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Stunned, ask the vast earth, who is the master of ups and downs?”
In 1925, the 32-year-old *** independent cold autumn", standing on the side of the Xiangjiang River surging north, looking west from Orange Island, his eyes are the magnificent autumn scenery of "ten thousand kinds of frost and heavens competing for freedom".
At this time, the maple forest was dyed, "all the mountains were red", * with the question of where the Chinese nation would go, he wrote "Qinyuan Spring, Changsha".
On December 11th, that is, tonight, a 32-episode historical drama will be broadcast on CCTV's ** file - "Ask the Boundless".
What is a big drama——
Big productions, big events, big weather.
A hundred years ago, young people and their colleagues looked up to the sky and explored how to open up a vast new world for the Chinese revolution. This is certainly a big drama.
Chief screenwriter, Chen Jin, Liang Zhenhua. Director, Wang Wei.
Participating actors: Wang Renjun, Ning Li, Song Jia, Jiao Junyan, Bai Ke, Tan Kai, Zhang Xiaolong, Ma Shaohua, Tang Zeng, Li Chengru, Huang Xiaolei, Jiaze, Wu Xingjian, Zheng Yecheng, Wei Daxun, Niu Junfeng, Wu Haochen, Wang Maolei, Dong Yong, Dong Xuan, Sun Hao, Yang Zhigang, Chen Xiaoyi, Huo Qing, etc.
At first glance, there are no less than 23 people who can be called powerful.
CCTV + revolutionary historical drama has always been the quality assurance of national dramas.
A "Awakening Age" depicts a group of people in history, with both viewability, depth of thought, and depth of history, Douban 93 points.
A "Armageddon", filming the Liberation War from multiple perspectives, and the rebroadcast ratings can still be close to breaking one.
Can "Ask the Boundless" once again set off a boom in revolutionary historical dramas?
The chances are high. However, the significance of the episode is not only that.
Dozens of well-known actors and a long cast lineup are just to restore that period of history and the young man in Hunan who asked the vast amount to the audience.
History, textbooks have been learned.
But "Ask the Boundless" also made something you didn't expect
Why do you ask the vastness?Why can a spark start a prairie fire?
In today's revolutionary historical drama, it is not difficult to tell the moving story of the forerunner's grandeur and fierceness.
What's even more difficult is how to resonate with the current young audience.
The story of "Ask the Boundless" focuses on the period from 1921 to 1927.
This period of history, in terms of China's great history, was the convening of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the outbreak of the anti-imperialist patriotic movement, and the failure of the first national revolution. History is a magnificent history.
As far as young people are concerned, 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 rightists of the Kuomintang, until they go into the fields and measure the significance of the peasant movement to the Chinese revolution with their footsteps, young people have always been growing.
With *** as the main line, there are not many works that run from 1921 to 1927.
The narrowing of the incision of the story means that the depth and details of the story increase, and director Wang Wei is fully prepared for this. Combined with the production of specials, it is not difficult to see the three major characteristics of the series:
The first is to make the major revolutionary historical drama poetic and good-looking.
The story of "Ask the Boundless" is "big things are true, small things are not informal", accurately grasp historical figures, and find imagination space in the gaps.
The handwritten letterhead and the famous scenes restored according to the old ** not only run the historical reality throughout, but also through the contrast of light and shadow, cold and warm colors, the romantic poetry of a big era is shot.
But at the same time, this history contains many stories of ups and downs.
For example, on March 12, 1925, Sun Yat-sen died of illness in Beijing. The internal division of the Kuomintang intensified, and by April 12, 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched the April 12 Incident in Shanghai, which led to a large number of communists and revolutionaries.
For Wang Wei, who is good at suspense dramas and spy war dramas, how will he shoot this history, as long as the thrilling shooting of history itself is filmed, it is already exciting and beautiful enough.
The second is to add a sense of life and fireworks.
In order to restore the texture of the era, the crew has made a lot of restorations to Shanghai, Guangzhou, ** Hunan's former residences, etc., trying to create a sense of reality.
Just in the production of the special, you can see many passages of *** getting married, teasing babies, and playing in the water with friends in Hunan's hometown.
Big history, but also small life.
Third, it is full of freshness and youth.
In 1921, *** was only 28 years old, ** was only 23 years old.
In fact, the average age of the 13 deputies to the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China who had just participated in the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China was only 28 years old.
As Chen Duxiu wrote in the publication of "New Youth": Youth is like early spring, like the rising sun, like the germination of a hundred flowers, like the new hair of a sharp blade.
For these young people in their prime, director Wang Wei recruited young actors such as Wang Chuanjun, Zheng Yecheng, Bai Ke, and Wei Daxun to play, which will of course bring the roles closer to us.
