"This is my first time to do a serious screenwriting, before I saw many people on the Internet to describe, the original is the mother, the script adaptation is the stepmother, has not understood this meaning, now a little feeling." 」 The TV series "Heart Residence", which is based on the novel of the same name, recently released a 1 minute and 42 second trailer for the first time, and the main characters played by Haiqing, Tong Yao, Zhang Songwen and Feng Shaofeng appeared one by one. Under the slogan of "there is a house, the heart dwells", Teng Huatao, the director who once directed "Snail Residence", and the powerful cast are regarded as the highlights of this realistic theme film and television drama; the adaptation of the script written by Teng Xiaolan, the author of the original novel, is another reason for the audience to look forward to the play - "At least it will not be 'magic reform'." ”
At the first event of the "Jing'an Pulpit" launched by the Jing'an District Writers Association and the Jing'an District Library, Teng Xiaolan described the feeling of adapting the script in this way - "mother" is spontaneous, writing the script is completely two different things, "careful, trembling", "the script is the crystallization of collective labor, although I am writing, but the main creative team - the director, producer, planner will continue to adjust according to the way you write." The novel is more subjective, the script is more objective, I will think, will the audience like this place? Writing a novel doesn't always think about whether readers will like it or not. ”
Taking the house as the starting point, "Heart Residence" shows the Gu family of four generations in the same house, and there are old Shanghainese who were born and raised in the story, there are Zhiqing who left Shanghai when they were young, and there are new Shanghainese who are working hard by the younger generation. In the TV series, Haiqing and Tong Yao play a pair of sisters-in-law - Feng Xiaoqin, daughter-in-law of the Gu family, and Gu Qingyu, the eldest daughter of the Gu family; Gu Qingyu has two suitors, one is an upstart who speculates in the house, and the other is the first love "White Moonlight", played by Zhang Songwen and Feng Shaofeng respectively.
On the cast list of "Heart Residence", the "leading actors" Haiqing, Tong Yao, and Zhang Songwen added "sorted by surname initials", and Feng Shaofeng performed another act of "specially invited starring", which became a topic at the beginning of the announcement of the TV series lineup. Teng Xiaolan, as the original author and screenwriter, admitted, "I didn't think about writing novels so much, I think these two characters (Feng Xiaoqin and Gu Qingyu) are very important." From the very beginning of the creation of the script, including the producer, a clear request will be made to determine who is the female one, who is the female second, or the double female protagonist. The novel itself does not have this problem, I just tell it and write it down according to the more subjective feeling. Once the script is established as a double heroine, all the stories revolve around the entanglement between the two women. ”
Although it is the first time to be a screenwriter, Teng Xiaolan said that he likes to make up stories, "but it is not enough to have a story, the stories and emotions that can be written under the sky are nothing more than those, for people who write novels, what to do is how to write a somewhat cheesy story in a non-clichéd way." The Gu family in "Heart Residence" is a traditional Shanghai family, "even if there are sometimes contradictions, the table is still polite and harmonious, and the average family is like this." I wrote "Heart Residence" in the hope of showing the current situation of ordinary people's lives as much as possible, and I did not want to beautify it too much, nor did I want to demonize the characters in order to highlight the dramatic conflict. Including the handling of people in Shanghai, especially the entanglement between foreign daughters-in-law and Shanghai sister-in-law, many viewers may have preconceived impressions in the past. I want to break this misunderstanding and hope that everyone in the play is reasonable, not quarreling for the sake of quarreling. They have their own ideas and want to be well, but they definitely don't hurt other people. ”
As a Shanghainese writing about Shanghai, Teng Xiaolan admits that there is both a convenient side and a place that cannot be seen clearly, but what she strives to do is to write the reality of the moment, this "truth" is not that the story and characters must have really happened, but that new and old Shanghainese have read this novel and feel that this is what may happen in the real Shanghai. "I want my readers to see Shanghai as a city of goodwill, human touch, but also inclusive. For example, through her own efforts, foreign daughter-in-law Feng Xiaoqin ran a nursing home, the process was very difficult, but it was finally done. Whether it is for old Shanghainese or new Shanghainese, the city of Shanghai does not discriminate. ”
At the end of the novel, as the title "Heart Dwelling" indicates, all the characters have found a spiritual home that suits them. Teng Xiaolan said, "Not everyone's ending is satisfactory, even with regrets, at least they have worked hard." ”
"Teng Xiaolan talked about this work, and there is a passage that impressed me. She said that she hopes that her Shanghai is real, emotional and worthy of respect. It is not only a city, but also a belief, a hope, a spirit. Yin Jianling, chairman of the Jing'an District Writers Association and a writer, said that this pursuit of writing "respectable Shanghai" is also worthy of respect.
"Jing'an Forum" is a cultural brand jointly created by Jing'an District Library and Jing'an District Writers Association, aiming to improve the level of public cultural services in Jing'an District, and will invite Writers, Scholars and Artists from Shanghai and the whole country to give lectures, taking the form of offline participation and online live broadcasting, recording and broadcasting, so that more citizens can share the cultural feast. The literary quarterly "Jing An", which was jointly sponsored by mo Yan and co-sponsored by the Jing'an District Writers Association and the Jing'an District Library, also met with readers at the first event of the "Jing'an Forum".
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