Focus drama
"The World"
Fifty years of chinese life history
Topical ★★★★★ cast ★★★★★
The TV series "The World of Man" has been released on August 16, 2021, and has recently released pre-broadcast trailers. Adapted from the novel of the same name by Mao Dun Literature Prize winner Liang Xiaosheng, the drama depicts the ups and downs of life experienced by more than a dozen civilian children in nearly half a century from the perspective of three generations of a family surnamed Zhou who live in a northern provincial capital. It can be called a "fifty years of Chinese people's life history".
It is reported that on the basis of retaining the story temperament of the original novel, the play adopts realistic techniques to present the development and changes of Chinese society in the past fifty years, and goes deep into the lives of ordinary people, spanning time, and gradually discusses a series of topics such as intergenerational relations, family bondage, marriage, and value ideals for the audience in the new era, aiming to convey the power of "ordinary" in the sadness and joy of "the world". At the same time, "The World of Man" has created a group portrait of contemporary Chinese society, depicting many characters, including urban civilians, government officials, intellectuals, state-owned enterprise workers, individual merchants and other social group portraits, and each character in the play, driven by the tide of the times, each of them meets different tests from life, marriage and family affection.
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Convey the power of "ordinary" in the clutch of joy and sorrow
The fate of the entangled characters is also a major highlight of "The World of Man", in which Lei Jiayin plays the male protagonist, the stubborn Zhou family elder Zhou Bingkun, who is heavy on love and righteousness, and originally practiced "good manism" in ordinary posts, but suffered from twists and turns in fate. Lei Jiayin said that "The World of Man" is the life of his father, and the character archetypes in it are engraved in his mind, and the fit between himself and Zhou Bingkun is not only reflected in the appearance. In the play, Lei Jiayin not only has to show the changes in the characters from 20 to 60 years old, but also experience the greatest pain and sorrow of life with the characters. For the first time to appear in such a large-span scene, Lei Jiayin felt pressure, "Shooting a "Human World" in half a year, it seems that a small life has passed. ”
And Yin Tao starred in the play as Lei Jiayin's wife Zheng Juan. Zheng Juan is weak on the outside, making people pity and sympathetic, but she is very firm in her bones. Yin Tao said that she appreciates Zheng Juan's simplicity and straightforwardness, she is never deliberate, so gentle, so pure, in today's society, this spirit is very precious. In Yin Tao's eyes, Zheng Juan, a truly ordinary person, possessed the most extraordinary power. This kind of person is often ignored, but it is worth writing, "There are many ordinary people's lives in the play, and the living conditions of ordinary people are the most difficult for filming or acting." ”
In addition, Xin Baiqing plays the eldest brother Zhou Bingyi, who has a poetry book in his belly, and has always adhered to the justice of the official with all his blood. Song Jia incarnated as the independent and rebellious second sister Zhou Rong, whose romantic poetry of love and righteousness has become another "color" of the Zhou family. And Ding Yongdai, Cheng Taishen, Sarina, Song Chunli, Zhang Kaili, Yu Zhen, Feng Lei, Wang Yang, Sui Junbo, Bai Zhidi, Huang Xiaolei and other acting school actors, as well as Hu Lianxin, Wu Xingjian and other new generation actors also interpret various characters in the play.
Inspirational growth
Come on! Little Couple》
Focus on post-90s newlywed families
Topical ★★★★ cast ★★★★
"Come on! "Little Couple" is in the process of being scheduled to air. The drama focuses on the post-90s newlywed couples, and projects the life pressures and different dilemmas faced by tens of millions of newlywed families in China after the 90s by showing the problems encountered by Tang Xin, Li Yan and others at important nodes in life such as entering the workplace, getting married and having a family, and having children.
Jiao Junyan, who has starred in the hit drama "Meet Wang Lichuan" and "Forensic Qin Ming", played the heroine Tang Xin in the play this time, who is both a rookie in the workplace and a novice mother, and she is emotionally impulsive and fearless of adversity, stumbling and growing up under the pressure of workplace crisis and life. Sunny handsome, funny and humorous male protagonist Li Yan, played by Yin Zheng, he has a bright performance in "Sideburns Are Not Begonia Red", "Native Sin" and other dramas, this time breaking through the previous role image, will be with Jiao Junyan into urban novice parents, staged the "growing pains" of the married couple.
Little couples have little troubles
Without the support and help of their families, Jiao Junyan and Yin Zheng began to switch between the dual identities of office workers and parents. In order to fight for opportunities in the workplace, but also to take care of children to change shifts, but unfortunately, when trying to balance life and workplace, it is still unable to do so, and has been hit hard by real life. The once sweet married couple gradually became estranged due to constant contradictions, in the face of emotional crisis and realistic pressure, the young couple constantly reflected and learned, encouraged and comforted, and the relationship and life of the two finally ushered in a new beginning and change.
