Behind "Menghua Record", a "whisper" female director

A "Menghua Record" was lively in June. This well -made costume idol drama tells the experience of the three women in Tokyo during the Northern Song Dynasty. There is a moving emotion in the play, and the help of the three women's watches, which has also produced many discussions and controversy.

However, the hustle and bustle did not completely spread to the director Yang Yang's ear. During the broadcast, Yang Yang filmed a new drama again.

Occasionally, she updated the director's notes on Weibo. What she specifically mentioned was the parting drama of Zhao Pan'er and Gu Qianfan. It was already midnight when the scene was filmed. People were so tired that the assistants did not understand what the director was shooting. "Simple, one person is in the water, one person is based on the column", "the restrained feelings and the quiet waves", she created a just right blank white. This "quietness" is a feature of Yang Yang's crew, and it is also the most prominent characteristic of her.

The quiet Yang Yang is not the first time to experience such a lively. In the late 1990s, her "Hand in Hand" was broadcast on CCTV. The first time the TV series faced the topic of "extramarital affairs", setting off the discussion of "marriage and family" at the end of the century.

After "Holding Hand", Yang Yang was invisible again. She rejected most of the emotional drama scripts and turned to the war drama. It was another three years. After that, she filmed a few "men's dramas" and several "main themes", and also filmed a drama with realistic themes. In "Menghua Record", it is a drama for women. She believes that paying attention to female stories is an instinct as a woman.

But Yang Yang is always a "whisper" director. She has a strong curiosity and is involved in extensive, but she always hides behind her work. Her creation is quiet, stable, and diverse. In the face of turbulent social issues, she has no excessive desire to express it.

In early July, Yang Yang accepted an exclusive interview with "Character" in the company. She was wearing shirt trousers, no makeup, her voice was light, but she was full of enthusiasm. Her new film has just killed the youth, and she didn't sleep all night. In the past, she could do a drama for three years, and now she has to make two dramas a year. The director who likes to hide in the corner believes that the speed of the earth's rotation must change quietly, otherwise everything will become so fast? Intersection

June has passed. The enthusiasm of "Menghua Record" reflects the inner needs of people in this era, which is a mark at this moment. As Yang Yang said, it was the part she could not control. In any case, she is going back to her studio.

The following is Yang Yang's narrative-

Text ｜ Dai Minjie

Edit ｜ Yao Lu

Figure ｜ Interviewees provided (except for special marks)

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In fact, I am a director who started a modern drama, from "Niu Yuqin's Tree" to "Midnight Tram", to "Hand Hand", "Heart Art", "Obstetrics and Gynecology of Love" and "The Come of Angel Tonight". Thinking is very concerned about social reality. I think if a work does not collide with the contemporary, it is meaningless. You have no more beautiful shooting and exquisite, you have no way to communicate with contemporary people, then your creation may not necessarily have such a strong vitality, and you will not live in the present. Whether it is costume or war, I care about the relationship between the work and the contemporary people.

Seeing the script of "Menghua Record", my first feeling was North Drifting. Although it tells the story of a Northern Song Dynasty, I was presented in my mind after reading it, which is the story of the North Drifting, or the Shanghai drift, or where the drift. It is a girl from a foreign country who comes to the metropolis to work hard and start their own new life. In the process, they have experienced various sufferings, frustrations, and their grievances. They help each other and support each other. Such an experience.

During the broadcast of "Menghua Record", I entered the group again. I did not watch the broadcast. The frequency in my heart may not be able to chase the drama in a rhythm. During this time, I seemed a bit out of touch with "Menghua Lu". For me, I bid farewell to the show when I was mixed. I remember I was particularly excited that day, and I told our producers that after I had mixed the film for so many years, this was the most excited time. Mix every day every day, with this film with high density every day.

I think it is something exciting. There are many that moved me, laughing (part) that moved me, and some (parts) that can cause thinking and discussion. I think that after a work comes out, it is very comfortable to see the audience first, and let him experience happiness in a comfortable process, and then get comfort and cure in his heart. A better thing is that it can cause a lot of social topics.

Yang Yang's shooting scene at "Menghua Lu"

The social topic in Menghua Record may be that women need more help between women, so -called two ribs plug -in knives. "Step in each other", the current word, in the three women of "Menghua Record", really do not have this concept. I also want to use the ancient wind bones that the ancients had once had it, indicating that this kind of wind bone is not only available in men, and women also have them. This inheritance is actually from ancient times to today. The wind bone is also reflected in the story of "Menghua Record".

