"The genius of North Street is useless——" "Seeing your wife is like seeing a big cat." Unexpectedly, the interview with the screenwriter team of "The Story of the Willow Boat" started with "Conversation of Secret Codes". As of now, "Liu Zhou Ji" is distributed on Doub

"The useless genius of North Street——"

"Seeing your wife is like seeing a big cat."

Unexpectedly, the interview with the screenwriter team of "The Story of Liuzhou" started with "the secret code".

So far, "Liu Zhou Ji" has been rated as "the highest score for ancient puppets of the year" with a high score of 8.0 on Douban. As soon as the news came out, it caused die-hard fans to scream: "A good drama should not be buried", and even more Many passers-by and fans gathered around and asked, "What does the annual ancient puppet look like?" Tencent Video membership is about to end. New Yellow River reporter exclusively interviewed four screenwriters Zhao Tianyou, Ying Zhinan, Hu Ting, and Zhang Maidi to bring the story behind the adaptation.

got to know "The Story of the Willow Boat"

On August 12, "The Story of the Willow Boat" was launched. Ying Zhinan opened their screenwriter group, scrolling from the latest message to the day when the WeChat group was established. Coincidentally, the group was established The date is also August 12th. A team of six screenwriters spent three years planning a costume idol drama.

Screenwriter Zhao Tianyou

Zhao Tianyou introduced that the screenwriting team was established four or five years ago and is a highly collaborative studio. From formulating story themes to outlines and episode outlines, members will brainstorm together, and script creation is also all "This script was written by Ying Zhinan and I as the chief screenwriters. In addition to the four of us, two other screenwriters also participated in the creation."

Screenwriter Ying Zhinan

In the interview, 4 screenwriters They all made no secret of their love for the original work. Ying Zhinan recalled that when the production company found a team to adapt the TV series " Jiao Zang ", everyone was very excited after reading the novel, "Because the original characters and relationships in the novel are very attractive and novel, we I feel that it has enough space to support drama creation and can be adapted into a more interesting story. "

Screenwriter Hu Ting

Hu Ting read the original work before taking over the project. As a book with many online fans. There is no need to go into details about the advantages of the book itself. However, for a novel with more than 2.25 million words, how to complete the transition from text to images, retain the essence of the original work and fully consider the needs of the audience, it is self-evident that it is difficult to adapt.

"How to find the focus of film and television in such a large amount of content? The first point is to find the core of the story and refine the theme and spirit. We chose 'Trust and Lies, Equality and Self in Marriage' Theme. Considering that the original work is relatively large in length, it had to be screened in terms of plot, and the selected content should express the theme more clearly, so the final content is more of the part where the two people came together until King Sui usurped the throne. "Hu Ting said.

Because I like the original work and believe in the beauty of the story, everyone showed the spirit of joy in hardship during creation. Some funny scenes were often decided by chatting and laughing.

Screenwriter Zhang Maidi

The premise of "Double Strength" is to respect

"Jiao Zang" tells a story of even competition. "Liu Zhou Ji" also continues the original setting of "Two Strong Men and Women". The plot is light and humorous, and Without losing depth, it incorporates realistic thinking patterns and values ​​into the character relationships, giving the audience a full sense of involvement. The delicate plot design and character dialogue, and the creation of an atmosphere full of fireworks and life. In the process of following the drama, the audience seems to be in that era, and can truly feel the joys, sorrows, joys and emotional trajectories of the people in the drama.

Talking about the original intention of the adaptation, Zhang Maidi said, "The original novel has provided us with a sufficiently touching emotional story. In addition to ensuring that the story is good-looking, we also hope that this is a film that can fully show the smoke and fire of the market and be practical. A touching love story, trying to restore the lovely, believable and vivid characters depicted in the original work."

Many netizens wrote long reviews for "The Story of the Willow Boat". The consensus is that "The Story of the Willow Boat". "The Story of a Boat" breaks out of the traditional perspective of "male cohesion" and "female cohesion" and creates a smart and fresh equal relationship between men and women.Zhao Tianyou said, "We hope that the CPs in the play can be in or move towards a healthy intimate relationship, where both parties can get along equally and respect each other, and everyone can live more like themselves in the relationship, rather than being demanding. Change each other." According to the different characteristics of each pair of CPs, the screenwriter also formulated different keywords to build around the core feelings. "For example, 'Cui Mian CP' mainly builds equality between them, and 'Zhenquan CP' It’s about mutual understanding, and ‘Empress CP’ is mainly about mutual respect.”

pursues “landing”, and the emotional trajectory must be traceable, and the changes in the characters must be clearly visible. Ying Zhinan cited the growth of the male protagonist Cui Xingzhou as an example, "At the beginning of the story, he was a prince who was a little indifferent to emotions. He had more of a sense of responsibility as a minister in his heart. The princess was just a mistress to him. But. But After he and Liu Miantang became a "masked couple", he gradually understood what kind of person he wanted to spend his life with, and this gave rise to the seeds of respect and trust in the relationship. When this seed broke out, he faced When he was his wife, some of his behaviors also echoed the growth trajectory of respect. "

The plot is anti-routine and rejects industrial saccharin.

