Show the true stories of the first 8 recipients of the "Medal of the Republic"
TV series "Meritorious" sparked a viewing boom
A few days ago, the major reality-themed work "Meritorious", organized and promoted by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, is now on the air.
The play is based on the true stories of the first eight "Republic Medal" winners, and connects their life splendid chapters in the form of unit dramas.
With its unique narrative form, restrained emotional expression, and sophisticated visual presentation, "Merchants" sparked an upsurge in viewing.
"Hot blood", "tribute", "textured", "fast pace" and other barrage screens have expressed their recognition of the show from the audience's perspective.
"Looking at their young faces, I broke my defenses." "It turns out that the'loveliest person' has made us unscathed in this way." "How lucky to be born in the moment"... On major online platforms, netizens stayed Highly consistent evaluation.
Up to now, the Douban score of the show has reached 9.1.
Solid interviews, let the characters feel and know
There are a total of 8 units in "Contributions", including "Neng Wen Neng Wu Li Yannian", "Unknown Hero Yu Min", "Unknown Zhang Fuqing", "Huang Xuhua's Deep Dive", "Shen Jilan's Proposal", "Sun Jiadong's Road to Heaven", and "Tu Youyou's Gift" "Yuan Longping's Dream".
Among them are experts in the development of heavy weapons of the country, heroes in the battle to defend the country, pioneers in the forefront of reforms, scientists who have worked day and night in the fight against hunger and disease for mankind... Into the broad river.
The 8 heroic characters have a lot of deeds, and the audience is familiar with them. How to express them through characters, plots, and pictures, how to grasp the relationship between reality and fiction, and how to make young audiences love them?
At the beginning of the creation, Zheng Xiaolong, the chief director of "Meritorious", led 7 other directors to make a day and night argument, and finally unified a standard-realistic creation, true details, reasonable life logic, and the use of cinematic lens language to focus on the heroic characters. Highlight moment.
Zheng Xiaolong said: “We intercepted the most colorful part of their lives, so that the theme is prominent, the structure is exquisite, the characters are distinct, and the plot is compact. We not only pursue different styles of grouping stories, but also realize the unified integration of the whole, so that the audience can see Understand, see well, like to see."
"Meritorious" makes art creation more three-dimensional and sensible through solid interviews.
When filming the unit of "The Obscure Zhang Fuqing", director Kang Honglei and screenwriter Chen Ping walked from Yangxian, Shaanxi, where Zhang Fuqing was born, to Laifeng County, Enshi Prefecture, Hubei Province where he was working. They heard Zhang Fuqing’s neighbors talk about what they saw. Zhang Fuqing’s family and work situation.
A correspondent who had followed Zhang Fuqing fondly recalled the story of Zhang Fuqing leading the masses to build canals and hydropower stations.
When filming the unit of "Sun Jiadong's Road to Heaven", director Yang Wenjun contacted Sun Jiadong many times to interview and failed. Yang Wenjun said: "He was "hidden" for a few months and did not want to be interviewed. Later, he may have been moved by us and came to the Aerospace Group to accept the interview. We interviewed. At first, Sun Jiadong told us that the time should not be long, just one hour. As a result, he was very excited when he said it. We didn’t ask any questions, so he said it for one and a half hours. "These true stories and the creative team The solid interviews provided sufficient nourishment for the follow-up creation, so that the characters in the play could be felt.
Realistic creative techniques create a touching screen image
"The Meritorious Merit" runs through the realism creation technique throughout.
The whole drama is within the framework of unit dramas, although it switches between different scenes such as rice fields, mountains, hospitals, battlefields, laboratories, etc., the main creative team never deviates from the creative principle of rooting the people, rooting in life, and absorbing nutrition from practice and life. , Continue to accumulate life and art, and strive to impress the audience with the details and artistic reality of excellence.
Zheng Xiaolong said bluntly that it is difficult to unify the creative style of each director and screenwriter to make this kind of unit drama, but everyone's basic creative principle is the same, that is, to adopt realistic creative methods.
