Interview | "Menghua Lu" director Yang Yang: This is a "modern drama" dedicated to "North Drifting"

Picture source: "Menghua Lu" official Weibo video screenshot

After more than a month of hit, "Menghua Lu" was ending.

After the director Yang Yang got the script, he was moved by the struggle, friendship and love of several women. "Menghua Record" is not only focused on "sugar". While promoting the history and culture of the Song Dynasty, it depicts the female group statues and uses the hands of the ancients to give modern women's new thinking.

As a national first -level director, screenwriter, and producer, Yang Yang has directed many outstanding TV series such as "Hand Hand", "Heart Art" and "Together". The representative types of her resumes are different and different.

When "Menghua Lu" was close to the finals, Yang Yang accepted an exclusive interview with the reporter of the Daily Economic News. Yang Yang said: "" Menghua Record "is a drama made by women who work hard from all over the country to Beijing, Shanghai and other big cities. After watching the audience, you can enjoy it after watching it. "

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"Thinking of women who are working hard in Beijing and Shanghai through the script"

In the summer of 2020, Yang Yang came into contact with the script of "Menghua Record", and was moved by the struggle, friendship and love of several women after reading.

The story of "Menghua Record" happened in the Northern Song Dynasty, but Yang Yang thought of women who worked hard and find life value from all over the world to Beijing and Shanghai.

Yang Yang has many female friends who are northern and Shanghai. She often listens to their stories. "I want to make a drama for these girls." Yang Yang told a reporter's belief that she was born in her heart. "Your independence and self -reliance are worth proud. Everyone will have their own difficulties, but we still choose to persist, work hard, and move forward to make our lives regret."

"Everyone likes the reason why" Menghua Record ", I think it is because I can see their own shadows from the story. Everyone may have come here at first. The reason for attracting (audience) to open (the play) is just the reason for how to immerse the audience into the story and generate concession, which requires the actor's performance and solid story. I choose these actors as the protagonist. Another side of the actor. This combination has both freshness, and the actors can also show different performance styles through their own efforts to give myself (bring) a new masterpiece. This may also be my ambition as a director. "

In Yang Yang's understanding, "Menghua Record" is a drama with rich stories. It contains both women's growth and difficulty, as well as light comedy and fun, as well as the ultimate push and sweetness in love.

From a crowd of costume dramas, "Menghua Record" also showed a different approach to show the evenly matched love of adults. "Gu Pan Shenghui" CP was "crazy" by the audience, but Yang Yang emphasized "restraint" and "leaving white" to reporters.

For example, Zhao Pan'er is a girl with a more complicated personality. Her life concept is not dependent on anyone, and is very self -reliance, which is related to her life. She has been well educated since she was a child, but she became an official trick because of her father's reasons. This is the distinctive and true contradiction: "If she is not so smart, she may not be so sensitive, but her personality is not willing to (receiving) destiny (coating), and has a tenacious vitality."

Gu Qianfan is similar to Zhao Pan'er. There is a unfortunate past. His mother died when he was a child, but his biological father was a big official who was good at playing with power. "He is a person who is pursuing justice. He is very contradictory, so he has always been unwilling to call his father a father. He was born in a scholar, from Wen to martial arts. He is a civil and military person."

In this way, two people with trauma have experienced the bottom of their lives before they met each other. Yang Yang firmly believes that they are not ordinary men and women, but those who have encountered difficult journey and have a mature attitude. "Two people such people must be restrained first." Yang Yang emphasized.

Zhao Pan'er was inferior to her experience, and she was afraid of Gu Qianfan to look down on herself. However, when Gu Qianfan saw Zhao Pan'er's first side, she knew that she was not an ordinary woman. "The scene of my hands washed, Gu Qianfan said 'In my heart, you have never been cheap," Zhao Pan'er felt that he was respected. The emotions restrained between adults had been between the two for a long time. Later, Pan'er shed tears and said to San Niang, "I like him ', but I am afraid of a lot of things in my heart, and I don't know how the relationship develops. This is a kind of shaping of their emotions in front of them."

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"Rehabilitation" is like "White" in ink painting

In February 2021, "Menghua Lu" officially started. From winter to spring to summer, the location moved from Hengdian, Wuxi, Xiangshan to Xiangyang for four and a half months.

As a big producer, the selection of scenery is not easy, especially in Hengdian Film and Television City. Hundreds of dramas are born every year, and costume dramas have broken their heads. "Some scenes need to register and seize several months in advance. Even if they get it, the shooting time is limited." Yang Yang admitted.

Under the constraints of the conditions, the crew can only find a scene where no one is grabbing, but also accidentally discovered a street with water and bridges. It was a scene of the Republic of China, which was almost deserted. "We repaired the roof, doors and windows into the style of the Song Dynasty, and placed plants and potted plants, so that this scene that no one came to grab was‘ live ’.”

The opening of "Menghua Record" is the starring actor Zhao Pan'er rowing on the lake. The scene of several small bridges flowing water shows the graceful scenery of Qiantang, Jiangnan. Before shooting, this set of scenes had been presented in Yangyang's mind. When she described the concept of "Water" to art and photography, she jumped up. "Women are like water," Menghua Record "is smooth and beautiful thanks to my inspiration to water." Scenes and plots are restrained and blank. Yang Yang believes: "I always think that ancient Chinese culture is deep. Costume dramas need a classic and implicit beauty, just like Chinese painting pays attention to blank white."

