How to connect the ideals and passions of various eras with innovative expressions of groundedness and reach out to young users today. The high-scoring "Rebel" gives an answer

Excellent main melody film and television series become the "white moonlight" for young people

　　Our reporter Tao Wensu Mo "Worker's Daily" (Edition 04, July 04, 2021)

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　　Once upon a time, the main melody of film and television dramas were often high and few.

However, throughout the past two years, well-produced, popular and popular film and television dramas have frequently appeared. Outside, there are European, American, Japanese, and Korean dramas, and there are a large number of online dramas, variety shows and other rivals. They were once not favored. The main melody TV series has sprung up, and has received a lot of attention and praise.

　　"Comrade, you look so good in this military uniform." Lin Nansheng turned his head and red eyes when he heard a familiar voice behind him.

After experiencing the trials of life and death and witnessing the sacrifices of comrades around them one after another, Lin Nansheng and Zhu Yizhen finally ushered in the dawn of victory together.

When the two sat on the steps in front of the door, facing the sunlight, they led a group of children to sing "Outside the long pavilion, by the old road, the green grass and green sky..." earned enough tears from the audience in front of the screen: "It's so good to see, I can live. that's nice."

　　Recently, the hot-blooded spy war drama "The Rebel" came to a perfect ending. Since the show was broadcast on CCTV-8 and iQiyi on June 7, word-of-mouth has been rising all the way, with a Douban score of 8.3, becoming the successor to "Awakening Age". After "Mountain and Sea Love" and so on, another high-scoring, high-reputation main theme TV series.

　　Director Zhou You said in an exclusive interview with the "Worker Daily" reporter: "I didn't expect the broadcast effect, but just tried my best. Now it has received the attention and love of the audience, and the thoughts I want to express can also make everyone feel the same. We feel very much. happy."

Pay attention to the "people" in the play

　　It is not difficult to see that storytelling and de-conceptualization, focusing on the big stories of small people and small stories of big people under the grand historical background, are an important starting point for the success of the main theme TV series.

In these plays, no matter it is a big figure in history or an ordinary person, it is no longer a thin symbol, but a flesh and blood, amiable and sensible "person".

　　"The Rebel" uses the protagonist "Lin Nansheng" as a microcosm to tell the growth story of the Chinese Communist Party intelligence workers.

In a specific period of history, this passionate young man, under the baptism of war and humanity, experienced difficult growth and transformation, stepping into the embrace of the party step by step, and constantly strengthening his beliefs in practice and becoming a glorious "comrade."

　　"Compared with previous spy war dramas, "Rebel" is not a story with a'strong plot' everywhere, nor is it a very typographic story. The background of the story spans 13 years, and I hope to see history in it. Sense, see the growth, change and development of each character." Director Zhou You said.

　　From the perspective of civilians, showing the joys, sorrows, successes and failures of the characters in the play, attracting the audience to walk into the story in deep empathy, and to understand the people in the story, seems to be the tacit choice of excellent theme works.

　　In "The Age of Awakening", after Chen Duxiu raised an investment from "New Youth" magazine in Beijing, he was as happy as a child and ran into the snow to roll in the snow; in "The Situation of Mountains and Seas", Mai Miao and his fellow villagers went to Fujian to work. At the sorority, thinking about the autumn red of the children at home, one by one balloons were deflated and stuffed into their pockets...Every detail made the audience see the "three-dimensional people" and deeply felt the fresh vitality of the story.

　　From a serious "preaching" to following historical facts, starting from details, incorporating personalized and humorous expressions, and shaping realistic and sensible characters, more and more thematic works have not only been recognized by the audience, The status of the industry cannot be underestimated.

Recently, among the 10 works shortlisted for the "Best Chinese TV Series" of this year’s Magnolia Awards, 6 of them are major themed dramas, and the theme of poverty alleviation "Mountain and Sea" won the Best Chinese TV Series Award, and the "Awakening Age" "Moreover, it won three awards for best screenwriter, best director and best actor in one fell swoop.

In addition, "Dajiang Dahe 2" with the background of reform and opening up, "Crossing the Yalu River" about the Chinese People's Volunteers' fight against the US and aid Korea, and "Together", which pays tribute to the war epidemic among the people, have all received high reputation and high scores, refreshing people. Cognition.

Good actors and good TV series make each other's achievements

　　"The Rebel" is adapted from the novel of the same name by the "People's Literature Award" winner Yu Yu. This novel contains four stories: "Rebel", "Postman", "Potassium Cyanide" and "Rouge".

The TV series did not copy the original work, nor did it completely divorce from the original work. Instead, it was like disassembling and reorganizing a work of art and polishing it to form another work of art.

