Before filming, Zhou Xun visited Tu Youyou and her colleagues to figure out the role
"Merchants" "Tu Youyou's Gift" ended yesterday
Meritorious power urges people to advance, and continues to cultivate the family and the country.
The unit of "Tu Youyou's Gift" of the major reality-themed TV series "Merchants" organized and promoted by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television ended at Beijing Satellite TV Quality Theater last night.
The unit is directed by the director Zheng Xiaolong, written by Wang Xiaoping, and starred by Zhou Xun, Zhang Songwen, Song Jialun, and Guo Xiaofeng.
Taking Tu Youyou, the first native Chinese scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Science in China, as the prototype, it shows in detail the whole process of Tu Youyou's research and discovery of the new antimalarial drug artemisinin after receiving the "523" task and after years of hard work.
Engraving details
Zheng Xiaolong's team restores the road to anti-malarial in a panoramic way
During the research process, Tu Youyou and colleagues in the research group had many serious differences on the extraction method of artemisinin, but Tu Youyou bluntly said: “Scientific research should not be forbidden, whether it is medicinal materials bought from Chinese medicine stores or As long as new antimalarial drugs can be developed to save lives for plants growing in the wild, whether it is decoction or squeezing juice, you should try boldly." In the eyes of screenwriter Wang Xiaoping, Tu Youyou is a very straightforward person, and she is extremely focused. Because of her research, she doesn't care so much about humanity. "Our society needs such people. This kind of transparency is full of simple loveliness."
In the eyes of many viewers, Zheng Xiaolong and Wang Xiaoping's productions must be high-quality works. Popular masterpieces such as "Zhen Huan Biography" and "Mi Yue Biography" are all jointly created by the couple.
In this filming of "Tu Youyou's Gift", Zheng Xiaolong's team is even more ingenious and strives for quality.
He said frankly: “The more professional you are in the details, the more you can make the audience feel the truth of the plot.” In order to pursue this truth, Zheng Xiaolong’s team consulted thousands of ancient Chinese medicine books and original records of Chinese medicine, spanning thousands of kilometers. Beijing, Lingshui County, Hainan Province, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, and other places have rebuilt scenes over and over again, renovating dilapidated buildings, and tried to restore Tu Youyou's work scene in a panoramic manner with a 1:1 ratio.
The process of restoration and transformation is extremely trivial and complicated, and the most difficult one is the core scene of the drama-the Institute of Chinese Medicine Research Institute of Chinese Medicine Research Institute.
"Because it belongs to a dangerous building, we have to truly restore it from the structure, and the amount of work is huge." said producer Dun Qi.
To this end, the crew spent 50 days on the basis of the Miyun old factory building to complete the transformation of the Institute of Chinese Medicine.
In order to find the 7 large tanks used by Tu Youyou's team to extract artemisinin, the props team went almost all over the markets of various provinces and cities in China, and finally found 7 large tanks for local people to pickle cabbage in Xiangshan County, Ningbo City.
In Hainan, the filming location, the crew also encountered considerable difficulties. Due to the rugged mountain roads, cars could not reach the shooting location. Under the difficult conditions of traffic jams and limited manpower, the crew relied on manual transportation to carry all the equipment to the shooting location. , To rebuild the field hospital and testing base of the Vietnamese army.
Find commonalities
Zhou Xun is more and more like Tu Youyou even walking and carrying bags
With short hair and brown-framed glasses, he never looks at people when he walks, and always forgets to bring his keys when he goes out. Zhou Xun's Tu Youyou is inexhaustible in joy and anger. He walks alone and looks a little dazed. Yes, but the research on A. annua is extremely serious.
The director praised Zhou Xun and said: "I think Zhou Xun is born to be an actor and has excellent modeling ability. She is like entering this character, and even walking and carrying a bag looks more and more like Tu Youyou."
Although he has won various acting awards, the encounter with the role of Tu Youyou made Zhou Xun embarrassed.
"At that time, Teacher Xiaoping and Director Xiaolong said that they wanted me to play Tu Youyou. In fact, I was very nervous and stressed because I didn't know much about the world, especially the experimental part. Although I consulted a professional teacher, Due to insufficient proficiency, professionalism and accuracy must always be guided by experts.” For this reason, Zhou Xun specially visited Tu Youyou and chatted with Tu Youyou’s colleagues before shooting, looking for common roles.
"Ms. Tu and I have similar personalities. She studied medicine and I studied acting. So after this change, I found some ways."
In Zhou Xun's eyes, Tu Youyou is a very calm person without much emotional expression, so she deliberately amplifies this characteristic of Tu Youyou.
There is a scene about Tu Youyou’s laboratory accidentally catching fire. The early experimental results of the "523" research group were destroyed in the fire. Tu Youyou, who has always been emotionally stable, said chokedly: "I will treat our '523' project. There have been various ideas about what kind of problems we have encountered, but I have never thought that it will catch fire. In fact, fire is not a problem, but fire is a reminder to us, reminding us...remind us about Qinghao...remind us There are loopholes in the extraction process of Artemisia annua and the safety management of the laboratory."
Zhou Xun's tearful interpretation of this scene made people feel distressed, as if to let the audience see the determined and extremely powerful Tu Youyou back then. Although he was unwilling, he still led the team to move forward.
focus on
"Meritorious" enters the final hit "Yuan Longping's Dream" starts broadcasting
On the evening of the 18th, the final piece of "Merchants", "Yuan Longping's Dream", was broadcast on Dragon TV.
Yuan Longping is the pioneer of the research and development of hybrid rice in China, and the first scientist in the world to successfully utilize the heterosis of rice. He is known as the "father of hybrid rice."
This unit mainly tells the story of how Yuan Longping has worked hard for decades to solve the food and clothing problem of the Chinese people and even the people of the world.
Yesterday, the official released the "Yuan Longping's Dream" unit poster and unit preview.
In the poster of the unit, Yuan Longping (played by Huang Zhizhong) is smiling, facing the sky, walking in the warm sun, and walking from the rice fields. With him are his wife Deng Zhe (played by Dong Jie) and his best friend Tan Pangong ( Ren Zhong), Tan's wife Tian Hehua (Jiang Mengjie).
Played by actors of different styles and temperaments, the main characters are given a new vitality.
For example, Tan Panggong played by Ren Zhong is witty and humorous, obsessed with "Holmes-style puzzle solving", adding a lively atmosphere to the serious and urgent scientific research story line.
At the beginning of the trailer, Yuan Longping stood on the terraced fields in the distance and said: "A person misses a time and a person misses a year." He was full of breath and made a sound.
The rice fields are presented from the perspective of overhead shots. In that era when food was scarce, Yuan Longping's work in the fields seemed particularly insignificant.
Although small but working hard, Yuan Longping has never given up fighting against nature. He has been on the road of "race against time" and has been catching up with the sun... At the end of the trailer, Yuan Longping holds the seeds of hybrid rice and holds the top of his head high, full of particles blowing in the wind. .
This rice seedling, which carries countless sweat and hard work, is the most symbolic symbol in the unit of "Yuan Longping's Dream".
This group of articles/Reporter Yang Wenjie Coordinating/Man Yi