Zheng Xiaolong said: "We respect differences. Directors can use interstitial, flashback, flashback, etc., and screenwriters can use personalized script structure, but the realistic creation method is to unify requirements, to persuade the way, the scene, and the language of the characters. , Must truly reflect the characteristics of that era."
In "Shen Jilan's Proposal", the crew's pursuit of texture is prominently reflected in the characters' costume makeup and behavior details. Everyone's clothes with patches are almost stained with mud.
In "Neng Fen Neng Wu Li Yannian", the contention is 346.6 highland, the shooting place is nearly 4 meters higher than the real place. The film crew built 1.5 kilometers of tunnels on this highland, and all the battles are in order. Shoot.
In "Unknown Zhang Fuqing", the main creative team can no longer find the traces of poverty in Sanhu Township, so they built a village there, restoring the whole village when Zhang Fuqing first arrived in Sanhu Township...
Under the guidance of the creative spirit of realism, the full-fledged and vivid images of meritorious deeds emerge on the screen, not only showing their outstanding achievements in the field, making deeds of meritorious deeds widely known; but also using a plain perspective and life-oriented processing to make them human Ordinary people such as children, parents, and husband and wife are presented in front of the audience.
Outline the loyal background of the meritorious characters and stir up the heroic feelings in the peaceful era
The title of "The Meritorious" was impressive. Li Yannian, Yu Min, Shen Jilan, Sun Jiadong, Zhang Fuqing, Yuan Longping, Huang Xuhua, and Tu Youyou, played by different actors, walked to the audience respectively.
In just a few steps and a few seconds of footage, everyone seems to have condensed their entire lives. They have dedicated their lives to the motherland from the prosperous and prosperous to the old.
According to Zheng Xiaolong, the title is the most difficult part of the whole show's creative realization, and it can also be regarded as a technological advancement to the production capacity of Chinese TV dramas.
On the first day of the series’s airing, an audience left a message on Weibo: “I burst into tears when I saw Grandpa Yuan Longping approaching.” Zheng Xiaolong said, “This makes me particularly gratified. The audience has felt the intentions of our creators.”
In "Neng Wen Neng Wu Li Yannian", the audience not only saw Li Yannian's outstanding commanding ability and overall concept in the battle to win the 346.6 Highland on the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea, but also see his deep affection and friendship with comrades and comrades in arms; "Unknown Zhang Fuqing" In the middle, Zhang Fuqing has deep in his military merits and has taken root in the grassroots for decades, turning his hometown into his hometown and solving the real difficulties of the masses. In his life, he will not be able to fulfill his filial piety in front of his parents and bury his guilt deeply in his heart. In "Unsung Hero Yu Min", Yu Min showed outstanding computational skills in the theoretical research of hydrogen bombs, leading scientific researchers to spread "draft paper all over the Gobi Desert", racing against time. In daily life, he is also a meeting When his wife first saw him, he prepared gifts and would "steal" eggs from the family to subsidize colleagues' gentle and delicate people; in "Huang Xuhua's Deep Dive", Huang Xuhua, the chief designer, completed the dive test with a 64-year-old as a pioneer. Morale was inspiring, facing his wife, he became the good gentleman who sat in a chair obediently waiting for a haircut...
In the view of Liang Junjian, associate professor of the School of Journalism and Communication at Tsinghua University, “The successful attempt in characterization of "Merritories" once again proves that no matter what themes and types of film and television creations, the core is the'building up man', and the spirit of merit is the backbone. Only when the details are described as flesh and blood, can we create a deep and touching screen image."
Recently, a large number of mainstream film and television dramas that are both grounded and interesting have become the staple of people's daily spiritual and cultural life.
With superb narrative skills and true emotional expression, "Merchants" once again let the audience feel the unique charm of mainstream film and television dramas.
(Our reporter Niu Mengdi)