On the surface, "The Story of the Willow Boat" is a modern love drama, but there are also other things in the drama. It combines many elements such as farming novels, business wars, palace battles, political intrigues, and even espionage wars, martial arts, etc. The love development of two people is closely connected with the entire social background, making people think with laughter and be moved by thinking. At first glance, masked couples, marriage first, love later, losing waistcoats, chasing wives in the crematorium, etc. are all common routines of contemporary ancient puppet dramas. However, upon closer inspection, we find that the screenwriter has a deeper foundation in "anti-routine".

When talking about "anti-routine", Zhao Tianyou said that this has to mention the special creative mechanism of the studio, "In the early stage, after discussing the plot, there will be one person as the challenger, starting from various perspectives of logic and emotion. Point out possible problems. During the creation process, all plot elements and plots must be based on logical establishment. In the development of the plot, try to write some plots that others do not have, and avoid traditional plots that the audience will guess at the first time. At the same time, in the process of writing plots and building the rhythm of the story, the audience must first establish expectations, and then break these expectations and provide new surprises. In addition, there is another principle in writing stories: try to make the story Be interesting, and fun is the first priority. "

In order to reflect the fun, the screenwriters also added a lot of projections of their true feelings, such as the line about the quarrel between the prince and his neighbor, "Beijing is a coward, seeing his wife is like seeing a big cat. " is Zhao Tianyou's humorous and ridiculing of his own personal experience. "I often write at home, and my wife goes out to work. Once I met a neighbor and asked me if my wife was better at work. Later, the word spread, and I became the one my wife was raising in this building. "

On the eve of the wedding, Liu Miantang's words about his views on marriage received praise from everyone, "As long as I want it, I will climb the ladder to pick up the moon. He will always be the one. Someone who is solid and reliable on the ground to hold my ladder steady, and I will put my trust in it completely.” This is what a healthy relationship should look like. Of course, the prerequisite for writing a good script is that the creator believes that such a beautiful love story will happen. Zhao Tianyou said, "During the creation process, we believed that these two people really existed in this world, their love was traceable, and every detail of their love was full of vitality. Then the story would become It is more real and touching." On this basis,

showed scenes such as quarreling with neighbors and stepping on shadows to allow them to enter real life scenes, with realistic emotional texture, and naturally This also avoids the false feeling of "industrial saccharin". "Only the audience will believe that there really is such a happy couple in this world, and that they have made great efforts for this intimate relationship, and their feelings will become convincing."

Casting and Chinese aesthetics add points to the creation

Many netizens praised "Liu Zhou Ji" for respecting the audience's IQ. For example, Zhao Quan easily spit out the cloth stuffed in his mouth, Liu Miantang When dressing up in men's clothing, no one thought she was a man. The screenwriters revealed that some of the details were derived from chatting and acting out during their creation, and some were added temporarily during the actors' performances. For example, the cloth spitting was relaxation On-site creation.

In the days when "Liu Zhou Ji" was updated, the screenwriter team also followed the netizens to "eat cp". Netizens commented that Zhang Wanyi and Wang Churan were the screenwriters "Cui Xingzhou and Liu Miantang". They also applauded the "cut-out style casting" with both hands, "The actors did a lot of extra points besides the script, and the comedy treatment also brought a lot of surprises. "Zhao Tianyou said.

In addition, the "Chinese aesthetics" presented in "The Story of the Willow Boat" are also amazing. Regardless of the setting, composition, etiquette, makeup, and lines, all Chinese aesthetics are thoroughly "Get it right". The small bridges and flowing water in Lingquan Town, the ordinary fireworks in the courtyard, the restrained elegance of the palace, as well as the bamboo forest, market, mountains and rivers, and war scenes all show exquisite texture. What's even more rare is that they also achieve the plot and scenery. The fusion of scenes, blending of emotions and scenery, is pleasing to the eye.

Zhao Tianyou revealed that the "Chinese beauty" of "The Story of the Willow Boat" was determined by the producers early on, and the drama team also invited a lot of people to do this. An excellent etiquette team came to participate in the play. There are ancient Chinese forms such as marriage letters, wife release letters, divorce letters, diaries, family letters, etc. These are all presented after the team discussed and created them together and invited expert guidance. "The main thing in the creation is Reference was made to the history of the Song Dynasty, the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and records in books such as "Mengliang Lu" and "Ancient Chinese Culture". "

"The Story of the Willow Boat" Wedding Book

After the broadcast of "The Story of the Willow Boat", praises such as "Light of the Ancient Illusion" and "Top 1 Ancient Illusion of the Year" followed. The team's performance was highly praised by everyone. Very sober, "When we wrote it, we did not distinguish between genres, ancient puppets or comedy. We just tried our best to create a kind of interesting characters and emotional relationships based on the original work. A more realistic creation. "Maidi Zhang also said: "It is not up to us to define what kind of ancient puppet show the audience needs. When we create this story, we feel that the story is just a story. What we care about is whether it looks good and whether it is emotionally moving. "

"We are very happy that such a story can make everyone believe in love and marriage. "At the end of the interview, when asked by what regrets he had in the creation, Ying Zhinan smiled and said: " As soon as the character uncle appears, there will be various barrages asking for the return of the 'Mother's Sign', writing The signature was actually a small idea at the time, but after reading the feedback from the audience, I have been thinking that during the wedding, it would be great if my uncle could return the signature to Cui Xingzhou, and it would be perfect.”

Reporter: Ren Xiaofei Editor: Xu Min Proofreader: Tang Qi