Recently, the new play " County Party Committee ", the new drama of Noon Sunshine, officially announced the cast and rushed to the hot search.
Hu Ge , Wu Yue lead the leading role, and Huang Lei , Li Guangjie also starred in special, a group of hot acting actors make the audience full of expectations for this drama.
From " Parents' Love ", " No War in Peiping ", " Langya List ", to " Ode to Joy ", " Great Rivers ", " Mountains and Seas ", the noon sunshine can be said to have become the heart of the audience The "facade" of Chinese dramas. Behind
's "popular models", we have to mention a key figure - director Kong Sheng .
Some people may be unfamiliar with this name, but when you see his face, you will feel familiar.
He made a cameo appearance as a minister in "Langya Bang", played a small boss of a newsstand in "Dajiang Dahe", and incarnated as a photographer in a photo studio in "Parents Love"...
Audiences who are familiar with him are very happy "Looking for Kong Sheng in Kong Sheng's plays", because he always likes to make a cameo role in his own plays, which really fulfills the sentence "An actor who doesn't like to play tricks is not a good director".
Indeed, Kong Sheng is a rare good director in the eyes of the audience.
The online media commented: "In his dramas, the brightest parts are reserved for the actors and characters, and he himself often hides behind the camera in silence and works hard." The award is just for that love; his almost perfect presentation requirements for scripts and characters are only because he always adheres to his original intention of film and television.
"Produced by Kong Sheng, it must be a high-quality product"
Seven years ago, a "Langya Bang" made Hu Ge completely popular, and also let the declining domestic dramas re-enter the hearts of the audience.
Douban scored 9.4 points, China TV Drama Feitian Award, Outstanding TV Drama Award, 2015 National Drama Festival, Top Ten Influential TV Dramas, Macau International TV Festival Excellent TV Drama, 19th Huading Award, Top 100 Chinese TV Dramas The first place... all kinds of awards are soft.
Kong Sheng won the Magnolia Award for Best Director for this drama.
took a closer look at Director Kong's works and found that basically all the domestic dramas with good reputation in recent years were produced by him. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is the man who supported half of the domestic dramas.
There was a period of time in the impression that domestic dramas were steadily occupied by some "anti-Japanese dramas", and the magical plots of various "hands tearing devils" made the audience scream their eyes and turn to the embrace of American, British, Japanese and Korean dramas.
national dramas were once decadent.
At this time, "Battle Changsha" directed by Kong Sheng was released.
This drama tells the story of Changsha under the background of Anti-Japanese War , people are brave and fearless, defending their families and the country, there are no exaggerated plots and grandstanding scenes in the play, there are only full-fledged characters and touching stories.events, real history.
"In this play, false heroism and exaggerated forms of expression have disappeared or been diluted, replaced by independent will, personal feelings, and family epics."
"Battle Changsha" received rave reviews after its release.
's excellent TV dramas convey the director's distinctive perspective and values. In Kong Sheng's view, TV dramas need authenticity and warmth.
The same concept also runs through the shooting of the hit drama "Ode to Joy".
This drama tells the story of five girls with different personalities and their different experiences and growth in the metropolis of Shanghai.
At first glance, "Ode to Joy" is quite different from Kong's other historical period dramas.
abandoned the heavy sense of age and replaced it with a fashionable and fresh urban style. Even Kong Sheng admitted frankly that shooting "Ode to Joy" was a challenge to himself.
Many urban emotional dramas tend to attract people's attention with their beautiful costumes and "cool drama" plots.
But in "Ode to Joy", Qu Xiaoxiao , who was born in the second generation of the rich, is still working hard on his career, while Qiu Yingying , who has not yet entered the WTO, has also gradually grown up by repeatedly "stepping on the pit"...
every time Every audience seems to be able to find their own shadow in the five girls.
Kong Sheng's plot design and character setting are not divorced from reality. He puts the real story in front of people like this, causing people to think. In the ending of
, the girls all reap their own happiness after going through great winds and waves. It is telling us:
in front of the screen everyone who has cried and laughed with them is the same, you must work hard to manage the present, and the future will be promising.
Kong Sheng said: I still hope that my works can talk about culture and feelings, convey positive energy, and make this society a little warmer.
In the eyes of the audience, Kong Sheng's product must be a fine product.
boutiques come out one after another, which is inseparable from Kong Sheng's unique enthusiasm and seriousness for filming.
"Tricks into people's hearts"
Kong Sheng always has a gentle and humble attitude, which is probably because he always thinks he is an "amateur director".
In 1978, Kong Sheng failed the college entrance examination.
He couldn't pass the university entrance exam, so he had to find a way out for himself. He worked as a worker on the construction site. In order to get a degree, he went to night school to study Chinese.
He is active by nature. He likes to go out to experience famous mountains and rivers and experience the customs of the city. Compared with reading, he prefers photography and uses light and shadow to record life.
After graduating, he first found a corresponding editorial job in a magazine. But the dreams of young people are always around the corner. Not long after work, Kong Sheng decided to pursue his photography dream.
He quit his job to become a photographer.
Relying on his diligence and eagerness to learn, within a few years, Kong Sheng went from photographer to photography assistant, to deputy photographer, and finally took the position of chief photographer.
