CCTV a set of opening year drama "The World" was broadcast at the top of the ratings, suitable for three generations of a family to take advantage of the Spring Festival holiday to sit around and watch, no matter what age group can resonate, this era group portrait drama directed by Li Lu and as the chief producer, Lei Jiayin, Xin Baiqing, Song Jia, Yin Tao led the starring, stable.
Based on the novel of the same name by writer Liang Xiaosheng, "In the World of Man" tells the ups and downs of life experienced by the most ordinary ordinary people in China's nearly 50 years of historical changes in the past 50 years from the perspective of three generations of zhou surnames living in a provincial capital city in the north, showing the earth-shaking social changes such as going to the countryside, laying off, going to the sea, reform and opening up, going abroad, self-employment, etc., the spirit of Chinese people to work hard and struggle hard, as well as the beautiful heart of hard work, integrity, self-respect and self-improvement.
A slowly unfolding picture of the times
"The World of Man" is Liang Xiaosheng's first million-word novel published in 2017, and won the 10th Mao Dun Literature Award in the same year, which is also one of the highest honors in China. The novel has been widely concerned in the gestation stage, in 2018 by a non-cultural complete global full copyright exclusive signing, at the end of 2018 officially joined hands with Tencent, reached an 8-year film and television adaptation rights cooperation, Tencent and the introduction of brother team Xinli Media, Yuwen Film and Television to help, the beginning of film and television is running to the epic drama, the producer was locked by CCTV in the morning.
The official microblog of "Human World" wrote: With the title of "Portrait for the People and Establish a Biography for the Times", it is hoped to spread a "timeless and simple picture of the times".
In the play, Zhou Zhigang (Ding Yongdai), an older generation of construction workers who are rooting in Miaohong, lead a family of five to struggle from peasants to urban hukou, and then respond to the call to go to the southwest to support the third line; at the end of the 1960s, according to the policy of leaving only one child in the city, the eldest son Zhou Bingyi (Xin Baiqing) resolutely went to the countryside to go to the Jiangliao Provincial Construction Corps, which was more icy than his hometown; the eldest daughter Zhou Rong (Song Jia) went to the countryside of Guizhou to join the team in pursuit of love; Zhou Bingkun, who was not as good as his brother and sister and was an "old knot" in the family, stayed in the city. Become an ordinary worker.
My father took a family portrait with the whole family, printed five pictures, one for each person, and has since been in the north of the sea.
In the past 50 years, the society has undergone great changes, people have moved from isolation to openness, from barrenness to common prosperity, from singleness to pluralism, the fireworks in the low bungalows of the former small alleys have rapidly transformed into high-rise buildings, and neighbors who used to be regardless of each other have begun to hurry, and under the wrapping of the times, the joys and sorrows of the world are staged in the ordinary Zhou family.
At that time, people were really bitter, but they were also really happy.
The TV series "The World of Man" triggered the older generation to reminisce about the past, and also made the younger generation sigh and begin to think about the meaning of life itself.
With the changes of society and the times, the Zhou family has encountered new challenges, the idealist Zhou Bingyi, the love to Zhou Rong, and the social youth Zhou Bingkun have witnessed "extraordinary" with "ordinary" in the ups and downs.
Liang Xiaosheng, the original author, said, "I grew up in the city and know more about the lives of the people at the bottom of the city. I have a wish: to write a work that reflects the life of the children of urban civilians with a sense of age. I want to tell young people about the past, let them know what China was like in the past, and help them in their future lives. ”
The screenwriter of the play, Wang Haiyu, will be the cool color of the original work as the warm color of film and television, and the work of "Human World" is a tribute to realism, a tribute to the tough, ordinary and kind public.
Wonderful group portrait drama, vivid "Human World"
The pace of the first 2 episodes of "The World of Man" is relatively slow, and the excitement point basically begins with the appearance of Qiao Chunyan. Chun yan, played by Huang Xiaolei, is a warm and cheerful girl next door, but Fancy Nianhua was assigned a job to pedicure the elders in the bathhouse, and her parents felt distressed and wronged, but she shook her head and said that she would do it.
"This man, sometimes he just can't do it, but why can't he do it?" Admit it! "Wind and fire Qiao Chunyan, can afford to put down, mixed into a bathhouse sister does not say, but also enthusiastically help the unemployed Bingkun Brother Zhang Luo work. Although Huang Xiaolei's role is not much, it interprets a girl with social cow X disease as a flowing stream.
Huang Xiaolei brought the audience into the play, and the baton was handed over to Lei Jiayin.
