The 13th China Art Festival Special | "Eight Steps Sand": The realist drama expression of "Six Old Han"

Created by the Gansu Provincial Theater, screenwriters of Yang Xiaowen, Zhou Qi, and two groups of directors, the drama "Eight Step Sand" starring Kang Aishi, Qi Baoquan, Chang Guishun, Liu Yuejun, Liu Ning, etc. is a work that has been highly hoped by Gansu's literary and art circles. Following the "Excellent Stage Art Show to Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China in 2021" and successfully performed in Beijing's drama and successfully performed. After being praised and praised by many experts, he was selected into the 13th China Art Festival in 2022 to launch an impact on the Wenhua Award. For the Gansu Provincial Theater, this is not only a huge honor, but also carries huge pressure. How the spiritual style of the advanced group of sand making Lin Lin is undoubtedly an important criterion for measuring the success of the repertoire.

First of all, it is necessary to determine the form of expression with the subject matter. Whether it is the practicality and significant nature of the subject matter, or the realist acting style and aesthetic pursuit of realist acting and aesthetic pursuit for the long -lasting and persistence of the Gansu Provincial Theater, it determines that realism is the creative path and method of this drama. In "Eight Step Sands", the drama structure adopts a single -line narrative. The director's stage scheduling and the actor performance all reflect the distinctive realist style. Degree, the language of the character is mainly Northwest accent, music contains a variety of Northwest folk songs and folk music elements. Many Qin cavity singing sections are embedded in it. While reinforcing the character's emotions and mental appearance with singing lyrics, it also creates a strong Northwest style. Therefore, when the repertoire is fully presented in front of the audience, a kind of "appropriate feeling" can be generated.

Finding a suitable form is just a "shell" for the repertoire. More importantly, it is injected into the drama content connected by the drama structure and drama rhythm. "Eight Step Sands" "Six Old Man" is a group. The three generations have continued to struggle for nearly 40 years. They are located at the east end of the Hexi Corridor and the southern edge of the Tengger Desert. Ore, the area of ​​sandylin grass is 376,000 acres, and 30.4 million sand plant plants are planted. The sandy plants are compiled into 75,000 mu of green buffer belt. While obtaining a tangible and computable huge economic benefits, it was forced to retreat from the desert, preserved the homeland, and achieved intangible, difficult to calculate huge ecological benefits. How to cut off for a long time, determine the focus among many characters, capture it in massive events, and how to flash in the true and false virtuality, which is a great test of the skill of screenwriting. In this series of issues, the first person is the character, the most critical is the characters. Select and set the characters, and the time, events, and reality can be determined, organized, and reconciled. The performance object of "Eight Step Sand" is a advanced figure not far from today, and it is an objective real thing that exists. How to deal with true life and art is the first problem that creators need to solve. As artistic creation, especially the art of drama, it requires the condensation and sublimation of the characters. Therefore, the "true" of the drama characters is the "truth" of the art level, not the "true" at the real level. It did not let the real figures set the drama characters, but re -pinned and shape the characters. In the play, the six old men are divided into two groups of sand control, so that they can write "Lu Laohan" Lu Shawa, "Cannon" Wang Fusheng and "Iron Film" Yang Xingwang. The characters; corresponding to it, the script was written in the mid -1990s, and the first ten years of sand control, when Lu Laohan died, was died. This is a right time node. Because at this time, the spirit of the "six old man" has been completed, and there is no need to repeat the specific work and achievements of the second and third -generation sand -custers. This generalization and refinement are the technique of drama. , Enter, express life and the times.

