You might as well take a look at the plot synopsis of this TV series first:
Gu Yizhong, the young master of the Gu family, a century-old prominent family in Suzhou, graduated from the architecture department of a famous foreign university. After returning to China, he became obsessed with studying famous gardens and ancient buildings in Suzhou. When the Anti-Japanese War army rose, Gu Yizhong insisted on staying in Suzhou, in the name of protecting cultural relics, but in fact he actively participated in anti-Japanese activities.
During a rescue operation, Gu Yizhong was framed by the Japanese and puppets as a traitor within the party. Overnight, everyone rebelled and separated. Unable to prove his innocence, Gu Yizhong took the initiative to infiltrate the Japanese and puppets in order to find out the real traitor and became a latent agent of our party's secret service station in Suzhou. The latent mission was full of dangers. Gu Yizhong battled wits and courage with Zhou Zhifei, the head of the Suzhou secret service station, and cleverly exploited the contradiction between Japanese military consultant Kondo Toshio and Zhou Zhifei to restrain Zhou Zhifei at every turn.
Gu Yizhong found out the real traitors in the party under tremendous pressure, and continued to collect intelligence, which provided huge support and help to the anti-Japanese and national salvation movement of our party's underground organization. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the traitor Zhou Zhifei and the invader Toshio Kondo got their due end. Gu Yizhong returned to his beloved construction industry and made important contributions to my country's construction industry.
The screenwriter and director of the TV series "Lone Boat" is Lin Lisheng. Lin Lisheng was born in 1969 in Fujian, a film theory narrator, screenwriter and director. Lectures film theory and playwriting at the Beijing Film Academy. He has written film scripts such as "Can't Help It" and " A World Without Thieves", written TV series scripts such as "Behind the Flash", " Final Diagnosis" and "Watching Happiness", and directed Movies such as "I Love Long Hair", " half half " and "The Lost Village".
In fact, without looking at the screenwriter's introduction, just looking at the name of the TV series and the geographical background of Suzhou in the plot summary, you can appreciate the screenwriter's erudition and versatility. why? Because the two words "Suzhou" and "Guzhou" will inevitably remind the audience who really understand poetry to think of Yang Wanli's "Bopingjiang Baihuazhou":
The advantage of Wuzhong is Suzhou, but it was Wang Cheng's victory in the tour.
I lived on three rivers and five lakes for half my life, and I stayed at Baihuazhou for ten years.
We all know each other by the willows on the shore, and the clouds and mountains in our eyes remain bitter.
Don’t blame the lonely boat for its lack of destination. This body is a lonely boat.
Screenwriter Lin Lisheng named this TV series "Lonely Boat", which should be based on Yang Wanli's poetic conception of "Don't blame the lonely boat for its lack of destination". The poem "Baihuazhou on the Boping River" is said to have been written by Yang Wanli when he passed by Suzhou on his way to Jiankang (today's Nanjing) to take office and lamented his wandering and loneliness. The TV series "Lone Boat" should also be about the wandering and loneliness of the protagonists in the context of the Anti-Japanese Era, and the greater spiritual power behind the wandering and loneliness. Especially "I am a lonely boat" has a sense of decisiveness in Chinese poetry aesthetics. This sense of determination should be a very noble aesthetic experience in a TV series.
Based on this, I feel that this TV series "Lone Boat" should be a work of relatively good quality. Behind the strong cast, it should be supported by a strong script. At present, the drama has released a finalized trailer. Judging from this trailer, the drama will tell how the protagonists choose their own destiny in the turmoil of the great era, and how the love between children is temporarily overturned. The story of a family, a country, and a world. This kind of "giving way" obviously has a sense of being "alone".
Actors such as Zeng Shunxi, Zhang Songwen, Zhang Fengyi and Zhou Yiwei are all trustworthy and capable actors.Needless to say, Zhang Songwen and Zhang Fengyi are obviously the most capable actors in the Chinese TV drama industry. Zeng Shunxi is also trustworthy. What needs to be pointed out in particular is that Zeng Shunxi has the cleanliness and purity of a young man. This kind of actor image is very suitable for deep and layered roles.
The two actresses Chen Duling and Wang Yuwen have quite a clean temperament. In the context of the Anti-Japanese War, cleanliness and purity are what reactionary forces hate the most. The enemy of filth is cleanness and purity. It is very likely that the battle between justice and evil in this TV series will ultimately be a battle between clean and pure souls and evil and dirty souls. This TV series is probably very focused on human expression.
article, an interesting coincidence. The play is called "Lone Boat", which is based on Yang Wanli's poetry. Both the poetry and the TV series tell the "story" of Suzhou, Jiangsu, and the play was broadcast on Jiangsu Satellite TV. This play has Jiangsu temperament at its core. (Text/Ma Qingyun)