For example, Song Yinzhang, who was lost in the middle of the way. You may have lost some lost, but if you still have the wind, you can still go back on your way, or someone helps you go back to the right way. Her loss is that she pinned the hope of changing her destiny to others. She fell her head, followed her, then stood up, and got up from the mud. Later, Zhao Pan'er wanted to open the restaurant and waited for Gu Qianfan's money. But the money was blown to the ground by a storm, and the little girl was mixed in a bunch of things. It's as if life gives her a test. Although this cake is here, I just let you not see this cake, so you work hard to fight for a bite of cake. Just to make Zhao Pan'er go through a bumpy, she felt that she found a backer and wanted to take a break, and I let you not rely on it. If she got that money at the time, she would be frank as a Mrs. Kuo and enjoyed it. For her life experience and test, including all the restaurants in the restaurant behind her.

I didn't want to lead such a large group of breaks at the time. If I think so much, I can't focus on it. But we did study politics, culture, economy, history, and geography. Although we have the Qingming Shanghe Tu as a reference, can we have so many water systems, staggered in the city, and can realize that they are planning a boat. They can talk about love and do business. " One city Song Yun half city water, Menghua flies with Jingjing. "

I also thought of water, women were like water. That is to say, a woman encounters a disaster. When she encounters a blow, her heart will form ice, but when the sun is illuminated, the ice will melt, become a trickle stream, and finally the power of rivers and lakes.

I think "Menghua Record" is a scene made for us, a play for many women wanders, or women who do not wander. In short, women have experienced all the hardships and hardships in this world. They support each other and grow together. I think this is our female topic.

"Menghua Lu" shooting scene

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After the broadcast of "Menghua Record", a lot of discussions were caused. Many people left me a message, which made me particularly moved. They said that this June made us very happy and warm. I think people can have such a feeling. In fact, it is the happiest thing for me. You can make so many people so comfortable and so happy in this month.

During the broadcast, the audience projected some reactions and expectations to the TV series. I think this is also a value in itself. One of your works is presented, and it is already socialized. These works are a social topic in itself. It has its value, and sometimes your creator cannot be controlled.

More than 20 years ago, I also experienced it when "Holding Hand" was broadcast. "Hand in Hand" should be the first domestic TV series to tell extramarital affairs. When I was shooting, I was more than 30 years old. Many people later said that the director did you go through what you took "Holding Hand" (laughs).

When the script was originally called me "Friends of the Fien Sex". I told the screenwriter, can I change it to "Hand in Hand"? After watching this script, there was a song "Holding Hand" in my mind. One of my particularly strong feelings and beliefs is that life always stumbles and needs to help each other. Thinking of "holding hands", I felt that I really touched the soul of this work.

At the end of the 1990s, there was no TV series that discussed extramarital affairs. Because I saw some news reports at the time, I remember a female criminal policeman, which was very good, but she shot her husband with a shooting, because her husband had a junior. Without this emotional problem, she would not do such an extreme thing such an excellent woman. There is also a primary school teacher who splashed sulfuric acid on the face of Primary Three and was disfigured. The two women were destroyed and the two families were destroyed. I think these tragedies in the world are caused by emotional problems.

Because this topic could not be publicly expressed at the time, many people used a kind of tolerance, and they could not bear to use extreme methods. I was thinking, can we open and let the public discuss this issue, and everyone can comfort each other. At that time, this idea was quite strong. How can our works help others?

I hope everyone can see everyone's difficulty. It is not easy for men to have men, and women are not easy to have women. It is not easy for married women to have married women. Xia Xiaoxue, who played by Jiang Wenli, took the child very anxious at home every day. Her husband was always working overtime and could not help her. Young woman Wang Chun, who drifted to Beijing alone, like the current child who is drifting, hasn't paused after eating, and she was not comfortable to live. She needed someone to help her. But no matter how easy it is, some things cannot be done.

Is Wang Chun a bad girl? This caused a lot of arguments at the time. In addition, her behavior is definitely wrong. But from ancient times to the present, human emotions are the most complicated. In -depth research and discussion, we cannot simply divide them with good people and bad people. Just like the flu comes, people with weak resistance are easily infected by a sneezing, not a matter of good or bad. It is not just that the bad guys have influenza, and good people cannot. How to treat it after getting it, this is a human topic. "Hand in Hand" caused this discussion, maybe this is its social value. I don't want those who encounter emotional changes. They just hide in the bed and cry, or make passionate crimes to cause tragedy. If our works can face the contradictions in social life, we can present it, so that many people can discuss their pain under the light of light. Someone talks with her, and the tragedy may not happen. They will not be lonely. This is also the obligation of our literary workers. Later, "Holding Hand" was broadcast, and it was unprecedented. Everyone was exploring emotional topics and the corresponding problems in the society. I think I did something right and did it. Why did you have a strong thing for three years? It is to turn such social topics into a topic that can be discussed publicly.