The grand historical picture has unfolded, and that era full of complexity and complexity is like a stage, how will the influential figures take turns on the stage of this history, and how will the history we see today be written?
Real history is very exciting, very burning, and very enjoyable, and filming the excitement of history is the most wonderful historical drama.
And there is only one core story of "Ask the Boundless": how did that young man *** be chosen as the leader step by step by the party, history and the people?
In the revolutionary historical drama, there must not be a trace of sloppiness.
"Ask the Boundless" invited two heavyweight screenwriters.
First, the chief screenwriter Chen Jin, not only an expert in party history, but also the chief writer of the large-scale TV documentary "**", he is at the helm of the script, first, the historical details are stable, and the second is the most hated by the old audience to joke about history and the idolization of historical figures, don't even think about it.
Another screenwriter Liang Zhenhua participated in the creation of "Ideal Shining in China" has a good reputation, and is good at writing the main theme theme that is both in line with historical facts and wonderful.
As for Wang Wei, he has long been recognized as a leader in the new generation of directors of national dramas, and the live-action version of "Bad Guy" and "Chasing the Murderer in the White Night" have set the ceiling for national drama manga dramas and suspense dramas respectively.
"Hidden and Great" directed by him is also a recognized masterpiece of spy war dramas in recent years.
It may be luck that a young director has produced one or two hits, but Wang Wei makes one film into one, and it is definitely not luck to make the ceiling when he shoots a genre.
is popular, but Wang Wei's production is very slow, and the only work in recent years is "Ask the Boundless".
He came to shoot, and I was relieved.
The rest, it's up to the actors.
The cast of "Ask the Boundless" is too gorgeous, and I will say that I am looking forward to the 6 most.
Let's start with the old cast.
First, Ning Li.
I'm so looking forward to seeing Ningli's version of Chen Duxiu.
When many people see Ning Li, they will still think of Li Toyota at the first time, the "ruthlessness" of this role is really too impressive.
But in the past few years, Ning Li's positive role has not lost to the villain at all.
The Silent Truth" and "Police Honor" all have wonderful characters.
In "Under the Prosperous City", Song Chen played by Ning Li has a mysterious beginning, a heart-wrenching middle, and a tearful ending.
Ma Zhao of "The Wandering Earth 2" shines with the brilliance of humanity in science fiction works.
Chen Duxiu, another historical figure who is easy to perform, Yu Hewei, Wang Zhifei, and Li Naiwen's versions are all impressive, Ning Li, it's your turn.
Second, Ma Shaohua.
When it comes to Ma Shaohua, what immediately comes to many people's minds is the Sun Yat-sen he plays.
From the face shape and aura, to the walking form, to the impassioned speech, it is simply not too similar.
Who is he playing this time, of course, it is Sun Yat-sen.
Over the years, he played Dou Ying in "The Emperor of the Han Dynasty", Cai Yuanpei in "The Awakening Age", and Lin Dawei in "No War in Peking", all of them are brilliant.
His personal acting skills are delicate and solid, and he is definitely the bone of the play.
However, the audience who likes him still wants to see him play Sun Yat-sen.
And Sun Yat-sen in this history, who contributed to the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, died in 1925, it can be said that the life and death of a person even affected the trend of history, of course, there are plays to be played, I don't know how Ma Shaohua played, I only know that he must be brilliant.
Third, Song Jia.
In the past few years, Song Jia's acting skills have become more and more general-like.
From Nan Li in the urban drama "Little Shede" to Zhou Rong in "The World", Song Jia often plays imperfect roles, which shows the depth of her skills.
In "Ask the Boundless", in the flashing shot, Song Jia is dressed in a dark robe, dignified and elegant, and applauds calmly at the Kuomintang meeting, although this role has not been announced, but the audience knows that it can only be Song Qingling.
Full marks for casting, and next, give the role to Song Jia.
Fourth, Tan Kai.
This is also the most innovative casting in this play, who would have thought that Wang Wei would let Tan Kai play Hu Shi.
To be honest, Tan Kai has my impression that his performance is calm and sophisticated, his line skills are solid, and he is an actor who has a serious mismatch between popularity and strength.
In "Sweeping the Black Storm", although his role is small, his acting skills are unfathomable, and in "Thirteen Years in the Dust", a down-and-out big brother is played by him very well.
There are really only small roles, no small actors. But he gave me the impression that he played a heroic historical role like the overlord of Western Chu, what Tan Kai's version of Hu Shi looked like.
I'm looking forward to it.
Finally, two young actors.
Fifth, Wang Chuanjun.
From the movies "Gutian Army" and "1921" to the TV series "Midstream Hitting Water" and "Bloody Glory", this drama is the fifth time that Wang Renjun has played ***
If you say that when he played *** in "Gutian Army" for the first time, Wang Renjun's acting skills were still a little immature.
