Tonight, the selection of the Magnolia Awards of the 29th Shanghai TV Festival will be announced, and everyone from the audience to the industry is paying attention. As one of the three most authoritative awards for domestic drama selections, compared to the Feitian Award, which focuses on government recognition, and the Golden Eagle Award, which often reflects the public's heartfelt choices, the Magnolia Award pays more attention to reflecting the professional value that has been recommended by professionals.
Year after year, people extract the value of the trend vane from the Magnolia Award selection.
The selection of domestic dramas for this year's Magnolia Awards is a collection of outstanding dramas broadcast from the second quarter of 2023 to the first quarter of 2024. Both screen and online premieres can be shortlisted, and both long and short lengths are available. In the end, "Imperfect Victim", " Rivers of Time ", " Flowers ", " Glory of Fathers", "Welcome to Maile Village", " The Long Season " and "South and North" Ten works including "Ask the Boundless", "Ask the Heart" and "Wind Chaser" were shortlisted for the most important "Magnolia" Best Chinese TV Series Award.
If going deep into life and taking root among the people is an excellent creative tradition that is engraved in the genes of domestic dramas and has always been advocated, then when the Internet revolution and economic and social development have unprecedentedly integrated with people’s drama viewing ecology, today’s domestic drama creations may be better than At any time in the past, there is a greater need for a "big film and television concept" - one that not only has the "greatest country" in mind, can show the image of China, pay attention to the changes of the times, and write about the lights of thousands of families; it can also serve the overall economic and social development and make domestic dramas more popular. Linked with tourism and business dreams, culture promotes tourism and tourism promotes culture; it should also lead the development trend of the film and television industry, using continuously upgraded artistic aesthetics, audio-visual experience, and ingenious creation to make domestic dramas truly a spiritual bridge for people to move toward truth, goodness, and beauty. .
This is the new trend revealed in the ten candidate masterpieces, and it is also our expectation for the "Magnolia Selection" in the new era.
The artistic testimony of the era, the spiritual aesthetic education
If you want to find the greatest common denominator for the shortlisted works, record the pulse of the times and carry the spirit of the times, it should be. They use film and television art to record different chapters of the country's development and accommodate social customs in various periods. However, they refuse to put the theme first and the subject matter first. Instead, they realize the aesthetic education of the spirit in the description of specific people.
"Ask the Cangmang" affectionately tells the story of young Mao Zedong embarking on the first journey of revolution. In the poetic picture, the youth path of the great man coincides with the early entrepreneurial history of the century-old party. The real history of the revolution provides a visual model for the growth and determination of young people. "Storm Chaser" begins in the 1930s, depicting patriotic young people making choices in turbulent times and heading towards their ideals. Great men and ordinary people all say that the future of a country depends on the country's youth. The two dramas have received enthusiastic feedback from the audience, which is evidence that youth is wonderful due to hardship. The clarity and hope in the eyes of the young people in the story who tie their youth to the destiny of the country will ignite the passion of young people in the new era like sparks. and responsibility.
"Poetry and prose follow the fate of the world and become newer every day." The reform of forestry and the construction of ecological civilization will have a profound impact on generations of people in a land and soil. "The Glory of Fathers" writes passionately about the glory of fathers and the development of ecological civilization. On top of the inheritance of the new generation. The metaphor of the train of the times is embodied in "South to North". The various aspects of life on a train, the warmth and warmth of human relationships among a group of neighbors, and the passing of the fire between a master and a disciple, as the rails stretch farther and farther, the farther and farther they run. The faster the train, the better to witness the great changes in the mountainous countryside. The prosperity of the market economy does not happen overnight. As the river flows, some people will not fall into the clouds, and some will lose their way. "River of Time" and "Flowers" focus on the development of different fields in the same era. The same thing is that how can we see the rainbow without going through wind and rain? This is about human growth, and it is not the road to reform and opening up from experimental fields to trickle-down The stream gradually breaks into a journey of blossoming flowers and broad fields.
"Welcome to Maillot Village" and "Ask the Heart" both revolve around the benevolence of doctors.The former opens up the field of vision, extracts moving clips from the great love and responsibility of China's foreign aid medical teams over the past 60 years, and finds innovative artistic expression under the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind; the latter "gnaws" at the hard nut of contemporary medical dramas and strives to be on the screen. Establish a "doctor-patient alliance" internally and externally.
The fulcrum of consumption and the positive adjustment of emotions
Why do people travel with a TV series? And why is it that a drama that I watched with tears still makes my heart move when I think about it again? "The highest state of art is to move people's hearts, to let people's souls be baptized, and to let people discover the beauty of nature, the beauty of life, and the beauty of the soul."
