"The woman in the village can marry for a donkey." "The three brothers only have a pair of pants. Whoever wants to go out to wear them" "The guinea breeder under the poverty alleviation was snatched and eaten only the last one"... TV series In the beginning, a Yongquan Village with a difficult living environment and deeply ingrained villagers' ideas was vividly displayed in front of the audience, making people go back to Xihaigu in the 1990s in a second.
"Mountain and Sea" is currently being broadcast simultaneously on 6 satellite TVs and three major video websites.
The film jumped out of the traditional main theme of TV drama narrative and creative routines, showing the unique charm of the theme of poverty alleviation. With a score of 9.3 on Douban, it is impressive, both in popularity and reputation.
See life in the details, see people's hearts in warmth
As a poverty alleviation TV series, "Mountains and Seas" tells the story of the immigrants of Xihaigu since the 1990s, under the call of the national policy and the counterpart assistance of Fujian, to constantly overcome difficulties and build the "dry beach" of flying sand and rocks into an inch of land. The story of Jin's "Golden Beach".
"Mountain and Sea Love" uses a simple and down-to-earth narrative style and a warm and delicate perspective to depict vivid stories and characters on the road to poverty alleviation. While reflecting the theme, it also connects the characters' affection, love, friendship and other topics. Arouse the emotional resonance of the audience.
The gray-headed and earth-faced shapes of all the characters in the picture, the simple office and the outdoor environment filled with yellow sand, highly restored the poor living conditions and natural regional characteristics of the local in the 1990s. It is also through "a year of wind, from spring to "Winter", "Mosquitoes can eat people", "Hungry sour water" and other villagers' seemingly humorous but simple and sincere complaints, a comprehensive and three-dimensional reproduction of the environment where the protagonist of the story is located. Various details are inseparable from a "reality". "The word was praised by many viewers.
In sharp contrast with the poor and depressed environment in the play, the characters living in it are fresh, vivid and affectionate.
"Mountain and Sea Love" focuses on magnifying the story of "people", depicts affection in details, and presents more warmth and "fireworks" to the audience.
The newly appointed young grass-roots cadre Ma Defu, with his ideals in mind, helped the villagers complete the work of "diaozhuang emigration", and energized the immigrant villages softly, and finally led the villagers to use actions to fulfill their promise of "Stopping Jiangnan"; Ma Defu's childhood sweetheart Li Shuihua "Sold" by her father to a neighboring village, she chose to resist and flee desperately, but in the end she compromised with her fate for her father. When her husband became disabled by accident, she supported the whole family by herself. The phrase "This is our life tied together." "And the tears that shed are real and powerless; Ma Defu saw the distressed look of his young rebellious brother Ma Debao when he was injured, and the brotherhood after the estrangement was eliminated is also moving; there are also Ma Defu and Chen Jinshan, a poverty alleviation cadre from Fujian, The two helped each other, gained a profound revolutionary friendship, and added a lot of laughs to the plot... Netizens commented: "This drama can be pursued because it is realistic and a legend that touches my heart."
"This is a very sentimental, sentimental, meaningful and meaningful reform story." said Huang Xuan, the actor of Ma Defu. "It is the first time I have met with grassroots cadres so close. They are hope, light, and lead so many people. To get rid of poverty and become rich, I sincerely salute them here."
The actors are real without filters, and the plot characters are grounded
Since 2020, the theme of poverty alleviation has become a new creative hotspot.
Although most of these works restore the real measures of poverty alleviation in many areas and the image of poverty alleviation cadres to a certain extent, the facial makeup, the symbolization of poverty alleviation bridges, and the hollow expression of poverty are still common problems in many poverty alleviation dramas, and the audience does not appreciate it. Interest or easy to produce aesthetic fatigue.
"Mountains and Seas" adopts documentary creation techniques. There are no leadership speeches, no preaching slogans, and no Facebook cadres in the play. It uses flesh-and-blood, true and down-to-earth stories and characters to bring a different taste to the audience.
The actors in the play are all rustic, real without filters, paying attention to details from head to toe, and even the particles and lines on the dry skin on the face under strong sunlight and strong winds are clearly visible.
Huang Xuan played Ma Defu, a young grassroots cadre for poverty alleviation. The two groups of plateau red and simple local accent on the black and red face made the audience feel that they were born and raised there.
The village party secretary, played by Zhang Jiayi, shouted water, wore a crooked hat, frowned, and had small leaves in his mouth. Netizens sighed: "At that time, the northwest was facing the loess and the back was upside down. Teacher Zhang Jiayi had no brows. After putting it down, this feeling of the sun shining so people can’t open their eyes is really too real.” There are also female characters such as the "hard woman" Li Shuihua played by Reyiza and the harsh county magistrate played by Yan Ni. Also changed the previous style, without makeup.
