On May 22, the micro-film "Bridge" held a grand start-up ceremony in Gaobu Town. The micro-film "Bridge" is a key literary and artistic project of the Gaobu Town Government in 2018, with the gaobu bridge, the first local highway bridge built by farmers in the country, as the main line, and by telling a series of stories between the old man of Gaobu and the Gaobu Bridge in Dongguan, connecting the present and the past, showing the spirit of the Gaobu people who dared to be the first in raising funds to build bridges in the early stage of reform and opening up and the changes brought by reform and opening up to people's lives.
Zhao Guoying, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of Dongguan Municipal Party Committee, Pan Chaoming, secretary of the party group of Dongguan Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Zhong Haohua, member of the party committee of Gaobu Town, Li Yingmin, chief editor of China News Network Guangdong and president of the Dongguan branch of China News Service, Xie Yuezeng, executive vice president of Weimei Group and general manager of Marco Polo tiles, Zhang Yaotao, director of Dongguan Changxing Tea Co., Ltd., Chen Jia, director of the micro-film "Bridge", and other leading guests, as well as the film's main creative team and people from all walks of life in Gaobu Town, attended the launching ceremony. Witness the launch of this literary and artistic masterpiece together.
The micro-film "Bridge" tells the big theme of reform and opening up
As the first local highway bridge in China to levy bridge tolls, Gaobu Bridge pioneered the model of "raising funds to build bridges and repaying bridge tolls". At the beginning of reform and opening up, this innovative spirit greatly promoted the rapid development of social economy. The theme of the micro-film "Bridge" revolves around the Gaobu Bridge in Gaobu Town as the main line, through the time line of history and the present, closely following the background of celebrating the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up, integrating elements such as Xiaoxian culture and red culture of Gaobu Town, deeply integrating human emotions and bridges in the micro-film, reflecting personal family social feelings, and the relationship is layer by layer, making the film plot real and moving, thus showing the construction and development of Gaobu Town in the past 40 years of reform and opening up.
"Bridge" mainly tells the story of Chen Gensheng, an old man from Gaobu, and the past and present of Gaobu Bridge. Chen Gensheng insisted on doing one thing every day, that is, picking up small stones and branches on the road. The son was not assured that he was walking on the side of the road, and dissuaded his father from doing it. The father was angry and did not listen to his son's dissuasion. The son could not follow his father every day. Because of his old age, the old man can't remember a lot of things now, and sometimes he doesn't even know his son and grandson, but for the Gaobu Bridge, Gensheng has a particularly strong memory, he often takes his grandson to look at the Gaobu Bridge, and has been chanting a sentence: The road is very important... He recalled that in 1981, in the Xiong Ancestral Hall, the villagers raised funds to build a bridge, and there was laughter under the banyan tree next to the ancestral hall, when the roots were young and strong, he and everyone built the Gaobu Bridge in 1984, and it was from that time that life became better day by day...
The micro-film "Bridge" is 20 to 30 minutes long, its production is led by the Gaobu Town Government, and planned in cooperation with the central media, invested in larger production, the content is king, the shooting team of the micro-film from the director, actors, photography to post-production, publicity will be created by professionals, by professional actors as the main actor.
According to the director of the micro-film Chen Jia, the role of the elderly Gensheng in "The Bridge" will be played by actor Zheng Xiaomao, who has participated in "Yu Sin", "Little Lover", "The Number One Ex-Wife", "Mr. Moon Sister-in-law", "Comrade Lover", "White Night Pursuit", "The Character of Mortals" and other TV series and "Memory Master", "Two Hands Hong Fist", "Wulin Lone Star" and other cinema films, which are the "old drama bones" that have performed more than 200 films, television, network universities, web dramas, and micro-movies. In order to make the plot of "Bridge" real and moving, under his leadership, they formed a 3-person screenwriting team, including well-known screenwriters Ye Shimin and Ou Dexin, and constantly polished the story together. "In order to be able to more truly reflect the details of the Gaobu people who raised funds to build the bridge, we visited many elderly people who participated in the construction of the bridge, and through their telling to continuously improve the details of the movie, the story we hope to come out is not an empty slogan, but through the life of the little people, the real emotion, to create a micro-film with feelings and artistic standards." "Bridge" will start from a small place and show the big theme of the development and change of the 40 years of reform and opening up. ”
The micro-film "Bridge" integrates GaoBu's human feelings and righteousness
This year marks the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up, and the whole country will set off activities to celebrate the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up. The country's first three-to-one supplementary factory - Taiping Handbag Factory, the country's first bridge built by farmers - Gaobu Bridge... As the pioneer of reform and opening up, Dongguan has emerged many innovative measures that are the first in the country in the early stage of reform and opening up. 40 years have passed, thanks to the development of reform and opening up, Dongguan's urban appearance has undergone earth-shaking changes, and Gaobu Bridge is the only well-preserved witness of reform and opening up, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up, Gaobu Town through the filming of a gaobu bridge as the main line of creation of micro-film, close to the background of the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up, polishing the gaobu historical and cultural brand, has special significance.
Gaobu Bridge itself is not only a specific bridge, in addition to the bridge, it also embodies the reform spirit of Dongguan people who dare to innovate, and is a spiritual bridge connecting the past and present of Gaobu.
In recent years, Gaobu Town has accelerated its integration into urban areas, not only the rapid acceleration of urban quality, but also the continuous display of urban cultural connotations. As a literary and artistic boutique project focused on by the Gaobu Town Government in 2018, in addition to the shooting of the micro-film itself, the micro-film "Bridge" will also hold a series of related activities such as the micro-film group performance "Audition", so that more people can participate in the filming of the micro-film, further enhance the historical and cultural heritage of Gaobu Town, and enliven the cultural atmosphere of Gaobu. Through the micro-film, the human emotions and bridges are deeply integrated, showing the love and righteousness of Gaobu Town, and the humanistic feelings of individual family society.
The filming of the micro-film "Bridge" has a special significance, it can evoke many of us's fiery memories of the early days of reform and opening up, and will also allow many young people to understand the fiery years of their parents.
As the title sponsor of the micro-film "Bridge", Xie Yuezeng, executive vice president of Weimei Group and general manager of Marco Polo Tiles, said that they will spare no effort to support the filming and production of this literary and artistic masterpiece, hoping to record the "yesterday" and "today" of Gaobu Bridge through the lens, which can promote positive energy for the future urban development of Dongguan in the new era.
[Reporter] Gong Mingyang