The legendary epic masterpiece "White Deer Plain" adapted from Chen's novel of the same name was launched last night. Before the broadcast, all kinds of news about the drama version of "White Deer Plain" exploded in the circle of friends, showing the audience's expectations. The screenwriter of the play also published "A Letter to Mr. Chen" on the day of broadcast, which was full of nostalgia and sincere regret, which made people deeply moved and moved. Chen said before his death that the drama version was his most anticipated adaptation. Now, Chen Lao's coffin-cushion work has finally been put on the screen, which is undoubtedly a long-awaited and exciting historical moment. Screenwriter Shen Jie is under heavy pressure and sincere fear. I don't know whether he can meet Chen Lao's expectations.
The most regrettable thing about the TV series "White Deer Plain" is that Mr. Chen has never seen the drama, but only seen the actor's makeup photos. After his illness, the creators all wanted to visit him very much. Because of tongue cancer and laryngeal cancer, Mr. Chen has to spit when he speaks, and his mental state is not very good. Teacher Chen said, "I'll bother you when I'm well." .
Famous writer Chen
Chen wrote an inscription for the TV series "White Deer Plain" before his death.
The first episode aired last night centered on Bai Jiaxuan's six marriages and six funerals, but Cao Xian appeared early. Compared with the novel in which Cao Xian is the daughter of a mountain family and an old friend of the White House, the drama version changed Cao Xian into a woman who ran away and fainted after Bai Jiaxuan picked her up.
Bai Jiaxuan played by Zhang Jiayi, Cao Xian played by Amanda, Lu Zilin played by He Bing and Mr. Zhu played by Liu Peiqi ... The main characters in the play appeared one by one, and the plot was full of twists and turns. The actors' acting skills are exquisite and full, tangible and full of soul, and the unique customs on the White Deer Plain show vigorous vitality.
Zhang Long, editor-in-chief of the Western News Network, is with Zhang Jiayi and He Bing, the starring teams of White Deer Plain.
White Deer Plain is a 50-year history of Guanzhong Plain in the 20th century, and it is also a colorful and impressive portrait spectrum. Mr. Chen once said: I hope "White Deer Plain" will be adapted into a TV series.
A million-word script laid a grand sense of history in White Deer Plain.
Screenwriter Shen Jie adapted the 500,000-word original into a script of nearly one million words, which made the TV series White Deer Plain take root, and also made director Liu Jin and starring Zhang Jiayi, He Bing and Amanda confident to venture into the original.
The TV series "White Deer Plain" takes the wind and rain life of two families headed by Bai Jiaxuan and Lu Zilin as the perspective, from marrying Cao Xian and farming, to Heiwa burning grain, Xi 'an being besieged, and finally to the plague and Japanese invasion, it shows the historical changes of Guanzhong in the past 50 years.
The vast Guanzhong Plain, unique folk customs, gripping plots and flesh-and-blood characters, the excellent quality and meticulous carving of this epic masterpiece have been laid from the script stage.
According to screenwriter Shen Jie, when the script was adapted, there was no place to start, so we had to go back to that period of history.
"Look at the party history, clan history, history of the Republic of China, county annals. With the development of characters and plots, I have consulted the farming conditions of local farmers at that time, the customs of weddings and funerals, how to open old homes, how to study for students, the misery of Song Zhenjun's siege, and people's livelihood under the drought and epidemic ... I unconsciously read hundreds of information books. Only then do I feel that my mind is full and the pen in my hand is no longer awkward. "
It is reported that in the adaptation of the script, important figures such as Bai Ling and Mr. Zhu reappeared, and each role also had a complete ending, which made Chen feel quite gratified.
Liu Peiqi, who plays Teacher Zhu, thinks that the TV series "White Deer Plain" is an epic work, which will have a strong reference significance in the future: "The impressive scenes in the novel have been preserved and expanded in our TV series. I believe that this work will definitely get a good response after facing the audience. "
The two families love each other and kill each other.
In White Deer Plain, there are not only the older generation of primitive people represented by Bai Jiaxuan and Lu Zilin, but also the second generation of primitive people such as Bai Xiaowen, Lu, Heiwa and Bai Ling. The 94 leading actors in the play explained the life of the original work with superb acting skills. It can be said that even the extras contributed excellent performances.
Bai Jiaxuan and Lu Zilin were described by netizens as a pair of "white deer CP". Bai Jiaxuan's honesty, diligence, tradition and duty, as well as Lu Zilin's cunning, speculation and selfishness. Their love and hate are all in the original, and they have not escaped from that acre of land. Zhang Jiayi and He Bing's partner established the soul of Bailuyuan two families. When they play opposite, they play.