The old drama continues
"New Year after Year"
The story of the struggle of ordinary people
Topical ★★★★ cast ★★★
The Beijing-style drama "Year after Year" once set off a ratings frenzy in 1998, and it reviewed the social changes in the past two decades of reform and opening up from the perspective of a civilian. Its one-episode year chronicle format pioneered the narrative of a television series. Twenty years later, "New Year after Year" is based on the story of "Year after Year", still the Chen family and the Lin family, the Beijing hutong full of memories, the difference is that "New Year and Year" has increased by twenty years. "New Year after Year" for the first time looks at the changes in the first year of reform and opening up in 1978 and the 40 years after the victory of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China for the first time, opening the curtain of recording the changes of the times with a new attitude.
The drama takes the family life of ordinary people as the starting point, in addition to inheriting the spirit of the original era, it also has a broader vision and thinking with the times. It puts three families in the torrent of history, experiences the ups and downs of fate, recreates the process of the big era entering a new stage and the best youth of a generation, and lets the audience once again feel the memory of the era such as restoring the college entrance examination, going to the sea to do business, going abroad, the stock market storm and even globalization, the information age, the boom of independent entrepreneurship, and the sharing economy through the screen story. It is reported that the crew built more than 10,000 square meters of scenery in Beijing, from the Chen family courtyard, the neighbor's residence, to the hutongs and shops in old Beijing, little by little. In addition to the scenes in beijing hutongs, the crew also went to Suide in northern Shaanxi to shoot the story of Zhiqing going to the countryside. The crew later went to the United States to shoot the scene of Lin Pingping (Lang Yueting) going to the United States, which reflected the tide of going abroad in the 90s.
In "New Year after Year", the protagonist Chen Huan (Yu Xiaoguang) and Lin Pingping are a pair of green plum bamboo horses with many love paths, admiring each other and loving each other. From the return of Zhiqing to the college entrance examination, the allocation of employment, and then to the birth of children abroad, their relationship has also changed with the times, experienced ups and downs, and also connected the life stories of the Chen and Lin families for forty years.
Based on the classic old drama "Year after Year"
Chen Huan, the male protagonist played by Yu Xiaoguang, is an intellectual who immersed himself in research and later became an economist. Yu Xiaoguang said that he has played Chen Huan for forty years, starting from the university entrance examination, and acting until he is 50 or 60 years old, with a total of more than 1,000 plays. "New Year after Year" is a door of time, there are too many sad and happy life conditions in it, I believe that the audience can also see themselves when watching the play. At the same time, he said that there are many rival plays with Liu Lili, Wang Ji and other predecessors, and many touching stories have occurred inside and outside the play, and he has grown a lot because of this.
At the same time, "New Year after Year" also has old drama bones such as Liu Lili, Wang Ji, He Zhengjun, and Liu Wei. As a personal experience of reform and opening up, several senior actors have a personal experience of the development and changes in the past 40 years.
New Rural Drama
"Happiness to Ten Thousand Homes"
Modern rural new women pursue happiness
Topical ★★★ cast ★★★★★
The TV series "Happiness to Ten Thousand Homes" was completed at the beginning of this year. Based on the novel "The Legend of Qiu Ju", the play tells the story of a girl named He Happiness who grows up under the multiple tests of career and marriage, love and affection. It explores what true happiness is based on how to run a marriage, maintain a family, and achieve women's self-growth. It not only describes the basic situation of modern rural society, but also projects the demands of new women to pursue happiness.
The front and backstage lineup of "Happiness to Ten Thousand Homes" is good, with Zheng Xiaolong, Liu Xuesong and Yao Yuan as directors, and Zhao Liying, Liu Wei, Tang Zeng, Luo Jin and other starring. At the same time, it also gathered Wang Zhifei, Feng Lei, Song Jialun, Cao Zheng, Zhang Xiqian, Chi Peng, Chen Wei, Qian Jie, Zhang Keying and many other powerful actors.
Zheng Xiaolong praised Zhao Liying for acting well
This is Zhao Liying's second comeback after childbirth, and it is also one of her few rural theme works. In the play, Zhao Liying picked a beam to play the heroine He Xingxing, who not only had to "face up" with all kinds of stereotypes and bad customs in the countryside, but also began to struggle from a low starting point of no education and no experience, and finally achieved a career. For Zhao Liying's appearance, director Zheng Xiaolong praised, "Zhao Liying has the kind of temperament that plays the role of happiness, and the stubbornness in her body is suitable for playing the role of happiness." The outside world generally regards Zhao Liying's postpartum comeback choice to cooperate with Zheng Xiaolong as a signal of transformation, and Zheng Xiaolong also praised Zhao Liying in an interview, saying that although the characters in the play are virtual, Zhao Liying still found something real and personal in this role. In addition, Luo Jin plays Guan Tao, a young lawyer who insists on struggle, while Liu Wei, a powerful veteran drama bone, will play Wan Shantang, the secretary of Wanjiazhuang Village.