Beijing News: "Kunpeng Strikes the Waves", a key TV series of the State Administration of Radio and Television, a key support project of the Beijing Municipal Radio and Television Bureau, and a key literary and artistic quality project of "Beijing Audiovisual", is currently being produced on Beijing Satellite TV, Zhejiang Satellite TV, Guangdong Satellite TV, iQiyi, and Youku Video and Tencent Video are popular. Recently, the Xiangtan University exchange and sharing session "Salute to Great Men and Build Youth Dreams Together" and "Kunpeng Strikes the Waves" jointly sponsored by Xiangtan University, the Hunan Provincial Committee for the Democratic Progressive Party, and the Central Cultural and Art Committee of the Democratic Progressive Party was held at Xiangtan University. The crew of "Kunpeng Strikes the Waves" also went to Shaoshan to lay a flower basket at the bronze statue of Chairman Mao and visited Comrade Mao Zedong's former residence and Comrade Mao Zedong Memorial Hall.
At the event, starring Liu Chenglin, Mi Zhuoqing and others sang the theme song "Kunpeng Strikes the Waves" "Crack the Waves".
Xiangtan is Mao Zedong’s hometown and the starting point for his study, knowledge, growth, and leadership of the Chinese revolution. Today, a hundred years later, the cast and crew of "Kunpeng Strikes the Waves" held a dialogue and exchange with young people at Xiangtan University, which not only relived the history of the revolution, but also paid tribute to the youth of the great man. Talking about the bold casting of new actors in "Kunpeng Strikes the Waves", chief producer Gao Jun said that this drama shows the history from 1918 to 1921, and Mao Zedong's age range is 25 to 28 years old: "The actor who plays the young Mao Zedong must be There is a successor.” For this reason, the casting process for "Kunpeng Strikes the Waves" lasted for half a year. From more than 6,000 candidate actors across the country, the crew overturned the tentative candidates several times before finally confirming the current starring lineup, which is mainly composed of post-00s.
Talking about the creative process, chief screenwriter Ma Jihong said that after 30 years of TV drama creation, "Kunpeng Strikes the Waves" was the most difficult one. It took four years to create and changed the draft four times. It was about digging for mineral deposits in the gaps in history. Since there are not many books reflecting Mao Zedong's youth, this period of history recorded in the "Chronicle of Mao Zedong" only has 6 pages. In order to complete the script, Ma Jihong found biographies of Mao Zedong-related figures such as Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao, Yang Changji, Cai Yuanpei, Deng Zhongxia, Cai Hesen, Xiao Zisheng, Xiang Jingyu, Huang Kan, Li Jinxi, etc., and read nearly 100 biographies, following Mao Zedong's life footsteps , from Shaoshan to Changsha, to Beijing, retraveling the path of his life, reading and collecting stories at the same time, and finally completed the work.
director Liu Biao is from Hunan. This time he returned to his hometown with the crew of "Kunpeng Strikes the Waves". When he met students from Hunan University, his conversation was full of local accent. He said: "I once determined to make a movie that talks about the spirit of Hunan people. , the spirit of the Chinese people, and talks about the youth of Hunan people and the youth of China. "Kunpeng Strikes the Waves" helped me realize this creative ambition."
Editor Tong Na
Proofreading Zhao Lin