Zhou Bingkun, the younger son of the Zhou family played by Lei Jiayin, is the most core character of the whole drama, compared with his brothers and sisters who have ideals and opinions, he can be said to have nothing to learn, no ambition, accept the arrangement of the family, accept the arrangement of fate, and honestly be an ordinary worker. Thick, wooden and often have a little wit, dare to shoot the table with the leader and always be carried out of the bed by the mother to write letters and read letters, this role is instigated and rigid, with the joy of the northeast people.
Ordinary Zhou Bingkun is a microcosm of countless ordinary people, no luxury hope to have much of a show but always want to find a sense of existence, he is often wronged and especially can not see others wronged, adhere to ordinary happiness is his understanding of life, no matter what kind of torture he experiences, the belief in "home" has never changed in his heart.
The fit between Lei Jiayin and Zhou Bingkun is not only in terms of acting, Lei Jiayin herself was born in the Northeast Workers' Compound, the growth environment is similar to Zhou Bingkun, and his parents have experienced the reform of state-owned enterprises and laid off, so when he saw the script of "The World of Man", he said, "I am Zhou Bingkun, I must act, I must act!" If nothing else, the character archetypes of the story are engraved in his mind.
Zhou Bingkun, who has no heart and no lungs, met Zheng Juan, who lives at the bottom, and fell into it at a glance. Zheng Juan's living environment is mixed, her personal background is tortuous and complicated, and she looks better than Zhou Rong, a beautiful woman who is famous in ten miles and eight townships. She was poor, difficult, and miserable, but she said, "There are more people who have difficulties, others can pass, and I ZhengJuan can also pass."
A scene, a few words of dialogue, a person's fate, personality clearly explained.
Zhou's father and mother are traditional Chinese parents, the father loves like a mountain, shoulders the heavy responsibility of the family, the heart hurts his children and can't say anything on their mouths; the mother's love is like water, a lifetime of pots and pans, the family struggles outside She is a stable rear, the family returns, and the cottage is an eternal harbor.
The big brother who carries the family and social responsibility, the independent female sister with thought and culture, the knife mouth tofu heart, the qu secretary with a set of leading quotations with one back hand, the "six gentlemen" mixed together... The time span is as long as 50 years, and "The World" with many characters will shape each large and small character into flesh and blood, plump and three-dimensional.
Good people cultural view
Today's audiences are very admiring the "all evil people" in film and television works, and "The World of Man" is just the opposite, almost all the good people, the original author Liang Xiaosheng has a unique "good people culture view", he once mentioned in the interview, "Too many works in China emphasize that others are hell, and China needs good people culture too much." His Zhou Bingkun is a typical practitioner of good people culture.
Zhou Bingkun's family is solid-eyed, he himself is a leader, the workers were shot, he was forced to go to the scene to watch the "education", but the honest children were frightened by the education demon, had to resign and leave the wood factory, in that era, everyone only once enjoyed the rights and interests of assigned work, and it was not easy to re-employ.
He sent money for Zheng Juan, who was pregnant and widowed, and he had five yuan for running errands each time he sent thirty, but seeing the difficult situation of Zheng Juan's family, he subconsciously pulled out the five yuan he deserved.
He helps his sister with children, raises girls for others, he has an innate sense of family responsibility and is sent to prison because of impulse, and his good people's cultural outlook is ordinary and tragic. Liang Xiaosheng wrote in the novel: He has always been just a small ordinary person, and the requirements he has asked himself from childhood to grow up are only to be a good person, try to do this, but he has not done it very well.
Brother Zhou Bingyi is also a good person, no matter in what situation to his lover resolutely do not abandon, do not give up, for this reason would rather sacrifice his future, his choice is supported by his family, with the neighbor aunt and Zhou Mother's dialogue is said, this child is like you, benevolent.
Good person culture is Liang Xiaosheng's value, and he sets such standards for "good people": cultivation rooted in the heart, self-consciousness without reminder, freedom premised on constraints, and kindness for the sake of others. Based on such a criterion, his characters do not even hesitate and tangle in the face of choice, even if the tradition such as Zhou Father, after personal investigation, accepts his daughter to marry a man who is a few years younger than himself, accepts that his son marries a woman who has no marriage and has children, and gives birth to other people's children.
The portrait of the small people at the bottom shows their pursuit and disillusionment of ideals, their attachment and firmness to emotions, their struggle and helplessness in life...
"The World of Man" unfolds the cold and warm changes of society for decades from the perspective of civilians, the impact and fission of the rapid development of the times, and listens to the thunder in the silent place.