Powerful people will naturally not be buried. At this time, he is already well-known in the film and television circle and has won many awards.
Whenever, Kong Sheng loves to be a diligent thinker.
On the set, sometimes he would put forward some of his own unique insights into the drama, and he would be the director while filming, and some friends encouraged him to try to be a director.
So Kong Sheng officially embarked on his own directing career.
Passion and focus are enough to make a person. After
changed careers, his director has done an equally remarkable job. His first independent director of the TV series "Civil Police Cheng Guangquan" won the second prize of the Chinese TV Drama Feitian Award.
This is undoubtedly an affirmation of his directorial strength.
"Crossing the Guandong", " Wenzhou Family ", "Parents Love" and several other TV dramas with excellent reputation, all have Kong Sheng behind the scenes.
It was also during this time that he met the other two people in his "iron triangle" - Li Xue and Hou Hongliang .
are these three like-minded young people, who later co-founded Noon Sunshine, and successively produced dramas such as "Langya Bang", "Big River" and "Shan Hai Qing", making Noon Sunshine a "national drama benchmark".
The brilliance of the actors on the screen and the dazzling trophy on the podium are all inseparable from Kong Sheng's artisan persistence in filming.
When the entertainment industry was vying for "popular points and traffic", Kong Sheng always insisted that his creations should be realistic and sincere, and "shoot into people's hearts".
In the choice of script, he likes those stories that are warm and close to reality, showing a kind of positive energy in the play, which makes the audience feel warm, so you will not see it in his play grandstanding gimmicks, exaggerated hypocritical preaching.
In the selection of actors, his primary criterion is to have good character, good acting skills, and fit the role, so you will not see faces with only traffic but no acting skills in his dramas.
There is no beginning, and there is no end.
and "halfway monk" director Kong Sheng, on the road of filming, is still the young man who yearns for the light and shadow of the big river. He has not changed his original intention and has been moving forward firmly.
"Everything has to be like that"
"Everything has to be like that."
These seemingly unpretentious words are exactly what Kong Sheng asked for himself.
The famous playwright is full of , who once thanked Director Kong Sheng at an award ceremony:
"Thank you for keeping a pious and quiet heart in the creation.
can be quiet in the current market environment. It's not easy to maintain a reverence for artistic creationThe heart is even more difficult, and it is the most difficult not to change the original heart for so many years. "
maintains a devout original intention for creation, Kong Sheng has his own magic weapon: like, enjoy the creative process with a play mentality, but also be able to endure hardship.
When filming the TV series " Life and Death ", the whole process took 173 days , the creative team did not rest for a day, but Kong Sheng never said that he was tired, and he was always smiling, so that the entire crew was infected with a happy atmosphere.
"Because the filming was the most difficult and the creation was the most passionate. "Kong Sheng said. Bitterness and tiredness are nothing to him, and the passion for creation is the most precious thing. It is not easy to keep piety and quiet in the secular world. It is this piety heart that makes Director Kong filming. He never gave up his "perfectionism" when he was on the screen, and he tried to control every detail on the screen with precision. In
"Langya Bang", there is a scene where the king of Yu rebelled and attacked the hunting palace. Twenty minutes later, Director Kong Sheng thought that this war scene must be filmed with a real feeling, because he is the key point of the later plot.
In order to achieve a realistic effect, all kinds of props such as ladders and logs are used together...not all at once. Shooting again, one detail is not in place, the fire and smoke are lit again, just like this, the 20-minute scene took the whole group to shoot for seven days.
Even he himself said, "It took seven days to fight stupidly."
"We are sometimes silly and do things that compare axes. "
This is also the requirement of Kong Sheng's entire production team. In
, Mei Changsu has a hand stove for heating. If the hand stove is warm, the actors can show the real state more realistically. The carbon in the hand stove should also restore the charcoal used in the ancient method.
The extreme control of details is nothing more than because Director Kong has his own way of creating. Perseverance and meticulous attention to every detail, just to show the audience the beauty and charm of traditional Chinese culture.
But this kind of request that even I feel stupid to the extreme has created one after another that can be called The works of Fengshen have raised the banner of domestic dramas.
There is an old saying: "The road is simple, and it is easier said than done. "
The most valuable truth is actually the most simple, but it is extremely difficult to do.
"Everything has to be like that" is Kong Sheng's principle of doing things, it sounds simple and sincere, but it is a lot of people Unattainable heights. After
"Langya Bang" became popular, the audience praised its excellent production, from the composition, narrative to the actors. They were praised over and over again. The producer of
ran to ask Kong Sheng: Did you see it? How about all kinds of compliments?
Kong Sheng took a look and said, "It's too exaggerated, how could it be so popular? We just did what we've always done. "
Behind every "explosive" TV series, Kong Sheng is doing "what he has been doing".
Whether it is the high enthusiasm for creation or the ultimate pursuit of details, it is his performance of not changing his original intention and moving forward bravely.
His bright and innocent heart will continue to illuminate his progress in every future work and in the drama of life.
For every one of us who worked hard for our ideals, do you still maintain that persistence when you chose your own path of love?
May we always be the young man who embraces the original intention in the turbulent world.
Author | Barda
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