China News Service, Beijing, November 19th (Reporter Shangguan Yun) In early November, the TV series "The Great Game" was broadcast on Dragon TV and Zhejiang Satellite TV in prime time.
Relying on factors such as old drama bones + acting-style actors and down-to-earth drama styles, this drama has gained a considerable number of fans.
"The Great Game" is adapted from Zhou Meisen's own original novel of the same name. In his writing, the male protagonist Sun Heping routines one after another, not just a stern-faced factory director; breath.
Liu Bing, Qi Xiaohua, Yang Liu, Qin Xinting, Qian Jianguo and others also have their own highlights.
The precise grasp of the characters' personalities may be related to Zhou Meisen's rich and colorful life.
Construction teams, coal mines, magazines... These are all places where he has worked, and it is also the field where he can contact different types of people.
A temporary job experience opened up a broader track for his writing.
After that, Zhou Meisen focused his creation on contemporary themes, and wrote a series of well-known works such as "The Right Way in the World" and "In the Name of the People".
He can also freely switch between the two identities of writer and screenwriter.
"The Great Game" is still a realistic theme, and Zhou Meisen looks forward to leaving a memory for history through this story.
The speaker is free, the listener has the heart
At the beginning of "The Great Game", the Northern Machinery Factory is about to close down, and Sun Heping (played by Qin Hao), who is quick-witted, is pulled to rescue him and takes office as the new factory director.
Under his leadership, the North Machinery Factory turned against the wind and successfully entered the international market.
While showing the living conditions of various enterprises, "The Great Game" has added a little bit of fireworks to the show by expressing the details of life.
For example, Sun Heping is not a serious image, when he comes out, he is selling rat poison.
The meme of selling rat poison originated from a conversation between Zhou Meisen and the boss of a well-known heavy equipment power group company.
He remembered that the boss went to Jakarta to expand the market during the most difficult time, and found that the local rats were seriously infested.
"He had a brainstorm and bought rat poison from China to sell, and the local demand soon exceeded the demand." The boss told Zhou Meisen with high spirits that the profit of selling a pack of rat poison in Jakarta at that time was even more than that of a small engine.
He spoke casually, and Zhou Meisen listened attentively.
When creating "The Great Game", I wrote this matter into it.
Regarding Qin Hao's acting skills, Zhou Meisen's evaluation is "very good", "I don't want to have a domineering president-style Sun Heping. Qin Hao is an actor in a literary film, and he has unique research on roles. Now it seems very grounded It's also very welcome."
TV series "The Big Game" poster.
Photo courtesy of the play party
He can understand the aesthetic needs of different audiences, "Of course, audiences who are used to seeing domineering presidents may not be satisfied. Everyone has a Sun Heping in their hearts, and Qin Hao performed Qin Hao's Sun Heping."
leave a piece of memory for history
Compared with the TV series that is currently airing, the plot of the novel is less dramatic, but deeper.
For example, Deputy Secretary Long at the beginning of the story came back to form a team with Sun Heping, which made Sun Heping "headache" immediately, and was a little confused about the future.
The novel "The Great Game" directly faces the arduous and tragic road that China has gone through for decades.
In the book, Zhou Meisen comprehensively expresses the process from the difficult start of the manufacturing industry on the basis of the planned economy to its final glory.
"Many people say that no one reads about industrial and agricultural themes, and writes about farmers and workers. I think our country is still dominated by farmers and workers. They are the foundation of our republic. It is necessary and obligatory for literary and art workers to serve them. Make something. There are too few such works these years." Zhou Meisen said.
He intends to make such an attempt, and "The Great Game" is the finished product.
He said that no matter whether Sun Heping or Qian Ping, the characters in them are the portrayals of people with flesh and blood, ideals and ambitions in the wave of the great era.
"China's reform and opening up has been going on for more than 40 years, and we are all beneficiaries and participants of China's reform and opening up. And the Chinese nation has never been so strong and prosperous." Zhou Meisen hopes to leave a memory of history through this story .
Little worker on construction team Writer of fiction
If you extend the timeline of your life, you can find that the reason why Zhou Meisen can write characters from all walks of life so vividly is not unrelated to his rich life experience.
Famous writer and screenwriter Zhou Meisen.
Photo provided by the interviewee
Because of his poor family, he smashed stones on the mountain and worked as a laborer in the construction team when he was a child.
In order to earn some money, I worked part-time and part-study in middle school, and went to the coal mine to go underground, so I had some understanding of various types of work in the coal mine.
The turning point happened when Zhou Meisen was twenty-three years old.
With his outstanding literary works, he was transferred to the magazine and became an editor. A few years later, he published his first novel "Sinking Land", which described the coal mine life he was quite familiar with.
His hometown is Xuzhou, Jiangsu.
In 1994, by chance, Zhou Meisen was invited by the Secretary of the Xuzhou Municipal Party Committee at that time to serve as the Secretary General of the Xuzhou Municipal Government.
That short year changed the direction of his literary creation.
During his tenure, he was able to get close contact with the ecology of the officialdom, understand the work process within the system, and see the influence of power on a person. "These laid an important foundation for me to write contemporary novels later, which is very important. a lesson".
After that, Zhou Meisen plunged into the writing of contemporary novels and has been writing until today, writing a series of well-known works such as "The Right Way in the World", "National Public Prosecution", "Supreme Interest" and "In the Name of the People".
"It is the valuable experience of the past years that gave me the opportunity to observe the society and accumulate a lot of material for writing." He told the reporter of Chinanews.com.
only make up my own work
"Both a writer and a screenwriter." In fact, for Zhou Meisen, both are very interesting identities.
Famous writer and screenwriter Zhou Meisen.
Photo provided by the interviewee
However, Zhou Meisen has a principle, "I only write my own works, and I don't worry about writing screenplays for others. I use novels as an outline, with characters and stories. This is the outline, and the script will go smoothly."
This also led him to gradually develop a unique writing habit: when writing novels, he would minimize the drama of certain plots; but when adapting the script, he clearly knew where to push the drama contradictions forward.
Therefore, in many cases, Zhou Meisen originally had only two pages of text in front of him, but he could instantly write the script and imagine the direction of the plot and the psychological activities of the characters.
Counting from "The Right Way in the World", he has written many contemporary novels, almost all of which have been adapted into film and television dramas, many of which are hits.
For example, "In the Name of the People", from the beginning to the end of the broadcast, has always been at the center of the public opinion field and won many praises.
"Only by making the audience empathize, can film and television dramas not be 'suspended'." Taking some plots of "The Great Game" as an example, Zhou Meisen always believes that many people have experienced it themselves. Accepted by the audience." (End)