Poster of "The Boy Who Screams the Dragon".
Red Net Moment News, January 3, (Reporter Hu Yi) Recently, the youth school drama "The Boy Who Sings the Dragon" directed by Ding Hei, written by Chen Shu, starring Zhang Ruoyun and Huang Yao, premiered on CCTV 8. The play focuses on senior high school teachers and students, using a dual positioning of realism and romanticism to tell the story of a gold medal teacher leading students who have gone astray to regain their original aspirations. The drama analyzes personal growth, personality shaping, teacher-student relationships, intergenerational communication and other issues in the context of the college entrance examination from point to point. It interprets the positive values of youth from an innovative perspective. Since its broadcast, it has received continuous praise and has become a popular "out of the circle" . Today, we talk to Ding Hei, the director of "The Young Man Who Calls the Dragon", to explore the story behind the creation of the play.
The three highlights of the theme narrative characters inspired the director to create
""The Boy Who Screams the Dragon", a passionate story about counterattack, wraps the core of realism with a romantic shell, and uses film narrative techniques to describe the group portraits of young teenagers. Its subject matter, narrative method, Character creation attracts me to create." Ding Hei said in an interview with reporters.
"Jade Guanyin", "Aspects of the Qin Empire", "Police Honor", "That Year the Flowers Bloomed and the Moon Was Full"... In the field of domestic dramas, Ding Hei is not only a "hot hit professional" but also a "multi-faceted player" across themes. But after 26 years in the industry, "The Young Man Who Sings the Dragon" is the first campus youth drama he has directed. "I'm not young anymore, and there aren't many opportunities to shoot such subjects." Ding Hei said frankly that it was his first time to shoot a campus subject, which aroused his strong interest.
Compared with traditional TV series, "The Boy Who Calls the Dragon" has a unique narrative method. First of all, traditional TV dramas focus on the linear relationship of narrative, but "The Boy Who Calls the Dragon" builds a new and unique narrative method with multi-perspective character relationships from the beginning. The character relationships advance through conflicts, and this way of telling stories is more vivid and interesting. Secondly, the composition of its drama uses a movie-like way of thinking, and the integration of a large number of contrasts, associations, metaphors and other narrative techniques makes the entire drama full of novelty. In addition, the play is guided by the theme and the core of the story. Each episode has a preface. The preface of each episode has various forms, including reality, memories, unreality, imagination... These are ingenious The setting is not only challenging for the director and creative team, but also provides greater creative space.
Generally speaking, it is not difficult for TV dramas to create an image of a teacher who teaches, teaches, and solves doubts, and is respected by others. The difficulty lies in creating a specific character image that can resonate with the audience. "Ruoyun's characteristic is that when he can feel the spiritual connotation of the character more deeply, he can also find the external form of the character. This is an important reason why he can successfully create the image of Teacher Lei Ming in "The Boy Who Screams" ." Ding Hei introduced that the image of Teacher Lei Ming was shaped along the character's growth process. At the beginning, he was a bit naughty, a bit arrogant, a bit malicious, and seemed to be carefree. But as the story progresses, the audience slowly enters his world and begins to accept this teacher and the education and life philosophy he conveys.
Ding Hei also said that previous TV series talked about counterattacks and focused more on hard study, but "The Young Man Who Sings the Dragon" takes a different approach and talks about learning methods. Both the inner core and the outer core are completely new ideas. These "new" points continue to attract and push the creative team forward, and everyone strives to make the "new" visible. Whether in terms of image language, structural form, or story layout, each episode has many fresh forms and contents.
Conveying universal values, it is more important to shape and improve oneself
"If you failed to win the exam when you were born, it is not your fault. You can treat the college entrance examination as a make-up exam. This time, I will not let you lose. "Recently, the inspirational lines in "The Boy Who Calls the Dragon" have flooded the screens of major social platforms, triggering discussions among netizens on personal growth, personality shaping and other issues in the context of the college entrance examination.
When talking about the value proposition of the play, Ding Hei said bluntly: "I think whether or not to get into college or go to Qingbei is a drama design. The audience can also influence, relate and resonate with each other in real life. . How much impact does the college entrance examination have on a person's life, what different impacts will it have on different people, etc. This correlation and the high degree of integration in the drama are all symbolic. The screenwriter condenses the growth of life into assumptions In the story of sex, this is exactly what I want to express and present."
Ding Hei emphasized that the greatest meaning of life is to turn oneself into a goal. For example, make yourself better, make yourself healthier and happier, make yourself more capable of surviving, etc. As for the journey of the college entrance examination, the most important point is not whether we pass or fail, but that through this journey we should understand that we will be taking exams throughout our lives. The secret to never falling behind in a lifetime of exams is to constantly shape and improve yourself.
In fact, it is not difficult for the audience to see that the values conveyed by "The Boy Who Calls the Dragon" are of universal value. Whether it is for students facing the college entrance examination or adults who have already entered the society, the audience at each stage has something to gain at each stage. You can regard the college entrance examination as a journey in life, because our entire life is connected by multiple "college entrance examinations". We must continue to enrich ourselves and improve ourselves to meet the "college entrance examination" throughout our lives.
The subtlety of the play also lies in the strong sense of suspense designed in the storytelling process. The creative team filmed a life experience focusing on the college entrance examination like a suspense drama, and even had a thrilling feel in some places. Halfway through watching the drama, many viewers discovered that "The Young Man Who Called the Dragon" looked like a daily life drama or a college entrance examination drama, but in fact it was also a regional drama or a suspense drama. This sense of suspense added to the dramatic tension and made the entire TV series More interesting.
