The major revolutionary-themed TV series "Kunpeng Hitting the Waves" is a red tribute drama filmed to commemorate the 130th anniversary of the birth of ***. The play is written by Ma Jihong, a national first-class screenwriter, directed by the famous director Liu Biao, and Gao Jun, a gold medal producer who has organized the filming of "Diplomacy" and "Marshal", serves as the chief producer. From creation to shooting, the show presents many differences compared with the major revolutionary-themed TV series broadcast in the past.
A different story
"Kunpeng Hitting the Waves" tells the story of the members of the Hunan Xinmin Society represented by *** from 1918 to 1921 looking for a way to save the country and the people in the turbulent tide of history. Looking at the major revolutionary-themed TV series broadcast in the past, most of them are about the magnificent revolutionary history from the founding of the Communist Party of China to the founding of New China, and the TV series that featured *** before the founding of the party, except for "Cha Classmate Boy", which showed the life of the first division in Hunan, was almost blank. The period from 1918 to 1921 was precisely the three years of great changes in Chinese history, during which the New Culture Movement flourished, the dawn of Marxism shone into China for the first time, the May Fourth Movement held high the banner of freedom and democracy, and the smoke of warlordism aggravated the suffering ...... of the Chinese peopleThese extraordinary three years are the three years of fundamental changes in the worldview of young people, the three years of his transformation and sublimation from a hot-blooded young man to a Marxist, the three years of his loss of parents and his teacher, and the three years when he found his sincere love with Yang Kaihui. At the same time, it also provides a broad space for her reasonable imagination, adhering to the creative principle of "big things are true, small things are not informal", in order to find more vivid and solid first-hand materials, Ma Jihong threw himself down, stepped forward, and followed the trajectory of young people's actions, successively went to Shaoshan, Bancang, Changsha, Beijing, Shanghai, and visited the former residence of ***, the former residence of Yang Kaihui, the first normal in Hunan, Yuelu Academy, the former site of the Xinmin Society, the Red House of Peking University, Sanyanjing Hutong, the site of the first congress of the party and other memorial sites, from the yellowed ** In the items on display, look for the *** of a hundred years ago to feel his passion, his temperature, his courage, mind and will. Next, Ma Jihong locked herself in the study and read hard, making up for the lack of knowledge from the sea of books, she not only read ***'s autobiography and biography, but also read more than 100 books related to it, including Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao, Cai Yuanpei, Cai Hesen, Yang Changji, Deng Zhongxia, Xiang Jingyu, Yang Kaihui, Hu Shi and other biographies and anthologies, further clarifying the background of the era and the relationship between characters. On this basis, Ma Jihong began to create, under the guidance of party history experts, she organically combined learning party history with writing scripts, while thinking, while creating, it took four years, four drafts, and finally completed the script, the audience can see a different *** from "Kunpeng Hitting the Waves" to see him from youth to maturity of a period of youth romance.
A different expression of youth
Kunpeng Hitting the Waves is a red youth inspirational drama dedicated to young people, and all the young people represented by *** in the play are in their early twenties, so whether there is a strong youthful atmosphere is an important indicator of the success of the play. In order to achieve this original intention, the crew boldly broke the routine in the selection of actors, made an exception to enable newcomers, and for the actors who came to audition, they did not talk about traffic, background, qualifications, relationships, completely fair competition, who is excellent and who is on top, only one role of young people, they have tried more than 60 people with makeup, and finally selected a little-known newcomer, in addition to Yang Kaihui, Cai Hesen, Xiao Zisheng, Cai Chang, Xiang Jingyu, Tao Siyong, Zhang Guotao, Deng Zhongxia and other roles, they are also one in a hundred, After many rounds of fierce competition, the average age of these actors is less than 25 years old, and when they stand in front of you, you will feel a breath of youth rushing to your face.
In the past, most of the film and television works used the perspective of "posterity", which is a perspective full of reverence and admiration, and a perspective that interprets the exploits of great men, and a hundred years ago, he was not a leader, he was just a passionate young man, he could cry, he would laugh, he had pain, and helplessness, he faced the struggle of ism, and also encountered emotional dis......orientationIn order to allow the audience to get a real sense of substitution, "Kunpeng Hitting the Waves" abandons the aura of great men and pulls great men back to mortals to shoot, and there is no distance between the daily life, joys, sorrows and sorrows of ** and ordinary people. **Once said that his favorite job is teaching, and the young people of today also affectionately call *** "teacher", from the frame by frame of "Kunpeng Hitting the Waves", we can clearly perceive Mr. Mao's teaching career, he lectures to students, imparting knowledge; He organized students to play gymnastics games to strengthen their bodies; He led the students to visit, enlighten their minds and establish patriotic sentiments; He and his students grew up together in these turbulent times. In addition, the breath of youth permeates every detail of "Kunpeng Hitting the Waves", the hardships of "sleeping together", the romance of chanting poetry and admiring the moon, the bloody parade, the sharp debate, ** and his partners, all of whom have painted a distinct personality color on the common youthful background, creating a group portrait lineup with personality differences.