The suffering of poverty and the difficulty of getting rid of poverty are also written on the faces of every villager. The clothes on all the actors are like washed with wind and sand, and a puff of smoke is raised.
Among them, the plot of Xihaigu’s immigrants encountering sandstorms and head injuries restores the true meaning of the “dry beach”. A netizen wrote empathetically: “Stomping away a grain of loess in Xihaigu, half of it is thirsty. , Half Grain is shouting hungry." The actors are all embarrassed, but they can make people enter the scene in a second.
The actors and the characters are deeply integrated, coupled with the local dialect, the "earth-flavored" characters created are extremely vivid, giving the audience a sense of sight that "is not acting life, this is life".
The shooting environment is also extremely difficult. The sandy environment presented in the play is the true portrayal of the crew’s work and life. The starring Huang Xuan recalled: “It’s really not easy. There is no water, no electricity, even a tree, There is no place to enjoy the coolness. It is incredible to rebuild a home and build the current'Shangjiangnan'." All the cast members also said with emotion: "From Diwozi to adobe house, this is the achievement of Minning Village. It is also a breakthrough for the main creative team of "Mountain and Sea". We are all an element of "Mountain and Sea"."
Native dialects are authentically restored, exploring new approaches to mainstream themes
No preaching, no sensationalism, true kung fu in the details, "Mountain and Sea Love" opened a new path for mainstream themes.
In addition, the language style of "Mountain and Sea" has also derived a new "playing method".
"Mountain and Sea" is currently being broadcast simultaneously on 6 satellite TVs and three major video websites.
Among them, Beijing Satellite TV, Dragon TV, and Zhejiang Satellite TV broadcast the dubbed version in Mandarin; Southeast TV, Ningxia Satellite TV and Shenzhen Satellite TV broadcast the original version, which is the dialect version; the three major video websites have both the original sound version and the dubbed version online.
With the development of the plot, the high concentration of Northwest "Golden Sentences" made the audience call "upper".
Many netizens took out their small notebooks and recorded this line: "Talk about the future every day. The future is not here yet! Isn't that a dream!" "Poverty really limits people's imagination!"... …The filming of "Mountain and Sea Love" in dialect was decided when the crew created and prepared the TV series.
At that time, the crew took root in Ningxia and experienced local life immersively in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation.
In the process of feeling the atmosphere of the plot, the crew captured a real situation of the year: the Fujian cadres who were helping the poor came to Xihaigu and could not understand the local people's speech and the local people could not understand the Fujian dialect. The first step in poverty alleviation was the language. turn off.
Many viewers who have watched the original soundtrack praised the actors in the play for their performances in the Northwest dialect.
Some audience members said: "When the Northwest dialect comes out, it will have that flavor right away." "The whole dialect performance makes me feel like I'm not watching the show, and I am a villager in Yongquan Village in a daze." Director Kong Sheng said: "We did this. An effort, insisting on using dialects, and also using a large number of Northwest actors, is mainly to make "Mountain and Sea Love" more grounded and closer to life, so that the audience can more firmly believe that behind the drama is the true story." In ", the use of the Northwest dialect highlights the straightforward and simple characteristics of the Northwest people, which is both vivid and infectious, and is very popular with the audience.
From the perspective of the broadcast effect, the dialect version of "Mountain and Sea Love" shows the unique charm of regional dialects in TV dramas, and brings "soul" to the quality of life in the northwest region in the drama.
Kong Sheng said: “When we go deep into the Xihaigu area, we feel stronger in the dialect. That’s the way the people on that side are. Their personality, anger, sorrow, and joy are like this. Because of the vastness of the Northwest region, we have different sounds. With reference to the local dialects of Ningxia and Xi’an, Shaanxi, the combination formed the Pan-Northwestern dialect in the play. The Fujian dialect is Fujian Mandarin.” Therefore, the realistic scenes caused by the language barriers between Minning and Ningxia are reproduced in the play. Enlarged in a joyful way, the "dialect stalk" played an active role in the plot.
The use of dialects can not only show the strong and profound regional culture, enrich the image of the characters, and help the audience enter the drama, but also create a strong comedy personality and narrow the distance with the audience.
The existence of the dubbed version of Mandarin is like a standard configuration; the exploration of the Northwest dialect version makes people feel the sincerity of the creation of mainstream film and television works in the details.
(Our reporter Niu Mengdi, our correspondent Chu Pingru)