: "Before we wrote the script, we first went to his hometown, visited the Peng Dehuai Memorial Hall, and then went to Pingjiang, where I learned what faith is, and then we went to Jinggangshan. There I felt what it was to be strong, and then to the northern Shaanxi province where he turned to fight, where they said that they were only General Peng Da, so it was such a step by step, including the people around him, there are many historical materials. ”
With a good script, the next step is to have good actors to three-dimensional Marshal Peng Dehuai in the text. Actor Dong Yong was born into a military family, his parents were fighters to resist the United States and aid Korea, and he was a soldier under Peng Dehuai. After being selected to play Marshal Peng Dehuai, Dong Yong learned about that period of history from his parents for the first time and the feelings of his parents' generation for Peng Dehuai.
Peng Dehuai played by Dong Yong: "I got very few words, two people of my parents, one of them probably said a word, my father said, Peng Dehuai in their minds, is an idol, is a hero; my mother said that if there is really a crew to find you to play Peng Dehuai, it is our family's three lives lucky." ”
With the support of his parents, Dong Yong's confidence in shaping Marshal Peng Dehuai was even stronger.
Peng Dehuai played by Dong Yong: "It can only be acted well, can not be played, so I am particularly cautious, before I started filming I went to Peng Zong's hometown, went to the place where he lived when he was a child, went to his cemetery, went to his memorial, I feel that there is the least commercial atmosphere, the most humanistic feelings." ”
In addition to experiencing Peng Dehuai's living environment on the ground, Dong Yong also strengthened his desk work.
Dong Yong, played by Peng Dehuai: "I have read about 11 biographies, some published in China, some from Hong Kong, some from the United States, and the memoirs of North Korea written by the generals of the Korean War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. ”
This TV series also shows the image of Comrade Xi Zhongxun in the revolutionary period for the first time, and his relationship with Marshal Peng Dehuai, who is also a teacher and friend, is highly anticipated.
Wang Pengkai, played by Xi Zhongxun: "In this play, I play Comrade Xi Zhongxun, mainly focusing on the history of the Liberation War and the early liberation period. I looked through a lot of relevant materials, such as Xi Zhongxun's collection of essays, hoping to figure out this role from all angles. ”
The theme song "Big Hero" shows Peng Dehuai's lifelong belief in firmly following the party through an easy-to-sing melody, and plays a role in finishing the plot and deepening the theme.
Composer Wang Liguang: "We usually feel that there is a misunderstanding, that is, everyone attributes such song works and even works of art to the main melody that are not good, not good to sing, not even easy to pass on, pass this, and sing such song works and even works of art. Then the actual main theme is the mainstream concept, because more people like it, more people pay attention to it is called the main theme. Then it requires us to listen well and sing well, and at the same time, there must be a soul in every work, so what is this soul, it is precisely the soul in Marshal Peng Dehuai's heart, that is, the firm belief. ”
"Whoever dares to slash at the sword is the only general Peng." This poem by Mao Zedong wrote about Peng Dehuai's lifelong bravery and good fighting, and the TV series "Marshal Peng Dehuai" also performed the revolutionary nature of Peng Dehuai's life. Through this TV series, we relive the bloody rain and wind of the last century, and also feel the revolutionary feelings and patriotic enthusiasm of the communists represented by Peng Dehuai.