In addition to the external image of youth and youthful atmosphere, the core expression of youth is growth, from beginning to end, the play runs through the first inquiry thinking about society and life, the active pursuit of the meaning of life, in him can feel the lofty feelings of the youth, the vitality of youth, the rich and full emotional world and the tenacious and tenacious fighting spirit. This song of youth that "broke out of the cocoon into a butterfly" a hundred years ago also has positive practical significance for the growth of young people today.
A different aesthetic pursuit
Liu Biao, the director of "Kunpeng Hitting the Waves", is a native of Hunan, and he has a sense of excitement and awe for the TV series "Kunpeng Hitting the Waves", which shows the pioneers of the Hunan revolution, in order to let this main theme work that inherits the red gene go deeper into the hearts of the audience, he has always insisted on his own aesthetics and pursuit in filming, that is, to make the content real, the form to be new, and the emotions to ignite, so as to shorten the distance between history and reality.
Kunpeng Hitting the Waves" shows the ** of a hundred years ago, the play involves Beijing, Changsha, Shanghai, Shaoshan and other different regions, both the ancient capital of the imperial city, and the foreign concession, both landmark buildings, and farmland and cottages, from environmental scenes to furniture and furnishings, and even clothing, clothing, stationery, and envelopes, Director Liu deliberately pursues the realism of history. In order to create a cultural atmosphere in the library of Peking University, he made props to build more than 40 bookcases that stood up to the sky and the ground, and set them up in the corridor of the library; In order to render the youthful atmosphere of the establishment of the "Xinmin Society", he asked the scenery to plant a piece of rice on the slope in front of Cai Hesen's house; In order to express Yang Changji's desire for life before his death, he asked the artist to paint the hospital's originally white walls beige; In order to reproduce the reality of the leaflets, he asked the artist to find wax paper to engrave and then use an old-fashioned mimeograph machine to print the ......In the intense shooting, Director Liu never let go of any detail that may be missing, so he is called "detail control" by the crew. In addition to the pursuit of true details, as a photographer, Liu Biao pays more attention to the texture of the image, and has strict requirements for shooting equipment, shooting methods, and color scenes, and sometimes even directly carries a Steadicam on his back to guide a shot to the end. In order to achieve first-class cinematography, the crew also used 100K lighting to strive to shoot the texture of a movie in every frame, so as to present the situation of the great era in front of the audience in a panoramic way.
Because "Kunpeng Hitting the Waves" tells the real history, which involves nearly 100 real people with names and surnames, more than 500 special actors, and more than 12,000 extras. It is this kind of meticulous persistence that makes the play have the spirit of epic, the meaning of poetry, the romance of youth, and the sincerity of blood.
A different kind of team management
As a temporary team, the crew is generally loosely managed, and is nicknamed "Jianghu". The difference between "Kunpeng Hitting the Waves" is that its main actors are all selected through fair competition, and they are all young people in their early twenties. Combined with the content of filming, the party branch invited famous party history experts to teach young actors about party history, attend party classes, invite the descendants of revolutionary martyrs to tell them about traditions, and lead them to visit and study in the first memorial hall, Peking University Red Mansion, Shaoshan, Bancang and other places, so as to enhance their understanding of party history and reverence for heroes, so as to strengthen their faith and purify their souls. Since most of these young actors have just graduated from school and have no acting experience, the party branch invited professional teachers from all walks of life to teach them acting, etiquette, and calligraphy, and cultivate their skills and qualities bit by bit. At the same time, the party branch strictly organizes and disciplines, stipulating that you must ask for leave when you go out, and you must not leave the group unless necessary. When filming, go all out, temper hard, ensure quality, when not filming, read and exercise, learn from each other, learn from each other, and actively organize them to participate in public welfare activities, in the Hengdian Dragon Boat Race, the team members united and cooperated, worked hard, and won the first place in the crew.
After half a year of training and training, these young actors not only increased their talents, and completed their respective roles with a rigorous and pragmatic attitude, but also strengthened their beliefs, honed their will, and improved their consciousness. When the crew was finished, all the cast and crew were reluctant to give up, praising the crew of "Kunpeng Hitting the Waves" as a big red school.