Beijing**Client|Reporter Qiu Wei.
The major revolutionary historical TV series "Ask the Boundless" is being broadcast in the first round of CCTV, followed by Hunan Satellite TV and Jiangsu Satellite TV. The play is written by Chen Jin and Liang Zhenhua, forming a strong alliance of party history experts and senior film and television screenwriters. While insisting on the true narrative of history, the play integrates dramatic content into the details, and endows the red theme with rich meaning with bold and artistic processing that conforms to the historical situation, realizing the sublimation of character creation and the two-way flow of history and poetry.
Many of the dialogues in the play can be found in the original literature.
"Ask the Boundless" for the first time focused on the historical transformation of young people from 1921 to 1927 from the "early walker" to the "pioneer" of the Chinese revolution. In the past 6 years, ** has grown from a vigorous and enthusiastic young man to a mature politician with great ambitions.
Have young people also faced questions and confusion?How does he explore the development destiny of the country and the nation?And how did he grow into a leading figure in the Chinese revolution?"Asking the Boundless" revolves around the questions of ordinary audiences, selects a compact and special time side, analyzes and creates around the growth process of young people, and at the same time fills in the puzzle of the early life of a generation of great people, it also completes an important complement to the works.
The play invited Chen Jin, the former deputy director of the ** Literature Research Office of the Communist Party of China, to serve as the chief screenwriter to escort the script. When it comes to the creation of the main theme works, Chen Jin said that we must be close to today's audience, highlight the "people" in history, so that the audience can feel the choices and struggles of the ancestors in the past, "Restoring history is by no means the same as singing a high note, restoring history is precisely to bring out the essence of history, not only to reproduce the 'people' in history - the mental journey of the ancestors, but also to let the "people" outside the screen - the audience can really resonate with it." Chen Jin revealed that many of the dialogues of the characters in the play can basically be found in the original documents, "* Whether it is Chen Duxiu, or the party documents, the articles published at that time did use such language, and we must use this language to restore history." ”
Characters are presented in a partially fictional way.
On the basis of a high degree of restoration of history, "Ask the Boundless" also adheres to the principle of "big things are true, small things are not informal", and some bold and artistic processing in line with the historical situation has been carried out on the shaping of the characters, enriching the characters and emotions. In the play, young people appear with questions about the Chinese revolution and the future and destiny of the country and the nation. The first shot at the beginning of the whole play is to return to Changsha in 1921, he swims in the Xiangjiang River despite the turbulent river that has just fallen from the heavy rain, and the plot leads to the character's temperament through the dialogue between *** and the boatman: Fish and shrimp can swim, why can't I swim, no matter how urgent the water is, as long as you find its temper, there is still a way to cure it.
There is a scene in the play is *** farewell to the Anyuan mine workers, the chief screenwriter Liang Zhenhua shared his creative experience and said that he conceived this scene for a long time, and finally found inspiration from the classic oil painting "** to Anyuan", this oil painting is considered to be "the most printed oil painting in the world", and Liang Zhenhua is most interested in the painting *** holding a crimson oil paper umbrella in his right hand. So, there is such a bridge in the play: when parting, the mine workers gave *** an umbrella, ** wanted to leave the umbrella to the workers to shelter from the wind and rain, but the worker said to ***: Mr. Mao, the road you have to walk is very long.
Of course, it is impossible to test whether there is such a sentence in history, but what cannot be falsified is the space for our dramatic expression. Liang Zhenhua said: "In our creation, we carefully verify, carefully explore, carefully hypothesize, and carefully lyrical, integrating aesthetic situations into the historical context, so that there is room for poetic expression and aesthetic intentions, and the characters are shown in a local fictional way." ”
There are many characters in "Ask the Boundless", and there are more than 400 characters involved in the whole story, and 350 historical figures with names and surnames. The plot thread of the plot is complex, and how to find a clear narrative thread from history is one of the difficulties in script creation. What the main creative team does is to cut down the complicated and simplify, and grasp the center. Liang Zhenhua revealed that focusing on the historical period from 1921 to 1927 and facing a series of problems in exploring the correct revolutionary road is the theme of "Asking the Boundless", which is a huge challenge for the main creators. The unity of knowledge and action, ** through the ideological program to guide practice, the results obtained from practice in turn promote cognition, thought and practice two-way promotion. Finding this point, we will sort out a relatively clear narrative thread. ”