Zhang Jiayi, the actor of Bai Jiaxuan, is from Shaanxi, and he has special feelings for the novel White Deer Plain. Therefore, he also devoted himself to the play. "I am also very cautious about shooting this famous book myself. I like the novel White Deer Plain very much, so when I pick it up, I will ask myself, can I play it well? If you don't perform well, you should retire. Don't spoil this work. "
"Now this film and television circle often grabs masterpieces, and then grabs them. In fact, as far as I am concerned, I think this is a waste of resources and it is very distressing. "
In the play, Bai Jiaxuan personally flogged his son Bai Xiaowen in the ancestral temple because of his affair with Tian Xiaoe, regardless of everyone's obstruction. Work hard, because he wants to maintain the authority of the township agreement and the heads of families; He was heartbroken because this is his favorite son, but he did something to make others pee on his face. Zhang Jiayi put Bai Jiaxuan's complicated mood into action, which made people hate and hurt.
Under the understanding and interpretation of Zhang Jiayi, Bai Jiaxuan is a down-to-earth farmer and kind parent. "In fact, for Bai Jiaxuan, it is enough to manage his own land, and he didn't think much. When I was filming, too. He may be a man who sticks to his legacy. In fact, this role is not knowledgeable, but it is smart in some ways. "
Lu Zilin, who fought with Bai Jiaxuan all his life, can't be said to be a bad person in the eyes of actor He Bing. "Good and bad are basically from a moral point of view. We seldom look at ourselves from a moral point of view, that is, we put our interests in front of us. We don't think about morality. Just suit yourself. People are like this. "
"So it is difficult for us to truly restore Lu Zilin, a selfish landlord and rich peasant. His greatest goal is to live a carefree life in this or this land. If he can be a local tyrant and someone listens to me, so much the better. I have a deer family, full of children and grandchildren, generations, noble families, big animals. This is all his dream. "
Two generations, fifty years of love and hate.
Bai Jiaxuan and Lu Zilin entrusted their lives to the original site and made great achievements for everyone, while the original two generations had to get rid of the cage and go outside one by one. This is a personal choice and the creation of the times. The epic sense of White Deer Plain is even heavier in the conflict between old and new ideas of two generations.
The scene of Heiwa running out of the wheat field is of special significance. He bid farewell to wheat fields, land and an ancient era. It is reported that in order to find this wheat field, landscape selection staff began to look for it when wheat was still a green seedling. They searched for more than a month and climbed mountains with dry food every day.
"Because this wheat field is the most imposing scene, it represents land and harvest, which is of great significance in the play. I thought it would be good to look for 2 or 300 mu, but I didn't expect to find 1000 mu in the end, with Blue Sky and Chang 'an sharing equally. At that time, I thought that this was what God had given to Bailuyuan. Liu Lu, the production designer of the play, said.
In the last two generations, the feud between Bailuyuan and Bailuyuan has faded, and more is the impact of the old and new times and the collision of old and new ideas. They pursue revolution, breakthrough, freedom and a brand-new era. Lu's actor said: "From Lu's point of view, he did not continue the feud between the two families of Bailuyuan, because Lu's eyes were not here and he did not pay attention to Bai Xiaowen."
However, change is painful. When Lu preached the revolutionary spirit passionately to his classmates at school, Lu Zilin bumped his head against the pot outside the classroom and threatened him to accept arranged marriage. Lu's progressive thought of pursuing free love led to the tragedy of his arranged wife, which was the helplessness brought to Lu by the times.
"I think people's growth is loss, and so is Lu. He was a student leader when he was in high spirits, but people around him kept dying, losing and growing. " Lei Jiayin said.
Bai Jiaxuan, who stresses benevolence and face, solves the problems of villagers, but fails to deal with the problems of children. He had high hopes for Bai Xiaowen but pushed him away step by step. Zhai Tianlin said that Bai Jiaxuan was a kind of cold violence, and this feeling even extended beyond the drama.
"In these eight months, my relationship with him in the play was very cold and harsh, so every time I saw him after I entered the play, I really entered the play. Sometimes when you call me to dinner after work, I think you scold me like that in the ancestral temple. How dare you ask me to eat? "
This creative atmosphere is also the reason why White Deer Plain can become a fine work.
Sixteen years of preparation, ten years of project initiation, 227 days of shooting, more than one year of post-production, 94 main actors, more than 40,000 people's performances, and many places of shooting have made 85 episodes of White Deer Plain.
"What happened to the clan, their confusion and choice, can give us some enlightenment to modern people? Mr. Zhu strengthened his determination to be a sage, Heiwa didn't want to give in to the ups and downs of fate, and Lu and Bai Ling stuck to their faithful love in their ideals. Screenwriter Shen Jie said: "As a screenwriter, I hope that contemporary TV viewers will feel heartache when they see this film." .