A tribute to ice and snow sports to pay tribute to the spirit of sports——Comment on the transcendence of the TV series "Beyond"

　　Zhao Tong

　　"People's Daily" (20th edition on January 20, 2022)

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　　The TV series "Beyond" is the first TV series based on the history of short track speed skating in my country. It expresses the development process of Chinese winter sports in a novel way.

　　"Beyond" transcends the practice of rigidly separating two or even three generations used in many industry dramas in the past, but emphasizes the same mind and the same morality and the same direction, which is particularly commendable

　　The Winter Olympics-themed TV series "Beyond" is being broadcast on a prime set of China Central Radio and Television Station. It is a tribute drama for Chinese TV people to pay tribute to the Beijing Winter Olympics. It is an industry drama that tells the history of the development of ice and snow sports in my country. A far-reaching inspirational drama.

It presents the development of Chinese winter sports in a novel way.

A short track speed skating "exceeding" history

The epitome of the development of winter sports in China

　　"Beyond" is a key project of the "Our New Era" theme TV series of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television.

The play is based on the "Arctic South Exhibition" and tells the story of three generations of short track speed skaters who struggled for the honor of the motherland.

While focusing on the development of short track speed skating in China, the play shows the style of the country's rapid development of the times, and vividly interprets the Chinese sports spirit of winning glory for the country, selfless dedication, scientific and truth-seeking, law-abiding, unity and cooperation, and tenacious struggle.

As the opening of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is about to begin, the work is named "Beyond", which contains the call and confirmation of Jin Jianfeng.

　　At the beginning of "Beyond", the photo of Wu Qinghong winning the national speed skating championship was frozen in 1982.

At this time, there are still 20 years before China won its first Winter Olympic gold medal.

When "Beyond" was launched, it had been 20 years since my country achieved a "zero breakthrough" in gold medals in the history of the Winter Olympics.

In the 40 years before and after, China has gone from participating in the Winter Olympics, winning gold medals in the Winter Olympics to hosting the Winter Olympics, from the Winter Olympics aiming at professional competition to the participation of all people in ice and snow fitness, from “what comes to mind when I hear ice skating and skiing” It is the Northeast Children" to 346 million people on snow and ice, going through reform and opening up, and entering a new era of China's Winter Olympics process, which is refined in "Beyond". Storytelling.

　　"Beyond" is the first TV series based on the history of short track speed skating in my country.

It started from the creation of the Heilongjiang short track speed skating team in 1989 and the recruiting of the Qingdao short track speed skating team in 2014. In the group portraits of two generations of coaches and two generations of athletes, the first generation of athletes is converted into coaches as a link. It connects the ups and downs of three generations on the short track and in life experience.

Different from previous industry drama creations that mostly use iconic events in the industry to structure the plot, the narrative focus and ideographic focus of "Beyond" are not on the presentation of the outcome of short track speed skating events, but on the "short track speed skating event". In the depiction of the spiritual world of "Speed ​​Skater".

The "transcendence" that "Transcendence" focuses on is not the transcendence of the opponent, nor the transcendence of the timer scale, but the transcendence of oneself and the transcendence of inner limitations.

This kind of transcendence of inner limitations, as Chen Jingye said after "giving way" to Zheng Kaixin when he was leading in the trials, "I did not let you, I let my team and my motherland"; for example, the reason why Zheng Kaixin was willing Leaving his hometown and coaching in Qingdao is because doing so can give Hou Siyuan and Xu Duoduo a life that is no longer embarrassing.

The decisive factor for Chen Mian's final victory over Yan Xiujing was that she cut off her long hair and regained the freedom to glide happily.

"Winners are powerful, and self-winners are strong." "Beyond" focuses on self-winning, and then profoundly interprets the Chinese sports spirit.

A youth inspirational drama

Generations of fighting spirit passed on

　　"Beyond" is an inspirational drama written for youth, not just for one generation, but for every generation.

As a long-term story involving all ages, it does not adopt the narrative structure of intergenerational succession of character groups, that is, after telling the story of one generation, and then telling the story of the next generation, but with an intergenerational structure, the The stories of three generations of Chinese short track speed skaters and coaches are "mixed" together by seeking common ground while reserving differences.

As a result, the story of the Heilongjiang short-track speed skating team that started in January 1989 and the story of the Qingdao short-track speed skating team that started in July 2014 are gradually unfolded and presented alternately in the form of counterpoints.

The traditional narrative method of "two flowers blooming and one branch each" has been derived in "Transcendence" into a fresh style of "two clusters of flowers blooming and one tree each" and "although the world is different, spring will happen together".

As a result, Zheng Kaixin, a 17-year-old boy who was "dragged into" the Heilongjiang short track speed skating team in 1989, and Chen Mian, a 16-year-old girl who tried to "squeeze into" the Qingdao short track speed skating team in 2014, became "peers". "Beyond" time and space each deduces short stories, which complement each other, achieve each other, and complement each other.

　　The intergenerational role cross-narrative adopted in the beginning part of "Beyond" is not only the "opening method" of the story of the play, but also the concept of the play to highlight the "community of youth".

In "Transcendence", Chen Jingye, Jiang Hong, Zheng Kaixin and Chen Mian, Xiangbei, Luo Zhujun are two generations, but the works do not deliberately enlarge and thickly describe "generation differences", but spare no effort to highlight "common virtue".

How similar is Chen Jingye's "eldest brother" image to Hou Siyuan's "eldest sister" image, and Zheng Kaixin's "talented" demeanor is similar to Luo Zhujun's "proud thing".

The slogan of the 17- or 18-year-old Heilongjiang team was "Longjiang speed skating, get all the medals", and the 16- or 17-year-old Qingdao team responded with "Qingdao short track, let me go."

In the group of works that tell the history of intergenerational transition, "Beyond" goes beyond the sub-identification of post-80s and post-90s as youth characters used in many industry dramas in the past to rigidly separate two or even three generations. It emphasizes the same mind, same morality, and the same goal, which is especially commendable.

"Transcendence" superimposes the youth stories of the two generations in the beginning part, and integrates the trajectories of the two generations in the transition part, and integrates the different songs of the same workers into the symphony of the Beijing Winter Olympics.

　　Transcendence, on the way, also on the journey.

　　(The author is the deputy director of the TV Art Center of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles)