China News Service, Beijing, January 31 (Reporter Ren Siyu) At the end of the first month of 2024, the series "大江大河" also came to an end. From 2018 to now, it has broken the curse of sequels for domestic dramas, and has maintained a high reputation of more than 8 points on Douban for three consecutive films.
In and out of the play, almost everyone will say one word: growth. Starring Wang Kai said that in the process of constantly meeting, leaving, and reuniting with the characters, he changed from "playing" Song Yunhui to "being" Song Yunhui.
Many of the viewers who have witnessed Song Yunhui’s growth have just entered the society from college. “In the past few years, he has given me strength countless times in my study and work, allowing me to get through the most difficult stages. "
" For the screenwriters Tang Yao and Ma Chengyi behind the story, it seems like they have opened many avatars in parallel worlds. In seven years and 1.5 million words, the time they were immersed in "that world" far exceeded the time in the world around them. "We are all writing about the past, and we look very much like people of that era," Tang Yao said with a smile.
Poster for the series "Dajiang Dahe".
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On the dark night road, a middle-aged man in his forties was hurried forward with a briefcase on his back, feeling that "his feet were on fire."
In order to save the pesticide factory that was in trouble and prevent employees from being laid off, he went to other places to talk about technology and find sales. However, travel expenses were limited, and when I got off the train on the return journey and it was still more than 20 kilometers from the station to the factory, I couldn't even spare a single shaobing money.
Gritting his teeth, he walked all night. Until the first ray of dawn just rose in the horizon, and the familiar factory gate finally appeared in front of us, this tough guy who was usually stubborn and refused to admit defeat suddenly shed tears.
More than twenty years later, the old factory director who had honorably retired talked about the past in his small office. This scene was deeply implanted in the hearts of the screenwriters opposite Tang Yao and Ma Chengyi. It also became the prototype story in the script of "Dajiang Dahe 3", in which Song Yunhui got off the car halfway and walked 20 kilometers along the railway line back to Pengyang Pesticide Factory.
At that time, Song Yunhui faced the same situation as the old factory director: the original factory was about to be shut down, and he already had a better future, but he still wanted to lead everyone to work hard, "Our Pengyang factory still has There is hope."
Poster of " Dajiang Dahe: Time Cantabile ".
Following the plot of the previous part, "Dajiang Dahe 3" begins in the 1990s and explores the complexity and pain of the reform period. In the play, several protagonists are undergoing the test of career and life. Off-screen, the pressure on the main creators is increasing exponentially. Based on the first and second parts of "Dajiang Dahe", how to make these characters more real and relatable?
The screenwriters are determined to continue to delve deeper into life and look for more Song Yunhui, Lei Dongbao and Yang Xun in reality.
In half a year, Tang Yao and Ma Chengyi traveled around Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Fujian, Shandong, Hebei and other places. They consulted seniors from all walks of life, went to different types of chemical plants and pesticide factories for research, and even experienced clocking in to work. Picking materials out of the warehouse, labeling and packaging, and living with the employees every day. Many of the plots in the play are exactly the real stories they discovered in their lives:
The director of a pesticide factory on the verge of bankruptcy issued a military order for one year, vowing to develop new products to prevent being "stuck" in the future; bravely enter the Canton Fair The eldest brother of a Zhejiang businessman who was detained to write an inspection stood at the door of the hotel and negotiated a US$200,000 business with a foreign guest who did not understand the language; the cadre who thought, "If you can't do this well, leave", he entered the hotel again and again in the hot summer. Surveying and mapping of sewage rivers helped build the first local large-scale shopping mall on the abandoned river channel...
"This is a plot and plot that I would never come up with while sitting in my study. It is the wealth given to us by the heavy life." Tang Yao said. The stories of these seniors laid a real foundation for the creation of "Dajiang Dahe", and their bravery, responsibility and courage also formed the background of Song Yunhui, Lei Dongbao and Yang Xun.
“The job of our screenwriters is to open up the barrier between worlds. We firmly believe that that world exists, put ourselves into it, and then observe them, follow them and experience their lives.”
"Burr"
2017 When they first took over the adaptation work of "Dajiang Dahe" in 2016, Tang Yao and Ma Chengyi never thought that they would have the opportunity to continue to create the second and third parts in the future. How to sort out the threads of the trilogy among the vast amounts of information and stories?
The focus of the first part is on the "brave of reform". Song Yunhui, who fights hard to go to college, Lei Dongbao, who calls for Xiaolei's family to get out of poverty, and Yang Xun, who goes to the Northeast alone to explore, each seize the opportunity of the times. Opportunity has taken a life-defining step.
Poster of "Big River".
In "大江大河2", everyone is faced with the "difficulty of opening up". At the Donghai Chemical Plant, everyone was caught off guard by the sudden news of the embargo. Afterwards, the 1992 Southern Speech strengthened confidence in reform and opening up and enabled people to encounter new opportunities.
When the time passed from the 1990s to the new century, the "pain of transformation" gradually appeared. A series of overproduction brought crises. Some people were opening up a new career territory, while others were bearing the price of the times and personal choices. The third part does not avoid these cruelties. The poisoning incident at Pengyang Pesticide Factory, which is highlighted in the opening chapter, raises the difficult question of the reform and reorganization of state-owned enterprises.
"While developing, correct at the same time; while exploring forward, we formulate rules. Our two paths have been running in parallel. In this process, the key word we want to talk about is hope." Ma Chengyi said.
When watching the drama, the audience's mood is complicated. Some people are moved by Song Yunhui's idealism, while others are angry at Lei Dongbao's arrogance: How did the resolute leader in the first part become what he is now? ?
It’s not easy to get rich first, but it’s even harder to get rich first and then get rich later. In “Dajiang Dahe 3”, the two screenwriters want to explore the issue that when they have climbed over the mountains and have considerable wealth and influence, what else can they do? Can you continue to maintain a pure heart?
Poster of "Big River".
When writing Song Yunhui's story, the two screenwriters would automatically assume Wang Kai's appearance. When writing Lei Dongbao, they would think of the resolute lines on Yang Shuo's face, "their voices, their temperament, their status, their eyes, It will help us portray the characters more vividly."
They admitted frankly that the creation of "Dajiang Dahe" alleviated their "spiritual mysophobia" to a certain extent. Song Yunhui, Lei Dongbao, and Yang Xun are all complicated people. They stand with one foot in the past and one foot in the future. They have become different appearances at different stages of life.
"He has his 'burrs' on his body, some things that make you feel scared or don't like it that much, but it is real. That kind of roughness or cunning may make us uncomfortable, which just proves that these buddies are good at acting. ."
As storytellers, they don't want to polish off these "burrs."
"The path of our film and television industry is getting narrower and narrower. Why? Because everyone's mysophobia is becoming more and more serious. When creating characters, we often want him to be lovable, kind, and even so meticulous that he can't think about his own affairs. You have to think about other people first." And this is something they want to change in the future.
Echoes
During the years when they wrote the script of "Dajiang Dahe", Tang Yao and Ma Chengyi sometimes felt as if they were not creating, but observing and accompanying a group of friends. All the joy, depression, and suffering they experienced were completely unknown to them. Being able to empathize.
During the interview stage, there was one detail that made them unforgettable: some seniors may even have to think about their friends’ names first, but they can accurately pronounce a small character who doesn’t appear in many scenes because they feel that he is very similar to the people around them.
“Although we may not have said anything at that moment, we felt so warm in our hearts."
" After twenty years of ups and downs, there are many characters involved in the "Dajiang Dahe" trilogy. Even the characters who don't appear much have devoted all the emotions of the creators.
" For example, Song Yunping, who is so frustrating. Watch it in Ma Chengyi In the past, Song Yunping and Liang Sishen were like two sides of the same body. Although they had different origins and very different external personalities, they both had the spirit of not admitting defeat and pursued their own life value. In other words, they were firstly people with independent thoughts and free personalities, and secondly They are women. When they illuminate others like a beam of light, it is because they themselves are bright enough.
《大江大河》Poster.
There is also the controversial Cheng Kaiyan. This old-fashioned girl who is warm-hearted and too trusting of others , experienced a cruel growth in the second part. Although she did not appear in the plot of the third part, the screenwriters still hope that she can become more mature in her own world and live a better life.
In the twenty years of the play, In the seven years outside the show, it is not just them, but also all the creators who have grown.
At the beginning of 2023, the script of "Dajiang Dahe 3" was completed. Recalling his mood at the time, Tang Yao felt that it was like using all the chips to strive to overcome High mountains, at that moment he finally saw the sun on the top of the mountain.
He often thought of the scene in the first film, where Song Yunhui stood in the courtyard of the Revolutionary Committee and recited the editorial of the "People's Daily". Under the scorching sun, his clothes were soaked with sweat, and the two-story building in front of him Just like the Himalayas, Xiaohui did not stop after memorizing it 183 times.
During the seven years that he accompanied Song Yunhui, Lei Dongbao, and Yang Xun to struggle together, he projected his own regrets in the story, and in turn was The characters encourage, “They taught me a lot of brave things and made me no longer entangled and afraid. These courageous people in the story taught me something that I couldn’t learn in books or even in society.”
Ma Chengyi particularly loves Song Yunhui’s line: Go on the right path and do things with conscience. In “Big River” Here, everyone is working non-stop and does not lie down and wait for fate. "The road of writing is not easy. There may be new unknowns and loneliness in the next project, but we have to go like them." Go down. "
" The great rivers are rushing forward, still arousing echoes in everyone's heart. (End)
Source: China News Network
