The main melody film and television drama "relays out of the circle" with strength, what did it do right?

  This year, a number of high-quality, well-recognized themes of film and television dramas have been staged one after another.

At the beginning of the year, "Mountain and Sea Love" and "Awakening Age" kicked off with a stunning start; some time ago, "Sweeping Dark Storm" debuted; now, "Merchants" and "Changjin Lake" took over.

Although this year is not over yet, these few works are enough for many people to remember: 2021 is an important year when the main melody film and television dramas frequently "out of the circle", and it is also a new paradigm for the main melody film and television dramas that are grounded and shaped "real people". A year of growing maturity.

  Take, for example, the hit drama "Meritorious", which scored 9.1 points on Douban.

This drama revolves around the life deeds of 8 party and national heroes such as Li Yannian, Yu Min, and Zhang Fuqing. It is drawn from reality, a compact and vivid plot, and reflects the spirit of the heroes and their colleagues and family members to contribute to the country, regardless of gains or losses. Many netizens cried, and the superb performances of many actors were also called "acting ceiling" by netizens.

  During the creation of the play, the chief director Zheng Xiaolong advocated to create "characters that people can remember," and use the characters' behavior and personality, emotions and stories to move people, instead of relying on "slogan expressions" to inspire people.

To achieve this, the creative team needs to work hard in mining, restoring and shaping.

  The praise of "Meritorious" is inseparable from the creative team studying the materials, visiting the family of the meritorious person, interviewing his colleagues and students, and building up the image of the meritorious person who has hidden meritorious fame or even no longer alive, such as "Zong Daiyi Yu Min, the "Father of China's Hydrogen Bomb," with a pair of round glasses, messy hair "balls" on top of his head, not much thought but full of scientific theories;

  Actors study and imitate the attitudes, movements, and habits of heroic characters. For example, the actor Zhou Xun learned from Nobel laureate Tu Youyou "walking at a large pace, hunched back, and schoolbags slung on the wrists without carrying them";

  In addition, the crew is exquisite for details, has zero tolerance for "punching", 1:1 made models including missiles, and restored the scene as realistically as possible. It also made "Merchants" widely praised, such as putting yellow mud on the house and using high-pressure water guns. The clean surface of the building is removed, mottled weeds are exposed, and traces of smoke and fire, water stains are made, and the Xigou Village where Shen Jilan was elected to the 13th National People's Congress in the early 1950s is reproduced.

  Art comes from life and is higher than life, and artistic creation cannot be separated from the background of "real".

The main melody of the film and television drama is a reflection and eulogy to the spirit of the times. It is to retain a kind of "home country memory". It can only view and show people and things from a true, historical and dialectical perspective, and faithfully and accurately reflect the people and the times. The appearance is regarded as "live up to."

In recent years, the main theme of such temperament film and television dramas has gradually increased, which undoubtedly has a purifying and optimizing effect on the creation of the entire film and television drama and the market environment.

  For a period of time, some works with exaggerated plots, suspended characters, and impetuous creative attitudes appeared on the supply side of film and television dramas, which distort the appetite of the audience, but actually cannot satisfy the appetite of the audience.

Movies and TV dramas that deviate from reality and even "do not live without blood" are unappetizing, but they only wear "workplace drama", "campus drama" and "spy war drama". Caring and talking about love, "stylized" and "routine" creations are also difficult to win the hearts of the audience.

  The impetuous creative attitude also includes not following the logic of "creation" and pursuing the law of "income-generating".

Traversing dramas, tomb-robbing dramas, comic dramas...When you see a blooming place, you immediately follow it up. From the script, the actors to the post-propaganda, they are all routines, saying that they are "creation", but there is not much of their own creation; It comes with "harvesting traffic", but does not really regard the audience as the object of artistic creation services.

  So, what did those popular movies and TV shows do right?

"The Awakening Age" director Zhang Yongxin said: "We insist on creating full characters and vivid characters. With the pyrotechnic details, the people in the play are no longer lofty, but respectable and lovely, which can arouse a high degree of empathy from the audience, and then Resonate."

  From the joking "anti-Japanese drama" to the acclaimed "family and country gods", the main theme of the film and television dramas that has recently conquered the audience, does not play "official", does not release "pseudo-passion", and restore some household names to ordinary People, on the contrary, played the role of becoming popular among the audience, making more people fall in love with meritorious service, understand history, and recognize the present and the future.

  The main theme film and television dramas that are grounded and close to the audience no longer rely on the theme advantage to "protect" to occupy the "home page recommendation" and "prime time", but rely on the plot and characters to win word of mouth. The audience raced to chase the drama.

This is also of great benefit to the prosperity of the main theme of the film and television drama market, and it is a win-win for creators and audiences.

  The core values ​​of socialism are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the upward and good social atmosphere is silent, and the "main melody" of the entire society and "the main melody of film and television dramas" themselves rhyme.

The conscious resistance to inferior artists, the scientists, the craftsmen of great powers, and the shining ordinary people as "this is the star we should chase"... Good film and television works and audiences are also shaping and nurturing each other.

  (Wang Ruochen, our newspaper commentator)