About "Flowers", which part of Shanghai in the 1990s was written under the halo? Landscapes, individual memory horizons, and perspectives are different. But there is one thing that is collectively recognized. It writes about the struggle of a group of people and the inspiring spirit of a city in the wave of reform. In an era when everyone is striving for the top, A Bao turns around with her hard work, Lingzi's intelligence and kindness help her restaurant become prosperous, Miss Wang dares to fight hard and rides the wind of the times; and when the storm rises, someone's reputation is washed away. Starting from the beginning, there are people who have perseverance and experience and vow to be their own dock. "Flowers" stirs up a lot of topics, and what the audience is evoked is not so much the re-enacted memories, but rather the emotional power aroused by the entrepreneurship and spiritual history of the characters in the play, making people willing to search in the folds of the city. Resonance, in the consumption of food, clothing, housing and transportation, it is confirmed that people and the times resonate at the same frequency.
"The Glory of Our Fathers" opens with an aerial shot. In the summer when thousands of trees are green, in the autumn when the forests are dyed with color, in the winter in the vast snowfields, and in the spring when the fields are full of fresh green, the forests change with the four seasons in front of the camera. The real-life shooting of the forest farms in Northeast China is breathtaking. Nature is beautiful, and people are even more beautiful. The three "outsiders" of the Gu family originally had different fates, but because of the kind-hearted Gu Changshan and Na Cunhua couple, their unrelated children have the protection of their families. The fire on the winter night illuminates their friendship, which is thicker than water, and there is a feeling in their hearts. With a harbor for anchoring, children drifting can also think about the future.
A train that has traveled through 40 years, in "South to North", there is a wife who has stayed at home for 10 years for her wronged husband, a father who is worried about his son who is traveling far away, there are lovers who have been in love for a long time, and there are neighbors who are warm with ancient roads... creation The author brings the narrative thread back to the family courtyard, which is people's home. No matter how far they travel, they always return home. It is precisely because ordinary little people are fighting with their destiny in this courtyard where chickens and dogs are heard, that the audience in front of the screen can empathize with it and think about the familiar and unfamiliar feelings in today's fast-paced life - geographical nostalgia, that is, human touch.
"The Long Season", "The Imperfect Victim" and " Ask the Heart " all have heart-wrenching moments, but they also lead the audience to deeper thinking after sighing, and lead the boiling emotions into the peaceful kindness of Zhongzheng. The abyss of human nature, social issues, and the pain of life are all the truth of the world. They are also the creative tradition of Chinese TV dramas that often use realism to deeply penetrate the human world. In fact, the deeper they are, the more profound they become. However, expressing the complexity of human nature does not mean annihilating the light of personality, facing social issues directly does not mean superficial exaggeration of emotions, and writing about difficult problems does not mean the promotion of suffering. For the audience, a good drama is a video that can long-term perceive the warmth of the world and the true meaning of life.
The true meaning of creation returns, new quality audio-visual production
Chinese TV dramas were born in 1958. Over 60 years later, the Internet has irreversibly changed the ecology of creation and drama viewing. What is the "internet sense", and has the movie sense really become the standard feature of drama series? Innovation is a long-term proposition for the development of domestic dramas. Audio-visual enrichment, technological upgrades, and iteration of theme strategies are all concerns of the audience. But real creators will not be bound by "innovation anxiety". On the contrary, returning to nature, adhering to integrity and innovating are the orientations of many "Magnolia" shortlisted creators.
The high-quality suspense drama "Dark Horse" has formed the unique scenery of the long video platform in the past two years. However, "The Long Season" is not afraid to "downplay" the suspense, using anti-type and poetic expressions to delicately depict a father trapped in the autumn after his son left, and several elders suspended from the passage of time. Man.Filmmaking of drama series has also been a creative trend in recent years. The short autumn, the golden corn field under the sun, the sky is exceptionally high and blue... But in this drama, the sense of cinema not only permeates the aesthetic style such as camera movement, composition, light and shadow, but also integrates into posters, titles, prologues, music In almost all the details of a film and television drama facing the audience, such as narration, ending and so on. More importantly, the form is the content itself. The essence of all innovative gestures is to participate in the new interpretation of the content, allowing the audience to snap their fingers in resonance with long-term immersion and shock.
"Asking the Vast" uses poetry to highlight the narrative process; "Glory of Fathers" carries the longing for the land in the beauty of ecology, paving the way for young people to return home in the future; "Flowers" and "Long Season" combine the scripts The beauty of the text and culture behind it is brought to the space of public issues; "Ask the Heart" goes through all kinds of entanglements and prayers, the joy of life, the pain of death, and finally settles on the beauty of life... These stories originate from the land of China. And people have enabled the creators of the series to get rid of the shackles of Western genre films of "high concept, strong plot, multiple reversals, and fast pace" from the beginning. They may not fit neatly into the definition of a blockbuster, nor may the characters in the play have "internet language", but they use new audio and video to describe the appearance of all living beings in the vast world, drunkenness, hurried horses, and unforgettable meanings. , isn’t this another “Chinese-style blockbuster”?
Author: Wang Yan
Text: Wang Yan Pictures: Stills Editor: Xuan Jing Editor: Xing Xiaofang
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