　　Director Zhou You introduced to the "Worker Daily" reporter, because the original novel not only contains a lot of information, it contains a lot of historical facts and time points, and the time span is long, and there is a lot of blank space in the original, and the writing is cold and restrained, so it is difficult to adapt it into a TV series. bigger.

"We spent the past two years reorganizing the script, but hope that we can do our best within limited conditions." Zhou lobbying.

The screenwriter of "The Rebel" is exactly Li Xiaoming, the screenwriter of the TV series "Aspiration" that created the record of "Ten Thousand People".

　　The popularity of "The Rebel" is inseparable from a good story and a good script, as well as the superb performances of the actors. "The Rebel" boldly employed a young actor Zhu Yilong, and he did not disappoint the audience.

When playing the role of a patient whose lungs were penetrated by a bullet, Lin Nansheng gasped in a real and vivid way, which attracted a burst of praise from the barrage audience, "It makes my lungs hurt," a netizen said.

Zhu Yilong himself responded that he hadn't slept for two days during the filming of this scene, and studied related documentaries to learn to imitate gasping sounds.

　　"It turns out that Lin Nansheng, who has a sense of measure in the play, is exactly Zhu Yilong's true character!" Many netizens commented on the actor's acting skills in this way.

Perhaps from "idol" to "powerful actor", it is just the distance of a good work. Zhu Yilong proved himself with this play and attracted many audiences to "turn fans".

　　Gu Shenyan, played by Wang Zhiwen of the old drama bone, is the director of the Shanghai district archives office of the Fuxing Society, and also a communist intelligence agent lurking inside the enemy.

His profound acting skills allowed him to express the image of this underground worker into a three-pointer, and also allowed more young audiences to re-acquaint this "every eye is a play" actor.

　　Director Zhou You also revealed to the "Worker Daily" reporter, "All the actors in our play are the first candidates. The actors are interested in the story, and they are lucky to agree to participate in this play. Zhu Yilong himself is restrained and deep, at the same time Very explosive, these are very similar to Lin Nansheng's personality. Tong Yao himself, like Zhu Yizhen, is a very courageous and strong woman. They are very suitable for their respective roles and have a unique charm."

　　In TV series such as "Awakening Age" and "Mountain and Sea Love", many characters with distinctive personalities and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people have also emerged.

Many netizens commented on Yu Hewei, the actor who played Chen Duxiu in "Awakening Age", saying that he "played Mr. Zhong Fu alive", and Yu Hewei became the "Emperor of the Magnolia Award" with his role in "Awakening Age".

"This audience is not easy"

　　The main creative team took the film very carefully, and the audience watched it very carefully.

For a long time, the main theme of film and television dramas not only often met with cold in the capital and the market, but also was not "waited" by young audiences.

However, it can be seen from several recent successful TV series that the main theme is that as long as it is a boutique, the audience will still actively "buy it."

　　"After "The Rebel" was broadcast, I didn't expect the audience to see it in such a detailed manner." Zhou lobbies.

In the whole drama, it contains a lot of details, such as regional characteristics, character resumes and biographies, as well as standard costumes and theater props. During the watching of the drama, many netizens "broadcast" these details in real time in the barrage to analyze and comment. The performance of the characters in the play.

　　"There is a plot in which Gu Shenyan dialed with a pen and wrapped the microphone with a handkerchief when making a call. Then some netizens started analyzing on the bullet screen and said:'It shows that fingerprint recognition was already available in that era.' In fact, we set this detail. , Mainly considering that as a mature professional agent, Gu Shenyan will do this subconsciously, and at the same time he can cover his own voice to prevent being recorded." Zhou You said, "The audience sees so carefully, which puts us under a lot of pressure. of."

　　The active "participation" of young audiences in the plot can also form positive incentives.

Actor Zhu Yilong said, "What impresses me most is the comments made by netizens who dig out the details of the play and analyze them. I can feel that not only us, but the audience are also creating, and they will take the details we thought about in the play. , Subtexts are unearthed, give feedback and analysis, make the work more vitality, this is also the greatest encouragement to our creators."

　　With a Douban score of 9.3, "The Awakening Age" with the theme of party history has gained a large number of young fans.

According to the data from Youku station, among the people born in the show, the post-90s and post-95s accounted for 1.6 times the baseline value of the whole station; there are no glamorous scenes, no popular traffic stars, and some are just full of yellow sand and loess. The poverty alleviation drama "Mountain and the Sea" featuring adobe houses, "Plateau Red", and coarse clothes still made young audiences "tears full".

　　"Awakening Age" director Zhang Yongxin once said: "I always have a point of view. Young audiences never reject the main theme. They reject works that are suspended, ungrounded, rough and not rigorous." Young audiences have become the main theme. The target audience and mainstream values ​​of TV dramas are also being passed on and promoted in them through excellent main melody works.