The TV series "Ah, Cradle" is currently being broadcast on three satellite TVs, and it is well received for its novel theme.

In fact, for those born in the 60s and 70s, "Ah Cradle" is no stranger. As early as 1979, the film of the same name directed by Xie Jin was a sensation. Inadvertently, "Ah Cradle" has gone from film to TV series. More than ten years.

　　In retrospect, Ma Xiaoqing, who debuted as a child star, and Fang Chao, who was "electric" at the age of 2, were the most impressive impressions of this movie at the time.

However, the significance of the movie "Ah Cradle" is much more than that.

Such a war-themed film completely broke the inherent pattern of airplanes, bombs, and chasing soldiers, and became a classic of emotional narrative, which also established the film style of director Xie Jin: a group of children from Yan'an were transferred under the rain of gunfire. , Which expresses love, comradeship, mother-child affection, and friendship between children.

　　I only watched the movie "Ah, Cradle" in 1980. It was exactly this year that the first domestic TV series "Eighteen Years of the Enemy Camp" was born.

The splendor of this TV series presents the audience with a completely different shock than the movie. The story can be spread out, with more characters and more clues, to tell the audience a thrilling story.

More than forty years have passed, and the creation of Chinese TV dramas is no longer about ten episodes at the beginning, but has flourished to dozens or even hundreds of episodes.

"Ah Cradle" returns to the small screen, can it continue the film's emotional and expressive abundance?

　　After halfway through the drama, in my opinion, "Ah Cradle" is remarkable from the actors to the story.

The main characters correspond to the movie "Ah, Cradle" basically: a Ugly Zigang who "does not want to be the king of children" transferred from the battlefield, a young childcare worker Tang Susu, a knowledgeable but fearful director Shen Yuanhui, a love The child’s Aunt Ma, a woman from northern Shaanxi, and several main characters constitute the main line of the TV series. The orphans of martyrs and the descendants of soldiers of the War of Resistance against Japan, etc., were handed over to the Yan'an Nursery School and experienced the "battle against whooping cough" and "Liu Huabei's death." "Renamed Los Angeles Nursery", "enemy plane bombing", "secret counterattack", "struggling to cross the Yellow River", "Yangko drama storm", "Chinese and foreign journalists visiting group" and other real historical events.

It is not difficult to see that these are not fully presented in the movie. The TV series "Ah Cradle" has enough space to enrich this theme.

　　Hai Qing, the actor of Chou Zigang, changed the appearance of the urban drama: a shabby military uniform, a face of vicissitudes of wind and sun, a brown shoulder hair caused by long-term malnutrition, and a slightly chapped and whitish hair. Lips, and slightly heavy footsteps... I still remember that Haiqing called for more opportunities for mature actresses at an awards show. From "Ah, Cradle", Haiqing can see his love for the new role. There is no image burden. He portrays an "ugly mother" from a female soldier to a childcare worker, from a big boss to a serious and responsible "ugly mother". Haiqing is fully integrated into the role this time and becomes the highlight of the whole drama.

　　In the movie "Ah, Cradle", feelings are the heaviest part Xie Jin wanted to express. The audience at the time still remembered that Old Uncle Luo listened to the children sing "August and Fifteen Moons Are Full" in order to protect their children from injuries. This scene has become a classic so far; in order not to expose the children, Zhao Yuxia, the sister-in-law of northern Shaanxi, gave up her son to avoid danger in an emergency.

These plots are similarly presented in TV dramas. What's more valuable is that TV dramas have more fully supplemented the details of the story through interviews with children in the nursery school that year (eggs at the end of the film).

　　For example, in the historical presentation of the "Chinese and foreign journalists visiting group", Chou Zigang pulls Susu to find a carpenter to build a toilet. The carpenter was originally fond of Susu, but he was very happy when he agreed. They tried to draw with a bowl. Digging holes in different sizes, the plot is funny and real; when making showers, the well-informed Director Shen used clamps instead of switches to show her wisdom.

At the beginning of the TV series, there was a scene of fighting wolves, using special effects to show the harsh living environment of them on the one hand, and on the other hand, with the advancement of technology, film and television works have more abundant expression methods.

　　More than forty years ago, Xie Jin dared to innovate and used lyrical expressions to create classics in war films. Forty years later, a new generation of literary and art workers passed on from generation to generation. From the level of the role to the polishing of the story, the TV series "Ah Cradle" was handed over. A qualified answer sheet.

　　Zhang Ying