Then just in "1921", his performance has improved significantly.
By the time of "Hitting the Water in the Middle Stream", there has already begun to be a great man with high spirits and the heroic spirit of scolding Fang Xuan.
In this play, Wang Renjun plays both the *** in history and the *** in life
There is a lot of room for the role to play, judging from Director Wang Wei's past works, he is also a director who is very good at calling actors, I hope that this time Wang Chuanjun will make everyone's eyes shine.
Sixth, Zheng Yecheng.
After watching the stills of Zheng Yecheng in the play, I can't help but look forward to his performance.
Yushu is in the wind, heroic and cool, this is the youth in the hearts of the audience
There are many classic *** character building, but they mainly focus on the middle and late years of ***.
Whether the young *** can have a benchmark role again, Zheng Yecheng, who was born in martial arts and has his own heroic spirit, depends on him.
CCTV + ** theme is an absolute ratings tip.
In that year, "Qia Classmate Boy", who lived in Hunan No. 1 Normal from 1913 to 1918, was broadcast on CCTV, with an average rating of 526% and a peak of 9More than 8%, rave reviews.
"Ask the Boundless" was launched on the 130th anniversary of the birth of ***, which has more special significance.
There is no need to doubt the intentions of the crew.
For the filming of this play, the crew went through more than 50 million words of historical materials, and the script before and after lasted nearly 1,000 hours.
The filming content involves five cities: Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Changsha and BeijingThere are a total of 761 large and small scenes in the play, nearly 10,000 sets of costumes, and 54,000 props.
In the filming of war scenes, the crew did not use the popular post-production special effects in China, but all real blasting scenes.
The actor Wu Xingjian, who played Jiang Xianyun in the play, revealed that many of the scenes that ran the explosion point needed to be completed by himself.
However, the biggest challenge of the series is how to impress this generation of young people.
In my opinion, there are two key points:
The first is how to mortalize the image of a great man.
The images of great men portrayed in past film and television works are often worthy of respect, but being too tall will also produce distance. And the image of the great man in "Ask the Boundless" is like our young man next door. Marrying a wife and teasing a baby, "behind the mortals, the future of the great man is bred".
Don't think that "Ask the Boundless" only has highlights on the characters.
It also uses three-dimensional and shading to bring out a more realistic side.
Let the historical figures come out of the books and papers one by one.
There is a lively and intimate atmosphere.
in order to bring this young audience closer.
The second is how to capture the romance of real history.
There is a scene in the play where the young man *** takes an oath under the party flag under the lights of the night.
I think since then, young people have had the prototype of ideals in their hearts.
That is, to ignite our own spark.
From 1921 to 1927.
Looking at the background of its time, it is chaotic and complex.
However, in contrast to the national conditions of internal and external troubles at that time, a generation of young people was uprooted.
The life of a historical drama lies in reality, but in real history, there can also be romantic and reasonable imagination, as the camera emerges in front of you, making the characters in the story shine.
When "Ask the Boundless", which is both realistic and freehand, truly restores the spirit of the times, and also restores the young man *** to impress this young person, it is not very difficult.
In turbulent times, especially valuable character.
Such a character is contagious in any era and to any generation of young people.
"Ask the Boundless" is a "main theme" drama, which is true.
But the historical experience it brings may be completely new.
Its theme is large, but the entry point is small.
Its story takes place a hundred years ago, but the resonance is the same.
It's like the crew's message said:
I hope that when people see this drama, they will really feel that 100 years ago, such a group of young people, they had such enthusiastic ideals, loves, melancholy, and pursuits."
With their fiery ideals, they ignited the light of an era.
However, why can the fiery ideals of a group of young people change a China in a few decades?
I believe we will find the answer in "Ask the Boundless".
The mighty trend of the future of history may be hidden in the poem of young people, which can swallow the world with pride
In the cold autumn of independence, the Xiangjiang River went north, and the orange island was headed. Look at the red mountains all over, the layers of forests are dyed all over the river, and hundreds of boats compete for the stream. The eagle strikes the sky, the fish soars to the shallow bottom, and all kinds of frost compete freely. Stunned, ask the vast earth, who is the master of ups and downs?
Bring hundreds of couples to travel, reminiscing about the past eventful years. Just a classmate is a young man, in the prime of his life, and he scolds Fang Xuan. Pointing to the country, inspiring words, the dung was ten thousand households. Have you ever remembered that when you hit the water in the middle of the stream, the waves curb the flying boat!”
After writing this poem, this young man from Hunan went south along the Xiangjiang River and plunged into the vast smoke and waves of history, "Ask the vast earth, who is the master of ups and downs?"One day, he will write his own answer in history.