Yang Yang directed the TV series "Hand in Hand", Yu Feihong plays Wang Chuntuyuan Network

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After "Holding Hand", all kinds of emotional scripts have come, but I think I have thought about this topic for three years. I have worked so hard to present what I want to express. This topic can come to an end. If there are agents at the time, you may not let go, you should move forward (laughs). (But at the time) There was no such business concept. At that time, I wanted to be a topic of reflecting on war. So I went to "Certificate of Memory", a war scene, a "men's drama".

I was so young and a weak woman. (War) this topic and project will not come to your hands. So I can only dig to dig myself, find the script, find the questions, and find the opportunity to shoot. In addition to trying to prove that you can not only make emotional dramas, there is also a very strong curiosity. This is a anti -war drama. Many things disappear with the end of the war, but memory is proof. My standing point is also the present. In fact, I hope that every play can make the voice of contemporary people.

When you enter a male topic or the subject of men, you will also have the delicate and emotion of women, but at the same time you will have a stronger curiosity about one thing. When you don’t understand things, you The heavier curiosity, the more you have to explore. Why is the director's vitality? Because you are constantly inspiring your curiosity, let you develop new things.

"Proof of Memory" took another three years. Duan Yihong, Li Guangjie, and Yano Haoji, there are many, many male characters, I have to become them. For example, Zhou Shangwen, played by Duan Yihong, what kind of educational background is he, which aspect of his military system, and under what circumstances he was captured, in a coma or a sober state, his comrades around him were dead. It ’s just that only he has been captured, or he is still with many of his comrades -in -arms, that is, you have to think of it very specific and specific, what is his cultural level, what kind of family background he comes from, what kind of family background, all this All I want to depict them, like me completely, just like me, I want to become Zhou Shangwen.

I will also become Director Okada, who is the second performance of Yoshino, and I want to become this Xia Mingyuan played by Li Guangjie. To turn yourself into that character, at this time you are not a woman or a man at this time. You are that person. When you are standing with him, you are him, and the "Certificate of Memory" is also a large group of Japanese, the young Japanese Director Okada, the old one is still alive, more than 80. We are looking for Japan. Old actor, then I have to become an old Japanese man. Shanhua Longmei is a very brute force of samurai. Then I have to make me become him. In fact, many of my men's plays are like this. "Norman Bethune" is also a men's drama, and it is also a Canadian man, a foreigner (laughs).

Yang Yang (left) directed the source network of "proof of memory"

"Norman Bethune", a Canadian, a romantic surgeon, walks on the street and commented on women's ass. He is a painter and married twice with the same woman. This is such a person who dedicated his life to us. I admire him very much and be moved by him. Later, when the filming, the producer of our crew said, the director, I found that you are Norman Bethune.

At that time, it was already a state of fluttering, just like the soul attached, completely immersed in the character, there was no concept of women or the concept of men. You are Norman Bethune. I see a large number of people writing his memoirs. The letter he gave to others is that you have to do a comprehensive understanding of him. The more you know, you can enter it, and you are this character.

He raised his hands, and he saw what Chairman Mao would be, and he saw a wounded soldier. He saw a irresponsible doctor. He would jump like a thunderous thunder. He saw a pus in a lungs. When he couldn't get out, how could he insert the tube in and suck with his mouth. It is when you see all his real things and you go in again, you won't think of me as a woman. I discovered it from a female perspective. This concept is completely gone. "Xin Liang Sword Iron Blood Soul" later came to me, as if because of my advantage, saying that this female director seemed to be a power type. She could shoot men's play very hot. At the same time, she had a very delicate woman. If I am a man, he may not find me. He just hopes that I can make some emotions and feelings of this war film and make the characters fuller.

Because these plays are all -handed, bloody men's plays, this has no strength, and later I was called a "powerful female director." A male director told me that what our male man did was done by you. I'm sorry. I think the identity of a woman actually brings me a lot of good. We have a soft heart. We have a lot of good understanding, thinking, tolerance, tolerance, really, this is also the nature of women and sensitive. These are well used in creation.

This year's "Menghua Record" is a drama of the three female protagonists. In fact, in 2014, the "Come of Angels Tonight" I did is the three parallel lines of development. At that time, there seemed to be a very few drama. They were all a woman with a man, which was the male and female masters. We have received a lot of recognition, thinking that we have opened a good way, a very new way of telling, the story line of the three women, so we then did "Angel City" for the second time. Woman.