For example, Zhao Pan'er and Gu Qianfan looked at the scene from the water, and the boat was full of dreams. "There were a lot of lines in that scene, but in the end I put the lines in the secondary position. The two were speechless, looked at each other across the water, and gradually drifted away. The ripples in my heart flowed in silence. It is probably the blank white in ancient paintings. I believe that such subtlety is a classic beauty, and the audience can feel it. "

Zhao Pan'er rescued Song Yinzhang and told Zhou She's scene in the yamen. Hengdian's venue only gave the crew of "Menghua Record" for two days. When Yang Yang still conceived whether Gu Qianfan should come out from behind the wooden door, the sky was raining, and inspiration came. "Rain is also the element of water, so I asked the props to quickly bring Huang Chengcheng's oil paper umbrellas. In the rain, Pan'er was originally going to be the board, and then someone appeared, but it was Chen Lian who did not know. Looking forward to the crowd again, Gu Qianfan came out from behind the screen. The two people looked at each other, and the kind of hazy and destined feeling came (out). "

"" Menghua Record "is a very colorful female theme drama. It is difficult to summarize it in a few words." Yang Yang tried to summarize, "Living color raw fragrance is very fresh, beautiful, beautiful, vivid, charming, or incense. I hope this play is very vivid, but vividly is based on a real sense of realism. On the basis of life, I don't think it is a costume drama. "

Yang Yang told the reporter of "Daily Economic News" that he was both a director and a member of the audience. When Yang Yang himself, the team, and the actors were moved by the story of "Menghua Record", when the laughing scene continued, the stones in Yang Yang fell to the ground. "I know that the audience will be moved, and such creations are very interesting. But when you shoot too much, you can't think too much. You must keep your focus and create it carefully."

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Use the hand of "Zhao Pan'er" to show the charm of tea 100 shows

There is no doubt about the good -looking "Menghua Lu". In Douban, "Menghua Lu" started with 8.3 points, and currently stabilized at 8.5 points, and its reputation surpassed most of the dramas in recent years. Behind the masterpiece, the main creative team is also carrying the sense of responsibility of promoting traditional Chinese culture.

One episode in "Menghua Record" showed a lot of "fighting tea" in a large amount. Some audiences said they did not understand that "sugar suddenly became less", but some audiences said that they learned from a film and television drama to learn about "tea hundred shows". Essence

The identity of the protagonist Zhao Pan'er was the owner of the Qiantang Zhao family, and then opened a tea house in Tokyo. The plot of "tea" runs through "Menghua Record". Yang Yang revealed that Liu Yifei not only specialized in class, but also did a lot of exercises, hoping to show the charm of Chinese tea 100 drama by the hand of "Zhao Pan'er".

"In this part of tea culture, we asked Teacher Zhang Zhifeng, representative inheritor of Fujian non -heritage tea hundred opera, to guide the guidance of lectures, and also hoped that in film and television works, we can show the charm of traditional Chinese culture more." Yang Yang said that this is a challenging part. "The scene of 'Dou Tea' is very complicated, there are many characters, and the procedures are cumbersome. Because of the formation of tea foam, it takes difficulties in each link to control it.

During the shooting, Zhang Zhifeng's disciple personally went to the scene to guide the shooting. Yang Yang recalled that the episode of the episode was 40 minutes long, but the "Tea" part was cut for 25 minutes, accounting for over half of the space. "The subsequent streamlined, but it is really reluctant to delete too much. It is our responsibility to promote traditional culture in Chinese film and television dramas." After the broadcast, Teacher Zhang Zhifeng also recorded the popular science popularization video related to Tea Hundred Opera, Let traditional culture be understood and loved by more people.

During the filming of the entire drama, the crew did a lot of homework, including reading books on the Song Dynasty, and asked the tea culture consultant, historical consultant, and Song Yan experts to guide. Yang Yang said that the screenwriter Zhang Wei also spent a long time on the history of the Song Dynasty. When writing the script, he carefully reviewed a large number of historical books, and had in -depth research on the clothing, food, housing and transportation of the Song Dynasty. "The name of the dishes, the name of the beverage, the name of the street, the title and dress of people from all walks of life, Zhang Wei has a finger."

Huang Wei refers to Song paintings that depict the lifestyle of the Song Dynasty, including "Qingming Shanghe Tu", "Listening to the Piano", "Burning incense and Listening to Ruan Tu", "Brick Kitchen Map", etc., and combined with modern shooting methods to present Yang Yang understands the costumes of both fireworks and the character image.

"I think the Song Dynasty was a dynasty that integrates Ya Ya. The aesthetics of the Song Dynasty were exquisite, simple, and advanced. People in the Song Dynasty liked implicit beauty, not complicated, not publicity. Hanging painting is also what I like. Song Ci and Song Porcelain are also beautiful, so I tried to integrate the romance, artistic conception and beauty of these Song Dynasty into "Menghua Record". "Yang Yang said.

As a national first -level director, screenwriter, and producer, Yang Yang has directed many excellent TV series such as "Together", "Overnight", "Heart Art", "Holding Hand". The types of representative works in her resumes are different and different."Menghua Record" is the first time Yang Yang has tried a female -oriented group."The difference between this creation is very different from the past to express modern life with costumes." Heart Art "," Holding Hand "and" The Obstetrics and Gynecology of Love "is purely presenting modern life." Night "is male frequent costume."Records" is in women, of course, there are also men's lengths. How to combine them well is different from my previous creations, but before my expression and experience in men's dramas, the shooting of "Menghua Lu" shooting "Menghua Record" shooting the shooting of "Menghua Record".There are some help. "

For the next work arrangement, Yang Yang revealed that he would respect the opportunity."At any time, if I encounter the subject that can move me, I will work hard. I have a respect for my career, it is not my simplicity method of making a living."

Daily Economic News

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