After the problems of forms and content are solved in turn, the ideological kernel stool hidden in the work began to play a role. Being able to refine a few times of humanistic connotation and how many times the spirit can be refined from the work is a sign of measuring the spirit of a work height and depth of thought, and the ultimate mountain peak for the screenwriter to climb. "Eight Step Sands" takes this as a goal, shining people's hearts with a warm stroke, looking back at the past with deep eyes, and striving to present the spiritual scale and value pointer in a compressed natural environment. The twists and turns of appearing show the times and the course of the times and the struggle with the earth, so that the work has a solid and warm ideological core. Regarding the story of "Eight Step Sands", first of all, we must tell why the six old men should be pierced into the desert, and with the harsh environment, hard work, and lonely loneliness, whether to answer this question frankly determine this Whether the work is "sincerity", is it true "realism". The choice of the drama "Eight Step Sands" is "seeking truth". This "honest" is not easy, and it is not taken for granted. When many British models are displayed on the character motivation to look up at the perspective, it is very rare to enter the character from a viewing perspective to enter the character. Entering the characters with the spirit of the truth, writing the real thoughts, real emotions and real motivations of the characters, avoiding deliberate high and moral preaching. Therefore, the psychological logic and behavioral logic of the characters are uniform, and the character image is true and credible. With the development of the plot, the old men summarized the method of improving the sapling survival rate in the failure. After the test of life and death in a harsh environment, it finally received a generous return. More importantly, the love of loved ones, the respect of the villagers, and the self -self of the villagers Realization of value. Therefore, in the early 1990s, due to policy changes, the forestry subsidies were suspended, and the old men were shaken. When the existence of the forest farm faced the crisis, Lu Laohan finally made a loud statement that made the old men get motivation again. This time it was not for money, but for the hard work of my own, for the homeland that had been changed, for sons and grandchildren, and for the dignity of people. This change does not come from the intention of the screenwriter, but based on the motivation generated by the development of the drama plot. The drama characters have glowed with their own glory, and the spiritual power of people is manifested. So, "Eight Step Sands" returned to the character itself, returned to the early stage of reform and opening up, and wrote the expectations of the northwest farmers in poverty and harsh natural environments. The way to staggered on the road that had never been walked forward was deeper and shallow. There is no discussion, no slogan mission, this kind of writing to the character "charm" is even more impressive. Their success is inseparable from the dilapidated and new era. They work hard to develop the same direction with the development of the times. The model of the times "is a model in the times, and it is a model created by the times. The "Eight Step Sands" with a strong atmosphere of realism was widely affirmed after the launch of 2021. After the successful performance in Beijing, experts and audiences also gave high evaluations to the works. Some shortcomings. The Gansu Provincial Dialai Theater attaches great importance to these opinions, and holds the "Eight Step Sands" as a fine drama and dinner show. In the past year It is a large -scale improvement and transformation. The previous large -screen background used sand paintings. Although echoing the geographical environment, the overall yellow color reflection made the stage color yellow and dark, and the use of stage lights was relatively conventional. improve. The big screen background is changed to a dynamic landscape picture corresponding to each scene. Different time, clouds, clouds, and stars, desert planting at different stages is changed. To a certain extent, the visual communication of the character's mood has been achieved, the visual effect is more abundant, and the color is brighter; in terms of lighting, through the meticulous combing of various environmental light and the precise design of the point light, the light uses the light to create a more accurate accurate to use the lighting to create a more accurate accuracy. The stage time and space of the stage strengthened its unique role in atmosphere rendering and emotional externalization, and realized the more accurate expression of the theme of the script and the director of the director.

I wish the drama "Eight Step Sands" with the expectations of Gansu's theater and literary circles to more places, so that more audiences can see the spirit of the deserted and forestances in the desert in the desert. This is the window to see the grand era of them and other "model models", as well as the leaders and builders of this magnificent era.

(The author is the full -time vice chairman of the Gansu Provincial Literary and Art Critics Association)

(The pictures of the texts are all the photos of the drama "Eight Step Sands".

Author: Yu Tao

Editor -in -chief: Li Yang

August 31, 2022 "China Culture News"

Published on the 5th-32th version of the 13th China Art Festival special issue

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