Doing "The Angels of Tonight", because she met a obstetrician and gynecologist, she had given birth to many children and saw many women's production experience, so she didn't want to have children. They have been exploring the question of whether to have children. Isn't it good to live happily? Why do you need to take more time and energy to raise a offspring. I thought it was a very interesting social topic at the time, so I did such a "Angels Tonight".

In 2014, I was trying, and three self -reliance women encountered in life. There are all kinds of people who are all kinds of people who are in love, and Liu Tao's marrying the giants, but she is not going smoothly in the wealthy life. She needed to change, and finally she found the positioning of life again. I may have always been very strong. It is definitely not easy for us women to live in this world. At least after the production of production, men have never been like this. How beautiful this man is, how powerful and intelligent, or how watting it is, or you can't produce what kind of pain you suffer. Production is the most painful and happiest thing we have experienced.

In fact, this topic is still quite hot. In the play, my focus is not to have children, but to say that life will have difficulties and bumps in life. How should we face it. At the same time, there are many, many similar painful, painful, and sad various experiences in life. Then we should let ourselves face these in the face of such a state of survival. Maybe these contemporary subjects have been exploring such topics.

From the 2014 "Angels of Tonight", the "City of Angels" in 2015 is also the structure of three women. The three different careers have encountered. How can they help each other and jointly defeat the dilemma of life together. Multivirin is what I like. The amount of information is relatively large, and there is a sense of real, as well as "Menghua Record".

I think it is an obligation. Because you are a woman, you always have to do something for your same sex. You also see that women are easily harmed in this world. Then you have to stand up for this ethnic group to do something. As a woman, you always have to stand up.

"Tonight Angel Come" stills

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When I first entered the director of the director, I also worried because of my "women's characteristics". After graduating from Beijing Broadcasting College in 1983, I was assigned to the China TV Drama Production Center. After I went, I saw the director's work status and their works, and then compared with myself, I think the gap is particularly large. Those female directors, like the female generals, are all popular, and I am weak.

I made two single dramas at the time, and my contradictions were particularly big. The effects of those single dramas are still good, but I know that the struggle in my heart and my dissatisfaction with myself are particularly strong. How can I let people in these teams call those people ’s elder brothers at the time, and some of them are older than my qualifications. I have made so many plays. You can be a director as a director. How can you mobilize this way like this? Many people are convinced of you, willing to help you work together? I don't think I can do it.

My nature does not know how to talk, just quiet. I hope that no one can see me. I just stay alone. When I was a kid, I learned the violin, because at the end of the big band, no one would see me, the chief, the command, and did not see the last (laugh). Natural nature is not particularly able to go to Zhang Luo in front of people, arrange. Yang Yang watched the script quietly on the set

When I was in college, I was actually a very good student, and the director class was among the best. But there is a big obstacle at work. One is the gap between age, which is too small. Another is that the personality is not so strong, and I am not like a false boy. I am particularly shy and very weak. In fact, we have many female directors, but in a production team, there is still a male -based world. If you want to be a commander here, you have to come up with the strong style of the strong and strong, even if you call a password, you have to make a loud voice (laugh).

My life is really strange. At the age of 18, I went to the Academy of Music to take the exam. The teacher asked me to prepare both hands. In case of the violin, otherwise, I would like to change the Erhu and change a folk music. After listening to it, I felt that I had been sentenced. What did I get? I was defeated at that moment, and my faith was gone. Just go to find a way to go to college. I like watching movies so much, so I think I will take a director. What a ghost is really bad. My dad is also a director and thinks that you are particularly reckless and dare to say that you want to test the director. He thinks you are really nervous.

You have to be able to pass through, I cut my head, this is my dad's original words. This is really a spiritual stick. This ruthless words made me feel particularly unbearable, so I went to a uncle of our theater and asked him to coach me. At that time, I was improvised to tell a story. I haven't told it. I don't know what to say when I talk to people. The 5 -minute brain prepared outside the test room was blank. Then call it to you, you go in, I sit there, I started to talk about, I said a few words, I talked about a teacher, I talked about very details, talking about me I cried myself, all the teachers cried.

In fact, I have especially liked watching movies since I was a child. Laqin is because parents let you pull, you have to pull, and you have almost ten hours a day to practice Laqin. Watching movies is the greatest reward for yourself, especially happy. I have been crying because of a movie since I was a child.

But in the past few years, I have been questioning, can I continue in this profession?

