Recently, high-quality domestic period dramas have frequently triggered the phenomenon of "following dramas across generations". "The Wind Blows Pinellia" with the background of reform and opening up is one of them.
Under the seemingly calm name, the play tells the history of entrepreneurship and growth of grassroots women in the great changes of the times. It breaks through the difficulties of creation from three aspects, and has enlightening value for the innovative practice of the main theme TV series.
The first is to face the difficulty of adaptation.
The play is adapted from the novel "No Rebirth".
The description of private entrepreneurs in the original book is strongly critical.
How to not only show the reality in the early stage of reform and opening up, but also bring positive energy and reflection to the audience?
Creators have adopted means to change their creative perspective.
The play does not avoid the negative content of individual choices under the torrent of the times, and re-examines the mistakes and detours made in the process of crossing the river by feeling the stones in the early days of reform and opening up with a tolerant and open perspective.
But at the same time of presentation, the creator injected more reflection consciousness.
Between the destiny of the characters and the agitation of the changing times, the audience can better understand that the reform and opening up not only brought about the standardization of the industry and the improvement of the system, but also the progress of concepts and the improvement of quality.
From this point of view, "The Wind Blows Pinellia" must have the courage to pursue and work hard for the spirit of private entrepreneurship, and it is a realistic masterpiece that pays tribute to reform and opening up.
The second is to face the difficulty of narrative.
"Wind Blowing Pinellia" is difficult to be classified as a specific type of drama. It not only has the genre characteristics of workplace dramas and period dramas, but also conforms to the narrative style of popular dramas and cool dramas.
Compared with the original work, Xu Banxia is less cunning and sleek, and more enthusiastic and soft. It is precisely this seemingly unsatisfactory character design that makes it innovative: it has both grassroots survival wisdom and simplicity and kindness. .
Xu Banxia embodies the concept of blaming others with a heart of responsibility and forgiving others with a heart of forgiveness in his decisions again and again. This kind of integrity and compassion are relatively rare settings in commercial war dramas.
At the same time, "The Wind Blows Pinellia" does not let career-oriented women fall into emotional entanglements, nor does it deliberately dwarf men in order to express women, or weaken women's own abilities and dreams.
Especially at the end of the play, Xu Banxia stopped the listing plan and decided to walk on the white snow after pleading guilty to the mistake of polluting the tidal flats.
This kind of artistic treatment not only has the boundless feeling of the traditional Chinese aesthetic "the vast white land is really clean", but also creates an imaginative space for the new wind of the times.
This narrative method, in which individual choices and the torrent of the times reflect each other, not only portrays the limitations of the times of the merchants, but also focuses on the pioneering efforts of the merchants. In setting up biographies for businessmen and establishing morality for business, it completes the typology of Chinese-style literary and artistic creation. write.
The last is to face the difficulty of dissemination.
How to effectively connect the main theme with the audience, especially young people, is an important issue that needs to be faced.
"Wind Blowing Pinellia" has the courage to innovate and adopts a criss-crossing creative technique, which not only shows the horizontal section of the times, but also contains vertical thinking about the times.
The background of the play is "wind", which shows the choice, persistence and breakthrough of private entrepreneurs in the "wind" with rich details, and leaves room for interpretation to the audience.
In the barrage and comments on the show's video website, netizens expressed their opinions on "wind", and set off a wave of discussions on social platforms.
As a work with a realistic theme, "The Wind Blows Pinellia" not only creates an immersive and pyrotechnic sense of time, but also promotes the ideological value of daring to think and fight, and supporting ideals with struggle, so that the audience can have a deeper understanding of the present. The origin of a better life, and better understanding of the inheritance and evolution of history and the unremitting innovation of the times.
Guangming Daily Author: Lu Fan, Director of the Audio and Video Office of the Media Center of Peking University