Shenzhen Business Daily Reading Client Reporter Qi Qi
Ask the vast earth, who is the lord of ups and downs?"A hundred years ago, young people stood at the head of Orange Island and asked the question of the century. A hundred years later, the answer to the question of the century is clearly written on the answer sheet of the new era.
On December 12, the State Administration of Radio and Television's major revolutionary historical TV series "Ask the Boundless" was launched on Mango TV and will soon be broadcast on Hunan Satellite TV.
The play focuses for the first time on the historical transformation of young people from "early walkers" to "pioneers" of the Chinese revolution from 1921 to 1927, and tells the story of the early communists represented by young people who explored the difficult process of China's revolutionary road with indomitable entrepreneurial spirit, and inspired young people in the new era to continuously draw wisdom and strength from the party's centennial struggle.
This is a historical drama that reproduces the youth ***
Fill the gap in the narrative of major revolutionary historical themes
"Ask the Boundless" tells the story of 1921 to 1927, with questions about the Chinese revolution, the future and destiny of the country and the nation, in the process of unswervingly practicing Marxist beliefs, with the thinking of an early walker, asking the earth, asking practice, asking the people, from a follower to a pioneer, a pioneer and exploring the correct path of the Chinese revolution.
From the development of League members and party members to the launching of the workers' movement, from the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to the resolute struggle against the Kuomintang rightists, from the discovery of the peasant problem as the central issue of the national revolution, to the proposition that "political power is obtained from the barrel of a gun", the entrepreneurship, growth, and finding a way for young people are the theme and basic content of the play.
"Ask the Boundless" is to shape *** as the image of the early backbone of the Communist Party of China, which is the innovation and biggest feature of the play. Compared with the familiar image of *** in the past, in the play, ** is not a great man who guides the country as soon as he appears, but has gone through a process, which is the focus of the play.
The details of life such as winter swimming, kicking football, and farming make the whole character image plump and interesting, humorous and multifaceted, shorten the distance between the great man and the audience, and strive to tell the epic in a relaxed and flesh-and-blood manner. **From an ordinary party member to a generation of great men, his growth process is also the glorious growth process of the Communist Party of China.
This is a youth drama that reproduces the original intention of the founding of the party
Inspire young people in the new era to reshape their ideals and beliefs
If you want to know the road, you must first go to history", the party's century-old history of struggle is the most vivid and convincing textbook leading contemporary Chinese youth.
"Ask the Boundless" fully shows the process of taking root downward, growing upward, unswervingly practicing Marxist beliefs with super executive power, and creating a new situation on China's revolutionary road, which has important enlightening significance for contemporary young people to establish correct ideals, beliefs and life values.
The creation of the play is the restoration and presentation of real history, upholding a rigorous and realistic attitude, leading the audience back to that passionate and enthusiastic era;It is the intersection of oriental aesthetics and traditional narratives, showing the youthful atmosphere, creativity and vitality of the youth of that era, and inspiring contemporary young people to always maintain the "creative" and "breaking" spirit.
This is a bloody drama that depicts the romance of the revolution
Pursue the two-way rush of "history" and "poetry".
Ask the Vast has both oriental aesthetics and traditional Chinese narrative style. In order to tell the entrepreneurial history of young people, the play invited Chen Jin, the former deputy director of the ** Literature Research Office of the Communist Party of China, and Liang Zhenhua, the chief screenwriter of the TV series "Ideal Shining in China", as the chief screenwriter, and joined hands with Wang Wei, a young director who had directed "Hidden and Great", to form a ** team, respectively from the historical context, theme ideology, literary and artistic expression of the play.
At the same time, nearly 100 actors such as Wang Renjun, Jiaze, Ning Li, Bai Ke, Tang Zeng, Wu Xingjian, Zhang Xiaolong, Wei Daxun, Jiao Junyan, Niu Junfeng, Zheng Yecheng, Ma Shaohua, Song Jia, etc., will jointly build a thick and vivid historical group portrait.
Adhering to the creative principle of "big things are true, small things are not informal", the main creative team of "Ask the Boundless" began to conceive in 2021, and systematically organized three collections from December 2021, successively visited dozens of places such as Changsha, Shaoshan, Anyuan, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Wuhan, etc., consulted nearly 100 authoritative historical books, and had many discussions with party history experts until May 2023.
During the filming stage, the 761 scenes, nearly 10,000 costumes, 54,000 props involved in the whole play, important meetings, scenes of main characters, and key office spaces and home environments have all been replicated and restored in accordance with history.
In terms of the expression of historical events and the specific plot of the characters' emotions, "Ask the Boundless" has made bold and artistic processing in line with the historical situation, insisting on the true narrative of history, while integrating dramatic content into the details, so as to realize the sublimation of character creation and the two-way rush of history and poetry.
Ask the Vast is a key project of the State Administration of Radio and Television and Hunan Province, produced by **Radio and Television Station, Propaganda Department of Hunan Provincial Party Committee, Hunan Radio, Film and Television Group (Hunan Radio and Television Station), Xiaoxiang Film Group, Hunan Happy Sunshine Interactive Entertainment Media *** Propaganda Department of Changsha Municipal Party Committee, Malanshan ** Cultural and Creative Industrial Park, Hunan Dangran Film Industry***, supported by Hunan Provincial Radio and Television Bureau, Beijing Youth Hello Culture Media *** Beijing Perfect World Film and Television *** Beijing Wuyuan Culture Media *** Co-production, under the guidance of the Propaganda Department of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee, planned and initiated by Hunan Radio and Television, and created, filmed, produced and distributed by Xiaoxiang Film Group and Dangran Pictures.