Until I filmed "Niu Yuqin's Tree". In Mao Usu Desert, from the interview to shooting, I think I am Niu Yuqin. I just experienced that a woman took a crazy mother -in -law, a husband, three children, pulling the donkey, picking the water, carrying the cricket, the desert is difficult to go, wearing the big sun, went out early in the morning, arrived there, arrived there, and there was there. Go to plant trees, eat dried grain cakes, and yellow sand. At night, pull these back. What state do you think? So when you put yourself in this life completely and become a part of this life, the empathy may be a bit too single, and it is completely her, it is a very real power.

When I was filming that scene, I stood on the desert almost every day and wept. I think the whole story, and the whole process of creation seems to be a big reversal in my life. In fact, I never psychologically thought that I couldn't bring the team, I said little voice, I felt that I was weak, and these thoughts were gone. I think a woman like Niu Yuqin in such a desert under such a harsh living conditions seems to be injected to me.

"Niu Yuqin's Tree" won the Flying Award. The first feeling at that time was that this award should be Niu Yuqin, not mine. Still didn't come out. But since then I think I can be a director, and I can be very firm as a director. I won't run away.

However, my crew must be quiet first, otherwise I couldn't shout, and my throat was not so loud (laughs).

At the shooting scene of "Menghua Record", Yang Yang gave Chen Xiao a show

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Now, I always say that the earth has rotated faster? Every day from morning to night, it will be night, and a year will pass quickly. Is the earth changing quietly? We haven't noticed it yet. Scientists have not studied it (laughs)? At that time, I did a show in three years, and now it is a year in a year, plus the small one may do two shows a year.

I admire a simple life. I am best at cooking vegetables. Put oatmeal and eggs in the vegetables. The crew looked at my rice and felt that the director was too healthy. But as soon as I eat for a few months, I have the same every day. Because I think nutrition is enough. I yearn for a simple life. It allows me to have more time thinking, so that I have more time and energy to invest in creation.

My hobby is to watch movies, read books, read the world, and stay. I hope that in a quiet corner, it will not be disturbed or even discovered. Even my crew did not start a banquet and did not turn off the banquet. Everyone was working quietly. Then I was very happy after killing the youth. I went back to each family and looked for their mothers. After a break, let's come back to work.

I think there is a very good carrier, that is, every drama of you. I want to express everything in this play. Just go to watch it. You can also like it. Yes, it doesn't matter, because it is a thing I want to express here, letters commented. I can stay quietly, I think about another topic, or I think I am not good at this topic. How can I improve it next time. I think this is a simple life. In life, you have to feel bit by bit and be a sensitive person. Many social news, many historical films, documentaries, and many of these fragments can touch you, make you move, or cause your thinking. Your discovery, your movement and feelings are actually a kind of accumulation. I always want to say, it seems that I have a small pill shop with many small drawers in it. From the beginning to the end, my love is the discovery of human nature and inquiry about this world.

Looking up at the sky in a quiet corner. Keeping a relative purity, of course, you can look up at the sky, see a lot of meteors, and see a lot of scenery, but you let yourself be in a quiet corner, and you may not want to let others see from a young age. Just don't see me, it's better not to mention it. In fact, I am also very scared of the interview (laugh).

I think it's good to live like this. I feel very lucky and can be in such a state according to my preference. For example, I have done "Holding Hand" for three years. After finishing, you have been on fire. Then I got a "proof of memory" for three years. At that time, I followed my team that the director, let's take a play first, and then shoot with you after taking this play. I said yes, go. After the play came back, the director was back. I haven't done it well here. The script is not good yet. You can pick up a show again. Two or three plays have come down. Why are I still getting the script here. At that time, a elder sister in my studio said, the director, the people took the money to the door of your house, you just opened the door, just put the money in, can you take it?

That is to say, when you are doing this, you have no way to turn your attention to do something else, so you can only watch my team, and people go to do all kinds It's a matter of incident, then you will re -call the team and do it again.

Some time ago I wrote a gift to my graduates, how can I give people a gift? Saying flowers is covered with the road, are you coming? This is not true. Then I still tell the truth. I said, you must be ready to enjoy loneliness, poverty, loneliness, and even no job. I feel that you can put yourself in a state of most dusty soil, you can not have so many desires and attempts, you just do one thing focusing on one thing. Focusing on "Holding Hand" for three years, focusing on "Certificate of Memory" for three years, and focusing on "Norman Bethune", I don't think about anything else. This seems to be a training that allows you to retain a focused spirit, a pure, pure, and fragile heart that can be moved at any time.

Yang Yang is on the set

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