Beijing, April 4 (Zhongxin Net) -- A seminar on the TV drama "The Road of Life" sponsored by the China Television Arts Committee was recently held in Beijing.
The TV series "The Road of Life" is a major literary and artistic creation funding project of Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation and a major cultural project in Shaanxi Province in 2022, the play is partly based on the novella "Life" by the famous writer Lu Yao, telling the story of Gao Garin, a young man living in Gaojia Village in northern Shaanxi, in order to change his destiny, strive to be strong, go through the changes of the world, and compose the extraordinary life story of ordinary people in the tide of the times. According to reports, since its launch on March 3, the popularity of "Life Road" has continued to rise, becoming the highest-rated drama on CCTV's comprehensive channel this year. Kuyun ranked first in real-time live broadcast attention for 20 consecutive days, with a peak of 14.3%.
Liu Yina, director of the TV drama department of the Shanghai Bureau of Radio, Film and Television, said that in 1982, Mao Dun Literature Award winner Lu Yao's famous work "Life" was published in the magazine of the Shanghai Literary Association, which caused a sensation. More than <> years later, the "Road of Life" TV series based on this literary classic continued the writer's unfinished words on the screen, which is also the reunion of Lu Yao's classic literary works and Shanghai TV series after "Ordinary World".
He said that "The Road of Life" explores a new path for the creation of classic literary film and television. While paying tribute to classic literature, it also strives to make TV series a new classic. During the broadcast of the TV series, the sales of "Life" books increased significantly, and while the original book injected deep literary nourishment into the TV series, the TV series also made the original literary book gain new social attention. Because of the creative realization of the deep integration of classic literary language and the context of the times, the "Road of Life" TV series itself is also expected to become a new classic, which may be the best practice of literature and film and television in both directions.
Shen Jijun, deputy director of the Film and Television Drama Documentary Center of China Central Radio and Television Corporation, said that "The Road of Life" is a topical work that has attracted widespread attention. Since the start of the show, the popularity of word of mouth has continued to rise, becoming the highest-rated drama on the comprehensive channel this year. From the perspective of data analysis, the audience structure of "The Road of Life" covers a wide range of people of different ages, different education levels, and different consumption levels. Of particular note is the fact that the audience between the ages of 18 and 44 accounts for more than 83%, which shows that the show is very attractive to younger audiences. He pointed out that Lu Yao's "Life" once wrote about the plight of a generation, which belongs to literature's profound insight into social reality and has the depth of reality. This novel has inspired generations to pursue lofty ideals and ponder the impermanence of fate, which has awakened countless confused youth, and been inspired and infected. On the basis of Lu Yao's original novel, the TV series "The Road of Life" broadens the narrative radius and time span of the novel through the creation of film and television, and the two-line narrative reflects each other, with the promotion of the two-way structure of rural and urban to make the plot develop, so that the fate of the characters is intertwined with the pulse of the times, and artistically reproduces the development picture of rural youth, especially intellectual youth, after China's reform and opening up, forming a history of the fate of China's rural youth after reform and opening up.
Wei Wei, the chief producer of "The Road of Life", introduced that the polishing of the script of the play took up to six years, and the script was revised twenty or thirty times, and in the later stage, director Yan Jiangang spent nearly six months on the basis of the existing mature script, and completed the creation of the director's script word by word.
In this regard, Yan Jiangang, the director of the play, said bluntly, "This book ("Life") has indeed influenced my life. I want to use this creative activity of mine to pay tribute to Lu Yao, to that era, and to youth. I also want to have a real and equal exchange with today's young people, which is my original intention. ”
Hong Jinghui, screenwriter of "The Road of Life", said that the adaptation of "Life" aims to achieve two goals: first, to allow classic masterpieces to be presented on the TV screen through the art form carrier of TV dramas, so that the audience can relive the classics and feel the charm of China's excellent contemporary literary works; Second, because the length of the original novel of "Life" is not enough for the TV series, it is necessary to allow the characters in it to continue to develop from the eighties in the original work and participate in the process of reform and opening up, so that this realistic work can increase the spatial breadth of story development and the time width in the process of changing times.
Li Jingsheng, vice president of the China Federation of Radio and Television Social Organizations, believes that the creation of "The Road of Life" is a successful practice of film and television to pay tribute to literary classics. Literary works provide materials and nutrients for film and television, and inject profound ideas into film and television creation. At present, the work of "Life" is adapted into a TV series, precisely because the topics that continue in it still have great significance for the current society, especially the younger generation. The first half of this work can be said to be an adaptation, and the second half is a sequel.
Li Jingsheng believes that "The Road of Life" excavates and shows the enduring topics and echoes of the times contained in the classic works, reproduces the style of the times and character stories in the original work, and continues to write the mutual support and mutual achievement of the opportunities of the times and life choices from the character characteristics and fate suspense of the original characters.
The famous literary critic Xi Guoyi pointed out that the bold attempt of "The Road of Life" is very valuable, and it has faithfully inherited the genes of Lu Yao's famous work. (End)